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 bobmonel |
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Posts: 413 03/03/08 14:19:58 |
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MY FAVORITE EUROTRASH FILMS | #1 | ||
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Posts: 413 03/03/08 15:28:11 |
The Eurocine composite THE HOUSE OF THE LOST DOLLS (1973) is gloriously incoherent European Trash Cinema! This image of Jack Taylor pursuing the villains originally appeared in the 1967 Eurospy title AGENT SIGMA 3: MISSION GOLDWALTHER! I won't be using the term EUROCULT here. It's always been European Trash Cinema to me. Thanks to the Godfather of European Trash Cinema: Craig Ledbetter. My Favorite European Trash Cinema titles include: THE SEDUCERS (1969): Rosalba Neri sleazefest THE HOUSE OF THE LOST DOLLS (1973) Jack Taylor-Eurocine Eurospy composite PLEASURE SHOP ON 7TH AVENUE (1979) Joe D'Amato; mafia backed NYC porno arcade invaded by losers. I HATE MY BODY (1973) outrageous Leon Klimovsky feminist sci-fi VOODOO BLACK EXORCIST (1973) Haiti lensed mummy-goes-berserk insanity w Aldo Sambrell BLOOD DELIRIUM (1988) John Philip Law abducts, cuts, drains blood from Eurobabes so his paintings can be blood red STAR ODYESSY (1977) or any Alfonso Brescia film ZOMBIE LAKE (1980): Incredibly bad, and sleazy, Nazi-Zombie epic. THE FURY OF THE WOLFMAN (1970) Paul Naschy's bottom scraping WOLF MAN epic. PARIS SEX MURDERS (1972) also could be in the giallo section but it's %100 Euro-trash That's just 10 off the cuff entries. There could be hundreds more. But I'll start by reviewing some of these below. Having a special appeal as a term and encompassing many genres, European Trash Cinema isn't for everyone, and everything European isn't Euro-trash, for instance I wouldn't put Mario Bava's KILL, BABY KILL! in that category, it's great but doesn't have the right tone and rises just too high out of the category. I'm interested in definitions of the designation European Trash Cinema. It's definitely different than what has become know as EURO CULT, which takes in a lot of things which one wouldn't term Euro-trash. I don't want European Trash Cinema to become mainstream or respectable! (c) Robert Monell, 2008
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Severin's THE SISTER OF URSULA DVD arrives! | #2 | ||
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Posts: 413 03/06/08 13:36:55 |
If THIS doesn't qualify as EUROPEAN TRASH CINEMA then nothing does! I just opened the new Severin Films DVD presentation of this 1978 Enzo Milioni giallo.
I'll be previewing it on the BLOOD & BLACK LACE: giallo notes forum below. I've only seen it via an Italian language only video dub. I'm
anxious to see Severin's presentation and report on it.
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bobmonel |
ZOMBIE LAKE (1980) | #3 | ||
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Posts: 413 03/11/08 13:47:26 |
Rare production still. Jean Rollin's worst ever effort, added to Eurotrash favorites. How could it not be there? Bad photography(although the 2000 IMAGE DVD, taken from vault elements, looks great), bad acting (except for Uncle Howard), bad script (some say from an original story by Jess Franco cf EL SECRETO DEL DR. ORLOFF), and really bad "special effects" zombie make-up! Rollin appears as a police detective who gets chomped while investigating the Nazi undead. But you've to got to love the underwater glimpses of local femmes nude swims before death (shot with something called the "comex-pro"). Check out Jess Franco historian/actor/writer/friend Alain Petit (MANACOA FILES) as one of the villagers who use a flamethrower to dispose of the zombies at the climax. ZOMBIE LAKE is nothing less than 100% prime EUROPEAN TRASH CINEMA. |
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bobmonel |
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Posts: 413 03/12/08 14:11:39 |
Here's a link to information on the "Comex-Pro" used to shoot the underwater sequences:
http://frogmanmuseum.free.fr/html/helmetsandfullfacemaskscomexproen.htm Thanks for the above email from Eric Cotenas about the Comex-Pro system used in ZOMBIE LAKE. |
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bobmonel |
VSOM RANT | #5 | ||
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Posts: 413 04/05/08 14:15:58 |
Starting in about 1989 I began to buy video dubs of Eurotrash movies from VSOM, it cost about 25 to 30 bucks a pop. They were about the only game in town for
many titles. I kept this up for about 4 years and spent WAY TOO MUCH $$$$. Obsessed, addicted as I was to ETS. Then I just quit because I found outlets which
were had more reasonable prices and much better video quality in general. I found most VSOM product to be in below average to very poor video quality and they
recorded on used tapes so as soon as your movie ended another popped up!
In any case, they were recently sold I understand. Here's an amusing rant on VSOM one can find on GOOGLE when VSOM is typed in: " On May 9, 8:29 pm, Yancey wrote:
> > Can Google Webmaster Help me?
