I love Lenzi's gialli offerings, or at least the one's I have experiences! I still need to see KNIFE OF ICE and A QUIET PLACE TO KILL. SPASMO and EYEBALL are some of my more favorite gialli viewings. Two very stylish yet, odd in nature but still very effective in the payoff!
It's been a long time since I first seen his SO SWEET... SO PERVERSE (1969), was that not just recently issued on DVD again??
I absolutely loved Freda's brilliant I VAMPRI! Now, what was the deal with Bava being uncredited for with this again? I know he had something to do with the overall direction, but what's the full story on that again?
Any opinions about this more recent giallo? I've heard some bad things but when I found it dirt cheap on eBay, I couldn't resist the temptation of picking it up. Figured I need to give some of the more recent horrer/thriller stuff a chance too. Still waiting for it to arrive and I'm not quite sure what to expect of it but at least it has a pretty good cast that includes famous transsexual Eva Robins from TENEBRAE (1982) and the good-looking Elisabetta Rocchietti, who has been cropping up in a lot of horror stuff like THE THREE FACES OF TERROR (2004), DO YOU LIKE HITCHCOCK? (2005) and THE LAST HOUSE IN THE WOODS (2006). Not to mention supporting roles by Florinda Bolkan and Franco Nero! Anyone here seen it?
Interesting looking film out of Italy with Irish/Spanish co-financiers. Directed by Italian SFX man Stefano Bessoni.
In the 1600s, long before the invention of photography, a scientist named Girolamo Fumagalli was obsessed with the idea of reproducing images. He discovered that by killing a victim and removing the victim's eyeballs, it was possible to reproduce on paper the last image imprinted on that person's retinas. He named this technique 'thanatography'. Today, the same kind of gruesome ritual and abominable crime recurs within the walls of an international school of cinema. -imdb.com
Also stars the daughter of Charlie Chapman, Geraldine Chaplin as well as her daughter Oona.
Well, it seems this is yet another Argento flick that is taking a beating in the review department. Even die hard fans are not too pleased with this outing. Anyhow, the PAL R2 DVD is now out via a Polish company that found it important to force the Polish subs!
Looks like this will be getting a UK release first via Arrow Films! I still haven't seen this, it was on my radar during last year's Midnight Madness during the Toronto Film Fest. The disc will be released March 15th..
I'd love to grab this, but for now I'm holding off on the Blu-Ray player for now, too unstable industry right now. Plus, the multi-region player are way too expensive!
MILK MAID MIKO:GALACTIC CONCUBINE AGAINST THE SPECTRES OF SPACE
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MILK MAID MIKO:GALACTIC CONCUBINE AGAINST THE SPECTRES OF SPACE
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(2008/JAPAN/FRANCE) Review By-Paul Cooke
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(2008/JAPAN/FRANCE) Review By-Paul Cooke Director: Tour Drôle Starring: Yvette Minet, Izuzo Da Veld, Tok Igani, Simon Izzy & Christy Z Source : Theatrical Release Summer 2008
‘I’ll feast on your three gouged eyes as you spit roast in Hades!’’
Forget American Torture Porn this is Japanese Sado Sci-Vi Sex !. Sadistic Science Fiction, Violent Sex, no less !. In a distant galaxy a world called Krill is run by a male dominant society of Aliens imbued with above Human strength, and the attributes of three eyes and two sets of vertically aligned male genitalia. They propagate continuously with the female of the species to further the male supremacy. The gestation period to birth is just a one month cycle. If the child is female over ninety percent are eaten by the male in order to keep the hierarchy pure, with just a few allowed to mature into adulthood in order to fulfil a lifetime of child bearing. Legend is told amongst the Krillar that a Human astronaut once mated with a female untouched by Krill male. Rescued from death at birth, by a mysterious male sympathiser named Vorgil, a female Krillian descendent named Kylira is the forbearer to this legend. Set adrift in space with a female companion the child Kylira matured into adulthood, and although her companion eventually died as the years passed, she was eventually rescued from an endless foray into the vastness of space in the year 2072. The deep space Human astronaut bonded with the female, her form similar to that of the Earth woman, with the exception of a third eye !. The resultant copulation bore a female child, but no ordinary one as this newborn is a hybrid. Human in form with just the two eyes, the strength of the Krillar male and two reproductive organs. Dual vaginas !. Only once every hundred years is such a female born into the Krillian society, and full copulation by the double endowed Krill males it is said will bring forth the birth of male twins. Pure blood warriors to rule over the realm of Krill for the next one hundred years.
This is, however, no ordinary Krill female !. Raised by her mother with the knowledge of Krillian male tyranny and trained in the ways of combat by her Human father this is one female hybrid not to mess with. Her destiny is to one day return to the planet Krill and lead an uprising against the order of the male dominant society. This time though is her eighteenth birthday and with a universe littered with all manner of trouble upon neighbouring planets this is one teenager that wants to get out and kick Alien troublemaking ass !. Decked out in leather and sporting a waist dual holster for her laser hand cannons, and particle slicing bullwhip, she resembles a super sexy 21st century Spaghetti Western Alien variation of Indiana Jones. Amongst her not so visually evident talents is the ability to make the male gender ejaculate their semen as life enhancing sustenance through the super stimulating structure of her tongue. A cacophony of corrugated vessels line her tongue and sublingually she ingests the seminal fluid, the benefits of which enhance her strength and continually revitalise her entire hybrid physiology. Her fix is the elixir of man milk, her goal is to bring justice to the Galaxy, and her destiny is to return home a Queen. This then is Milk Maid Miko !.
Interestingly, and most welcomingly, as this is a curious Japanese / French co-production, the lead actress is a French hottie. The mouth wateringly sexy Yvette Minet stars as the titular Miko, under the compatriot Direction of Monsieur Tour Drôle. Fans of the French Horror / Fantasy flick ‘Bloody Mallory’ are in for a treat here as all the colourful pizzazz and sexy costumes of that hit are amplified with ‘Milk Maid Miko’. Clearly there is a good budget provided by the dual backers and it shows, along with the waving of any concern over the quite explicit sex and violence, as the target audience is without question Adult !. Tour Drôle uses all his skill as a controversial music video director to great effect here, and Miss. Minet oozes her sexual chemistry into the movie mix, leaving her on screen partners and watching audience out of breath, yearning for more !. Her black leather outfit fits to perfection, just as if it were licked onto her amazingly luscious body !. With the futuristic and Alien backdrop sets showcasing the high production values early in the film, it is of course the called into Action set pieces displaying Yvette Minet as Miko, setting about purging the galaxy of scum, that makes the purchase of a ticket worth its weight in gold. With her own super charged, super swift , heavily armoured, and fitted with state of the art weaponry, space cruiser - named appropriately Libertine - Miko is equipped head to perfect toe to bump ugly and drain Alien dreg dry.
The sex and violence comes fast and furious as Miko has many an encounter where she takes great pleasure in bringing pain to those deserving. One particular stand out scene sees Miko up against a male Krillar, one of many sent by the Krill high command to seek her out and bring her back to the home world, who wants to sample her goods before shackling her back to Krill. What this over confident and would be self indulgent Krillian paid mercenary does not anticipate, much to his detriment, is the strength equality and enhanced ability of Miko. The resulting encounter is swift in delivery, but painfully slow in execution !. Miko brings the Krillar to his knees in a deft display of martial arts moves and paralyses him with a variation on the Vulcan nerve pinch. Whilst still very much conscious Miko sets about separating the Krillian from one set of his dual reproductive organs. In graphic detail Miko uses a blade to castrate the Alien aggressor to show him how it is to be a human male !. She then in fluid popping close up gouges out each of his three eyes, and then proceeds to impale the twitching creature upon a spike, which she inserts in up through his anus and out of his blood spurting mouth !. Finally she places the still incredibly living Krillian upon a spit mount above a fiercely burning fire, and then gives the handle to turn the creature upon the spit to a curious looking old woman. The ancient old hag is one of only a small handful of survivors from a race that has through generations been hunted and killed for sport by the Krillian’s. Justice delivered and vengeance served as a dish spit roast hot !. Miko’s recreational way to unwind after a violent encounter is to hook up for a mutually pleasurable rendezvous with a gentle alien race, one that lives to give and receive orgasm !. Endowed with two vaginas herself who better to have as a sexual partner than a being that has two tongues !?. Yes indeed it can be done !. There is definitely something oddly satisfying, in a pleasurably guilty way, to witness a two tongued foray into the double delights of the female vestibules.
Miko is unsurprisingly a much yearned after space babe, and she has a dashing young potential beau that takes her fancy in the form of Captain Buck Buchanan, a Galactic Space Ranger from Planet Earth. Their paths occasionally cross and the interaction between them always involves helping each other out of a tight spot, and the delivery of some humorous dialogue. One scene has Captain Buck catching a quick glimpse of Miko stepping out of a sonic shower, and the reaction to seeing her uniquely stunning form is summed up perfectly as he mutters to himself ‘‘Babe you have more holes than Tiger Woods the thirds Pro-Am Invitational !’’. Classic future context analogy. Captain Buck Buchanan is naturally played by an American actor, most likely to cash in on a world wide general release at the multiplexes. Alien mutilation multiplies as Miko makes her rounds, and when her tongue sees action, craving the life enhancing seminal milk she desires, you can sense an entire audience of males literally ‘growing’ ever fonder of the delectable Miss. Minet.
There is so much style about this production that the ultra violence and envelope pushing on screen sexual play definitely calls for an NC17 rating, but even if released in some venues in an ‘R’ trimmed cut ‘Milk Maid Miko’ Must be seen !. This is high value, near hardcore, violent, Fantastical cinema at its finest. It’ll only take a ‘Minet’ to fall for the adult Miko and around another eighty to quietly express that feeling as often as you may desire, just don’t do a Pee Wee Herman if watching this at your local cinema !.