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In Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park, Kiss is the largest music attraction in the world and they’ve come to play in this theme park. Meanwhile, Abner Devereaux, the park’s developer, gets even stranger ideas than usual and is ultimately fired by his old friend who happens to also be the owner of the park. He plans his gruesome revenge! His plan to replace the famous rock group with his own creatures and use...
First of all, the Ray Harryhausen effect of The Golden Voyage of Sinbad is glorious! This is exactly the kind of film I associate him with. I know he made effects and created stories for other types of movies as well. Mostly in the Fantasy- or Monster genres of course. I haven’t seen them all (yet) but I’m also impressed with how good the effects are for their time. There are some Sci-Fi flicks in...
The thing about referring to Sho Kosugi as a ninja on the cover is of course a way to market the movie. It’s the same for me. I mention Sho Kosugi and Ninja in the same sentence to try to get your attention. Did I succeed? The fact is that this movie has very little to do with ninjas as I see it. There is the occasional throwing star but that’s about it. There is...
The first film I ever saw with Sho Kosugi was a flick called Ninja III – The Domination. The VHS copy was a fourth or fifth-generation copy so the quality was pretty messed up (the Blu-ray edition is now among my belongings). I liked the story though and I have been hooked on Ninja flicks ever since. Not that I have many in my collection but I’m in no hurry. The Other day I got...
