NORA MIAO, MING LIU AND JACKIE CHAN IN 'NEW FIST OF FURY'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGO00m2UyWfScVFGC0IS7ds4nyhzoiJ40mHPHxBvKJr8Q-wWzUiH8P5B6sc6CGv1XVlLmZmIR5jlESd3MhLjbmU3ROBt4Q8DtwVxF9swKaOfRBLOeudUqWWTgBr32stVM5w-NOBiY1YCj28qvrEIBFbZgApgiqaWtSn-vNDeOgVMtvI-iq-9b9MnX7ukie/s1638/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="936" data-original-width="1638" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGO00m2UyWfScVFGC0IS7ds4nyhzoiJ40mHPHxBvKJr8Q-wWzUiH8P5B6sc6CGv1XVlLmZmIR5jlESd3MhLjbmU3ROBt4Q8DtwVxF9swKaOfRBLOeudUqWWTgBr32stVM5w-NOBiY1YCj28qvrEIBFbZgApgiqaWtSn-vNDeOgVMtvI-iq-9b9MnX7ukie/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Nora Miao in NEW FIST OF FURY Year: 1976 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Adorable wide-eyed Asian beauty <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/nora%20miao">Nora Miao</a> appeared in all of Bruce Lee's Hong Kong movies before <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/12/enterdragon.html">ENTER THE DRAGON</a>... as a drink-stand owner in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/03/bboss.html">THE BIG BOSS</a> progressed to a love interest in FIST OF FURY to an exposition-spouting ingenue in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/03/rdragon.html">THE WAY OF THE DRAGON</a>, and she was even slated for a cameo in Lee's original concept of THE GAME OF DEATH... <br><br>Ironically, not only does she have a far more important part in what's basically a remake in THE NEW FIST OF FURY starring upcoming-fighter Jackie Chan, but she's actually the main character with the most overall screen-time, basically overseeing the familiar plot-line of a Chinese karate school's possible downfall after The Japanese take over Shanghai before the Second World War... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

jackie chan, karate, ming liu, nora miao, remake, seventies

NORA MIAO, MING LIU AND JACKIE CHAN IN 'NEW FIST OF FURY'

Nora Miao in NEW FIST OF FURY Year: 1976 Rating: *** Adorable wide-eyed Asian beauty Nora Miao appeared in all of Bruce Lee's Hong Kong...

BRUCE LEE & NORA MIAO 'FIST OF FURY/THE CHINESE CONNECTION'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrYp_5u1O2y_DDrNz9AZfSBE0Wx7lqs5P6VdX566biEAaRYMq8daUxZHVwpAZzQ72acU9BaQS3hBdl0fJWv_fQlqakITUvnepQDsFheQZWxMO30Nl9Gndh4xBYsv8UPajJRSEC9sVoqJ_fyCQuUdmpPvb66gbM2iyZ-snNxOh2LFKzKSy-NbfIajvWMjvM/s2036/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-30%20at%2011.42.22%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1028" data-original-width="2036" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrYp_5u1O2y_DDrNz9AZfSBE0Wx7lqs5P6VdX566biEAaRYMq8daUxZHVwpAZzQ72acU9BaQS3hBdl0fJWv_fQlqakITUvnepQDsFheQZWxMO30Nl9Gndh4xBYsv8UPajJRSEC9sVoqJ_fyCQuUdmpPvb66gbM2iyZ-snNxOh2LFKzKSy-NbfIajvWMjvM/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-30%20at%2011.42.22%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bruce Lee in FIST OF FURY/THE CHINESE CONNECTION Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In FIST OF FURY aka THE CHINESE CONNECTION, composer Richard Loo's Spaghetti Western style chanting soundtrack (with tense cues from Johnny Keating's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/09/AR.html">ROBBERY</a>) leads to the polar opposite of Bruce Lee's first feature <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/03/bboss.html">THE BIG BOSS</a> (ironically re-titled FIST OF FURY in America): there he's calm and passive until being pushed into fighting while here, right off the bat, he feverishly attacks a coffin...<br><br>There's also a tremendous progression of aesthetics: the previous vehicle's a shoddy/rural low-budget modern-western while FURY is both plushly stylistic and genre stylized, taking place within either cool Asian-designed interiors or the kind of nighttime film-noir atmosphere when Lee's sneaking around, attempting to keep Japanese gangsters (having just occupied pre-WW2 Shanghai) from shutting down his master's multi-tiered dojo...</p>

bruce lee, karate, maria yi, nora miao, seventies, wei lo

BRUCE LEE & NORA MIAO 'FIST OF FURY/THE CHINESE CONNECTION'

Bruce Lee in FIST OF FURY/THE CHINESE CONNECTION Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2 In FIST OF FURY aka THE CHINESE CONNECTION, composer Richard Loo...

