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Beach House (1982)
"I'll give you a Hawaiian punch if yous don't get out here!!!"
An appetizingly salty, enjoyably rough n' tumbled 80s beach comedy finds a likeable group of boisterous Brooklyn chuckleheads lusty beachside frolics being impinged upon by a buzz killing band of snarky party hearty Philly punkers. The bawdy scenarios are mostly fun, the appropriately noisome performances are energetic, as is the snappy, sounding Rock N' roll soundtrack. The low budget, appreciably high-spirited, hectically hedonistic, riotously Rabelaisian Beach House remains a boozy, bikini-blasted B-comedy that hits the buffoonery bullseye more often than it misses! Troma fans, Party Animals, King Fratters and connoisseurs of saucy seaside shenanigans are sure to dig it! Beach House is crude, lewd, and unashamedly silly, but I've had some of my best times being crude, lewd, and unashamedly silly! A not exactly nuenced beach comedy confection, but many of the beerier exchanges are legitimately mirthsome, the game gals are appropriately nubile, and the guys are amiably girl-gawking goofs!!! Beach House has additional kudos for me, as it stars deliciously dreamy scream queen Kathy 'House on Sorority Row' McNeil as the avidly Anthony-loving Cindy! YOWZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Foolin' Around (1980)
"Did all that Hot Dog stuff come out of his clothes?"
Heffron's charmingly bright and breezy sports comedy centres on a naïve country boy Wes's (Gary Busy) eager attempts to woo a sophisticated college coed Susan (Annette O'Toole) away from her snotty Ivy League fiancé Whitley (John Calvin). Alongside the two effervescing leads, Foolin' Around enjoys an exceptionally fine supporting cast with exemplary performances from Eddie Albert, Cloris Leachman, and a riotously funny turn from Tony 'Thank you, madam!' Randall. Minnesota makes for a wholesome backdrop, and the quotable text, and agreeably bouncy score supply this charming 80s comedy with some additional warmly fuzzies.
The film's sun-dappled, enjoyably screwballed cosy familiarity is manifestly part of its infectiously 'Gee! Ain't life swell' rewatchability. The scintillatingly exquisite, dulcet-voiced Annette o'Toole is never less than a goddess throughout, Busey's toothsome affable lug routine was never less routine, and rarely as affable as his mishap prone, understandably besotted dope, Wes. It's rare to see a genuinely romantic comedy that is so consummately goofy, rather than unintentionally so. A tad more sedate, perhaps, Foolin' Around has a lively, roustabout Blake Edwardsian quality that I still find enormously appealing.
Banned from Broadcast (2004)
An intelligently made, disturbingly realistic, bracingly outlandish descent into macabre supernatural FF terror!
A TV crew investigate bizarre reports concerning the wholly unaccountable disappearance of 4 young people not long after they entered an abandoned, derelict building rumoured to be haunted. The TV team then eerily discover that a great number of people linked to this grim, doomily ill-omened building have also gone missing without a trace. Even more disturbing, the TV crew are themselves reported missing not long after interviewing a palpably disturbed, seemingly all-powerful psychic! Diabolical energy fields, malign parallel dimensions, ESP, and the UFO phenomena provide the esoteric grist for this divinely unsettling edition of 'Banned From Broadcast'. Each eerily compelling episode of this expressly vivid Japanese FF series focuses on a malevolent expression of horror too distressing for transmission. This sinister series opener remains an absolute must-see for avidly fear seeking J-Horror fans!
Heartaches (1981)
Margot Kidder's Rita is a real live wire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Charismatic screen icons Annie Potts and Margot Kidder are on immaculately beguiling form in sparky 80s drama Heartaches. Far too good to be this obscure, director Donald Shebib does an exemplary job preventing this engagingly written, energetically performed story from ever lapsing into saccharine melodrama. It's a simple, earnest story of a beautiful friendship eloquently told, while often humorous, Heartaches proves appropriately adapt at plucking mellifluously at the old heartstrings. Heartaches remains a lively, uniquely charming female-led Canadian feature dazzlingly bejewelled with two amusingly disparate, hugely appealing characters that greatly deserves a far bigger audience. I've always had a mad crush on Kidder, and Rita is a real live wire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nippon no daikazoku Saiko! The Large family: Hôsô kinshi gekijôban (2009)
The gripping narrative has a subtle, consistently unsettling undertow.
