Captive Women

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WOMEN'S CAMP 119-1977-Sleazy Italian production with Nazis subjecting female prisoners to various torture and experiments. Nude women are whipped, gassed and experimented on. A bald headed male lunatic prisoner feels up two women and another is forced to kiss an officer's boots. Meanwhile the broken Dr. Miesel (Nello Rivie) and his new assistant, a prisoner stand around watching other doctors operate. Women are forced to rub against a soldier who was frozen and he comes back to life. When the bald lunatic attacks a prisoner she's saved by a lesbian doctor who molests her. Women are also used to entice gay soldiers and turn them straight. 

Director Bruno Mattei besides making a few other sleazy exploitative “women in prison” movies also made several horror movies featuring zombies (sometimes under the pseudonym “Vincent Dawn”).

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RIP Conrad Brooks (1931-2017)

 

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JAN-GEL THE BEAST FROM THE EAST-1999-A prehistoric man (Dale Clukey) frozen in ice is lost by a shipping company and comes to life. He's a bug eyed bearded, balding pot bellied oaf who wanders around scaring people and making ridiculous grunts. Sometimes he sounds constipated. He kills a few people but nothing is shown. This movie is so inept,boring and laughable. Feeble attempts at real humor fall flat. The acting, directing and editing are below sub-par. 

Director/writer Conrad Brooks (in several Ed Wood Jr. movies including PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE) plays Conrad Brooks, a Bigfoot hunter. Visible mics are everywhere. The monster kills in broad daylight and in a really crazed scene fights a rubber snake. This probably isn't as bad as Brooks' BLOOD SLAVES OF THE VAMPIRE WOLF but it's a close second. Speaking of second, Brooks made a sequel!

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JAN-GEL 2: THE BEAST RETURNS-2001-I have to hand it Conrad Brooks, he's made a movie worse than JAN-GEL! The big caveman returns but this time his head is bandaged and a still photo is used for his first appearance! I guess the original actor wasn't available. This thing contains the weirdest looking bunch of actors I've ever seen.

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(Conrad Brooks and friend)

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It Stinks!

 

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THE STINK OF FLESH-2005-This zombie apocalypse soft core porn film was made by some sick fuck in New Mexico. There's gory blood spurting, flesh eating, rough sex with a female zombie, a woman with a conjoined twin, terrible acting, and '80's synth soundtrack. The director Scott Phillips also wrote some episodes of a “Kamen Rider” series.

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Coleman in Cuba?

 

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RED ZONE CUBA-1966-An escaped con Griffin (writer/director Coleman Francis)  hooks up with ex-cons Landis (Tony Cardoza) and Cook (Harold Saunders) to be part of the "bay of pigs" invasion of Cuba. A Texas pilot Cherokee Jack (George Prince) tells them they'll be paid in cash but it seems more like some illegal work camp. They try to escape but get caught and are forced to invade Cuba. (Cardoza does double duty playing Castro) There's a long drawn out execution scene and nothing really happens. Just endless talk. When they get back to the US they throw an old man down a well and Griffin rapes his blind daughter. Eventually Landis and Cook give up and Griffin is shot dead with nothing but a penny and a broken cigarette. 

John Carradine is fourth billed as Mr. Wilson but only appears in a pre-credit sequence and sings the title song “Night Train To Mundo Fine” also the film's original title. 

Terrible non-action from the director of THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS which at least had Tor Johnson in the lead role. This was the last of three very low budget disjointed films Coleman Francis made in the early '60's. Co-star Tony Cardoza was a co-producer on all of them.

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Anna May Wong (New Named Blog)

 

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DAUGHTER OF SHANGHAI-1937-Lan Ying Lin (Anna May Wong) wants revenge on the smugglers who killed her dad when he threatened to expose their gang leader Frank Barton (J Carroll Nash; known for playing phony Asians) and his thugs (including Buster Crabbe and Anthony Quinn) who deal in illegal aliens. She tries to find out the identity of the mysterious Hartman (Charles Bickford) and his dealings in human traffic. Federal agent Kim Lee (Philip Ahn) goes undercover to discover the big boss, who turns out to be a seemingly kind and caring rich woman, Mary Hunt (Cecil Cunningham) whose chauffeur turns against her and helps stop her. 

This Paramount production is one of those unique features that has 2 actual Asian actors in the leads! Anna May Wong also made WHEN WERE YOU BORN? the same year and later would find decent roles hard to come by. Director Robert Florey manages to rise above the mundane story line to make this a great but forgotten vehicle for Wong.

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No One Demanded It...But I'm Back!

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I DEMAND PAYMENT-1938-A guy named Toby Lock (Matty Kemp) owes loan shark Mr. Travis (Bryant Washburn) 5 thou. He also knows one of Travis's henchmen Smiles (Jack LaRue) killed a man. The gang (including Guinn Williams as a dumb henchman Happy) forces Lock to marry his girlfriend Judith (top billed Betty Burgess) so she can't testify against him. No sooner are they wed when Lock, a real jerk, says he doesn't love Judith and never wanted to get married. "We're washed up". She drives away and plows into a train. Judith survives the crash but is now depressed and wheelchair bound in a nursing home under the care of Dr. Mitchell (Lloyd Hughes). To help in her rehabilitation Mitchell gives Judith a job as his secretary. Later of course he falls in love with her. 

Meanwhile Lock decides to double cross his boss. While he and Louie (Anthony Orlando) collect a 10 thou loan, Lock kills Louie and takes the money in broad daylight. There are witnesses and the cops give chase. He escapes to Mexico and convinces Judith to go with him (she's still his wife). Later Smiles and Happy track the unhappy couple down. Mitchell also arrives. A few shootings end everything and make Judith a happy widow. 

This plodding melodrama was one of only four films directed by Clifford Sandforth who a few years earlier directed Lugosi in MURDER BY TELEVISION.

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Mary

 

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MARY JANE'S NOT A VIRGIN ANYMORE-1996-Amateurish, badly acted and scripted shot on super 8 junk. Dweeb punks talk about sex with the pivotal character Mary Jane (Lisa Gerstein). It was directed by Sarah Jacobson (I WAS A TEENAGE SERIAL KILLER).

Thanks for reading this very short review. Sorry I missed Halloween. Hope you had a scary one!