Bloodsport
by Newt Arnold
from Warner Home Video
Kung Fu expert Jean-Claude Van Damme plays a martial arts master who arrives in Hong Kong to compete in the Kumite a violent championship fighting contest.Running Time: 92 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE UPC: 085393774424
A well-oiled Jean-Claude Van Damme makes his starring debut in what may be one of the few kickboxing films to be based on a true story. The Muscles from Brussels plays Frank Dux, the first Westerner ever to win the extreme "whupfest" known as the Kumatai (a long-running, no-holds-barred fighting tournament in Hong Kong). While a bit deficient in the script department (to say the least), this undeniably exciting flick succeeds by letting Van Damme play to his strengths: namely, minimal acting and a lot of impossibly acrobatic splits while kicking people in the head. A guilty-pleasure testosterone blast of the highest order, with a memorable villain (the massive Bolo Yeung from Enter the Dragon), and a multitude of well-choreographed fight scenes. An embarrassed-looking Forest Whitaker cameos as a hapless (and non-kickboxing) cop. --Andrew Wright
Showdown in Little Tokyo/Bloodsport
by Newt Arnold
from Warner Home Video
No wimps! Get ready for a knock-down shake-down Showdown in Little Tokyo (Side A) when Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee team in the "smart fast-moving martial-arts action-adventure" (Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times). L.A.'s colorful Little Tokyo is the setting as buddy cops Lundgren and Lee battle an entrenched cadre of Japanese gangsters (and try to avoid being filleted into sashimi by Yakuza swordsmen!). Jean-Claude Van Damme makes his first headlining role one to remember in Bloodsport (Side B) a stirring brawlfest about the first Westerner ever to win the Kumite Hong Kong's fierce single-elimination world championship of full-contact fighting. This is action that connects again and again!Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE UPC: 012569767584 Manufacturer No: 76758
Blood Suckers / Blood Thirst (Special Edition)
by Robert Hartford-Davis
from Image Entertainment
Vampires, psychedelic orgies, a gooey-faced monster, and Peter Cushing all star in this blood-spilling, blood-chilling Drive-In Double Feature. "Blood Suckers" (1972, 80 min., Color, Rated R) - Vampirism as a sexual obsession enslaves Oxford scholar Richard Fountain when he visits Greece and falls in with a drug-crazed cult of homicidal swingers led by a kinky blood-drinker named Chriseis. Originally titled "Incense for the Damned." "Blood Thirst" (1971, 73 min., B&W, Not Rated) - Filipino women found with their blood drained bring American sex-crime expert Adam Rourke to Manila in search of the killer. Armed with a lisp and a mannequin named Harvey, Rourke soon becomes prey to a "Golden Goddess" possessed of eternal youth, and a creature whose face looks like melted flesh.
Product Features: Audio Format: Mono Screen Format: Full Frame 16x9: No Color: Color & B&W Region Code: No Region Code Original Languages: English English Dubbed: No Other Languages: None Subtitles: None
Special Features: Gallery of art with radio-spot rarities - Trailer, plus double-feature combo trailers for "The Crawling Thing/Creature of Evil," "Devil Woman/Dragons Never Die," "The Embalmer/The She Beast," "Night of the Witches/Dr. Frankenstein on Campus," and "Orgy of the Living Dead"; 2 archival short subjects: "The Horny Vampire" and "Midsummer Nightmare"; Drive-In intermission shorts; "Let's Go to the Drive-In!" - An interactive feature allowing uninterrupted playback of almost three hours worth of blood-curdling drive-in madness!
Blood Thirst 4 Movie Pack
by Newt Arnold
from BCI / Eclipse
Back From Hell A priest visits an old friend who has gone to Hollywood to become a movie star. He finds out that his friend has sold his soul to Satan for stardom and now regrets it. The priest determines to help his friend fight the devil and reclaim his soul.Runtime: 82 minutesProject VampireThree medical interns escape from Project Alpha a diabolic scheme that produces vampires through superserum injections. The superserum and the antidote are distributed worldwide controlled by Dr. Frederick Klaus the master vampire whose goal is to take over the world by turning everyone into vampires. Intern Victor Hunter struggles to regain his humanity and stop Klaus and his followers but time is running out before Victor becomes one of them!Runtime: 88 minutesThe Passing A vicious serial killer Wade haunts the state of Maryland. When Wade is finally brought to justice he is taken to the Maryland state Rejuvenation Center. Rather than face the gas chamber Wade consents to be a guinea pig in a scientific experiment. What follows is a gripping tale that outlines the future of mankind!Runtime: 97 minutesBeyond Evil A terrifying story of love and possession! New to the island honeymooners Barbara and Larry Andrews fall in love with their spacious and colonial mansion which was a gift from their friend Del. Scoffing at the haunted house stories that surround it the Andrews move in. Now all they have to do is STAY ALIVE!Runtime: 94 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: NR UPC: 787364490097 Manufacturer No: 44900-9
Bloodsport [Region 2]
A well-oiled Jean-Claude Van Damme makes his starring debut in what may be one of the few kickboxing films to be based on a true story. The Muscles from Brussels plays Frank Dux, the first Westerner ever to win the extreme "whupfest" known as the Kumatai (a long-running, no-holds-barred fighting tournament in Hong Kong). While a bit deficient in the script department (to say the least), this undeniably exciting flick succeeds by letting Van Damme play to his strengths: namely, minimal acting and a lot of impossibly acrobatic splits while kicking people in the head. A guilty-pleasure testosterone blast of the highest order, with a memorable villain (the massive Bolo Yeung from Enter the Dragon), and a multitude of well-choreographed fight scenes. An embarrassed-looking Forest Whitaker cameos as a hapless (and non-kickboxing) cop. --Andrew Wright
Bloodsport [Region 2]
A well-oiled Jean-Claude Van Damme makes his starring debut in what may be one of the few kickboxing films to be based on a true story. The Muscles from Brussels plays Frank Dux, the first Westerner ever to win the extreme "whupfest" known as the Kumatai (a long-running, no-holds-barred fighting tournament in Hong Kong). While a bit deficient in the script department (to say the least), this undeniably exciting flick succeeds by letting Van Damme play to his strengths: namely, minimal acting and a lot of impossibly acrobatic splits while kicking people in the head. A guilty-pleasure testosterone blast of the highest order, with a memorable villain (the massive Bolo Yeung from Enter the Dragon), and a multitude of well-choreographed fight scenes. An embarrassed-looking Forest Whitaker cameos as a hapless (and non-kickboxing) cop. --Andrew Wright
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