http://www.wtf-film.com For all of your WTFFILM update needs. 2008 and Beyond mirabyte Feed Writer WtffilmUpdateshttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with Pageflakes Wtf-Film.com is now powered by Wordpress, which saves me a bundle of time in making an RSS feed for me instead of having me make it myself. As such, this feed will no longer be updated - my apologies for any inconvenience this may cause, but I assure you that it won't be happening again anytime soon. The new feed is available at the new Wtf-Film.com, linked here.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/_wBTn42wc50" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/_wBTn42wc50/ Sun, 28 Jun 2009 3:12:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/site/ There's a ridiculous low-budget charm that permeates HAND OF DEATH and that keeps me coming back for more. John Agar is fine as the lead [he was rarely anything less than so, no matter how awful the writing for a role may have been] and it's nice to see Paula Raymond [THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS], who would suffer a near-fatal car crash that same year.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/9p8kXB7m4T0" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/9p8kXB7m4T0/ARTICLE.shtml Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:12:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLE.shtml?JUNE_2009/HAND.html The standout is definitely Mimmo Craig, a small-time actor who went directly from the epic miniseries JESUS OF NAZARETH to playing the yeti in this. Craig's performance is impassioned and emotive in the extreme, but is seriously let down by the sound design.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/NQqAHq3CZe8" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/NQqAHq3CZe8/ARTICLE.shtml Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:12:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLE.shtml?JUNE_2009/YETI.html Foreign rights to ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN reverted back to Toho a few years back, and a statement from the studio at that time indicated that it had no intention of selling them again. The film was the first of the studio's to fall at the hands of lobbying organizations, due to its unsettling depiction of indigenous Japanese peoples.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/FRqdDEyNR80" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/FRqdDEyNR80/ARTICLE.shtml Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:26:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLE.shtml?JUNE_2009/SNOWMAN.html The last film to be made by writer / producer / director William Berke is a real doozy, a barely lucid Cold War pontification on the importance of scientific research, military might, and civil defense.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/7TDo2VkARLU" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/7TDo2VkARLU/ARTICLE.shtml Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLE.shtml?JUNE_2009/LOST.html The story by comic book author Arnold Drake is pure pulpy B-movie goodness that reminds of Roger Corman's a-thrill-a-minute model. His taut script works very well, moving the frequent action along at a swift tempo and keeping the dialogue between the creature moments lively.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/VvjatJm7RZI" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/VvjatJm7RZI/ARTICLE.shtml Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:04:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLE.shtml?JUNE_2009/FLESHEATERS.html Ishii's transposition of western film noir sensibilities onto his own familiar surroundings seems effortless, and he uses them well to showcase the seedier sides of post-occupation Japan.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/687xSn_NaLM" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/687xSn_NaLM/ARTICLE.shtml Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:04:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLE.shtml?JUNE_2009/BLACK.html Legend has it that this film's release inspired the infamous review "And to hell it can go!". True? Who knows, but I like to think so.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/Se-lAkTSLIs" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/Se-lAkTSLIs/ARTICLE.shtml Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:04:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLE.shtml?JUNE_2009/HELL.html GRASS is a gruesomely graphic do-it-yourself exploitationer produced for pennies on the dollar in all the visual majesty that Super 8 reversal film can provide. It's certainly not for the faint hearted.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/0dsZlYYKJsk" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/0dsZlYYKJsk/ARTICLE.shtml Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:04:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLE.shtml?JUNE_2009/GRASS.html Chicago is here in name only, and is represented by a few barren sets and a load of still photographs - many of which have been enlarged and covered in grasshoppers. It's enough to make one wonder why Chicago was chosen as the location at all, with Los Angeles presumably so close by.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/1FI9MFi5gZw" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/1FI9MFi5gZw/ARTICLE.shtml Sat, 30 May 2009 16:17:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLE.shtml?MAY_2009/BEGINNING.html Even when the drama is failing or performances lacking [which is often], Scott ensures that at least something of interest is going on in frame [like a zombie playing with an Osterizer blender, funnily enough the same make and model I own!].<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/f1Xn23rzbZw" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/f1Xn23rzbZw/ARTICLE.shtml Sat, 30 May 2009 16:17:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLE.shtml?MAY_2009/VIDEO.html After the unwitting release of the top secret US bio-weapon MM-88, a genetically engineered monster that destroys the immune system of its victims and causes them to succumb to every disease imaginable, fewer than a thousand people are left alive.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/5YXle0lLwuw" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/5YXle0lLwuw/ARTICLE.shtml Wed, 27 May 2009 04:52:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLE.shtml?MAY_2009/VIRUS.html . . . gets the mix between stupid scripting and explosive action pretty much right, and even the multitude of plot holes and a poorly devised heartstrings-pulling ending weren't enough to keep me from being entertained.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/goEzOujz-I8" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/goEzOujz-I8/ARTICLE.shtml Sat, 23 May 2009 16:01:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLE.shtml?MAY_2009/TERMINATOR.html The story is par for the course for a JAWS cash-in - a sea-side town on the East coast of the United States is preparing for a big tourist-attracting event [here a windsurfing race] when it is invaded by a great white shark. Political guys keep the mounting shark attacks hush-hush and let the big tourist-attracting event go as planned, with disastrous results, and are forced to hire professionals to hunt and kill the offending fish.