THUNDERS ARE HERE

Added: 2026-05-10

[00:00:00]Oh, you you you here it is guys. Here it is.  I made a video about these movies. I think it was the end of last year or beginning of  this year 20126. And then I was talking about these films that hey these films need  to be on Blu-ray at least. I got the VHSS here. Why these have not been released? And  then came the news in yes indeed Retrocold 63 in Germany was going to be doing this on  Blu-ray. So I did order and I got myself a copy of these great films on Blu-ray. I  going to be unboxing this and then I'll be reviewing this also on this same action-packed  video. Oh yes. Oh yes. Oh see puppy. See puppy.

[00:00:57]Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thunder.

[00:01:03]Thunder. Yes sir. This is Thunder starring Mark  Gregory and directed by Fabitio de Angalis. Yes.

[00:01:14]Here I have the old Finnish VHS which is now  going obsolete. Okay. The cover is pretty good.

[00:01:22]It's not going to Oh, no. Okay, now it is  now kaput if we speak German now. Okay. Hey, this is kind of interesting. This cover.  This is kind of like a this molo soft sleeve sllo softsided. I don't know. Softsided  diggy book. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, C puppy.

[00:01:48]I don't know why I'm saying Cup, but so here  we have Blu-ray of Thunder and then we have the Dicky book containing I mean how can one film have  such cool artworks all around. This is amazing.

[00:02:04]This is amazing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. With bazookas  and [ __ ] And it even includes DVD. But I don't know what I'm going to do with this. Okay. The  bonus. There's only like trailer is the bonus and the diggy book is the bonus. So nothing special  here but the cover looks exquisite. Here we have Thunder 2. Thunder two which is this is pretty  rare tape in Finland. And this is looking to be with the same ah yeah we have the same cover art  then there okay let's see the Thunder too. This is the same same similar type of uh dicky book cover.  Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Hell's bills.

[00:02:58]Yeah. And this two only has like the diggy book  as an extra. I'm not counting trailer as an extra.

[00:03:08]That's not very interesting extra. And it includes  the DVD too. Then finally obviously I have Thunder Tree. Thunder Tree my man. Yes Thunder D tree  is looking like this as Finnish tape. So I got the same similar cover style. I wanted to go for  the original art style. I prefer original artwork always. This two only has extras as this German  language dicky book. I think it is German. Yes.

[00:03:41]Unfortunately, this is only in German language.  Yeah. And the endrails look like this. Yes. Oh, I'm looking so word forward in watching  this again now. Okay. Probably will be very disappointed because yeah, let's  face it. These are not like the Oscar winning movies. No sir. These are like  very schllocky and campy action movies.

[00:04:12]Okay, so now finally I have actually watched  all these Thunder movies. Thunder one, Thunder 2 and Thunder three. And I have also  picked up from my shelf the original video tapes which were so dear to me this  long time. And now finally, finally, finally we have Blu-rays of these magnificent  films. But you might be wondering, hey Willie, what the hell is this thunder anyways? I have  never even heard about it. Well, you haven't been living in a barrel, my friend, because I  don't think that these films are so wellnown.

[00:04:52]One thing might be that these have actually not  been released on DVD on Blu-ray before and this is the Blu-ray HD premiere of this. Okay. So, they  might be like a bootleg DVDs, but we don't discuss about bootleg DVDs. Let's discuss about these  babies. So, first in Thunder. So, Mark Gregory, the greatest actor ever lived. He's an Indian and  he comes back to his hometown and the hometown is ruled by this racist police force, racist  sheriff, racist deputies and whatnot. and also racist kind of this kind of working men that  they're working some sort of construction work in the Indian burial ground. So they are exploding  things in the burial ground and taking a piss at the burial ground. So Thunder starts to kick  some ass and therefore he gets in trouble with the sheriff and Sherif cannot deliver justice  to Thunder played by Bosenson by the way this sheriff and Thunder has no option but to start  his own personal fight against the little town.

