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Mrparka's Weekly Reviews and Update Week 473 (06.06.2026) (Audition 4K, Obsession)Added:
[music] >> Hey guys, what's up? It is week 473. I have some reviews for you. Let's just jump right in. And the first one up is a 4K release of Takashi Miike's infamous film here from the late 90s, Audition.
Now Arrow put this one out on Blu-ray probably close to 10 years ago, which which blows my mind to be honest cuz I covered it when they put the Blu-ray out. Now we're now we're like redoing 4Ks.
This is like almost 10 years since the release, maybe more like eight or so.
But yeah, surprise that was the first time I had saw Audition. Now Takashi Miike was a director who was obviously not new to me. I had seen Ichi the Killer. He's a pretty infamous, you know, Japanese director and prolific as well. He can do almost all different kinds of styles and before this he was doing, you know, the V-cinema stuff which kind of was he made his name for.
And he was pretty successful with that.
And he made a couple, you know, popular films. Agitator was one. That was a pretty pretty good one. Dead or Alive.
So eventually they offered him this one and he had not really done too many horror films. Listen to the commentaries and all those things like that. So he jumped into this one and he knocked it out of the park. He had done a couple before this but this kind of put him on the map and after that Takashi Miike was kind of known as a horror director and he's directed over 100 films. So a lot of them are horror films including Visitor Q and One Missed Call. But I would say that Audition is definitely one of the I don't want to say just the crown jewel in his filmography but it's definitely one of his many crown jewels I would say. So this is based off a book which is another thing that I actually didn't know or I had forgotten. I had learned once and forgotten. So yeah, this is this is an odd one here and the screenwriter adapted the book. Takashi Miike went forward with it and he it seems that according to Tom Mes and Tony Rayns, listening to the special features, he kind of mixed a little bit of the book and the screenplay, you know, and was a little bit different.
Kind of took his own little approach but used a lot of some of the book and whatnot. So, uh uh essentially the story follows uh I guess it we just say like the antagonist and protagonist here. We have this middle-aged man who's lost his wife 7 years ago.
The very beginning we open up with a real sad scene where a father and son have to say goodbye to their mother um and uh wife. And uh the father is always drinking, you know, he it's not like ever said out loud that he's an alcoholic, but he's constantly has a glass in hand. It's something that he always does, not just socializing. By himself, when he's having dinner, he'll pour himself a glass. It's it's it's a vice that he has. And uh it seems he works for kind of like this production company, does videos and films and uh shows and all that. And he has a a close friend to his that he works directly with, and his close friend says, "You know what? Um he he mentions one day um to his friend that he's thinking of remarrying cuz his son noticed that his dad is lost, he's lonely. Um and this is another theme in this uh movie. In Japan films in general, you know, the the theme of loneliness. Everybody seems to be kind of lonely in Japan. It's why a lot of the stuff like Pulse kind of hit really hard in that idea that all these people are like kind of being like killing themselves in this crazy kind of way after they're hit through the internet trying to find connections through the internet. So, technology and the loneliness and things of that nature has always been like kind of a staple in these Japanese movies, whether it's in the forefront or kind of in the subconscious. It's it seems to be there.
It's definitely directly mentioned in this one. So, his friend has an idea, you know, this guy is middle-aged, you know, he has a son who's probably uh late teens, early 20s. So, he's probably approaching late 40s, early 50s. And he says, "Well, we'll find you uh kind of a you know, a new wife, and we're going to hold this audition." It's not going to be the winner, of course, um and have these multiple talented things, kind of like America's Got Talent, one of those kind of shows like that. So, they hold this elaborate audition, and even before he sees any of the contestants, he's going through the profiles. And And uh one one woman just It's almost like fate. He just catches his attention. She overcame these things. She was a ballet dancer, and uh she's probably 25 years old. Just catches He makes up his mind right there that's going be kind of her.
And they go through all these auditions, which is just like kind of awkward, almost comical, you know, um a montage scene with all these different people doing all these different kind of things. And it's kind of really shady and uh the idea, right, that they're going to go through the show, supposedly, but uh the idea that he's trying to find a wife and having all these people come to his women audition and stuff like that. Really kind of, you know, trashy, to be honest, but uh it it it at the same time you feel for this guy to a certain extent. He's not an absolute villain. He does have altruistic you know, uh feelings and stuff and motives, but then again he's going for someone half his age, so then there's that that pops up that you're like, "Wow, this is a little iffy." Um but he ends up kind of dating this uh this this contestant and becomes infatuated with her, if you will, obsessed with this woman. And uh the first part it seems to be awkward dates here and there. And then uh something strange happens when they have kind of an overnight and they supposedly sleep together. He wakes up and he doesn't really know where she's went and he can't get a hold of her. So he starts to do some detective work. And I think this is where the story picks up. I think that the first half is is flows a lot better cuz this is a damn near 2-hour movie. And with a lot of that kind of character development and stuff like that and setting everything up, you might be lose a little interest. But uh the first I think hour is all that kind of stuff, but it really pulls you in.
And then we start to do this kind of detective work, which is something I've always loved in in in Japan- Japanese films are pretty good at doing it. I would say some of the best with their Japanese mysteries and stories. So he starts to kind of dig past the curtain to try to figure out who this person is and nothing really checks out. Things are strange. He runs into all sorts of bizarre characters. And there's these little kind of grotesque details that really add to the story that come to fruition at the end when you realize what has happened. But uh it's one of these stories where a lot of people do warn him in subtleties and and things of that nature. And when he realizes what's going on, we are kind of um rewarded or guess tortured with these flashes of pieces of old conversation that um we [snorts] we kind of unveil a little bit more, but it's all done in this kind of fever dream where you don't know what is reality and what is not. And it ends in one of the most grotesque, I guess, scenes of a popular horror film.
Everybody knows the infamous torture scene, and that's pretty much the only real There was a couple graphic scenes, but that's the one that stands out. But, the movie as a whole is phenomenal, I think. I think the acting is great. I think that it's a tragic, kind of dark story. And as a lot of the people say on here in the features, Tom Mes in the commentary, and Tony Rayns in the special feature, and I think it's a Alexandra Heller Nichols goes as a video essay on here. They all kind of mention that people have always thrown this as a feminist movie or a, you know, a movie that's anti-female. But, at the same time, it's just kind of doesn't really take sides from their understanding looking at it. You know, they don't think that Japan is a predominantly feminist kind of society if you look at their, you know, their pornography and things of that nature. It doesn't really ring true. And I do see it it definitely being a story, and it could be a cautionary story, a paranoia story for men, but at the same time, it could be a story where you kind of think that guy might have had a little bit of that coming. Obviously, way too far. And the idea that she thinks he's actually a complete sly ball and only doing it for sex is a little tragic on his end, but at the same time, it is a it is very creepy the idea of what he's doing. But, he ends up kind of getting something that he didn't really expect. And it's one of those stories that I love where by the time you realize that something is completely wrong or you don't care or it's too far to turn back, then it's too late. And I I've always found that really haunting kind of feel. And the idea, you know, I do feel like a lot of people have these obsessive kind of traits, and they have to see how it ends, and they have to dig deeper they're told they're not to or something is off. You know, there's a certain kind of person, and I think many which probably film fans will dig deeper into that subject matter. And that's always stories that have fascinated me. As far as new special features and old special features, we have a brand new 4K restoration from the original Super 16 camera negative. Looks great. I'm actually shocked it was done on 16 mm. I know a lot of the earlier, you know, V cinema stuff was 16, but this is bigger budgeted than V cinema as far as I could tell. It's approved by the DP Hideo Yamamoto. And then we have Dolby Vision, HDR 10 compatible, new restored original lossless stereo 4.0 plus optional 5.0 surround sound. Subtitles, of course, introduction by director Takashi Miike.
I think this is an old feature. Audio commentary by director Takashi Miike and screenwriter Teagan. I can't say his name, Dazuki Teagan. And then we have audio commentary by Miike biographer Tom Mesic examining the film and source novel.
That's the original, which I enjoy that, of course. We have callback a brand new interview with actor Ryo Ishibashi.
That's the lead actor in here. He says people still approach him, including the likes of Tarantino. It seems to be in every one of these stories about actors have been approached by somebody. Ties that bind it interview with director Takashi Miike. Deeper deeper into audition and audio essay by author and critic Alexander Heller Nicholas. This is good as well. Damaged romance and appreciation by Japanese cinema historian Tony Rayns. That's archival.
And then archival interviews with stars Ryo Ishibashi, Eihiina, Renji Ishibashi, and Ren Osugi. Trailers, image gallery, collector's booklet featuring new writings on the film by Anton Bitel, Jenny Kermode, Jamie Graham, reversible sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by Dark Inker Samson, and original UK artwork by Graham Humphreys.
So, fantastic movie, fantastic release of Audition. If you've not seen this one, what are you what are you sleeping on? The late '90s we started to get some of that great J-horror and I think this is one of the best and I think this put Takashi Miike on the map. They go over that and and festivals and stuff like that how he was kind of like had three movies playing one time and it really kind of, you know, set him in stone as as this kind of, I guess I I don't even know if I want to call him an auteur because I feel like that's he is but he isn't because he's so versatile. But then again, who says an auteur can't be versatile? You can see a lot of the Miike stuff in his films, but I've enjoyed almost all of the Takashi Miike movies. So, from the happiness of the Katakuris to Agitator to Visitor Q.
He's He's got a well-versed everything like Terraformars. So, I'm a fan and this was one of his best. And re-watching it, it went up a little bit.
It's a great movie.
