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Eros School: Feels So Good (1977, DVD Review)

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aka Erosu gakuen: Kando batsugun
aka Erotic Campus: Rape Reception

Director: Kurahara Koretsugu

Cast: Murakuni Shohei, Asami Ogawa

Impulse Pictures / NTSC Region 1 / Unrated / 2.35:1 widescreen / JAPANESE 2.0 mono / Removable ENGLISH subtitles / 67 minutes

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A reform school criminal, Ryu, transfers to Eros School after being kicked out of like a dozen other schools. Eros is basically run by track star and Student Council president Misa and her crew of popular chicks. When Ryu announces the reason he has been kicked out of every other school (he’s a serial rapist), he declares that he doesn’t plan on changing his ways but he does figure on assaulting every girl in the school, including the untouchable Misa. A couple of boys in class, one enamored with Misa, have the genius scheme to rape Misa first, before she is ravaged by the scummy bad boy. With the big track meet coming up, Misa’s friends must protect her by even putting themselves in Ryu’s path of raunchy rape-i-tude.

“How can something so wrong feel so good?” That, my sleaze loving friends, is a great question when concerning director Kurahara Koretsugu and writer Akira Momoi’s outrageous and ludicrous Eros School: Feels So Good. I mean, the main character is called “Ryu the Rapist” and his best friend and mascot is a pig. The oddest and most dumbfounding part of the whole movie is who the fuck knows what they were going for here? The plot is so far over-the-top and controversial that they actually made it light with loads of slapstick comedy complete with zany Benny Hill-type music. Like a lot of Japanese pink films, the “rape” isn’t really rape at all, it’s just slightly unwanted foreplay before the sensual, passionate love-making and tit sucking. Eros School: Feels So Good never gets graphic, but the content is shocking enough for even the most jaded.

One scene has a co-ed Judo class with a girl and guy throwing each other around (her with nothing on under her gi) and *OOPS*, her tit falls out. This, of course, leads to her male partner giving in to his uncontrollable lust and they end up fucking right there on the mat with everyone else Judo-ing the shit out of each other. But my favorite non-climax scene was one of the girls using the patented pissing defense against Ryu as he attempts to assault her. It’s like a damn water hose! Speaking of the film’s crowning point, the last ten minutes is one shocking spectacle after another, each outdoing the former culminating into a “WHAT THE FUCK?” climax that would make Ned Beatty’s character in Deliverance have horrible flashbacks. “ I bet you can squeal like a pig… Wheeeeeeeee!”

Like the other films in the Nikkatsu Erotic Films Collection from Impulse Pictures, there aren’t any disk extras but you do get interesting liner notes from Japanese film scholar Jasper Sharp. The film’s audio and video are nice and clean with no damage to the widescreen print or irritating volume level problems in the Japanese mono 2.0 soundtrack. What you get is an offensively balls-out sex comedy made available in the U.S. by a quality company in Impulse Pictures who put out the best obscure erotic film collections of anyone (see also: the German “Schoolgirl Report” series). It is available as of today, 6/12/12, so get on this shit right now!

The original “Mother’s Day” coming to DVD and Blu-ray

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The wait is over, Charles Kaufman’s ultra-sleazy exploitation classic is getting its just deserts on DVD and Blu-ray September 4th!

Press Release:

After three decades of anticipation, cult classic Mother’s Day is finally getting released, remastered for DVD, and available for the first time on Blu-ray, September 4th, from Anchor Bay Entertainment, the leader in horror for home entertainment.

Originally released by Troma Entertainment in 1980, the film shocked critics, but garnered a huge cult following among fans of the genre, including Hostel director Eli Roth, and director of Saw II-IV, Darren Lynn Bousman, who helmed the 2012 remake starring Rebecca De Mornay.

Directed by Charles Kaufman and written by Kaufman and Warren Leight, the original Mother’s Day follows three young women abducted by homicidal momma’s boys Ike and Addley, while camping. Ike and Addley are goaded by their “Mother” into violent and graphic acts of torture against the three women. While doing everything to stay alive, the three women muster the courage escape, and serve their maniacal abductors some old-fashioned justice!

Featuring an all-new HD transfer, and never-before-seen bonus features, including commentary, behind-the-scenes footage, and a newly created featurette with genre favorite Eli Roth (Producer of The Last Exorcism, Grindhouse and Hostel 1 & 2), fans can finally add this long-awaited cult classic to their library, and new fans can experience the terror of Mother and her bloodthirsty boys for the first time.

DISK SPECS:

BLU-RAY:

  • Run Time: 90 minutes
  • Unrated
  • Format: 1.78:1 / 16×9
  • Audio: English Dolby TrueHD 5.1
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish

DVD:

  • Run Time: 90 minutes
  • Unrated
  • Format: 1.78:1 / 16×9
  • Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish

Norwegian “Inside the Whore” coming from Another World

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Raw and visceral exploitation from our Nordic friends? Sounds like a plan to me!

