Tutti defunti... tranne i morti - aka All Deceased, Except The Dead. Bought this one as an extra film in the 88 films order so I would have free shipping, which was cheaper than one film less with shipping.  At first this fillm didn't really appeal to me because it's a comedy and they mostly are unfunny to me. This one being a Pupi Avati film (House with Laughing Windows, Zeder) mafr me give it a try. The story is about a book salesman ending up in the Zanotti castle where the pater familias just died. A prophecy from the book the salesman was trying to sell says that a treasure will be found when nine are dead in total. Soon the murders start and a private detective is hired to solve them. This is where it got hairy for me because the characters are already being a bit stupid, but the detective takes the cake: I often cringed at the dialogue and the stupidity on display. The nurse and Ilaria provide the eye candy in this film and together with some of the murders they are the saving grace for the film. The ending was weird, but I guessed the killer. I love 70s Italo films and this being one of them really did help, but it will not become one of my favourites. Recommended for Italo fans and for Avati completists. Bad moviefans might have a good time with looking for signs of life in the dead bodies.

Oh! You Beautiful 'Doll' - softporn thing (not sure if this is a film, plot is absent and runtime only one hour). An over the hill star (movie or porn, not clear) does home auditions, which are her excuse to have sex with random guys. The sex is pretty explicit: you can see both male and female genitals but no pen shots. The scenes are all made to end up in people having sex like in a genuine pornflick but it's all far from erotic. Some scenes are close to ridiculous, like the one in which a robber enters the house and after he doesn't find any money starts having sex with all women present at the time. Some characters also look ridiculous with obviously fake whigs. Might be fun as a short timefiller on a bad movienight, but I think I'll never rewatch this.

Haunted - in 1865 Abernaki, an Indian woman, is being sentenced for witchery: she has to ride into the desert until she dies. She curses the community who did this to her and more than a century later it seems like she is reincarnated into a woman visiting a run down settlement where a phone booth just got installed in the cemetery. Is it really her? And what will she do? Acting is so so in this B-film where some stuff has to be seen to be believed, like the very visible rope behind the car which explodes while having two dolls in it, trying to portray an accident. The inhabitants of the settlement deal in their very own ways with the sudden appearance of Jennifer Baines, the girl who looks suspiciously like Abanaki, and while the younger guys bicker with the old man about leaving the town, the spirit of Abanaki uses the phone booth to call from beyond the grave. The woman of the house is supposed to be blind, but she seems blind in some cases and not blind in others. There are way too few kills for a horror film and actually the only one which is really nice is the one with the flames. Very weird film, one to be enjoyed by bad moviefans maybe but not by any others I suppose.

Frightmare - aka The Horror Star. This is not (as you might notice by its alternative title) the Pete Walker slasher from 1974. Instead, it's a slasher from 1983 and it has most, if not all ingredients from the golden era of horror. The story is about an old star of horrorfilms, Conrad Radzoff, a man of the likes of Bela Lugosi or Boris Karloff. He feels his death is nearing, and he wants to make hius funeral his last great performance. So he talks to all the guests from a special Tv screen in the funeral home and when he is being put in his mausoleum (including a neon flickering star with his name above the entrance) a bunch of young fans decide to break in at night and steal the corpse. There is no real reason given for this action other than just having some fun, but when the games are over and everyone is in his or her bed, Radzoff rises from death and starts taking out these fans one by one. Nice kills, some are gory some not so much. Atmosphere is great, you can really dwell in the 80s feel all over. Jeffrey Combs makes his first horror appearance in this film, and does a decent job. Recommended!

Model Mordene - aka Nothing Underneath aka Sotto il Vestito Niente. Late giallo (1985) in which we follow twins: the brother is a parkranger in Yellowstone, the sister is a model in Milan. He feels something is wrong with his sister so he tries to contact her and when she doesn't answer he goes to Milan himself. He had a vision about a  scissor-armed killer on the loose there, so he starts to investigate to find out where his sister has gone, or what happened to her. Atmosphere is quite nice, Donald Pleasance adds to the whole of it by his role of police investigator and even though it took me a while I did guess the killer. There aren't as many red herrings as there usually are in a giallo, but the story is interesting enough to keep watching. Nice acting, nice giallo. Not like the ones from the heydays but still pretty good. Recommended, especially for Italo fans. 