>> Okay, we have one coming up from Visual Vengeance and I don't even know if I can keep a straight face while talking about this one, but this is Fungicide. Great title, hilarious title. I love what they're going for when you're talking about a killer mushrooms on Tango Attack of the Mushroom People, which is a great one by Ishirō Honda, Japanese movie. This is not that. This is by the director, I can't think of his name, David Miscavige, who directed Suburban Sasquatch, which Visual Vengeance also put out. Suburban Sasquatch is Sasquatch is not my movie, okay? It's not my type of humor, it's not my type of low-budget filmmaking, but David Miscavige is an odd director to me, right? Because when you see something like Fungicide, you're like, "Oh, this is going to be completely purposely bad movie."
But then you're like, "Or it could be something that's a lot more, you know, sincere and has a lot of ambition and actually works." Or it can be like the third option, which is a rarity in these movies for me, you know? When we have something like um some [snorts] low-budget movies that just have tons of heart and ambition, they win you over, like a lot of the early Temp or a lot of the Tempe stuff. You're just like, "Wow, this is so ambitious and good." But then when you have something that's like just you know, purposely done bad, I always hate it. But then we have this one that kind of sits in the middle of Fungicide here. So, this is a 2002 movie, I believe actually made before Suburban Sasquatch. And like you listen to the special features in the commentary on this one and you're really you're like, "Oh, they are sincere, but at the same time they understand it's bad, but they're not trying to make it bad. It's just kind of happened to be bad and they kept going forth with it and they're not really making a big joke out of the whole damn thing. It's really a bizarre kind of tone in this one and I know a lot of people like this stuff. This is not totally not for me, although we're I'm probably guilty of being in and making movies like this myself, but hey.
Um the plot is simple. We have a mad scientist going out to kind of vacation. He's been working too hard and he's made this kind of super serum. We know what it's going to turn into. It's going to cause some damage, of course. And we have a group of other people who are kind of going on vacation. We have a hot-headed wrestler.
We have uh, kind of a real estate guy that wants to buy up the property, be a prick. And uh, then we also have a kind of a survivalist army guy out in the woods that's around here. And they're all kind of end up bumping into each other staying at this kind of cabin that's ran by this kind of hippie kind of lady who, you know, loves vegetables, all that kind of stuff like that. Loves nature. But so what happens is our mad scientist here accidentally spills his experiment under you know, falls under the deck and it lands on some mushrooms and then we boom, we have fungus side.
Now the fungus side itself uh, is a bunch of crazy mushrooms. Some are actually practical effects or guys um, puppets which are kind of fun and goofy and silly. Guys in suits which are absolutely ridiculous and CGI which is some of the worst and abysmal CGI ever.
But in 2002 it's still bad. But hell, maybe it was a little bit better. It's been a while since I've watched something brand new from 2002 in 2002.
But uh, the CGI's horrible. So basically what we have here is a miss miss kind of a um, misgrouping of people that are completely over the top and characters.
And they have to team up to fight Fungus Side. Um, what you don't really have here is good dialogue. I mean there's some of the dialogue is funny. The acting is abysmal. There's just no way around it. There's just no, hey this person's trying their best. It's not, you know, low budget kind of gem acting or anything of that nature or hey this it's just bad acting, you know, the actors are laughing a lot of the time.
You'll catch them laughing in the scene or smiling, things of that nature. And I I could see that happening once or twice leaving it in there cuz it's got a certain charm. But uh, it throughout the entirety of the movie it does get old pretty fast. Um, it also is incredibly repetitive, you know, when they run outside there's this long fight scene where they're fighting the the fungus among us. The the mushrooms for a long freaking time. It's absolutely ridiculous. Um, a lot of people will eat this up. This is uh, definitely a group kind of movie. You got to watch it in a group. Watching it by yourself like I did, I cannot wholeheartedly recommend that because you're just going to the wears out it's welcome in about five [ __ ] minutes, right? Because it's funny and then it's just like, okay, we're still going on here. Uh David Miscavige is in here, his wife is in here. So, it's a kind of a group effort, a family effort, and you can appreciate that. Um I do appreciate that they're going to make a movie no matter what. I don't think it's cynical, which is uh a a plus on this because if it was cynical, it would be one of the worst experiences of my life. But, it not being cynical makes it have a little bit of charm and some comedy elements and things of that nature. Overall, I don't think Fungus Side's a great movie. I think that uh it is uh made for a very particular crowd. Um a lot of people will love this. They'll they'll enjoy it. They The people that love bad movies. And I do do not think this is purposely bad. I think it's just somebody making a movie with absolutely zero means and not having any budget and still going forth and trying their best to make whatever they could. And the result is Fungus Side. Um as far as the features, there's a decent amount. We have director approved SD master from original tape elements, classic SOV's here, a new commentary from director David Miscavige and co-writer co-producer Mary Miscavige, um archival commentary with David Miscavige, Mary Miscavige, and David Waldon, commentary from Sam Patinko and B Nas About Movies, and Bill Van Rye of Drive-In Asylum.
Commentary from Schlock and Awe Films, the full riff track version of Fungus Side. So, I listened to that I listened to the riff tracks, and they're they're pretty funny. They're obviously not fans of the movie, but they they have a good time. That's a shorter version. And the commentaries um One of the commentaries I think the commentaries with David Miscavige and crew and family and stuff like that is a little bit better because they point out some things. It's not an overly in-depth, you know, informational kind of drop or anything of that nature.
Um the other two commentaries, I think the one by Sam and Bill is okay, you know, they they talk a little bit about the movie and whatnot.
Um they do kind of not stay focused 100% onto the movie. And the other one I think uh the commentary from Schlock and Awe Films One of these commentaries, I hope I'm not mixing them up. I think it's Schlock and Awe Films. They kind of just make fun of the movie the whole time. The The female co-host is watching it for the first time and the guy. And then the same thing with the other one.
The other has a guy showing it for the first time. I don't remember if it's Bill or Sam. But they both kind of follow that suit. And then I think that the Riftrax is probably the funnest track of them all. Opening alternate opening credits, deleted scenes, outtakes, image gallery, Troubled Moon trailer reel, Fungus producer trailer, Visual Vengeance trailers, reversible sleeve, original home artwork, folded mini poster, optional English subtitles.
And we have a really funny gag in here, which looks like spores. They have little spores here. And they do mention in the commentary it reminds them a bit of Deadly Spawn. And I can see it to the smallest extent. I think this is cute.
Um Deadly Spawn is one of my favorites and I feel like that's like the best like ambitious low-budget kind of monster movie. And Fungus Side is what happens when you start making them in 2002 not on film with no money at all.
But hey, it's definitely going to be an acquired taste. And most of the Visual Vengeance catalog is. They do have some great stuff coming out. I'm looking forward to the checking out Cyclops, their release, great fun Japanese movie.
And they put a lot of stuff I love. But it's always a mixed bag for me, you know, you don't know if I'm going to love them or like them. Um plenty of features and they make up for it with a tons of stuff on their releases. Okay, we're starting a box set here and this is A Venture Calls, Karl May at CCC.
Now, you guys remember I did a couple CCC box sets from Eureka Films already.
I did the Dr. Mabuse sets at CCC and I did some of the creamy Edgar Wallace kind of creamy style films that they had a box set. I enjoyed a lot of those and I learned quite a bit. I probably forgot some of it, but we're going to start off with the first disc here, which is Old Surehand and Winnetou and Surehand in the Valley of Death.
So basically Karl May. Now this is a fantastic resource for information here on the first disc here with a commentary. I want to make sure I get the actor's name right here. I don't know the actor's name. But the commentary, they actually do not list who did the commentary, but it's on the back here. Um Sorry about that. Um a little bit over the place here. Ooh, but but sorry about that.
David Kalat and he did the commentaries on the Mabuse films as well and he's absolutely one of the best commentary people I've heard ever. So the first one here is Old Surehand made in 1964 and he does a brief history. There's other features on here as well. So Karl May, hopefully I don't forget it. The features are great on here. But Karl May was one of like Germany's premier writer, you know, and whatnot. And he wrote tons and tons of stuff. He was very popular in Germany with amongst people like Albert Einstein, Adolf Hitler. And he wrote a lot about Native Americans, American frontiers and stuff.
And he ended up being a complete kind of hoax about his real life experiences and all these things like that. He was like a petty criminal that served a lot of time in jail. But he did so much, you know, he's one of the biggest sellers in Germany and he did so much kind of pushing forth his his model of, you know, every man is created equal, all that kind of stuff like this. And the Germany has kind of a infatuation with the American West kind of deal here. And this having the lead character in Old Surehand be a kind of a German import into the American frontier and befriending the Indian and fighting against the corrupt evil American kind of set a lot of things. And they mentioned that in the commentaries and stuff like that. And I found that incredibly interesting. And it definitely something that you would need to know when you're watching these films about Karl May.
So the first one is 1964 Old Surehand.
He also goes into the history of Rialto films and CCC which were two competing companies here. So they kind of fought back on rights. They'd get this Edgar Wallace and then somebody get the son Edgar Wallace and they use these stories here. So Old Surehand was actually with Rialto. Lex Barker the actor and everything like that from the Mabuse films. He plays in a couple of the Mabuse films.
