King Kong vs Godzilla (1962)

King Kong vs Godzilla is a 1962 Japanese-American production created by Toho Studios. It was the third film for both monsters and was the first time both were featured in color.  It became the highest grossing Godzilla film in history. The director of special effects was Eiji Suburaya.

Plot
The story takes place seven years after the events of Godzilla Raids Again (1955).  A U.S. nuclear submarine known as the Seahawk spots a strange light emanating from a large iceberg in the Arctic. The crew discovers that something inside it is causing the light and goes in to investigate. While submerged, the sub ends up crashing into the iceberg, accidently releasing the dreaded King of the Monsters, Godzilla, from his icy tomb. The radiactive dinosaur quickly makes his way to his Japanese homeland and destroys an attacking army base with relative ease.

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Nympho Cycler (1971)

A beautiful, love starved woman named Misty, leaves an abusive relationship with an odd man. She joins a pack of bikers and many sexual escapades and intense happenings occur on her adventure into a new freedom.

Misty (Casey Larrain) is tired of her cross-dressing husband (Edward D. Wood, Jr.) forcing her to have sex with his friends so she jumps on her motorcycle and heads across the country where she finds other people she can have sex with.

NYMPHO CYCLER would have been long forgotten had it not been written and directed by the cult figure Edward D. Wood, Jr.. Fans of his are pretty much going to want to watch this thing at least once but there's no question that it's quality is among the worst thing that the director ever did. Yes, I'm being incredibly kind by giving this thing a two-star rating and I have no problem stating that if you're not a fan of Wood then you might as well take away both stars and give this thing a BOMB rating. Fans of sexploitation, porn or just movies in general aren't going to find too much here to enjoy.

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Hired To Kill [Blu-Ray]

NO MAN ON EARTH COULD GET HIM OUT OF PRISON ALIVE. SEVEN WOMEN WILL TRY.

Starring legendary actors Oliver Reed (Gladiator, The Brood) and George Kennedy (The Delta Force and The Naked Gun series), Hired to Kill is an essential slice of 90s action fare featuring guns, girls and a plethora of budget-busting explosions for good measure.

Action movie staple Brian Thompson (whose brief turn in 1984 s The Terminator led to a starring role in the 1986 Sylvester Stallone vehicle Cobra) stars as Frank Ryan, a mercenary sent to track down a rebel leader in hostile territory. Posing as a fashion designer, he won t be going it alone, as he ll be aided by seven beautiful but deadly female fighters.

Whilst the opportunity to see Oliver Reed chewing up the scenery behind an elaborate moustache merits the price of the admission alone, Hired to Kill is also noteworthy as being co-directed by Nico Mastorakis the man behind such cult favourites as Island of Death and The Zero Boys.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

Brand new 2K restoration of the film, approved by writer-director Nico Mastorakis
High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
Original Stereo audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray)
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Audio Commentary with editor Barry Zetlin
Hired to Direct a brand new interview with director Nico Mastorakis on the making of Hired to Kill
Undercover Mercenary a brand new interview with star Brian Thompson
Original Theatrical Trailer
Stills Gallery
Original Freedom or Death Screenplay (BD/DVD-ROM Content)
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys
Fully-illustrated collector s booklet featuring new writing by critic James Oliver

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That's Sexploitation! [Blu-ray]

This is a great documentary and a lot of fun. Did not want to see it end. Would like to see some of these films in this documentary released on blu-ray. Great job to the folks at Something Weird Video and Severin Films! If you enjoy this kind of thing, you will love it! Highly recommended!

From director Frank Henenlotter (BASKET CASE, BRAIN DAMAGE) and co-producer Mike Vraney (the late founder of Something Weird Video) comes the epic documentary critics call fascinating (Video Watchdog), titillating (Time Out Los Angeles) and jaw-dropping (Seattle Weekly): Henenlotter and legendary exploitation monarch David F. Friedman in his final film appearance are your hosts for this eye-popping expedition through the world of pre-code peekaboos, stags, sex-hygiene films, goona-goonas, nudie-cuties, roughies, druggies, white-coaters and more, featuring thousands of spicy clips from the SWV archives. And if that's not enough. the Bonus Features include an additional 3+ hours of rare loops and shorts from five decades of Sexploitation history! 

