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The Friends of 4DK: Bikinis Y Rock (Mexico, 1972) by Tars Tarkas
The cavalcade of guest stars continues here at 4DK while I nurture my budding prehensile tail. This week finds my fellow Infernal Brain and host of the jawesome TarsTarkas.NET, Tars Tarkas, stepping...
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Never Too Young to Rock (England, 1976)
Never Too Young to Rock begins in a dystopian present: England in the mid 1970s, when the powers that be are conspiring to ban rock n’ roll music from television. As an opening title card tells us, a...
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Francoise Hardy en Anglaise
It seems that, more often than not, when I'm not writing about movies, I'm writing about French pop music for Teleport City. My latest is a review of Midnight Blues, a collection of English language...
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The Friends of 4DK: Ghost With Hole, aka Sundel Bolong (Indonesia, 1981) by...
The guest posts continue, this time with The Cultural Gutter's Carol Bordenproviding an alternate take on a film that I reviewed for Teleport City way back when I was still one of you.Director Sisworo...
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Antar in the Land of the Romans, aka Antar Fi Bilad Ir Ruman (Lebanon/Turkey,...
Antarah ibn Shaddad earned his place in history through his contributions to Arabic literature, but in Arabic pop cinema he is known primarily for kicking ass. This is as true in the previously...
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Witch with Flying Head (Taiwan, 1982)
There’s nothing like a detachable witch when you need to hex those hard to reach places. Southeast Asian filmmakers, they get this, as, judging by Witch with Flying Head, do the Taiwanese -- though...
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The Friends of 4DK: Oriole the Heroine by Durian Dave
Weak... so weak... head crossing... eyes spinning... knees curdling... blood trembling... Must... post... but can't... But wait... what's that on the horizon? Coming to the rescue, it's none other than...
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Manhattan Night of Murder, aka Mordnacht in Manhattan (W. Germany/France, 1965)
Back in the halcyon days of 2009, I wrote a primer on the career of Robot Monster star George Nader and his role in the Jerry Cotton films. In brief, Nader left the U.S. for Germany as work became...
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The Friends of 4DK: Karate (India, 1983) by Beth Watkins
  As I struggle to type these words with my newly affixed hooks, the guest posts continue over here at 4DK. This time the awesome Beth Watkins, author of the universally beloved blog Beth Loves...
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Sumpah Pontianak, aka Blood of Pontianak (Malaysia, 1958)
Hey, pretties, why slaver over the next Karloff or Lugosi retrospective when you can build your own alternative pantheon of classic monsters from those based on Southeast Asian folklore, such as the...
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Chinese Evil Technique, aka Chinese Magic 2 (Taiwan, 1985)
I don't know if Chinese Evil Technique earns the alternate title Chinese Magic 2, but, like 1983's Chinese Magic, it does star former Shaw Brothers starlet Shih Szu and feature a lot of Taoist...
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