Twilight People - Filipino horror from the 70s, produced by Roger Corman. A man is kidnapped and brought to an island where some scientist is trying to prepare man for the future. Some species, results of his previous experiments, run around on the island, like the man with the boarhead who gets shot while being on the run. There are also other half man half beast creatures, like a man with bat wings and a woman with a feline head. Amidst the experiments and operations, the kidnapped man falls in love with the female doctor involved in the process, who happens to be the daughter of the scientist (I must say that I can understand: she is rather beautiful). The half man, half animal creatures locked into several cages reminded me a lot of The Island of Dr Moreau, and like in that film, they get out and do some sort of uprising. In the chaos they try to get away and so does the kidnapped man together with the female doctor. Hot on their heels are the scientist and his cronies. Recommended for B-movie fans.

Schizo - another Pete Walker from the 88 films order. This one got the lowest ratings in reviews from the four films in the package, so my expectations were a bit lower. The plot is about Samantha, a figure skating professional who is marrying Alan and at the wedding she sees a man who is stalking her. He hid a knife under the cloth on the trolley of the wedding cake and it was covered in blood, causing panic and fear among the visitors. Samantha is not very happy in the marriage and her skating career is going down the drain. She talks to a friend who is also a psychologist, but when he starts to investigate the stalking man, he is being killed. Other people who seem to get close to the solution also end up dead. Samantha's fear is rising, is the killer really coming close this time? The backside of the BluRay says that the audience will keep guessing until the end and I must say: that is definitely not the case. While in the first half you might think this is a pretty straightforward slasher film, you will find out soon enough that there is a  rather predictable twist and it's a miracle how the other characters in the film didn't notice earlier. Still, this is not a bad film, it's just nothing new or groundbreaking. Atmosphere is OK, the acting is decent and Lynne Frederick is a sweetheart (just read her bio and her life was tragic to say the least). If you like slashers you might enjoy this, if you are a Pete Walker fan you should see this, but on average I guess most will pick a different film because this one does everything a little bit and nothing all the way if you catch my drift.

Pigs - on the BR cover it says Pigs,on the title screen it says The 13th Pig and on imdb it says Daddy's Deadly Darling, take your pick. When I bought this,I thought the pigs were gonna be the killers, but they are just the means for disposal of the bodies. What started as an accident, comes in really handy when an escaped mental patient ends up in a remote diner and starts killing off people: their bodies simply end up in the pigs pen. Both the local sheriff and a private eye hired by the mental asylum she escaped from, move in on her. She is not gonna give up without a fight though. Nicely restored image, acting is a bit average, some are below par and others a tiny bit above. The pigs squeal like mad when they smell human flesh which adds to the atmosphere but is also very loud so take care when you are watching this, keep your finger on the volume button of your remote. It's an odd little flick in which you don't really get to see much gore and what you do see is extremely fake, the red is way too bright and looks too much like paint. I laughed at the scene where the police are investigating the diner and the owner quickly steps on a severed hand laying around on the ground: afterwards the sheriff tells the gossipy neighbours "I couldn't find anything", well, maybe open your eyes then, lol. Bad movie fans might have fun with the fake gore and the not so great acting performances, other people might be interested because of its oddness.

