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Unpopped Cinema: May 2015
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Sunday, May 24, 2015. SATAN'S BLADE - BLU-RAY REVIEW. Original Prism VHS ad-line: “An unholy talisman of murder and madness.”. In 1985, during the waning days of the stalk ’n’ slash craze, SATAN’S BLADE. 1984) quietly debuted on VHS videocassette courtesy of Prism Video. It was also available via Mogul Communications and Galaxy (which appears to be one of Mogul’s subsidiary labels [? According to director L. Scott Castillo Jr., SATAN’S BLADE. Despite the allure of studio distribution, SATAN’S BLADE.
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Unpopped Cinema: July 2014
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Monday, July 28, 2014. NICK HOWARD'S ONE AFTER THE OTHER. Lyrics from the theme song “Maybe One, Maybe Nine,” composed by Luis Enríquez Bacalov and sung by Fred Bongusto: “Maybe one / Maybe two / Or Maybe three / Maybe four / Maybe five / Or maybe six / Maybe seven / Maybe nine / He wants to kill a man…”. Errr, what happened to eight. This miscounted if nonetheless effective theme song is used very frugally, heard only partially during and then closing the film. ONE AFTER THE OTHER. Rather than a liabili...
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Unpopped Cinema: A LOOK BACK AT GIULIANO CARNIMEO'S ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST...THERE WAS A MAN CALLED INVINCIBLE
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Sunday, July 12, 2015. A LOOK BACK AT GIULIANO CARNIMEO'S ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST.THERE WAS A MAN CALLED INVINCIBLE. Reviewed by Steve Fenton. This movie is largely a plotless series of comic vignettes, but I’ll give a general plot synopsis anyway, for those who might want it; so those wishing to avoid spoilers might want to skip down to the next paragraph. In Apple Pie City, Texas, circa. 8220;His Name is Three-Seven. He Plays a Dead Man’s Hand,” and later ( circa. George Hilton as "Tricky Dicky".
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Unpopped Cinema: March 2015
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015. COGS, SPOOLS and ½" TAPE #13 - HAWK OF THE CARIBBEAN VHS REVIEW. Post-credits scroll: “On the fourth of September in the year 1648, the Spanish cargo ship ‘Conception’ was hit by a violent hurricane and sank in the Caribbean Sea. With her the cargo of prisoners intended for the colony of Esperancia in the West Indies was lost. A few of them, however, managed to swim ashore.”. Just like the many sword-and-sandal or peplum films produced throughout the. 8221; exclaims Olivares).
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Unpopped Cinema: August 2014
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014. Typical street vendors located throughout Rome - this one on Via D. Terme di Diocleziano. Probably one of the best places to search for DVDs still remains the Porta Portese Flea Market held every Sunday from 8:00am until 2:00pm. Spaghetti westerns, poliziescos, horror, comedies, you name it you can find it here. Porta Portese DVD purchases. This cost 15 Euros. The prices tend to be on the higher side, but never above €5.00. Lastly, Transmission is a terrific store located on v...
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Unpopped Cinema: June 2015
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Sunday, June 21, 2015. COGS, SPOOLS and ½" TAPE #14 - DON'T SHOOT ON CHILDREN VHS REVIEW. DON’T SHOOT ON CHILDREN. Is yet another crimeslime obscurity that turned up in English thanks (! To the once-indispensable wonders of Greek videocassette. When Dino is unsurprisingly laid-off from work, his father’s condition takes a turn for the worse and he is admitted to a hospital, but at the same time, is reacquainted with Beaumont (Italo Gasperini), an old friend who is willing to let him in on a score. Meanwh...
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Unpopped Cinema: A LOOK BACK AT GIULIANO CARNIMEO'S THE CRAZY BUNCH
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Friday, July 31, 2015. A LOOK BACK AT GIULIANO CARNIMEO'S THE CRAZY BUNCH. Reviewed by Steve Fenton. Tony Norton: “I am Twinkletoes. and Twinkletoes spells ‘. 8217; T as in ‘twinkle,’ W as in ‘winkle,’ I as in ‘inkle,’ N as in ‘ninkle’. and K as in ‘. Goldilocks, a hairless henchman: “You are an indescribably arcane, devious, pusilanimous, fashion-conscious, nefarious, iniquitous, egotistic, narcissistic Western hero! Once again, here’s a token breakdown of the rudimentary plot, which is by no mean...
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Unpopped Cinema: February 2015
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015. A LOOK BACK AT FRANCIS D. LYON'S CULT OF THE COBRA. Reviewed by Steve Fenton. Directed by Francis D. Lyon in 1955, here we have some vintage Universal Pictures cheese-kitsch, this time with a pronounced – if resoundingly tame – “horror” angle (of sorts). I originally saw this back in about 1978 on a regional Saturday late-night horror host show called Count Zappula’s Horror House, which I received over the airwaves – often with really poor reception! FIEND WITHOUT A FACE.
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Unpopped Cinema: November 2014
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014. ROKO'S REVENGE - A LOOK AT ANTONIO MARGHERITI'S VENGEANCE. Reviewed by Steve Fenton, with Michael Ferguson. Cinevision ad-line : “FIVE MEN HELD THE BALANCE OF DEATH. his revenge exploded in a massacre of hell! Lyrics of the U.S. theme song: “No contemplating / Revenge is waiting (Vengeance! Who’ll be the winner? Who’ll be the loser? Revenge is waiting / So keep on riding / Ride on (Vengeance! Whose original Italo title is JOKO INVOCA DIO. E MUORI! Aka Richie] to death. Unger i...
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