Executioner 2: Karate Inferno (1974) Teruo Ishii (writer/ director) I am so ready for more silly weirdness caper shenanigans! The first one is so funny and entertaining. I don't think I've seen the second. 📽 #SaturdayActionMovie #SonnyChiba #Filmsky

City on Fire (1987) Ringo Lam (director) Do I even have to hype this one? Top-drawer classic. Chow Yun-fat oozes superstar charisma. Andrew Lau's cinematography captures a beautiful Hong Kong cityscape. One of the best. 📽 #SaturdayActionMovie #HongKongCinema #FilmSky #RingoLam

Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre part two (1978) Chor Yuen (director) Even though I wanted to watch the second part immediately after the first, I waited a week. It only has 156 views on Letterboxd!? 📽 #SaturdayActionMovie #ShawBrothers #Wuxia #HongKongCinema #KungFu #Filmsky

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Phobia 2 (2009) Paween Purijitpanya Visute Poolvoralaks Songyos Sugmakanan Parkpoom Wongpoom Banjong Pisanthanakun (directors) I'm always wary about the uneven quality of anthologies. But it's next in the Thai horror box, so let's! 📽 #FridayNightHorror #HorrorMovies #Horrorsky #Horror

I liked it quite a bit. Didn't know it was going to have more movies... when it ended, it felt like I had just watched season one of a show. Love what it's getting at in the second half. Quite a beautiful piece and has a bit of emotional importance viewed against our current landscape. 📽

28 Years Later (2025) Danny Boyle (director) Alex Garland (writer) I've heard people liked this one. I was looking forward to it because Alex Garland wrote it. I didn't read anything or watch a trailer, as usual. 📽 #FridayNightHorror #HorrorMovies #Horrorsky #Horror #Filmsky

Welcome to the bookstore... 💀📚

Sparks was amazing fun, as always. They played three tracks from No. 1 In Heaven. Beat the Clock, Academy Award Performance, and The Number One Song in Heaven. Which is half the album. #Sparks

Sparks!

The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960) Fritz Lang (co-writer/ director) Fritz Lang's final film. And one that started a series of Mabuse films over the following years. This will be a first-time viewing. It's the first in Eureka's 'Mabuse Lives!' box set. 📽 #DrMabuse #FritzLang #Filmsky

Beautiful movie. A poetic romance where, even though it's from his perspective, neither person is there solely for the other's benefit. They're two people, entwined with motorcycle culture, growing independently together. I could examine this one for ages. And I probably will. I love it. 📽

His Motorbike, Her Island (1986) Nobuhiko Obayashi (director) Some may know the director for House (1977). And others, for the decades of other films. I've never seen this one! Been waiting a long time to see it 😊✨️ 📽 #Filmsky

.357 Magnum (1977) Nick Millard (co-writer/ director) Picked up Vinegar Syndrome's set of Nick Millard action movies, and I'm cracking into it. In order, of course. I've seen none of these. This one was two years after Criminally Insane. 📽 #PsychotronicPsunday #Filmsky #NickMillard

I liked it, but Cliff is barely in it. And whenever Cliff's not on screen, I found myself asking,'Where's Cliff?' 📽 My ★★ review of Target Eve Island on Letterboxd boxd.it/b93pHp

Target Eve Island (1983) David Kent-Watson (director) Made in the same year as G.B.H., this time going SOV Bond. I expect some fights with the same three sound effects and some can-do likability. Cliff is in a supporting role. 📽 #PsychotronicPsunday #CliffTwemlow #SeverinFilms #Filmsky

Magic Serpent [Dragon Showdown] (1966) Tetsuya Yamanouchi (director) I thought I'd seen this one before, but no! Rather fun fantasy ninja action, loosely based on Jiraiya. It's got magic, sword fights, and kaiju battles. 📽 #PsychotronicPsunday #Tokusatsu #Kaiju #Ninja #Filmsky

One of those afternoons where -read a book (Horror Movie) -play more Atelier Yumia -watch Doctor Who (Hartnell) and they're all good choices that don't outweigh one another!

Yeah. Still packs quite a wallop! The new blu ray is a must-have if you like heroic bloodshed films. (and peeking around other reviews, many people do dislike Alan Tang) 📽 My ★★★★★ love for Flaming Brothers on Letterboxd boxd.it/b8n6En

Flaming Brothers (1987) Joe Cheung (director) Here's one I'd recommend to people in the early '90s, when Chow Yun-fat fever was running hot. They hated Alan Tam and thought the movie was just 'okay'. I wonder what current viewers will think. 📽 #SaturdayActionMovie #HongKongCinema #FilmSky

Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre (1978) Chor Yuen (director) Forst up tonight Part one of a classic Jin Yong novel. I've seen this before. And it's pretty terrific. 📽 #SaturdayActionMovie #ShawBrothers #Wuxia #HongKongCinema #KungFu #JinYong

Entertaining horror romp that bounces between gothic melodrama and grand guignol, with a dash of monster movie. Naschy is a great screen presence, as usual. 📽

Hunchback of the Morgue (1973) Javier Aguirre (writer/ director) Paul Naschy and a mad scientist is gonna try to Frankenstein a dead woman back to life. Think it will work out well? 📽 #FridayNightHorror #HorrorMovies #Horrorsky #PaulNaschy #Horror

Wonderful little film! Beautiful production peppered with animation and mechanical elements by Jan Švankmajer. 📽

