King Dinosaur (1955)


King Dinosaur (1955) 

Although he's universally (and righteously) considered as one of the worst directors in history, I admit to be a fan of the notorious [Bert I. Gordon]! ... the writer/director/producer of several inept and incredibly low-budgeted horror and Sci-Fi movies during the 50's, 60's and 70's. "King Dinosaur" was his debut feature in 1955 and it still stands as probably the worst dinosaur movie there is to find .... "King Dinosaur" contains all the bad and laughable elements that the MST3K crowd enjoys so much: horrible acting performances, a thoroughly idiotic script and dumb dialogs, footage that is borrowed from equally bad films, cheap set pieces and small, harmless animals that are ridiculously enlarged in order to look like gigantic menacing creatures. The film nevertheless starts promising and in a typically 1950's manner, with a stern voice-over informing us that an entirely new and never before noticed (!) planet has entered our solar system. Earth has got a new neighbor and all the great intellectual minds agree that this new planet – Nova – has the same inhabitable atmosphere. The good old US of A promptly puts together a space expedition featuring four scientists; two men and two women that are romantically involved. FOUR people, none of whom have any astronaut experience, is apparently enough for the most important mission of all time! When they arrive on Nova, it actually looks like they accidentally landed somewhere in Montana. There are forests, lakes, deer and honey bears. One of the crew members even wrestles with a crocodile! Only around two-thirds into the film, half of the mission's crew heads out to a volcanic island on the planet and comes face to face with the titular King Dinosaur. Two-thirds! Don't name your film "King Dinosaur" if the dinosaur is only a footnote in the whole stupid thing! Anyways, the character states that he resembles a T- Rex, but in fact it's an ordinary lizard filmed through a magnifying glass. He's supposed to be a relentless monster, but it's a damn lizard and they can't act, so he actually looks kind of cute and completely unaware of what he's doing. As said, this is one hopelessly inept hodgepodge of a film. 50's Sci-Fi flicks, as silly and cheap they generally are, have a certain enchantment value. "King Dinosaur", however, has no such thing whatsoever. It's a dumb ensemble of moronic plotting, unsympathetic characters and rubbish special effects. I would still warmly recommended it to bad cinema fanatics, though, because there are too many idiotic details to list! And at least the film is never boring, like so many of its contemporary genre colleagues.  (IMDB Coventry) 





























Dr. Ralph Martin: [after detonating an atomic bomb and watching it annihilate much of Planet Nova] Well, we've done it.

Dr. Richard Gordon: Yeah, we sure have done it: Brought civilization to Planet Nova.

Dr. Ralph Martin: Come on, let's go home. 

Trilogy of Lust 2 Portrait of a Sex Killer (1995)


Trilogy of Lust 2 Portrait of a Sex Killer (1995)
aka
Xue lian II

TRILOGY OF LUST 2 is a hell of a ride. One of the most twisted and sleazy CATIII films I've ever seen - this one has it all for sleaze-fans. Tons of sex, perversion, rape, violence - everything that you want in this type of thing...

A lady lives a double-life as an office-manager by day, and a freaky sex-queen by nite. Due to abuse at the hands of her Uncle as a young girl - she takes out her anger by dressing up in bondage gear and approaching guys at bars for sexual-liaisons. Only down-side, is that these flings end in torture and death for the guys involved. There's a side-story where a couple that work at the same office have a scheme to get money out of the woman by using the male worker to seduce her - but this backfires too. When boss-lady finds out that one of her victims had HIV, she really goes off the deep-end...

Lots of sleazy goodness in this one: tons of full-frontal nudity and pretty hot soft-core sex, some good torture on display - including some strange squid torture and staple-gun play, some cigarette-burn action, and a truly odd scene where the male co-worker finds a bunch of sex-toys in the boss-lady's house and dildo's himself in the ass til he spunks on her wall...strange stuff. Definitely amongst the weirder and trashier CATIII entries out there, and definitely recommended for fans of the genre (EVOL666 IMDB)














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