Special Features:
Over 3 1/2 Hours of Sexploitation Shorts From The Something Weird Archives
Audio Commentary With Director Frank Henenlotter And Something Weird's Lisa Petrucci
Trailer

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Bela Lugosi Horror Collection

The BELA LUGOSI HORROR COLLECTION is a decent, 8-movie compilation of scratchy, public domain films. WHITE ZOMBIE has Bela as the eeevil Murder Legendre, lording it over his crew of zombie slaves. Arguably Lugosi's finest, creepiest role! BOWERY AT MIDNIGHT has Bela playing another wicked role as a crime-boss, killing off the unwary for fun and profit. INVISIBLE GHOST- A man (Lugosi) is haunted by the image of his dead wife. Is he insane, or is something else going on? SPOOKS RUN WILD is one of the two films that Bela made w/ the East Side Kids (the other one, GHOSTS ON THE LOOSE, is not in this collection). Basically, the Kids run around in a big old house w/ Lugosi. Suitably absurd. THE CORPSE VANISHES- A mad scientist (Bela) murders young brides, absconds w/ their bodies, and uses their fluids to keep his wife alive! Every bit as awesome as it sounds! In THE DEVIL BAT, Bela plays another mad scientist. This time, he's developed a gigantic, mutant bat that he uses to exact vengeance on those who've wronged him. Pure, cheeezy delight! THE APE MAN finds Lugosi in an Amish-like beard, sleeping in a cage w/ his go-rilla

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Vintage Sci-Fi Movies, 6 Film Set -The 27th Day, The H-Man, Valley of the Dragons, 12 to the Moon, Battle in Outer Space, Night the World Exploded

Six sci-fi flicks on two single sided dual layer discs. That's squeezing quite a bit of material onto those little discs but overall the features all look pretty good, all with nice transfers provided by Columbia Pictures and all in their original theatrical ratios. You get two Japanese dubbed features in CinemaScope and color, 1958's "The H-Man" and 1960's "Battle in Outer Space", both with so-so special effects and the usual atrocious dubbing which may give you a few chuckles. Then there is the Sam Katzman produced snoozer "The Night the World Exploded" with Kathryn Grant and by comparison considerably better (but still not great!) "The 27th Day" with Gene Barry, both from 1957. Finally a couple of (in my opinion at least!) real duds, "12 to the Moon" from 1959 and "Valley of the Dragons" from 1961. I'd never seen either but had trouble staying awake for both.

Nothing really great here but you do more than get your money's worth and the films (from pretty good to BAD!) bring back fond memories of Saturday matinees and dusk-to-dawn movie marathons at drive in theaters way back in the day. As mentioned previously the films all have original theatrical aspect ratios, 2:35 to 1 for the two Japanese 'Scope films and 1:85:1 for the other four films and that's always a good thing. No extras or scene menus, only a very few chapter stops on each feature. Recommended for fans of 1950's shlock, not so much for most younger audiences who will most likely be extremely bored.

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Drive in Cult Classics 4

Remember the first time you went to the drive-in. Of course, you have to be of a certain age, from a specific generation, and in some cases, a particular part of the country to remember when the local outdoor cinema was all the rage. Though many believe the "passion pit" hit its stride in the '50s and '60s, the '70s saw a major upswing in attendance, mostly due to the influx of late period grindhouse and exploitation fare. For many b-movie makers and certified schlock hounds, the drive-in was the only place they could show their lesser wares. And since most customers really didn't care about what was on the massive 50 ft screen, a title could rack up a nice collection of hormonally driven ticket sales. As part of an ongoing DVD box set compendium, BCI is bringing us what it considers to be the best/worst of the Drive-In Cult Classics. Of the eight movies offered, however, only a couple deserve to be celebrated as the tops in trash. The rest are just garbage.
The Plot:
Eight films - eight divergent storylines. Instead of trying to sum up this box set in a single paragraph, let's look at a simple statement of the plot for each movie featured, beginning with:

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Candy (1968)

In 1969, Christian Marquand directed this all-star adaptation of Terry Southern's novel of the same name, Candy. Southern had a string of hits around this time, including The Magic Christian, Barbarella and of course Easy Rider, all of which were obviously turned into feature films. But Candy? The big screen version of Candy is something special indeed…

