I tend to go into withdrawal without Kung Fu and Blacksploitation movies. And it has been a very long time since I showed either. So please enjoy this two fisted dose of both!
And what a doozy! We start strong with a round of decapitations somewhere in China, then move to New York for some generic funky background music mixed with somebody stumbling into a synthesizer. Then you shall find yourself watching what looks like two or three movies all stitched together into one.
As mentioned above, we have all the best of several B movies here, with supernatural thrills, terrible zombie makeup, gore, gang fights, kung fu, drugs and a lead actor named Warhawk Tanzania! He battles gangsters and the demon with 70’s style and flares. Also included is the occasional wacky – eyed, orange skinned (not who you think it is) zombie. Seriously, look at that. He has zombie eyes painted on his eyelids. It made the zombie walk that much more real because the actor was actually concerned about tripping over curbs or poorly placed props.
In other circles this film was known as Devil’s Express, which made it hard to find any information about it. I saw other reviewers on IMDB refer to this as a film seen years ago and then lost to time until recently. I think it was lost due to the name change (Devil’s Express / Gang Wars) . That does happen a lot with kung fu films, even American ones. I never understood why.
So to wrap up, we have a lot of gang fight footage in New York, some Chinese Kung fu scenes thrown in for good measure, some gratuitous bloodshed and the occasional demon that rolls in and kills people. One very relevant comment from an IMDB reviewer reads as follows:
This all ends with what is the trippiest final fight sequence since Zardoz. I would not have believed such a movie could exist had I not seen it. I *have* seen it. You should too.
–rbellach
That says it all. So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! Next week, unless it gets pulled, we will most likely watch Dick Dynamite. I am still running through it, so I reserve the right to post something else if it blows.
“With a name like Warhawk Tanzania, you better be a bad mutha…”
Hush your mouth!
Isaac Hayes has a proud.
What’s the deal with those overalls?
He’s like a sexy Mario.
Either that or all that waxed leather keeps the demon blood off his sensitive skin.
Black Dynamite vs Jaws from the Boondocks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB1eqKFPJnE
*presses play*
The East African version of Chuck Norris is Makmende (make my day). Think Rambo, but way more tongue in cheek.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdwC4vhc594
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makmende
Is his name Seafood…?
Shifu is Chinese for sensei.
🤔
Herr Doktor Professor Master Shifu Sensei.
Kid from W Virginia has a song…
https://youtu.be/MAwrmh6LVDw
I am pretty sure his buddy’s name is Rodan.
Please let there be some mf named Mothra.
And Rodan is a colossal idiot.
I don’t know how to react when someone makes the joke I rejected.
Are my standards too high? What is wrong with me?
Your standards cant be too high. You’re here, right?
I thought Rodan was a thinker.
“leash, gutter and clean up after your dog”
gutter?
I don’t speak jive?
It was on a street sign.
Sounds like a bad sign, run!
I guess it means “don’t let it shit on the sidewalk”.
My guess: have your dog piss in the gutter so it washes away and doesn’t stink up the place
That poor actor with the painted on eyes. He’s just staggering every where and hoping not to bash open his shins.
Means to make them poop in the gutter. Same thing as “curb your dog”.
The director made him go down every steel staircase and walkway with his eyes closed.
He did better than Joe Biden.
He did indeed.
I hope he got stunt pay.
He probably got $10 and a coupon for Burger King.
Wait, Rodan is doing drug deals now?
lol I wasn’t sure if that was the same character or not.
He’s into kung fu, drugs and women. Is he a libertarian?
Does The Serpent and the Rainbow count as blacksploitation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0imLuU0jsw
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An msukule is a person who a number of people believe has died by sorcery. In this community, it is often heard that someone has died and been buried, but actually it is said that this person has not died completely but instead has been transported by supernatural means to another place, and that another person is forcing them to work at various tasks, especially very hard, tiring work.
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https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2023/10/msukule-zombie-of-east-african-folklore.html
Hmm…
Serpent and the Rainbow had a serious budget, and was a major release film. I say no. It needs to be a cheap, low theater run B movie to qualify. Thoughts?
This documentary about the war against Idi Amin is good war porn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTSdX0BiS_c
I met Kagera war veterans over there. We bought each other beer as I listened to their war stories.
Idi Amin was a bad dude!
/Joe Biden accent
Sasquatch Sunset is now on an odd streaming platform called Kanopy that allows you to watch movies after you input your library card info.