This wonderfully compelling S. O. V 'mockumentary' has fictitious Canadian filmmaker Veronica Addison shooting an in-depth overview of the large, outwardly charming, yet increasingly troubled Ura family. Almost immediately, many blackened secrets are uncomfortably revealed, with, perhaps, one remaining tantalizing buried to the bitter end. Banned From Broadcast: Saiko! The Large family is another wickedly engrossing, beautifully staged, and superbly acted shock-singed exercise in Asian FF creepiness. I'm not exactly sure why, but many Japanese genre filmmakers seem to have an innate talent for creating immersive, wholly believable, supernaturally inclined suburban vistas. The gripping narrative has a subtle, consistently unsettling undertow which I strongly responded to. This rewardingly emotional piece feels eerily authentic, the fractured family, the love that can catastrophically turn to hate, plus the constantly seething discords are all too disturbingly recreated in Toshikazu Nagae's darkly engrossing FF chiller.
Torture Garden (1967)
A timelessly sinsiter jewel of compendium horror!
It's a glowing testament to the fantastic fearmongering of Robert Bloch, the exquisite performances, and refined filmmaking of Freddie Francis that a spooky horror anthology from the 60s has retained all of its insidious power to set fear-flayed nerves alight with sinister visions of fright! The supernaturally scintillated shocks spawned from the prodigiously perverse, masterfully malefic mind of Bloch have vividly endured the weathering of time. These nameless horrors, and monstrous demonic entities are evilly revivified on Blu-ray!!! The very worst terrors are not grisly flights of fantasy, but the diabolically twisted, deeply hidden desires of man! Murderous greed, mad obsessions, and seething jealousies, seemingly dormant, are eerily exposed to those curious enough to experience the terrible mysteries of Dr. Diabolo! This iconic British portmanteau chiller reveals its dark mysteries with elan, consummately acted by a superlative cast, The Torture Garden maintains all of its macabre fascination, if anything, the immaculate-looking indicator Blu exposes deeper facets of fright lurking malevolently within this timeless jewel of compendium horror!
Dragon Fury II (1996)
"What are you Working on?" "World Domination!!!!"
In a future not entirely beyond our wildest imaginings, the despotic leader of the evil Dragon's, Molech, (Mike Norris) vies desperately to appropriate a weaponized satellite technology so he might gain mastery over the earth, with only heroic sword master Mason (Robert Chapin)to thwart his hubristic scheming!!!!!! Not quite as essential as cult favourite Dragon Fury, the equally noisome sequel is not without some psychotronically inclined distractions. I appreciated the welcome return of tall, dynamic, golden mullet'd future warrior, Robert Chapin, the appetizing addition of statuesque bombshell sidekick Crystal (Cathleen Ann Gardner), and a giddy profusion of goofily mounted jackanapes.
It is fair to say that the law of diminishing returns is readily applicable, yet the rampant outbursts of clunky schlock socky herein remains (almost) comparable to the original. Molech, weakly portrayed by Mike Norris, is a paltry replacement for Richard Lynch, but Norris's absurd, crudely computer augmented baritone provides unintentional humour! Bonus points are the low budget actioner's deep-seated Ed Wooden aesthetic, and the vivacious, spandex-slinky Amazon Crystal, but, sadly, the woeful lack of a credible nemesis proved a challenge. At its very best, Dragon Fury II can be likened to a flavoursome garlic belch, while it certainly doesn't beat the impact of the original meatball sandwich, it's a modestly satisfying, tantalisingly odoriferous reminder of its past glories!
El rey de la montaña (2007)
a bullet-paced, diabolically effective Spanish thriller!
