Preposterous, trashy and cheap yet, against all odds, amazingly satisfying as exploitation entertainment, Raw Force (also known as Kung Fu Cannibals, 1980) is a kind of junk movie paradise. Rare for films of this type and budget level, Raw Force exhibits an awful lot of energy and enthusiasm; though low budget, it's professionally made despite some obvious limitations. The pacing is unusually good, the story involving, and it strikes just the right balance between (intentional) humor and taking its story seriously enough to maintain audience interest throughout. All told, a really pleasant surprise.

Vinegar Syndrome's Blu-ray offers a pristine high-def presentation and a few good extra features.

The outrageous premise has crooked jade dealer and...Read the entire review

Night Train to Terror (1985) is an astoundingly bad horror anthology film approaching the delirious heights of absurdity and ineptitude exemplified by Edward D. Wood Jr.'s immortal Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959). It's similarly fascinating and, occasionally, quite hilarious in its awfulness, with a backstory downright bizarre.

The movie seems to have been inspired in equal measure by Amicus's Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965), a trend-setting British horror anthology likewise featuring wraparound scenes set aboard a train; and The Monster Club (1980), one of the last legitimate films of this same type, which has its wraparound scenes set at a kind of monster discotheque.

The bulk of the picture is actually composed of condensed versions of three virtually unreleasable feature films: Scream Your Head Off (c. 1984), apparently shot but never finished or heretof...Read the entire review

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"What's the third thing, Colonel Crockett?"
"First, don't panic. Second, go up, not down. What's the third?"
"Actually the most important of all. Say you'll never forget it. Never, never go into the woods alone."

I mean, he's not wrong:

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