GINGER SNAPS

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One of those creature features that star nubile starlet Katharine Isabelle. Here she plays young outcast Ginger, afflicted with much ennui in the mindless suburbia of Bailey Downs. On the night of her first period, Ginger is attacked by something feral, something with claws and teeth. Talk about a bad night to become a woman. She survives her wounds but she’s never quite the same after. Like she’s always hungry. A classic in werewolf B-fare, this one.

JESUS CHRIST, VAMPIRE HUNTER

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Only the Son of God can cleanse the world of the vile blood suckers! He’ll do it with his divine martial arts, his blessed stake, his chosen disciples, and a lot of holy water. This is as awesomely wasak as they come. Good hunting to ya, sir!

KUNG FURY

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This is a delicious mash-up of genres that features a Miami detective in 1985 who becomes The Chosen One, after he is struck by lightning and bitten by a cobra, enabling him access to the deadliest form of martial arts. He’ll need it since he’s being hunted by the Kung Führer, who seeks to become the greatest martial artist of all by traveling through time to kill whoever’s The Chosen One. Hail to the writer, director, and lead actor David Sandberg who pays homage to all the great things in B-movie land with true passion and filmmaking grit. This is the only non-full-length feature on this list but it’s at #2 exactly because it’s too good to miss.

THE BEASTMASTER

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I still remember the epic of Dar, who could telepathically communicate with animals as he fought against the forces of the evil wizard Maax, who destroyed Dar’s village and all he held dear. Sure it seems a bit ripped off from John Norman’s Counter-Earth of Gor novels but it got all the elements right, at least. It had decent narrative, better than average SFX, and a cast that had real acting chops rather than seeming like thespians picked from the litter of off-off Broadway shows.  The Beastmaster was definitely no box office success in the U.S. (even if it was released by MGM) but it had a great cult following by the late 1990s in the annals of 80s vintage fantasy aficionados. It really could have stood shoulder to shoulder with the bigger, more well-funded fantasy efforts of the era like Krull and The Last Starfighter if it had more marketing push. I mean, two words: Tanya Roberts (as redhead slave girl called Kiri).

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