aka Quel maledetto treno blindato
aka Counterfeit Commandos
aka Deadly Mission
aka G.I. Bro
aka Hell’s Heroes
Director: Enzo G. Castellari (Keoma, The Heroin Busters, The New Barbarians, 1990: The Bronx Warriors)
Cast: Bo Svenson, Fred Williamson, Peter Hooten, Michael Pergolani, Jackie Basehart
A truck load of military criminals during WWII are being hauled off to their Court Marshall when the convoy is attacked by the Nazis. Most of the lot are killed but five escape and quickly make a tenuous pact to help get each other safely to the Swiss border. Along the way they have to fight their way through German roadblocks, dodge air attacks and basically blow shit up. During one of the shootouts with the Germans, the “Filthy Five”, as I have dubbed them, team up (again tenuously) with a Nazi soldier who has deserted his troops.
While hiding out, the “team” shoots who they think are German soldiers (they were dressed as such) but are actually Americans on a mission to heist a Nazi train because it holds plans for a new weapon that will be used against the Allies…
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During his wedding to the village leader’s daughter, Kohar’s wife-to-be starts to hallucinate that he is a corpse and that snakes are all around her. Kohar decides that this is the work of black magic and his ex, Murni, must be the culprit. He gathers a mob to hunt her down and kill her for practicing the dark art and for bringing demons to the village. They find her and throw her off of a cliff but unknown to them she is caught (in mid-air) by a witch doctor who is actually the one cursing the town.
A defrocked priest (a completely creepy Jess Franco) is kicked out of the church for being too “harsh” and sent to a mental institution. Shortly after his release, he starts work for a sex magazine writing articles about sadistic sex which he claims to be true stories from his real life. He learns that his co-worker Anna (Lina Romay) stages sexy fake torture and black mass shows with her sexy friend Martine and others for the depraved rich upper-crust.
Oh, boy… if you are a fan of the smutty movies I review you are in for a treat with Schoolgirl Report. I haven’t seen the others in the series (I will remedy that soon) but if they are anything like this one, every exploitation fan should own them. The “teenage” sex, nudity, kink, depravity and perversion shown in this psuedo-documentary is astounding. No, it’s not “hardcore” porn. There is no penetration.
While not really a horror film Greg Baty’s review of Joe D’Amato’s Nunsploitation flick “Images In a Convent” was just too good for me to pass up!
Soon a after a young woman named Isabella is forced to stay in a convent, weird and evil things begin to happen there. She rebels against the sisters by acting out sexually and starts planning her escape. Then, a man is found injured in the courtyard and is taken in by the sisterhood. He turns out to have plans of his own to defile each and every virgin in the church. An evil spirit tormenting and tempting all of the nuns with sexual desire shows up around the time the man was found. Could he be the human incarnation of the demon? Isabella plans on using the man to help her with her escape, but can she trust him?
Published by Greg February 27th, 2008
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One day after dropping her new husband Francesco off at the airport, Virginia is overcome by visions of a murder while driving. The vision is of an old woman being buried in a wall of a home after she is killed. She doesn’t think much of it until the arrives at her husband’s villa which she plans to redecorate as a surprise while he is gone. When she arrives and looks around she begins to see objects in one of the rooms that was in her vision.
Published by Greg February 8th, 2008
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Three girls break down out in the middle of the desert on their way to Las Vegas for a gig at a casino. They are rescued by Andre who takes them back to his house to call for help. When they arrive the girls get curious after they see a cougar locked up in a cage next to a huge barn. So they go into the barn and see other girls chained to posts and desperate for help themselves. Andre finds the girls snooping and chains them up in the barn as well.
Published by Greg January 27th, 2008
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Harry Reems plays a no-named Vietnam Vet/rapist/serial killer with PTSD and suffers from flashbacks. Along with that comes his need to make up enemies and kill them as a way to deal with the pain. So, he uses his job at the local gas station to get girls’ addresses. Once he gets their info it’s on to the stalking, raping and finally the slashing. He uses the old “We don’t take cash here, I need a credit card along with your address for verification” bit… amateur.
Published by Greg December 4th, 2007
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Poor Frigga (Lindberg). A little girl raped in the park by an old, dirty homeless man. Now mute due to the awful attack, she’s a teenager being raised on a farm by her over-protective but very loving parents. One day while trying to catch the bus on her way to the psychologist, she is picked up by Tony (Hopf) who gives her a ride. But instead of taking her to the doctor, he has other more disgusting things in mind for naive little Frigga.
Published by Greg November 20th, 2007
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Deep in the heart of Africa, Bishop Williams (Blacula’s William Marshall) unearths an ancient artifact that contains the African god of sexuality, trickery, and chaos called Eshu. He unknowingly opens it and releases the demon inside and it kills his men and runs away
Many films of the seventies attempted to blend different movie categories together in an effort to buck the Hollywood standard of what genre films had become. Brilliant cinematic achievements such as “Harold and Maude” and “The Wicker Man” redefined what audiences could expect from comedies and horror flicks. But some films seem to exist simply to defy the mere idea of categorization. How else could one describe the awesome spectacle that is “The Manitou”?
In the annals of American horror, there is no film more respected and beloved as the original “Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” In 1974 writer/director Tobe Hooper, along with a ragtag group of southern film school graduates and eager stage actors set out to tell a story inspired by the acts of Wisconsin killer Ed Gein. Little did they know that they would be collaborating on one of the most important independent films of all time, horror or otherwise.
I have no idea what the point of the film was. It seems like a boring combo of dramatic stage play, educational documentary, and a creepy serial killer flick. It cannot be a documentary because it gets the facts wrong. It cannot elicit sympathy for a serial killer with a bad childhood when the killer is an idiot and his abusive mom is hilarious
Finally a film for everyone that was sitting around their house thinking, “Man, the original “Omen” from 1976 was great, it was genuinely atmospheric, featured unique camera tricks, stared the impeccable Gregory Peck opposite the creepiest child this side of “Village of the Dammed”, featured an Oscar winning score from Jerry Goldsmith and it asked the viewer to truly question their faith in an arcane religion. I sure wish somebody would remake “The Omen”, but update it for the MTV generation,
For no explainable reason the Tomb of Dracula is unearthed by the Russian army, it should be mentioned that this is by no means your average Russian army. This is a Russian army that not only speaks perfect English, but does so with American accents, and these comrades drive vehicles with U.S. Navy identification on them.
