Godzilla in the 1970s.

Godzilla in the 1970s.

Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972) Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973) Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) Four films, one synopsis: Aliens–wacky inept aliens–plan to take over the world in the most logical fashion: using giant monsters. Why use advanced weaponry when you can use over-sized bipedal critters? Godzilla, the atomic destroyer and all around swell

Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)

Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)

In the years since Godzilla was trapped in ice, M-Force, made up of humans and vinyl-wearing mutants, has protected the world from the threat of giant monsters with sophisticated sci-fi weapons, wire-fu, and posing–lots and lots of posing. When a 1200-year-old “fossil” of a giant cyborg is discovered, mutant good-guy Ôzaki is assigned to bodyguard

Arang (2005)

Arang (2005)

Detective So-Young (Song Yoon-Ah) and her rookie  partner investigate a murder where the autopsy reveals the victim was killed from the inside.  The death, and several others, are connected to a drunken brawl ten years ago where a barman died and his girlfriend disappeared.  Is the girl’s ghost finally getting revenge or is this a

Attack of the Blind Dead / Return of the Evil Dead (1973)

Attack of the Blind Dead / Return of the Evil Dead (1973)

Attack of the Blind Dead, aka Return of the Blind Dead (1973) The town of Bouzano is preparing for its celebration of the blinding and burning of a group of satanic knights. Jack Marlowe (Tony Kendall) arrives to set up the fireworks show, and finds his ex-girlfriend, Vivian (Esther Roy), who is now the mafia-like mayor’s

Avalon (2001)

Avalon (2001)

In a dreary future world, the illegal, virtual reality, shoot-them-up game, Avalon, flourishes, with the best players able to make a living from it. However, there are dangers, and some players do not come out of the game, leaving them in permanent vegetative states.  Ash (Malgorzata Foremniak), is a solo player, who has little contact with

Bay of Blood (1971)

Bay of Blood (1971)

Wheelchair-bound Countess Donati, the owner of an undeveloped bay, is murdered, and then the murderer is immediately murdered as well. Ruled a suicide, a group of unpleasant people all vie for ownership of the bay. They include an unscrupulous businessman (Chris Avram) and his secretary (Anna Maria Rosati), a daughter (Claudine Auger) and her husband (Luigi Pistilli),

The Beyond (1981)

The Beyond (1981)

A young woman, Liza Merril (Catriona MacColl), inherits a broken-down hotel in New Orleans that has a troubled past. It is built over a gateway to hell, and when the gate is opened, the dead will walk the Earth. With people dying in mysterious ways, Emily (Cinzia Monreale), a blind woman with her own secrets, warns Lisa

Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)

Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)

Saya, a vampire hunter in Japan just as the Vietnam is about to heat up, is sent by a secret organization to a girl’s school on an American military base. There she seeks out vampiric demons that hide as students. Quick Review: I’d like to say you should rush out and see this anime film

Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman (2007)

Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman (2007)

School Children start talking about the urban-legend of the Slit-Mouthed Woman, who walks about wearing a surgical mask and carrying a blade.  That’s a bad idea, because she turns up and starts kidnapping kids; some she kills and others she cuts so that they have the same facial wound as she.  Kyoko Yamashita (Eriko Sato),

Cronos (1993)

Cronos (1993)

Jesus Gris (Federico Luppi) finds a golden egg hidden in the statue of an archangel in his antique shop. When he winds it up, eight legs emerge and pierce his hand, and a stinger gives him the unwanted gift of immortality. But Jesus is not left alone to deal with his new vampiric nature as he

Daimajin (1966)

Daimajin (1966)

Lord Hanabasa assures his two children that recent earthquakes are not to be feared as their good god will protect them. The common villagers have a different view, gathering to perform a ceremony to keep an evil spirit locked away in a giant statue. Samanosuke, the traitorous Chamberlain, takes advantage of the confusion to murder

Daimajin Strikes Again (1966)

Daimajin Strikes Again (1966)

Daimajin Strikes Again: A wounded woodsman returns to his village, explaining that a warlord had captured the missing men and forced them into hard labor building a fort. Only he had escaped by crossing the god’s mountain. With the coming snow, the local lord cannot send troops. Someone must travel to the compound, over the