movies filmed in Asia – Page 16 – Really Awful Movies

Too Hot to Handle

Wide lapels, wah-pedal funk guitar, stick-fighting, S&M, avocado target practise, (real) cockfighting and a femme fatale? All key ingredients to a fantastic 70s B-movie stew. Too Hot to Handle, a 1977 Roger Corman production, also features a slew of international accents (Dutch, Floridian, Filipino, Israeli) and is set in beautiful Manila, making great use ofContinue reading “Too Hot to Handle”

Beast of Blood

Eddie Romero’s Beast of Blood, aka Blood Devils, is the third and final film in the Filipino director’s “Blood Island” saga. Not having seen the first two, I felt a tad lost and confused – a feeling not dissimilar to delving straight into the “Antigone” portion of Sophocles’ Oedipus cycle. The film begins mere minutesContinue reading “Beast of Blood”