Foreign Television

Doraemon is a Japanese cartoon about a robot cat from the future who comes back in time to help the ancestor of his future owner or something. He does this by using various inventions that he keeps in his pocket. Apparently his ears where bitten off by rats or something, its rather odd by western standards. Someone actually bothered to translate his theme tune into English:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8OBAfjTidM








This is a two part TV film from Russia called Kin-Dza-Dza. I suppose it's a bit like Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy but a bit more subtle, more of a satire than a farce. I think its really funny and clever.






















Here is another Japanese children's cartoon called Dr Slump, it's pretty funny.

Invisible Rape, Spanish Horror, The Cinema Store, Antichrist, Pro Wrestling

I've discovered an amazing film called The Entity, it's about a woman who becomes terrorized by an invisible force that repeatedly rapes her. It's by Sydney J. Furie who also directed The Ipcress File and ..Superman IV.















Recently my friend Raul showed me The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, a quite original zombie film set in the British countryside. The director is Spanish. It's also known as Don't Open the Window and Let Sleeping Corpses Lie.

My friend also told me about this Spanish horror film called Who Can Kill a Child?, it's about an English couple who visit a small Spanish town and discover that the children have murdered everyone, a bit like a Village of the Damned or Children of the Corn type thing. The cinematography is amazing.




These film's aren't available here so I had to order them. I usually go to The Cinema Store in Covent Garden to find rare film's and foreign edition's. I don't really download. Up until now I thought Spain's contribution to horror cinema consisted of the Blind Dead series and a few Jess Franco film's. I really love Jess Franco, he made this film called Sexo Canibal where the monster is just basically a naked black man.






I watched Antichrist a few weeks ago but couldn't be bothered to write about it, obviously it has a lot of wince inducing violence and also some quite amusingly bad dialogue. It's nicely photographed though. I enjoyed it anyway.






Kinnikuman is a Japanese cartoon about pro wrestling. One of the characters is a Nazi.

Umberto Lenzi, Joshua Miller, Rivers Edge, Susan George in The Sorcerers

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I've been getting into Umberto Lenzi recently, he made Nightmare City and a quite good cannibal film called Eaten Alive.










Been wondering what happened to this guy Joshua Miller.
He was this really good child actor who was in a few movies in the 80's, namely: Class of 1999, Teen Witch and he was the kid in Near Dark. The best thing I've seen him in is River's Edge. You can watch the entire film on Youtube, Crispin Glover is also incredible in it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qvdvMDtaJM






Crispin Glover dancing:










I've also recently been looking for this really great 60's horror film called The Sorcerers, directed by Michael Reeves (Witchfinder General) and starring Boris Karloff. It doesn't seem to be available anywhere. You can also watch it on Youtube though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoIGSdHNxVg


Look out for a very young Susan George a couple of years before Straw Dogs.






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