aka Emanuelle fuga dall'inferno (Italy)
aka Emanuelle Escapes from Hell (literal Italian translation)
aka A Bunch of Bastards (Greece)
aka Blade Violent (Japan)
aka Emanuelle in Prison (UK)
aka Laura II - Revolte im Frauenzuchthaus (West Germany)
aka Révolte au pénitencier de filles (France)

Director: Bruno Mattei

Cast: Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti, Ursula Flores, Franca Stoppi, Lorraine De Selle

Retro Shock-O-Rama / 2 Disk Set / NR / 16x9 Widesscreen and 4x3 Fullscreen Versions / Bonus Feature: Caged Women aka Violence in a Women's Prison

Photojournalist/investigative reporter Emanuelle (Gemser) is sent to prison after uncovering a corrupt politician who is into drug smuggling. She is horribly out of place there among the riff-raff and she stands out to the evil warden. When she isn't protecting herself against prison bullies, she is standing up to the sadistic guards. They routinely beat and torture the inmates for their own amusement and "punishment". In those respects, this is a pretty typical WIP flick. (READ MORE!)

aka Mun ching sap daai huk ying

Director: Bosco Lam

Cast: Julie Lee, Yvonne Yung Hung, Siu-Kei Lee, Ching Mai, Lawrence Ng

Discotek / NTSC Region 1 / Not Rated / 1:85.1 Widescreen (16x9) / Dolby Digital 2.0 / Audio: Cantonese / Subtitles: English / Time: 88 min

Shaw, aka "Little Cabbage", is sold to her father's landlord after he can no longer pay his rent. The landlord, who is called "The Scholar" is enamored by Little Cabbage's beauty and small feet so he plans on making her his concubine but this doesn't sit well with his sexually insatiable wife. While he is away, Cabbage finds out the wife is having an affair with a court official's son after she hears sexual noises coming from the young master's bedroom. (READ MORE!)

Writer/ Director: Johan Vandewoestijne

Cast: Nick Van Suyt, Helga Vandevelde, Let Jotts

Synapse Films / NOT RATED / 68 min / NTSC Region 1 / Dolby Digital Stereo / Widescreen (1.85:1)

Seen any good corpse fucking movies lately? Me neither. There aren't enough of them in my opinion. I mean really, for a fan of sick cinema can it get any better than a dead body shagging? It's a theme that can only be explored by indie movie makers. I don't see any Hollywood suits green-lighting a movie about raping a rotting piece of ass. Jörg Buttgereit did it in '87 with Nekromantik (and later a sequel) but a year earlier, Belgian filmmaker Johan Vandewoestijne would cross the lines of all decency with his long thought lost shocker, Lucker. (READ MORE!)

aka Kataude mashin gâru

Writer/Director: Noboru Iguchi

Cast: Minase Yashiro, Asami, Kentaro Shimazu, Honoka, Taro Suwa

Tokyo Shock / NTSC Region 1 / NR / Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1) / Audio: English/Japanese 2.0 & English/Japanese 5.1 Dolby Digital / English Subtitles / Approx. 96 min

While seeking revenge on a ninja Yakuza (that's right, ninja fucking Yakuza) boss' son for killing her brother, Ami is captured and tortured. During the abuse, her left arm is cut off just below the elbow. She escapes before they get a chance to kill her and takes refuge with a family of a boy who was also killed by the same people. Ami forms a bond with the boy's mother over the loss of their loved ones and vow revenge on the sadistic crime family. (READ MORE!)

aka Zibahkhana

Director: Omar Khan

Cast: Ashfaq Bhatti, Sultan Billa, Osman Khalid Butt, Rubya Chaudhry

Danger After Dark (TLA Releasing) / Urdu and English Language with English Subtitles / 78 min / Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1) 5.1 Dolby Digital / NTSC Region 1 / Not Rated