A young attractive pair of angsty travellers meet exceedingly cutely in a service station toilet, and mishaps, cruelty, duplicity, and violent bloody slaughter ensue, as our querulously conjoined protagonists are sinisterly stalked by maddeningly elusive, increasingly psychopathic gunmen! The nerve fraying, ruthlessly pared to the bone King of The Hill remains a bullet-paced, diabolically effective viewing experience. Lean, and scalpel-edged, Gonzalo Lopez-Gellego's exhilaratingly mean-spirited Spanish shocker is a brutally direct, grimly effective, wildly compelling thriller. Once the beleaguered couple Quim (Leonardo Sbaraglia) and Bea (Maria Valverde) run pell-mell for their very lives, massively hindered by an unforgivingly raw, yet ruggedly beautiful mountainous landscape, the already stark film takes an enjoyably grisly turn into warped 70s video nasty territory! Electric performances, an atmospheric score, Lopez-Gellego's muscular filmmaking, and a twisted climax make this nigh on essential viewing.
Lem mien kuel (1971)
The Ghostly Face is a next-level awesome Kung Fu extravaganza!
When the mysterious Ghostly Face (Deddy Sutomo) apparently kills a man and steals his ancestral sword, the murdered man's capable, Kung Fu fabulous daughter, Dewi Bunga(Polly Ling-Feng Shang-Kuan) angrily tracks down the masked miscreant and righteously enacts her bloody revenge! This unusually hectic HK/Indonesian co-production is a massively fight-packed, luridly crimson-spattered, high kicking, gravity defying, solar plexus wrecking, old school Kung Fu classic! There's mystery, brutally bloody combat, exotic locations, dastardly duplicity, burning effigies, ear-wormingly groovy music, frenzied ritualistic dances and an exhilaratingly acrobatic, shin-shatteringly spectacular climax! Objectively, The Ghostly Face is a next-level awesome Kung Fu extravaganza with a staggering body count and a truly outstanding, hard-hitting heroine in the thrillingly gutsy guise of Polly Ling-Feng Shang-Kuan!!!
Dragon Fury (1995)
"Joe!!! forget about the Dragons for now!!!!!!"
A blonde, steel thewed, magisterially mullet'd champion from the distant future, Mason (Robert Chapin) valiantly battles myriad deadly foe during his bloody quest for a plague vaccine which leads him jarringly to L. A. circa 1999. Being hugely fond of Richard Lynch, and heroically time travelling, dextrously sword slinging saviours of mankind, I approached 90s DTV oddity 'Dragon Fury' with far less trepidation than many would. Dragon Fury remains an energetic, derivative, conspicuously low budget, mostly enjoyable distillation of pulpy Sci-fantasy tropes. In truth, the cheapnis aesthetic, unlovely dialogue, school play costuming, and boisterously lofi fight choreography is manifestly part of its enduring B-Movie appeal.
If you are not already down with this mirthsome mode of garishly recycled action twaddle, then Dragon Fury surely won't change your mind. That said, psychotronic gluttons are in for a bona fide feast, as the glutinously goofy ingredients herein are most generously proportioned! Once again, tyro Thespian, Richard Lynch turns a base mental villainy into gold, Lynch's sublime talent lending undeserving gravitas to his otherwise risible bad guy monologuing. The director's choice of L. A.s more insalubrious looking backstreets proves effective, textually giving a grungier edge to the clunkily Kung Fu'd, time-shifting, SCI-schlocker Dragon Fury!
The Redeemer: Son of Satan! (1978)
"I am your fate, and you cannot deny me!!!"
Innocently gathered for their 10th class reunion, 6 schoolfriends ultimately experience a night of unimaginable terror, when a masked, multifaceted maniac begins slaughtering them, one by one, in this magnificently mental, singularly strange 70s slasher!!! Long regarded as a cult oddity, it should remain thus, and hopefully, future generations of skewed slasher fans will also take this twistedly surreal stab-fest to their demented, horror loving hearts! I'm not entirely sure that the claim of 'Original Screenplay' is entirely justified, but the enthusiastic actors prove energetic enough, some of the kills deliver, and the grungy synth score is pretty neat! The eccentric opening scene is sluggish, enigmatic, and weirdly compelling, and is, in truth, not unlike the rest of it! I've always been able to appreciate the kookier, left field blood spiller, and the biblically bonkers, quick change Redeemer (T. G. Finkbinder) remains in a nutty league of his very own!