The Comeback - the last Pete Walker from the 88 Films order. Nick Cooper, a British singer who has been in the US for six years, comes back to the UK in order to write a new album, and so he makes a comeback in two ways. He recently divorced his wife Gail and in the beginning of the film you see her being murdered brutally in the penthouse they both own. Because he has no desire to meet her nor to visit the penthouse, Nick doesn't find out about her death. He keeps singing for his new album and his manager and his secretary are the people he speaks most often. The manager has found a large mansion including a housekeeping couple, for all Nick's needs. The owners of the mansion are on a long trip which will take them at least a year. While Nick falls in love with the secretary and records new songs for his album, his sound technician goes to visit the penthouse and gets killed too. Nick starts to hear eerie noises in the mansion, a girl sobbing in the night and he tries to find out what is causing these sounds. Is he imagining it, is he going crazy? During the film you are trying to find out who the killer is (in the kill scenes it's a person disguised as an old woman, with a wig and a mask) and there are some candidates but none of them is a definitive murderer. When it was revealed I was like "Oh of course!" but in that scene a new death occurs and then there was the option as

Spoiler:

to blame Nick for all the kills

but the writer/director chose not to. A missed opportunity imo, it could have made the film a bit more gruesome. Still it's a nice film, the number of kills is pretty low and it's more a thriller than a horror, although the decomposing body of Gail is very fitting for a horror. Recommended, but not as good as House of Mortal Sin.

Triloquist - the cover says "from the makers of Leprechaun" and I can see why they did that, but it's also quite clear why this movie is way less famous than Leprechaun (I mean: five sequels vs none, says enough I guess). Story is about a sister and a brother who become orphans, then they move from foster home to foster home and end up with an abusive uncle. After he died they got separated because the sister told the police it was the brother who killed uncle and now he is in a mental hospital. Now they are almost 18 years old and want to get out. The brother, Norbert, is a mute simpleton and the sister, Angelina, is a mentally damaged girl who buys everything with her body and sells anyone close to her if it fits her situation. With them is a dummy who has been with them all their lives. It's said that Norbert speaks through the dummy (the triloquist of the title), and the dummy isn't only foulmouthed, it also kills off people who try to stop the siblings. Angelina thinks the family needs a son to continue the male bloodline, so they kidnap Robin, a teenager who will have to bear Norbert's son. On this adventure they leave a trail of violence and crime and it doesn't take the police long to catch up to them. The dummy only plays a secondary role, and while Leprechaun is the main character in his film, here it's mostly about Angelina. She is of course twisted and you know why, but she is also not very likeable and therefore you as a viewer don't have too much sympathy for the main characters in this film. Acting is OK but the main problem of this film is that it gets kind of repetitive pretty soon, and that's quite a feat for a film with a runtime of around 80 minutes. It's not a bad film per se, bad moviefans might like the dummy but there are way funnier bad flicks out there and it's all just not enough.

Alien From LA - nerdy girl Wanda Saknussemm gets dumped by her boyfriend because she is afraid of everything and leads a boring life. She wishes for something to change her life and then she receives a letter about the death of her father who was exploring in Africa. So she conquers her fears of flying and heads towards Africa. There she finds out her dad may be still alive as she has fallen down his excavation shaft. She ends up in an underground world called Atlantis, which looks a lot like a Mad Max world with strangely dressed people and gladiator-like games. A 1984ish government controls everything and is campaigning against "aliens" people who came to Atlantis from the "non-existent" surface world. This of course is a take on our world's governments who are communicating about alien/UFO sightings, and there are more of these in the film. That's a good thing about the film, what's not so great is the main character is talking and acting like she is in a children's movie, I don't know why, maybe this movie was meant for a younger audience. She pairs up with a miner who has trouble with his girlfriend and with the government and she becomes a part of an inhouse conspiracy between a high ranking general and a consul. Will she find her dad and return to the surface or will she spend the rest of her days underground? The netherworld is nicely done, it gave me a nice post apocalyptic vibe even though it probably wasn't meant as such. Acting is so so, it's rather exaggerated like I already mentioned about the main character. If you can look past this, it's a rather nice 80s scifi film, but not a classic. Bad moviefans might find the setting enjoyable.