BRUCE LEE IN 'ENTER THE DRAGON' WITH JOHN SAXON & JIM KELLY

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfl802_KtOiW55yPjxbWYkcrQFF1_NM16_gutJRe-CU8fyf7w47-5fXHbsrZKY5qL7Q6QNFXqTORK6YPQmXVu9vVr42FAv59JaH4EjDhzQ2s-u8GI2caIotq6ElF2ZLHuUpQh4-qdk_OEgJprSTdIgIwMBRONLPyBi-BP4r_koel05_BI22Lf2m3RhavVs/s1896/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-30%20at%2011.45.20%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1896" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfl802_KtOiW55yPjxbWYkcrQFF1_NM16_gutJRe-CU8fyf7w47-5fXHbsrZKY5qL7Q6QNFXqTORK6YPQmXVu9vVr42FAv59JaH4EjDhzQ2s-u8GI2caIotq6ElF2ZLHuUpQh4-qdk_OEgJprSTdIgIwMBRONLPyBi-BP4r_koel05_BI22Lf2m3RhavVs/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-30%20at%2011.45.20%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bruce Lee in ENTER THE DRAGON Year: 1973 Rates: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By the time Bruce Lee, starring in his first and last American produced motion picture, squares off against island-ruling heavy Han in ENTER THE DRAGON, one important thing is crystal clear... <br><br>Nobody, from henchmen <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/11/tconnection.html">Bolo Young</a> to Robert Wall, or co-stars John Saxon or <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jim%20kelly">Jim Kelly</a>, could have taken him on and so, liken to a James Bond franchise villain, the seedy-smiling, slave-owning, harem-surrounded Kien Shih has a glove with knife-fingers to give him that needed/necessary edge...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

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BRUCE LEE IN 'ENTER THE DRAGON' WITH JOHN SAXON & JIM KELLY

Bruce Lee in ENTER THE DRAGON Year: 1973 Rates: ***** By the time Bruce Lee, starring in his first and last American produced motion picture...

BRUCE LEE, NORA MIAO, MARIA YI, MARILYN BAUTISTA 'THE BIG BOSS'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8p6WGUUgA77c2jGbqAmOucKGpeAbGkPxvR2RosOq_wv9xbEyJSXcrPWK_TxyRTSwVKP-RVwcCyKUzzEXF8o4YGzVIjRgxVi7dRR46PDRlSG6EPgGbQcYlDE-mhcytqkaUQL0cbRLh9bD5pUe9Q_90K8oCmaN7nr4lXFI2ODS__ooBrapbgX8y30Q3S7RQ/s2098/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="832" data-original-width="2098" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8p6WGUUgA77c2jGbqAmOucKGpeAbGkPxvR2RosOq_wv9xbEyJSXcrPWK_TxyRTSwVKP-RVwcCyKUzzEXF8o4YGzVIjRgxVi7dRR46PDRlSG6EPgGbQcYlDE-mhcytqkaUQL0cbRLh9bD5pUe9Q_90K8oCmaN7nr4lXFI2ODS__ooBrapbgX8y30Q3S7RQ/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE BIG BOSS Year: 1971 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The <i>Kong-Mark</i> is around 45-minutes into a movie when what's anticipated finally occurs... the giant titular ape KING KONG rampaging after the kind of expository needed to build the characters and overall tension...<br><br>And that's when otherwise meditative Bruce Lee finally springs to life against an extremely small rural village's bevy of goons at a central ice factory.... although this first of two karate fights only lasts about a minute... <br><span></span></p>

action, bruce lee, exploitation, james tien, karate, maria yi, marilyn bautista, nora miao, seventies, wei lo, ying-chieh han

BRUCE LEE, NORA MIAO, MARIA YI, MARILYN BAUTISTA 'THE BIG BOSS'

Title: THE BIG BOSS Year: 1971 Rating: **1/2 The Kong-Mark is around 45-minutes into a movie when what's anticipated finally occurs... ...