He actually was in the first Surehand Old Surehand movie with Rialto. And they had the rights to the stories here, the Karl May stories. So I guess the Arthur Brauner who ran CCC didn't want to lose out. So he decided to make his own kind of writing these scripts and not following the actual stories here. So that's basically where we get these two competing kind of you know, Old Surehand company these companies making their own deal. And with Winnetou as well who's a very popular character in these stories. So boom, we actually got the original actors to pop up back in here in this movie, too, but then they they didn't have a script. They had a lot of trouble here. But, it's another important kind of like summarizing everything in the commentary because I think this historical context really matters. So, when you think German Westerns, this is '64, and Germany was co-producing these with Italy and all Spain and all these other countries like that. And Italy saw this and realized we should make our own Westerns, and boom, there goes the Spaghetti Western was born. So, if these movies didn't exist, we wouldn't you know, and again, we kind of go back to the Edgar Wallace krimis, but maybe we wouldn't have the giallo and the baboosa films. Maybe we wouldn't have so many of the different Italian cinemas well that we're having all these European kind of co-productions and stuff inspiring Italy to go off on their own and make their giallis and the Westerns and all that kind of stuff that we absolutely love.
So, it all stems back from this, you know, and I found that incredibly interesting. I did not know that. But, Old Shatterhand, the story is yes, pretty it's a pretty big epic actually here. And the first thing that I noticed when this popped in and I was like, I should watch this in English, German?
Why don't you should watch it in English probably if you're English speaking because everybody's dubbed in English.
Same kind of deal with the you know, Italian films. But, I was taken back at how beautiful this was shot. It was shot in Yugoslavia to make it look like the Old West.
Amazing um cinematography, amazing camera work, beautiful wide screen, tons and tons of horses. It's It's in that kind of scope in the technical stuff, it is 100% feels like a a classic amazing Western like a John Ford or something like that, right?
I was just amazed by that kind of that thing when it popped in and I while it was you know, with that the cinematography and how beautiful and everything looked. It took me back, you know, it was a sprawling big movie and I didn't really expect that, you know, compared to you know, if you look at Spain or Italy's Westerns, you know, some of them were down and dirty and cheap until Sergio Leone got more money.
But, Leone actually had worked with these kind of people and stuff, so that's where he got the idea to do this.
Earlier on, he had worked in on these kind of movies, these German Western kind of deals, co-productions and realized it, you know, why don't we do our own kind of deal. So, this movie follows uh Old Shatterhand and it is kind of like a sequel. Him and Winnetou are friends, they part ways, and what happens is, you know, they have this peace treaty coming up against the with the Yankee soldiers and I believe it's the Apache that Winnetou is part of. And there's a group of villains that are out there and they're led by kind of a mysterious guy, we don't know who it is.
And what they want to do is create a war against the Yankee soldiers and the Apache Native Americans so they can come in and scoop up the Apache land if they make them a villain. So, we got a a group of villains and baddies like that. Of course, Lex Barker's Old Shatterhand and Winnetou are going to try to stop it.
They fail a lot of times. In fact, we have a scene that's very reminiscent of Once Upon a Time in the West even in here. We also kind of introduce this, I think a half Native American kind of woman that becomes this this kind of a very popular character.
Um, which has a shocking scene of nudity which actually isn't her in this movie, which kind of took me back in the being like '64 in a western, that seems pretty wholesome besides that. Um, and I guess this one's a little bit more violent according to David Kalat than the previous efforts. I've not seen those unfortunately by Rialto. So, this is kind of an eye-opening kind of experience to me watching this movie.
But, so so what happens is, of course, they're fighting the bad guys trying to figure it out while Native Americans are getting killed and their bodies are planted and all that kind of stuff like that. And this movie actually does end in this big kind of sprawling battle, you know, the heroes really don't necessarily come to the rescue. And we have this giant kind of awesome fort, all this kind of stuff like that. It's a classic western, it's it's big, it's entertaining, it's got a lot of characters, it's got a couple side characters that are pretty funny including one of which is a guy who is scalped. A lot of these characters pop up in the next film, some of them actors pop up in the next film as different characters. But, as far as the features are concerned on the first film Old Shatterhand, like I said, we have an amazing commentary by David Kalat. Um, we have new introductions to each film by Sir Christopher Frayling, author of Spaghetti Westerns, Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone.
New audio commentaries by Old Surehand and the Treasure of the Oh, that's a different one here.
>> [snorts] >> But yeah, this this is actually just called Old Surehand, but I think that title is the Treasure of the Aztecs. I'm not sure which I haven't dived into this set here. I only thought we had two Surehand movies, but we might have more on here. But then we have archival making of old documentary of Old Surehand Winnetou and Shatterhand in the Valley of Death. What an incredibly great-looking Western with a lot of information that I would recommend and also directed by Harald Reinl who did a lot of the Krimis and stuff like that.
So a very known German director. Yeah, good stuff.
Kind of a kind of a definitely eye-opening kind of experience watching this one. Okay, the next in the box set here in the same disc is Old Surehand or Winnetou and Shatterhand in the Valley of Death. This one came I think four years was it two four years later than that one and they originally had rushed the first film into production because they didn't want to strike while the iron was hot and this one I think was the last one that CCC did with both the original actors because they were kind of fighting over you know the actor who played Winnetou the French guy. They couldn't really get him. So a lot of things were confusing and Lex Barker was very loyal to CCC because they got him his start. He was just kind of an American actor that didn't really get these big roles until this kind of stuff here. So the sequel I enjoyed actually a little bit more. I don't think it's a better movie or anything like that. It's just very much you know you know slimmed down and I guess this is more in the aspect of the first kind of Surehand film, but it's a it's a very simple kind of story here. We have this I think he's a colonel in the Yankee army and he knows where this gold is. He ends up dying and he he tells I think it's Winnetou where the gold is buried where it's hidden and stuff like that. He's not stealing it, but he just doesn't want anything bad to happen to it and basically the guy's daughter is brought in the court and she's trying to clear his name because everybody thinks he's a shiesty piece of crap now possibly stole the gold. So Old Shatterhand and Winnetou are going to kind of try to, you know, clear his name and help this woman travel at the same uh woman from the uh previous film as far as I can tell. Maybe I'm wrong on that. That'd be horrible. But uh they're going to travel across country and kind of figure out where this is and they're going to run into these bandits that are trying to find the gold for themselves.
Of course, evil bandits, a whole slew of them, probably 30 guys or some memorable character actors in there. And then we're also going to run into this uh kind of more aggressive Native American kind of group. I think it's Comanches and uh the leader of that is like Red Bull and he's this big burly like bodybuilding guy. Uh I think he's a Russian guy bodybuilding or Eastern European guy bodybuilding kind of guy that used to look like a Native American. So his look is pretty odd, you know. Usually we see a lot of like Italians or Spanish people dressed up as Native Americans and you know, but uh this one we have this this kind of big bulky kind of, you know, um uh a kind of guy like uh as the Native American. We have a fight scene, of course, between Winnetou. And the whole movie kind of boils down to like greed is bad, but the sets are fun. Um they run across all sorts of different kind of adventure kind of scenarios where they have to fight. They come across snakes and things of that nature.
There's some animal cruelty, obviously, in here. It's not like it's obvious that something bad's horrible's happening to the animals, but you could tell definitely something did not happen. You know, I'm sure there were some casualties in here. Um I I just like this one because it's more straightforward. There's some stupid stuff. I I think like both movies kind of have some silly stuff that just kind of fit the mold. Um and there's something kind of missing, I think, between the American Western. I think maybe the revisionist Western came out and kind of changed people's attitudes a lot about Western. So when like you watch, you know, kind of the ones that aren't even American movies like, you know, where the good guy, the white hat, the black hat. You see these kind of German movies and they have this kind of silly kind of like lighthearted quality to them. But then again, they're not exactly your traditional straightforward Western either because we have the Native American characters which are portrayed usually as heroic or or as victims in these movies. So that's not necessarily what you'd see in your everyday movie either. And you know, 1970 we'd have Soldier Blue in America so it's like completely different, but this is in the '60s as well. So, I mean the original Westerns are probably even, you know, '50s and stuff and predate the '50s and before, but this does seem to have this kind of cheesy happy-go-lucky kind of quality there where at one point the Native Americans say, "Well, if you beat me, we'll let all these people go."
Even though half of them are bad villains that they're going to going to track down and try to kill them later.
So, it's like, "You can keep these guys.
Keep these guys cuz you're just saving me from killing them later." But, uh memorable bad guys, uh good good cast in here as well. Pretty much a lot of the same cast. Just an hour, it's 90 minutes, so it goes by much quicker. I think it's just better paced. Um I enjoyed both films. I thought they were really interesting and I really liked the commentary by David Kalat. We'll check out the second disc on next week.
Okay, we're starting another box set here and this one's from Severin Films and this is the Worlds of Lucile Hadzihalilovic.
Sorry, I know I mispronounced that. It's very hard word here. Nice box set. I love how they do their box set designs here. We're going to start with their first film in the box set here and I have heard a lot about this director. Um I know that Elric Kane is a does a podcast, Pure Cinema Podcast. I listen to that a lot and he's always been a champion of this director's work and I've always been wanting to check it out and this one is probably I think his favorite. Um this is his this director's first film here and this is from 2004.
This is Innocence. And this is actually based on a novel as well. That seems to be the kind of theme this week, right?