Candy Christian (Ewa Aulin) is a beautiful who spends her days attending high school. She lives at home with her father, a history teacher (John Astin). Candy's life takes an unusual turn when a Welsh poet with a taste for hooch named McPhisto (Richard Burton) shows up at school to deliver a speech. Candy, more than a little naïve, is easily talked into riding along with McPhisto in his limousine that takes them back to her place for a rather strange set piece wherein he dry humps a mannequin and she winds up fooling around with the family gardener, Emmanuel (Ringo Starr).

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Forbidden Zone

The Story So Far...
A lesser-known cult favorite, Forbidden Zone has had a relatively frequent publishing schedule on home video, getting a DVD release in black and white in 2004 from Fantoma Films, followed by a color version put out by Legend Films in 2008. There was also an ultimate edition on Blu-ray in 2015, which included a CD soundtrack. All three have been reviewed by DVDTalk.

The Movie
Somehow, until this DVD crossed my path, I had never seen Forbidden Zone, a delirious mix of John Waters and old-school pre-PC cartoons courtesy of film composer Danny Elfman's older brother Richard. That shouldn't be a big surprise, as it's not exactly a well-known film, but for someone who seeks out the fringe of film, it's rare to find something that's personally new and undiscovered. Now that I have, it's a pleasure to say the wait was worth it, as this film is the kind of over-the-top experience so rarely seen in film today.

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Hell of the Living Dead

'Hell of the Living Dead' is the kinda zombie movie you see after you've seen all the good ones. And yeah, this is pretty crappy, and not as amusing on a camp level as a lotta other lousy horror movies. However, if you're the sorta person who is even considering watching this film, you might as well go ahead. You'll probably enjoy yourself, more or less, though you'll probably just wanna watch 'Dawn of the Dead' or The Beyond again for the 10th time rather than watch this again.

Zombie movies have never been too good with plot, and this film is no exception. There's a not too bright seeming journalist lady, who will get naked, a couple a dudes in blue uniforms who are apparently supposed to be SWAT team members, and zombies. A whole zombie conspiracy, as a matter of fact, leading to what has got to be the lamest attempt at social commentary your gonna see in a zombie movie outside of 'Dr.Butcher M.D.' perhaps. (That movie is awesome. Check it out if you haven't seen it, though if you're looking at this, you probably already have.) The film takes place in New Guinea, I believe, which leaves them ample

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Melinda (1972)

The little-known 1972 film Melinda is a blaxploitation gem that is part romantic drama, part revenge story, part mystery, and even part afro-chopsocky flick. It has an interesting pedigree too, coming from the first black men to be nominated for Academy Awards in film editing and screenwriting. After getting the nomination for cutting Midnight Cowboy, Hugh A. Robertson reportedly made a deal that he would go on to edit Shaft for MGM on the condition that they would give him a film to direct afterward. Playwright Lonne Elder III wrote the script, which is tonally quite different from his adaptation of Sounder, the family drama which got him his Oscar nom and which was released in theaters only a month after Melinda.

The hero of this funky little flick is strutting radio DJ Frankie J. Parker (Uptown Saturday Night's Calvin Lockhart), whose first line of dialogue -- spoken into a mirror, but really spoken at us -- is, "I hate to say this, but I am such a pretty motherfucker. Hahaha... YEAH!" It's an immediate indicator that the character is a larger-than-life badass -- or at least, he thinks he is. In the next scene, Frankie talks tough to his instructor in a karate class and gets his ass handed to him. By the way, that instructor is played by Enter the Dragon's Jim Kelly, so Frankie clearly didn't have a chance. Frankie may be a black belt, but he is not Black Belt Jones.

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Weiße Haut und schwarze Schenkel

Also known as: Weisse Haut auf schwarzen Schenkeln ,Weisse Haut auf schwarzen Schenkeln ,White Skin Black Thighs

Description: Robert Kuhn hoped to spend the evening in the brothel. First, watching a strip show, and then he brings the woman to his room. After some time he is arrested, and the girl with whom he spent the night in hospital with severe injuries...

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