Creature of the Walking Dead (1965)
"The insurmountable quest of scientists has been to answer the unanswerable!!!!"
A demented pseudo-scientist Dr. Malthus (Fernando Cassanova) prolonged his life injecting an elixir of human blood is executed, and later resurrected by his no less ill-fated ancestor in this likeably lurid cut n' paste's Mexican/US creature feature! Once reawakened, Malthus Sr.'s deranged bloodlust returns undiminished by death, and his devilishly gruesome rampage draws the authorities ever closer to his monstrous laboratory. Creakier than a medieval codpiece, there's still much ripened psychotronic grisliness to be found in this cheap and fearful 60s creep-fest!
The delightfully grisly methodology of Dr. Malthus's fiendishly blood-sucking apparatus is still pretty grim to behold! Creature of the Walking Dead is generously stuffed with more cheesy corn than a bargain Burrito! This moodily monochromatic, shriek-slathered, blood-sodden B-Terror titbit unearthed from the musty vaults of gaudy Drive-in double thrills remains a horrific hoot! Creature of the Walking Dead explodes in a vile, shocking miasma of perversely purloined blood-plasma! No humane soul will remain untarnished after witnessing the diabolically degenerated lusts of that malign dessicated revenant, Dr. Malthus!
Docteur Justice (1975)
John Phillip law's witty, suave, sleek-limbed Hippocratic hero is great fun!
A handsome, Carnaby Street dapper, prodigiously athletic, fleet-fisted philanthropic doctor (John Phillip Law) courageously fights injustice with his stethoscope and enviable martial arts prowess! The fab cast does much to elevate this high voltaged, boisterously fight-packed globe-trotting Euro-actioner! Director Christian-Jaque's keeps these kinetic, enjoyably camp, Fumetti-style high jinks moving at an agreeably brisk pace, boasting a daring, smartly orchestrated heist of 6 million dollars worth of oil, making this a must-see for Euro-crime addicts. One of the things I especially appreciate about 70s action films is that in many instances, the burly-looking tough guys frequently have wispy comb overs!!! This is, sadly, no longer the case, and action cinema is all the worse for it! John Phillip law's witty, suave, sleek-limbed Hippocratic hero is great fun, and he frequently proves more than a match for his duplicitously double-crossing foe! This flavoursome Gallic thriller finds Gert Frobe on charismatically avuncular form as cruel criminal mastermind Mr. Max, sparky Nathalie Delon provides some distractingly sensual eye candy, there's plentiful action, humorous interludes, and the picturesque travelogue locations are certainly no less charming than the good doctor's beaming smile! (Paul Naschy fans might care to note that he makes an all-too brief appearance as one of Mr. Max's rent-a-thugs)
Premonition (2005)
"Something big is going on, bigger than tree huggers!!!"
Tough ex-GI cop Jack Barnes (Casper van Dien) survives a momentarily fatal accident that miraculously endows him with the eerie power of second sight! Det. Barnes disorientatingly experiences distressingly violent visions, and becomes strongly compelled to try and alter the dark fates of those victims he 'sees' in his frenzied premonitions. This conspicuously Dead Zone'd DTV action/thriller with studly Psi-cop Casper Van Dien is a mostly enjoyable jaunt into the supernatural. Switch off your noggin, switch on the kettle and revel in the chiselled, immaculately bestubbled, enormously attractive hero's earnest attempts to save the city from impending disaster!!!! Granted, we've seen it all before, but that only proves we're all just a little psychic, man!!!!!! Not the most invigorating text, but the director credibly keeps things peppy, and buff B-Movie Adonis Casper is one of the more affable action dudes! The CGI effects are not always convincing, but the film's big bad baddie shoes are capably filled by energetic character actor David Palffy.
