Movie Review: 99 Women (Blu-ray)

Reviewed By: James D.

As a film fan who seeks out the lost treasures you have always heard about Franco’s 99 Women being so controversial for its time. I think the controversy of this film is that the price is so damn high. Why attack Blue Underground. They are not the regular suspects. That would be Grindhouse, Severin, Arrow and countless others who are gouging the fans for every penny we have. I understand you are having tough times on sales, but to hit your die-hard fans so hard is not the answer. 

99 Women is basically a women in prison exploitation film. Maria Rohm plays the 99th prisoner of an all-female island prison. Franco is shooting high on this film, but it just comes up so short. You have Mercedes McCambridge and Herbert Lom in this film. They both are incredible at their crafts, but they are so wasted here. The film tries to create a plot off of the government inspector coming down on the sadistic governor. Which we get to see the guy who is in charge of the male prison on the other side of the island. 

Movie Review: Martyrs (2008)

Directed by Pascal Laugier
Starring Morjana Alaoui, Mylene Jampanoi and Catherine Begin

Martyrs begins with a young girl, Lucie, as she is escaping from unknown assailants who have imprisoned and physically abused her for quite some time. For some unknown reason the perpetrators are never found. Lucie is placed in an orphanage where she befriends another girl named Anna. Anna soon discovers Lucie is terrorized by visions of a horribly disfigured woman covered in scars.

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"Debauchery" and "True Story Of A Woman In Jail: Sex Hell" Debut on DVD From Impulse Pictures!!

TWO NEW THRILLERS IN THE NIKKATSU EROTIC FILMS COLLECTION!

TRUE STORY OF
A WOMAN IN JAIL: SEX HELLand DEBAUCHERY

JAPANESE EROTIC DELIGHTS — WITH AN EDGE!

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A Wham! Bam! Thank you, ma'am! double-whammy sexy slammer double feature from
the masterminds of Nikkatsu!
Due to their juvenile crimes, a group of fresh young girls is thrown into a horrid, squalid jail. They soon wish they were back on the outside,
as a gang of inmates subjects this “fresh meat”
to the horrors of being locked up. Mayumi,
a new inmate with a mysterious past, stands up for herself and fights back! NO ONE is going
to push her around, and she hatches an escape plan to seek revenge on the person who had
her incarcerated.

TRUE STORY OF A WOMAN IN JAIL: SEX HELL
is a sleazy, sexually graphic and surprisingly violent entry in the “women in prison” genre. The opening uniform changing, nude medical examination sessions, communal scrubbings in the bathhouse, nimble-fingered lesbians and vicious catfights are all here… and more!

In DEBAUCHERY, the sexy Ryôko Watanabe stars as Ami, a jaded housewife who pitches herself, body and soul, into the Tokyo decadence of the decade in an attempt to pep up her marriage. She secretly joins the elite “Madame Machiko Society Club” to experiment with discrete sex games and the thrill of making love to anonymous men. The sexual perversion and sick depravity she is subjected to, by her clients, is much more than she bargained for. Bondage, beads and whips are only the beginning! Can she escape this secret life she has chosen, or will it
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Impulse Films proudly presents two historic stunners from the heyday of the violent sex film. Nikkatsu always delivers. DEBAUCHERY features an original theatrical trailer and both discs include liner notes from Japanese film scholar
Jasper Sharp.

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Movie Review: Night Train Murders (1975)

I've always been a fan of Wes Craven's Last House on the Left. With that said, it's really not that great of a film, even though it's been branded a classic by numerous critics for nearly four decades. The popularity of Last House on the Left brought on the inevitable rip-offs. Aldo Lado’s Night Train Murders (aka The New House on the Left) has had this unfortunate moniker but in many ways it’s a much better more polished effort in nearly all aspects.

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Laura (Marina Berti) and Margeret (Irene Miracle, Inferno) are heading home during the holidays by train. While on the in route the two young ladies bump into a couple scumbags, Blackie and Curly (played by Flavio Bucci and Gianfranco De Grassi) and a mysterious woman known only as “Lady on the Train”(Deep Red’s Macha Meril). After a bomb threat the train comes to a stop, everybody exits except the goons and the girls who are locked up in a dark train compartment. These guys perform all sorts a sadistic violence on these victims. The horror doesn’t stop there as both women perish at the hands of the killers following some pretty brutal abuse.