This is a total riot, packing in all the expected visual and comedic goodness for a Japanese splatter film. You want feet monsters, bone samurai, and re-animated nurses? You got it. The wacky narrative leaves ample screen time for the titular characters and other bizarre creatures to battle, as blood actually rains…
Hollywood Cop (1987) – Kidnapping your senses
Here it is, the aptly named beginning of Amir Shervan’s legendary Hollywood period. There are shootouts, fistfights, terrible dialogue, painful acting, a tacky kidnapping plot, and some of the poorest quality production you’ll ever have the pleasure to witness. Hollywood Cop is a trash filled caper that runs in circles for most of its overly long duration, resplendent in all its dirt cheap glory…
Necromancer (1988) – Necromancing the stone
This is not the kind of typically silly, low budget, 80s Horror I expected it to be. To be fair, there is some neck stabbing, a seductive demon, and a friendly neighbourhood Satanist, yet that doesn’t quite satisfy. For the most part, Necromancer is a wild ride of relative banality and disappointment, with its focus firmly on the psychological. At least I assume that’s what it’s going for…
Mutant Hunt (1987) – Junkie robots get junked
Mutant Hunt is pure, kitschy, low budget Sci-fi, featuring a totally unoriginal story, soundtracked to cheap perfection, and packed full of woeful action. Everything from Blade Runner to The Terminator has been unashamedly copied and stuffed with an impressive amount of narrative offal. Oh, and for a movie filled with fight scenes, these are some of the worst you’ll ever see…
Biohazard (1985) – Warning: dangerous goods
Springing from the fertile mind of trash auteur Fred Olen Ray, this is a ridiculous adventure chronicling the arrival and escape of an alien, leaving a trail of destruction, murdered townsfolk, and pop culture references. If you’ve ever wondered where Stranger Things got its ideas from check this one out, not that this cheap scare flick is particularly original itself…
Chopping Mall (1986) – Slaughter on sale
If you’ve got a soft spot for trashy, unscary, 80s horror, you might have to give this one a go. Starting its life as Killbots, thankfully the movie was recut and renamed Chopping Mall, one of the most puntastic titles I’ve seen, and one so appropriate for its breed of low budget horror. It’s a ridiculous tale too, technological advancements in mall security see robotic enforcers posted to a hip and happening suburban mall…
Fly Me (1973) – Sweet, international antics
Fasten your seatbelts and mind the exits on this high flying, Technicolor, super cool, 70s adventure. Think James Bond meets Hong Kong Kung Fu, rolled into a silly and sexy exploitation package. Producer and director Santiago blends dumb comedy, with a sinister human trafficking plot, broken up by ridiculous Kung Fu sequences…
Deadly Addiction (1988) – The kids wanna rock
What you’ve got here is the classic premise of a reckless, renegade cop versus an international drug ring. Director and star Jack Vacek can barely contain his excitement, and it’s somehow infectious. The story is entirely unoriginal, predictable, and ham fisted, but it goes down in an over-the-top blaze of glory…
Dead End City (1988) – “It’s showtime!”
Man this movie knows how to get your attention, coming at you hard and fast in the opening credits, leaving several bodies in its wake. The slickness of the production had me a little excited straight away – throw in Robert Z’Dar and a cheesy, pulsing, synthesiser score, and the whole thing comes out looking pretty promising…
Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity (1987) – To infinity and beyond!
The poster promises “Big Movie. Big Production. Big Girls.” I’m not convinced they thought too hard about the last part, and the rest is an outright lie. What we do get is a tacky, Star Wars take on Richard Connell’s short story The Most Dangerous Game. So it goes, our unsuspecting, shipwrecked slave girls stumble into the dark and misty world of an insane hunter hermit and must fight for their freedom…
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