Showing posts with label Rated 5-6 Average. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rated 5-6 Average. Show all posts

Vengeance of the Zombies (1973)

Vengeance of the Zombies (1973)
aka: La rebelión de las muertas
Director: León Klimovsky
Writer: Paul Naschy
Country: Spain Runtime: 89 min Soundtrack: Juan Carlos Calderón
Cast: Paul Naschy, Romy, Mirta Miller, María Kosty, Aurora de Alba
An Indian mystic uses magical chants to raise women from the dead, then sends them out to perform revenge killings for him.
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A creepy masked man uses black magic to raise women from the dead, which he sends out to kill for him. The first attack happens randomly against a pair of grave robbers, then the masked voodoo killer focuses his attention on the followers of an Indian mystic guru named Krishna, who is based in London. After more murders a detective starts to suspect its occult black magic, and it slowly unfolds that its Krishna disfigured brother Kantaka, whose behind the crimes.

Fun Spanish occult drama from the great León Klimovsky, it was penned by legendary horror actor Paul Naschy under his real name Jacinto Molina. The plot its self is pretty loose making the film feel sloppy at times. Some of the murders seem way too random, the killer changes his look and method almost every murder, theres even a segment he looks a little like V from V for Vendetta. Sometimes the killer uses wax figures to conjure up the undead, other times he uses the figures to take control of living people, he even uses them directly to force people to commit suicide. Naschy has three roles, one as the central character Krishna (which he olive skins up well for), he's also Kantaka the disfigured brother, and during a dream sequence he plays an horned satan. The films got a cool atmosphere with the zombies usually slowed down to add impact, the bloods bright red and the visuals in general are glossy. I wouldn't say its Naschy's best or an essential must own Euro horror, but its entertaining and well worth a view.

Themes Included: Voodoo ● Indian Mystic ● Zombies
Chicken Head Chop ● Black Magic
Cultdb Totals
[Rated 6½ out of 10]
[Deathcount 12]
[Gorequota 4/10]
[Boobquota 3/10]

Refuge of Fear (1974)

Refuge of Fear (1974)
aka: El refugio del miedo, Creation Of The Damned
Director: José Ulloa
Writer: Miguel Sanz, José Ulloa
Country: Spain Runtime: 91 min Soundtrack: Juan Pineda
Cast: Craig Hill, Patty Shepard, Teresa Gimpera
A husband and wife along with their son and another couple find themselves stuck in a rather sophisticated underground bomb shelter after a nuclear war, with there only contact with the outside world being a somewhat temperamental short-wave radio. But an affair between the son and the wife of their friend, along with boredom, drug abuse and diminishing supplies cause tempers to flare and things slowly descend in to desperation.
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After a nuclear bomb has wiped out most of the US, Robert his wife Marge along with their son Chris (adopted son of Robert) and their neighbors Arthur and Carol are all shacked up together in Roberts state of the art bomb shelter. Their only contact is a lone radio signal they receive from another survivor named Peter. Due to the confined nature of being underground they slowly start to come undone. Carol has an affair with Chris, which causes friction among the two couples. It comes to an head when Arthur becomes sick and dies, shortly afterwards Chris who Carol suspects has killed her husband decides to go to the surface where he knows he'll eventually become sick and die from the radioactive fallout. Next Marge becomes ill and dies, and a clearer picture unfolds that Roberts planned the proceedings all along because hes become infatuated with Carol, wanting her to become Eve to his Adam.

Overly soapy plot twists and acting, and flat direction hampers what could have been a fantastic sleazy post apocalyptic film. The brief segment with Chris going top side as a lone survivor among the dead was pretty good and reminiscent of Charles Hestons Omega Man, but the highlight was actress Patty Shepard as the horny housewife Carol. She does a strip tease for all the group, wanders into Chris's room naked, then later during her sex scene with him delivers the films best line "those shrieks on the radio, sound like souls trapped in hell". The ending is really peculiar, it cuts to years before the bomb with both couples sitting in a garden, while Robert picks out his choice of shelter. Not sure if it was pointing at him having day dreamt the whole thing, or maybe having planned the whole thing years earlier, whatever its intention it failed. I wouldn't rush out of my way to see it again, but its worth at least one view, the only other film of the top of my head I remember being set in a shelter was Paul Bartels Shelf Life.

