Oct 23 2008
More Lost Treasures
Death Promise (1977) **1/2
D. Robert Warmflash
VHS OUT OF PRINT
- Intensely charming, truly bad New York action movie about a young Latino dude whose Father is murdered by a gang of thugs working for a Real Estate Agent who wants to repo the whole block. While the idea of Urban Sprawl literally killing the poor is a legit one this movie throws it to the side for loads of kung fu (some of it not that bad either) and some really outrageous kill scenes including one soul brother who kids a bag of hungry rats put over his head and another Italian guy who is put behind an archery target.
The main honky bad guy screams an amazing cry when he is hit with a ninja star too. This would have been awesome to have seen on 42nd st in New York. To make the complete in your own home invite some junkies over have them piss on your floor, dump some rats and have a buddy try to pick your pocket. You might come close! Rumor has it that CODE RED DVD might be putting this our at some point. There is a trailer on the Doom Asylum DVD for it under the alternate title Enter the White Dragon (though neither of the heroes is white!).
The Undertaker (1988) *1/2
D. Franco Steffanino -
GREY MARKET DVD
NIGHTCREW VIDEO
-Truly lost film starring the always fun to watch Joe Spinnell as “Uncle Roscoe” a Necrophiliac Undertaker who is murdering just about everyone in a small Upstate New York town, for reasons that are never made too clear. The positives of this movie? Joe and his over the top performance keeps the movie alive on more than a few occasions. There is a few scenes of splashy red stuff and the movie has a “kill ‘em all” attitude. The Bad side? It tends to err on the very slow side, especially when Joe isn’t on screen, most of the other actors are not terribly good and it’s directed for shit. Plus the movie is pretty much trying to be a runner up to the great MANIAC both in content and structure and by casting Joe Spinnell. It doesn’t work. But even with this lame rating I’d probably watch this again over most of the modern horror remakes. The is a hard movie to find and is ONLY making the rounds as a bootleg that someone sourced from what looks to be a workprint that is almost finished. It has titles and full audio but is full of grease pencil marks, dirt and splices and starts over in the middle for a minute or so.
2008-10-23
18:18:12
Andy Copp
