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July 02, 2006
McNanamar, Sweetheart, This One's For You
The Devil's Sword (Mondo Macabro)
Few trash movies live up to their reputation, but here's a balls-out wonder that surpasses it. Grab a 12-pack of Bintang and cue up this jaw-unhinging slab of Indonesian sword-and-sorcery circa 1983 -- a start-to-finish feast of martial arts, mullets, flying heads, vestal virgins, dry-ice fog, and discount psychedelia, accompanied by a synth-cheese score that threatens any second to bust into Heart's "These Dreams." Barry Prima, the Patrick Swayze of Jakarta, plays it cool as the mystical ass-kicker who defies the Crocodile Queen and her rubber-suited minions to seize a super-powered sword. Words can't do the movie justice, unless they're blaring from a drive-in speaker. SEE! Exploding mushrooms! Interpretive dance! A death battle between a flying guillotine and a witch! HEAR! Endlessly quotable dialogue, such as "You polluted bitch-hound!" Essential.
If only it starred C. Thomas Howell, Harvey Keitel or Madchen Amick (A/K/A the trifecta of trash), my Dad would own yet another totally unbearable DVD...cough...City of Industry...cough...
Posted by Bree at July 2, 2006 08:14 PM