She Shoots Straight

She Shoots Straight directed by Corey Yuen. Starring Joyce Godenzi (1990). 

I know I'm just being paranoid but it seems like 88 Films decided to raid this blog for ideas on what to put out but here’s a title that we haven’t reviewed. Basically I want to say Thanks for seemingly poaching this blog. That way I don’t have to watch one of these rare Hong Kong films on a porn website, I can rent it on a pristine Blu-ray with excellent packaging. Yes, we have yet another Golden Harvest release! 

Don't get too excited EROK, Amy Yip-tease shows nothing!

The music reminds me of that Bryan Adams song for Robin Hood movie. Sammo Hung is attending a wedding and sadly his daughter can’t even get vacation time to go on her honeymoon! Fucked up say I!

Machine guns in fancy foam cases are brought to a fashion show. Smoke pellets are dispensed and a shootout happens.The gun-play is inspired as fuck. 

Do I seem edgy?

Look out Jackie Chan, Mina (Joyce Godenzi) is in town! The stunts are pretty epic during a car chase with fire and wall climbing. Corey Yuen wrote and directed this as well as Yes,Madam (1985), The Legend (Fong Sai Yuk 1993) and did fight choreography on countless titles. Yuen tragically died of COVID in 2022.

Mina (Godenzi) cock-blocks her husband by saying "Brush your teeth" and "Not before I get promoted do we bang"! 

PVC pipe shenanigans are there for some foreshadowing later. There’s a machine gun battle with parrots flying around and one dude plummets onto a cage of birds A Better Tomorrow (1986) style that edits into a Happy Days style dissolve. 

They refer to this bespectacled character as Brother who leads a crew of Vietnam terrorists. Wah Yuen plays the main villain, he’s been in everything from Eastern Condors (1987 with Sammo) to Mr. Vampire (1985) and is still acting currently. Joyce Godenzi is also from Eastern Condors and is an impressive actress. 

This shit also better be streaming on Criterion channel!

So many of these Golden Harvest classics are being bought up by Criterion or Shout Factory and I’m all for it. The Nam crew all wear red goggles to use night-vision during a gun battle with the female police (or CID agents). This film is not related to Eastern Condors even though it shares half the cast. 

We all got matching tats on the set of EC Baby!

One character calls Mina a “ half breed/mongrel” before threatening to quit the force. They bust out all these jungle traps that Ewoks could’ve made. This results in the death of one male character also named Big Bro. They didn’t seem to have time for character names because they put all their effort into stunts. But yeah his name is Chung Bo. 

  

The waterworks start to flow and you know that the revenge to come later will be epic. Mina goes through a traumatic abortion, at least that's what I think happened. 

Inspector Lau (Chi-Wing Lau) almost gets his ass beat by Grandma for telling a woman to shut up and basically acting like a dick! 

The pacing is weird for an action movie. She Shoots Straight kind of meanders and having two characters named Big Bro is pretty lazy.I watched the film in Cantonese with English subs and I wonder if it's a translation issue. The action sort of peters out and the comedy is pretty thin. Mina (Joyce) is stunning and I’m definitely gonna check out more of her work. On a boat there’s a chain vs. machete battle on the stairs with Mina’s partner played by Sandra Ng Kwun-Yu. Sandra played my favorite character in The Inspector Wears Skirts (1988). 

I wonder if the Grandma pulling a gun on big bro inspired Stop or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)! It ends with a girl battle between Mina and a blood spitting, jeans sporting babe with a top that says Surf Fetish. Color me impressed! SLIGHTLY RECOMMENDED! This one has tons of action but the balance of action and wacky comedy is too confusing and gets overwhelming. Worth Checking Out despite my bitching.

SURF FUGGIN FETISH!

Malpertuis

Malpertuis (Legend of Doom House) Directed Harry Kumel, Starring Mathieu Carriere (1971).

This is the very last DVD that tanked Barrel Entertainment. You know the company founded by the Xerox Ferox author John Szpunar. I saw it get returned by a creepy beret wearing man who often returns cult movies they bought and brought back. 

