Tag: Samurai

Death Force (1978)

So i’ve slowly been accumulating a large number of Vinegar Syndromes “Drive in” double features range. Generally being based in the UK, if Im ordering from VS I have to do it in bulk because of rediculous shipping and customs charges. So when my baskets heaving with goodies both hardcore and otherwise I’ll usually either chuck a couple of there drive in movie sets or there peep show sets in…mainly for the lol’s because they seem like reasonable value for money.

but with us now in the midst of a lockdown of sorts I decided to use my time to both work through my “To watch” pile (Which; seriously…it was out of control before this Corona bollocks all kicked off) and to work on writing episodes of my show for you guys. This and it’s B-picture counter part (Coming VERY soon) were some of the last episodes I wrote. Originally this season was supposed to be 14 episodes long. But then I realised that would mean the newest season would end at the end of May and leave 2-3 months gap before the next season started…so I bumped the episode count up to 18 (19 if a collaboration I was working on Pre-lockdown ever gets released) and this double feature film was one of the last ones to make the cut (I believe I’ve only written 2 scripts after this to complete the block).

These particular movies wernt great. This was definitely the better of the 2 pictures. but it’s definitely got me interested to do something similar again in future. I have another 4 of these to get through at some point so I look forward to seeing what the future holds!

(This is an example of a poster looking FAR FAR FARRR!!! better than the movie in question…)
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Ghost Warrior (Swordkill) (1984)

I’ll  be absolutely honest, in hindsight Swordkill was a bit of a letdown to me. dont get me wrong I still stand by my review of it, and I still agree with all of it. The problem I have once again lies purely with myself in the sense that this movie was marketed to me as something that it most definitely isnt.

I was expecting full blown Troma carnage with crazy over the top action scenes, some terrible good/bad acting and maybe a few crazy set pieces…the reality was that this film was much MUCH more subtle, subdued and more in line with generic action films than I had anticipated. that doesnt make this a bad movie…but because the internet and several friends had told me just how CERRRRAZZY! this movie was. I bought into the hype and came away a bit underwhelmed…now I understand that thats a hangup I have to live with myself. But whenever I review movies I think it’s important to try and set the record as straight as possible with movies. mainly because one of the main reasons I got into reviewing in the first place was because I got fed up of misinformation or people selling movies as something that they just arnt…

So yeh…Swordkill. it’s not bad. it’s not some crazy “out there” movie…it’s just alright…and thats good enough for me!

(That VHS artwork is bloody brilliant!)
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