BRUCE LEE, NORA MIAO & CHUCK NORRIS 'RETURN OF THE DRAGON'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWHwJ3tCY4MjWXng9MXlgkz5h-TOEKRLVi3v79xcfa6qCEYaByPZCC-aZtHLFQfKJrmXfnMsCnV1GMV0JrYtpXjHBYV9s-v9pj4lZgA5cK-dFu3RkXHSdvg3hKguk-4zf-JGieO2szc_TkS08MxsqvW4f_ymDDrfB5LDJKZq9YnJBexeuDH1tBlrArW0Pj/s2102/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1174" data-original-width="2102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWHwJ3tCY4MjWXng9MXlgkz5h-TOEKRLVi3v79xcfa6qCEYaByPZCC-aZtHLFQfKJrmXfnMsCnV1GMV0JrYtpXjHBYV9s-v9pj4lZgA5cK-dFu3RkXHSdvg3hKguk-4zf-JGieO2szc_TkS08MxsqvW4f_ymDDrfB5LDJKZq9YnJBexeuDH1tBlrArW0Pj/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The Way of the Dragon/Return of the Dragon Year: 1972/1974 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>With a Spaghetti Western opening score and cool Asian animation of a Chinese boat moving swiftly through water, the actual translation to Bruce Lee's THE WAY OF THE DRAGON has to do with a dragon going overseas... but is mostly remembered as the re-titled RETURN OF THE DRAGON, released in America after ENTER THE DRAGON, in which Lee died at the tail-end of production... <br><br>So it's intentionally misleading for an audience that was rabid for more Bruce Lee, as if the "Dragon" were returning when in fact, his Tang Lung had never been to Rome, where this... the third of Bruce's three Hong Kong action-crime flicks... takes place...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, bob wall, bruce lee, chuck norris, comedy, crime, gangster, karate, nora miao, seventies

BRUCE LEE, NORA MIAO & CHUCK NORRIS 'RETURN OF THE DRAGON'

The Way of the Dragon/Return of the Dragon Year: 1972/1974 Rating: ***1/2 With a Spaghetti Western opening score and cool Asian animation of...

CHUCK NORRIS, ART HINDLE & LEE VAN CLEEF IN 'THE OCTAGON'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3lqA4BnZIWwZenTBH_Z0XrFhvZuDbOqgvVIZRPG4TJEyCEX070SgGEt5pm5rTk0RhFJqixTJjWKO7zHdoRHhet4BeOdXXzVw7FrQhINeMjaEL9M0KqiaRn1x9fHbnjhuTkN6ycfQ5ks0qnwctoMGc4bbPj1ykbk9WlxG6pS2YeNdlCf09MYIxDoHCkqi4/s1500/When%20are%20you%20gonna%20stop%20sniffing%20around%20and%20make%20some%20serious%20moves.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="1500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3lqA4BnZIWwZenTBH_Z0XrFhvZuDbOqgvVIZRPG4TJEyCEX070SgGEt5pm5rTk0RhFJqixTJjWKO7zHdoRHhet4BeOdXXzVw7FrQhINeMjaEL9M0KqiaRn1x9fHbnjhuTkN6ycfQ5ks0qnwctoMGc4bbPj1ykbk9WlxG6pS2YeNdlCf09MYIxDoHCkqi4/s16000/When%20are%20you%20gonna%20stop%20sniffing%20around%20and%20make%20some%20serious%20moves.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE OCTAGON Year: 1980 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Over an hour into the 1980 Chuck Norris action vehicle THE OCTAGON, Spaghetti Western legend Lee Van Cleef turns to the iconic karate fighter and says, "When are you gonna stop sniffing around and make some serious moves?" <br><br>Which is fitting since most of the picture's a location-hopping investigation into what foreshadows the series COBRA KAI by decades (and the movie it's based on by four years): a dangerous group of martial artists, deemed ninjas, are teaching people how to become lethal fighters, and in this case, outright terrorists...</p><p><span></span></p>

art hindle, carol bagdasarian, chuck norris, eighties, ernie hudson, karate, karen carlson, kim lankford, lee van cleef, tadashi yamashita

CHUCK NORRIS, ART HINDLE & LEE VAN CLEEF IN 'THE OCTAGON'

Title: THE OCTAGON Year: 1980 Rating: *** Over an hour into the 1980 Chuck Norris action vehicle THE OCTAGON, Spaghetti Western legend Lee V...