Malpertuis starts off on a high note during this brothel scene of light up titties and German debauchery. The language spoken is Dutch. There are tons of dirty seamen---ahem---I mean sailors looking for drinks and to get laid. The makeup and production design reminded me of Fassbinder's work. The director Harry Kumel also made Daughter of Darkness (71), I love that film because of its tone and eerie fuzzed soundtrack. In this very Germanic/Dutch scene a "Lilly Von Stup" type sings Bawdy songs in English. I think I prefer the title The Legend of Doom House it sounds like a drive-in flick. 

YAY BOOBIES!

The camera work during the dance floor fight is channeling 60's Batman. Jan the main blonde sailor looks heavily made up and androgynous. Jan is played by Mathieu Carriere. Uncle Cassavius is played by an extra chunky and withered Orson Welles. They are all waiting for him to die but bring up revolting food items and a taxidermy rat statue. There’s also a stuffed monkey, vulture and most of the characters want Orson to die already like Tr—-p. 

  

Steve Bannon and I share a dermatologist.

There’s lots of melodramatic wailing over the clause of the will. I won’t spoil it in this review. The visuals are like a Czech film. It’s odd to me that this was released by Barrel, considering half of their catalog is Jorg Buttgereit titles but obviously they saw something in this work. Maybe this was Roger Watkin's jam and that’s why they chose this sleeper. Watkins was into high-brow shit like Kurt Vonnegut. It’s a bit of a slog and it felt like a school project viewing. 

I'm like school in the summer time: a no class filthy whore.

All the painted doll like women are after "Jan the androgynous" to marry him so they can please Orson's character. There’s lots of peepholes and hidden bookcases like Scooby Doo. Jan stumbles onto a lab with dead things in jars of water (which reminds me of Nekromantik 1987).Could this have influenced Buttgereit's career, perhaps. 

pickled babies yum....

This squat little man explains the frog corpses in jars by saying “He wanted to make the world a better place” Gee where have I heard that before", from Silicon Valley so you know it’s bad! After an hour and 25 mins we see full bush nudity from Jan’s beard I mean bride! There’s a disappearing snake needle point scene, very odd. The worst part is that I kept looking at the time through out this foreign film. 

When Bets aka the nightclub singer finds Jan he reminded me of a battered Charley Bucket from Willy Wonka (1971, which came out the same year)! This movie has got some phantasmagoric imagery but is still pretty lifeless and unimportant. 

WATCH ONLY IF YOU HAVE TO WRITE A RESEARCH PAPER OTHERWISE GO FOR SATAN'S BREW OR FOX & HIS FRIENDS BY FASSBINDER.

Are we Mr. Rogers characters!

fancy a snog?

the edible just hit.

The Inspector Wears Skirts

 

The Inspector Wears Skirts (Top Squad) Directed by Wellson Chin 1988.

Cynthia Rothrock aka the female Chuck Norris early in her career did mucho kick ass buddy cop flicks, this one starts off with exploding ninjas and an impressive choreographed battle. 

When you see that Golden Harvest logo it means there’s a high percentage you will be pleased. The slipcover art is impressive. The skirt unit are an illite fighting team training their butts off for something, it’s not clear yet. 

campfire circle jerk?

The girls in the bunker talk about urine. This movie has lots of toilet humor and for some odd reason Nazi jokes!! The subs are very different from the English language version. 

Ricky Lau from Mr. Vampire shows up as a lunch worker. He gives one girl he deems over weight a raw egg. Ohh shit----it’s an old school roller rink where one dude with a ball-cap screams Heil Hitler! I have no idea why? 

The egg represents your ovaries

The Nazi wears overalls too, I thought I’d mention this. There’s more off-putting poop talk. We are in the clutches of a Golden Harvest production so we’re not safe! Wow---we’re treated to a rockabilly musical number as kids dance and clap. 

Rockabilly is thee real "Devil's Music"

The girls say Yes, Madam to their superior which reminds me where’s Cynthia? And also there’s a series of films with Michele Yeoh and Ms. Rothrock that carries that title. 

She's not your fuggin punching bag dude!

I feel bad for this Amy character played by Sandra Ng. The Nazi who dresses like a 4 yr old plays slap fight with her and busts the poor gal's lip. It’s all in good hijinx or the comedic timing of SKIRTS.