Wu jiao wa (1977)
"At least Kung Fu is useful, instead of just waiting around to get married"
Five fabulously fiesty Kung Fu savvy femmes, who work at a Hong Kong fitness club, become dangerously embroiled in the transparently nefarious activities of the 'invisible thief'. Our heroic, high-kicking heroines must rely on their limber minds, dazzling good looks, chi chi outfits, and magnified martial art majesty to bring this sinisterly see-through miscreant to justice! Bruce Kung Fu Girls is a sublimely silly Taiwanese femme fighting gem, undeniably goofy, but packed to the rafters with old school chop socky malarkey! Fleshly fortified with friskily fighting female fists galore, and a funky score, Bruce Kung Fu Girls ain't no cheap Schlock Socky bore!!! What this kooky Sci-fried Taiwanese fight flick lacks in dramatic smarts is generously compensated by its generosity of attractively perky parts! For the sake of full 'transparency' I must conclude by openly stating that I found the slapstick-slathered birthday party tussle to be the icing on this oestrogen-enriched Kung Fu confection!!!!!!!!!!! There's a definite Carry On Chop Socky vibe here, and I kinda dug that!
Heebie Jeebies (2005)
An entertaining, frequently inventive low budget slasher!
Cassandra (Bobbie Bo Westphal), a melancholy young woman, is frequently tormented by grisly premonitions over the violent deaths of her loved ones. By inviting all her intimate High School friends to an isolated farmhouse, she sincerely hopes it will keep them safe from harm. Sadly, their gruesome fates soon suggest otherwise! Including Heebie Jeebies sinisterly off-beat premise, likeable, natural performances, the genuine star of this unsettling, garotte taut indie horror is the thrillingly inventive screenplay. From the moment poor Cassandra arrives in this dilapidated property, you strongly sympathise with her increasing anguish as her companions are inventively slaughtered by a brutal, frustratingly unknowable maniac. An exciting, criminally undervalued low budget horror Bobby Dazzler, greatly overdue some splattery love, the well monikered Heebie Jeebies is, as Dan O'Bannon so rightly claims, a cut above the average identikill slasher.
Metempsyco (1963)
"I loved, Irene, but somebody KILLED HER!!!"
Her physician father's (Adriano Micantoni) efforts to aid his increasingly distressed daughter Anna (Annie Alberti), tormented by recurring nightmares over the death of the beautiful, yet ill-fated countess Irene who she eerily resembles, prove disastrous. The only feature made by former pulp novelist Boccacci remains a feverishly enigmatic cauldron of pulpy Italianate Gothic schlock, oft prone to hysteria-laden theatrics, Tomb of Torture is certainly not without minor interest to vintage Grisly Gothic addicts. Palpably weird, oblique, injudiciously sluggish, Metempsycho is demonstratively not on par with the finest macabre works of Margheriti, Franco, Freda or Bava, yet the innate strangeness residing herein proved bizarrely fascinating to me! Many will find this eccentric high Gothic oddity a torturous experience in mediocrity, yet I found the foreboding atmosphere, oneiric qualities, dingy dungeon dynamics, and the cob-webby creature feature theatrics frequently compelling! A clear highlight is the lurid climax, and master composer Armando Sciascia's quality, atmospherically strident spazzy jazzy score!
Instinct to Kill (2001)
"Honey!!!?? I'm gonna rip your heart out!!!"
An abused wife, Tess (Missy Crider), in order to protect herself from her cruel, serial killing husband Jim (Tim Abell) undergoes arduous training with tough mercenary J. T Dillon (Mark Dacascos). Things very soon escalate as Tess's increasingly murderous husband plans to kill her after breaking out of prison. The charismatic, fleet-footed action hero Dacascos is on majestic form as cool self-defence sensei J. T., Crider has an exceptionally fine form, and relentless killing machine Jim proves to be a truly hellish adversary. Exciting, well-made, dramatically compelling, with exhilaratingly orchestrated action scenes, Instinct to Kill is a bona fide, bullet-paced Dacascos banger, and a must-see for all action-loving freaks! Graef-Marino's dazzling actioner has an impressively high body count as Jim, the maniac of many faces, is one memorably mental, bloodthirstily body bag stuffing hatemonger!
