Midnight Offerings (1981)

Vivian has magic powers. She doesn’t hesitate to save her boyfriend David from failing in school by murdering teachers. However, David has gotten tired of her and is putting his charm on a new girl in school, Robin. Robin discovers that she also has magic powers, and it comes to a mental struggle between the two women over David. Before there was “The Craft“, before “The Secret Circle” and before “The Raven” (ok, scratch this last one), you might remember a made for TV movie titled “Midnight Offerings“. The film takes the lead from other like films such as “The Spell (1977)” and ” The Ini

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1981, Films, Horror, Reviews,

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For Y'ur Height Only (1981)

Mr. Giant has kidnapped the brilliant Dr. Van Kohler and is planning to use the Doctor's invention, the N-bomb, to hold the world hostage. The only one who can foil Mr. Giant's evil scheme is Agent 00, a 3-foot-tall filipino martial arts master, expert marksman, top-class romancer and all-around superspy. Can Agent 00 rescue Dr. Kohler before it's too late?This is easily one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. Weng Weng is agent 00, and he's two foot 9". From the opening "montage" of him running around looking cool to the extreme shocker/twist ending, this film had me roaring with laught

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1981, Action, Comedy, Philippines,

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Enter the Ninja (1981)

Officially, Chuck Norris' The Octagon is the film that first introduced ninjas to American cinema, but since "Enter the Ninja" is both blunter about their inclusion and provided stardom for the quintessential on-film shadow warrior, Sho Kosugi, I consider it to be at least as important in igniting the "ninja craze" of the 1980s. A production of our dearly departed Cannon Films, the movie initiates its particular subgenre with relatively tactless hammyness: it's pretty cheesy, and far from being a great martial arts film. Nevertheless, Cannon's made movies that are both far worse technically

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1981, Action, Blu-Ray, DVD,

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