Based on a novel. Um but um this actually had another adaptation that came out a year later which a lot of people the special features don't think is as successful. It's a tongue twister for me here. But, [snorts] uh yeah, so this one uh it opens up and I had no idea what to expect. I I noticed it was kind of dark almost immediately. We have this uh and I mean visually and just the kind of theme and all of that. It's definitely a coming of age story that kind of focuses on a group of girls and there's a lot of mystery to be had where nothing is really explained and you kind of can start piecing it together. And by the time you get to the very end, you think you have it figured out, but maybe you really don't or maybe it's something a little bit different. But, uh nonetheless, I thought the performances were great. I thought the visuals were great, and I felt uncomfortable throughout the whole damn thing, which I should in a lot of aspects. There's like beautiful scenes in the film when characters connect, but the movie opens up where um I one of our lead characters, we kind of follow a few characters here, is a 6-year-old girl, and she opens up all these uh out of a coffin. And she's delivered in this coffin, and all these other girls are sitting around here, and they all introduce themselves, and um they all have different pigtails or ribbons in their hair. We have, of course, the the young girl is given red, and then we have orange, we have yellow, green, blue, and velvet. And we're kind of seeing these are kind of a a system, a tier system here, where each of these people has learned more, and they're all told that they're going to be here forever. You're no never leaving here.
And as they progress, they move up in tiers and of that nature. And each day they have to go learn, you know, ballet.
And uh as it goes on, more and more kind of layers, I guess, are revealed, and you start to figure out that almost immediately at this day and age, I thought, is this some sort of Epstein kind of uh you know, grooming area with these young girls and these kind of you know, characters within. And the women that run it obviously seem to be tortured as well. Um and uh seem to have a difficult time with it.
But as it goes on, we kind of transfer between these kind of young characters.
We have the young girl who befriends like the oldest girl, and the oldest girl's kind of taking care of her within her house. We have multiple houses with the multiple ribbons, right? Five, I think. Like I said, six girls in each house and five houses. So, like 30 different characters, although we might mostly focus on the one house. But we have all these different characters, one of which who wants to strive to be the best at the ballet, one of which who's older and kind of moving forth into the next layer. And then we have this young girl who's kind of learning the ropes of it. So, we kind of learn a little bit of every aspect of their journey through this kind of thing and start to piece it together what we think it's going to be until it kind of ends on this note, right? And I don't know if it ends as dark as you would think, but it definitely they water was such an important factor in for some of the characters and we kind of end in water as well. So, it's definitely something to look forward to and look into. Um maybe not, maybe maybe so, but I I thought it was a really well done movie. I thought the acting was fantastic. I thought the mystery angle was great. I thought everything about it was interesting, creepy. I mean, anything, you know, the ballet dancing at a all girls school immediately takes me back to the movies like The House That Screamed or you know, Suspiria or all the other classic kind of a phenomenon. Any of the art schools where it's like a bunch of kids that go there and they're kind of trapped or isolated.
Definitely reminds me of that kind of style kind of deal. But I thought this was a great film. Really interesting film. I'm sure that tons of people could dig deeper into here and pull all these different things out and some of them do in the features. We have introduction by Lucille, the director. I don't want to mispronounce her name again. We have two shorts by her.
The Natura, which is about two girls kind of sitting in nature. It's relatively short. Good to look at, but I'm not sure, you know, what's going on necessarily. But then we have Nectar, which is a bizarre one that's about 18 minutes long following this kind of queen bee woman kind of thing. And I thought that was pretty cool. I thought that idea that it's kind of comparing, you know, the hive nest to bee, the colony, the worker bees to society was really nice. Innocence explained by actress Zoey Clark.
Clockwork Dolls Ritual Time and Innocence Visual Essay.
And then that the visual essay was good as well. 2025 IFC Center Q&A with Lucille, which was pretty hard to hear for me because, you know, that the audio is never great in these Q&A's. So, that it wasn't amazing to hear. But overall, I thought this is a great start to this set.
It also includes, of course, Evolution, Earwig, and The Ice Tower, which I think is her entire filmography.
But yeah, very interesting stuff here.
Love the Severin box sets. Definitely will dive into another one of these next week. Looking forward to it.
And I always feel like I'm learning something. That's always a good thing, you know. The day you stop learning is the day you die, right? Is that what they say? Okay, I'm going to be kind of brief with this one cuz I don't really want to spoil it, but it's pretty much the most popular movie I think right now in theaters. By the time it comes out, maybe it won't be. But that is Obsession. Yes. So, I went and saw Obsession. I haven't seen a horror movie in theaters or any movie really in theaters in a while. I had a couple movies I really didn't care for back-to-back-to-back. It kind of soured me a little bit. I know I shouldn't be like that. Movie theater's right down the street. So, my friends want to go see Obsession. I said, yes, I heard good things about it. Believe it's the same filmmakers who did Mel and Shera, YouTuber. Maybe I'm mistaken, but I know they definitely are a YouTuber. That seems to be the kind of thing going on here. And they're delivering a lot of cool movies. I enjoyed the Smile movies, also from a YouTuber. I heard Iron Lung was interesting enough. So, we have a lot of that kind of going on here. So, Obsession. This is you know, I don't want to say standard at all because there's not really anything too standard about this movie at all. But it reminds me a bit of It Follows. It reminds me a bit of Talk to Me and things of that nature kind of dealing. Of course, the Monkey's Paw story, right? Monkey's Paw story. People are like, it's just a Monkey's Paw. Guys, there's only like 10 [ __ ] stories to tell. And it's how you do it and how you tell it would make it interesting really at this point, right? But so, it is kind of a Monkey's Paw story. We kind of introduce I guess I'd say we have kind of like four major characters here. And that's kind of where you're like, if you really focus on it, you're like, I guess the budget shows in that it's such a minimal cast and kind of minimal locations. But it never feels low budget. It never feels cheap. It really feels like a a great kind of bigger movie. one of these movies where everything is pretty damn serious and pretty damn grounded. Of course, people say funny things or silly things in dialogue or absurd things happen and they seem to be funny because how in this situation it would be from an outsider, but it's really twisted and [ __ ] up all at the same time. It's like that nervous laughter kind of deal here. But it seems to be a pretty grounded world except one kind of odd thing in it, which I always kind of can latch on to because everyone's acting like this is absurd and it should be absurd. So, we have this young guy.
They're I'd say they're early 20s or something like that. Maybe college-bound kind of kids. They all work in a uh you know a music store and I think one of the girls' dads is actually played by Andy Richter. Didn't even recognize Andy Richter in this one. But so they all work there, which is crazy cuz I was like, is this modern times?
Because there's no way that you'd employ four kids working in a music store and they'd all be working at the same shifts. There's just no can't sustain that. I don't even know if music stores even [ __ ] exist like this anymore. Guitar Center and [ __ ] like that. But so we kind of have these four main characters, and one of which is kind of infatuated with one of the girls that works there. They're friends. They all are quartet of friends. They go out. But one of the guys really likes this girl.
He's incredibly nervous. In the first like 15, 20 minutes you're like, dude, stop. You're so It's so aggravating, right? But but but like you have that young mentality, right? Where you're just so scared of to ask somebody or whatnot.
But we kind of learn who these characters are and all that kind of stuff like that. And one day he ends up kind of wanting to confess to her and he can't do it. But he ended up stopping at this kind of I guess you'd say like a cult kind of novelty tea shop. At first you think it's a kind of a novelty shop, but a cult store. And he sees these kind of make-a-wish things, which I guess have some buzz on there, some popularity. He looked up you know online and a lot of people say it actually works. It's [ __ ] It works. It works. So he takes one of these make-a-wish things and he's going to give it to her. But you know, he can't I don't want to spoil this too much, but he ends up It's right in the trailer. He ends up making a wish about somebody loving you. And And he the whole story is be careful what you wish for. So saying that, that's kind of the setup to the movie.
Without spoiling it, I'll talk about it.
I loved the movie. I thought it was fantastic. I thought there was really genuinely scary moments. I thought it was genuinely upsetting, genuinely unsettling as well.
I thought that they used makeup and I think they might use digital effects in some of the people's faces to make them seem I don't want to spoil everything, but really uncanny and unpleasant. And there's moments where like something will kind of like the facade will fall through and actually you'll see the real horror. And that absolutely horrified me. That's what I'm talking about the talk to me kind of idea right there. And uh know, it also reminded me of Smile.
Smile talked to me It Follows in kind of a weird way. And I liked all those movies, but um I like this better than It Follows, I think. And I like this better than Smile. And I think I like this better about the same as Talk to Me. So, like I have all these kind of issues with it like that. I mean, like comparisons. But, um I think the acting's great. I think that it just gets more and more tragic and twisted as it goes on. And I absolutely loved how it ended. And um so, I I just want to say that everybody in the movie's fantastic. And particularly the two leads and And this character is not necessarily a likable person. He's selfish in a lot of aspects, but he starts digging himself deeper and deeper. And you're like, "What would I do here? I'd do that." And then he's like, "That's what he tries to do." And you're like, "Fuck." And [ __ ] I always love when a character is like, "That's what I would do." Like I'm like, "I would do that." And the character says verbatim what I said in my head. And I was like, "Oh, shit." And then, you know, not necessarily kind of go through anything else. But, um without spoilers, I think it's fantastic. I think it's great. Good sound design. Uh creepy moments. Um now, we're going to go into spoilers here.
There is a So, basically uh highly recommended. But, there's a character there's the character becomes um he wishes for the person to love them. And And something happens, you know, where they're obviously not exactly themselves. Just In fact, he calls the uh customer service customer service line. Sorry about that.
My camera's acting really weird. So, we might have a little bump here. He calls the customer service line at one point during the movie. And um they say, uh "Just because uh this isn't uh just because you wished it for, it doesn't make it any less real." Which is such a twisted line within the movie.
