caligulathegod

Yeah, Low budget horror are fine. Cheap and trashy, especially.

http://www.mondo-digital.com/ozploit.html

Looks like a lot of the same ones. Never picked up the Not Quite Hollywood set.

coyoteblue

The trailer reel extra on Not Quite Hollywood runs 90 minutes. Ozploitation Trailer Explosion is 165. I think it covers everything or nearly everything on the trailer reel extra and has another hour-ish of material. Some of that may be different trailers and some might be longer trailers. Sounds like it's worth picking up for the other hour of material. Of course if you don't have the Not Quite Hollywood 2 disc set, it's a must buy.

caligulathegod

List thread will be up soon.

SterlingBen

My 'to watch' pile is brimming with challenge titles

Now if I can get through at least half of these...

Mondo Kane

nezumi

I think I see a few of the same titles in my own "To-Watch" pile. One thing: Let the Bullets Fly is actually a big budget picture that was the highest-grossing Chinese film at the time of its release, earning US$110 million at the box office. It doesn't exactly fit the criteria of this challenge.

caligulathegod

List thread is up.

SterlingBen

Well my wife just totaled my car so unless I get really proactive that is two hours a day less I will have for the challenge (walking back and forth to work).

shadokitty

I found out yesterday my dad has stage 4 cancer, so I'll need something to keep my mind off things, looking forward to this challenge as a distraction.

nezumi

^^ Condolences, shado.

God, I hope she's all right. I'm guessing you guys aren't going to be in the mood to watch any car crash films this year.

caligulathegod

Mine, as well.

shadokitty

Thanks for the good wishes everyone.

SterlingBen

Are we doing Dusk Til Dawn again this year? (Dusk Mar 31st - Dawn May 1st)

Mondo Kane

Apologies to anyone who goes blind while looking at my banner at the list thread.

caligulathegod

Yeah.

indiephantom

Is it too late to get Scott Adkins added to the safe list? Anyway, I'll try to make the recommend for next year, if it is. Sorry I'm so late to the planning thread this year.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0012078/?ref_=nv_sr_1

mrcellophane

That's the best thing EVER!!!

caligulathegod

Safe list is an ongoing project. Never any deadlines.

After looking a little closer, does he have enough of a real career in these types of movies? The safe lists are more for career b-movie actors.

Ash Ketchum

That's way too much of a good thing.

I changed the photo on my list post (#13) to one I took of 42nd Street in the grindhouse days.

indiephantom

His mainstream work is mostly as a double or supporting roles. Probably don't need to include him just yet but he is probably the closest thing right now to the kind of B action star we'd get in the DTV era. Maybe for consideration down the road. I usually put together a few names for this time of year, but I haven't sat down to review anything. Just gathering momentum for the challenge.

shadokitty

While looking at Netflix for Predator, as I didn't feel like getting up to get out my DVD, I came across a good looking eligible movie for this challenge that I plan to watch next month if it is still on there, Creature.

nezumi

Scott Adkins is an interesting case in that he's constantly mentioned as being on the cusp whenever there's a discussion of finding the next big action film star, but he still hasn't found that breakout project. It partly has to do with most of his films being R-rated actioners, which have fallen out of favor in recent years for necessarily excluding that lucrative teen movie-going audience. More importantly, he hasn't yet demonstrated that he's capable of expressing some sort of dynamic emotional range. He has the martial arts skills, but it's a little telling that all of today's highest-earning action stars are actors first, then superheroes.

I've got a few Scott Adkins movies in my viewing stack, but I personally hope Scott Adkins never appears on a safe list. Maybe he's comfortable with where he is and doesn't aspire for anything more, but I would like to see him seriously attempt to make the crossover to the mainstream. We need a successor to Schwarzenegger, not to Dudikoff.

Mondo Kane

Thanks, guys. I could've even thrown in more personally-loved clips in the background, but I had to settle with what I could find on my desktop.

And Ash, it's always a good thing to discover a 42nd Street pic that I've never seen before

Is that the one with the Kinski cameo? if so, this film also contains one of the best head-explosions of the 80's!

shadokitty

I don't know. I just know it's about an alligator man in the bayou, and Netflix actually had B-Horror as a genre tag.

Dimension X

The one on Netflix is more recent and has Sid Haig in it. I watched it last October during the Horror Challenge.

I'll go ahead and "recommend" two flicks on Netflix instant: Linda and Abilene(1969) and The Ecstasies of Women(1969). I watched both of them in the last week. Neither one is any good, but they're both films Herschell Gordon Lewis worked on (as Lewis H. Gordon), so they're worth a look if you're a HGL fan.