Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get the mineral back! REVIEW: The first time I tried to watch The Devil Came from Akasava, it was entirely in German without any English subtitles. This led to some confusion …
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Film Review: Devil Hunter (Sexo caníbal) (1980)
SYNOPSIS: The story is set amongst jungle tribes that live in fear of the devil. Laura Crawford is a model who gets kidnapped by a gang of thugs whilst working in South America. They take her into the jungle and demand a huge ransom. Laura is guarded by some ridiculous looking native who calls himself “The Devil” and has to …
Read More »Film Review: The Vampire Killer Barbys (1996)
SYNOPSIS: Director Jess Franco is back to his old tricks with this gruesome gore-fest about a band called The Killer Barbies (played by the band of the same name) that gets stuck in a remote locale when their transportation breaks down. Eager to get back on the road, the group searches on foot for help. Instead, they run into a …
Read More »Film Review: Ilsa, the Wicked Warden (1977)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Ilsa, now a vicious warden, runs a mental-hospital for young women. A girl deliberately “checks” in to the hospital to find out what has happened to her sister who stayed there. Meanwhile Ilsa and one of the guards are forcing the inmates to have sex with male prisoners, filming them and selling it as p*rnoflicks
Read More »Film Review: Faceless (1987)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A beautiful French female gets her face ruined by some crazy broad who throws acid on her face. Her determined brother is a doctor and promises to restore her beauty and make her look like an attractive girl again. He begins to kidnap young and beautiful females and bringing them to his clinic with the help …
Read More »Film Review: Oasis of the Zombies (1981)
SYNOPSIS: An expedition searching for treasure supposedly buried by the German army in the African desert during WW II comes up against an army of Nazi zombies guarding the fortune REVIEW: “Oasis of the Zombies” (1981) (sometimes referred to as “The Treasure of the Living Dead”) is one of those films that you’ve probably heard about, but never seen. There’s …
Read More »Podcast: Corpse Cast – Eps 99
We’re back this week with another Psychobilly band and foreign horror film… Huh… could have planned that better :). Anyhow, we’re talking about Nekromantix’s 2011 album called What Happens in Hell, Stays in Hell. We’re also talking about a film by the Sleaze Super-Twins, Jesus Franco and Jean Rollin… their erotic opus from 1973, A Virgin Among the Living …
Read More »Film Review: A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973)
SYNOPSIS: After losing her mother at an early age and being raised at a boarding school, Cristina Reiner is notified of her father’s death and summoned to Monserrat Mansion for the reading of his will. Other members of her strange, accursed family are found there awaiting the imminent demise of Cristina’s ailing stepmother, whom she has never met. When Death …
Read More »Film Review: The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff (1973)
SYNOPSIS: At the 2009 Goya Awards Spain’s equivalent of the Oscars writer/director Jess Franco received a Lifetime Achievement Award for his 50-year career that includes such immortal classics as VAMPYROS LESBOS, BLOODY MOON and his infamous DR. ORLOFF series. In this 73 Orlo shocker, William Berger (KEOMA, FIVE DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON) stars as the diabolical doctor who unleashes …
Read More »Film Review: Nightmares Come at Night (1970)
SYNOPSIS: Diana Lorys, Collette Jack and Soledad Miranda star in this sexy thriller about two alluring dancers, Cincia and Anne, who embark on an erotically charged partnership. But when Anne starts to have nightmares that feature her as a murderous killer, she begins to lose her grip on reality. Or is reality merely rearing its ugly head in her dreams? …
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