Guilty Pleasures
BRUCE’S DEADLY FINGERS [1976]
AKA LUNG MRN BIE CHI HONG KONG AVAILABLE TO STREAM ON ARROW PLAYER: NOW RUNNING TIME: 91 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera Crime boss Lee Hung is obsessed with owning the late Bruce Lee’s ‘Kung […]
Year Made: 1976
Action
THE DOUBLE CROSSERS [1976]
AKA GUI JI SHUANG XIONG HONG KONG AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY: NOW, fr0m EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT RUNNING TIME: 95 mins / 93 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera Tough Singapore detective Lung learns that his father has died. […]
HCF Reviews
A QUEEN’S RANSOM [1976]
AKA E TAN AUN YING HUI, INTERNATIONAL ASSASSN HONG KONG AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY: NOW, from EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT RUNNING TIME: 93 mins [Hong Kong version], 86 mins [export version] REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera Queen Elizabeth II […]
HCF Reviews
THE KILLER METEORS [1976]
AKA FUNG YU SEUNG LAU SING HONG KONG AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY RUNNING TIME: 104 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera Mi Wei is the Killer Meteor, a martial arts master whose reputation is so strong that […]
HCF Reviews
THE TENANT [1976]
AKA LA LOCATAIRE FRANCE AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY [REGION ‘A’ AND ‘D’ ONLY], DVD and DIGITAL RUNNING TIME: 122 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera SPOILERS! In Paris, shy business clerk Trelkovsky rents an old apartment […]
HCF Reviews
SHAOLIN WOODEN MEN [1976]
AKA SHAO LIN MU REN XIANG HONG KONG AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD RUNNING TIME: 106 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera At the Shaolin Temple, Dummy [or Little Mute in the subtitled version] struggles […]
HCF Reviews
NEW FIST OF FURY [1976]
AKA XIN JING WU MEN HONG KONG AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD RUNNING TIME: 120 mins/ 83 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera The Ching Wu school of martial arts in Shanghai has been closed […]
Drugs
HE CAME FROM THE SWAMP: THE WILLIAM GREFE COLLECTION – DISCS 3 AND 4
Following on from Bat’s review earlier today [which you can check out here] of the first two discs of Arrow’s ‘He Came From The Swamp: The William Grefe Collection’, Doc reviews the final two discs! […]
Giallo
ALICE, SWEET ALICE [1976]
AKA COMMUNION, HOLY TERROR US AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD RUNNING TIME: 107 mins/106 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera Paterson, New York, 1961. Alice Spages is a withdrawn 12-year-old girl who lives with her […]
HCF Reviews
DARK AUGUST (1976) – American Horror Project Vol. 2
DARK AUGUST (1976) Directed by Martin Goldman Part of American Horror Project Vol. 2 from Arrow Video 38 year old city boy Sal (J.J. Barry) is cursed after accidentally hitting and killing a young girl […]
HCF Reviews
HAND OF DEATH [1976]: On Blu-ray June 24th, in the ‘LAST HURRAH FOR CHIVALRY/HAND OF DEATH: TWO FILMS BY JOHN WOO’ BOXSET
AKA SHA LIN MEN, SHAOLIN GATE, STRIKE OF DEATH, COUNTDOWN TO KUNG FU Hong Kong AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY: June 24th, from EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT, in the ‘LAST HURRAH FOR CHIVALRY/HAND OF DEATH: TWO FILMS BY JOHN […]
Columns
DOC’S JOURNEY INTO HAMMER FILMS #124: TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER [1976]
UK AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD RUNNING TIME: 95 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic SPOILERS! Michael Rainer is ex-communicated from the Church of England for attempting to bring a personification […]
Drama
TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER (1976)
TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER (1976) Directed by Peter Sykes A young woman returns home to England for her 18th birthday after growing up as a nun at a convent in Germany. However, it seems […]
Guilty Pleasures
YETI: GIANT OF THE 20TH CENTURY [1977]: DOC’S DODGY 1970’S KING KONG CASH-IN TRIPLE BILL, FILM 2
AKA YETI: IL GIGANTE DEL 20 SECOLO Italy AVAILABLE ON ALL-REGION DVD RUNNING TIME: 105 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Near the North Pole, scientists find a yeti frozen in a block […]
Guilty Pleasures
A.P.E. [1976]: DOC’S DODGY 1970’S KING KONG CASH-IN TRIPLE BILL, FILM 1
AKA KING KONG EUI DAEYEOKSEUP, THE GREAT COUNTERATTACK OF KING KONG, ATTACK OF THE GIANT HORNY GORILLA, HIDEOUS MUTANT Korea AVAILABLE ON REGION ‘A’ BLU-RAY AND DVD RUNNING TIME: 92 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official […]
HCF Reviews
THE WITCH WHO CAME FROM THE SEA (1976)
Available now on DVD and Blu-ray from Arrow Video As titles go this is the kind of thing that could be misleading. It’s sounds dramatic but it wouldn’t be a surprise if it didn’t contain […]
HCF Reviews
THE PREMONITION (1976)
Available now to stream from Arrow Video and on DVD and Blu-ray There are a lot of ways to discuss a strange, eerie, and rather unpredictable thriller like this. Do the surprising twists and turns […]
HCF Reviews
CARRIE [1976]: On Limited Edition Blu-ray 11th December
USA AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY: 11TH DECEMBER, from ARROW VIDEO RUNNING TIME: 98 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic NOTE FROM THE DOC! This is a heavily re-worked version of an older, very […]