[00:06:25]I have to say that this cover page is uh a  little over the top considering what actually happens in the movie. And these two now these  pictures paint like a picture of like a this uh larger than life action movie and it kind  of is but it's kind of in its own crummy way kind of fits you the angle is kind of crummy  way. It's entertaining but do not expect crazy action stuff happening like in Strike Commando or  Robo War. These are not as entertaining films as those. But when you tune your brain to kind  of this like a fabric diangalist mode, then you probably can enjoy this picture quality in all  of these is kind of like a very like a from dirty negatives. Like it's not the worst I have ever  seen. It's actually the clariness is pretty good, but the color timing might be a little bit off.  It is probably due to the masters but there they have not done dirt removal for the picture. It's  okay to me because it kind of retains this kind of like a grindhouse quality to the picture. Do  not expect like vinegar syndrome or severing kind of this American label style of remastering.  No, this is not it. But the movie is funny. I love the scene where the thunder he jumps off  from this like a very very high cliff and ends up in the river and clearly it's a dummy. And  I love the scene where Thunder beats up these kind of construction workers and they in fact  they have this gun stash and then he gets like a assault rifles and bazookas and then he enters  the town after his grandpa has been burned alive and after they try to rape his girlfriend  then he goes to the town and brings it out.

[00:08:46]The music is quite good and I actually like the  Arizona vistas in here. It is shot in Arizona.

[00:08:52]You can tell by the uh these like monument while  these kind of huge rocks there and the city where they shot the movie. Actually I think all these  movies has been have been shot in the same town.

[00:09:06]The city looks like a kind of like like a unusual  especially for the Italian movie. For the fans of crappy films I recommend Thunder. And by the  way, I had to say that this limited edition in is number uh 117 out of 363. So hey, wo that's  kind of early number. So I'm happy owner of that number. And then from year 1987, Thunder 2. So  basically this kind of turns the table because Thunder returns to this town and for some reason  I don't know what happened between this movie and this movie but some reason Thunder has been no  nominated as a sheriff as a deputy sheriff for this town. So he comes back there even though he  kind of wrecked the town but now he's the sheriff and hey people love him because especially the  like the native Indians they [ __ ] love Thunder but there's like this [ __ ] dirt back deputy  sheriff that sells drugs and kills people and he frames for from for his own crimes and oh  [ __ ] Thunder is thrown to jail and Thunder is thrown to jail where they torture him by putting  him in this sweat box. And after 11 days, my god, Thunder escapes. And there's this funny scene  where Thunder rams the car like jumps over the fence of the prison. And I don't know why  this there there's like this clearly like uh these boards have been set up for this jump.  I don't know who did it. Where there's some other guys planning to escape from the prison, but it  is there and Thunder escapes and oh [ __ ] Then after a while, Thunder is escaping the police and  there's this deputy [ __ ] um chasing them with a helicopter and he is shooting them and they crash  and as a result Thunder's girlfriend gets like um she was pregnant so she gets she loses her  her baby and oh [ __ ] Thunder is now very pissed after like hanging from the helicopter uh with  a rope from the helicopter. It's a long scene.