> > Type my name in the GOOGLE BOX, Yancey Hendrieth
> > This is what appears:
> > VIDEO SEARCH OF MIAMI THIS WEEK'S NEW ARRIVAL ...hardcord (XXX)
> > When anyone types my name in this GOOGLE BOX,
> > I have no relationship, nor never had a contract nor any contact with
> > How can GOOGLE allow these white collar criminals to post "codes" on
> > Next, click this link and you are ready to order
> > I have nothing what-so-ever to do with that company,
> > Now that I have informed you, GOOGLE WEBMASTER about this illegal
> > I ordered their DVD, SUPER SIMIAN (XXX) to find
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Posts: 138 04/24/08 16:30:06 |
Is it still Thomas Weisser who runs this business? His book on Spaghetti Westerns is awful! Both your account and the above-quoted rant doesn't make this
outfit any more endearing to me.
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bobmonel |
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Posts: 413 04/24/08 19:46:10 |
VSOM has a new owner now and set up shop in another state, I believe, or will move. It was sold some time ago. The SW book is indeed very superficial and has
enough bad information in it. I guess it does have some value as a reference but I didn't buy it.
I bought quite a few dubs from them when they were the only game. This was in the mid to late 1980s. Then I switched to ETC who had better service, better quality at half the price. I"m not sure if the guy's rant is for real or a put on. It's a scream... |
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bobmonel |
TOP SENSATION [THE SEDUCERS] 1969 | #8 | ||
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Posts: 413 07/08/08 14:29:56 |
I just watched this sterling example of European Trash Cinema over the weekend again. I always seem to put it on after midnight and fall asleep only to wake up to the mind bending final scene! Directed by Ottavio Alessi and featuring the dream teaming of Rosalba Neri and Edwige Fenech as the titular seducers who are hired by Rich Bitch Mudy (you have to capitalize when you see her emaciated visage [think THE GIANT CLAW] and her huge yacht on which this slow slide into the utter depths of steamy sleaze is set) to entertain her drooling idiot son. Having these two future giallo queens parade around for feature length wearing the skimpiest bikinis on the Mediterranean, and usually much less, as they attempt to arouse Mudy's very sub-normal spawn with the most disastrous results imaginable is alone worth the price of admission. Neri's black bikini is especially skimpy and she wears it proudly as she performs in the nonstop erotic rites. It's all in the spirit of kinky, nasty fun with a possible "moral" about how riches ensure a ticket to Hell or it's easier for a camel to pass through the eyehole of a needle.... It also has can be seen as a satire of consumerism and big business ethics, or the lack thereof. But chances are you won't be thinking with the proper organ during this one, and that's what makes it such prime Eurotrash. A side trip to a desolate island reveals a shepherd and his buxom wife. As Fenech has a close encounter with a goat (I'm not making this up) Mudy and co. decide to use the goatherders naive wife as sexual stimulation for Mudy's morose offspring. Bad idea. Very Bad idea! Multiple murder and worse ensue. With an 10+ sleaze factor, the feral antics of Neri and Fenech and a delirious score by Sante Romitelli (A HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON) you can't go wrong with this one. Then there's the incredible Maud Belloroche in her only know film role as the corporate domitrix, Mudy. This woman is so physically and spiritually ugly that you just want to spit on her! But she gets her just rewards as he yacht skims towards oblivion. This review was based on the SWV VHS English language dub, THE SEDUCERS. Picture and sound quality are poor, somehow adding to the Grinhouse ambiance of the sordid affairs which unfold. No known decent DVD presentation of this exists as far as I know.
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Posts: 413 07/09/08 11:06:17 |
VSOM is offering the 1977 Nazisploitation epic NAZI LOVE CAMP 27 as a "Jess Franco" film, which is certaingly is not. It was directed by Mario
Caiano. Franco had nothing to do with it.
Below is the VSOM blurb: NAZI LOVE CAMP 27 Jess Franco. Sirpa Lane. This is one of the more infamous of the countless Nazisploitation Italian films produced in the wake of Luchino Visconti's THE DAMNED (1969); actually, it's the only one I've watched thus far - though earlier this year I did catch up with Liliana Cavani's THE NIGHT PORTER (1974) but, like the Visconti film, that one is best termed as Art-house. B quality. |
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Posts: 25 07/09/08 11:37:18 |
It is my understanding the current proprieter(s) [?] of the VSOM vault of tape wonders is slowly going through everything they acquired in the buy out and
transfering it to DVDr. If you look at the bottom of the VSOM page there's a little line about who owns the page. If you pluge that into Google I do
believe it pops up another vendor site. Whether they're the same or not I do not know but if this concern for archiving old masters is an indication that
the current proprietorship is concerned about video quality then all the better since the old proprietor, sadly, didn't seem all that concerned.