But, uh overall, I just absolutely love this movie because those breaks in reality are as some of the most terrifying things. Highly recommend Obsession. Um I don't want to go too deep into it, but great stuff. Really original uh story. Uh original take on a story we've seen before, which is probably every original movie ever. But, check it out. Good stuff. Okay, I wanted to dive into this one before I covered the one from 1983. And this is a huge blind spot for me and I would love to go in depth on this one, but I I definitely will when I cover it for 1972 if I ever live that long. But this is the Legend of Boggy Creek by Charles B. Pierce. And I've seen Charles B. Pierce movies. I've seen The Town That Dreaded Sundown, The Evictors, and I enjoy his work. He wrote for Sudden Death. He wrote Sudden Death the screenplay, the Clint Eastwood 1983 30 Harry movie. So I'm familiar with Charles B. Pierce's work, a regional filmmaker, made good stuff, interesting guy. But the Legend of Boggy Creek was pretty much one of the most infamous, you know, kind of docu kind of horror movies ever made because the I guess the concept, the way it was done was very original. It's It's very different, you know, and I I say like stuff like Blair Witch and Cannibal Holocaust were definitely kind of a little bit like it.
So you know, we have like the I'm trying to think of Yeti and abominable snowman Sasquatch movies before this. We have the of course the Hammer movie from 1956 54 with Peter Cushing. But we have one that came out 1970 John Carradine and one of the Mitchum's kids, Bigfoot. And I guess according I was talking to like a relative and they said with after that movie came out there's Bigfoot fanatics, you know. When was the that one tape where we have the discovered? But regardless, so we have this huge infatuation with Bigfoot. And one of the biggest ones here is, you know, this Legend of Boggy Creek. I think this is probably the most infamous Bigfoot movie, right? 72. And this one it's got that it's PG, but it scared more people than most R-rated movies because it has that weird kind of semi field docu field docu field to it. So it opens up and we have like, you know, the kind of the slop and all these animals. You're like watching the prey again for a second from 82 83. But yeah, it has all these like vision these animal clippings and it's talking about this kind of the the Foult the Foult monster. And it kind of goes into these reenactments of these people kind of, you know, talking about them running into this kind of this creature, this Sasquatch or what if you will, this monster out here and and what not.
And they kind of do these reenactments, not real actors, which made adds and a sense of realism to it. And uh some of the moments are actually genuinely creepy and and different and weird. And we have these kind of strange kind of music within there that becomes goofy, but at the same time very fitting for a kind of regional uh film of the time. Um I I think that, you know, Charles B.
Pierce was definitely uh if you watch the town that was written at sundown, it definitely has these odd scenes of comedy. And I think Legend of Boggy Creek has it as well. Um I I enjoy both films. I think they're definitely comparable. This one definitely feels a little bit more rougher on the edges for the sole fact that it doesn't have any names in it like a Ben Johnson or something like that. It definitely feels 100% regional and has that semi-docu feel. It looks a lot better than uh the reason I never watched Boggy Creek, to be brutally honest, is because they were all public domain shitty releases, unwatchable-looking releases, until they put this out on Blu-ray and 4K. I have the Blu-ray here. And uh >> [snorts] >> I real I rewatched it and I was like, "Man, this thing I mean watched it for the first [ __ ] time." And I was like, "Yeah, this thing holds up. It's It's pretty good stuff." And I always knew it would, but it took me 4 years to finally watch this. When was this Blu-ray released? Right, like 10 years ago. And I finally got around to it. But uh yeah, it looks pretty damn good. Rated G. This might be the scariest rated G movie ever. I don't freaking know. And I don't want to go in super in-depth because to be honest, it's it's something that you talk about and experience, but it's not something that I have all that much to say about. But I would recommend The Legend of Boggy Creek. I might talk a little bit, probably even less about the next one I'm going to talk about from 1983, but hey.
Uh let's get into those 1983 movies.
>> I have returned.
>> [music] >> Okay.
Show me.
>> Where is the music now?
>> The sound of laughter.
>> [laughter] [music] >> THERE WAS NEVER LAUGHTER.
>> [screaming] >> WHAT WAS IT LIKE?
>> What what like?
>> Screwing a psycho.
>> What the [ __ ] was that?
>> Let's go.
>> Guy blows dead dogs. Just lay it in there.
>> Eat [ __ ] and die, Ricky.
>> Eat [ __ ] and live, Bill.
>> Yeah, Billy. It's a little wet.
>> 31 32 >> 32 You ever hear of a man's pride? Loved by many women.
You might still [music] learn to swim.
32 going gone.
>> The kid was cut in half, all right? They had to scrape [music] his legs up with a shovel.
>> Well, isn't that what we're supposed to do with [ __ ] Scrape it up with a little shovel.
>> One final moment of revenge.
>> Wondering what's real.
All of it is real.
>> You You want to see something really scary? [music] >> You bet.
>> Really?
>> Yeah.
>> [screaming] >> Get the video, JOHN. LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH.
>> I HAVE NO CHOICE but to kill the son of a [ __ ] >> I have lived my entire life in a state of fear.
It is all I have ever known.
Fear?
>> Are you ready?
>> Okay, go ahead.
>> What are you doing?
>> [screaming] [groaning] >> Okay, the first one is from Vinegar Syndrome VSA and archive here. Boggy Creek 2 and the legend continues. This is one that has weird like sometimes it's listed as '84, '85, but I think it was '83. Well, that's what we're going with Internet Movie Database. This is a VSA number 35 VSA and 355 out of 4,000. So, Charles B.
Pierce again directs this one. He stars in this one and this isn't this isn't as good as the original. Anyone say that. I think there was another kind of weird sequel, The Return of Boggy Creek Return to Boggy Creek, which I don't think is necessarily a beloved movie either. So, this is an oddball movie here. Charles B. Pierce definitely didn't want to you know make a movie just to cash in. He didn't want to sell the rights according to the commentary, which is a fantastic commentary.
Actually, my favorite part was listening to the commentary here.
Brand new commentary track with cryptid cryptozoology author David Coleman and I expected him to just talk about Sasquatch and Bigfoot and the Fouke Monster and stuff like that. But, he goes into the [ __ ] career of Charles B. Pierce and I was like that is very very good stuff here and talks about his history and talks about his reasoning for wanting to make this movie and not wanting to make it earlier and things of that nature. This one it really doesn't work to be honest. It's not a great movie. It's kind of boring. It's kind of tedious. I don't even know if you'd call it a horror film. The first one has a little bit more horror aspects to it, creepy moments. But, this one it's kind of boring. We have Charles B. Pierce playing kind of this professor that kind of what it takes a couple students out with him and he's like, "Well, we're going figure this out, right?" And he goes to the same like a small town, the Fouke town, interacting with the locals.
They all laugh at him and everything like that. But he does run into a couple people that tell him the story again.
The monster's more in the forefront.
It's not really as hidden as it was in the previous ones. We even have a little monster here, which makes it even more kind of comedic, right? Whereas this sheriff tells the story like, "Yeah, the monster jumped on my back trying to get my hamburgers." And you're like, "This is [ __ ] kind of stupid, guys." Um but it's not too different from the original. It just doesn't work nearly as much. Maybe the time has passed and maybe it's just less eventful, less film, you know, more polished, I guess, if you'd say. But another aspect that I don't love about this movie is that, you know, like the first like half an hour, 40 minutes, um the most exciting thing is that they run into like this kind of like crazy wild dog.
And you're just like, "This is so boring and so tedious." And characters aren't exactly, you know, amazing. I think that uh Charles B. Pierce is okay. He's fine.
But uh you know, the end kind of re- ends up but they run into this kind of guy in the middle of the woods and everything, the middle of the kind of the swamp and everything of that nature.
And he's kind of harboring the monster, the the kid. He accidentally injured it.
And you know, that's pretty much the climax. They, you know, the of course the Fouke monster wants its kid and that's that's pretty much it. The guy who plays the old man is kind of a interesting character actor. But besides that, uh the Boggy Creek II: The Legend Continues is not really worthwhile. It's not really worth your time. It looks great on Blu-ray. Um and it's a little cute, the little Sasquatch. I don't even know if it's technically a Sasquatch. I know the cryptozoologists are like, "He's not a Sasquatch. He's actually a grass man, American grass man." I'm like, "I don't give a [ __ ] all right?
It's not real."
Uh I know he's always getting pissed off.
But [laughter] it's like, whatever. Uh but we have the Sasquatch. A little baby Sasquatch. [ __ ] hilarious. Uh reminds me of like a Savannah Smiles cover art or something like that with Sasquatches. But regardless, uh Boggy Creek II: The Legend Continues is not a fantastic movie, but well worth watching to to check off a Charles B. Pierce movie made in '83. Uh not as good as any of his other movies that I have seen, but uh hey, it's definitely an interesting kind of piece coming out in '83, way too late for it. Uh and the original movie did so damn well, made so much money, cultural kind of you know, iconic film there. But this one, not so much. Boy, re-watching this sucker, what a [ __ ] winner here. Uh 1983 can exploitation flick, self-defense aka Siege. Now, this has two cuts on there, the original theatrical cut and then an extended Japanese cut that has like 10-15 minutes added for the home release of them. Has both cuts on there. Uh I've seen both cuts and theatrical cut's the way to go. The other stuff is not needed. It's not horrible, but hey, boom. So, Siege. I love Siege movies um and this is definitely a survival kind of style movie. I don't know if I'd call this, you know, a horror film, but I think it's enough horror adjacent to be interesting and it definitely has like it it's filmed like a horror film at many times and it's scary as [ __ ] and I think it's adjacent. I think it's a perfect movie to talk about. But uh yeah, so this is going to be one of these things where I don't want to sound like an idiot. I talked about this movie before and the director himself in the commentary, it's with him and Jason Eisener, famous Canadian director who did Hobo with a Shotgun and Dark Side of the Ring and that nature. Um but he talks about it, you know, he's like, "I really wasn't trying to say anything. I was just trying to make a kind of entertaining movie, kind of an exploitation kind of piece. Action movies were big at the time and that's what they they kind of they kind of wanted. So, I was just filling the kind of quota for the movie." But uh he wanted to tell truth within the story and he certainly does tell truth. So, essentially this is based on like a true kind of [snorts] you know, all the cops went on picket, you know, they went What What the hell am I strike. All the cops went on strike and was it Nova Scotia?