So Sweet So Perverse - aka Così dolce... così perversa, a somewhat early Umberto Lenzi film. This thriller is somewhat confusing at times, it keeps trying to put you on the wrong foot all the time, which makes guessing the plot hard but also following the story is harder than necessary because of all the red herrings. Jean is a Parisian engineer married to Daniele, having affairs with the wife of his best friend and with Nicole, a woman who recently came living in the apartment above that of him and Danielle. Nicole seems to have a sadomasochistic relationship with Klaus and Jean, falling in love with her, wants to try and help her get away from him. Klaus is not giving up easily though and one night the two of them are in a standoff. One of them gets killed, or does he? The part of the film after the murder is about this last question and it's rather original but also a bit strange. It's not really giallo although it has giallo-esque features. There are some goofs, like when Jean finds drops of blood on the doorstep of Nicole's apartment but later he doesn't find any other blood traces inside and there are few kills which was a bit disappointing. Overall I enjoyed the atmosphere but this one was somehow lacking a bit. I prefer the later films of Lenzi, that's for sure.

Had some friends over for a movie night:
Help Me, I'm Possessed! - very weird and bad film about a sanatorium in a castle ("It's not a castle, it's a sanatorium!") where the doctor does experiments on evil, which manifests itself in the shape of red spaghetti, randomly murdering people., When the not so sharp local sheriff investigates ("Did you see or hear anything unusual?" "Yes, I did see or hear anything unusual") he hits a brick wall everytime he confronts the doctor, but in the meantime there are cells in the basement and torture equipment, even a guilotone for those patients who don't listen to the doctor. His simple sister and his worldly wife both have their views on him but the net gets tighter and tighter around the doctor as more people get killed by the "evil". Very bad film, highly recommended for bad moviefans for the acting, the dialog, the sfx (when a guy whips a girl the red appears on her clothing first., lol) the facial expressions of the actor who plays the doctor and the story. This is golden SBiG material.

Sueprsoul Brother - aka The Six Thousand Dollar Nigger. Another really bad film where the main character (the six thousand dollar guy from the title) is talking so in mouth in the beginning of the film that he is 100% inaudible: nobody in the room understood what he said (after a while this gets better). He is a homeless bum, grabbed up by some criminals with a plan for a jewellery heist for which they need him. A shady doctor (a dwarf speaking in a Russian accent) is experimenting with a superhuman strength injection, but everyone who gets it dies after a week and therefore they need a neutralizer, to prevent him from dying. Without the certainty of having this neutralizer the homeless bum gets the injection and is supposed to take the safe from the jewelry store. The scene in which this happens is hilariously overboard. It's super obvious the safe is from plaster and therefore doesn't weigh a ton. The plot twist is rather predictable but executed so clumsily that it becomes funny again. The jive talking is all over the place and the bad jokes are stiff as a corpse. Had some really hard laughs at this one, highly recommended for bad movie fans again.

Beyond Atlantis - some guys in the Philippines are hunting pearls to get rich, and a local scientist is interested in the culture which is present on the islands around the pearl beds. So she hops on the boat with the adventurous/criminal guys in order to study the people (strange people with goggles for eyes who can hold their breath for minutes on end without gear when they dive). The religion/cult is ancient Greek mythology, the scientist attaches the Minoans to it and there are centaurs and mermaids and the princess is called Syrene, the king Nereus. It's all very Greek but how they all ended up in what is obviously the Pacific is not explained, but they might be the inhabitants of Atlantis (eeh, wrong ocean?). Acting is OKish, Sid Haig does a pretty decent job as Eastern Eddy, some kind of mafia boss. Other characters are more exaggerated, like the guy who keeps wanting to dive and dive again for more pearls. The underwater shots are pretty well done and we were wondering how these people were doing those shots without taking in air. Best film so far but that doesn't say much, bad moviefans can still have fun with this one because it's a Philippines production by Roger Corman and it shows. The ending is pretty sudden, one of us said "ah, they ran out of money" and I guess that sums it up.