Maybe in the next six months it will make it to Tubi.
Does it matter if it’s for a library district I no longer reside in?
No clue. I found the whole idea very odd. Here is the link:
https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/justwatch-14440552?frontend=kui
“Available in participating public libraries.”
And all three public library systems in NYC dropped it.
Very strange business model.
That is very odd.
I haven’t had a library card in, shit, 35 years?
Sasquatch Sunset is also currently on various Showtime channels and Paramount Plus.
Yes. To play here it needs to be free streaming. And preferably on a service that does not ask for a log in.
I think the gang was driving a 68 Plymouth Barracuda earlier on.
https://www.imcdb.org/movie_73031-Devil-s-Express.html
Ford Torino. I stand corrected.
At the golf cart factory, I built toys for lazy rich people. Now at the boat factory, I do something similar. I’d rather do this: https://www.halotrust.org/
Clearing landmines is dangerous, necessary, and honorable. So of course, it pays almost nothing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33rxHlhv3IY
Do they still clear landmines by driving a tank with beater chains in the front over the minefield?
Boat owners are lazy and rich?
My shop makes a so-called million-dollar boat, though I don’t know if it actually costs that much. I do know they fret about every ding, scratch, and smudge. Lazy? Meh, nobody got rich from digging coal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-8coLyZIac
Lazy? Meh, nobody got rich from digging coal.
Forgive my lack of ability to parse this. Are you trying to say that if one doesn’t engage in hard physical labor, they are lazy?
“I do know they fret about every ding, scratch, and smudge”
Nobody, anywhere, is OK with that for the thing they ordered. It’s
I kind of took it as, if you’re working for the man, you aren’t going to get rich, i.e., “wage slave.”
We have a new winner of the shittiest makeup ever, the old man at 1:10. What the Heck?
I am enjoying this final fight scene but it doesn’t feel Zardoz worthy.
So it took ten warrior monks volunteering for decapitation to trap that thing, but just one bad mutha to kill it?
…just talkin’ bout Shaft
“we have a lot of gang fight footage in New York, some Chinese Kung fu scenes thrown in for good measure, some gratuitous bloodshed and the occasional demon that rolls in and kills people.”
*Inserts quarter. Feet up, blunt lit, Pussycats summoned.*
It almost made me homesick for seedy, disgusting NYC.
Almost.
Sign me up!
I’ve visited NYC a few times and am always open for a return. Live there? You’d need to pay me big bucks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqqATesy-5Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACXOhRIe-s4
Last time I drove away across the GWB, I rolled down my window and yelled “so long, Stinktown!”
By definition.
I sure can’t afford to live there anymore.
At least one of the mayoral candidates is calling to freeze all rents. What could go wrong with that stellar economic plan?
You summoned the dude!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=79KzZ0YqLvo
I miss that guy. At least he was entertaining.
To be fair, the rent IS too damn high but nobody who stands a chance of winning in this lifetime is going to tell the truth why.
We just got back from a vacation to New Orleans.
I’m not saying I’m I am an expert, but the shrimp and grits at Red Fish Grill was very good. Grits with Guyer cheese incorporated. Grits by themselves are pretty plain.
If you like seafood, you should try Deanie’s. The crab au grautin is to die for. I had the stuffed shrimp which was very nice.
Cafe du monde has very hot bingets. I’m not sure they are they best. Hot, fried bread (indigenous to every culture) is a hit in every culture.
Boy if I knew you were heading down here I might have skyved off work and gone to Wee-Zeeana for a day or two.
In other news, Swissy’s movie, Mad Heidi, is STILL not on free streaming. This makes me sad.
The Swiss Conspiracy, however, is on Tubi.
@JI, asking the real questions.
Ground beef with deliberately overdone taco seasoning, hard corn tortillas. Also, extra-sharp cheddar. None of that namby-pamby mild cheddar or colby/Jack.
I don’t care for shredded meat in most any configuration, save chicken and tuna salad. I don’t like flour tortillas. I judge Mexican restaurants by their cheese’n’onion enchiladas, but their red sauce probably just comes out of a can. One restaurant thought enchiladas were adequate with mozzarella cheese. Also, their salsa was over-oregano’d. I DID NOT CONSENT TO ITALIAN FOOD. Triggered.
Taco shells must be fresh, too. Shells that taste like the box they came in are unacceptable.