Themes Included: Post Apocalypse ● Nuclear Bomb ● Bomb Shelter
Cultdb Totals
[Rated 5½ out of 10]
[Deathcount 4]
[Gorequota 3/10]
[Boobquota 1/10]

Griff the Invisible (2010)

Griff the Invisible (2010)
Director: Leon Ford
Writer: Leon Ford
Country: Australia Runtime: 91 min Soundtrack: Sep Caton, Lee Devaney
Cast: Ryan Kwanten, Maeve Dermody, Marshall Napier
Griff, office worker by day, superhero by night, has his world turned upside down when he meets Melody, a beautiful young scientist who shares his passion for the impossible.
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Office worker Griff is a dreamer, whose never really fit into things, other than his bond with his brother he's never had a real relationship before. Instead he's slipped into a fantasy world where hes a super hero fighting the injustices he see's around him.

How to disappear completely, anyone expecting another irrelevant superhero tale along the lines of Special, Kick-Ass, Defendor or Super will be greatly disappointed. As Griff is purely a romantic tale about the age old saying that theres someone out there for everyone, no matter how bizarre or weird you you dress, it only really uses the costumed super hero as its backdrop. Even though its very slow paced I sort of enjoyed its small quirky feel, it reminded me of another small Oz movie Malcolm (1986). I was shocked to find out Ryan Kwanten who plays Jason in True Blood was an Australian, at least now I know why he does a pretty dodgy southern accent. He's really good here sticking to the lonely dreamer character, I was expecting him to get tough and end up with all the office women swooning, but that never happens. Very light hearted no real surprises but nice enough small film.

Themes Included: Invisibility ● Office Worker ● Hero By Night
Cultdb Totals
[Rated 6½ out of 10]

Top of the Brine (2011)

Top of the Brine (2011)
aka: Top of the Brine - Cinemageddon Collaboration 1
Director: Chadman, SCanfield, Bitchnun , Shrimp, junkyardgod, Mudman, OfficerDown
Cast: Chadman, SCanfield, Bitchnun , Shrimp, junkyardgod, Mudman, OfficerDown
Horror short, collaborative video project.
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Short horror collaboration from members of the cinemageddon cult film community. TotB doesn't so much follow a scripted plot but mixes various vignets together around the rough theme of a contaminated water supply. It's real home made, shoe string movie making of the lowest variety, made by fans for fans. But has the unique twist that one member films their segment than hands it to the next member and so on. Its only 5 minutes long, so should be seen more as a toe dipping exercise than fully realized project. That will no doubt, knowing the cinemageddon clan, grow into something so much more. I personally had as much fun with this short as I did with most the ones on the Troma dance collections. And who knows what the future holds for these guys. As it stands over 400 people have seen it, so if just a small % of those show interest in a future production whose to say where it could end.
Themes Included: Boobs ● Head Sawing ● Meth Lab
Bald Britney Spears ● Strange Blue Liquid ● Shooting ● Glove Puppet Monster
Cultdb Totals
[Rated 6½ out of 10]
[Deathcount 2]
[Gorequota 4/10]

Baby Shower (2011)

Baby Shower (2011)
Director: Pablo Illanes
Cast: Nicolás Alonso, Claudia Burr, Sofía García
Four ex classmates get together to celebrate the pregnancy of one of them. The venue chosen for the party is a country house located one hour away from the city.
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Spanish thriller following five female friends gathering at a country estate, one member being pregnant. They're there to celebrate the forthcoming birth, but what starts like a serene weekend trip, turns nasty between the friends as they start to fall out among themselves and become bitchy. Things only go from bad to worse as one of the women becomes sick, another goes missing then one gets raped.

Flashy gore and a few good twists don't really save Baby Shower. Its far from bad but it just doesn't have enough charisma to stand out from the endless amount of like for like thrillers floating around. I'd skip it unless it surfaces in a DVD bargain bin or on cable.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 6 out of 10 Good]
[Deathcount 8]
[Gorequota 7/10]
Themes Included: Neck Hook ● Rape ● Crazy Newage Nut

Red State (2011)

Red State (2011)
Director: Kevin Smith
Cast: Michael Parks, Melissa Leo, John Goodman
Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda.
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Three adolescents are lured to a trailer home on the promise they can get group sex with an older women. Only it transpires they've been set up by a crazed local preacher of a Christian fundamentalist sect known as the five point church. The sect is composed largely of members from the same extended family. Anyone the preacher deems as being a sexual sinner is killed. The teens only chance of survival, is a set of goverment agents, that have been called in to search the church on the grounds of them stock piling firearms.

