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The Horror?!: Hairy Beasts: Der Hund von Blackwood Castle (1968)
aka The Monster of Blackwood Castle
aka The Horror of Blackwood Castle
Warning: there will be spoilers.
This May the agents of M.O.S.S. throw their collective gaze (warning: may resurrect the dead as mid-tempo zombies) toward everything hairy and beastly: King Kong, cuddly little dogs and more. To stay up to date on our exploits regarding the matter, you can just follow this handy link.
The Horror?!: In short: 23:59 (2011)
1983. A group of young soldiers are on the last leg of their national service, spending the last few weeks in a training camp on a jungle island.
The Horror?!: Black Angel (1946)
When bar singer Mavis Marlowe (Constance Dowling) is murdered, quite a bit of circumstantial evidence points to her lover Kirk Bennett (John Phillips) as the murderer, enough so that the glorious American justice systems sees fit to sentence him to death.
The Horror?!: Dragonslayer (1981)
In your basic medieval fantasy world (it's never quite clear if it's supposed to be a secondary one very close to out own, or our own world with a bit of added magic), magic is one the wane, leaving Ulrich (Ralph Richardson), an elderly wizard as one of the last - if not the last - of his kind. The rest of Ulrich, his even older servant Hodge (Sydney Bromley), and his magically not very competent apprentice Galen (Peter MacNicol) is disturbed by a group of peasants from the far away country of Urland.
The Horror?!: In short: Naked Killer (1992)
As regular readers of this blog know, I'm not an admirer of the horrible Wong Jing. The man's general attitude towards movie making, which can be summarized with "I don't care enough to make an effort", just rubs me the wrong way. Additionally, unlike the man, I don't think rape jokes are very funny.
The Horror?!: On WTF: Hairy Beasts! Santo Vs. Las Lobas (1976)
The month of hairy beasts continues when I encounter what may be the best film ever made: Santo vs. Los Lobas. It's not just a duel of the ages, but also a seriously strange, and very serious horror movie as they were only made during the 70s. The inclusion of Santo is icing on an already incredibly tasty cake.
My column on WTF-Film continues with the appropriate gushing, so you know what to do.
The Horror?!: In short: Outpost: Black Sun (2012)
Now, having read my less than amused ranting about Nazis at the Center of the Earth you may believe me completely opposed to the use of Nazis as pulp movie bad guy fodder. Nothing could be further from the truth. I just think you should do so without pretending concentration camps are funny (while Hitler, obviously, is a very good object to make fun of).
The Horror?!: Black Magic 2 (1976)
An unnamed city in South-East Asia. A series of peculiar, medically inexplicable and really rather horrible illnesses (of course featuring worms and ugly sores) and deaths has confused the world view of physician Shi Zhen Sheng (Lam Wai-Tiu) so much, he's now convinced they are caused by black magic. Shi invites his doctor friend Qi Zhong Ping (Ti Lung) and his wife and partner in science Cui Ling (Tanny Tien Ni) to town, in the hope that the couple can help find a way to break the spells.
The Horror?!: The Nesting (1981)
During the production of her newest novel, writer Lauren Cochrane (Robin Groves), never exactly a picture of mental health it seems, has developed a serious case of agoraphobia. She decides that the best way to cope with her condition is for her to move from her native New York to the country for a time.
The Horror?!: Assignment Naschy (Slight Return): La Cruz Del Diablo (1975)
aka Cross of the Devil
Some time in the 19th century. English writer Alfred Dawson (Ramiro Oliveros) suffers from a bit of writer's block. One may make his love of his hashish pipe responsible for that, as his girlfriend Maria (Carmen Sevilla) clearly does. Be it as it may, Dawson's publisher is getting rather cross with him.
The Horror?!: In short: Pánico (1966)
This omnibus film contains three unconnected stories.
"Pánico" finds a young woman fleeing through the woods. She is chased by a screeching older woman with a knife, and has strange, metaphorical encounters with three men and a baby doll. Holy Eisenstein, Batman!
The Horror?!: On WTF: Darna! Ang Pagbabalik (1994)
It had to happen! I finally make my first frightened step into the wild and joyous world of Filipino superheroine Darna.
Because I'm a wimp and like understanding what's going on in a movie, I chose to start with the one Darna movie I have subtitles for. It was a wise decision, as my column on WTF-Film will hopefully show.
The Horror?!: Hairy Beasts: Bigfoot (1969? 1970?)
This May the agents of M.O.S.S. throw their collective gaze (warning: may turn living matter to stone) toward everything hairy and beastly: King Kong, Feroz Khan's chest and more. To stay up to date on our exploits regarding the matter, you can just follow this handy link.
Badmovies.org: Badmovies.org Reviews "Sea Beast"
What do you get when you cross "Jaws" with "Predator" and cast a 1990s pop culture star as the protagonist? Why yes, this is a SyFy original movie. How did you know?
The Horror?!: Three Films Make A Post: Featuring the Longest Kiss in Cinema History!
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011): Guy Ritchie's second movie about the adventures of a very pulp hero Sherlock Holmes played by Robert Downey Jr. and his especially long-suffering Watson Jude Law shares all the virtues of the first movie, and is therefore pretty much as good as mainstream adventure cinema gets.
