Female Teacher: Dirty Afternoon, 1981 - ★★½

Female Teacher: Dirty Afternoon, 1981 - ★★½
_REVIEWED_

"Its nice I get hooked on it... Man-aholism."

Delinquent student on about sex, while on a swing 

A usually shy and removed teacher strikes up a bond with one of her wayward students, when the police call her due to the students lack of parents. Has her relationship with the young student grows, it stirs deep rooted urges making her question her own lonely lifestyle.

Female Teacher Dirty Afternoon is supposedly the 8th entry in the Nikkatsu series that ran to an amazing 11. Personally I found it dull and a little lifeless, especially when viewed alongside the studios more notorious series. Theres two mild rape scenes that were clearly thrown in purely for titillation reasons, other than those segments its a very basic erotic drama, more than exploitation fest.

[PRFR]
Not much, but I was pretty amused by the students paint thinner huffing father and the fact the funky central theme tune was English.

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Fairy in a Cage, 1977 - ★★½

Fairy in a Cage, 1977 - ★★½
REVIEWED

"Judge you're blushing like a teenage boy..."

Lieutenant Nishizaki (Hirokazu Inoue)

Historical Japanese pinku, set in a wwII military prison. Judge Murayama (Minoru Ōkōchi) along with his second in command Lieutenant Nishizaki (Hirokazu Inoue) abuse their power, and sexually torture the prisoners in their command. Only new recruit Taoka (Kazuo Satake) becomes infatuation with a woman wrongly imprisoned and decides to help her break free.

Average Nikkatsu studio guff featuring spanking, rope & candle torture even an enema and thats just the title sequence. Sadly the sedate pedestrian story offers little entertainment value to back up its mild smut. In fact the only memorable aspect is the period its set, and outside of the costumes thats barely used.

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The humorous inclusion of an itching potion on a pair of bound prisoners, for the simple reason they'll rub against each other.

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Horrors of Malformed Men, 1969 - ★★★★

Horrors of Malformed Men, 1969 - ★★★★
REVIEWED
Japanese exploitation legend Teruo Ishii's horror opus is basically a twisted, weirded out version of 'Island of Lost Souls'. I waited years to see this and thankfully it delivered. Comes highly recommended but only suitable to fans of bizarre cinema.

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Vampiros lesbos, 1971 - ★★★½

Vampiros lesbos, 1971 - ★★★½
REVIEWED

"Jesus has left the building..."

RIP Jess Franco

Eurosleaze legend Jesús "Jess" Franco (Spanish born 12 May 1930 - April 2, 2013). Made over 150 movies featuring boobs, blood and bad acting, many agreeably shit but hey someone had to deliver the trash.

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Reflections of Evil (2002)

Reflections of Evil (2002)
Director: Damon Packard
Writer: Damon Packard
Country: USA Runtime: 138 min Soundtrack: Various
Cast: Damon Packard, Nicole Vanderhoff, Beverly Miller, Dean Spunt
Julie, who died of a PCP overdose as a teen in the early '70s, searches from beyond the ethers for her little brother, Bob, an obese watch-seller, who is dying of sucrose intolerance, in the early '90s.

Review Coming Soon...

Themes Included: ___ ● ___ ● ___
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Cultdb Totals
[Rated _ out of 10 Good]
[Deathcount _]
[Gorequota _/10]
[Boobquota _/10]

Ring of Darkness (1979)

Ring of Darkness (1979)
aka: Un ombra nell'ombra, Satan's Wife
Director: Pier Carpi as Peter Karp
Cast: Anne Heywood, Lara Wendel, John Phillip Law, Irene Papas
Occult Euro oddity.

The film starts with a group of satanic cultists dancing and stripping while a female voice gives us a bit of a monolgue. "It started that night, when we subbmitted to him we call our lord, and surrenderd our bodies to his will. We were young and dreamed of the power he'd bestow on us, a power that would raise us above the normal run of humanity. Was not long before we relized the price we'd have to pay was a terrible one, that would involve not only us but our children as well" Turns out the speech is from a former cultist who suspects her 13 year old daughter Daria as fallen under the control of the former cults leader whose possibly lucifer himself. He uses her to exact his revenge on members who betrayed him.