Kevin Smith known more for his comedy films than anything of a more serious nature, delivers a real mixed bag of styles with Red State, it's a little bit of drama here, a little of survival horror there, then padded out with chunks of social, religious and political satire. For me it never really worked due to the childish almost tabliod news approach of its script, shares in tone the same over sensationalized approach of Natural Born Killers but did not succeed nearly as well. Another of the problems for me is the films characters are all pretty unlikeable so it was hard really to take a stand, as to which side was actually right or wrong. Does have a couple of good performances by Michael Parks as the nutty constant hymn singing Richard Branson looking preacher and Kaylee Defer as a teen cultist trying to protect the churchs kids. I would not go out of my way to rewatch it, avoid or maybe grab a casual view when it airs on television.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 6 out of 10]
[Deathcount 13]
[Gorequota 5/10]
Themes Included: Zionist Government Agents ● Gun Seige ● Hostages
Crazy Christians ● Religious Sect ● Matricide ● Drugged Beer

ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2 (2011)

ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2 (2011)
Director: Robert Hall
Cast: Nick Principe, Thomas Dekker, Owain Yeoman, Brian Austin Green, Danielle Harris
The sequel to Laid to Rest, that brings back ChromeSkull, who barely escaped death in the first movie and is hell-bent on continuing where he left off... and forging a new path of terror and destruction.
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Following directly on from the circumstances in the first film, a dubious police investigator finds Chromeskull barely alive needing extensive eye and facial reconstruction. At the killers side is what would have been his final victim, she somehow gets violently killed that same night even though Chromeskull is getting medical treatment. The story jumps forward three months and Chromey is back on his feet having been helped by a clandestine company, who plan on using the masked maniac as their own killing machine, even sorting him out with his own personalized cache of blades and weapons.

Sticking to the same formula that made the first film so successful, showering the viewer with an endless array of gory set pieces. Sadly they've not improved on the originals flaws, this being unsatisfactory character development and nonsensical plot. In fact Laid to Rest 2 adds an even more unbelievable feeling with the now obligatory use of quick edited cctv/phone/video camera footage. I am sure the simply amused Saw/Hostel type of horror buff will be ranking this as one of the horrors of 2011, and I will agree its nice to see really traditional FX of this caliber. I would have just liked to have some depth to the proceedings, actors who do not look uncomfortable on film and a director who can add tension and atmosphere between kills. If the producers could improve those areas, the third outing (which is hinted at after the final credits) would rank as a modern classic and not just successful fluff.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 6½ out of 10]
[Deathcount 12]
[Gorequota 9/10]
Themes Included: Chelsea Smile ● Masked Maniac ● Kidnapping
Stabbings ● Hostage ● Homicide Police

Blood Relations (1988)

Blood Relations (1988)
Director: Graeme Campbell
Cast: Jan Rubes, Lydie Denier, Kevin Hicks, Lynne Adams
A severely dysfunctional family gathers at a snow covered, isolated mansion in the winter. There the family members including the father, an arrogant surgeon who may have murdered his wealthy wife expose each others' secrets, with surprising results.
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Newly wed Thomas alongside his wife Marie return back to his families mansion, that is owned by his rich brain surgeon father Andreas. Thomas aim's to murder him for his wealth. Only one hurdle stands between the young couple and the inheritance, Andreas lawyer has stated only one son gets the lot and he cannot share who that will be. So its either prove to Andreas that it should be theirs or kill the other brother Jack. Thomas persuades Maria to sleep with his father in the hope the excitement will be enough to take him out of the picture. Only Andreas is not as frail as he seems and has a truly shocking agenda lined up for his new daughter-in law.

Extremely odd and perverse Canadian movie, the plots muddled throughout but at least it's never predictable, especially the bizarre final. Marie 'Lydie Denier' really smolders onscreen, she has the chic of Audrey Hepburn and mystery of Isabella Rossellini all rolled up in one. Marie not only sleeps with the son his brother and father, she even strips naked and strokes the families dying grandfather. Some of the sexual encounters are forced, due to her being drugged. There is a real incestuous tone throughout the movie that becomes really weird when we reach the films headfuck of a climax. I'll be honest part way into the story I was expecting it to surface at some point that she was the sister, especially due to no women being in the house. Blood Relations isn't that obvious and will pull the carpet from under most viewers feet. I'd never really known of the director Graeme Campbell before, it came as a shock when I found out he'd gone from sleazy shit like this to kids TV stuff, like Degrassi Street and Blake Holsey High. Damn now I've gotta rank it and it's really hard, the ending and sleaze factor would deserve a high score, yet the overall film and messy plot would probably be in the low to mid range. Worth seeking out, if you are after exploitation add 2 to the rank, if you want a well paced thriller take away 2.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 6½ out of 10]
[Deathcount 2]
[Gorequota 4/10]
Themes Included: Inheritance ● Family ● Father to Son