A group of kids on their way to a concert run out of gas and run into trouble. From scary old people, to pollution mutants and a burqa wearing, spiked mace wielding maniac, these young people have one shitty trip. They are warned by the old people about treading on "zibahkhana" or "hell's ground" but of course they don't heed it because, well, they read the script. After running over an apparent zombie/mutant and running out of gas, the teens are stalked by a killer, a nutty hitch-hiker and their loony mother. (READ MORE!)

aka Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti
aka Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

Director: Jorge Grau

Cast: Cristina Galbó, Ray Lovelock, Arthur Kennedy

Blue Underground / 1974 / Not Rated / NTSC Region 0 / Widescreen (1.85:1/16x9) / 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround, Dolby Surround 2.0, Original Mono

Extras:
- Back To The Morgue: Locations Featurette with Director Jorge Grau
- Zombie Fighter: Interview with Star Ray Lovelock
- Zombie Maker: Interview with Sepcial Effects Artist Giannetto De Rossi
- 2000 Interview with Director Jorge Grau
- International Trailer
- U.S. Trailer
- TV Spot
- Radio Spot
- Poster & Still Gallery

Edna is on her way to see her sister when she has an accident and backs over George's motorcycle. She agrees to give him a ride to his destination but along the way, Edna is confronted by what seems to be the walking dead. Dead, mutilated bodies begin to turn up all around town, but no one believes that the zombies are responsible. So the two are pursued and investigated by the local police after they are suspected of the gruesome crimes. But only George and Edna know the real truth. (READ MORE)

NOTE: The image to the left is the French poster. I thought the "Dimension Extreme" cover wasn't nearly as good or representative.

aka À l'intérieur

Writer: Alexandre Bustillo
Directors: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury
Cast: Béatrice Dalle, Alysson Paradis

Dimension Extreme / NTSC Region 1 / Enhanced 16x9 Widescreen / French with English Subtitles and English Dubbed Versions / French and English Dolby 5.1 / EXTRAS: Making of Featurette; Theatrical Trailer

A pregnant woman named Sarah and her husband are in a horrible car accident in which he dies. A few months later she is released from the hospital just days before her baby is due. Amidst social and political upheaval, she is left by herself to continue grieving and plan for her new life with her child. That night she is alone at home, thinking of her beloved husband, when there is a knock at the door. An unknown woman wants to come in and use the phone because her car has broken down... or has it? She soon reveals that she knows Sarah's name and that her husband is dead and she wants in the house. But why? (READ MORE)

Director: James Bryan

Writer: Garth Eliassen

Cast: Jack McClelland, Mary Gail Artz, James P. Hayden, Angie Brown, Ken Carter, David Barth, Tom Drury

Code Red DVD / NTSC Region 0 / Full Frame (1.33:1) / 83 min. / Extras: All new intro by CKY's Deron Miller; New hour-long featurette with cast and crew directed, produced, edited and photographed by original director James Bryan; Vintage 15-minute talk show appearance; Audio commentary with director Bryan; Bonus commentary with CKY's Deron Miller, star Mary Gail Artz and director Bryan; Poster and still gallery

Ah, the early '80s, the hay-day of the American slasher flick. Close cousin of the Italian giallo. Violence, gore and teenage nudity were the staples and the setting usually camp or a nice secluded rural area. Kids happily tromping around, getting high, having sex and getting killed by a (usually) masked or unseen murderer. The Friday the 13th franchise, The Burning, Sleepaway Camp and so-on and so-forth. We all know and love them. Not terribly original but usually fun in some way and something about each one sets them apart. This is not the case with Don't Go In the Woods... Alone!. (READ MORE!)

aka Ils

Writer/Directors: David Moreau, Xavier Palud

Cast: Olivia Bonamy, Michaël Cohen

Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1) / 5.1 & 2.0 Surround / French & Romanian with English Subtitles / 77 mins. / Extras: Making of; Composer featurette; The Torture of Clementine; Trailers

Clementine and Lucas are a happy couple hanging out in their rural home just enjoying each other's company. With Lucas fast asleep, Clem decides to stay up a little later but when she finally climbs into bed, she hears something outside. She wakes Lucas up to investigate and they catch someone stealing her car. The thieves get away but that is only the beginning of the couple's night of terror. (READ MORE!)

