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VIDEO JUNK
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VIDEO JUNK.623
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THE JOHN SAXON PROJECT
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Joe Kidd – 1972 / Director: John Sturges
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Medic: Walk with Lions – 1955 / Director: Ted Post
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The Ray Bradbury Theatre: The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone – 1989 / Director: David Copeland
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Night Caller From Outer Space – 1965 / Director: John Gilling
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Saxon in Space!
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CRIME Archive
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Diversions – 1976 / Director: Derek Ford
What would Robin Askwith say? This is a 1970s British sex film which contains no hint at all of window cleaners, taxi drivers, driving instructors or pop performers. Instead we…
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Celluloid Wunderkammer – Suzhou River – 2000 / Director: Lou Ye
We are introduced to the fleeting, yet rich eighty minutes of Suzhou River by a narrator. Very common, also appropriately noir for the mixing of petty crime with drama and…
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Female Market: Imprisonment – 1986 / Director: Yasuaki Uegaki
It comes to something when a film which is only just over an hour in length and which features several scenes of pretty girls being terrorised and raped is dull….
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Spike Drink Gang – 1995 / Director: Bosco Lam
Here we have a cheesy comedy rammed (ahem) into a sleazy rape flick. The opening scenes suggest a nice slice of Cat III goodness – a dodgy gang are injecting…
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Adventures of a Plumber’s Mate – 1978 / Director: Stanley Long
Do to me what you will. You might wait ’til I get me shirt off! You know you’re not in for a subtle film when, in the opening scene, our…
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The Dolemite Explosion – 2002 / Director: Frank Pinnock
Welcome back, muthafuckas. I AM the supreme originator. The number one innovator. And ah’m sick an’ tired a you muthafuckin’ playa-haters. It’s bin a long goddamn time, but ah’m back…
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The Baron – 1977 / Director: Phillip Fenty
Sell snort to your rich, freaky white friends. Sell pussy. Steal. Anything… start thinkin’ about makin’ money the way a nigger knows how. Well, they say that every tale has…
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Super Spook – 1975 / Director: Anthony B. Major
If Shaft can’t and The Hammer won’t…. then Super Spook will! Despite looking like Richard Roundtree after being hit by a lift, Super Spook (Leonard Jackson) is the best private…
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Death Dimension – 1978 / Director: Al Adamson
When East Meets West… All Hell breaks loose! Blaxploitation’s Indian Summer was a pretty desperate one. Utilising the most iconic of players, those still clinging on to their waning marketable…
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REWOUND: Foxy Brown – 1974 / Director: Jack Hill
Vigilante justice? It’s as American as apple pie. Here we have a film where Pam Grier shoots Huggy Bear from Starsky and Hutch in the ear, starts a brawl in…
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Get Christie Love! – 1974 / Director: William A. Graham
You’re under arrest, sugah. Get Christie Love! looks exactly what it is: a tame, honkey-friendly TV movie version of Coffy. Star Teresa Graves may not have Pam Grier’s pneumatic physique,…
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TNT Jackson – 1974 / Director: Cirio H. Santiago
Me, TNT, workin’ for the pigs? A Filipino-shot Blaxploitation/Kung Fu hybrid directed by the producer of The Big Bird Cage, a screenplay by, amongst others, A Bucket of Blood‘s Dick…
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Cleopatra Jones – 1973 / Director: Jack Starrett
That Goddamn black bitch! Cleopatra Jones is cooool. Coffy may be brasher, TNT Jackson may kick more ass, Christie Love may be lamer and Velvet Smooth may be, er, smoother,…
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Across 110th Street – 1972 / Director: Barry Shear
Mattelli! Get down! By 1972, Blaxploitation was seriously rolling. In ’71, Sweet Sweetback had set the attitude. Shaft had set the style – now the stage was set for…
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Black Caesar – 1973 / Director: Larry Cohen
Criticism of Blaxploitation tends to focus on its cynical exploitation of the black experience for white commercial gain. And although this was almost certainly the case, the genre also managed…
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Detroit 9000 – 1973 / Director: Arthur Marks
Stay cool! I’d almost hesitate to put Detroit 9000 into the Blaxploitation pile – Whitey gets as much screen time as the brothers. Ebony and Ivory-sploitation? A black nominee for…
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Black Fist – 1974 / Directors: Timothy Galfas & Richard Kaye
There’s a mad nigger out there looking for me! Leroy Fisk wants to be somebody. He may be the best streetfighter in town, but he’s being ripped off by his…
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Karate Girl – 1974 / Director: Orhan Aksoy
Very dangerous, very good with a knife… You’ve probably seen part of this Turkish martial arts effort. Commonly cited on YouTube as the worst death scene ever is the sight…
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Intikam Kadini (Turkish I Spit on Your Grave) – 1979 / Director: Naki Yurter
What a woman! A real gem. Four estate agents, on the run from some unnamed crime, run out of petrol in their car (which looks suspiciously like a Renault…
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3 Supermen against Godfather – 1979 / Director: Italo Martinenghi
If, like me, you’re fond of Italo/Turkish crime capers, rambling nonsensical narratives, time machines that take you back to the late Byzantine period, heroin smugglers, belly dancers, conniving health care…
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Kilink vs Flying Man – 1967 / Director: Yilmaz Atadeniz
Kilink vs Flying Man carries on where Kilink in Istanbul ended. I say ‘carries on’, but not before showing a condensed version of the previous film, which takes up a…
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Kilink in Istanbul – 1967 / Director: Yilmaz Atadeniz
Speak or else you will watch them suffer to death Surprise, surprise, Kilink is a rip-off. An unlicensed version of the Italian fumetti character Killing (who was, er, heavily influenced…
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Downtown Heat – 1994 / Director: Jess Franco
A little over a year ago,VTSS embarked on a foolhardy Five for Hell style, suicide mission. We spent a whole month exclusively watching and reviewing Jess Franco and Jean Rollin movies….
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The Ninja Squad – 1986 / Director: Godfrey Ho
“What are you going to do about Work now? I don’t think that your Ninja skills are going to help you to find a job…” The Ninja Squad could well…