Review by Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Stumbling out of the National Museum after viewing the restored Singhalese classic, Nidhanaya (1972), I was greeted by rain as I made my way to an eagerly-awaited SGIFF (Singapore International Film Festival) [...]
Review by Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ The 1970s seems to have been one of the most fruitful decades for movie genres we just love at SCUM. Blaxploitation, pinku, grindhouse… and in the form of Deliverance (1972), the survival [...]
Review by Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ I’m told by Topo Sanchez that Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise screened in Singapore during one of the country’s film festivals in the 1990s. For late-comers like myself, who [...]
Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ I’ve always been a little hesitant to check out Charlton Heston’s post-Planet of the Apes flicks, but after reading an interview with techno don Robert Hood, who declared The Omega Man as [...]
Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Having lived in Australia for a good six years, I found Wake in Fright to be strangely familiar despite not having been born when the film was made. It could be because [...]
Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Released in October 2013, Hwayi: A Monster Boy, is the second feature film for director Jang Joon-hwan. His first feature was the quirky sci-fi thriller, Save the Green Planet! (2003). While Save [...]
Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Over the past couple of years, Scream Factory — an offshoot of American film distributor Shout! Factory — has steadily been releasing remastered horror classics on Blu-ray. It’s recently been diving into [...]
Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ I usually leave reviews of B-flicks to Monkey Fist, but at first glance, the plot for the comedy-horror Bad Milo seemed too good to pass by. In a nutshell, the Milo in [...]
Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Since Ichi the Killer melted our brains back in 2001, your hardworking friends at SCUM have sworn to catch all of director Takashi Miike’s flicks, no matter how turgid. Unfortunately, since Ichi [...]
Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Brian De Palma’s The Fury (1978) gets the high definition treatment with not one but two Blu-ray releases this year. Back in March, Twilight Time released their Blu-ray of The Fury for [...]
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