Machete Maidens Unleashed! Trailer

MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED! is the new documentary from Mark Hartley, the director of NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD. Where NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD chronicled the exploitation cinema of Australia, MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED! is an exploration of Filipino exploitations films from the '70s to the 90's. Expect Kung Fu, monsters, midgets, and women in prison! It makes it's U.S. premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX.

American Grindhouse Trailer

Here's the trailer for American Grindhouse, a documentary exploring that seedy, sleazy, and fucking awesome side of cinema, the exploitation movie. Currently on the festival circuit, coming to DVD soon:

Machete Review

The wait is finally over! Here it is, the moment I've been waiting for! Well, sort of... As far as over-the-top action, blood, and nudity are concerned, Machete delivers for sure. And I can't say it isn't entertaining as hell, because it is. It's just that its not exactly the movie I expected. I was going into this movie thinking it would be Robert Rodriguez's Kill Bill, but what I got was Robert Rodriguez's Black Dynamite. It is as much a parody, if not more so, as it is an homage. I knew there would be some laughs thrown in with the bloody, limb-chopping violence, I didn't anticipate the level of comedy in Machete. I didn't mind it, in the first two acts of the film, but by the third act it began to run a bit thin in my opinion. For example, there is a scene in Machete, where he and Sartana are trying to figure out the password to open some secret files on a computer disk. When they crack the code, the computer screen reads "BINGO". Kinda corny.

Beyond the overly comedic tone, the movie is exactly what I wanted to see. Plenty of gore, splattered brains, and hack-offed limbs.

I think Danny Trejo pulls off his first starring role very well as Machete, and hope Rodriguez comes through with the sequels promised at the end. It's definitely one of the funnest movies I've seen in a long time. *** out of ****