Wednesday, 30 January 2019

Searching for Weng Weng ... and every single actor who was ever in an old genre flick from the Philippines

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Ken Metcalfe in his office circa mid 80s (Photo courtesy of Carl Kuntze) Photo from Andrew Leavold 's new Filipino blog. PS: Do not...
Tuesday, 29 January 2019

THE ENCHANTING GHOST (Hong Kong 1970) dir: Chou Hsu-Chiang

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Original HK poster (from HKMDB) I've just watched the Shaw Brothers horror film THE ENCHANTING GHOST from 1970. Today's Netf...
Thursday, 24 January 2019

RED SPELL SPELLS RED (Hong Kong 1983)

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Poster (Thailand) Country: Hong Kong Language: Cantonese Genre: Horror Release Date: 11/09/1983 Box Office: HK $4,106,595.00 Dir...
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Wednesday, 23 January 2019

STRYKER (Cirio H. Santiago, US/Philippines 1983) blu-ray/Kino Lorber

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I'm just about to post about a new(ish) cool blu-ray release of one of Cirio H. Santiago 's MAD MAX II clone flicks, and it occurs t...
Saturday, 2 June 2018

Filipino remake of A BETTER TOMORROW back on YouTube

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FILIPINO A BETTER TOMORROW (Willie Milan, 1992) is back on YouTube. Several Filipino film channels have kept putting it up and taking it...
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Monday, 19 March 2018

ASIAN CINEMA TAKEOUT fanzine No. 1 out now!

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My buddy David K and Jessie Midnitecrawlr have just published the first issue of a new review fanzine on Asian cinema entitled ASIAN CI...
Friday, 23 February 2018

Ho Meng-Hua's BLACK MAGIC 2 coming to blu-ray soon

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Woah!!! Ho Meng-Hua's BLACK MAGIC, PART 2 is being released on blu-ray! This is one of my all time fave HK horror flicks. Dark and ...
Monday, 10 July 2017

THE SNAKE QUEEN - composite print on ultra limited DVD

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I've just finished watching my new THE SNAKE QUEEN dvd. It's limited to 20 copies!!! (pressed, not dvd-r). I own the Greek vhs ve...
Saturday, 22 April 2017

STONE BOY (Ph. 1982) dir: J. Erastheo Navoa

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Original titel: Rocco, Ang Batang Bato aka Boy God Australia / VHS / fullscreen / English audio hi-res scan If you look up "Wil...

THE WARRIOR AND THE NINJA (Indonesia 1983) H. Tjut Djalil

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aka The Warrior and the Ninja Girls Greece / VHS / half lbx / Eng. dub / Greek subs hi-res scan The first English dubbed THE WARRIOR ...

Common Courtesy

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Feel free to use my cover scans for your own blog, website or facebook page/wall all you want. But could you please credit where you got the...
Saturday, 25 February 2017

THE LETHAL HUNT (Philippines, 1985)

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Original title: Partida Directed by: Ben G. Yalung Starring: Fernando Poe Jr For full credits list check Andrew Leavold's blog VH...

THE DAY THEY ROBBED AMERICA (Philippines 1985) [REVIEW]

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Original Filipino English title: The Sangley Point Robbery aka American High Commando VHS / Greece / fullscreen / English dub / Gree...
Tuesday, 21 February 2017

ZUMA 2: HELL SERPENT (rare English dubbed print!!!) (full film)

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 In 2011 I posted a clip from a very rare English dubbed version of the Filipino film ZUMA 2 - HELL SERPENT (aka Anak Ni Zuma ). The film...
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Friday, 2 December 2016

ONCE UPON A TIME IN TRIAD SOCIETY (Cha Chuen-Yee, HK 1996)

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I've just watched ONCE UPON A TIME IN TRIAD SOCIETY for the first time and now I'm kicking myself in the head for having had it ...
Monday, 24 October 2016

The LOST sequel to THE BIG BOSS is finally getting released to home-cinema!!!

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  EDIT: don't bother to read this post! It seems it was the usual bullshit nonsense. No big official release of the film after all.  ...
Monday, 16 May 2016

BLACK CAT 2: The Assassination of President Yeltsin (HK 1992)

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I just rewatched Stephen Shin 's Hong Kong film BLACK CAT 2 from 1992. Not surprisingly it's a sequel to BLACK CAT (1991) also di...
Monday, 3 August 2015

WATER WARS (Philippines/USA 2011) - trailer

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Original title: Road Raiders Cirio H. Santiago's last film.
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Last MAD MAX 2 clone from Santiago now on DVD

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I posted about WATER WARS , Cirio H. Santiago 's last film, way back in 2011. The film is yet another MAD MAX 2 post-apocalypse rip-...
Saturday, 1 August 2015

BRUNO MATTEI's best post 2000 film finally getting a release Stateside

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Cover for the upcoming reg. 1 DVD Bruno Mattei's THE JAIL: A WOMAN'S HELL is finally getting a DVD release in the US. Needless t...
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Friday, 24 July 2015

Update #2

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Whoever uploaded the way cool RAW FORCE trailer decided to delete it again. Fortunately I had already copied the trailer and have just uplo...

Update

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Filipino John Woo remake is back up. The YouTube channel that originally uploaded DALAWA MAN ANG BUHAY MO, PAGSASABAYIN KO , i.e. the F...

W (Philippines 1978)

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aka W IS WAR One of my very first blog posts was a review of the Filipino MAD MAX 2 clone W (aka W is War on US VHS) seven years ago...

BLIND RAGE (Philippines, 1978) - trailer

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Starring Tony Ferrer, Charlie Davao, Leila Hermosa, Carlos Padilla Jr., Max Alvarado, Subas Herrero, Jose Garcia, Val Iglesia, Rocco Mont...
Sunday, 22 February 2015

NIGHT OF THE COBRA WOMAN - trailer

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NB: No avatar but the trailer does work!  Directed by: Andrew Meyer (USA/Philippines, 1972) On reg. 1 DVD from Scorpion Records.

Fully uncut CHINATOWN KID found on Danish VHS

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Although I usually don't post about kung-fu films this is pretty exciting. A fully uncut version of Shaw Brothers CHINATOWN KID has...

Update

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I've just updated the old " Alternative Versions of Hong Kong Movies " post. The old list was from 2008 but I've found a n...
Monday, 22 December 2014

BLOOD THIRST (USA/Philippines 1971) [REVIEW]

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aka BLOOD SEEKERS / THE HORROR FROM BEYOND Director Newt Arnold Producer Newt Arnold Executive Producer Michael “Dupont”/Du Pont Wri...
Wednesday, 10 December 2014

NIGHT OF THE COBRA WOMAN dvd from Scorpion Releasing

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When I posted about new DVD releases of American-Filipino coproductions the other day I forgot this one, NIGHT OF THE COBRA WOMAN , - maybe ...
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"Queen of Black Magic" director dies

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According to Ekky Imanjaya over at Finding Jaka Sembung blog, Lilik Sudjio , the director of the cool Indonesian horror film QUEEN OF B...
Monday, 1 December 2014

THE MUTHERS from Vinegar Syndrome!

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A few minutes after I had just posted the previous post about the five Filipino movies from Vinegar Syndrome I check their facebook page an...
Sunday, 30 November 2014

5 Filipino cult movies from Vinegar Syndrome...

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...and one of them is a blu-ray/dvd combo release of RAW FORCE !!! The new(ish) American video label Vinegar Syndrome has put out no less ...