I will add that my own favorite obscure horror movie which I feel deserves wider recognition is the great Italian film Ritorno dal cinema (Return from the Cinema, 1986) directed by the great Giacomo Campiotti. Sadly Campiotti’s few early horror films are hardly known outside of Italy, probably due to the excessive gore which has gotten him blacklisted by the Catholic church.

Return to the Cinema is an unauthorized sequel to Lamberto Bava’s Demons, but it’s much darker and far more gorier then Bava’s film. Bobby Rhodes’s (Tony the pimp) is the films real star. He returns from the dead and spends most of the film rampaging through a movie theater with a chainsaw in one hand and a blowtorch in the other, while desperately trying to kill hundreds of demons. He wants pay back for the death of his whores in the previous movie. There’s a weird subplot involving the Virgin Mary, the holy grail and Mary Magdalene which really pissed off the Catholic church.

For some reason Lamberto Bava hated the movie and tried to have all original prints destroyed and has suppressed information about the film. I think it’s been forgotten because all the other Demons sequels have sort of overshadowed it, but I really don’t know why since in many ways it’s even better then the original movie.

Hopefully it will get released on DVD some day!

Dude, that Cynthia Rothrock movie sounds vaguely familiar… :)

This group rules!

Louis,

That sounds great, but I heard there are actually two versions of Turkish Goonies. Is this the one where Sloth is a wrestler with an eye-patch, half the “kids” have moustaches and the pirates eat the fat kid? Apparently that’s the one to see. Either way, let’s do it!

I’m genuinely excited about almost all of these films. As I’ve indicated above, I’ve already viewes kÖpekbaliĞi at least seven times, and being a life-long fan of Cynthia Rothrock I’ve already seen Nights of Rage (stellar choice, Stacie).

Kimberly! You should have emailed me your response anyway. An unauthorized sequel to Demons rules! Any chance I can get a copy? Mantanzana Des Los Innocents and Pilgrims in Mass freaked me out just from reading about them, so I’ll be sure to track them down. I thought I had read all of Paul Cooke’s excellent reviews over at Cinema Nocturna, so Dave’s inclusion of Occult Killer Kyoto is a real shock. I can’t say Nine Inch Nails has ever done anything for me, but the idea of a snuff-style Hellraiser movie would work no matter who was helming it. And Casey, I’m one of those people who appreciates a spooky woods story. The forest at night scares me like little else. And I’m Canadian! I live in a giant oak!

I don’t know about this Las Noches Del Hombre Lobo business. Sounds made up.

And my announcement about retiring The Horror Roundtable was my little April Fool’s joke. I couldn’t think of anything else to do. Yeah, pretty lame.