Death Stop Holocaust (2009)

Death Stop Holocaust (2009)
Director: Justin Russell
Cast: Lisa Krenisky, Jenna Fournier, E. Ray Goodwin
Two young women, Elizabeth and Taylor, travel to their father´s summer home on a remote island for a vacation getaway. As they travel deeper into the island, a nightmare begins to unfold. An unmarked white van will not leave them be, as they begin to sink deeper into terror. It becomes clear to the women they are not welcome as a group of masked killers begin to torment, torture, and hack them to bits. What secrets does this island hold and what lengths will they go to preserve them?
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Two women decide to take a trip to one of their dad's remote summer homes, only things get out of control when a creepy mask wearing guy tries to run them off the road. The two women soon find out the rural island doesn't take strongly to strangers coming, and they turn a blind eye on a local gang of three masked maniacs. Fortunatly one of the girls manages to contact her dad who lives 15 miles away, but can he make it in time to save her life.

Made in a very glossy grindhouse manner, it trys to rehash the 70's slasher, even to point of trying to market it as being banned in 47 country's. It's trouble is because it takes a 'play it out for the action' and not 'for its story' approach, Death Stop Holocaust feels lacking and hollow. There's zero character depth for either the victims, the dad or any of towns folk and killers. Still worth seeing, it runs under an hour and half and holds its tension pretty well.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 6½ out of 10]
[Deathcount 4]
[Gorequota 5/10]
Themes Included: Island ● Truck Stop ● Masked Maniacs
Road Rage ● Creepy Hospital ● Suicide ● Diner

The Bleeding House (2011)

The Bleeding House (2011)
aka: The Bleeding
Director: Philip Gelatt
Cast: Alexandra Chando, Patrick Breen, Charlie Hewson
A stranger with mysterious intentions comes to stay the night at a secluded country home, but what he finds inside is a family torn apart by a violent past and a secret more deadly than he expected.
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Slow paced horror concerning the Smith family, Marilyn and Matt and their teens Gloria and Quentin. Due to an accident years earlier they live reclusive lives alongside a Midwestern backroad. Only a stranger Nick knocks on their door asking for shelter for the night, due to his car breaking down. The Smiths begrudging accept, which leads to a night of terror and a shocking family secret surfacing.

The Bleeding House as an interesting background story but is harmed by slow pacing and too many dull moments with no action. Bar a few scenes it feels more like a made for Television mystery than a modern horror film. The actings solid though with Patrick Breen great as the Southern preaching weirdo and Alexandra Chando doing well as the agnst ridden animal killing teen daughter. Definetly not the worst or best film I've seen in 2011, but a fair first attempt by Writer/Director Philip Gelatt.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 6½ out of 10]
[Deathcount 7]
[Gorequota 6/10]
Themes Included: Southern Hospitality ● Bottled Blood ● Pet Killer
Mysterious Stranger ● Family Secret

Horror Business (2005)

Horror Business (2005)
Director: Christopher P. Garetano
Cast: Ray Adell, Jennifer Atkins, Ron Atkins
Moviemaking is no way to spend a life.
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Cheap and cheerful documentary about low budget horror films and the people who create them. Being a fan its actually nice to see that the folks behind the scenes are more interesting than most their output. Directors like Ron Atkins who made the equally shit yet funny Scizophreniac films, he might not have earned big money but hes clearly had fun and managed to pick up a beautiful wife. The bigger names included like Joe Bob Briggs, HG Lewis and Lloyd Kaufman are all brief interviews caught on spec while they're at book signings or conventions that don't really add much. Still its worth a view if your a low budget horror nut like me.
Cultdb Totals
[Rated 6 out of 10 Good]
[Deathcount N/A]
[Gorequota N/A]
Themes Included: Brief Nudity ● On Set Footage ● Horror Conventions

Horny House of Horror (2010)

