The Devil
(★★★)
Yet another in the “ghost of a woman seeks revenge” stories, similar to the previous day’s Seeding of a Ghost, but I liked this much better.
When I sit down for an Asian supernatural insanity movie, I want supernatural insanity throughout, not a lackluster drama with some scenes at the end, and this paid off! There were people getting gross body sores and puking up gunk and worms through this delightful thing!
Plus, the colors were bright and fun! Even all the green spots and streaks (due to, seemingly, the terrible condition of the film that this was made from) were bright and gave it an extra eerie air.
The Traveller /The Devil Incarnate
(★★★)
Well, I didn’t have a firm idea what to expect here, but it wasn’t this! I guess I assumed another witchcraft/witchhunter kind of thing, but, instead it’s a bit of a novelty.
Naschy is Leonardo, possibly the devil in human form, and he wanders all about the land, using his wiles to get people to trust him, and then boldly and terribly betraying them. Over and over… From farmers, to nun, to nobles, he just keeps traveling and betraying. I admit I’d prefer the title The Traveller over The Devil Incarnate, which is what is on my disk.
Not bad, just not that interesting.
Count Dracula’s Great Love
(★★★½)
Four charming ladies and a dude who won’t shut up telling them about everything (especially count Dracula) get stranded in Borgo Pass when their coach loses a wheel and then the Coachman gets killed by a horse.
So they head to the ruined sanitarium nearby where the door is answered by Naschy, Dr Marlow, who says that they can stay for days if needed. Turns out, Dracula wants to raise his daughter from the dead and needs some help…
Honestly, this was one of my favorite Dracula movies yet, and my favorite Naschy movie I’ve seen. However, the sheen wears off a bit for me in the last ten minutes due to odd changes in Dracula’s plans…
The Love Butcher
(★★★)
This was pretty fun, the second “sketchy gardener” movies I’ve watched lately (see: Lady Stay Dead).
Poor old Caleb. Unpopular, unattractive, super awkward personality. Sad because no lady would ever like him. But it’s made worse by his brother, the handsome and charming lothario, Lester. Lester seems to make it with everyone and considers himself to be an Adonis who is better than everyone else. A strange pair of guys to have to live together.
Caleb is out working all day, while Lester just seems to sit at home, and then when Cable gets home, Lester ridicules him for how lame he is and how no woman would ever like him. And then is and the Lester goes out and conquers!
But when Caleb’s gardening customers start turning up dead, suspicious start pointing his way. And Caleb starts getting pretty upset with Lester’s shenanigans…
Video Violence
(★★★)
Probably the most entertaining SOV movie I’ve seen. The story of a city slicker who moves to a little town to open a video rental store. Turns out that it is a good place for it because everyone seems to have a VCR, even though theirs no cable TV and the nearest video store is 15 miles away. What the heck are they doing with all those VCR’s? Side question, now that their is a rental store in town, why do the townsfolk only seem to rent slasher movies?
Once someone drops what seems to be a genuine snuff film in the video tape return, the fellow decides he needs to get to the bottom of it and goes to the police. But his weird story and vanishing evidence make it hard for him to prove what he’s saying, even as more snuff, and more threatening, movies start showing up…
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