NP: Boxcar Bertha

[Dave Monroe]

The Godmother of them all?  The baddest one-chick hit
squad that ever hit town?  She'll cream you ...

http://www.separatecinema.com/travel/coffy.gif

http://us.imdb.com/Taglines?0069897

She had a body men would die for--and a lot of them
did ... the sdtk. is out on CD as well ...

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/ayers_roy~~_coffyorig_101b.jpg

--- JBFRAME at aol.com wrote:
>
> I saw it in at a drive-in in a double feature in
> 1973 with a really over the edge Blaxploitation
> thriller _Coffy_, directed by Jack Hill & starring
> Pam Grier & Booker Bradshaw, who gets his nuts blown
> off in a climactic scene.
>  
>
http://www.eccentric-cinema.com/cult_movies/coffy.htm

Soul Vengeance?  They tried to take everything--even
his manhood ...

http://www.stomptokyo.com/badmoviereport/soul_vengeance.html

http://us.imdb.com/Taglines?0073735

Talk about yr castration anxiety.  That one made me
castration anxious.  Welcome home, Brother Charles. 
You done the man's time--now you gonna do ours ...

> They don't make 'em quite like that any more, but
> they still pull off the occasional tasteless
> classic.  Seen _Dead or Alive_ by Miike Takeshi
> yet?  If you love senseless violence & sexual
> exploitation Yakuza style, with absolutely no
> redeeming this is your bag.

Audition?  Battle Royale?  Riki-Oh (The Story of
Ricky)?  Uzumaki?  Wild Zero?  Mermaid in a Manhole? 
Moju, the Blind Beast (1969) is available again ...

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0140384

A la Black Lizard and The Mystery of Rampo, from a
story by Edogawa Rampo (cf. Edgar Allen ...) ...

http://wlt4.home.mindspring.com/fafr/articles/rampo.htm

http://members3.cool.ne.jp/~inat/rampo/english/

And Ring is soon to be remade (again), here a US
version starring Naomi (Mullholland Drive) Watts ...

http://www.countingdown.com/movies/ring

http://www.upcomingmovies.com/ring.html

... who beat out Jennifer "Academy Award Winner"
Connelly for the role, and who should have done the
same Oscar night, but wasn't even nominated ... 

Recommended reading ...

Hunter, Jack.  Eros in Hell: Sex, Blood and Madness
   in Japanese Cinema.  London: Creation, 1999.

http://www.creationbooks.com/titles/1871592933.html

http://www.kfccinema.com/articles/erosinhell/erosinhell.html

Macias, Patrick.  Tokyoscope: The Japanese Cult
   Film Companion.  San Francisco: Viz, 2001.

http://store.viz.com/cgi-bin/j-pop/T-TS01.html

Foreword by Kinji Fukasaku (Green Slime, Black Lizard,
Battle Royale), afterword by Takashi Miike.  And see
as well the Japanese Horror Movie Database ...

http://www.fjmovie.com/horror/

Oh, er, uh, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon ...

Jack Hunter

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