Horny House of Horror (2010)
aka: Fasshon heru, Fashion Hell
Director: Jun Tsugita
Cast: Hara Saori, Asami, Suzuki Mint
Pals Toshida and Uno insist on going to a brothel with their betrothed friend Nakazu, who has never paid for sex before. Each guy is matched with a nubile prostitute, unaware of the locale's deranged mission to sexually torture customers. Vagina dentata is the yarn's main means of attack, but samurai swords and phallic food games provide plenty of ketchup...
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Friends Uno and Toshida pursued their married friend Nakatsu to visit a sex parlour, with the simple aim that all three of them will get some sex. Only the place they pick 'Shogan Massage Palour' as a secret, that being its prostitutes kill their clients for the sole enjoyment of their boss, who watches in via hidden camera's. Thankfully Nakatsu having picked out an hooker named Nagisa doesn't have the heart to continue, so she takes pity on him and agrees to help him try to and rescue his friends.

Been a real steady supply of these Japanese action gore flicks recently featuring either cosplay costumed or naked girls. Horny House of Horror is one of the more entertaining entrys, largly down to the fact its story is so simple, resembling a cross between a typical Jap gore actioner and HG Lewis Gore Gore Girls. Its crammed with gory warped moments from fridges full of jarred penises to nipple's and cocks being chopped off with samuari swords. The highlight is the use twice of 'metal jaws' once covering over a vagina before intercourse the second has a set of teeth. Though some would see it as too crude and infantile I enjoyed it, the downside is the run-time was again just slightly over the hour mark, it makes me wonder if the whole populas of Japan doesn't have some kind of attention problem. To make it more attractive to customers, the distributors should really package 2 films per release.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 6 out of 10]
[Deathcount 5]
[Gorequota 7/10]
Themes Included: Penis Chomping ● Penis Chopping ● Face Farting
Prostitutes ● Nipple Slicing ● Gut Ripping ● Acid In A Face

The Zombie Diaries 2 (2011)

The Zombie Diaries 2 (2011)
aka: World of the Dead: The Zombie Diaries 2
Directors: Michael Bartlett, Kevin Gates
Cast: Philip Brodie, Alix Wilton Regan, Rob Oldfield
Three months have passed since a viral outbreak wiped out 99.9% of the world's population, turning its victims into flesh-eating living dead. In the UK, a surviving band of soldiers and civilians have taken refuge at a rural military barracks. Life in this new world is tough and brutal, but hope appears when a high level communication is received from a military base on the coast, telling of sanctuary elsewhere in Europe... But just as salvation appears to be in reach, the base suffers an overwhelming defeat at the hands of the living dead! The surviving handful of troops and civilians must now make their way to the coast to uncover the truth behind the message. Their perilous journey takes them across a now treacherous, death-ravaged landscape, where the living dead are vast in number and wandering bandits impose their own malicious sense of law and order. What follows is a journey into hell and a desperate battle against all odds for the very survival of the human race.
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Picking up around the same period as the first Zombies Diaries, this time just following one group of survivors a small set of terrortial army recruits. Even though they're armed they still face the same hazards as any survivor which is primery the undead masses, but also with dwindling food, clean water and medical supplys they also need to fight off a gang of backwards rural survivors.

With having watched both parts 1 and 2 back to back, I came into this one fearing the worse, but I'm glad to say I was proven wrong. Its still no '28 Days/Weeks Later' but its a massive improvement over the first film, clearly due to its improved budget, which in turn as been spent on real actors, helps also that they actually spent a little time on the plot and dialogue. Also unlike its predecessor Zombie Diaries 2 has even got a decent ammount of undead (they don't actually call them zombies within the film itself). Downside again for me at least was how serious it takes itself, a little bit of humour once in while wouldn't have gone a miss, the rape scene seemed tacked on more than being essential to the plot, but who knows by the 3rd outing they could have a breakthrough like Dog Soldiers on their hands.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 6 out of 10 Good]
[Deathcount NA]
[Gorequota 6/10]
Themes Included: Zombies ● Rape ● Army
Medical Team

Cellofan (1998)

Cellofan (1998)
aka: Cellophane, Cellofan - med døden til følge
Director: Eva Isaksen
Cast: Andrine Sæther, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Svein Erik Brodal, Trond Brænne
A dying old man tells his daughter, a young and aggressive journalist, to find a box in his house. He makes her promise not to open it, and immediately burn it. However, she cannot resist her curiosity and finds documents, letters and clippings inside the box that reveal that her father was the suspect in a murder case 25 years ago. She decides to find out the truth.
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While sat in an hospital room at the bedside of her dying father, Marianne a journalist is asked by him for one last favor. He asks her to destroy boxes he has back at his apartment but not to open them. Marianne thanks to a little coaxing from a newly made friend opens one of the boxes and reads one of the letters it contains, she learns that her father whom was a priest had been accused of murder 25 years earlier in a small rural village of Skogmark. So its left to Marianne to either try put the letters out of mind and forget what shes seen or travel to village and try to uncover the truth and if her father was involved in a pregnant woman's death.

