Director: Joe D’Amato
Writer: Joe D’Amato and George Eastman
Release year: 1980
Aka title: Man-Eater, The Grim Reaper
The Grim EastMan-Eater
Six tourists find themselves stranded on a seemingly uninhabited Greek Island. While they try to figure out what to do next, someone is watching them. Someone, some being, with a craving for human flesh… and the will to kill, kill, KILL!!!
Director: Shunya Ito
Writer: Hirô Matsuda based on a manga by Tooru Shinohara
Release year: 1973
Japanese title: Joshuu sasori: Kemono-beya
Bird of Prey, Bird of Retaliation
Nami Matsushima (aka Sasori aka Scorpion) is loose in the city streets, continuing her frantic quest for freedom. Driven by her instinct for survival and desire to lead a normal life. Having fled from prison once again, she will now enter an urban world of crime & prostitution, while being hunted down by a one-armed cop out for revenge.
Director: Shunya Ito
Writer: Shunya Ito, Fumio Konami and Hirô Matsuda, based on a manga by Tooru Shinohara
Release year: 1972
Japanese title: Joshuu sasori: Dai-41 zakkyo-bô
Surreal Female Convicts’ Road trip!
A year has passed since Nami’s last imprisonment. A year she spent in complete solitude, deep down between the walls of an isolated dungeon. A year of torture, rape & humilation. But her spirit is not broken yet. When a prominent figure arrives to inspect the prison facility, Nami sees another opportunity to attempt another break-out. And this time, she’s not alone…
Director: Shunya Ito
Writer: Fumio Konami, Hirô Matsuda based on a manga by Tooru Shinohara
Release year: 1972
Japanese title: Joshuu 701-gô: Sasori
W.I.P without dull clichés and stereotypes
In love with a corrupt police detective, Nami (Meiko Kaji) foolishly agrees to infiltrate the Yakuza. Things go very wrong. Betrayed, battered and bruised, she ends up in a violent prison environment with only one thing left on her mind… Revenge.
Director: Eddie Nicart
Writer: Cora Cabelles
Release Year: 1981
Making a monkey out of the forces of evil
Dr. Kohler is kidnapped upon his arrival in the Philippines by an evil organization headed by the enigmatic Mr. Giant. It seems the good doctor invented a little something called an N-bomb and Mr. Giant wants to use it to hold the world hostage. Enter Agent 00 (Ernesto de la Cruz aka Weng Weng), a 2’9″ super spy who is sent to thwart the syndicate that is filled with loudly dressed, drug dealing, incompetent mooks. Agent 00 uses his skills of seduction and partners up with various women (some more than others) before working with Irma (Beth Sandoval), a female agent who has infiltrated the organization. The two join to mount an all out assault to foil Mr. Giant and his numbskull minions’ plan of world domination.
Director: Tod Browning
Writer: Clarence Aaron ‘Tod’ Robbins
Release Year: 1932
“We’ll Make Her One of Us!” from the gibbering mouths of these weird creatures came this frenzied cry… no wonder she cringed in horror… this beautiful woman who dared toy with the love of one of them!
This week we have for you midgets and freaks combined in a little lovestory/drama.
I’m not a reviewer, so I’ll make it short (for reviews you’ll have to look at the rest of the site). This great little movie is about a trapeze artist that marries a midget for his money, plots to kill the poor little person with her lover, and the bizarre things that happen afterwards. Oh, and pinheads ofcourse. Not a horror movie as such (unless you are horrified by dwarfs and limbless men), more a drama wherein the freaks are the good guys and the normal ones scum. As is the case every week, a must see.
Director: Bruno Mattei
Writers: J.M Cunilles, Rossella Drudi, Claudio Fragasso, and Bruno Mattei
Release Year: 1980
Pardon us for this thing we have created
Somewhere in Papua New Guinea, the Hope 10 research facility is working on a project called “Sweet Death”… A chemical agent that would curb population in the Third World by turning them into zombies and feeding on each other. When two engineers clad in the weakest looking bio-hazard suits find a zombified rat in the plant, all hell breaks loose and the contagion spreads through the compound.
Director: David E. Durston
Writer: David E. Durston
Release Year: 1970
And together, we’ll all freak out.
1970. The United States was at the height of the Vietnam War. The Ohio National Guard were sent to Kent State University after the ROTC building was burned down; opening fire on students protesting U.S. invasion of Cambodia. Four students are killed. A similar event happened at Jackson State University which claimed two lives. The Apollo program was abandoned. Charles Manson released his album “Lies” to finance his criminal defense. The Ford Pinto was introduced. Four California Highway Patrol officers were killed in one day…making 1970 the deadliest year in California law enforcement history. Monday Night Football premiered. And a movie was released to unsuspecting grindhouses and drive-ins that would change exploitation forever… I Drink Your Blood.
Director: Jess Franco
Writer: Erwin C. Dietrich and Jess Franco
Release year: 1977
German title: Greta – Haus Ohne Männer
Germo-Latino tabsploitation
Abbie Phillips (Tania Busselier) suspects her sister – lets call her Sophie, shall we? – is being mistreated in a mental hospital. When she looses all contact with Sophie, she comes up with a plan to have herself committed to the asylum by Dr. Arcos (Jess Franco), who on his terms also suspects foul play within the walls of the institute. That’s her way to try and find out what happened to her sister. With holding the friendly Dr. Arcos at gunpoint while explaining her idea, you can already suspect that she didn’t think things through properly, let alone this being one of the more clever ideas she ever came up with. A poor girl with a plan doomed to failure, as the place she so desperately wants to get into is run be Greta (that’s Ilsa, the She Wolf of the SS re-incarnated as the exact spitting image of Dyanne Thorne), a very nasty warden who’s only joy in life seems to be torturing women, throwing depraved sex & rape parties, playing vicious S&M games and a bit of that good old killing for pleasure too.
Legendary writer/director Jack Hill recently was invited to attend the first edition of Offscreen Film festival. This on account of an ‘In person tribute’ to his work.