Heil Mayor McSleaze

The all girl squad look down on individualism which is fucked up. Amy and the Nazi loser hit the dance floor. That’s right we’re in a nightclub now. Coke is definitely a sponsor, the beverage not the stimulant. The girl's attack a cheater and scar his hand with a heated up metal pipe. 

SWOON!

Rothrock returns after an hour! She shows up wearing acid washed denim. They reveal her character name as Madam Law. 

CAUTION REAL FLAMES!

There’s a goofy Police Academy training montage. It’s pervy but there’s no nudity, it’s violent but in a comedic way. I recommend watching the English language dub because the dialogue is very entertaining (it differs vastly from the subs). If you liked this one there are 4 sequels to look forward to. Shing Fui-On the actor from Blue Jeans Monster appears as a thug. The last battle has a blonde guy who does "monkey style" kung-fu. The fight choreography is fuggin wonderful!

It's streaming on Tubi and 88 Films offers the physical media blu-ray with extras. I watched the interview with Rothrock (who still looks stunningly beautiful currently).  

2026 the fall of Amerikkka

 Here we go descending into madness that was 2025 but we're in a whole New Year! VS is churning out Warner Archive shit in dazzling hefty slipcovers w fancy new art. So re-buy it you bitch hog and fund cult movies on physical media. This year I'm going to create more and fear less. The End is nigh or is it? The Orange buffoon's reign of terror can't last forever, he will perish like so much congealed McDonalds lard slithering down the drain.

CLEAN THE GRILL WITH YER FACE YA PEDO KKKLOWN!

When I wrote for Monster and WC there was a no politics rule but that was pre 2016. I've always been a lefty (figuratively and literally), it's my Psychotronic Video influence. After I stopped reading MRR, I noticed the Michael Weldon publication devoted to Bird is the Word and Ghoulardi worship starting to alienate its own readers. Right wing people took offense at the jabs toward W./ Cheney/ Rumsfeld's enhanced interrogation bullshit. And here we are now in 2026 these idiots are attempting to trigger armageddon,

 YES! We were warned the 80's class war would return if we elected Pepe the frog/ aka washed up reality show con meme Orange festering hemorrhoid. Maybe it was prophesied like in Nightbreed or the Omen, somehow I couldn't stop it even if I tried. Did the public listen to the warning signs in all the movies we devoured mentally or were we distracted by everything to even think or escape? Probably. Is it too late, no, I don't believe so.

So far the raddest thing about 2026 to me is how Shaw Brothers gore flicks (which we reviewed on all sorts of dingy back alley formats) keep popping up with proper releases. Boxer's Omen, Seeding of a Ghost, Hex after Hex, Bewitched, Oily Maniac and Black Magic 1&2. The one I'm really dreaming to one day see restored is The Rape After (which is Golden Harvest). The Shaw Bros titles are also streaming on Shudder which is cool that they are exposing others to global Asian gore. 

Sorry I have been struggling with writers block and thinking of abandoning this blog but I put so much of my guts into it. I plan on forcing myself to write and create more to drown out the misery that is life during these dark times. My hope is that people will throw away this MAGA cult and get mental help. The whole nation is suffering under the tyrannical cankle of a thin skinned baby with tiny hands and an even more minuscule penis.

So there's no real review here, just a welcome message for the new year. Last year so many terrible things happened personally to me in my life. I need to exorcize these demons and bad vibes for good.

  

Perdues dans New York

Perdues dan New York (Lost in New York) dir. Jean Rollin (1989). 

This movie contains no vampires, but is magical nonetheless. Smoke a little reefer before you watch it! There’s spooky white faced masks, the Gumby and Pokey concept of entering a book and the novel becomes your own reality. 

Gumby enters books like a French inhaler

The Abitbol sisters are the two young girls that tell the story of what’s happening. They become young adults and walk around early 80s New York which looks very clean for some reason. OK, I lied. There is a vampire, a white one who haunts the dreams of New Yorkers. 

these fake teeth are painful

For those that fetishize vintage Marquees we get some juicy juice shots of The Running Man (87) and The Hidden (87). Now that's some of that prime Tad's steak burnt up that way I crave it! 

