Seen and not seen's, recommendations and queries on top films in general.

[Strömkarlen]

Does anyone know of anything like "Affliction" by Mark Hejnar? In the mood for more of these late 80's/early 90's "Mondo" kind of documentaries.

Great flick! Been wanting to see this again, but haven't managed to find any torrents online. During the heydays of music and film blogs it was possible to access copies quite easily.

I have it on VHS somewhere if somebody are interested I could part with it.

[online prowler]

Does anyone know of anything like "Affliction" by Mark Hejnar? In the mood for more of these late 80's/early 90's "Mondo" kind of documentaries.

Great flick! Been wanting to see this again, but haven't managed to find any torrents online. During the heydays of music and film blogs it was possible to access copies quite easily.

I have it on VHS somewhere if somebody are interested I could part with it.

To my knowledge it haven't been reissued on dvd/bluray yet. Anybody have better info? I didn't bother to search the web... Quite rare to come by the vhs release, can recommend that to interested peepers.

[absurdexposition]

Some people here might find this of interest if it hasn't already been talked about:

"BOG OF BEASTS (2006)-IN PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBS, LETTERBOXED PRINT. Director: Cláudio Assis, Stars: Fernando Teixeira, Caio Blat, Matheus Nachtergaele. Man, you'll want to take a shower after this one! In the countryside of Pernambuco, in a small village nearby a sugarcane plantation and an alcohol plant, the despicable and cheap Heitor abuses of his sixteen year-old granddaughter Auxiliadora, submitting her to slavery and humiliations during the days, and every now and then exposing her naked body to truck drivers in a gas station in the night to raise additional money. The group of potheads leaded by Everardo spends their time in violent orgies with prostitutes, drinking booze and smoking marijuana, and the mean and sadistic Cícero desires the virgin Auxiliadora. The non-stop exploitation on the screen transcends fiction: the orgy/abuse/rape/violence scenes are some of the most repellent, humiliating and disrespectful manipulations of established professional actors ever perpetrated by a filmmaker -- it's astonishing and revolting to see serious actors like Caio Blat, Dira Paes, Hermila Guedes, Berlin award-winner Marcélia Cartaxo and others disposed of like porn cattle (Mateus Nachtergaele's over-the-top wacko comes as no surprise: we all know by now he's into sado-masochist acting). Assis himself appears in a nauseous cameo, as a client caressing the body of the very young Auxiliadora as she becomes a road-side whore (nope, no salvation for her either). "Baixio das Bestas" is difficult to dismiss as just an over-the-top, contradictory, sadistic film (which it is) by a manipulative, exhibitionist, attention-starving, talented filmmaker (which he is) -- it does expose the painful raw nerves of a regional social and political putrid tissue that most of us don't know about or don't want to be aware of: the exploitative, abusive, boozing, violent, almost-feudalistic macho culture that still thrives in many parts of rural Brazil."

Have to say I was a little let down by this one. Some pretty violent and depraved scenes for sure but the brutality was lost in translation somewhere (in the cinematography perhaps). The characters' own moral commentaries (or lack thereof) weren't that engaging, either.

Followed it up with another ho-hum affair: Sergio Corbucci's "Specialists". Underwhelming spaghetti western starring French singer Johnny Hallyday. One and only great scene being when the "punk" ruffians make the townspeople crawl naked through the mud near the end.

[THE RITA HN]

Have to say I was a little let down by this one.

Yeah - I expected as much.  Didn't even watch it, but thought that maybe some of the people here might want to see it for the various socio-violent reasons.
Still hard for me to watch anything post mid 80s, except for maybe Deodato's THE WASHING MACHINE or various Brass films.
Again, classical and neo-classical ballet has really killed any desire to watch anything else anymore unless it's some insanely straight forward aesthetic tropes filled giallo or something.  Actually no, I watched IL MARCHIO DE KRIMINAL the other night and Helga Line looked amazing.

[david lloyd jones]

'the bosses head'  second of the arrow box of  re issues of the 'new battles beyond honour....' series.
a stand alone story, the film is, nevertheless, full of usual yakusa film tropes that fill the original series.
arrow video deliver again.

[ritualabuser]

Does anyone know of anything like "Affliction" by Mark Hejnar? In the mood for more of these late 80's/early 90's "Mondo" kind of documentaries.

Great flick! Been wanting to see this again, but haven't managed to find any torrents online. During the heydays of music and film blogs it was possible to access copies quite easily.

I have it on VHS somewhere if somebody are interested I could part with it.

To my knowledge it haven't been reissued on dvd/bluray yet. Anybody have better info? I didn't bother to search the web... Quite rare to come by the vhs release, can recommend that to interested peepers.

I got my copy from Mike Diana. I suggest getting into contact with him on social media/e-mail.

[bitewerksMTB]

"Affliction" isn't the Mark Hejnar video I was thinking of. I remember owning a video of his 8mm films with soundtrack by Pile of Cows. I wonder why Hejnar didn't continue with film making? Last thing I noticed his name attached to was the film for or with P.Sotos (was told it was boring).