Press Release:

The official poster for Norwegian director Reinert Kiil’s Hora (The Whore) sequel Inside The Whore has finally been revealed. The film is scheduled for release in the fall 2012 by Scandinavian distributor Another World Entertainment who also released the original Hora in 2010. It is a very different film starring the director Reinert Kiil in the lead role surrounding himself with various Scandinavian actors such as Jørgen Langhelle (“The Thing”, “Arn: The Knight Templar”), Vegar Hoel (“Dead Snow”, “Tomme Tønner”), Viktoria Winge (“Cold Prey” & “Cold Prey 2″), Kim Sønderholm (“Blood Fare”, “Toro Loco”), Dagrun Anholt, Big Brother-star Anette Young and adult stars Caroline Andersen and Isabel Vibe who also played the lead character in the original “Hora” film.

During the shooting of the sequel to Reinert Kiil’s feature film Hora aka The Whore a lot of mysterious things happened on the set. This is the story that SHOULD have been told… While shooting the sequel to The Whore, director Reinert Kiil and the director of photography join forces in an effort to make the ugliest and most grotesque film ever made. During production outside Kvam in Bergen, the crew and actors notice that there is something weird and strange going on when friends and colleagues begin to die in brutal ways. The question is whether it is the Whore who has come to life looking for revenge or whether it’s actually the director who gets his dream come true about making the most horrible movie ever.

Check out the OFFICIAL SITE for more details!

Countess Perverse (1973, DVD Review)

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aka La comtesse perverse

Director: Jesus “Jess” Franco

Cast: Howard Vernon, Lina Romay, Alice Arno, Robert Woods, Tania Busselies

Mondo Macabro / Region 0 / Unrated / 1.33:1 fullscreen / FRENCH mono / ENGLISH subtitles / 78 minutes /  PURCHASE FROM TLACULT

Disk Extras: Interviews with Robert Woods and Stephen Thrower / Exclusive profile of Jess Franco / Mondo Macabro trailers

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Many films have been inspired by the Richard Connell short story ”The Hounds of Zaroff” or the title it is more popularly known by, “The Most Dangerous Game” from 1924. Said story follows a big game hunter who falls in the ocean and swims to the nearest island for help. The tables are turned on the sportsman as he is then hunted by a Cossack blueblood making him “The Most Dangerous Game”. A movie by the same name was made in 1932 by the co-directors of the original King Kong but more recent films like The Running Man (1987), John Woo’s Hard Target from 1993 and many more fit the mold of being influenced. But the most sleazy by far of that long list has to be Jess Franco’s La comtesse perverse or Countess Perverse.

Following the blueprint laid out by Connell’s story, we find an aristocratic couple -the Count and Countess Zaroff- living on their own island and having company over for dinner… literally. They are cannibals and the Countess is an Amazonian hunter who likes to kill the food for sport, but it doesn’t stop there. The devious duo also like to play with their food before killing and eating, and when I say “play” I mean seduce and have naughty time with. Across the water on the mainland is a younger couple, Tom and Moira, who helps the Zaroffs with supplying the succulent dinner guests. When they meet their new neighbor Silvia (the very young, tender and no doubt sweet Lina Romay), the couple decide that is she is the perfect meal (of every kind) for the Count and Countess. But Silvia is so appetizing, Tom wants her for himself, but only in the sexy time way.

All of these trashy and debauched goings-on are highlighted by director Jess Franco and his wandering, intrusive eye. He gets the camera in places only the most sordid of porn movies would go and some of the angles are just… wrong. In one scene there is an older man (I believe Howard Vernon’s character) whose flabby, elderly ass is blocking the view of a perfectly delectable young vagina while is he pounding away and grunting like a wounded animal. Only Franco would shoot that full-on instead of taking a more delicate, artistic approach. Countess Perverse is one of the strongest Franco films I have ever seen, my favorite being 1981′s Sadomania starring the incredible Ajita Wilson because of the massive level of prurience. The sleaze being very close to the same level, the story and acting are much better here and the ending is actually a shocking surprise.

You will still find the Franco directorial staples like his love of zoom and the fish-eye lens which are things that make him one of a kind. Fortunately Mondo Macabro did a fantastic job with the new anamorphic fullscreen transfer which is pristine. In this case the “anamorphic” part just means that it is formatted to fit your 16×9 TV without any extra info at the top and bottom, not to be confused with “anamorphic widescreen”. There are lots of great disk extras like an interview with Euro/exploitation film historian/critic Stephen Thrower but my favorite is the extensive production notes written by my favorite film critic Nathaniel Thompson of DVD Delirium and www.mondo-digital.com fame. This is my first Mondo Macabro review in a while and I am really impressed with the movie and the release itself. Pick this up next Tuesday, 6/12/12 to add it to your Jess Franco collection.