One of my friends brought an old DVD and gave it to me, hoping this would be a nice bad movie too. The cover says "Psycho Killer", in the menu it says "Beyond Bedlam". The first three minutes you are looking at random shots of a building and other stuff and then all of a sudden a guy jumps out of a window in the building, burning. How he got on fire is not explained but it's the start of a story about an institute where Dr Lyell is experimenting on psychotic serial killer Gilmour with drugs she also tests on herself. Every time she uses the drugs there is a suicide, and the police is baffled. Police investigator Hamilton, who has a shared past with Gilmour, is opposed to the experiments and tries to find out what causes the deaths of those people. It turns out Gilmour is playing mindtricks, making people do stuff from his cell. A large part of this film consists of rather confusing dream/trip scenes, the idea was to make you guess which are real and which are not but it falls rather flat. The makers also borrow stuff from other films like The Shining and more obviously The Silence of the Lambs, but they turn into a bad copy rather than inspired scenes. Dr Lyell is played by Liz Hurley which is a big plus in my book, but other than that this film was pretty forgettable. 

Widow Blue! - weird film which you can't easily find info about on imdb and that's probably because of its x-rated content. The opening scene is a very boring long shot from a drawing, going to a woman getting high on the couch beneath the drawing and back to the drawing. After that we see two couples, a gay couple having sex and a heterosexual couple fighting: the man wants sleep and then breakfast, the woman wants to make love. As soon as he is out the door though, she calls her lover to ask him to come over, but the husband is listening in on the call. He doesn't come home though, he is actually going to the house of the woman who was getting high: it's her husband making love in the gay scenes and she is out for blood! Lots of hardcore sex scenes in this one, including genitalia and cumshots. The story is superthin, like you would expect from a porno. In some scenes you can see the boom mic or its shadow, time between sexscenes is an average of 2 minutes. The final one is a little orgy with five people. If you like porn you can give this a go, if you are a bad moviefan you might enjoy the kills: there aren't many of them but they are really fake. If you are looking for thrills or scares, skip this one.

Night - this must be the most generic horrormovie title I have ever seen, maybe even the most generic title of all films. After ploughing through several trailers you don't really wanna see (Polonia bros among others) the story starts with a standoff where detective Mike Jericho accidentally shoots a girl but she doesn't even flinch. Later he seems to meet her but he is not sure if this is all real: when it turns out to be real Mike is being turned into a vampire. When his former partner Jimi is gonna look for him, he runs into all kinds of trouble. Some fightscenes look ridiculously staged, you see some guys stopping in time to give the opponent the opportunity to fight back. In another fightscene any emotion seems to be drained, the lines are delivered flat and nobody expresses any fear, anger or anything, apart from this one attempt at a growl by one of the vampires.This film is from 2006 but the music is very 1980s in the beginning, it becomes more modern later in the film. It seems like the film is used as a vehicle to promote the music, like you can see in other low budget flicks. Jimi eventually locates the vampire's den, will he be able to recover Mike and bring him back to a normal human life? Acting is below par in most places, some scenes are bearable others are very fake like the aforementioned fightscenes. You don't really feel attached to any character, so what happens to them is of minor importance. There is some vampire action but it is rather minimal. If you like vampire movies you might enjoy this one but otherwise it's pretty forgettable.

Invaders of the Lost Gold - aka Horor Safari aka Safari senza Ritorno. Even though this one has an Italian title, it's not an Italian movie (director is Australian and country of origin is Hong Kong)but it does give strong Italian vibes with several crewmembers being Italian and the entire film breathes Italian cinema. Filmed in the Philippines (like so many other bad flicks I've got in my collection), the story is about a Japanese army unit in 1945, fighting off a bunch of natives while transporting some cases of gold, which was meant to be used as financial aid for the Japanese government. The cases are hidden in a cave and then forgotten, but the thought of them lives on in a local legend. Years later, an expedition is mounted to recover the lost gold and even before the expedition starts people are dying because of it. On the expedition itself it's very dangerous for the participants too, it seems like there is someone trying to take out everybody and keep the gold for him- or herself... who this someone is, is really very predictable, but other than that this is an OK film with all the correct vibes. It has Laura Gemser as a member of the expedition, it has Stuart Whitman and Woody Strode, all famous people in the B-movie world. The only thing I really missed was a new confrontation with the natives and some more wild animal action. And while it's not an Italian filom I'm very sure that Italo fans and bad moviefans will have a great time watching this, not in the least because in the opening scenes where Rex Larson is talking to Tobachi in the garden of his training center, a crewmember keeps popping up on the leftside of the image, you can clearly see his head which is unintentionally funny.