No doubt made as a quick cash-in as a response to the horror hits of the time like The Exorcist and The Omen though the director claims otherwise saying it was based on a novel he wrote in the 60's and similarites to those 2 films was due to studio pressure. That said ripoff or not this is fun low budget supernatural nonsense fron Itally. Lara Wendel (Tenebre/Maladolesenza/Perfume of the Lady in Black/Ghosthouse) who plays the devil girl Daria is fantastic in her evil role. The soundtrack is awsome too and was re-hased for the film Pieces. My only real complaint was due to it being harder to find than gold dust (unreleased in a worthwhile version since the early 80's, possibly due in no small part to the brief under age nudity of actress Lara Wendel who was born in '65, Rings Of Darkness was filmed back in '77 making her only around twelve) which meant I had to suffer a 2nd generation vhs transfer to dvd that got released in the US as Satan's Wife. The ending offered the chilling scene of Daria walking towards the vatican, that hinted at a possible sequel which sadly was never made. Theres much speculation about the various runtimes/cuts on the European vhs's as well, with some fans claiming there could be prints exisiting upwards of 100 minutes, when it was submitted to the Italian censors in '79 it was listed as being 91 mins the vhs releases in existance are around 84-87 minutes mark, so whats missing is pure speculation. After finishing directing this in October 1977 Pier Carpi started shooting a film called 'IL Mago e La Svastica/The Wizard and the Swastika' with many of the Ring Of Darkness cast alongside Max Von Sydow but it was never finished or released and he never got to direct again. It's hard to recommend and say I enjoyed this without looking like someone who defends the use of naked youngsters on film, being a father myself is something of course I would never try and defend. But putting that thorny issue aside, it must be noted that the rest of Ring is without a question one of the best supernatural Eurosleaze movies I've seen.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 7 out of 10]
[Deathcount 5]
[Gorequota 2/10]

Themes Included: Black Magic ● Teen Shower ● Devil Worship
Nudity ● Classroom ● Weird Dreams ● Witchcraft ● Nude Catfight

Cold Fish (2010)

Cold Fish (2010)
aka: Tsumetai nettaigyo
Director: Shion Sono
Cast: Makoto Ashikawa, Denden, Mitsuru Fukikoshi
When Syamoto's teenage daughter is caught stealing, a generous middle-aged man helps resolve the situation. The man and his wife offer to have Syamoto's troublesome daughter work at their fish store. Syamoto soon discovers the horrific truth of the seemingly perfect couple.

Based loosely on a real life murder case known as the 'Saitama serial murders of dog lovers' that happened back in 1993, which involved a dog breeder and his wife being charged with four known murders, with others unproven but rumored to have happened. Cold Fish changes the details placing the man as a tropical fish salesman, who befriends another shop owner, slowly enticing him into his sadistic world. I'd heard various comments before viewing and was under the impression it was going to be this years Visitor Q, there is a few brief glimpses of that film within Cold Fish but overall it leaves the viewer with a totally different expierence, its more in the same unglamourous tradition of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer but with an added mix of family life and social commentary. The films tone is exceptionally bleak with each of its characters as negative and desperatly unhappy as the next, you wouldn't want to trade your life for any of them. The acting is for most part exceptional espiecally by its two central leads 'Denden as mood swinging sadistic maniac Murata' and 'Makoto Ashikawa as the anxiety ridden stooge Syamoto' whose too weak a personality to stand up for himself and stop being led into such a dark world. Without a question one of the better movies to come out of Japan this year, its only draw back being it feels at times that its being drawn out to fill its two hour plus duration, could have easily been cropped by 20-30 minutes without losing plot or action.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 7½ out of 10]
[Deathcount 6]
[Gorequota 7/10]

Themes Included: Severed Head ● Tropical Fish ● Serial Killer
Rape ● Dysfunctional Family Life ● Gangsters ● Astronomy

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...

