Between Arrow, Eureka, and 88 Films, I get an awful lot of Shaw Bros. Blu-rays to review these days. There is only so much time in the...

The Blood of Fu Manchu (German: Der Todeskuss des Dr. Fu Man Chu) is the trashier and most Franco-esque of the two movies. The sleaze factor is juicy, but very of its era it. The implied sex, brief torture, short glimpses of nipples, and barely bloodied wounds are only slightly more risqué than you’d see from a name-brand Bond movie. It’s pretty tame, even by the standards of the next decade, but it’s still fun to see Franco probing the edges of acceptability. The most object

ADULTERY, MANIPULATION, AND MURDER, RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES AND SLATHERED ACROSS YOUR TELEVISION SCREEN!! In the early days of...

Stephen Sayadian began his career as a satirical illustrator for Mad Magazine and National Lampoon, eventually graduating to creative director at Larry Flynt Publications in the mid-’70s, where he worked on ad campaigns for Hustler Magazine. Later, he moved with Flynt to LA, where he designed poster art for movies, including John Carpenter’s The Fog (1980) and Escape from New York (1981), and Brian De Palma’s Dressed to Kill (1980), discovered the area’s punk rock culture, an