The Young Nurses - the last of the nurses film on the Roger Corman's Cult Classics All Night Marathon DVD. This one seems a bit like a mix between the other three: Candy Stripe Nurses, Private Duty Nurses and Night Call Nurses. This one has naughty doctors and nurses in the hospital, T&A outside the hospital, social issues like feminism, racism and drug abuse and a chase between a motorcycle and a jeep. I had fun with this one, it was pretty versatile and had a good pace. Acting is OK and the 1970s summerlike atmosphere was attractive, Ashley Porter playing Joanna is a beauty (and a mystery, only starred in this film and in Student Nurses and that's it, can't find any info on her or even a photograph). After Candy Stripe Nurses, which was imo the best, this comes in second place, overall I was surprised by this subgenre as I had expected more exploitation-like films. For bad moviefans or horrorfans these films are not interesting, I watched them because I saw them in the Corman documentary I watched a while ago and since he has produced many films that I enjoyed a lot, I gave these a try. Probably a one time experience though.

Dollman vs Demonic Toys - a mashup between the two films which are in the title. It's Charles Band and therefore cheap: you get to see several scenes from the previous movies to fill up this one and still it runs for only an hour, wow. It had been a while since I had seen Demonic Toys but I recognized the jack-in-a-box, the evil babydoll and the aggressive robot immediately. There was also an action figure which I couldn't remember and I was missing the evil teddy bear from the first film. Tracy Scoggins is back as Judith Gray to stop the Demonic Toys once and for all but she runs into trouble so she needs the assistance of Brick Bardo, who still is a miniature man (now a couple with equally small nurse Ginger). Nonsense ensues but it's fun nonsense and I enjoyed it even though it was really short and rather repetitive. Of these films this is the worst one, I had the most fun with Demonic Toys and then Dollman. A nice timefiller for a movie night with friends though.

The Losers - during the Vietnam War, The Devil's Advocates, a ragtag bikergang is recruited for a dangerous mission. An American of some importance is being held prisoner by the Chinese Army inside Cambodia.  Because of political implications, the US Army can't bust him out, so the bikers are being sent. These bikers have a wild lifestyle, a rather extreme look with swastikas etc and a total lack of good behaviour. Lots of eyebrows are raised when they get introduced into the army, where the brother of the gangleader is the commanding officer. My eyebrows were also raising, not because of the gang's looks, but because of the person who thought this assignment was a good idea and because of the presence of the Chinese Army in Cambodia before 1973, I mean, what the hell were they doing there? The bikers visit a garage where the default Filippino actor in Corman films is the owner, and they mend and weld until they have made a bunch of killing machines with which they will break into the prisoner camp. Three of the bikers are Vietnan War vets themselves and one of them has some unfinished business from when he was in the country some years ago. Acting is OK, the setting is nice but I had hoped for a bit more action throughout the film and a little less other stuff, like the preparation for the mission takes really long. For the action you have to wait for the final scene in which you get paid off pretty well: this ending also contains some surprises which was nice. Some deaths of characters seem random and the blood effects are bad. If you like bikermovies, if you like exotic action, then this is one to pick. Bad moviefans might have a good time too.

A Candle for the Devil - aka Una vela para el diabloaka It Happened At Nightmare Inn. Two sisters run a pension (wrongfully translated as "mansion" in the SDH subs) in a small village in 1970s Spain. They are very conservative when it comes to morale, and especially the older sister keeps a strict rule on women's clothing for example, stating that modern girls are whores and polluting the town with their frivolous fashion. The younger sister has a secret relationship with the servant in the pension though, breaking all the older sister's rules. When a new guest arrives in the pension, looking for her missing sister, she finds out the ways of the sisters are going much further than just some verbal criticism! Acting is OK, although it was a shame that it was an English dub only, I would have loved to see this in Spanish. The location is gorgeous, the village where it was filmed is Grazalema, one of those beautiful white plastered Spanish villages in a mountain valley in Andalucia. The characters are interesting and it makes sense why the sisters are the way they are. There are enough kills and even though they are not very inspired, they really support the somewhat scary atmosphere you'll get after a while when "being in the pension". Also a nice sneer to gossip, as you can see what kind of unwanted results they can deliver.  I enjoyed it, it has some gialloesque aspects, the only thing I was left wondering, is where the title came from: no idea. Recommended!

