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	Kaala Sona
	Kadin Dusmani | Keith Tagged: 1967, Giallo, Horror, Krimi, Mystery, Turkey We come to the seedy Turkish thriller Kadin Dusmani via a circuitous but highly entertaining journey through a number of different types of film that built on a central theme -- the simply murder mystery -- and made it increasingly outlandish and bizarre. Picking a solid starting point is almost impossible -- even if one could distill down to the "the first of its kind" in movies, there's the fact that the early efforts were all based on various types of novels and pulp stories that underwent a similar evolution to the film that would eventually grow from them. So, for the sake of not falling into a bottomless pit, let's pick a logical point at which to begin.
	Kara Murat: Olum Emri
	Katelon Ke Kaatil
	Khoon Khoon | Todd Tagged: 1973, Action, Bollywood, Crime, Danny Dezongpa, Helen, India While, admittedly, some of my enjoyment of Khoon Khoon arose from the novelty of it being a Bollywood adaptation of one of my favorite films -- just as it was with Inkaar, Raj N. Sippy's reworking of Kurosawa's High and Low -- I also found it irresistibly watchable on its own terms. It is a taughtly-paced, rough-edged and deliciously trashy little thriller with all the garish accouterments I've come to love from 1970s Indian cinema. That it also turns that freaky, funky Bollywood funhouse mirror on an American classic is just the day-glo frosting on the cake. Okay, granted, the overwhelming feeling I brought away from it was a desire to watch Dirty Harry again. But since when is that a bad thing?
	Kilink Istanbul'da
	Kilink: Strip and Kill
	Kilink Ucan Adama Karsi
	Kill, Panther, Kill
	King Cobra
	King Kong | Todd Tagged: 1962, Babubhai Mistri, Bollywood, Dara Singh, Dinosaurs, Fantasy, Giant Monsters, India, Peplum For me it was like witnessing the moment of impact between all of those things that provide me with some of my most profound movie-watching pleasures. In fact, had I known several years ago that I could be watching films that combined wrestling, men in togas throwing boulders, giant suitmation monsters, and Kumkum dancing frenetically to catchy Bollywood music, I probably never would have seen Mother India or Sholay in the first place. So it's probably best for the sake of my film literacy that I didn't. Instead, let's just say that the broadening of my experience of Indian commercial cinema to include its products both high and low has deepened my appreciation for it considerably.
	King of Kings
	Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill
	Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park | Keith Tagged: 1978, Gordon Hessler, Horror, Rock and Roll It's not good. But it's bad, and that's good. It's certainly a lot more fun to watch than that last KISS movie, Detroit Rock City which didn't feature any kungfu werewolf monkeys, robots, or Ace Frehley screaming, "Awwwkkk!" This is probably the best made for TV movie around, but that's not saying much, and like all TV movies of the 1970s, it has a message for us, a lesson the teach. That message is that if a mad scientists starts unleashing robot armies of the damned, just kungfu their asses back into the stone age. And fly. And yell, "STAR CHILD!!" at inopportune moments and as often as you possibly can. If you have a friend who can then shoot mind reading laser beams out his eyes that go "Pew pew pew pew," then so much the better.
	Kizil Tug Cengiz Han | Keith Tagged: 1952, Historical Epics, Sword and Sandal, Turkey This is good stuff. Rough around the edges, but a lot of fun, and a good example of what might be the missing golden age of Turkish spectacle cinema. If you are a fan of historical hellraisers and peplum, you really need to add this one to your collection, as it represents a take on the genre that is both familiar and unique. The kicker here is that Kizil Tug Cengiz Han came out in 1952, years before the Italians kicked off the sword and sandal craze. The film come sat you lightning fast, chocked so full of sword fights and stuntwork that you won't have time to pause and reflect on how you have no idea what the hell people are up to.
	Kung Fu Chefs | Keith Tagged: 2009, China, Comedy, Cooking, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Sammo Hung If you are looking for a sign that Hong Kong is lifting itself out of the abyss its film industry collapsed into in the early days of the new millennium, Kung Fu Chefs is not the sign for which you are questing. It's cheap, shoddy, sloppy, and generally idiotic. But it's not lazy, it's not mean-spirited, and it's not lethargic. This isn't the kind of movie that will turn someone into a Hong Kong movie fan, but if you've been one for a long time, and you remember the old days of renting VHS tapes from the local Chinese grocery store and sifting through all sorts of goofy junk while boiling your bag of frozen pot stickers, then you might, like me, find a movie worth enjoying amid all this nonsense.
	Kungfu Zombie
	Korkusuz | Keith Tagged: 1986, Action, Cetin Inanc, Filiz Tacbas, Huseyin Peyda, Serdar Kebabcilar, Turkey Korkusuz isn't the most insane example of Turkish filmmaking. At the time it came out, Turkish movie making was on the downswing. But it's still a lot of fun and showcases the "anything goes" energy of Turkish action cinema that so endears them to jaded old coots like myself. Cetin Inanc made classic exploitation films for the classic exploitation reason: turning a profit. But what a film like Korkusuz shows is that the desire to turn a quick profit doesn't necessarily mean that the movie doesn't come at you with energy and fun. Surrounded as we are in 2009 by big budget movies that seem so cynical and treat their audience with an air of contempt, a movie like Korkusuz -- while we can poke good-natured fun at its deficiencies -- also comes as a welcome reminder of a time when a movie just wanted to show you a good time.
	Korkusuz Kaptan Swing | Todd Tagged: 1971, Adventure, Fumetti, Turkey, Western In addition to his loyal crew of tiresome oafs, Swing also has at his side his busty perpetual fiance Betty. At first it seems that Betty is only on hand to provide eye candy, as she spends much of the film's first half dancing suggestively around the campfire for the benefit of Swing and his men and carting around an impressive pair of jugs. As the story progresses, however, Betty proves, in the best Turkish cinema tradition, to be quite a fighter in her own right, taking on a somewhat pointless undercover mission that involves her dressing as an Indian squaw and ultimately leading a climactic charge that saves the hide of the hopelessly outgunned Swing.
	Kriminal