One Missed Call (2003)
Directed by Takashi Miike
Written by Minako Daira
Starring Kou Shibasaki, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Kazue Fukiishi, Anna Nagata, Atsushi Ida, Mariko Tsutsui
Media Blasters / Tokyo Shock
DVD Available Now

Yoko has just received a bizarre voice mail… from her own cell phone two days in the future. She can distinctively hear her own voice on the message followed moments later by a bloodcurdling scream. Yoko writes it off as some twisted prank, but two days later while talking with her friend Yumi, who had also listened to the chilling voice mail, the events of that foretelling message play out and Yoko is later found dead from an apparent suicide. Soon more of Yumi’s friends begin to receive similar phone calls, and similarly meet their predestined doom.

As rumors circulate through the teenage population, and a tabloid television show latches onto the phenomenon to make a quick buck, Yumi meets a mysterious young man named Yamashita, whose sister met the same fate as Yumi’s friends. With little to go on, the pair begin a frantic search for clues that could lead to the source behind the calls, and soon focus on the disappearance of a woman from six months ago. But when Yumi receives a soul-crushing voice mail from herself being murdered two days in the future, the young woman knows that she will be next, and nothing will be able to protect her apart from subduing the vengeful spirit that has been plaguing the phone lines.

We’ve all seen Troll 2. Even if you don’t remember it, you’ve seen it. Just write “nilbog” on a piece of paper, hold it up to a mirror, and all those carefully erased memories will come screaming back to you. Now, BestWorstMovie.com and Alamo Drafthouse Cinema are teaming up to present an outrageous event centered around this cinematic abomination with The Nilbog Invasion!

Storming into the sleepy town of Morgan, Utah, from June 27th-29th, this celebration (it is *not* a convention), which feels distinctly like a copy of The Lebowski Fest, will reunite just about every single person involved in the production of this beloved atrocity. Scheduled to appear are writer/director Claudio Fragasso, co-writer Rosella Drudi, and most of the cast including Michael Stephenson and Robert Ormsby.

When the Tarantino/Rodriguez double-feature Grindhouse hit theaters last year, the sudden “popularity” of the term unleashed a fury of bargain basement DVD releases of forgotten films, including a few gems but mostly titles which should have remain forgotten, by companies looking to make a fast buck. Would-be filmmakers across the nation took to their backyard to create their own faux trailers to emulate those created for the intermission of Grindhouse. Plans sputtered along to turn Don’t, Werewolf Women Of The SS, and Thanksgiving into full-length movies, Eli Roth threatened to make a movie of nothing but fake trailers, and Machete was put on the fast track to become a full-length movie.

But while watching Grindhouse, which is an absolutely fantastic ride, there is this little irritating voice in the back of the mind which can’t help but notice that for all the added on scratches, sound pops, and jump cuts to recreate a bygone era of moviemaking, both films still look incredibly modern. Now, prepare yourself for Scott Sanders who has thrown down the gauntlet with Black Dynamite!

Intimate Confessions Of A Chinese Courtesan (1972)
Directed by Chu Yuan
Written by Chiu Kang-Chien
Produced by Runme Shaw
Starring Lily Ho, Betty Pei Ti, Yueh Hua
Image Entertainment
Release Date: April 22, 2008

In the snowy mountains of China lies a brothel run by the iron-fisted Lady Chun, where girls who have been kidnapped are brought and sold into a life of sex and servitude. Among the latest batch of girls is the fiery and wild Ainu, who refuses to accept her ill fate and tries desperately to escape time and time again. Chun, whose reputation as a lesbian and a hater of men is legendary, becomes instantly infatuated with Ainu and uses all her resources to break her, including auctioning off Ainu’s virginity to a group of wealthy and salacious men.

With Ainu’s spirit finally broken and her newfound life accepted, Chun begins to bathe Ainu with lavish gifts and training in both pleasure and martial arts in hopes of winning her heart. While at first Ainu seems all to willing to accept her gifts and training, it is all in an effort to position herself so that she may unleash her brutal acts of revenge. Her first targets include the very men who bid upon her, but her ultimate plan includes bringing down Lady Chun using what Chun desires most – Ainu’s love. Her plan culminates with a desperate attack on the brothel using her newly mastered martial arts skill, and only when the snow-covered ground is stained red with blood will she feel satisfied!

Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill!
Directed and written by Chad Ferrin
Produced by Trent Haaga
Starring Timothy Muskatell, Ricardo Gray, Charlotte Marie, David Z. Stamp, Jose I. Lopez
Distributed by Cruxy.com

Easter. It is Nicholas’ favorite holiday. Even at sixteen, Nicholas, who is mentally retarded, still believes in the Easter Bunny and loves to paint eggs. But this Easter things take a sour turn when Nicholas is left in the care of his mom’s new boyfriend Remington, a sleazeball through and through who has slithered his way into her heart. Once Remington and Nicholas are alone, he torments the boy for fun before heading out to find some hookers and cocaine, leaving Nicholas to now deal with Ray, a man with a particular taste for handicapped children. But lurking in the shadows of the house is a crazed killer wearing an Easter Bunny mask, armed with a toolbox full of nasty implements, and possessing a singular desire to dispatch any who step inside the house. As the bodies begin to pile up, one thing is certain… this year there will be no resurrection!