A pair of robots attempt to become human in this slow-moving road movie from Parisian techno legends Daft Punk. No music from Daft Punk features in the film, which is directed by the French duo, and is spun around two central characters who don the robot costumes that have become the band’s trademark.
The Yokai Monsters series consists of three Japanese feature films from the 1960s.
SPOOK WARFARE: A vampire is rudely awakened from its tomb and proceeds to inhabit the body of a wealthy Japanese landowner named Lord Isobe. Isobe runs rampant through the local village until one astute fellow draws on some supernatural help from the Yokai Monsters to end his reign of terror.
100 MONSTERS: A Samurai warrior is called into action when some devious property developers aim to destroy a local building and its neighboring shrine. The Yokai are once again drawn into the world of the living to help resolve the dispute in this action-packed feature.
ALONG WITH GHOSTS: The Yokai are unleashed when a young girl’s grandmother is murdered by mobsters in this vintage feature from the legendary Studio Daiei. The girl is eventually kidnapped by the mobsters, and the Yokai must decide whether she is set free and reunited with her long lost father, or left to suffer a cruel fate with her new captors.
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A man calls a suicide hotline and falls in love with the woman who takes his call in this erotic drama from director Lee Kang-Sheng.
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From the Maneater series that also includes the werewolf update HYBRID, here is a collection of three bloody great creature features where the monsters exist in the natural world. Whether it’s the poisonous jungle spiders of IN THE SPIDER’S WEB, the nearly half-ton Bengal tiger stalking unsuspecting victims in the Apalachian Mountains in MANEATER, or BLOOD MONKEY’s carnivorous apes, these brutal horror flicks will give any horror fan his or her fix. Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham, genre star Lance Henriksen, and the inimitable Gary Busey star in these various films.
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Based on Giovanni Guareschi’s satirical stories of a hilariously hot-tempered priest, DON CAMILLO (1953) and THE RETURN OF DON CAMILLO (1956) feature French comedy star Fernandel in the title role. These beloved Italian comedies follow the father’s attempts to protect his parish from the town’s communist mayor.
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