Can't remember 100%. But we have like news footage of that and whatnot. But all the cops go on strike, so there's this group of kind of like right-wing extremists that you know, are going to go out. The main guy, the kind of heroic type of guy is kind of an anarchist, if you will. He lives in kind of a run-down apartment with I don't know if his girlfriend lives there as well, but he's he's got a roommate kind of in a duplex kind of area. And basically in his free time he spends like helping these kind of couple blind guys. I don't know if it's like a big brother type situation.
One of which is played by one of my favorite kind of character actors, Keith Knight, who pops up in Class of 1984 as Barnyard. He also plays uh in night class and and my Bloody Valentine is the best character in that one. Just a Meatballs, just a really fun actor on No an Origin. I believe he's in that one as well if I'm not mistaken.
Um but uh maybe I'm wrong in that. But anyways, um yeah, he's a great actor and here just small little role here. And he takes care of these kind of blind guys, kind of does a whole like uh you know, helps them out and whatnot. But uh there's these group of right-wing kind of fanatics and they decide to kind of go to like all the bars or Everything's supposed to be closed down because there's no police officers. We kind of think RoboCop, right? Remember when they kind of Cops don't go on strike. But um this is based on true incident. They kind of these right-wing kind of guys uh complete buffoons. Like they introduce him and the lead guy is just this annoying guy. He looks like Shelley kind of from Friday 13th Part 3. Um I believe the actor went on to do Defcon 4. He was in that one and the same director actually. Defcon 4, it's been a long time since I watched that one, but I remember him being particularly obnoxious in that one, too. Does a really good job at that role. Um but he I don't know what the character's name but he's just an absolute piece of [ __ ] and he gets his buddies together. Um and you have like these kind of distinctive looks and distinctive personalities. You have like that kind of aggressive douchebag guy, you have a heavy guy in Rosie, you have kind of a wimpy guy, and then you have a quiet kind of silent kind of type guy, and then you also have a another kind of like enforcer kind of guy um who actually plays a cop in in the Mouth of Madness, the one who was like with the the demon face and kind of that the scene where he's beating the guy in the alley. So, like you have this group of kind of goons and they end up going to this gay bar and they're just trying to rough them up and scare them.
But of course somebody dies and they have to call in their kind of enforcer, the guy who's in charge of this right-wing kind of militia. And he decides to kill everyone. One of the gay guys ends up escaping and he ends up running and getting into the apartment duplex with these these couple guys and these people hanging out. And it becomes a siege, right? They want this guy kind of Straw Dogs, right? Give him this Give us you know David Warner and that kind of deal, and he has to defend this house, defend this guy, and they end up fighting back against these kind of I guess you'd say like semi-militia-style guys that have access to way stronger guns, and they have basically putting together this small kind of you know Anarchist Cookbook of [ __ ] [ __ ] to fight back with, which is incredibly entertaining movie here. I like the lead guy. I think the bad guys are memorable and gross, and I think that when the action and the violence happens, it happens pretty quick and and realistic too in the point, you know, when there's going to be like this kind of violent outburst, you know, expect to be drawn out, and it's just like when it actually hits, it happens relatively quick, and I like that. I think this is a great movie. I think that there's a lot of truth to it. I think I'm going to say this like this movie really predicted future The The truth is we don't all change all that much. There's always going to be these people that hate this group of people or hate that group of people that are going to go overboard and do something absolutely [ __ ] ridiculous, no matter where you are in life and whatnot.
And that's definitely just shown here in the truth factor. Like the director said, "I'm not out there trying to prove a point or anything. I just want to show some truth to the matter, and here's what it is." You know, there's a group of you know you know far-right kind of guys that go out and try to kill you know these homosexual people in a bar, not necessarily kill them, but rough them up, and something goes wrong, and they have no choice. They do have a choice. I mean they're going to do it, but to to eliminate everybody in a really crazy disturbing manner. And I feel like the action in this like it's not The movie's not like so super dark and bleak, but it's it's damn serious. And I feel like the only way to put the tone in and this is going to be a weird I feel like it The tone of Terminator kind of like just very very serious, but not completely like um devoid of any humanity. It's I don't know how to say this. Like it's serious, but it's not you know there's there's humor within the dialogue or within the characters slightly, but it's not a comedy. There's no comedy in the movie to be had. I feel like the tone is closest to Terminator, and I don't know I I That's what I feel. Love the movie, looks good, sounds good, I highly recommend it if you like action or siege movies. I know that this this one's probably got some love, but this is one of my favorite non-horror movies from 1983. I I think that a lot of people will enjoy this one. Highly recommended Siege, great stuff, self-defense. Going to be relatively quick with these next couple 1983 ones. The first one up is a Brazilian flick, a TV flick. Looks definitely shot on video as most things for TV were at the time. So, this is The Monkey's Paw. This is a rendition of The Monkey's Paw for Brazilian TV. It's like a 80-minute kind of deal here. And this one starts off pretty quick. I think that ends is pretty fast-paced, but The Monkey's Paw story to me I could be told in like 30 minutes. So, you know, it starts off quick, but then you're like, "Okay, let's wrap this up. We know The Monkey's Paw story. It's It's relatively quick story, especially if you see the 1972 Tales from the Crypt.
They do it in like 20 minutes."
Okay, we can get this done in 20 minutes.
The story's been done a million times, but what happens is we have this family that's really down on their luck. We have It's a family of four. This father, he's out of work, and the wife, obviously, she can't She doesn't work either. So, they're just like very poor.
We have an older son who's the only one working as like kind of a you know, a mechanic, a plane mechanic, and a young young daughter. So, we have these good moments where like he he shows his weakness. He shows that he's embarrassed. He's like, "I'm embarrassed that I'm getting old. I'm embarrassed that I can't provide for the family."
And like this is touching, nice character development stuff. They move in and we kind of see where they are at in life. We have one son working providing for everything. The whole The area's run down.
The apartment's run down, and their neighbors these two old people that are definitely creepy, definitely weird.
They kind of give you like Pet Sematary kind of vibes, although you know, Jud Jud wasn't necessarily a bad guy. He's just kind of like possessed to do it.
But you get this idea that it's like, "These people are up to no good. They live right by a cemetery. No one would want to live by a cemetery." So, it's creepy, of course, and they're going to start pushing this kind of Monkey's Paw idea on them. And it is a little stretched out. We have a little bit more characters and stuff like that. I don't know how fast-paced the original story is. I'm sure it's probably more in line with something like this. But of course, you know, the story is you know, they wish for something and something tragic happens, and then they're going to wish for some reversal and whatnot, and and try to make it come back. Um it's not an overly graphic movie, but there was a couple moments of blood splatter where you're like, "Oh, that's a little little bit there here and there." Overall, it's fine. It's completely fine. It's completely serviceable TV version of a Monkey's Paw. I think this probably, you know, scarred a lot of kids in Brazil when it or when on TV. Um but yeah, it it's the story we've all known and seen, and I like that it takes place kind of in this Brazilian kind of ghetto area. I think that adds like a nice backdrop to it. Overall decent. Nothing amazing, nothing horrible. Again, I used uh the subtitles that YouTube created for it, and they weren't too bad. I think it was pretty close to what it was saying, but overall decent. Okay, the next one is a 30-minute short directed by Robert Harmon, who would go on to direct The Hitcher from 1986. This is 1983, of course. This is China Lake. This movie would actually be redone as a feature-length in 1990 with none of the same cast from my understanding. So, Charles Napier, great character actor from the Russ Meyer stuff, Silence of the Lambs, uh Deep Space, tons of movies, good actor. Charles Napier plays this cop in this one. It also has uh some familiar faces in William Sanderson and Mickey Jones. So, good character actors in here. Um as you if you're making a short film, you know, it's always good to cast character actors in leading roles and big roles, but in the very opening of this movie, we have this like whole this uh police kind of read off, "Hey, you're stationed here. You're stationed there." Going over all these cops, and then we kind of realize one of the seats is missing. So, we establish this guy's a cop, and oh no, he's he's got a vacation day in, and he's kind of driving around this kind of China Lake desert area in California. And uh we see him kind of pull over somebody, right?
Charles Napier is a perfect cop. Uh he pulls over somebody, and we have this really kind of demented, twisted scene of this this cop who's just completely unfuckinghinged. Um this predates Maniac Cop. It predates Psycho Cop. Yeah. But uh yeah, it definitely has that kind of vibe with the big aviators and desert and stuff. And his his idea how to kill people is just a twisted, really demented way. Um but I don't want to spoil absolutely everything about it, but we kind of see him go to the diner and he's just like kind of just this straight-up sociopath lie about things and fascinate if I mean have these fantastical kind of ideas where he's like assaulting people within the the cafe, but then it all kind of ends with him actually carrying out another kind of crime. I don't want to spoil anything, but it's relatively short.
It's effective. I think it's well done.