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

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.

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

Breaking Point (1975)

Breaking Point (1975)
Director: Bo Arne Vibenius
Writer: Bo Arne Vibenius
Cast: Andreas Bellis, Irena Billing, Barbara Scott
Exploitation thriller.

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)

Naughty Nurse (1969)

Naughty Nurse (1969)
Director: Paul Bartel
Writer: Paul Bartel
Cast: Valorie Armstrong, Ron Grathwohl, Christopher St. John
A doctor and nurse sneak away for a kinky encounter, only to be interrupted by a cop...with a secret of his own.

Wacky short following a nurses kinky little lunch time break of SandM fun.

Only running around the 8 minute mark, it was made to play alongside his classic 30 minute short from the previous year The Secret Cinema. Features typical eccentric character's and dialogue that you'd expect from Bartel. Not long enough or memorable to call a must see, its still a nice little showcase of his talents and fun to see swinging NY of the period.

(6½ out of 10)

Flesh of Your Flesh (1983)

Flesh of Your Flesh (1983)
aka: Carne de tu Carne
Director: Carlos Mayolo
Writer: Carlos Mayolo, Jorge Nieto
Cast: Adriana Herrán, David Guerrero, Santiago García
Columbian Vampire tale.

It's probably the first movie I've ever seen from Columbia but boy is it one I'm not going to forget in an hurry. It starts somewhat like a classic family sage (think Godfather but instead of following the mafia its a few generations of rich Columbian farmers and landowners). When the Grandma and head of the family dies, her family gather from all corners of the world at her estate, to hear her will be read. Only it spells trouble for two of her grandchildren as both the brother and sister learn of their families dark secret, that there's been numerous cases of incest among the family. As they visit old familiar childhood haunts they start to become insatiably attracted to each other and start to have sex, its at this point they're visited by ghostly apparitions of their dead elders. These ghosts start to chant echo's and remarks about tasting blood. The next morning as the brother and sister wake they're somehow changed. After killing a man checking the security of the estate they taste blood for the 1st time and change a little more into blood craved vampires, they then go hunting the local area for newborn babies to feed on.

Apparently the story is comprised of grisly Columbian myths and folk tales, I'm sure some of the aspects of the film I didn't really grasp but on the whole I understood what was going on. The incest within the film is done without showing any nudity but it's still pretty perverse, not really gory either but there's the odd bit of blood ohh and a turkey gets its head blown off in one of the opening scenes. I guess any of these events could offend viewers which is a shame as its a very haunting little movie and the two vampires are as unique to me as when I first watched a Asian hopping vampire film. Well worth hunting down I've probably over scored the rating purely due to never seeing a film like it before, who knows Columbia maybe as an whole sub-genre of incestous blood drinking baby eating vampire movies to unearth

(8½ out of 10)

The Beasts (1980)

The Beasts (1980)
aka: Shan kou
Director: Dennis Yu
Writer: Eddie Ling-Ching Fong, Lee Ten
Cast: Eddie Chan, Sing Chen, Kent Cheng
A father seeks from a gang of thugs who raped his daughter and murdered his son.

Director Dennis Yu as made a handful of weird little horror films The Imp and Evil Cat jump to mind, here in the lesser seen The Beasts he tackles the rape revenge sub-genre, basically ripping off I Spit On Your Grave scene for scene bar the fact female rape victim's brother gets killed and she ends up in a mental ward, its left to her father to extort the revenge.

The rape itself is a little tamer than the western rape revenge yarns like the already mentioned Spit or MS45 (that could be down to a cut in the version I caught). The gang of thugs involved in the rape/murder range from really sleazy to downright 3 stooges dumb. The father comes across like a one man on a mission killer along the lines of Charles Bronson in the Death Wish series, he's got a vast set of tricks and traps for the gang ranging from snakes, rope traps and best of all a giant wooden box with nails through it. The reason it most likely has never had a proper international release is due to its use of western music ranging from The Police and Genesis, I bet you'd never have guessed you'd ever hear Phil Collins belt out a song during an Hong Kong exploitation film. Personally I was expecting a little more from the film with all the underground hype its gained, I was the same with Boxer's Omen waited years to see it and it never lived up to my expectations, that said its well worth the hunt and is never boring.

