Sharktopus Trailer !

Enjoy this new Roger Corman's production!

A new "giant monsters" movie is crashing on us: "Monsters" - Trailer

Looks like a mix between District 9 & Cloverfield...Everybody seems excited.

Hope it'll meet its expectations.

"Shaw Bros" Bizarre Flix 3/3 - Mo aka The Boxer's Omen - Chih-Hung Kuei - HK - (1983)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085951/

Plot from Imdb:"The plot is about a Hong Kong gangster discovering a supernatural connection with a deceased Thai monk after the monk's spirit saves him from an ambush from a rival gang. Ignoring the spirit's pleas, the gangster goes home to his beautiful (and frequently naked) girlfriend. The gangster then goes to Thailand to challenge a cheating Thai kickboxer who gravely hurt his best friend in a match. After disgorging a live Moray eel in a hotel, the gangster decides that it's a good time to find the temple that the monk resided in. The gangster learns that he was a twin brother to the dead monk in a previous life and therefore their lives are forever intertwined! The monk was about to achieve immortality but a crazy Thai dark warlock poisoned his eyes with spiders and the monk died. The gangster's life is at risk if he can't defeat the warlock and break the poison spider spell."

Holly motherfucking sheeeeeee--aaaaaat ! This movie is one mesmerizing visual experience and definitively the best thing that came out of this "Shaw Bros. bizarre flix" week. Shot in Thailand, HK and Katmandou, from the director of "Killer Snakes" and "Bamboo, House of dolls" comes this Buddhist tale, mixed with black magic and Thai boxing. One have to recognize that mixing exploitative subjects together with spiritual paraphernalia is risky at best. Not everybody can pull out movies that stays interesting, like the ones from Alejandro Jodorowski. In this case; it works perfectly, as the cheesy, funny,  disgusting, bizarre aspect of the magic is perfectly balanced with a non stopping action storyline and an amazing art direction, that creates  some of the nicest flashy images I've seen in a while. Did I mentioned it has crocodile cranium animated, bat's sacrifice, snakes blood, human cranium filed with a dirty unknown mix, birth of a female demon from the body of a crocodile, an immortal Buddhist monk held in a jar, ridiculous Thai boxing matches with no else than Bolo Yeung (unforgettable bad  guy from "Bloodsport"), lasers of goodness coming out of Monks, etc., etc... Enough talking, you HAVE to watch that movie, it's like a giant lollipop for a deepthroating artist: it's unmissable and highly desirable!

MASTERPIECE !   

Trailer:

"Shaw Bros" Bizarre Flix 2/3 - You gui zi aka The Oily Maniac - Meng Hua Ho - HK - (1976)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075001/

Plot from Imdb: "A cripple takes revenge on criminals by using a magic spell that transforms him into an oily monster/superhero."

Second entry in our "Shaw Bros." Bizarre flix week, this one is a weird one. Obviously inspired by the American monster movies from the 50's and by the "Swamp Thing" comic , it deals with magic and corruption. Sleazy in its depiction of the corruption, it's great, and only, interest resides in the monster itself as I had never seen anything like it: An Oily Monster ? C'mon !! The most hilarious parts are when the hero needs to transform asap, as he has to get in contact with oil. Great scenes of him plunging into an oil barrel or pouring oil on himself from a gas station follow...The rest is b-movie like: ridiculous fights with a man in a suit, stupid and romantic involvement of the hero with a young innocent girl, bad guys, more evil than the devil himself. You get the picture.

At the end of the day, a great little gem from HK, for the lover of strange monsters and the those who have an hour or so to kill....

Trailer:

La Nave de los Monstruos - Rogelio A. González - Mexico - (1960)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053102/

Plot from Imdb."Eulalio Gonzales (aka Piporro) is a cowboy that tells many lies to impress others at the local bar. Two beautiful Venusians are send to the space to obtain the best males to be the fathers of new off-springs because Venus males are dying.  The males of other planets (in this case monsters like a cyclops, a spider and a blood sucking guy with a huge exposed brain) got unleash because one of the Venusians is really a vampire and sees the opportunity to conquer earth with their help. Piporro, his nephew and the other kinky Venusian will try to stop the evil monsters."

Eulalio Gonzalez aka "Piporro" was a singing cowboy, in a "northern country style". He was quite popular at the time but something tells me that if one would see that movie without knowing anything  about him, one would think that Piporro is just a gay cowboy, singing alone for his horse, while a plastic spaceship is landing in the Mexican countryside, unloading a bunch of Venusian female invaders, horny for human semen, and their "worst of film history" half-frozen monsters. Plus there is a huge cardboard robot that is really friendly, maybe because there is a Mexican extra inside, sweating like a pig, poor chap ! Yep, that the basic story. And there is a vampire in the Venusian female horde and Piporro best friend is a little boy. Unsettling, isn't it ?
Well for a 60's Mexican singing cowboy sci-fi movie, it's fair game. In fact, it's great to watch this now and to wonder how on Earth anyone would have put together such an incredible insanity !
Check it out, you gay cowboys ! 

Piporro against the Monsters: