Revengeamatics
It’s the dish that tastes sweet whether it’s served hot or cold: satisfying, deserved and often bloody revenge.
Welcome to a collection where the wronged get to make things right, where the wicked are punished and where our hero will go through hell to make sure that comeuppance is violently meted out no matter the cost, Revengeamatics.
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$10,000 Blood Money (English version)
1967 • Italy • Directed by Romolo Guerrieri
In Romolo Guerrieri's $10,000 Blood Money (1967; a.k.a. $10,000 for a Massacre), Gianni Garko - best known for his portrayal of supernatural gunslinger Sartana - takes on the part of another beloved western antihero, Django, who is on the trail of band...
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King Boxer (English version)
1972 • Hong Kong • Directed by Chang-hwa Jeong
Already firmly established as the most successful film studio in Hong Kong, Shaw Brothers’ worldwide commercial breakthrough would not come from one of their lavish epics, but instead from King Boxer, a lean, mean and bloody B-movie by a Korean dire...
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Yakuza Law
Director Teruo Ishii ('Blind Woman's Curse', 'Horrors of Malformed Men'), the Godfather of J-sploitation, presents 'Yakuza Law' (AKA 'Yakuza's Law: Lynching') - a gruelling anthology of torture, spanning three district periods of Japanese history and bringing to the screen some of the most brutal...
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And God Said to Cain
1970 • Italy • Directed by Antonio Margheriti
The inimitable Klaus Kinski (Double Face) gives an uncharacteristically restrained performance as a wronged man chasing justice in And God Said to Cain, a dark, uncompromising western from celebrated Italian horror maestro Antonio Margheriti (Canniba...
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Executioners from Shaolin (English version)
1977 • Hong Kong • Directed by Chia-Liang Liu
Having choreographed the action for many of Chang Cheh’s ‘Shaolin Temple’ films, director Lau Kar-leung used his inimitable talents and deeply-felt understanding of kung fu history to create his own idiosyncratic take on the same historical legends i...