Night of Death - aka La Nuit de la Mort. I had been to the cinema but the movie we saw didn't really make me tick, so when I got home I decided to watch the last horror film in my collection so far which I hadn't seen. With the tagline "You Are What They Eat!" I thought this might be a zombie film but it's not, it's about a girl named Martine, who is taking a job in a home for the elderly. Her colleague Nicole, who has been working there for a while gets her first night off after two months: regulations. Some of the elderly people are a bit strange and so is the janitor and the woman who runs the whole thing, but martine is a friendly girl who always has a smile or a nice word for one of the inhabitants. Soon we get to see that Nicole meets her demise within the walls of the home, and Martine, who thinks Nicole left on her own accord, keeps working the job. Slowly but steadily though, she sees things and finds out about more when she starts to investigate: it starts to look like Nicole didn't leave the building at all. When she finds out what is about to happen to her, she tries to escape: will it be too late? Nice film, I really enjoyed this, I guess the makers of this film have watched TCM. There are some elements which are both in this and in TCM. Acting is nice, gore is OK and the ending is superb imo. Recommended!

Terminal City Ricochet - I acquitted this film about 20 years ago or something like that, and I wanted it because it has Jello Biafra in it. It was left unwatched for this long and I forgot what this movie was about. I gave it a chance yesterday and I understand why this was not on my "to watch" list for so long. It's a scifi movie about a town (Terminal City) where a mayor wants to be reelected. Problem is that the town is becoming a garbage dump in no time, especially because if the spacejunk dropping out of the sky. Alex, a newspaperboy (apparently they still read paper newspapers in the distant future), teams up with Ace "The Savior" to save the city and reveal the true nature of the mayor. They are being hunted by some secret policeman (this one is played by Biafra) but they get help from an unexpected ally. Some scenes in this film made me laugh, like the accidental murder of a guy who could give them valuable info. Other than that it wasn't anything special, The image and soundquality were below par, it was like I was watching TV in the 1980s. Pretty forgettable, but if you are into movies with a pessimistic view on the future, this might entertain you.

Black Scorpion II - the sequel to the Corman flick about Darcy, a policewoman fighting crime in The City of Angels. As a policewoman she has restrictions she is bypassing as Black Scorpion, the vigilante who kicks ass among the villains threatening the city. Meanwhile, the force has to deal with a corrupt mayor who wants to do everything to be re-elected. Darcy tries to win the love interest of her partner but he is rather blind to her avances. Fun and mindless flick again, but not as fun as the first one, it felt a bit worn out. I guess the novelty of the first part did some good which was lacking in this part, it's like a ballet where the dancers imitate a different dance, trying to redo all the steps. Still a good way to kill 90 minutes without any expectations. Recommended for bad moviefans.

Shuttle (2008): I think this was reviewed by Slayer a while ago and I downloaded it because it sounded promising. Thanks for that as I really liked this one. - It is about two girls that arrive at night via plane at the airport of a city. They are the last to leave the airport because they waited for a long time to pick up their luggage which didn't arrive. They get into a small shuttle bus that is supposed to take them into the city where they plan to stay for the night and come back the other day for their luggage. But the driver of the bus has other plans for them... This movie had a low budget but acting is solid (I didn't know any of the actors) and so is the cinematography. The entire movie plays like one scene during the night which I liked. I also liked that everything adds up in the movie. Even small things are linked together and have a meaning later on. I was a bit confused by the ending where it seemed to me that the girl shot the driver in the head, only for him to return in the next minutes without having any kind of serious injury on his head but can recommend it, if you are in the mood for a campy little thriller at night.