When I was a child, on an occasional Saturday morning, my dad would take me to Sears* because Jim’s Hot Tamales was set up out front. Mmmm, tamales. I’ve never had them as good since.
*Sears had a candy counter, a vast thing like a deli case. That was the only place my mom could get Maple Nut Goodies, which have been discontinued. Because of course they were. Anyway, over the candy counter was a pink-and-white-striped awning, so of course I have a Pinterest board dedicated to soda fountain and candy shop decor.
The end of Flashman feels like the end of Flashman.
I enjoyed his Abyssinian adventure. I learned a lot. I learned, for example, that Abyssinia is Ethiopia. I learned that this Christian nation is beset by Muslims, but which isn’t? Except that Ethiopia actually prizes its Christianity. The rest of Europe and American can kinda get fucked in that regard.
And the Christian savior of mankind is an insane Abyssinian in the form of Theodore/Tewodros.
What a day.
I need a GlibFlix fix.
*pushes play wearily*
Enjoy! I have a meeting at 6 AM, so tonight, sleep IS for the weak. Which is me. I did really enjoy this hot mess of a film.
Yeah, hot mess indeed. It was… something.
👍
I will. It’s right up my alley.
I’m changing my name to Warhawk. It’s very manly.
Lot of grips, but no gaffer in the credits.
I’m expecting zany hijinks.
It starts out exactly as I described it, down to somebody stumbling over a synthesizer, abruptly, while the intro music was playing.
I understand jive. I think I’m multi-lingual.
These jive turkeys wouldn’t stand a chance against one who has a nine and a half degree black belt in professional wrestling.
Besides, they are driving a Maver-
ick.ICK, dammit.
On vacation. Today is finally over. The moronic bikers are out of control. Wheelies on interstates along with the illegal lane splitting that the Califuctards have imported. Smear the road!
“lane splitting”
An insane practice that’ll eventually end in tragedy, especially when it isn’t expected because it’s illegal. Just nuts…
Morning, gang.
😏🌦️🥓⏰
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RJwW77Lsj8
🎶🎶
Good morning, Sean, Ted’S., homey, Suthen, U, and EfE!
baggy
https://6abc.com/post/abington-township-police-search-rollerblading-armed-robbery-suspect/16590550/
🤣🤪
Wait until the robber falls and winds up with broken wrists.
https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/local/2025/05/23/daiquan-savage-breckenridge-northampton-bucks-county-home-invasion-pistol-whipped-robbery-crime/83816209007/
It’s a sad day when you can’t trust internet strangers for sex.
Right?
Back in the day, craigslist personals got me laid a lot,
Good morning Sean…everyone.
I have never been to Philadelphia. From the looks of that article I will be keeping it that way. WTF?
How many shootings an hour do they have?
Paywalled. Is it the standard guy wants sex, girl will give him sex, guy opens door and her boyfriend/pimp/whatever pushes in with a gun or did she do it herself?
https://patch.com/pennsylvania/northampton/man-wanted-violent-bucks-co-home-invasion-taken-custody
Here’s a better article. Shouldn’t be paywalled.
*BAM BAM BAM on door*
“Open this door! What are you doing in there with my wife!!?”
I had a family member fall for that one. What an idiot. Oldest trick in the book. After the….I dont remember how many times…I told him I had bailed him out for the last time. Good grief.
suh’ fam
yo whats goody
Morning, Glibs
Wakey bakery, Glibs, one and all. First break now, w lunch at 9am. (Cobb salad)
I get my worst assignment in ten min but it’s at least out of the way to start the day, providing a more chill afternoon.
Cutie mngr isn’t here yet. She’s a textbook manic pixie dream girl, cute in a tiny, mouse-y way. Blue and pink hair. (Needs to eat more, but me cuddle- likey small gals.
Only 22 but she has taken to her post with aplomb, so it seems. Would much snuggle. (Wisely, only from afar, unless a magic bomb drops.)
Hope the Friday brings merriment, productivity and solace.
Friday brings deliveries.
I wouldn’t normally be remote, but here I am.
If you don’t mind my asking, what are you expecting to receive?
So far I gto three grow lights to give the Radishes more light. I’m expecting a holster, six mag carriers, and five bottles of Gin (age verification required). I’m hoping for my permit amendment paperwork (but it might be early for that)
You really need to get laid, fam.
Wait until he responds to your Craigslist ad.
I doubt Evan has sufficient volume to meet Tres’ standards.
Last day at the poop incinerator.
Allons-y!