Eliminators (2016)
"You're a worthy adversary, I'll give you that!!!"
Blowing his witness protection cover by killing three home invading thugs, Teflon tough former agent Thomas (Scott Adkins) is forced to run with his daughter, as the unwanted publicity leads a vicious assassin (Wade Barrett) directly to them. The perfunctory plot provides the meagre skeleton for the film's real meaty substances, which is Scott Adkins eliminating all comers, and this is done most spectacularly in James Nunn's explosive, bullet-paced British B-actioner 'Eliminators'. There's little point in drawing attention to the film's narrative deficiencies, as Eliminators succeeds so splendidly with its more noisome, blood-spattered interludes. A master Kung Fu destroyer who protects his beloved kin with dazzling displays of Promethean martial artistry is always watchable fare, and very few do it quite as proficiently as handsome heroic head knocker Scott Adkins. Eliminators packs quite a punch, and rarely lets up the pace when the tense cat and mouse routine reaches full strength. That said, to be fair, in this specific case it is demonstratively more like Lion & Leopard!
La cara del terror (1962)
'She doesn't look bad at all, in fact, she's the most beautiful corpse you have ever seen!!"
The lugubrious, dermally destructive Sci-horror hokum Face of Terror remains a wild experiment in scientifically sinister terror!!! An ill-fated doctor Taylor (Fernando Rey) unknowingly tests his hugely unstable serum upon troubled mental patient Norma (Lisa Gaye), hoping to remedy her severe burns, only to induce hysterically antisocial results! Much has already been made of the derivative text, so I shall, instead, note the film's entertainingly psychotronic goofiness!
Catastrophically, the good doctor Taylor's revolutionary solution proves violently counter revolutionary, and briefly beautified Norma's plasticized dermal tissues angrily revolt, shockingly turning her into a shriekingly vengeful harridan! Talky, with a sluggish pace, Spanish 60s spookshow 'Face of Terror' will, to many viewers, appear like a relic from a bygone age. Arguably not on par with Jess Franco's macabre monochromatic masterpieces, this camp, melodramatic B/W Euro-schlocker is hopefully not without interest to more forgiving vintage Drive-In/Midnight Movie fans. The spectacularly shrill climax is exquisite, plus the groovy musical interludes, and lounge-y score are legit!!!
Showdown in Manila (2016)
"Enough of this!!! Let's kick some ass!!!"
All the members of a Violent Crime Unit, excluding main man Nick (Nevsky) are gorily decimated by an evil cabal of dope peddlers headed by The Wraith (Tagawa), and the broken, but far from unbowed Nick vows his revenge! Now working as a private detective with serially sleazy partner Charlie (Van Dien) a tough case ultimately leads them to a bloody showdown with The Wraith and his gun happy goons. While the formulaic premise is somewhat battle fatigued, Showdown in Manila is a must-see, gung ho B-actioner just for the illuminated action hero cast alone! Mathias Hues, Casper Van Dien, Mark Dacascos, Don 'The Dragon' Wilson, Tia Carrera, Alexander Nevsky, Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa, Cynthia Rothrock, and Olivier Gruner!!! Come on!!!! Only the most churlish of churls would refuse such a glittering array of (almost) immortal DTV royalty! There's plenty of ballistic bang for your buck, and if y'all didn't pay for the privilege, then you have even less to complain about! Unleavened machismo oozes from Dacascos's punch-packed, ordinance overloaded actioner, like the feral stink off a Tijuana bitty bar, it ain't exactly subtle, but it sure hits the spot! 'Showdown in Manila' admittedly takes a wee while to reach maximum revs, but the noisome climactic battle is one righteously old school Commando-style bullet bonanza!!!
Wanted Man (2024)
"If you want to fight the wolves, you gotta be a wolf!!!!"