What's French for rubbery steak?

The female characters names are Marie and Michelle there’s a color scheme of white and red and they show footage of statues throughout the city all the while spouting poetry in the usual Rollin trope. They show the authentic subway, it looks very claustrophobic. Two women meet up in Coney Island. This part comes off like a home/vacation footage movie. Why do I like it so much? I’m just a big fan of this director and if you are too, you get it! Now where's that Rollins band film nerd t-shirt tribute to Jean Rollin?

it's over at the snobby douche store on Criterion.com

 Moon goddess possesses this really sexy black woman to take all her clothes off and start dancing. We are treated to some full bush. Criterion Channel (which is where I watched this) has become like I predicted in 2012, the biggest purveyor of smut going! I wholeheartedly approve! There's so much globally in common with what Chas Balun sold in his catalog as there is on the Criterion Collection/ Channel, what is going on? Has the depravity and unravelling of culture made these once despised films high art in the demented society of 2025? You tell me!

I can complain and most likely will but that's my right as a film snob! But keep doing what you are doing Criterion/Janus Films, you are supplying me with many Deep Red titles to review. All the rare HK shit that used to be on shady porn sites is now viewed in a respectable light and it rules. Well, this naked dance goes on for a while, but it is hypnotic.

This one is for weirdo JR fetishists like this reviewer here. All others stick with classic Rollin fare. Redemption/ Kino have the blu-ray on the same disc as Dracula's Fiancee. It's also available to watch on the Criterion Channel and funnily enough for free on YT. 

I lost my pants somehow

Steve Miller's ABRACADABRA mural

little French girls dropping acid? FOR SHAME!

Night of the Juggler

 Night of the Juggler Directed by Sidney J. Furie/ Robert Butler (1980).

This is a must see lost NYC scuzz classic that’s part Hardcore (1979) and Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 (1974) but is still very original. Some have compared it to Taken (08). 

There are many note able cult stars, beginning with James Brolin in the gruffest ex-cop/divorced Father role. His daughter Kathy Boyd is played by Abby Bluestone who appeared in only one other film Little Darlings (1980). She basically has the worst birthday of her life starting with morning hotdogs and then an afternoon abduction arm drag, face first through the city. 

Just look at all the smut oozing from the Deuce theaters!

Cliff Gorman (who looks as if he has a glass eye) is a total spazz in the titular role as "The Juggler." He proclaims how he "Juggles the books", hence the film title. In the extras, they mention in the novel, written by William P. McGivern that he cuts jugular neck veins and that's how this psycho acquired his name. Gorman sometimes channels Caeser Romero as The Joker, cackling and hootin it up!

Night of The Joker?

 I remember Gorman as the Hollywood Blvd cop with the heart of gold who "schools" Angel (1982) in how to be a narc. Gorman's character Gus Soltic is a racist child molester (just like the current President)!

I signed the Epstein birthday card too

Richard Castelano or Clemenza of "Godfather fame" gets a prominent part as a dopey Italian grizzled cop. I like when he almost pukes after hearing the ingredients of a frozen yogurt bar! 

So That's what's in Larry Cohen's THE STUFF, WHO KNEW?

Think of all the 42street infused films and add this one to your next watch along. They truly showcase the Deuce Marquees and the dark flavor of 1980 era NYC. It’s really cool that this lost film is now available in top notch condition! I believe Juggler is in league with other scuzzy classics like Cruising (1980) or Vice Squad (1982).  

Dan Hedeya as Sgt. Otis is at his most unhinged as a shotgun toting maniacal bastard cop! He looks so much like Nixon, it’s a trip! Oh and he course played Nixon in Dick (1999)! He’s not even the main threat because this city is crawling with so much vermin its suffocating! 

I heard that MAGA Batman villain Roger Stone has a tatt of me on his back

There’s soo much going on during the chase scenes, it never slows down. Who knows if they had permits but it all makes for supreme authenticity.

Sharon Mitchell the short haired porn maiden from many docs and Maniac (1980) is one of the booth girls at a peepshow. I’d like to hear the background story of the "porn chic era" on the Rialto Report if it exists. 

