Author Archive: Retro

On an expedition to a remote island, three men find a baby Gappa, prehistoric creature worshipped by natives, and bring it back to Japan. Infuriated, the creature’s parents search for the baby and destroy cities until the baby is found and they all return to the island.

Made for TV movie in the era of the disaster movies.

Country girl comes to the big city looking for a husband. When she finds the one she wants, she gives herself to him as a birthday present. Karen looks great bikiniclad.

General Ahmed has started an inner-city People’s Army to try and relieve the misery of the citizens of Watts. When the locals are put under increasing pressure by Mafia thugs, Ahmed’s second-in-command Colonel Kojah asks for permission to start a protection squad to take more direct action. Ahmed fears this protection squad will just turn into a vigilante mob, and his prediction soon proves correct. Will Ahmed be able to wrest control back from the power-mad Kojah, or will he be the mob’s next victim?

An interesting (if extremely violent) twist on the standard blaxploitation formula, this crime film deals with a black militant-group, led by Charles P. Robinson, whose members decide to clean up their Watts neighborhood by ridding it of white gangsters. Extreme mayhem follows, with slimy Caucasian hoodlums being castrated, shot, and flung from windows, but the black heroes begin overstepping their authority. Soon, they are no better than the mobsters and are even goose-stepping and chanting Nazi slogans, leading the community to revolt. Rod Perry stars, and cult pin-up queen Uschi Digart can be seen as a prostitute.

Hercules goes to Hell! On a mission of love, Hercules must retrieve a special plant from the underworld to save his dying princess. Cinematography by Mario Bava, who also wrote the script. English dubbed. Dir. Mario Bava

Hercules goes to Hell! On a mission of love, Hercules must retrieve a special plant from the underworld to save his dying princess. Cinematography by Mario Bava, who also wrote the script. English dubbed. Dir. Mario Bava