Late last week, I watched the UK occult-themed thriller, The Ghoul. It's pretty good. Pretty damn good camera-work of a very dry London (I thought it rained all the time?!?). Not much in the way of sex or violence but still good. I think it'll be worth another viewing & would go well with The Devil's Business despite not having much in common.

"Bible of Skin" was the MH video I owned.

http://reocities.com/swedishscum/hejnar.html

[online prowler]

"Affliction" isn't the Mark Hejnar video I was thinking of. I remember owning a video of his 8mm films with soundtrack by Pile of Cows. I wonder why Hejnar didn't continue with film making? Last thing I noticed his name attached to was the film for or with P.Sotos (was told it was boring).

Late last week, I watched the UK occult-themed thriller, The Ghoul. It's pretty good. Pretty damn good camera-work of a very dry London (I thought it rained all the time?!?). Not much in the way of sex or violence but still good. I think it'll be worth another viewing & would go well with The Devil's Business despite not having much in common.

"Bible of Skin" was the MH video I owned.

http://reocities.com/swedishscum/hejnar.html

Thanx for the link. Looks like an interesting read from the off-start. Will check.

Hear you on The Ghoul. Very cinematic. Ace acting as well in my book and well-developed script and theme concept. Highly atmospheric watch which touches a little bit into folk-horror country. Seems like having  director Ben Wheatley as an exec producer brought the right amount of craft and perspective to the table.

On another note... Very happy that Der Todesking will see new light via Arrow next year - plus learn of imprint Shameless reissues of Sergio Martino films - TORSO in particular.

[david lloyd jones]

just got dvd/blu box of 'outlaw gangster vip' to continue my japanese gangster likes-earlier than fukasuku's 'battles...' and b&w .
a six film box bought with major discount.

[.:Will:.]

Just scored a DVD copy of "Holocaust 2 [Holocaust parte seconda i ricordi i deliri la vendetta]". Only available subtitles on the DVD are Italian and it's in Italian. I ripped it to my computer in hopes of finding a subtitle/.srt file to use with it. I checked opensubtitles.org already with no luck. Any suggestions?

[bitewerksMTB]

'the bosses head'  second of the arrow box of  re issues of the 'new battles beyond honour....' series.
a stand alone story, the film is, nevertheless, full of usual yakusa film tropes that fill the original series.
arrow video deliver again.

So, the New Battles... are pretty good? I think it's just the box set that still available over here. No individual releases yet. The orig. series can be found pretty cheap; I've only picked up the first film, so far (have them all on dvd). I want Cops Vs Thugs but really, really want Arrow to release Three Mad Dog Brothers!

I have Bob Clark's Deathdream aka Dead of Night and The Mutilator in transit along with Arrow's The Thing shipped from the UK. Also, ordered Scream Factory's new release of Silent Night, Deadly Night. Need that for Xmas night double feature with Black Christmas.

[david lloyd jones]

'the bosses head'  second of the arrow box of  re issues of the 'new battles beyond honour....' series.
a stand alone story, the film is, nevertheless, full of usual yakusa film tropes that fill the original series.
arrow video deliver again.

So, the New Battles... are pretty good? I think it's just the box set that still available over here. No individual releases yet. The orig. series can be found pretty cheap; I've only picked up the first film, so far (have them all on dvd). I want Cops Vs Thugs but really, really want Arrow to release Three Mad Dog Brothers!

I have Bob Clark's Deathdream aka Dead of Night and The Mutilator in transit along with Arrow's The Thing shipped from the UK. Also, ordered Scream Factory's new release of Silent Night, Deadly Night. Need that for Xmas night double feature with Black Christmas.

if you like the original 'battles...' series then the new set is same level quality. will likely get separate releases since the other box is now available in separates.. 'cops vs thugs'  good too.
'black christmas just got dvd/blu reissue here in uk. working xmess day so might be good to come home to

[bitewerksMTB]

Island of Death & They Came From Within last night.

I.O.D. is Greek trash. Useless but has some mild entertainment. Best not to know anything or expect anything otherwise you'll be even more disappointed as the film as a rather "extreme" rep that it fails to live up to. Some of the soundtrack is kind of like musique concrete but I don't know it is intentional or fucked up audio.

T.C.F.W. aka Shivers is a classic & D.C.'s more perverted film. The Arrow UK Blu-ray is code B but plays in U.S. machines. RECOMMENDED. Too bad we never get to see Barbara Steele's bare breasts or more of Susan Petrie as she was quite cute with diamond hard nipples throughout the entire film.

[absurdexposition]

T.C.F.W. aka Shivers is a classic & D.C.'s more perverted film. The Arrow UK Blu-ray is code B but plays in U.S. machines. RECOMMENDED. Too bad we never get to see Barbara Steele's bare breasts or more of Susan Petrie as she was quite cute with diamond hard nipples throughout the entire film.

Love it. Filmed on Île des Sœurs (Nun's Island) here in Montreal and instantly recognizable.

[david lloyd jones]

'the toolbox murders', on blu ray and uncut in uk for first time.
more than merely a grubby slasher flick (nothing wrong with grubby slasher flicks), the film goes seriously off topic for a great final third/quarter of the film.