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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Penitentiary

Prison-boxing blaxploitation that out-grossed every indie of its year and got forgotten anyway.

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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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She-Devils on Wheels

H.G. Lewis hands the gore to a real biker gang. The acting is a crime; the piano wire is the point.

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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 Burning Moon

Shot-on-video German splatter so homemade you can smell the garage. Ittenbach's Herschell Gordon Lewis tribute act.

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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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Assault! Jack the Ripper

A couple who find that killing is the only thing that works, followed all the way down.

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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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Dr. Lamb

Simon Yam as the Rainy Night Butcher, fully off the leash. Cat III at its ugliest.

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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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The Eternal Evil of Asia

Black magic, exploding wizards, and a curse that turns a man's head into a penis. Cat III lost its mind.

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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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Bare Behind Bars

Brazil's Boca do Lixo does women-in-prison with everything the drive-in cut left out.

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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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Five Element Ninjas

Chang Cheh spills more guts here than in any Shaw film before it, and grins the whole way.

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Free Hand for a Tough Cop

Tomas Milian debuts Er Monnezza, the filthiest man in Italian crime cinema, and steals his own movie.