The New Barbarians - courtesy of I Spit On Your Taste
Very excited because the wonderful exploitation film site I Spit On Your Taste is running a series of posts on one of my favourite films of the Eighties Post-Apocalypse genre - 'The New Barbarians'. Have a look see;
http://spitonyourtaste.blogspot.com/2009/06/who-hell.html
This post also gives me an excuse to post the impossibly brilliant cover image for the VHS release of Warriors of the Wasteland (aka The New Barbarians) that I have only now (ie today) discovered existed thanks to I Spit On Your Taste.
Thanks, Nigel M.
5 comments:
I am humbled by your kind comments.
I too share your love for this movie btw. Thats why I am going to limit any commentary on the film and its themes and instead celebrate it for the sheer joy it is.
Looking forward to the rest of your posts on this. Do you plan to do a piece on Bronx Warriors I or II or Blastfighter?
Loving the fact you are covering some of the Italian police thrillers as well. Are you going to cover The Rat, The Cynic & The Fist?
By the way - really BAD New Barbarians video cover art;
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39498299@N04/3642252214/
err to be honest cynic the rat and fist wasn't considered- I was thinking maybe Day Of The Owl (aka Mafia), kidnap cyndicate and Napoli Spara!
Bronx warriors is on the list for coming weeks.
to be honest I could just write about italian crime films all the time I think they are fantastic.
Blastfighter is an interesting one to cover too! Maybe a month of rambo/first blood italian knock offs- excuse to write about thunder!
But I hope to do a few more castellari films (bronx wariors, maybe inglorious bastards and last shark) and after that I thought maybe Cyclone - the italian/mexican one. I may be one of the fe people in the world prepared to show that film a little love :)
lets look at that link then ! :)
have a good weekend
Yes yes yes! for some Castellari (lightblast as well?) - I love the fact he is currently finishing off 'Caribbean Basterds' right now... and yes to doing a Rambo theme (or even a Mark Gregory theme)! I was not aware of Cyclone until you mentioned it. Just checked it out on IMDB and I am very interested in that one.
cyclone is worth a look- it is a does feel a bit overlong but pulls out a real shock moment that is jawdropping - not sure how far Im gonna go with the castellari series (probably until I get fed up) because there are so many films I want to write about- I was considering doing fulci (how we robbed the bank of italy, eroticist and so on) comedies at some stage, so many ideas so little time.
Im thinking about doing Bronx Warriors but the problem is I don't really have much of an angle on it to write too much aside from retreading familiar ground- same problem with last shark.
Castellari sums up my problem in an interview when he states that he dont do politics- his work is all about the visual and the spectacle. So beyond writing synopsis and praising it up I m not sure where to go with his stuff.
While I don't always do political context of films I like to find a hook on which to hang a film thread (key themes and or social context) - Im finding Castellari a bit challenging in this respect.
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