I think that you can definitely see some hitcher in here. Hitcher's a great movie. This one's pretty damn good short movie. I enjoyed it a lot, China Lake, and the cast really makes it go a long way. But yeah, good stuff. Check this short out. Okay, the Patreon pick here is Never So Few and this is by legendary director John Sturges who of course did The Great Escape which I absolutely love. And yeah, so this one has a great cast right away. Well, I was like, "Oh, this one sounds really interesting." I know somebody picked it probably because for me because the cast John Sturges, like I said, classic director here. We have Frank Sinatra starring and I believe this is a '50s or is it is it '60s? It might be '60s, but regardless we got Frank Sinatra. I was like, "Okay, you know, I've seen him Sinatra pop up in a couple movies here and there."
Mostly his later stuff, you know, that's probably not as popular. Sinatra, of course, famous singer became actor tons of stuff icon. We have Richard Johnson in here which I absolutely love seeing in a big role here. Richard Johnson from The Haunting and Zombie and a million other movies. We have Charles Bronson in here. You know, Bronson worked with Sturges before The Great Escape and I God, did Sturges do Magnificent Seven? I I want to say he absolutely did Magnificent Seven, but I don't want to sound like a [ __ ] idiot. But I should have I I I feel like relying on my memory is not always the best to do anymore, but I'll make Magnificent Seven also a great film, but so so we have Charles Bronson who worked in Magnificent Seven and in The Great Escape and he was obviously a bit actor, not a bit actor, always part of a ensemble cast before he had his big break in like Europe making movies and then he was a blew up with Death Wish and internationally and you know, he became this big icon that he is rightfully so. But you know, he was always kind of an an assembly piece or playing kind of characters like part Native American and stuff like that. As is this one, too. This is a World War movie here, which is odd because, you know, it's not the you know, fighting the Nazi Germans the Germans it's not fighting post, you know, the Germans and everything like that.
Post D-Day stuff where we are island hopping. It's it's early in the war fighting against the Japanese and stuff like that. Paired up with the I believe the Filipino Filipinos and stuff of that nature. So, like we have this like kind of a little bit of you know, tension between some of the soldiers being, you know, Filipino and the Americans and everything like that. Like Bronson actually plays kind of a racist character. He's a Native American part Native American, but he doesn't like, you know, dealing with the the Nips as he calls them, obviously a racial slur there. But, we also have Steve McQueen who worked with Bronson in The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, and The Dirty Dozen. So, yeah, another great actor in there. And we have Am I missing anyone? A couple other familiar faces. Brian Donlevy who I love seeing from The Quatermass films. So, to me the cast was really the the kind of driving force in this movie. Tons of people that I really enjoyed all being under the same kind of roof and everything like that. And again, named director here.
Overall, I thought this movie was decent. I thought the war stuff was entertaining. I thought that they had the camaraderie between some of the soldiers and back and forth I thought was good. I like Richard Johnson and Frank Sinatra's back and forth.
Johnson's great in this one. I think Johnson probably steals the movie. He's mostly kind of a centric British character, you know, British soldier deal here. But, yeah, I I think Sinatra's decent. I mean, Sinatra is not the best actor in the world, but he's got charisma, of course, and he's always worth watching.
But, this movie does kind of fall into like a more of a love story. A huge chunk of this is kind of a love story of the characters bouncing back and forth and and falling in love and all that kind of stuff like that. Sinatra's love interest. And the war stuff I think is a little bit more interesting than the the interesting than the love interest. But, this movie where a a lot of main characters do end up perishing. And they kind of unveil this kind of conspiracy, this kind of awful thing where they realize that they're not actually fighting the Japanese. They were actually having in entanglements with the Chinese soldiers that were doing something shady and everything like that. Now, they lost a lot of men because of it. And this kind of puts Sinatra over the the edge here and puts his kind of life in jeopardy for court-martial and stuff. And I think that's interesting as well. And I think Don Siegel at the end delivers a great speech and I think he's a great character. I enjoyed that kind of stuff.
Overall, I don't think this is some fantastic, you know, movie in comparison. I think it's just average. Probably, you know, and I think it's I'm going to say this. I don't think it's bad.
And I I not as poorly rated as some of the people rated on Letterboxd, but I don't think this is some [ __ ] unsung classic or anything of that nature. I think it's cool. I think there's a lot of interesting aspects about it, but I don't think it's an amazing film either.
I think that it gets lost a little bit in the love story stuff and that kind of angle where I don't give a [ __ ] about it, to be honest.
I like seeing Bronson. Um he does play similar uh uh Bronson always kind of played the similar quiet type, but he's not He's a little rougher on the edges in this one.
McQueen's fine. Um and I always find it kind of fascinating, you know, McQueen he always played like the young hip kind of kid. In this one they're like, "He's young. You what you want to do with it?"
And like McQueen never looked young to me. I mean, he unfortunately died when he was 50 years old, uh which absolutely sucks. Miss McQueen was a great actor and a great screen presence.
But in this even in this, I never would think McQueen is like a young-looking guy. He never [ __ ] looked young to me. Even in The Blob, I was like, "McQueen looking a little old."
Not like bad old, but he never looked like a kid to me. And him as the the hot shot in Magnificent Seven I buy, but besides that I've never bought any of his hot shot kind of antics in the in terms of looks. I love him in The Getaway. I love him in all his movies he's in, but I just never kind of bought uh that kind of hot shot kind of guy, uh young guy. Young guy. He's a hot shot for sure, but not necessarily the young guy kind of deal. But um I would recommend checking this out just just for seeing Richard Johnson and Steve McQueen and of course, you know, Bronson. But uh I don't think and the Don Siegel speech at the end, I don't think it's some amazing kind of masterwork or anything of that nature.
But, uh yeah, let's get into these questions. All right, guys. Questions, comments, and concerns beyond our ground. You did kind of look like George Eastman back when you had medium-length hair and scruffy beard. I remember for a while that was a running a whole running joke, haha. I'm actually Italian-American. My uncle looks like George Eastman, too. Kind of crazy how iconic his look was. I have attended a lot of different conventions over the years, and unfortunately, there's nothing else out there comparable to Wasteland. Most of the other cons in Ohio and surrounding states are expensive, crowded, family-friendly comic con style horror conventions that sell photo ops and nickel and dime the fans everywhere they can. While you can catch some of the regular Wasteland vendors at the shows, no one other show has a similar Wasteland atmosphere. No other shows screen 16 mm movies or even DVDs for that matter, and there's nothing that can rival Wasteland party.
I don't think Wasteland could ever be recreated, but if something someone can put something similar together, I'd love to be involved because right now I have this huge void where Wasteland is supposed to be, and it really sucks. I I understand.
At one time, I did toy with the idea of trying to find a Wasteland show, grabbing interviews uh oh, wait. I tried toy the idea to film a Wasteland show, grabbing interviews with a lot of regulars and trying to capture some of the shenanigans, too, but I never did. I felt like Cinema Wasteland was deserving of a documentary, at least mini doc. So, I thought about being the person to step up and make it, but then I realized I was more interested in being part of the documentary and being able to watch the documentary than be the one making it, lol. However, if I knew April was the last show, at the very least, I would have taken a lot of pictures or tried to record something. I didn't bother with it because I was counting on having a few more shows to do things like that. I feel quite strongly that Wasteland should have a final show. Wasteland deserves to have a proper finale.
I agree, to be honest, but hey.
I'm not the guy that's got to put it on, so I don't blame them for doing what they did. I never thought I'd see the day where I miss being at a shitty hotel, but here we are. I'm not even from Ohio, but Strongsville grew to feel like a second home for me. I get it. You know, that hotel sucked balls, but I had nostalgia. Nostalgia overpowers any thoughts. Like, it's funny how we all are. It's like, it sucked, but we loved it, and it's better than what you had because nostalgia. That's how we all everybody is. Brandon Timmons 5415 what a shame about Cinema Wasteland be meaning to make the journey to one for several years now with the intention of making it in real life to making in real life friends out of you. The 22 shots crew sick on cinema guys and everyone else I had tangentially through the known through the internet physical media circles. Looks like that dream is out the window now unfortunately. No one I know around me has any interest in any of that stuff or passion for genre film.
Bummer I know I get it. Dick for Flanders you should host your own physical media events sir. Mr. Parkers movie mania you can invite Bruce and Troy you draw a crowd for sure. When the event is done you can nail for everyone to get out and not dwell on the lawn.
Nah I never do that anyways no one would come. But I I would not do ever want to be involved in throwing a show the stress amount of all that crap and I think you'd just be in bittered with it after the end of it. The movie business does seem to be in serious trouble these last few years which is why I veer towards indie companies. If they offer decent product for a lack of better words some have even pleasantly surprised me. Questions. Do you feel that creatives leaving Hollywood or even the US is a good or bad thing? I have no idea on that idea. I mean I don't want to think it's a good idea creatives leaving the US. Of course it's not a good idea. But maybe they'll have more freedom. I Time will tell.
Uh has going to the movies actually become a chore? Have we as an audience members just become old crankier and spoiled? I think you generally become older crankier and spoiled but I do think that it has become a chore when movie runtimes are bloated and you got a comedy or a horror comedy or a horror movie that should be 80 minutes and it's [ __ ] two and a half hours and five minutes and then with the trailers it's two and a half hours for a a mediocre ass movie that has nothing to say. Um three were you ever afraid of campfire stories or horror movies about camp as a kid when you went to summer camp? I don't remember I did go to summer camp.
I never got scared at summer camp sixth grade camp. But I mean we went camping at a campground and I got scared a couple times you know. I mean the idea we had a corn man story I've told that several times I'm sure. Till next week God willing if I haven't melted it's hot as Hades here.
