17.1.14

the black 6 (1973)

"There ain't no tomorrow, there is just right now!"
Being a biker is hard enough, but being a black biker gang is even tougher! These Vietnam vets, are happy with their freedom. That is until one (Gene Washington) finds out that his brother has been killed by a white biker gang for going out with a white girl. So what is he meant to do, but find 'em and kill 'em.
A rather tame take on the biker genre, which features a cast of all star football players as the black six.

the cape town affair (1967)

aka Escape Route Cape Town.
"We're not to keen on this sort of thing in Cape Town."
Secret agents in South Africa are trying to trace some spies who have been passing confidential material to the communists. Then a pick pocket (James Brolin) inadvertently heists some microfilm from Candy (Jacqueline Bisset) and all sides try to trace him.
Muddled and uninteresting remake of Pickup on South Street. Only of interest if you want to see a young Jacquelin Bisset.

trapped in space (1995)

"We've got about 24 hours before we have to choose which three of us survive."
A spaceship is stranded after colliding with an asteroid, and the crew soon realise that there is only enough oxygen for three people, and unfortunately there are five people on board.
Entertaining Sci-fi based on an Arthur C. Clarke short story.

the rapist (1994)

aka Tun Men se mo. Hong Kong Crimes: Sex maniac of Tuen Mun. Xiang Gang qi an zhi Tun Men se mo.
"You are a good girl."
Inspector Lau Man-Ching (Kwok-Pong Chan) is trying to track down and end the career of a serial rapist (Dickson Lee Ga-Sing) and murderer in Hong Kong.
A fictionalised account of true events, with the police trying to get into the mind and motivations of criminal, in order to stop him.

savage terror (1980)

aka Primitif. Primitives.
"Is it possible to go deeper into the jungle?"
Three anthropology students and their guides are traveling the Indonesian jungle when their raft capsizes, leaving them at the mercy of a cannibalistic tribe intent on lunch.
An uninteresting mash-up of other cannibal films, such as Cannibal Ferox, featuring the usual animal cruelty, (why?), and includes the most disconcerting use of Kraftwerk's The Robots as a title theme!

don't look in the basement (1973)

aka The Forgotten. Death Ward #13. Don't Go in the Basement. The Snake Pit.
"We are a family, and everyone helps with the chores."
When the Dr running an insane asylum is killed by one of its inmates, Dr Master's (Annabelle Weenick) decides to take over the hospital, as if nothing has happened. Then Charlotte Beale (Rosie Holotik), a new nurse arrives unexpectedly, and gets a less than cordial welcome from both the Dr and the inmates.
Despite it's cheap look, lack of acting talent, and slow pacing, if you can keep watching, you will be rewarded with the most obvious of twists.

slashed dreams (1975)

aka Sunburst.
"I'll take care of her."
An idealistic couple of students (Peter Hooten & Kathrine Baumann) try to find a friend (Robert Englund) who has dropped out and set up home in a remote woodland. Unfortunately for them these woods are also home to a couple of rapists!
60's idealism meets 70's nihilism, in this uninvolving and slow take on Deliverance, with no real resolution, and a terrible folkie soundtrack.