No more Tokens? I'm outta here!

James Brolin is in full throttle Amityville Horror (1980) mode racing through the pre-Giuliani scorched NYC streets. He has yet to appear in that aforementioned haunted house shocker yet but he literally broke his foot during production. I like how Brolin’s character is consistently called a “punk”! More punk’s should grow beards and look like the band who wrote "Dog Police" at least in my world! 

Cliff Gorman’s racist character makes a statement about red-lining and they show real bombed out locations harnessing the specter of gentrification. There's a timeless message that's getting all the more prophetic in 2025. One of the first times I heard of this underground gem that’s returned from the depths of obscurity is on templeofschlock in 2015. Let's not forget, Mandy Patinkin plays an ass-kicking Puerto Rican cab driver, I love that actor who later starred in Alien Nation (1988) and Princess Bride (1987).

Finally the last cult star who shows up to chaperone Mr. Boyd to the rescue of his daughter is Julie Carmen in one of her first acting roles. I loved this movie, having never seen it before I was super impressed. I blind bought it having heard of it's cult status and it never disappointed. I'm certain it's available to stream on Prime but I urge you to not support Mr. Space rocket penis Beeswax man and DO support brick and mortar record stores that carry it and Kino Lorber. KL have been delivering the trashiest goods, long may they reign!

AVAILABLE TO BUY HERE

The Iron Rose

 

The Iron Rose Dir by Jean Rollin. starring Francois Pascal (1973).

Jean Rollin is a director I tend to favor over his mutant Spaniard twin Jess Franco! Lately I’ve been digging the latter. Not that they’re related but as as avid watcher of Euro-sleaze with psychedelic music I see them as rivals or on opposing teams. I highly doubt they were even in competition. As if they’re Bela Lugosi vs Karloff or Argento vs Fulci! Ha--what nerd drivel, take that shit over to reddit!! Iron Rose is a rare Jean Rollin in that there’s no vampires present. Let’s not get too far ahead in our travels through the dilapidated French countryside just yet. I rented this and another title that escaped me, called funnily enough The Escapees (1982). 

This film begins at a family gathering where our two characters form a close bond ignited by some poetry. I’m such a champion of JR that I convinced the dept. that Rollin needs his own title card at the record store I work at. Sure--why not have a Bozo the clown looking person walk through the graves?!! OK movie what else you got?

This Dystopia album cover makes me horny

The two lovers strip and fondle under the tomb. This is all morphing into some kind of sick joke. I’m along for this ride so far. Now it’s dark and the couple is trapped and they start to panic. I’m hoping that clown might show up to devour them, its jaws dangling with meat and cocaine. 

Point me to the primo beef and booger sugar

Karine, the main woman wears all these fashionable checkered shirts, she has very sharp cheekbones almost like the queen of cheekbones herself Janet Agren. Francoise Pascal was also in Burke and Hare(1972).The big eared dopey boyfriend played by Hugues Quester manhandles her into submission and I’m pretty sure this relationship is over. 

It's over when I say it's over Crank!

They play screamey power games with each other in the dark graveyard. And yes, not much is going on but I am still awake and for sure want to see where it leads to. Oops---I was wrong because the rough stuff was their foreplay for sex among skulls and bones in a pit of jagged rocks. Some of this reminds of Nekromantik (1988) territory. 

I like when Karine says "Don’t worry the dead are our friends"! It didn’t take long for this girl to lose her mind! She looks amazing naked on the beach stepping on more jagged rocks—-Ouch! She recites poetry this time by the waves. Have you noticed how much poetry is involved in the storyline, it's only because we're sunken into the dream weaves of the French Vampire auteur. I won’t spoil what happens to her boyfriend (who’s character name is never spoken), but to me he gets what’s coming to him. This in my opinion is Rollin’s most Bergman-esque film. The spookiness by the crashing waves and the hypnotic nature remind me of a scene with Liv Ullman looking at the screen and mournfully speaking about insanity. Kino Lorber has a Blu-ray available and I've seen other Jean Rollin titles streaming on Tubi and Hoopla. This one is hard to find streaming however and I think it's worth a watch even if there weren't any vampires.