Watching B-movies so you don’t have to!
They say that money can’t buy happiness, but it certainly can buy a position of influence… Those are the words that are spoken very early in the Godfrey Ho film Zombie Vs. Ninja. Unfortunately for you, you won’t have any idea what that has to do with anything else that you’ll see in the next hour and a half.
When you hear the names of movies like Commando, Double Impact, Hard to Kill, and Cobra, what comes to mind? How about cheesy, over-the-top action with explosions and bad guys getting their asses handed to them in every scene! Well now we have a new name to add to that list: The Stabilizer! Peter O’Brian (star of Rambu (aka The Intruder) ) has made it back to Internal Bleeding in a movie we like to think of as “unintentionally classic”. Rambu gave you just a taste of American actors in an Indonesian film, but this movie takes it to new heights never before reached in cinema history. Let’s dive in and see why Peter O’Brian is called The Stabilizer!
In this installment of the Zombie films, zombies have taken over most of the world and the number of living humans is dwindling. Society has adapted to this change and a great number of people reside in Fiddler’s Green one of the few remaining cities not populated by zombies. Kaufman (Dennis Hopper) the founder of this great city has separated the people into two classes. The upper class living fancy lives, and the lower class left to fend for themselves on the streets. Supplies are brought into the town by a team of mercenaries lead by Riley (Simon Baker) and Cholo (John Leguizamo). Cholo does all of Kaufman’s dirty work in hopes to gain a nice home in Fiddler’s Green, but Kaufman decides to have him killed of instead. Severely pissed off from being double crossed Cholo steals the Dead Reckoning - a seriously modified truck armed to the gills, and threatens to blow up the city. Since Riley designed the Dead Reckoning, Kaufman recruits him to get it back. Meanwhile the zombies decide to attack the city and they have learned to use various tools along the way. Will Riley get the Dead Reckoning back in time to save Fiddler’s Green, or will Cholo blow the city to hell and let the zombies devour the citizens of Fiddler’s green?
Written and directed by: George A. Romero
I can honestly say I am not a huge fan of remakes. They very rarely turn out as good as the original. But lets face it, even new Hollywood stories aren’t too good now days. So I thought rather than watching the remake of The Fog I would take a peek at the classic by John Carpenter. For whatever reason I had never seen this movie, but I got a few recommendations that it is one I can’t miss. And hell, Carpenter’s The Thing was freaky as anything I’ve ever seen so why not give it a shot.
Cho Osaki (Shô Kosugi) moves to America with his son Kane (Kane Kosugi) after his family is killed in Japan by ninjas. He opens a doll shop with his friend Braden (Arthur Roberts), who uses Cho’s shop as a front to import heroin in the dolls. Braden is double crossed by his Italian buyer and he shows them why you do not fuck with Japanese drug lords. Cho prepares for the ultimate ninja duel to the death when he finds out that his friend has betrayed him. Written by James R. Silke and directed by Sam Firstenberg.
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