Disgraced, hard-line detective Mike Johansen (Dolph Lundgren) is given the redemptive task of going to Mexico and extraditing Rosa (Christina Villa) who witnessed the slaying of two DEA agents during a fubar'd drug heist. Not long into Johansen's ostensibly straight forward trip when things quite literally, and figuratively go dangerously south, as Johansen becomes the target of rogue cops from north and south of the border! I will be generous here and simply say that the rudimentary plot is comfortably familiar, and leave it at that, happily, the dynamic presence of the grizzled, hugely charismatic Dolph in front of, and behind the camera gives this gritty crime actioner a dopamine boost! Pacy enough, with some decent squibbage, Wanted Man is a more than credible, dramatically compelling shoot 'em up, eminently watchable fare for action junkies, and a no-brainer for Dolph fans! It must also be said that the Clint Eastwoodian tropes are hella strong in Dolph's exciting Wanted Man, being 2 parts The Gauntlet and one part Gran Torino, and certainly no worse for it! There's lovely chemistry between the beautiful Christina Villa and Mr. Lundgren, and I was rootin' for 'em all the way to the border, man!!!!!
The Tracker (2001)
"We trained together, that made us like brothers!"
Boundless trouble is soon forthcoming when heroically handsome private eye Connor Spears (Casper Van Dien) and capable Kung Fu cop Rick (Russell Wong) team up to rescue the beautiful Kim (Lexa Doig) from hoodlum kidnappers. Theirs is a volatile partnership since Kim is Rick's beloved sis, and Spear's greatly missed ex! Emotional discords, prodigious squibbage, flinty retorts, bountiful bullet casings, and a flurry of face-flattening fists fly in Jeffrey Alan Schechter explosive underworld-set B-actioner!!! Avid DTV Action fans can expect additional slo-mo death grimaces, hurricanes of heroic bloodshed, cannon fodder cops, a jazzy score, agile, chop sockied beatdowns, choice Alpha Dude posturing, and a bravura bullet-shredded warehouse climax!!!! Packed with more generous thrill-spillage than Erika Eleniak's swimsuit, The Tracker is one of the more notably masculine examples of majestic chin lord Van Dien's entirely respectable noughties action ouvre!!!!
Villain (2020)
"If he's a grass, I'll kill 'im, me'self!!!!"
After a 10-year stretch, Frank (Craig Fairbrass) returns to an unfamiliar manor and is twitchily greeted by younger brother Sean (George Russo) whose arrant drug-meddling drags him into unwanted Ag with the vicious Garrett brothers (Robert Glenister & Tomi May). On paper all the tantalizing thug tropes are garishly present, yet the bloody, compelling, downward spiralling gangster thriller Villain belies deeper, much darker dramatic fare. George Russo is deliciously unlikeable as wrong 'un Charlie-merchant Sean, and charismatic Craig Fairbrass arguably delivers one of his finest performances as the lion-hearted luckless villain Frank. Ultimately, he should have listened to his own sage advice, "Never trust an f'n sniff-head!" Barantini's gritty, violent urban thriller has a Sean Meadows kitchen sink quality, smart, electric with nuenced performances, and a brutal underworld protagonist you can readily sympathize with. For me, the earnest, dramatic elements of Villain are no less essential than the cathartic eruptions of gore!
Angel Unchained (1970)
Hippies suck!!!!
Outlaw biker Angel (Don Stroud) gives up his colours for a Hippie Commune's rustic tranquillity, and his momentary mellow is usurped by woefully unrighteous red necks, and the docile hippies plan to use Angel's ex-biker buddies as protection yields predictably ungroovy results! Lee Madden's roustabout A. I. P biker gem has an especially groovy cast, funkily flower powered tunes, some gnarly fights, corn pone claptrap, reactionary cowboys, and Tyne Daly looking especially lovely. The open road, a ceaseless river of beer, and skuzzy Biker's sticking it to the man, I can still dig it, man!!!! I never grooved on hippy schtick, commune's suck, but mighty Don Stroud is on righteous form, and the Wacky Races climax is a propah gas!