Cult Trailers: Sergio Martino

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Saturday, September 15, 2012

2019: After The Fall Of New York (1983)

Clip: "Stupid bastards!!"

Directed by Sergio Martino

Starring Michael Sopkiw, George Eastman, Edmund Purdom and Valentine Monnier

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Friday, November 4, 2011

Hands Of Steel (1986) aka Atomic Cyborg

Clip: (Spoiler alert) - Big Brawl:

Soundtrack: Claudio Simonetti - Hands of Steel (Main theme)

Watch the entire movie here!

Directed by Sergio Martino

Starring Daniel Greene, George Eastman, John Saxon and Janet Agren

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My Letterboxd Review:

"Everytime I watch it I have a new favourite scene, but this time it was George Eastman endlessly taunting Paco Queruak to arm-wrestle, until Paco decides to respond by grabbing a marker, writing something on Janet Agren's marble counter-top, ripping a huge chunk of that same marble counter-top off with his bare hands and throwing it at Eastman. The piece of marble says "You're On". This is genius. Random but genius.

Another great moment is John Saxon wielding a ridicoulously huge laser gun and keeping a straight face. A classic piece of Italian trash that's just as entertaining as The Terminator, the film it rips off."

Monday, April 27, 2009

Endgame (1983)

Full Movie

Directed by Joe D'Amato.

Starring Al Cliver, Laura Gemser, George Eastman and Gordon Mitchell.

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More Mad Max inspired madness from Italy. The wildly prolific D'Amato (Antropophagus, Buio Omega) helmed this one and he brought back favourite George Eastman and Lucio Fulci regular Al Cliver (Zombie, The Beyond, The Black Cat).

Also look for spaghetti western and peplum star Gordon Mitchell.

This is not the best example of the genre - nods would go out to Enzo G. Castellari's "1990: Bronx Warriors" and Sergio Martino's "2019: After The Fall Of New York", but it's a great little diversion and at least on par with Fulci's similar "The New Gladiators".

My Letterboxd Review:

I can think of at least 5 Italian post-apocalyptic films that are better than Endgame, but the genre is so inherently entertaining and crazy that even the mediocre ones are worth seeing. All you need to see on the screen are a good rock quarry location, eyepatches, steel-plated shinpads, fingerless gloves, George Eastman and plenty of mannequins thrown under cars. Endgame has all of this and the eternally depressing Al Cliver in a rare leading role. Average for the genre but the pre-Running Man scenario is fun and the dubbing is typically hilarious, especially for Eastman's character.