CHUCK NORRIS, CLU GULAGER & JENNIFER O'NEILL 'A FORCE OF ONE'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBk5U0hMtMDklqmx4zyJ4kWwddONmM-k4smSGuWiDpN13HcPa2zPH_9YeOrPo9gmNVMRAuo2Zrk1JqZAZ4Aeu0V3Mc3HhB5FJbPJ1Wg56Q429l0AAfx2o1yXF_1Bd4FijGcskSCsQ5h8P-I4Tef7_BcCUsgB3tYrYEOkvl0l_ejMnywcdsRrp9eaZclJ3Y/s1364/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-21%20at%202.40.28%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="644" data-original-width="1364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBk5U0hMtMDklqmx4zyJ4kWwddONmM-k4smSGuWiDpN13HcPa2zPH_9YeOrPo9gmNVMRAuo2Zrk1JqZAZ4Aeu0V3Mc3HhB5FJbPJ1Wg56Q429l0AAfx2o1yXF_1Bd4FijGcskSCsQ5h8P-I4Tef7_BcCUsgB3tYrYEOkvl0l_ejMnywcdsRrp9eaZclJ3Y/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-21%20at%202.40.28%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1980 Rating: ***1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>For John Wayne it was Claire Trevor proceeding his own not-yet-famous name in STAGECOACH, Ida Lupino billed before Humphrey Bogart in HIGH SIERRA, and model/actress Jennifer O'Neill (herein a mix of social-worker and would-be love-interest) in A FORCE OF ONE: somewhat referring to Norris's karate-champ character who has to teach a group of detectives how to defend themselves from, well...<br><br>The lethal karate-chopping/cop-killing villain's mostly unseen and far too ambiguous, taking out random street cops in-between what's mostly investigative dialogue involving a town overly saturated by drug dealers...  <br></p><p><span></span></p>

bill wallace, chuck norris, clu gulager, cop, eighties, eric laneuville, james whitemore jr., jennifer o'neill, karate, lisa james, pepe serna, ray vitte, ron o'neal, taylor lacher

CHUCK NORRIS, CLU GULAGER & JENNIFER O'NEILL 'A FORCE OF ONE'

Year: 1980 Rating: ***1/2 For John Wayne it was Claire Trevor proceeding his own not-yet-famous name in STAGECOACH, Ida Lupino billed before...

CHUCK NORRIS IN 'LONE WOLF MCQUADE' WITH DAVID CARRADINE

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFUz3MQzwgVXIovMHkAKqqC49IlWlpPnn_EdCJm4dlVhv0brH3QJ5v_1CoqSBuueYETN7KyX6SkTfGrclt98fF349yVMiRgZm1KIHUf8YwqEyS4FZaRbslK19KcAGYsnrU_kpnMn10qBBAuQ9peBvwUjPLJZVlVW8eYEu_sT_7dBmYwvi521bGP-hvX5qW/s2040/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-23%20at%2010.32.09%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="2040" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFUz3MQzwgVXIovMHkAKqqC49IlWlpPnn_EdCJm4dlVhv0brH3QJ5v_1CoqSBuueYETN7KyX6SkTfGrclt98fF349yVMiRgZm1KIHUf8YwqEyS4FZaRbslK19KcAGYsnrU_kpnMn10qBBAuQ9peBvwUjPLJZVlVW8eYEu_sT_7dBmYwvi521bGP-hvX5qW/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-23%20at%2010.32.09%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: LONE WOLF MCQUADE Year: 1984 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The reason for Chuck Norris's eventual laurel-resting television series WALKER TEXAS RANGER is the fact his best, most solid, well-crafted and outright entertaining peak-1980's feature featured a titular Texas Ranger, herein deemed LONE WOLF MCCQUADE, backed by a Spaghetti Western theme so familiar in its tension-filled guitar-picking build-up and lonesome whistling, you'd think Ennio Morricone was composer... <br><br>Or that by the time you see the face of the mountain-top, gun-in-hand ranger up close... with director Steve Carver intentionally emulating Italian Western auteur Sergio Leone... that it would be Clint Eastwood himself... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, barbara carrera, chuck norris, dana kimmell, david carradine, eighties, karate, l.q. jones, r.g. armstrong, robert beltran, steve carver

CHUCK NORRIS IN 'LONE WOLF MCQUADE' WITH DAVID CARRADINE

Title: LONE WOLF MCQUADE Year: 1984 Rating: **** The reason for Chuck Norris's eventual laurel-resting television series WALKER TEXAS RA...