(6½ out of 10)

Diversions (1976)

Diversions (1976)
aka: Sex Express
Director: Derek Ford
Writer: Derek Ford
Cast: Heather Deeley, Derek Martin and Jacqui Rigby
Whilst on a train journey a beautiful woman (Heather Deeley) fantasises about a series of bizarre sexual encounters.

Truly amazing British adult exploitationer, that's every bit a match for any of the classic 70's USA grindhouse roughies that have since gained infamous status. Diversions story follows a female criminal boarding a train while handcuffed to a female police officer. While on the train journey we follow Imogene (Heather Deeley) through various perverse day dreams, highlights of these include a sex scene between a lesbian SS officer and her prisoner, a brutal rape revenge drama that involves a penis castration culminating with a vampire. Diversions as a few filler feeling dream sequences then ends with a weird yet funny Victorian camera sex scene involving a photographer his model and a maid. Everything is helped by the fantastic lead performance of Heather Deeley who proves she can act as well look great during her sex scenes. Recommended to fans of adult cinema, without a question of a doubt one of the best to come out of British isles.

(8 out of 10)

Wet Wilderness (1976)

Wet Wilderness (1976)
aka: The Flesh Rippers
Director: Lee Cooper
Writer: Lee Cooper
Cast: Daymon Gerard, Alice Hammer, Raymond North
A machete killer attacks a picnic party but can the mother stop his rampage ?

Adult movie masquerading as an horror, with a wooly masked killer wandering local woods for people to rape and then slaughter. 70's seemed to be the period anyone could be in a prono and some of the chicks in this stinker are no exception, sporting huge asses, stretch marks and the ubiquitous hairy bush. I didn't get much out of viewing it but the disc also contained heaps of clips from other films a British one named Diversions really stood out and been put in my most wanted list.

(4 out of 10)

The Day of Love (1991)

The Day of Love (1991)
aka: Den lyubvi
Director: Aleksandr Polynnikov
Writer: Yuri Manusov, Igor Poberezhsky
Cast: Andrei Boltnev, Sergey Gazarov, Sergei Chernov, Anna Nazaryeva
In a small Russian town, a mafia boss is planning a big operation to illegally sell trucks. In order to distract police attention he orders a gang "Motalka" that works for him to commit mass acts of gang rapes in the city. One of the prospective victims is the newly elected beauty queen Christina. After the girl was raped her German father Mathias and new husband of her mother Nicolai decide to take revenge on the gang and their leaders.

True rarity this exploitation gem, one because its one of the few Russian examples of the genre to ever surface, second due to never being released outside of its native Russia (meaning other than finding like thankfully I did a fan subtitles version, you'll have to watch without picking up on any of the dialog or plot)

Plot follows a set of young thugs who on the say so of a local mafia boss (whose trying to divert police attention so he and his hoods can steal a huge amount of trucks from a nearby plant) plan a day of gang rapes, seven in all ('The Day of Love' of the title) culminating in the rape of a beauty pageant queen. The young rapists are aided in getting access to the beauty queen by a girl who believed she should of won the pageant herself. The revenge comes in the form of the Beauty Queens father and her new step-father who join forces to track down those responsible.

The movie's a little like a Russian 'Clockwork Orange' all be it a lot more campy, with the gang of rapists dressing up in disguises not unlike the droogs before going on a spree of 'the old in & out'. Another neat feature is the stencil graffiti they use to mark their territory. Though the rapes do show nudity, any sign of penetration is merely hinted at. They aren't as excessive as many of the Western rape revenge movie's like say Last House on the Left or MS45. If you can find this rare gem its highly recommended and if you don't mind fan subtitles you'll know doubt enjoy it as much as I did, well worth the hunt.

(7½ out of 10)