STRANGE WORLD OF COFFIN JOE

a.k.a Estranho Mundo de Zé do Caixãno (original title)

Brazil, 1968

Starring José Mojica Marins, Vany Miller & Paula Ramos

Directed by José Mojica Marins

DVD: Njuta Films; 1.37:1; Portugese with swedish, danish, norweigan & finnish subtitles

Extras: Introduktion av Coffin Joe (José Mojica Marins)» Animerad kortfilm av Victor-Hugo Borges - "Slottet" (otextad)» Originaltrailer (engelsk textning)» José Mojica Marins trailershow» Poster-galleri» Filmografi - José Mojica Marins

NUITS ROUGES

a.k.a Shadowman

FRANCE / ITALY, 1974

Starring Gayle Hunnicutt, Jaquues Champreux & Josephine Chaplin

Directed by Georges Franju

DVD: Eureka! (UK); 1.66:1; French with english subtitles

JUDEX

FRANCE / ITALY, 1963

Starring Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Sylvia Coscina & Theo Sarapo

Directed by Georges Franju

DVD: Eureka! (UK); 1.66:1; French with english subtitles

FANTASTIC PLANET

a.k.a La Planète Sauvage (original title)

FRANCE / ZCECHOSLOVAKIA, 1973

Directed by René Laloux

DVD: Eureka! (UK); 1:66:1 Anamorphic; English/French with english subtitles; Extras: Laloux shorts: "Les Escargots" and "Comment Wang-Fo fut sauvé"

A RIVER CALLED TITAS

a.k.a Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (original title)

INDIA, 1973

Starring Fakrul Hasan Baigagi & Narain Chakraborty

Directed by Ritwik Ghatak

DVD: BFI (UK); Fullscreen; Bengali with english subtitles; No extras

THE KILLING OF SATAN

PHILLIPINES, 1983

Starring Ramon Revilla & Cecille Castillo

Directed by Efren C. Piñon

Empire selltape/bootleg? (Holland); Fullscreen; English with dutch subtitles

Über-weird christian lowbudget gore movie from the Phillipines. Genius!

JUST BEFORE DAWN

a.k.a Camping Med Döden (Sweden)

USA, 1981

Starring George Kennedy, Chris Lemmon & Deborah Benson

Directed by Jeff Lieberman

Mariann (Sweden); Fullscreen; English with swedish subtitles

Perhaps the finest example of 1980s teen slasher. Uncut.

OPEN SEASON

a.k.a Los Cazadores (Spain); The Recon Game; Jaktoffer (Sweden video title)

UK / SPAIN / USA / SWITZERLAND / ARGENTINA, 1974

Starring Peter Fonda, John Philip Law, Helga Liné, William Holden, Richard Lynch & Cornelia Sharp

Directed by Peter Collinson

VTC (Sweden); Letterboxed; English with swedish subtitles

I really liked this Most Dangerous Game-exploitationer with an international cast and some nices 70s sleaze/terror/revenge-movie touches. The swedish VHS is uncut I believe, but cuts right to trailers after the last scene, which makes for a shorter running time.

VAMPIRE HOOKERS

a.k.a Cemetary Girls; Ladies of the Night; Night of the Blodsuckers; Sensous Vampires; Twice Bitten

PHILLIPINES / USA, 1978

Starring John Carradine, Vic Diaz, Erna Martha Baurman & Katie Dolan

Directed by Cirio H. Santiago

DVD: BCI / Eclipse (USA); Widescreen 1:78:1; English language; Double-bill with Cemetary Girls

DORIAN GRAY

a.k.a Il Dio Chiamato Dorian (Italy); The Evils of Dorian Gray; The Secret of Dorian Gray

ITALY / UK, 1970

Starring Helmut Berger, Herbert Lom, Richard Todd, Marie Liljedahl, Margaret Lee & Maria Rohm

Directed by Massimo Dallamano

DVD: Raro (Italy); Widescreen 1:66:1; English/Italian language; Extras: Interview With Maurizio Tanfani

COUNT DRACULA'S GREAT LOVE

a.k.a El Gran Amor del Conde Drácula (original title); Cemetary Girls (USA); Cemetary Tramps; Vampire Playgirls; Dracula's Virgin Lovers

SPAIN, 1972

Starring Paul Naschy, Rosanna Yani, Haydée Politoff & Ingrid Garbo

Directed by Javier Aguirre

DVD: BCI / Eclipse (USA); Widescreen 1:78:1; English language; Double-bill with Vampire Hookers

CAMP SLAUGHTER

SWEDEN, 2004

Starring Christian Magdu, Fred Andersson & Annika Marklund
Directed by Martin Munthe

