Matando gueros !!!
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
"Shaw Bros" Bizarre Flix 2/3 - You gui zi aka The Oily Maniac - Meng Hua Ho - HK - (1976)
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....
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010
"Shaw Bros" Bizarre Flix 1/3 - Du hou mi shi aka The Sexy killer - Chung Sun - HK - (1976)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074435/
Plot from Imdb: "A nurse decides to take justice in her own hands to fight the crime-syndicates of Hong Kong after her sister is drugged and abused by some local drug dealers."
First entry in our "Shaw Brothers Bizarre Flix" tournament, this minor revenge movie is typical of the move that the Shaw Bros. tried to initiate in the late 70's. As usual very aware of the competition, the HK studio tried its hands on a various exploitation subgenres, outside of their kung-fu / Wuxia pian line. They tried Kaiju Eiga,(Supra-Inframan), Pinku Violence (this very movie), Monsters, Comedy, Vampires, etc....
Most of these attempts failed miserably...to our present pervert's delight !!
Sexy Killer is far from being a gem, it's an average exploitation movie with a rather...how to put it..."curvy" star, without any charisma and a basic story. The only interesting element was for me the pop, flashy, over the top deco of the set and the rather unusual theme developed in the movie: drugs. Far from handling the subject directly, the drug abuse theme is mainly an excuse to concentrate on the revenge of the sister and an excuse for the nudity. A few scenes stands out: the introduction shot in the drug ridden disco at the beginning, the S&M chamber of the bad guy and the final shootout.
A refreshing change for Shaw Bros fanatics and an exotic turn on the classical Woman revenge subgenre.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
The Treniers, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis - préhistoric rock - (1954)
Old school Rock'N'Roll insanity...in 1954 !!!
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
La Nave de los Monstruos - Rogelio A. González - Mexico - (1960)
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 !
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:
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