Thursday, August 14, 2008

Also seen

Rock on Fire (1994)

At its heart a basic but competent Hong Kong action film with a heavy portion of sleaze. Made interesting by the intense performance of Mikie Ng as "Icy", Japanese Red Army villainess with the hobby of biting through men's jugulars during sex.

 

Naked Evil (1966)

British horror movie about a West Indian obi man in London who lends his services out in a gang war. While he's at it, also takes his revenge on the headmaster of a "school for colored people".

The film obviously prides itself on its sympathetic look on black people in London, which unfortunately alternates with conscious and unconscious racism of the more unbearable kind. If people treated me the way the "villain" of this piece is treated by its "heroes", I'd curse them, too.

 

The Lost (2005)

Clever and quite nasty adaptation of a book by Jack Ketchum. It somehow achieves its nasty effect in a very classy way.

 

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