The films

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Bamboo House of Dolls

Shaw Brothers takes on the WIP film. As strange a combination as it sounds.

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The Twilight People

The cheapest Island of Doctor Moreau ever committed to film, and one of the most watchable.

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Alvin Purple

The sex comedy that funded the entire boom. Historically important, hard going.

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Boardinghouse

The first shot-on-video horror feature, blown up to 35mm and just as ugly as that sounds.

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Human Lanterns

A Shaw wuxia that turns into a slasher, with lanterns made of human skin.

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Petey Wheatstraw

Rudy Ray Moore makes a deal with the Devil to come back from the dead. Deranged and delightful.

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Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter

Meiko Kaji before Toei, leading a girl gang through Nikkatsu's coolest delinquent picture.

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Stunt Rock

No plot. A stuntman and a prog band. Exists purely so Grant Page can work.

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Tarkan Versus the Vikings

A Turkish barbarian, his wolf, and the most beloved rubber octopus in world cinema.

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The Queen of Black Magic

Suzzanna, Indonesia's horror queen, wronged by a whole village and collecting on the debt.

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TNT Jackson

Cirio Santiago's Manila blaxploitation at full tilt, remembered for one fight staged in the dark.

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Werewolves on Wheels

Exactly what it says, at half the pace you want.

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Bewitched

Shaw Brothers black magic: worms, curses and a Taoist priest fighting a Thai sorcerer.

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Bad Girls Go to Hell

The definitive Doris Wishman roughie: grimy, deranged, and edited by someone allergic to faces.

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Cops vs. Thugs

Fukasaku again, arguing the two categories in the title are the same.

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Kilink Istanbul'da

The homegrown Yeşilçam pulp: a skeleton-suited supervillain lifted wholesale from Italian comics.

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Macon County Line

One of the most profitable independents ever made. Nastier than its reputation.

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Next of Kin

A slow-burn gothic in a nursing home. Much better than its obscurity suggests.

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Satan's Sadists

Al Adamson's grimiest, shot partly where the Manson family was living.

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Seeding of a Ghost

Ninety minutes of restrained Shaw revenge, then twenty of rotting-corpse insanity.

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Snapshot

A young model is stalked after a nude shoot. A slow-burn Australian thriller with a real sense of dread.

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The Clones of Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee is cloned three times to fight crime. Bruce Le, Bruce Lai and Dragon Lee, together at last.

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They Call Her... Cleopatra Wong

The girls-with-guns spy picture Tarantino keeps name-checking, and rightly.

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Willie Dynamite

A flamboyant pimp fights to stay on top as everything closes in. Sharper and sadder than most.

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Crippled Avengers

Four men maimed by a tyrant learn to fight through their disabilities. Chang Cheh at his most inventive.

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Detroit 9000

A biracial cop pairing hunts jewel thieves in Detroit. Tarantino re-released it for a reason.

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Ecstasy of the Angels

Wakamatsu wires the pink film to a detonator and steps back.

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Horror Rises from the Tomb

A decapitated warlock's head, still working. Naschy wrote it himself.

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Horrors of Malformed Men

Suppressed by Toei for decades. Butoh dancing, an island, and total delirium.

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Psychomania

Zombie bikers, toad worship and George Sanders' last film. As English as horror gets.

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Rituals

The Canadian Deliverance, and grimmer than the nickname promises.

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Santo and Blue Demon vs. the Monsters

Every monster at once, all of them on a budget of nothing. Delightful.

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Scum of the Earth

Herschell Gordon Lewis invents the roughie the same year he invents gore. Busy man.

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Street Mobster

Bunta Sugawara as pure appetite. The jitsuroku style arriving fully formed.

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The Boxer's Omen

The most deranged thing Shaw Brothers ever paid for, and it never slows down to explain itself.

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The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist

Late-cycle Castellari. Everyone is exhausted and it shows productively.