This co Norwegian/Swedish production from late nineties feels like it could have been made ten years earlier. During the early stages it reminded me somewhat of recent film The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo but its interesting premise is all but wasted due to its painfully pedestrian pace and almost total lack of action, which is a shame as the rural feel and general odd tone (including an hotel room peeping tom and local butcher who seems to enjoy his work a little too much) could have made this mystery into something so much more rewarding. Oh and for anyone whose wondering why its named Cellofan, its taken from a scene the dying priest is smothered and almost killed by the cellophane wrapping from a bunch of flowers.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 5½ out of 10]
[Deathcount 4]
[Gorequota 1/10]
Themes Included: Journalist ● Priest ● Rural Church
Car Crash ● Cow Road Block ● Stutterer ● Picture Moving Eyes

Pituitary Hunter (1990)

Pituitary Hunter (1990)
aka: Brain Theft
Director: Dan Pan
Cast: Lung Lam Ling, Chang Wai Leung
The discovery of murdered corpses with their brains meticulously excised leads a Hong Kong cop into the seedy underworld of black market medicine, where he tracks a scapel-happy mercenary doctor with a diabolical experiment.
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Corpses are turning up in Hong Kong mortuaries and hospitals with their brains missing, a local celebrated inspecter is trying to solve the crime. He's slowly led to a seedy unauthorised doctor named Kwok, who's got a booming trade in everything from illeagal abortions to unorthodox medication, we later find out our not so good doctor as been doing it to turn his sick midget daughter into a normal sized healthy child.

Wild Hong Kong catIII sporting a truly bizarre and extremely uneven plot. Nothing really makes sense but thats one of the unique aspects of the film, because everytime it lacks logic (which is pretty much its entire duration) it just adds in a warped scene like the crazy character going around eating live animals or a mad self harming midget muscle man who takes out his frustraition by beating up a poster of Sylvester Stalone. Its pretty mild compared to other more notorious catIII's but how can the lure of a killer midget not warrant most cult movie fans attentions.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 6½ out of 10]
[Deathcount 10]
[Gorequota 4/10]
Themes Included: Killer Midget ● Rabbit Munching ● Brain Stealing
Human Dominos ● Car Crushing ● Car Sex ● Midget Bullying ● Kabuki Mask





Thor (2011)

Thor (2011)
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins and Natalie Portman
The epic adventure Thor spans the Marvel Universe from present day Earth to the mystical realm of Asgard. At the center of the story is The Mighty Thor, a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war. As a result, Thor is banished to Earth where he is forced to live among humans. When the most dangerous villain of his world sends its darkest forces to invade Earth, Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero.
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Not going to do anything in depth as there's already 10's of 1000's of reviews online for it, likable slightly above average Marvel action hero yarn. I liked the lead Chris Hemsworth, and Portmans always easy on the eye. I just hope that any sequels they do improve on the action. Was nice seeing old Stan Lee in a cameo and don't forget to stick around after the credits (we all know how kids love doing that) for the added link to the Avengers film.
(Rated 6½ out of 10)

Breaking Point (1975)

Breaking Point (1975)
Director: Bo Arne Vibenius
Writer: Bo Arne Vibenius
Cast: Andreas Bellis, Irena Billing, Barbara Scott
Exploitation thriller.
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Wild wacked out pornographic thriller centring on an accountant who rapes and sometimes kills during his work breaks. This is basically a set of sexual vignettes that supposedly follow the crazed office man's day dreams. They range from pretty standard sex scenes which are usually rapes (the tv and his car stereo tell him its what females want) to dumb moments he uses nuclear bullets, there's even an odd scene he abducts a young girl from a swing that thankfully he doesn't do anything with other than eat candy.

Breaking Point was director Bo Arne Vibenius follow-up to his more infamous grindhouse gem Thriller A Cruel Picture Well worth tracking down for fans of strange exploitation movies.

(6½ out of 10)