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Rambu: The Intruder

Director Arizal puts Indonesia on the international action movie map with this over-the-top thriller starring a guy who benefitted from looking a little like Sylvester Stallone. more ›
Future Hunters

Cirio Santiago’s Future Hunters melds time travel, kung fu, and post-apocalyptic chaos into a confusing jumble that encapsulates the anything goes 1980s filmmaking quirks for which the director was famous. more ›
Dark Heroine Muk Lan-Fa

Jane Bond films, such as Dark Heroine Muk Lan-Fa, blended martial arts action and James Bond-inspired espionage thrills, became a staple of Cantonese cinema and created a thoroughly entertaining body… more ›
Black Rose

The Black Rose takes the female-centric swashbuckling of wuxia cinema and the heroics of Chinese folklore and places them in a contemporary setting. It also pays service to the James… more ›
Seytan

The whole world was making Exorcist rip-offs, so Turkey figured, why not? The special thing about Turkish pulp films is how, even at their most plagiarized, they can serve as… more ›
The Killing of Satan

Given its title, I don’t think it’s much of a spoiler to reveal that, at the end of The Killing of Satan, Satan is killed, though the movie doesn’t stick… more ›
Cyborg

It is “the future,” but not too far in the future. Earth has been ravaged by nuclear war and a plague, leaving the place in tatters. Through this post-apocalyptic hell… more ›
Viy

Based on a story by Ukrainian-born writer Nikolai Gogol, Viy is the story of good-for-nothing layabout Khoma (Leonid Kuravlyov), a scholar from the local monastery who with his two friends… more ›
3 Seconds Before the Explosion

When Nikkatsu Studio began to gain steam once again in the 1950s, thanks to the success first of their “Sun Tribe” films and then their “borderless action” style, their marketing… more ›
Fantomas

Silent-era supervillain and master of disguise Fantomas gets a candy-colored, stunt-filled update for the James Bond era. more ›
Iron Claw the Pirate

For myself, I would like to believe that watching Iron Claw the Pirate enriched my life in some imperceptible–if perhaps stupid–way, even though it really just represents another ninety minutes… more ›
Temptress of a Thousand Faces

The Shaw Brothers put a James sexy, psychedelic Bond-inspired spin on the French supervillain Fantomas in this anything-goes caper. more ›