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Emanuelle Around the World (1977)
2007-10-11 00:30:00
akaThe Degradation of Emanuelle and Emanuelle: Why Violence Against Women? (Emanuelle - Perché violenza alle donne?) After a trip abroad, photo-journalist cum sex goddess, Emanuelle (Playground favorite Laura Gemser) returns to San Fransisco where she meets Dr. Malcolm Robertson (another Playground fav, Ivan Rassimov from Eaten Alive! and Jungle Holocaust) after being attacked by a perverted old
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August Underground's Mordum (2003)
2007-10-08 21:40:00
After watching the original August Underground I thought that I could not be damaged anymore. Evidently I have no fucking clue what "damaged" means. Mordum, the follow up to the highly acclaimed yet much maligned AU, goes much further to sicken and unnerve. The gore is more plentiful and the on-screen violence, rape and torture is amped up to ludicrous heights. Three sadistic thugs - a guy (Fred

August Underground (2001)
2007-10-06 22:52:00
This is not a horror movie. This is a hate movie. And even calling it a "movie" is like saying that huffing gas is "doing drugs". There is no plot. No story. Hell, there are really no characters. It's just the exploits of 2 nameless, violent thugs; one the "leader" of sorts (Fred Vogel, also the writer and director), the other a cackling, faceless cameraman. How do you review something like this?
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Zombie Lake (1980)
2007-09-28 18:02:00
After a girl is reported missing and another found dead in a small town haunted by "ghosts" in a lake, a reporter comes to town to get the scoop. She is directed by the townsfolk to the home of the Mayor (Playground favorite, Howard Vernon) who has first hand knowledge of the history of the lake. The story; A squad of German soldiers are fighting in the town when one of them (we'll call him "
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Night Train Murders (1975)
2007-09-25 19:41:00
Two teenage girls hop a train to see one of the girl's family for Christmas but little do they know a couple of thugs get on without tickets while running from the police. Thug #1 meets a well-dressed woman (the incredibly sexy Macha Méril) and proceeds to take her in the bathroom and force her (at first anyway) to have sex with him. After she gives in to him, she befriends the two thugs and
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Angel Guts: Red Vertigo (1988)
2007-09-22 04:07:00
aka Angel Guts: Red Dizziness Nami is a nurse and her boyfriend Kenji is a fashion photographer. While helping him develop some pictures of his, she notices that he has been taking a lot of pictures of a certain beautiful model. He assures her that it is strictly business and he is faithful to her. One fateful night at work, Nami is called to a patients room only to be attacked and raped by two
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