Writer/Director: Heiko Fipper

Cast: Heiko Fipper, Mike Hoffman, Stefan Hoft

DVD Stats: NTSC Region 1 / German with English Subtitles / 1.85:1 Widescreen / 85 mins / Dolby Digital 2.0 / Unrated

I like to think that I'm a pretty astute movie watcher. Even the most convoluted plots tend to make sense if you watch them intently enough. That is not the case when a movie is just plain shitty. When the story is secondary to say, gore, you had better ba-ring it (imagine me saying that with my pointer finger waving around and my neck making a circle with my head)! (READ MORE!)

aka Autostop rosso sangue
aka Death Drive
aka The Naked Prey

Director: Pasquale Festa Campanile
Cast: Franco Nero, David Hess, Corinne Clery

DVD Stats: NTSC All Region / Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 (16x9) / Not Rated / 104 min. / Extras: Trailer / The Devil Thumbs A Ride - Interviews with Stars Franco Nero, Corinne Clery and David Hess

Walter (Nero) and Eve (Clery) are a troubled couple. Their trouble is that Walter alternates between raping his wife and threatening to kill her. He's a real charmer. She, on the other hand, is a seething sexpot that wishes death on him with every smoldering look. What do you do when you are married and hate each other? Go camping and hunting (where there are lots of guns) in Northern California, of course! (READ MORE!)

Synapse Films / Color / Dolby / Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1) / English / NTSC All Regions / 101 minutes / Unrated

From Wikipedia : "Exploitation film is a type of film that eschews the expense of quality productions in favor of making films inexpensively, attracting viewers by exciting their more prurient interests. Exploitation films rely heavily on the lurid advertising of their content rather than the intrinsic quality of the film. Exploitation films may feature forbidden sex, wanton violence, drug use, nudity, freaks, gore, monsters, destruction, rebellion and mayhem. (READ MORE!)

aka Anita - ur en tonårsflickas dagbok
aka Anita: Swedish Nymphet

Writer/Director: Torgny Wickman

Starring: Christina Lindberg, Stellan Skarsgård

DVD Stats: NTSC Region 0 / 16x9 Anamorphic Widescreen (1.66:1) / Uncut Swedish Version / Removable English Subtitles / 95 mins.

Young, nubile 17 year old Anita (Lindberg) is a raging nymphomaniac. She picks random dudes off of the street and proceeds to "wet their willy", "shine their helmet, and/or "ride their pony". Oh, God, someone stop me, I'm in hyper-euphemism mode! Anywhoo, she doesn't discriminate with whom she gets busy; old, young, fat, ugly. She doesn't care. When she gets the "urge to merge", nothing can stop her. There I go again, sorry. (READ MORE!)

aka Frontier(s)

Writer/Director: Xavier Gens
Cast: Karina Testa, Aurélien Wiik, Patrick Ligardes, David Saracino, Maud Forget, Samuel Le Bihan, Estelle Lefébure

Official Website

Release Date: 5/13/2008

DVD Specs: NTSC Region 1 / Unrated Version / DD 5.1 French Audio / English Subtitles / Widescreen

Sometimes when you watch the kind of movies that you and I watch, you may get a little jaded. A little numb. You grow a little cold to all of the sex, violence and gore thrust on you by the seemingly never-ending lot of new Fulci and Miike wanna-bes. It's OK, it comes with the territory. But sometimes - not often enough - but sometimes a movie and a filmmaker comes along that jars you out of your coma of depravity. Frontière(s) is that movie and Xavier Gens is that writer/director. (READ MORE!)

aka Orgías inconfesables de Emmanuelle, Las
aka Emmanuelle Exposed
aka Emmanuelle Forever

Writer/Director: Jess Franco

DVD Specs:
Colour / 2.35:1 / 16x9 / 86 mins / Not Rated
Reg 0 (ALL) (NTSC) / DVD 5
English / Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 / English Subtitles