Ninth Heart (1979) Juraj Herz (co-writer/ director) Folk horror fairytale from the director of The Cremator and Beauty and the Beast (1978). Part of the box set All the Haunts Be Ours vol two. 📽 #FridayNightHorror #HorrorMovies #FolkHorror #Horror #Horrorsky

A staggering amount of fantastic movies for October! That list of Hong Kong movies! And the Jean Rollin. 📽

I know it's painful to hear, but I just ran another pile of standard blu ray slipcovers through the shredder. I keep some. Not a lot. I just don't want that new art on my shelf. I usually get a blu ray. Take off the cover. Flip the insert to show original poster art. Which is always better. 📽

Post a movie you like, with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score. ____________________________ I mean... this is easy for me. So many to choose from! I give Yor a five-star Letterboxd rating. It's incredibly fun! 📽

Noticed some peculiar debris in a corner behind one of our cat bed hideaways and discovered about 4 or 5 dead giant house spiders. Through careful examination, I found what looks like a chunky false widow spider in the area between the cat bed and baseboard corner. There's a photo behind here.

What an incredibly fun movie! Some may think 'fun' to be a weird way to describe something with multiple stranglings, a beheading, and the like, but there's frequent comedy and a kooky electronic score. Definitely worth checking a look at this one. It's in Eureka's Wallace Krimi set. 📽

The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle (1963) Harald Reinl (director) Let's queue up a Krimi, yeah? Haven't seen this. From what I can tell, it's a gothic mystery involving a black hooded strangler. 📽 #Krimi #Filmsky

Second Sight (1991) Michael J Murphy (writer/ director) Into the latter half of the Murphy box set. A domestic thriller about a novelist and his wife that move to the countryside... and some sort of danger soon arises. I didn't read the description. 📽 #MichaelJMurphy #Filmsky

Marquis de Sade's Justine (1969) Jess Franco (director) Klaus Kinski stars as the Marquis de Sade, seen from time to time, writing the story. Jack Palance is a priest devoted to pleasure. Very loosely based on the novel. 📽 #PsychotronicPsunday #Filmsky #JessFranco

Female Prisoner Scorpion - Beast Stable (1973) Shunya Itō (director) Third in the series. I've been spacing these, even though I want to watch them all close together. Meiko Kaji is a powerhouse. 📽 #PsychotronicPsunday #Filmsky

Executioner (1974) Teruo Ishii (writer/ director) An exquisite pairing of Sonny Chiba and Teruo Ishii (Horrors of Malformed Men, Shogun's Joy of Torture). A choice cocktail of wacky comedy, exploitation, and karate mayhem. 📽 #SaturdayActionMovie #SonnyChiba #Filmsky #TeruoIshii

Spiritual Boxer (1975) Lau Kar-leung (director) In Lau Kar-leung's directorial debut, Wong Yue pretends to get martial arts skills through supernatural means. He's soon tangled up in hi-jinks and bad guys. An old favorite! 📽 #SaturdayActionMovie #ShawBrothers #KungFu #HongKongCinema #FilmSky

I did see this. Long enough ago that I didn't remember how it ended. Also, I didn't remember how well it's made, with lots of great camera shots and effects. The plot is tight and suspenseful.

I Bury the Living (1958) Albert Band (director) A new cemetery caretaker messes up the marker pins on the grave plot map, and becomes convinced he's caused the death of the people who purchased that plot. I may have seen this. Maybe? 📽 #FridayNightHorror #HorrorMovies #Horrorsky #Horror

Been ages since I've seen that one. I enjoy how it starts off with a whimsical tone and old house exploration. And descends fast into people melted by shadows, ghost monster effects, wind, and lightning. Very fun '80s haunted house story.

Sweet Home (1989) Kiyoshi Kurosawa (director) Made and released at the same time as the game, it was re-edited by the producer, and Kurosawa's original theatrical version is unavailable. It has makeup effects by Dick Smith. 📽 #FridayNightHorror #HorrorMovies #Horrorsky #Horror #JHorror

Lodge 49

Even more classic manga hitting the shelves

Honey, dontcha know? I'm more than Pac-Man with a bow!

Meanwhile... one week later That's a pretty fast arrival from the UK to my house in the US. I rolled the dice, and it still got to me. The disc is region A and B, so if you're bummed at the US specific versions selling out, here's your option.

Lamberto Bava delivers an economical little thriller that doesn't let up. 📽 My ★★★ appreciation of The Man Who Didn't Want to Die on Letterboxd boxd.it/b1jVYx

The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1989) Lamberto Bava (director) An unidentified man in a hospital bed slowly regains his memory of what happened to him... Bava's made for TV thriller in the High Tension box set. 📽 #Filmsky #SeverinFilms #LambertoBava

I liked that a lot. Strange and unsettling. Packs quite a sustained mood. 📽 My ★★★★ appreciation for Madeline, Study of a Nightmare on Letterboxd boxd.it/b1hTdP

Madeleine - Anatomy of a Nightmare (1974) Roberto Mauri (writer/ director) I've been sitting on the Vinegar Syndrome box set of Camille Keaton (What Have You Done to Solange? and I Spit on Your Grave) films. I don't think I've seen this one. 📽 #Filmsky

She's into the Herschell Gordon Lewis movie 😼📽

This Stuff'll Kill Ya! (1971) Herschell Gordon Lewis (writer/ director) Lewis hicksploitation about a preacher moonshiner who gets in a tangle with the liquor store and federal agents. 📽 #PsychotronicPsunday #Filmsky #Hicksploitation #HGLewis