
Instead of acting as if I've actually seen it, here's a review of this Franco Nero starring super combo sci-fi actioner, TOP LINE (Alien Terminator), from Quiet Cool. A blog I discovered had placed BoGD in their blogroll without me ever visiting until a few days ago. Thanks if you happen upon this!
Anyway, this film is quite obscure with only British, Japanese, and perhaps Greek VHS releases. That is until Saturday when I discovered an American tape from 1994 from a company called "ACM Video" (purportedly) based in Las Vegas...at one time.
Unfortunately in my haste, I failed to see the cassette had a spine label marked "Kinsella's haircuts" and sure enough it was a fucking instructional video on how to give children ugly new doos. Shit. I did check the tape upon purchase, which had no face label, but I'm used to dealing with ultra cheap fly-by-nighters tossing off the importance of labeling...or stickers with decent glue.
Still, at least now I know and so do you that it exists. That is if you actually like digging through dirty boxes stuffed with grimy tapes for late '80s Italian genre flicks. Also in a bit of what!?!, notice how the ACM video attributes to the film to "Ted Archer" yet the Brit video has "Ted Archer" as Nero's character in the synopsis. Hahaha...
3 comments:
Thnx for the mention. I follow a lot of blogs, most of whose authors don't know I exist, ha, ha. Anyway, Top Line's fantastic, and I hope you snag a copy. The Japanese VHS is letterboxed with a nice picture. I'm surprised Japan hasn't put out more of these Italian 80s flix on DVD, as their country was a great source for them in the VHS days. I've been enjoying reading your blog for quite a while now, and keep up the great work.
No problem Hans! Great work over at your blog. Some Horror/Cult DVD-R e-tailers have dups of the Japanese VHS available so I might eventually have to give in. Have you seen Devil's Crude? Nero's scrappy charisma makes that one really watchable just like Top Line. I wrote a little review of the VHS awhile back. Also thanks for the kind words! I'm glad you dig my random musings.
If Sonny Chiba had been the Rock'em-Sock'em Karate-Bullfighting Cyborg, things would have turned out differently, let me assure you. Thanks to both of you for pushing this wonderful clip into my field of vision.
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