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/Ebac7R46KpU" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/Ebac7R46KpU/ARTICLE.shtml Sat, 23 May 2009 16:01:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLE.shtml?MAY_2009/LAST.html Once Elisabeth is chased from the train GRAPES is full of wide-open spaces, with much of the action taking place around dilapidated old houses or ruins outright - the distinct lack of anything new enforces the emphasis on decay with the illusion that the countryside itself is falling apart.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/FvoiAo_nvfI" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/FvoiAo_nvfI/ARTICLE.shtml Tue, 19 May 2009 17:43:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLE.shtml?MAY_2009/GRAPES.html Perhaps the most that can be said for CANNIBAL TERROR is that those involved with it [both in front of and behind the camera] don't look to have taken it any more seriously than was absolutely necessary. While it never reaches the level of outright parody that makes stinker ZOMBIE LAKE as entertaining as it is, TERROR shifts down to a lower gear of complete ineptitude early and remains there for the duration.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/cy5njBW6skU" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/cy5njBW6skU/ARTICLE.shtml Tue, 19 May 2009 17:43:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLE.shtml?MAY_2009/TERROR.html . . . seemed a bit more tongue-in-cheek than its predecessors, at least in concept. In practice, it's just more of the same old, same old, only produced with even less talent or conviction.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/G4lILGr4ZPw" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/G4lILGr4ZPw/ARTICLE.shtml Fri, 15 May 2009 16:36:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLE.shtml?MAY_2009/MEGASHARK.html Several years pass - Didi [Ibrahim] has grown from a creepy baby into a creepy young boy who amuses himself by forcing street performers to hurt themselves [one cuts off his hand!], beating local children at peeing contests, and making a mockery of his own circumcision ceremony. Worse yet, religious things - like the Islamic call to prayer - drive him violently mad.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/wc1z1wVpfo4" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/wc1z1wVpfo4/ARTICLE.shtml Fri, 15 May 2009 16:36:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLE.shtml?MAY_2009/BAYI.html . . . won't win any awards and has no IMDB page on which to display them if it did, but for a low budget late 80's Thai action feature I was expecting far worse than what I received.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/1lBCPWZsKq4" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/1lBCPWZsKq4/ARTICLE.shtml Tue, 12 May 2009 23:55:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLE.shtml?MAY_2009/CONDOR.html Much like Columbia Pictures' earlier bill filler VALLEY OF THE DRAGONS, Portillo and Salazar's production is built to coincide with copious amounts of previously shot film, including the creation of matching sets and costumes. The trick works quite well, provided you haven't seen any of the special effects footage [much of it already 27 years old by this time] before.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/aLSLKvrW6Tw" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/aLSLKvrW6Tw/DINOSAURIOS.shtml Fri, 08 May 2009 01:43:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLES/MAY_2009/DINOSAURIOS.shtml The beast's preponderance for slapping his victims in the face with his grotesquely long arms makes for a few moments of high hilarity, though not nearly enough to warrant sitting through the hour and ten minutes of narrative tedium that precedes them.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/9ZCyRZhltBA" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/9ZCyRZhltBA/GONGGOI.shtml Fri, 08 May 2009 01:43:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLES/MAY_2009/GONGGOI.shtml Angered that Gamma has her sights set on the finest male she's yet encountered, Beta does the only thing she can - turns into a Gothic-style cape-clad vampire and begins feeding on the local drunkards!<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/0w0L07fZ5HE" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/0w0L07fZ5HE/MONSTRUOS.shtml Tue, 05 May 2009 12:58:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLES/MAY_2009/MONSTRUOS.shtml CALTIKI may be set in Mexico, but it's really 100% pure cinema fantascienza - produced in Italy by a man who, though he received no on-screen credit, would go on to become the most recognized name in Italian horror.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/sAoGdAVgAsg" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/sAoGdAVgAsg/CALTIKI.shtml Tue, 05 May 2009 12:58:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLES/MAY_2009/CALTIKI.shtml It's fun to finally see a throwback to the exploitation of the 70's and 80's that isn't based directly on a studio property. SNOW offers a number of truly original gore highlights - a snowmobile used as a multi-tool of dismemberment, a thrilling cliff-side battle at the end of a small intestine, and even a disemboweling seen through the eyes of the victim . . .<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/mBR9yTQ7gtA" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/mBR9yTQ7gtA/SNOW.shtml Fri, 01 May 2009 17:08:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLES/MAY_2009/SNOW.shtml . . . an evenly paced and easy to appreciate bit of z-grade science fiction hokum - a sort of bad movie-lite for those not wishing to torment themselves unnecessarily with certified neuron-destroyers like MONSTER A-GO-GO. It could well be the epitome of the tired 'so bad it's good' cliche.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/MwdWPl3Nk1U" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/MwdWPl3Nk1U/PLAN.shtml Fri, 01 May 2009 17:08:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLES/MAY_2009/PLAN.shtml It's no minor miracle that Neveldine / Taylor have managed to take as simple a premise as this [hit man loses heart and goes on bloody rampage to find it] and muck it up so royally. The meandering A to B to C narrative quickly loses focus - by the time Statham crashed into his third shoot out I was well past the point of caring.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/fgw6zhfzJBA" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/fgw6zhfzJBA/CRANK.shtml Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:14:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLES/APRIL_2009/CRANK.shtml Galiena exudes a quiet and restrained sensuality that, coupled with Leconte's tendency to shy from overt nudity [in keeping with the naive nature of Antoine's fetish], makes her an erotic force to be reckoned with.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~4/JEyIEHuBJFg" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WtffilmUpdates/~3/JEyIEHuBJFg/HAIRDRESSER.shtml Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:14:00 -0700 http://wtf-film.com/ARTICLES/APRIL_2009/HAIRDRESSER.shtml