Uh getting hot here too. I'm enjoying it now but I won't later. No Room in Hell podcast, bro. That pushed your trilogy being tossed in a two-disc holder is crazy work. Lucky that my discs were all intact and not damaged, but it seems that forcing two discs to be stacked on top of each other highly increases the odds of accidental damage. I suppose the fact that it's barely $20 for a 4K release of an entire trilogy softens the blow though. I agree. Uh What the flick?
Uh it sucks to hear about East M.
Wasteland just this past weekend the 22nd to 24th, I went to Texas Frightmare in Dallas and was speaking with Steven Biro about East M. Wasteland. I've only been once, so I know nothing about the behind-the-scenes, but Biro said he seen it coming and seemed not uh to like the showrunner. And seemed not to like the showrunner. I've been going to cons for about 15 years. I've been five years I have been to five different cons and they all had their pros and cons. Got them a nerd. But Wasteland was among my favorite experiences. I could go on but forever, but I won't. So, RIP Wasteland.
Agreed.
Mikey Hor. Crazy to me that some people are actually dropping $70 for Hunter's Blood. Don't be surprised when prices keep going up because you're continuously showing them that you'll pay them. I don't buy everything on the first day or anything like that, but I do buy everything I I do buy some things. And I'm going to buy Hunter's Blood because it's a movie I've been waiting for for [ __ ] ever. I spent more on the laser disc probably. Not the laser disc, but I bought that movie so many [ __ ] times. Um I do get your sentiment though. You I don't buy everything, but I'll buy a couple here and there, you know? Like the day that I put up the order. It's like 50 bucks or something like that. It's my favorite movie. Hunter's Blood is a movie that I've always loved. It's been on my checklist to get on DVD and Blu-ray for over 20 years. So, yeah, I'm going to buy it. Um mistake or not. Um I'm at that point now where I'd rather have uh less movies that I want than more movies that I don't. And uh I am willing to pay premium dollar for that, but at the same time today um the bring me bringing uh bringing uh Bringing Out the Dead uh went up on that special edition 4K uh while back and I didn't buy it. But now the standard edition just popped up on 4K and I bought it for $15 cuz I love that movie, but I wasn't willing to spend spend 30 40 dollars for a deluxe edition of Bringing Out the Dead.
So, as you know, I wait. I rarely go crazy and buy it first day or anything like that, but sometimes I do. Jupiter mission 1208, life will never be the same without Wasteland. I miss that shitty hotel, too. Haha. Hope there's another event we can all meet up at, Mason. Indeed, Mason.
Bruce Holchek, as an unnecessary update, was indeed Elvis.
Civil War musical melodrama, Love Me Tender, that featured younger Neville Brand. I hesitate to say young Neville Brand because there's no such thing.
Haha. Also, I will mention that Neville Brand was one of the drunks in Without Warning. I completely I I couldn't remember if he was or not. Ken Oakley, I'm sorry to hear about Cinema Wasteland. Same thing happened to me with Rock and Shock. I went to a few other conventions, but none of them were Rock and Shock. I went to Boston Mega Fest a few times, but that was a nostalgic convention and the place was so crowded that there was no room to move. I went once to Rhode Island Comic Con. They were oversold tickets by about 500 and there was no room to move or sit. We were there for only a day. I remember my knees giving way and Jason Momoa giving a folding chair for me to sit. I was wearing a Slayer t-shirt, so we talked about heavy metal for a while.
I hadn't known that he was into metal and he didn't and he didn't have many customers because he wasn't Aquaman yet.
When we left and I sat in the car, I felt such a relief like I hadn't felt before. The Providence show was more of an anime convention, so nothing interests me. All I got was a Frankenstein action figure that came with a table. I did see a guy who looked like Darryl from Run DMC. I knew it wasn't him because he was stealing a bunch of Lego sets. I vowed never to go to the Providence Comic Con ever again.
I went to another show called Walker Stalker Con. It was basically a show for Walking Dead fans. Even though it was in Boston, we had gotten X-Suit three times out of four. It was convenient, but we could have bring our stuff up to the room if we could have had too much stuff to carry around. We had a platinum VIP tickets, which meant we could get four free autographs and four free photo ops. We also got to eat with the celebrities, but there was no Blu-ray dealers. 11 by 17 movie posters and Funko Pops. There was one horror show called Terror Con. They had it only once in Massachusetts.
I got to meet Don Page Turner Don Coscarelli and actors from Phantasm. They were amazingly nice people. I told Coscarelli that he should make a Phantasm animated series. He looked like he might try to get it off the ground. I told him that I would do the Tall Man because I do a lot of impressions and he showed him my Tall Man impression. He got emotional. I didn't mean to upset him. Anyway, Terror Con had no Blu-ray vendors either of all the shows I went to. Rock and Shock was the best. I went to 15 consecutive Rock and Shock shows. I spent a lot of money on Blu-ray vendors. It was given that Vinegar Syndrome would have a table every year. 70% of my pickups were Blu-rays. I know what you mean about the morning routine of waking up, taking a shower, trying to choose which shirt to wear for the occasion, going to my best friend's house to pick her up, going to the mall about rendezvous point to meet with friends, having a McDonald's breakfast and going to Dunkin' Donuts for a best friend's iced coffee, going to CVS to buy two disposable cameras cuz my phone didn't have a camera. We only went on Saturdays because the DCU Center in Worcester was only a 40-minute drive.
After each show, we went across the street to Pizzeria Uno's. A lot of celebrities would go there as well. In 2013, Sid Haig and Hannah Hall went there together. Hall Haig had just arrived because he was appearing on Sunday. He let my best friend take a picture with him. I think you should try Texas Frightmare Weekend. I plan to go there when I walk again and move to Texas. It looks really cool. If you go, that will motivate me to go and we'll meet you there as well. I remember that someone did a video with Texas Frightmare Weekend after the showroom was closed for the night. The couple doing the video went across the street to FYE's electronics about Scream Factory special editions for super low prices. I miss you recording stuff uh some stuff for the show a couple years ago for me because my inability to get around. I was very grateful that you did that. I also watch the older videos from CW because it makes me feel like one of the friends talking and laughing.
There's a documentary on Chris uh Controls channel on YouTube talking about horror convention culture. The film is called Phantasm. F A N T A S M.
But uh yeah, I appreciate that. Uh Texas Frightmare is a long haul for me, man. I I would have to get the plane. I do want to visit Texas, but if I do, it would be more of a week thing. I definitely just not going just for the convention. Uh Collectus, Mystery of the Third Planet is really fun. Many Russians prefer the live-action sequel, A Guest from the Future, but that one feels less sci-fi because it's not set in the future.
Interesting. Way up, dude, gives me the peace thing. Thank you. Mr. Juice Stations, hello, beautiful. Thank you for the heartfelt post. You always brighten my day. Thank you. Sa- Sawin Christ 500, will never forget the first trip out to CW. Can't say it was on went with a long time friend or forgot how, but we made a wrong turn and ended up in the outskirts of Pittsburgh. And when we got there in AM for the 8-hour plus drive, hotel breakfast never tasted so good. After feeling like a kid in the candy store seeing the dealer room in person, and we went back to the room and watched some nasty trash in the toxic filth table. Probably only got a few hours of sleep in those 3 days. Oh, sorry if I seemed a bit off. Loved it so much that I came back three more times.
It was fun having hanging with you and the other YouTube people. Really going to miss that place. We even getting we was even getting used to Strongsville.
For on get it four four un- four unforgettable weekends at that place. I suppose now it'll be see you wherever a lot of the wasteland a cinema wasteland crowd is going to be next. For sure, see you there. Travis Linscomb, I love these segments with Bruce and yourself. You guys work really well together. You can feel the passion for the all the obscure pockets of cinema in your guys's conversations. I think you match each other's energy. I hope he'll keep coming back. He'll come back as much as he can. As he much as he wants. Soul Jack, thanks to for Dave for having me. Always fun to chat about this stuff. Thanks again Bruce. KNJ horror.com, I have a big box of the video gems called next victim another one called the thriller video called next victim. Wonder which one it is. I haven't seen either. Thanks for the review as always.
I don't think either of those the next victim one I did was Brazilian. I don't think there's ever been an English friendly release of it.
Um stateside or anywhere. Maybe no VHS.
I'm sure there's VHS in Brazil or some South American places. Who knows? But I don't think there's ever been an English friendly release. I know one of those. I looked them up and I don't remember which. It might be he kills he kills night after night possibly. The other one looked like Sergio Martino. Probably all colors of the dark cuz it had Ivan Rassimov on it. But it's not 100% cuz I didn't do too in-depth digging there.
But yeah, let's get into the update quickie here. First up is the Swordsman trilogy on 4K. We have Swordsman 1, 2, and 3. They were on sale from Shout Factory here. The Golden Princess library when they're on sale I definitely grabbed them when I can. See, I didn't buy it brand new right from Grove. And then we have the last of the Ilsa movies. This is technically maybe not an Ilsa movie, but this is from Kino the 4K and Blu-ray. Ilsa the Wicked Warden directed by legendary director Jess Franco starring Diane Thorne. Now, the thing about this is I heard the 4K looks absolutely abysmal. I've not had a chance to watch it. I heard the Blu-ray looks pretty decent, but the 4K looks terrible. So, I don't know what's going on. I don't know if there will be a replacement or anything like that. But, we have a commentary by Troy Howarth and we have a commentary by Diane Thorne and Howard more moderated by Martin Lewis. So, that's great stuff. Other features as well. I just still got to watch the third one for the channel, but let's get the [ __ ] out of here, guys.
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