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Posts: 5 07/10/08 04:42:09 |
My top ten favorite european trash titles would include, today (it's an ever changing list):
1. DEVIL HUNTER (1980): The essance of eurotrash. 2. MAD FOXES (1981): Totally joyeuss mega-trash with naked bikers, bad kung fu, dumb dubbing and tons of sleaze and violence. 3. SPACE ODYSSEY (1979): The "best" of the Al Bradley space opera cycle. 4. EROTIC RITES OF FRANKENSTEIN (1972): I can't decide if this is a great, offbeat horror film or an extremely entertaining turkey. It really doesn't matter. 5. THE REINCARNATION OF ISABEL (1973): Polselli making little sense as usual. 6. OLOFF AND THE INVISIBLE MAN (1971): The invisible man gets in on in Howard Vernons gothic castle... the world's first and last Jess Franco ripp-off! 7. PANTHER SQUAD (1984): Mindboggling Eurociné action adventure, the ultimate bad eurotrash eighties flick (together with DIAMOND CONNECTION and ANGEL OF DEATH, who almost made the list). 8. SHARK'S CAVE (1978): 90 minutes of total confusion with one of the most WTF! endings in the history of moving pictures! 9. THE HANGING WOMAN (1973): Gothic bingo with necrophile Naschy. Like being hit with a wet pillow for 90 minutes, as a friend put it. 10. MALABIMBA (1979): Sleazy, dirty fun with bad HC inserts. I sometimes wish I was catholic so I could feel the shame. |
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Posts: 413 07/10/08 12:45:32 |
Welcome to CINEMADROME, Lars. Thanks for your intriguing list. I live for WTF endings and anything Euro with the word "shark" in the title is a
must-see for me.
MALABIMBA (1979): Sleazy, dirty fun with bad HC inserts. I sometimes wish I was catholic so I could feel the shame." I AM Catholic, so I feel the shame! |
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Posts: 413 07/10/08 12:59:18 |
It is my understanding the current proprieter(s) [?] of the VSOM vault of tape wonders is slowly going through everything they acquired in the buy out and
transfering it to DVDr. If you look at the bottom of the VSOM page there's a little line about who owns the page. If you pluge that into Google I do
believe it pops up another vendor site. Whether they're the same or not I do not know but if this concern for archiving old masters is an indication that
the current proprietorship is concerned about video quality then all the better since the old proprietor, sadly, didn't seem all that concerned.
I can only agree with you on the relatively poor quality of VSOM product in the past, Kester. When they were the only game in town back in the early 90s for Eurotrash I spent way too much $$ acquiring videos which gladly trashed when DVD took over. And they don't seem to know or sometimes misrepresent their inventory. |
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Posts: 5 07/12/08 03:28:01 |
SHARK'S CAVE is the kind of movie you could get slapped in the face for recommending, but I can't help to do just that. It's not a shark movie per se but a really confusing Bermuda triangle speculation film with aliens, sunken citys (the worst models ever), sleeping sharks, possessed dolls and Andres Garcia in minimal bathing trunks - he was the undisputable king of eurotrash Bermuda triangle speculation films, as he starred in all three of them! Being brought up in a non-religious home in the world's most secularized country I can sometimes feel a bit alienated by certain themes that occupy many directors with more religious backgrounds. And genres like nunspolitation doesn't really work that well without the thrill of the forbidden I guess. This is probably one of the reasons I feel more connected to directors like Rollin and Franco (certanly the in every way most non-catholic spanish director from that generation) than, say, Fulci or Argento. |
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Posts: 413 07/19/08 10:53:51 |
" This is one of the more infamous of the countless Nazisploitation
Italian films produced in the wake of Luchino Visconti's THE DAMNED (1969); actually, it's the only one I've watched thus far - though earlier this year I did catch up with Liliana Cavani's THE NIGHT PORTER (1974) but, like the Visconti film, that one is best termed as Art-house. B quality. The above blurb in the VSOM catalogue, for NAZI LOVE CAMP 27, incorreclty being promoted as a Franco film, was actually lifted from Mario Gauci's IMDB review without attribution! VSOM is still at it...! Here's the original copy direct from the IMDB, as you can see, it was copied word for word [!]: NAZI LOVE CAMP 27 (Mario Caiano, 1977) **1/2, 27 April 2007
This is one of the more infamous of the countless Nazisploitation Italian films produced in the wake of Luchino Visconti's THE DAMNED (1969); actually, it's the only one I've watched thus far - though earlier this year I did catch up with Liliana Cavani's THE NIGHT PORTER (1974) but, like the Visconti film, that one is best termed as Art-house.
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Posts: 25 07/26/08 05:00:36 |
I actually have THE DAMNED on DVD. It's still in the cellophane. As for THE NIGHT PORTER. . meh. . I've never cared for it as a movie. I wouldn't
classify it as Nazisploitation anymore than I would THE BLACK BOOK though. It's just a very annoying psycho-sexual drama that happens to have Nazi death
camp flashbacks in it. For my money a proper Nazisploitation flick has to, oh, I don't know, actually be set in a death camp and have that schlocky 70s
pseudo-gore. Oh, yeah, and MEAL WORMS standing in for maggots! LOL.
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