People just can’t leave those vintage movies alone. Just after watching Alien Trespass, I thought I would check out The Lost Skeleton of Cadarva, a less respectful and far funnier spoof on the 50s sci-fi flick.
I watched a lot of Bruce LaBruce back in college. You know, back when I was curious and experimenting with underground cinema. It’s been a while since I’ve heard of him. His new film is an English language German production of a gay zombie arthouse porno spoof. Considering the mishmash of genres, it’s not surprising to see that Otto; or, Up With Dead People has a motherfucking semi-colon in the title. If you’ve ever watched 90s era guerrilla-style cult movies, you know what to expect with this flick. If you just happen to be browsing zombie movies on Netflix instant view, you will probably be a bit shocked to run across a movie with some pretty damn squicky gay-zombie hard-core explicit sex scenes.
It’s less a zombie movie and more a love-letter to homeless gay crusty punks.
If you had read my previous review for Bikini Blood Bath, you would probably not be surprised that I deliberately hunted down the sequel, Bikini Blood Bath Carwash
It took Netflix about a month to get this DVD to me, which is entirely unacceptable. Like it’s predecessor, it’s amazingly stupid (more like stupid-funny), the sort of movie that Troma used to make before they started taking their Tromaness so seriously. Debbie Rochon has a much larger part in this movie (despite dying in the previous one) and she steals the whole show. But let’s not forget there’s also plenty of bikinis.
I caught Watchmen just before it left the theaters.
Meh.
Tokyo Zombie looks like a Takeshi Miike movie, and has all the same actors and quirkiness, but it is not.
Tokyo Gore Police spills more blood and guts than the entire nation of Japan has seen in the past fifty years combined.
There’s no point telling you what the plot is. The plot simply facilitates over-the-top violence.
You can’t findSanshiro Sugata on DVD. You have to hunt down an independent video store and go up to their Akira Kurasawa collection (which every independent video store has) and rent the VHS. A little while ago I watched a truly amazing Hong Kong judo epic called Throw Down that made frequent and intimate reference to Sanchiro Sugata, which is the grandfather of all judo epics.
It’s been one of the best kept secrets in film that Jean Claude van Damme is a damn fine actor. In the foreign arthouse flick JCVD he finally gets to show that to the world, by playing himself.
The Netflix instant view version is dubbed, which is a crying shame. But it’s a meta-movie about breaking the fourth wall, so I’ll allow it just this once.
