B-Roll

Couldn't resist sharing these utterly trashy, but oh-so good trailers for late 70s early 80s grindhouse cinema.

Galaxina (1980)


Star Crash (1979)


And then we have TORSO! A shambolic slasher flick seemingly about confused Freudian terminology mixing with semi-naked ladies and the occasional hacksaw. Hilarious right down to the briming-with-positivity way of calling the movie's title in the trailer (listen to hear what I mean). TORSO! Be prepared to have your screen saturated with terror.

Torso (1973) (defintely not safe for work and surprising that its even on youtube!)

Some DVD Hardware

No idea how I missed this the first time round, but shlock horror classic 'Hardware' is now whistling its way onto DVD this month. Following a review in Total Film, I've been digging around for more info on this chunk of 80s scifi-horror-action genius which (apparently) draws favourable comparision with 'A Clockwork Orange', 'Aliens' and 'The Terminator'.

Here's how Wikipedia describes the premiss:
The 21st century world is a radioactive wasteland as a result of a nuclear war. A travelling scavenger comes across the remains of a cyborg named Mark 13 in the desert, and salvages pieces of it. The cyborg head ends up with a metal sculptress, who is unaware of the cyborg's infamy as a governmental killing machine project that was scrapped due to its defects. Mark 13 reconstructs itself utilizing household appliances and metal parts, and goes amok.

Need more convincing of its simultaneous brilliant and dodgy appeal? Check out the trailer below:



Can't wait to get my hands on the dvd version of this!

S.

Potentially worst video game to movie adaption announced

There have been quite a few stinkers so far (Mario Brothers, Dead or Alive , Doom , Alone in the Dark
Bloodrayne… in fact most films by Uwe Boll)

But this could top the lot. Universal has secured the film rights to the classic Atari video game "Asteroids”.

It’s the 30 year old game featuring the little triangle that fires missiles at 2D, um, asteroids. I’m not sure what’s more surprising, the fact that it’s being made at all or that Universal had to fight three other studios for the rights.
According to Comingsoon.net, Universal is also developing movies based on Hasbro board game properties such as "Battleship," "Candyland," "Ouija," "Monopoly" and "Clue."

Seriously! Sadly it seems Michael Jackson died just as unfathomable weirdness was becoming cool again.