exploitation

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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable — movie review

by Chris   ⋅   May 14, 2006   ⋅   Comment [1]

These days the term fierce has been so overused by hip-hop artists, Tyra Banks, and Inside Hollywood celebrity-trash mongers, it seems to have lost its meaning. But if one were forced to find a dictionary definition personification of the word fierce, that one person that would fit the bill would have to be Meiko Kaji [...]

[The Pinky Violence Collection] Criminal Woman: Killing Melody — movie review

by Chris   ⋅   April 23, 2006   ⋅   Comment [1]

Criminal Woman: Killing Melody, the first film in the Criminal Woman series, marks the 10th pairing of Reiko Ike and Miki Sugimoto, and frankly, it is one of the best.
The film opens on Reiko Ike in a trendy go-go club. Dressed in everyday housewife garb and looking quite worried, she seems incredibly out of sync [...]

[The Pinky Violence Collection] Terrifying Girls’ High School: Lynch Law Classroom — movie review

by Chris   ⋅   April 17, 2006   ⋅   Comments [2]

If I were still my bachelor self from six years back, I think Terrifying Girls’ High School: Lynch Law Classroom might have been my favorite film in the set. However, for the me that exists today, the film was a tad uninteresting. The second film in the Terrifying Girls High School series came as the [...]

[The Pinky Violence Collection] Girl Boss Guerilla — movie review

by Chris   ⋅   April 13, 2006   ⋅   Comment now

Like the great Seijun Suzuki, or today’s Takashi Miike, Norifumi Suzuki (Sex & Fury, Terrifying Girls’ High School: Lynch Law Classroom) was never content with making a straight genre piece, much less art. Suzuki sought to make films of interest to himself, often resulting in rapid tonal shifts from stylistic action, to gonzo comedy, to [...]

The Pinky Violence Collection — dvd review

by Chris   ⋅   April 10, 2006   ⋅   Comment [1]

If there is one box set that has caught the eye of near every Japanese cult film enthusiast, it has to be Panik House’s Pinky Violence Collection. Its shocking pink trapper-keeper case houses four of the most renowned, well loved, hard to find sukeban pics from Toei’s infamous Pinky Violence run: Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless [...]

Sex & Fury — movie review

by Chris   ⋅   December 28, 2005   ⋅   Comments [4]

Relesed the same year as Toho’s Lady Snowblood, Toei’s entry in the female-gambler period piece sub-genre of Sukeban (translated “delinquency”) shares more than a few similarities with that landmark film. In Sex & Fury Reiko Ike plays Ocho, a gambler/thief in late Meiji era Japan. Saddled from a young age with avenging the wrongful [...]

Cannibal Holocaust — guest movie review

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   July 30, 2005   ⋅   Comments [2]

Bestial gorefest? Pirandellian exploitation exposé? Both? The most notorious taster of the outrageously lurid Italian jungle-massacre subgenre, Ruggero Deodato’s purposefully unwatchable opus questions the film image’s validity while debasing it. The moral is didactic (”I wonder who the real cannibals are,” wondered at the New York City skyline), but there are plenty of Chinese boxes [...]

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (aka Joshuu 701-go: Sasori) movie review

by Chris   ⋅   July 21, 2005   ⋅   Comments [4]

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion is the first film in the Scorpion trilogy, as well as the first film by director Shunya Ito. Based on the manga of the same name, The story follows Nami Matsushima (Meiko Kaji), the fiercest inmate in the Japanese women’s prison system, and for that matter, all women in prison films. [...]

Thriller: A Cruel Picture (aka Hooker’s Revenge, They Call Her One Eye, Thriller en Grym Film) movie review

by Chris   ⋅   May 12, 2005   ⋅   Comments [3]

THEY CALL HER ONE-EYE, THE MEANIES
MAY 11, 2005
Directed by Bo Arne Vibenius
Starring Christina Lindberg
Not Rated
I’d heard Thriller, AKA: They Call her One-Eye mentioned off and on the past few years in the elitist cult-film circles. Joe-Bob Briggs discussed it in his I Spit on Your Grave commentary. Quentin Tarantino claimed it was one of [...]

Cheerleader Ninjas — movie review

by Chris   ⋅   December 14, 2003   ⋅   Comments [15]

I first heard of Cheerleader Ninjas when I was looking up titles for my Balls Out DVD releases* column two weeks ago. I can’t say I expected much, from the title, and being that the film has a Rock and Roll High School sensibility only at a less than Troma-quality budget, my expectations were lowered [...]

Kill Bill vol. 1 — he said, she said — movie review — screener! — +japanese-cut dvd!

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   October 7, 2003   ⋅   Comments [12]

WHY CAN’T WE BE FRIENDS?
HE SAID: Kill Bill Vol. 1 is Quentin Tarantino’s loveletter to exploitation, grindhouse, and overall bad-taste cinema. He references absolutely everything he loves: De Palma, Switchblade Sisters, Shaw Brothers films (it actually opens with the shaw scope logo), Japanese samurai splatter, Italian Giallos, Master of the Flying Guillotine, etc, [...]

House of 1000 Corpses — movie review

by Chris   ⋅   September 9, 2003   ⋅   Comments [2]

I’m still trying to figure out how I feel about this film. It’s hard because House of 1000 Corpses is one hell of an unbalanced film. In places it’s brilliant, ranking among the best in its genre, but for the most part it is a plodding exercise in mediocrity. I absolutely loved the first 5 [...]

Toolbox Murders (1978) — dvd movie review

by Chris   ⋅   January 18, 2003   ⋅   Comment now

I actually never bothered to watch The Toolbox Murders on account it looked retarded, but after hearing that Tobe Hooper had remade the film, along with noticing the occasional site search popping up, and the fact I’m overdue for a review, I decided to pick it up.
Well, I guess sometimes first impressions are more [...]

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