DVD: Sandrew Metronome (Sweden); Widescreen; English language (almost)

Extras: Videodagbok, TV4 featurette, Fredzillas bakomfilm, Bortklippta scener, Outtakes/Bloopers, Special effects, Kommentarspår, Trailers

Pathetic swedish try at the teen slasher genre. It's so bad it's... just really, really bad. But I guess it's my patriotic film nerd duty to own a copy of this embaressing dud (found it at a flea-market for 2 dollars, just the right price)... not that i'm much of a patriot anyway, just an idiot for buying this. The line "you should have puked on his dick!" in broken english is classic though. Also see: Blödaren (1983)

ROME AGAINST ROME

a.k.a Roma contra Roma (original title); Night Star: Goddess of Electra (USA TV title); War of the Zombies (USA)

ITALY, 1964

Starring John Drew Barrymore, Susy Andersen & Ettore Manni

Directed by Giuseppe Vari

DVD: (UK); Fullscreen; English language; English language; No extras

Pretty good fullscreen print. Unfortunely it's the short 1h22m version. It's a really nice gothic peplum that deserves a better release.

BATTLE OF THE AMAZONS

a.k.a Le Amazzoni - Donne D'amore e gi Guerra (original title); Beauty of the Barbarian (UK video title); Fighting Amazon (Sweden video title)

ITALY / SPAIN, 1973

Starring Lucretia Love, Licoln Tate, Paolo Tedesco & Frank Braña

Directed by Alfonso Bescia

Baroness (Sweden); Fullscreen; English with swedish subtitles

THE DIRTY SEVEN

a.k.a La Belva dalle Calda Pelle (original title); Emanuelle, Queen of the Desert (USA); Farligt Uppdrag (Sweden video title)

ITALY, 1982

Starring Laura Gemser, Angela Infanti, Gabriele Tinti & Vassili Karis

Directed by Bruno Fontana

Breien (Sweden); Letterboxed; English with swedish subtitles

FANTASTIC ARGOMAN

a.k.a Come Rubare la Corona d'Inghilterra (original title); Argoman the Fantastic Superman (UK); The Incredible Paris Incident (USA); How to Steal the Crown of England (UK)

ITALY, 1967

Starring Roger Browne, Dominique Boschero & Eduardo Fajardo

Directed by Sergio Grieco

Inter-Ocean Video (UK); Letterboxed; English language

My favorite italian superhero flick. They don't come much swankier!

DISCO-ROCK CRAZY

a.k.a Brillantia Rock (original title); Disco Crazy

ITALY, 1979

Starring Monty Ray Garrson, Cecilia Buonocore & Auretta Gay

Directed by Michele Massimo Tarantini

Trix (Sweden); Letterboxed; English with swedish subtitles

Hilarious Travolta-sploitation with dance sequences that makes you pee your pants with laughter! All the comedy in this comedy is unintentional of course. A party classic.

BLIND RAGE

a.k.a Det Blinda Gänget (Sweden video title)

PHILLIPINES, 1978

Starring Tony Ferrer, D'Urville Martin, Leo Fong & Fred Williamson

Directed by Efren C. Piñon

Transworld (Sweden); Fullscreen; English with swedish subtitles

Really silly, but fun, fillipino action/heist/comedy about a bunch of blind robbers (the... ahem... perfect plan: who would suspect a blind guy?). In the last five minutes Fred Williamson arrives to save the day! (even semi-stars needs to pay the rent)
It's sometimes hard to see where the intentional and unintentional comedy ends and begins, but who cares, really?

BLASTFIGHTER

a.k.a Force of Vengeance

ITALY, 1984

Starring Michael Sopkiw, Valentina Forte, George Eastman & Michele Soavi

Directed by Lamberto Bava

VTC (Sweden); Fullscreen; English with swedish subtitles; A little bit cut (I think)

BAD RONALD

USA, 1974

Starring Scott Jacoby, Pippa Scott & John Larch

Directed by Buzz Kulik

MDC (Sweden); Fullscreen; English with swedish subtitles

Really creepy TV movie about a shy, weird nerd who accidentaly kills a school bully and is hidden in a secret room in the house by his over protective mother. When the mother dies from an operation Ronald continues living in the secret room, even when a new family with two young daughters move in. Ronald drills a hole in the wall and the family becomes increasingly suspicios when they start hearing noices and food and other stuff start mysteriously dissapearing. In the meantime Ronald starts to lose more and more grip with reality until he finally starts believing he's the prince of his made up fantasy land called Atranta, and that the princess (the cute young daughter) needs to be saved... and then it's time for Ronald to come out... brrr... Highly recommended.