Foster on Film

A small town in Japan is thrown into chaos by spirals.  Some people become obsessed with them, watching them until they find a suitable, spiral-related way to commit suicide.  Others seek to destroy anything connected to spirals, while still others begin to physically change into spiral shapes.  Kirie Goshima (Eriko Hatsune), a girl at the

In the distant future, the powerful vampire Count Magnus Lee bites the lovely young Doris and plans to return to marry her.  Doris asks for the help of a vampire hunter to destroy the count before she becomes one of the undead. This is a standard, Japanese samurai movie with vampire trappings. If you’re not familiar

In the distant future, D, a half-vampire with a demonic hand, is hired to retrieve a girl taken by a powerful vampire.  A group of bounty hunters is also on the trail and D will have to defeat them as well as various monsters if he is to succeed. Quick Review: A sequel (that’s overly

David Gray, a man obsessed by the occult and no longer able to distinguish reality from fantasy, is awakened by a strange man who has entered his room. The man, who turns out to be the lord of a nearby manor house, is panicked about death, and leaves a book about vampirism. Later, Gray goes to the

Two escaped convicts and a group of yakuza with a female prisoner meet in the woods.  Bickering results in the death of the leader of the yakuza, but unknown to them, this is the Forest of Resurrection, and the dead man rises as a zombie.  Soon, zombies are everywhere and everyone is fighting to survive

A giant, shaggy, green humanoid is rising out of the sea to lunch on unsuspecting humans.  Due to their previous work, Dr. Paul Stewart (Russ Tamblyn) and his assistant Akemi (Kumi Mizuno) are called in to help find, and perhaps kill the monster.  As the military moves in, Paul and Akemi attempt to prove that

The continuing adventures of space station Gamma 1, Commander Mike Halstead (Tony Russel), his sidekick, Jack (Franco Nero), and his spirited girl, Connie (Lisa Gastoni). In this second movie, alien light clouds are taking over Earth’s space stations, and it is up to our plucky heroes to save the day. Ah, things are still groovy in

Eun-young (Mi-yeon Lee) returns as an instructor to the draconian high school she attended.  Her own cruel homeroom teacher was recently murdered by a ghost, and Eun-young sees a connection to the death of her friend many years ago in the school.  Four students seem somehow caught up in the horrific events: the nearly catatonic

At a repressive girls school, Min-ah (Min-sun Kim) finds the joint diary of Hyo-shi (Yeh-jin Park) and Shi-eun (Young-jin Lee), two schoolmates who had an affair but now are seldom together.  Min-ah becomes obsessed with the book and the two girls’ lives.  After Hyo-shi plummets from the roof to her death, Min-ah believes she’s being

At a fine-arts girls’ high school, anyone who walks a set of 28 steps and finds a 29th may make a wish, or so says the legend.  Ji-seong (Ji-hyo Song) makes such a wish: that she will be the school’s choice for the ballet competition.  The obvious selectee would have been the beautiful, popular, and

Mutant males with black raincoats and women with beehives are kidnapping Earth’s best and brightest. Meanwhile, the devious Mr. Nurmi (Massimo Serato) is carrying out experiments with human organs. It looks like a job for Space Commander Mike Halstead (Tony Russel) and his sidekick Jack (Franco Nero). Wild, Wild Planet takes us to the mod future

After a boat shows up in New York harbor with only a zombie on board, the daughter of the ship’s owner and a reporter head to Matul Island to discover what happened.  What they find is a doctor trying to cure a plague of zombism. Zombi 2‘s name has created a great deal of confusion,