Masked Avengers Review

since kill bill from mr tarantino has been released, most people have heard of the movie company shaw brothers.
i love shaw brothers since i was a kid when my uncle showed me the new one armed swordsman, which is still my most favourite movie of all time!

one of the famous directors of this compay was a man called chang cheh.
his movies weren´t the smartest ones with stories like "hi, who are you?" - "i am blabla" - "i am going to fight the red devil gang with their leader red devil master" - "ok, i will help you, let´s be friends". besides that, his movies were highly entertaining and contained massive violence.

masked avengers was one of his later movies, including the last wave of his venom team.
to me, this is a rare movie on which i couldn´t get my hands on for several years, but gladly it was released on dvd.
the movie deals about a gang of thugs who are wearing masks and use tridents as weapons.
this is tricky since everyone tries to find out who belongs to the gang and who is on the good side.
you see, a typical chang cheh movie.
what makes the movie special is, next to all the great fighting and buddy movie stuff, the overall dark atmosphere and the psychodelic look. yes,psychodelic look! i guess everyone is like,oh no , this sounds like boring zen stuff, but you won´t forget the scenes in the enemies headquarters.
after capturing some of the good guys, the avengers put them into statues wich can be opened via swastikas (sic). the gang is not satisfied with standard alkohol or better schnaps for their efforts, so the leader decides to kill the captured men and let their blood flow into the barrel with the alcohol and the party can begin.
stuff like that happens all the time and wait until you see the real headquarter of the bad guys, acid traps, the leader is lifted on a pillar, massages from exotic women, secret switches.
sounds like a good movie? you´re right!

dream stuff part 3

like i promised a looong time ago i will post some more dreams.

ok,i work in something like a h&m shop. after a while i find a videotape with a buddy movie about mercenaries.they got a tank and an apache helicopter and do high fives and stuff like that.somehow i end up in that movie and work also in the shop.that was a good one!

i can´t remember the second one right,but i was in the hometown of my girlfriend.
it was mixed with a town in austria and i had to cross some long roads until i found an old restaurant in the hills.there was a circus wich had alot of animals.one of the animals ,an elephant, attacked me and something like a rhino destroyed some tables and chased away all tourists.
the owner of the the circus told me the names of the animals wich sounded like in my old "Was ist Was" children books about the first mammalians.

it´s intermission time folks

ok,i have been lazy since my last posting, but i promise new stuff is about to come!
planned so far : more weird dreams,lovecraft,shaw brothers,ray harryhausen and richard corben.

will you blaspheme

i should watch some of ken russell´s movies again,and so should you!

dream stuff part 2

ok,still in my 2 week holidays and my girlfriend is in school, the best time to add some other dreams!

in the first one i am in the mountains and in front of me is a big city on the foot of the mountain. i chase 2 bears away (real ones,not the gay ones!). suddenly shadows appear on the ground and some stealth bombers fly over the mountain to the city. they are dropping bombs on the city, the detonations look like small atomic explosions. after that i get the info that the switzerland has taken over germany!

the second one is one of the most disturbing dreams i´ve ever head.
the picture looks black and white like in very old documentaries. i am in a concentration camp at a beach, around me are some men who are also arrested.all the walls are made of sand with guardians on them in grey long jackets. behind us are small buildings wich look like the heads of mushrooms. in front of us are coming elevators out of the sand where the men are carried to and taken away. one of the elevators comes up, 2 strange persons are in it, a male and a female wich look like a mixture between humans and puppets with sharp teeth. you can look into their chests where you can see wheels and stuff turning. they take one of the prisoners away, and after the elevator comes up again, they bring out the prisoners in pieces. i manage to get away between the buildings behind us and hide myself under it. after a while american tanks enter the concentration camp and i am free.

sinful mayhem

ok, just when you thought you ´ve seen alot of crap, this movie comes along. i mean... i haven´t seen the movie yet, but the trailer left me speechless.

dream stuff part1

ok, the idea behind this blog was to write something about weird dreams but i guess i will add alot of other things like movies, old games,just stuff!

but to kick it off i will write about some dreams that still stick in my head.
the first one is from my earliest childhood and i don´t know why i remember it:
i am laying in my bed,the door opens. a tiger and a panther enter the room, i throw 2 little toys after them which are from an old german tv show called"die sendung mit der maus"

the second one must be when i was around 8-10:
i am in a jungle with a friend to dig out a treasure.
while digging ants crawl over me, and the picture in my head transforms into a hollow cube with ants over him. i woke up pretty frightened from this one.after getting back to sleep i dreamed a bit further, same jungle, but something was moving in the bushes, i turn around and a blue tiger + human face mixture watches me, it even had a moustache.

these were my earliest dreams i remember.
oh i will add one my cousin told me about when i stayed in the summer holidays at his place back in the 80ies:
something about a elephant who gets punished with nunchakus for shitting in the palace garden!!

ok, thats enough for now