Kung Fu Zombie
Kung Fu Zombie, , one of the films that inspired the creation of Teleport City, pits Billy Chong against an indestructible living dead martial artist with flaming hands and feet.
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Diabolique: Taste the Hamburger of Dracula!
My write-up of Dracula, Sovereign of the Damned has moved to the Carfax Abbey that is Diabolique. THIS should have been the future of Marvel movies: an anime adaptation of Tomb of Dracula.
Read moreCultural Gutter: Gods in Wigs
Over on the Cultural Gutter, I’m writing about the loony sci-fi epic, Hard to Be a God, a co-production between France, West Germany, and the Soviet Union made as the Berlin Wall was coming down.
Read moreCultural Gutter: Gab Emperor of Dune
Over on the Cultural Gutter, I’m writing about God Emperor of Dune, which I finished reading last month after starting it in 1987. I’m not sure the return was worth the investment.
Read moreCultural Gutter: I was Once a Man
After a great opening full of jet packs that affords the Joes an opportunity to pose on the top of the Statue of Liberty, the action picks up with Cobra Commander and a guy named Serpentor screaming at each other.
Read moreCultural Gutter: Neuromancin’ with Myself
In 1990, I read Neuromancer , and it meant a lot to me, even though shortly after, I remembered no details. Billy Idol might have read Neuromancer. Whatever the Case, he wrote an album about it.
Read moreCultural Gutter: The Cosmic Crooner
Frank Sinatra wasn’t at the top of his game in 1980. He needed a hit. A sure thing. So he did what any aging icon would do: recorded the weirdest goddamn album of his career.
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