James Hong acted in over 400 films, but directed just a few.. and I'm proud to say we're close to covering them all. You know him as an actor from Blade Runner, Big Trouble in Little China, The Golden Child, Revenge of the Nerds II. etc. In 1978 he directed The Girls Next Door - a teen sex comedy of all things. He didn't direct again for eleven years with the horror flick The Vineyard. Then he waited another ten years and directed Singapore Sling (1999). This film, Hot Connections, was his directorial debut, and it stars Rene Bond and a ton of other familiar sexploitation actresses.
Jun 21, 2021
Hot Connections (1973)
James Hong acted in over 400 films, but directed just a few.. and I'm proud to say we're close to covering them all. You know him as an actor from Blade Runner, Big Trouble in Little China, The Golden Child, Revenge of the Nerds II. etc. In 1978 he directed The Girls Next Door - a teen sex comedy of all things. He didn't direct again for eleven years with the horror flick The Vineyard. Then he waited another ten years and directed Singapore Sling (1999). This film, Hot Connections, was his directorial debut, and it stars Rene Bond and a ton of other familiar sexploitation actresses.
Jun 13, 2021
The Curse of the Alpha Stone (1972)
Okay, so we're finally getting around to this one. This is the one that really started it all for me - the mother of all sleazy B-movies. It was around 1985, and I'm at a mom-and-pop video rental store, and I'm not having any luck finding anything. I wasn't in the mood to rent Trading Places or Heaven Help Us yet again; so, I grabbed this box with the intriguing looking cover. Maybe it would be a cheesy sci-fi movie in the vein of Logan's Run or Colossus: The Forbin Project. Nope - not even close. What I got blew my fucking mind.
A Passion for Murder (1997)
Jun 11, 2021
Bare Witness (2002)
Jun 10, 2021
Olalla (2015)
In Maleficarum (2011) Bolivian actress/writer/director Amy Hesketh sort-of blew our minds with the most degrading and brutal performances since I Spit On Your Grave. So, it behooves us to give another one of her controversial works a shot. This odd vampire tale is inspired by the Robert Louis Stevenson story and, as you might predict, contains a lot of nudity from Hesketh.
Jun 8, 2021
Devilish Tales (2019)
Another horror anthology from Henrique Couto, who gave us Scarewaves (2014). About as cheaply made as you can get, but you have to admire the vision - you can tell he's horror nerd himself and really puts his heart into it.
Jun 7, 2021
How Good Is My Goddaughter 2 (2019)
Jun 5, 2021
Blood Demon Rising (2017)
Jun 3, 2021
Don't F*** in the Woods (2016)
Blood Scarab (2008)
Jun 1, 2021
Bag Boy Lover Boy (2014)
I had no idea there were so many movies about photographers who are serial killers. My god, just look at the Killer Photographer label, and you'll see how many VZ1 movies contain this trope. Ridiculous... but it's getting to the point where we've covered so many, we might as well try and see them all!
This Old Woman is a Beast (1992)
(Original Title: Esta vieja es una fiera) It's been a while since we looked at a Mexican comedy, and I'm anxious to get back to our old friends Alfonso Zayas, Maribel "La Pelangocha" Fernández, Gioconda, Victor Manuel Castro, et al. It's a later comedy, so things have been toned down a bit since the eighties which served up one randy punch after another.
Deadly Punkettes (2014)
Sort-of a Josie & the Pussycats with a ghost story tacked on at the end. From Jared Masters who gave us the refreshingly revolting Slink (2013).