New review up with The Eight Hilarious Gods
Filled with hilarious gods doing not-so-hilarious stuff, and fighting Lucifer. Yes, Lucifer.
Lucifer kills little children on screen in this comedy. Adam Sandler, eat your heart out!
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Bollywood Girls with Guns article
Neat article by Pete Y. A big task to cover the whole thing, he does a good job for a first pass and mentions many things I wasn’t that aware of (Bollywood isn’t one of my cinema strong points.)
Rare Movie Time!!!! – War God (1976)
War God (Chinese Title: Wang Yu or Guan Yu, aka Calamity) A 1976 film.
UPDATE: Read our review of War God here!
A Chinese film that seems influenced by tokusatsu/Daimajin films. The giant guy walking around is Guan Yu.
Several Photos ganked from here, which ganked them from somewhere else in the Circle of Ganking that is the Internet. Here is another site that has a review and photos (I am sure you are fluent in reading Chinese!)
More info:
Kaijuphile
Chinese Movie Database
A Babelfish translation of the plot:
Some people asked in I first two Jin’gang mentioned the Duke Guan fights the alien is any thing, do not suspect! Really has this piece, but the content said really I am not clear, because I have not looked, wants to look that could also not find Arab League Arab League…Isn’t that time has many this kinds to imitate the date to absorb the movie especially, has Hong Kong’s China to exceed others in ability, actually very definite is this piece of Duke Guan who Hong Kong or Taiwan shoot fights the alien (war-god), but also has the comparison later period pieces and so on big snake king who lucky pulls in accordance to the elder brother appears. However this piece of Duke Guan fights a piece which the alien is probably I most wants to look, the Duke Guan idol manifesting a spirit war invades Earth’s alien! Is really ? to lets the human think the backward somersault Arab League Arab League Arab League Arab League Arab League Arab League Arab League!!! Outside below the star monster’s picture looks not clearly…However is probably similar old dives the water carrier hard helmet to bring changes…I have mail a letter the Taibei movie material hall to inquire whether my friend does have this piece, but he is probably is disinclined to manage me, before there has the piece which one is also dazzles, is called the chivalrous person sika, is a person puts on the plum blossom road to dress up…, has looked the human bursts certainly out laughing! The bottommost has this chart playbill to supply the reference, what I knew at least is…The Taibei movie material hall should have this piece of sika…In brief! If war-god this piece some who do know to where some looked…Asks to inform me!
Arab League? Plus half of this translation is the guy trying to find the film, so that probably makes any effort by you or me not look that hot, either. I want to find this film, but as long as I don’t know if it still exists, I can’t add it to my top ten want list. Off to the “If it still exists” pile, which is sadly far too long already.
More photos!
The Eight Hilarious Gods (Review)
The Eight Hilarious Gods
aka Siu baa sin
1993
Directed by Jeffrey Chiang Gu-Jun
Hong Kong does their take on Hakkenden, the tale that gave us Legend of Eight Samurai and Message From Space. Except it is a pure comedy and no one marries a dog. That’s good, as this film is about as related to the traditional Japanese story as Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter is to the Gospel of Luke. It does have some recognizable Hong Kong stars (even to Western audience members only slightly familiar with Hong Kong cinema) and some nice fantasy fights for a comedy, but isn’t afraid to dwell in the poop jokes or to murder children just so the audience can go “WTF?” So let’s all go “WTF?” together!
This version of the film comes from one of those double-VHS tapes, found in the double-size VHS boxes that old-school video stores had. The only video store I know by name that still carries those is Le Video in San Francisco, but some of the old-school Chinatown rental stores have this as well. The double-tape explains why there are numbers after the title, because there are two title screens, one for each tape. Old school is the best school, baby! There ain’t no forced commercials here like on DVD. Sure, the picture quality isn’t the best, but it’s not like this film is begging for a remastered DVD. It should be remastered.
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Gojira stomps!
We tremble…
Monster Movie News Roundup
Everyday there is news of new monster movies. Some of them are indy films, some of them are bigger budget, and some of them look very awesome. So here are a few of the stories in the internet ether:
David “The Rock” Nelson, producer of over 30 genre films, is getting a TV special October 31st on channel WGN 7am to 9am (I am guessing central time zone) to premier several of his latest films:
The Giant Horny Toad Monster
the double bill Killer Cicadas and Attack of the Giant Cicadas
and the shorts The Giant Grasshopper Monster and The Giant Cricket Monster.
More news at Undead Backbrain
Waiting for Gorgo
a short film creator MJ Simpson has been mentioning off and on at the Retromedia Forums has become a reality:
The basic gist of the film is that these two ancient civil servants have been stuck in this office for 40 years, since Gorgo attacked London, and nobody knew they were there. The young auditor who finds them has to persuade them that Gorgo was just a movie – their whole department was the result of a bureaucratic cock-up – and they try to persuade her that it was real.
MJ Simpson’s website – filled with reviews and interviews related to cult films.
MJ Simpson’s Waiting for Gorgo page
Fangoria Exclusive
RoboJapan is reporting that ghost images are appearing on the set of Jennifer Tilly’s new movie.
Some sort of lame viral marketing, I bet. Jennifer Tilly movies aren’t exactly bringing in the fat moneys. Notice how I don’t mention the name of the new movie. Take that, viral marketing!
Speaking of ghost images appearing in movies, the awesome Captain Disillusion destroys the urban legend of a ghost kid in Three Men and a Baby:
His whole channel is pretty good, so get to watching as it is better than lame videos of fat people complaining that they feel sad.
Well, four news items is enough for today. Join us next time as we will have more random news for random people.
Thanks to Avery for some of the news here.