Extras:
The Inconfessable Orgies Of Jess - Interview with Director Jess Franco

A drunken night out at the club turns wanton when Emmanuelle joins an exhibitionist stripper on stage for an impromptu lesbian encounter. Her husband feels betrayed and leaves her that night. She goes home with a friend who introduces her to Marqués (who, by the way is a noble Spaniard gentleman and he's not afraid to tell you about it) who turns out to be the stripper's boyfriend. (READ MORE!)

aka Demoniac
aka Exorcisme
aka Éventreur de Notre-Dame, L'
aka El Sadico de Notre Dame

Director/Screenplay: Jesus "Jess" Franco
Starring: Lina Romay, Jess Franco

A defrocked priest (a completely creepy Jess Franco) is kicked out of the church for being too "harsh" and sent to a mental institution. Shortly after his release, he starts work for a sex magazine writing articles about sadistic sex which he claims to be true stories from his real life. He learns that his co-worker Anna (Lina Romay) stages sexy fake torture and black mass shows with her sexy friend Martine and others for the depraved rich upper-crust. (READ MORE)

aka Shudojo Runa no kokuhaku

Director: Masaru Konuma

Running Time: 72 mins. (approx.)
Languages: Japanese
Subtitles: ENGLISH
Distributor: KimStim [A USA-Based Distributor]
Rating: Unrated
Features: Anamorphic Widescreen
Cast/Crew Info.
Trailers

The nun in question, Runa, leaves the convent to seek out her half-sister and former love who betrayed her and lead her to seek out God. She finds them and tells them of a prime piece of land that the church is selling cheap and if they buy it, they can flip it and make a lot of money. Lying, cheating and lots of sex ensue as everyone involved has ulterior motives and no one is getting what they bargain for. (READ MORE)

aka Schulmädchen-Report 3: Was Eltern nicht mal ahnen

* NTSC Region 1
* Uncut German Version (Unrated)
* Anamorphic Widescreen 16x9 (1.66:1)
* Runtime 96 mins.
* English Subtitles

Oh, boy... if you are a fan of the smutty movies I review you are in for a treat with Schoolgirl Report. I haven't seen the others in the series (I will remedy that soon) but if they are anything like this one, every exploitation fan should own them. The "teenage" sex, nudity, kink, depravity and perversion shown in this psuedo-documentary is astounding. No, it's not "hardcore" porn. There is no penetration. This is a "softcore" German skinflick the likes of which I have never seen. (READ MORE!)

aka La Bestia nello spazio
Writer/Director: Alfonso Brescia
Star: Sirpa Lane

Release Date: April 29, 2008 / Severin Films / Colour / 1.85:1 / 16x9 / 92 mins / Not Rated / Reg 1 (USA) (NTSC) / DVD 5 / Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 / English Subtitles / Extras: Once Upon A Time In Space - Featurette with actor Venantino Venantini

Spaceship Captain Madison has been assigned to a crew to find and retrieve a very valuable and scarce precious metal from a distant planet. Before he leaves, he stops by the neighborhood watering hole where he meets his soon-to-be nemesis after he fights him to protect a sexy woman (Lane, star of The Beast aka La Bête) he just met. He has the sexy time with the woman and she tells him of a peculiar reoccurring dream of hers. Of course he blows it off because he's only half listening anyway because he just got laid (right guys?). (READ MORE)

aka Sorella di Ursula, La
aka The Curse of Ursula

Writer/Director: Enzo Milioni

Star: Barbara Magnolfi

DVD Company: Severin Films

Clairvoyant Ursula and her sister check into an Italian seaside villa after their father's death. Soon after they arrive bizarre murders of the villa's other occupants begin. The murderer watches couples have sex, knocks the women unconscious, then proceeds to fuck them to death. That's right, with a HUGE phallus that we only see in shadow. Ursula thinks that her father is haunting her and sees visions of him with women. She also has visions of one of the other guests, Roberto, killing her. What do all of these things have in common? Do they tie together? (READ MORE!)