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

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.

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)

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.

HORROR EXPRESS

UK / Spain, 1973

Starring Chrisopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Silvia Tortosa & Alberto de Mondoza

Directed by Eugenio Martín

EVC (Sweden); Fullscreen; English with swedish subtitles

One of the best Cushing/Lee horror films.

QUEENS OF EVIL

a.k.a Le Regine (original title)

Italy / France, 1970

Starring Ray Lovelock, Ida Galli, Silvia Monti & Haydée Politoff

Directed by Tonino Cervi

Hokushin (UK); Fullscreen; English language

BLOOD TRACKS

a.k.a Heavy Metal

Sweden / USA, 1985

Starring Kee Marcello, Ziny Zan, Jeff Harding, Michael Fitzpatrick & Naomi Kaneda

Directed by Mats Helge

CIC (Japan); Fullscreen; English with japanese subtitles; Uncut

Another entertaining miss from the great swedish auter Mats "Ninja Mission" Helge, this time he's in slasher territory! The hair metal band Solid Gold (played by real life hair metal band Easy Action) and a bunch of horny models are shooting a rock video in an abandoned (?) factory in the snowy mountains - but guess what, the factory is also inhabited by a family of deranged mutants who have not grasped the concept of hospitality! Bad but entertaining flick with lots of cheezy moments, bad fashion and clumsy gore. In what other film can you watch Kee Marcello from Europe get decapitated?

I also have a DVD-R of the cut swedish release.

CRUEL JAWS

a.k.a Jaws 5: Cruel Jaws (USA); The Beast; Jaws '96 (Japan video title)

Italy / USA, 1995

Starring a bunch of n00bs

Directed by "William Snyder"... you're not fooling anybody, Bruno Mattei

SHVY (Japan); Widescreen; English with japanese subtitles

BAAAAD scene-by-scene "remake" of Jaws, with lots of liften scene from The Last Jaws, Deep Blood and, I think, even some tinted scenes from the original Jaws! And the soundtrack is liften from Star Wars!!! Theaving de luxe, braindead script and some truly atrocious acting makes for hilarious Grade Z entertainment. Just like Troll 2 you sometimes wonder if the director was in on the joke.

DEEP BLOOD

a.k.a Sangue Negli Abissi (original title); Sharks (Japan)

Italy, 1989

Starring Franco Baroni, Allen Cort & Keith Kelsch

Directed by Joe D'Amato

SHV (Japan); Fullscreen; English with japanese subtitles

Lame shark movie by D'Amato. I liked the old indian guy though. Parts of this film ended up in the lovely killer shark turkey Cruel Jaws.

RATMAN

a.k.a Quella Villa in Fonda al Parco (original title); Terror House (Germany)

Italy, 1988

Starring Nelson de la Rosa, David Warbeck, Janet Agren, Werner Pochath & Eva Grimaldi

Directed by Giuliano Carnimeo

Albatros (Japan); Letterboxed; English with japanese subtitles

TOP LINE

a.k.a Alien Terminator (UK)

Italy, 1988

Starring Franco Nero, George Kennedy, William Berger & Deborah More

Directed by Nello Rossati

SHV (Japan); Letterboxed; English with japanese subitles

This movie has a little bit of everything: action, science fiction, horror, nazis, aliens, Indiana Jones-influences and even some The Terminator thrown in for good measure! Franco Nero ones again plays a drunk, cynic journalist with some issues with women. Good fun.

ALIEN FACTOR

USA, 1978

Starring Don Leifert, Tom Griffith & Richard Dyszel

Directed by Don Dohler

EVC (Holland); Fullscreen; English with dutch subtitles

Fascinating low budget wonder with imaginitive, but very bad, special FX.

THE BELL FROM HELL

a.k.a La Campana del Infierno (original title); The Bell of Hell (UK video title)

Spain, 1973

Starring Renaud Verley, Viveca Lindfors, Maribél Martin & Christian von Blanc

Directed by Claudio Guerín (completed by Juan Antonio Bardem)

Duplivision (UK); Widescreen; English language

Great, subversive spanish shocker. This tapes is minutes longer than the Pathfinder DVD.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

a.k.a Syndens Spegel (Sweden video title)

USA, 1976

Starring Catharine Burgess, Jamie Gillis & Douglas Wood

Directed by Jonas Middleton

Max's Video (Sweden); Fullscreen; English with swedish subtitles

Unique, surreal Alice in Wonderland-porno/horror hybrid. A fascinating, intelligent and often pretty disturbing film, one of few XXX flicks you can watch as you watch a "real" film. Not with your girlfriend though... Recommended.

DEVIL HUNTER

a.k.a Sexo Caníbal (original title); The Man Hunter (international); Mandigo Manhunter (USA); Jakten på Kidnapparna (Sweden video title)

Spain / France, 1980

Starring Al Cliver, Werner Pochath, Gisela Hahn, Ursula Buchfellner & Antonio Mayans

Directed by Jesus Franco

Continental Video (Sweden); Fullscreen; English with swedish subtitles

Demented jungle action. Not many agree but this is one of my Jess Franco favorites, really desperate low budget filmmaking at its funniest. This very rare tape is also a favorite. It's the longer Man Hunter-version, shorter than the Severin DVD though (but with better colors).

GHOST OF GUTS EATER

a.k.a Krasue Sao (original title)

Thailand, 1973

Starring ?

Directed by S. Naowaratch

Hb. Video-Film (Sweden); Widescreen; Thai with swedish subtitles

Utterly bizarre krasue (witches with flying heads... they're big in Asia) movie, at least filtered through my western eyes. With the worst flying head FX ever, some bungalow melodrama, giants, magic etc. I need to know, how the hell did this mega-obscure film get a video release in Sweden of all places!?