[00:11:37]It takes like I don't know 5 minutes at least  that they really got their money worth worth for this stunt. Yeah. Okay. After that then Thunder  attacks the city again and tries to attack the police station and the ending once again is quite  ambiguous. Will Thunder survive or what happens to him? But Bose Wenson was also the sheriff  in this film and and that was the last time we see Bose Wenson in these movies. And yeah, you  might say that. Yeah. Hey, if you have seen first Thunder that this really doesn't give anything  to too much more. Well, it's kind of nice to see Thunder as a serif, but um okay, it's more of  this goodness this one. So I will rate this first thunder movie and this two I will rate it three  out of five stars. And this two is limited edition number 117 from 363. So I guess I'm in luck or  I guess they just picked them from the box and in orderly fashion put them in the boxes and sent  them away. But finally, in the year 1989 came the last thunder movie. And oh [ __ ] does this look  like a Rambo tree. It certainly does. And you might have noticed that I picked the Blu-ray, the  same original artwork which I have in all of these VHSs because it's so freaking good. Now, mind you  that there was like uh at least what were there five different color cover options for Thunder.  So, pick your pick your favorite, but my favorite was definitely the the original artwork. But one  complaint I have. I have one [ __ ] complaint. And the complaint is I didn't notice this, but why  why is this is this the other way around? This this label text this like spine text. Why is it  this way? Usually, it's other way around. when I put this in the shelf and what the [ __ ] how how  would I how can I tell what is the what is what what because it it troubles me. This is something  that really busts my balls. It's annoying but okay since we got that out of the way we can  talk about number three. Okay, in this movie, Thunder is living in nature and he has a son and  they are practicing arrow shooting or something like that and then they face this paramilitaric  force in the wilderness. They are killing animals and of course Stunder wants to stop it and the  these like army guys they arrest him and also they shoot down Thunder's village which was kind  of weird because no I don't think nobody gets shot there. These guys are like blasting their rifles  from left and right but there's 20 Indians running away from the village and nobody is actually  shot once again. Thunder seeks justice from the sheriff. This time played by John Philip Law, Mr.  Law himself. Yeah, I think you might have seen him and um Danger Diabolic and also was he in maybe he  was in in movie Barbarella as well. Yeah, but hey, John Philip Law although his name is the law, he  cannot bring justice for Thunder. So Thunder has to take his love in his own hands and he kind  of targets these kind of rich businessmen. They are like funding the whole village and they are  really racist [ __ ] There's like a I don't know at least 20 minutes of chase sequence in the end  where Thunder is riding motorcycle in the village.

[00:15:33]Basically this film is very underwhelming. You  could say the same thing about all of this, but I think this is even more underwhelming.  But at the end of the day, it's kind of funny.

[00:15:47]Everything in this film is kind of funny. It's  so crappy. And Mark Gregory, I don't know if you have seen his films, but he is not a good actor.  I have to say that he might be a handsome guy and he might have a great physique for the screen,  but he's not charismatic at all. Or is he a good actor? Not at all. that makes thunder so funny.  And if you have seen Fitio de Angel films like Karate Warriors or what was what was the final  final round was this with Ernest Borg on he he made a couple of films. Yeah, if you have seen his  films you are feeling like home and I would say that this is probably Fabritio de Angel is like  a magnum obusi maybe. Yeah. Okay. I will rate all these thunder films three out of five stars. But  only in that condition that you appreciate trashy movies. If you are not at all like a fan of trashy  movies, then you there's no point in you watching these films. No sir, not a goddamn thing. But if  you are into trashy movies and if you want to see Mark Gregory in other great movies, hey, check  out definitely this film Warbus 2 starring also John Wernard and Bobby Rhodess. It's a sequel to  to this. I think it's Filipino action movie, the first Warbus, but this is an Italian production  and this is taking its cues from first blood part two. So basically this is like a spiritual sequel  to Thunder first. Yeah, this should be Thunder too. Yeah, exactly. It's a funny action movie.  You will get a lot of laughs out of this one and hopefully this comes out on Blu-ray someday  since we have gotten the taste for Mark Gregory and also this is taking its cues from Commando  also starring Fred Williamson and also Bose Venson Delta Force Commando. This is also one of these  films that have not been released at all on DVD to my knowledge. May there might be a bootleg but  no official release. Hey, Retro Cold 63, please do Delta Force Commando 2 and also War Boost 2  because we need to see more Mark Gregory's. And yeah, since I'm not now talking about this, I  don't think I have watched this like a I don't know over like at least 20 years. So I think I  must must watch this very soon. Yeah. But I think this film or film series is the most famous film  from Mark Gregory's filmography. Enzo Castellaris the Bronx Warriors. This is mandatory viewing  for all Mark Gregory fans or the fans of be great action. So that was my thunder special. Hopefully  you have enjoyed and hopefully you have learned some new things about Mark Gregory Fabritio  de Angalis and Thunder movies. I thank you for watching and remember to subscribe and like and  comment if you have any questions at all. Bye.