MARÍA ELENA APRÓN & MARÍA SILVA 'TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwOOZOBQFwVvd3-sCJ8r_JwbjXTDsI1abQQc4jmZhqGODuqBGr0HbElSoXU3gPVfWu9bRzCLSuLYcD_xlWqisaSlfuOs4bnfzE5hOzRPyw5ZyKw4IYPuda6PNAz5-9P9BKCcZuRNzBVC94Esv465UeTAJIu9im-MeiTgRywe6E3LVt4GxLuZjM-qUincvt/s1946/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%206.37.51%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1256" data-original-width="1946" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwOOZOBQFwVvd3-sCJ8r_JwbjXTDsI1abQQc4jmZhqGODuqBGr0HbElSoXU3gPVfWu9bRzCLSuLYcD_xlWqisaSlfuOs4bnfzE5hOzRPyw5ZyKw4IYPuda6PNAz5-9P9BKCcZuRNzBVC94Esv465UeTAJIu9im-MeiTgRywe6E3LVt4GxLuZjM-qUincvt/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%206.37.51%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>María Silva in TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD/LA NOCHE DEL TERROR CIEGO Year: 1972 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Two years before TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD, a gorgeous woman is sacrificed in the same Spanish director <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/01/NOTS.html">Amando de Ossorio's NIGHT OF THE SORCERERS</a>... there it's a missionary from the early 1900's while this goes way back to The Middle Ages, where the extremely gorgeous Carmen Yazalde never rises again...  <br><br>Instead there's a horde of sinewy Medieval Knights, facially resembling prototypes of the Iron Maiden logo, having been buried in an abandoned monastery, looking as terrifically gothic as those antagonists that wind up stalking gorgeous girls, seeming straight from another kind of horror flick...</p><p><span></span></p>

amando de ossorio, blind dead, carmen yazalde, lone fleming, maría elena arpón, maría silva, spanish horror, verónica llimerá, zombie

MARÍA ELENA APRÓN & MARÍA SILVA 'TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD'

María Silva in TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD/LA NOCHE DEL TERROR CIEGO Year: 1972 Rating: ***1/2 Two years before TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD, a gorge...

BÁRBARA REY SEEKING BLANCA ESTRADA ON 'THE GHOST GALLEON'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfKWgoTINTtpJpLWsz24rXpf3TQO06V1MsVbGtwkVeRoWuH4SL_xyM0q422_oGdFyPqG1JPOTZSNBkftcT2XX5GNghYKuW75EojEhhq-q2c3J5NnbSslXiU-7snrDQFOAaeYEzU1zXRKw3ld4Ysxld9bbiWTW34Gt0AzDcTOwvElbzsA94KJJJnY4HDwmj/s2796/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-08%20at%204.29.49%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1432" data-original-width="2796" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfKWgoTINTtpJpLWsz24rXpf3TQO06V1MsVbGtwkVeRoWuH4SL_xyM0q422_oGdFyPqG1JPOTZSNBkftcT2XX5GNghYKuW75EojEhhq-q2c3J5NnbSslXiU-7snrDQFOAaeYEzU1zXRKw3ld4Ysxld9bbiWTW34Gt0AzDcTOwvElbzsA94KJJJnY4HDwmj/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-08%20at%204.29.49%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE GHOST GALLEON Year: 1974 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Imagine if, in the original <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/11/classic-kong.html">KING KONG</a>, Fay Wray never made it past the dense fog when headed towards the island... during what was basically the first of several publicity stunts involving a gorgeous woman... as the ominous fog here's part of the titular GHOST GALLEON that is old, eerie, extremely foreboding and downright creepy...<br><br>Which doesn't keep one of two stranded models from quickly suffering the worst fate in horror flicks: <i>curiosity </i>that takes her from a sport franchise's broken-down speedboat onto the creaky vessel where <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/blind%20dead">THE BLIND DEAD</a>, who are <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/amando%20de%20ossorio">Spanish horror director Amando de Ossorio's</a> Middle Ages Knights Templar skeleton-zombies from two previous installments, murder a total of <i>three</i> lovely girls...</p><p><span></span></p>

amando de ossorio, bárbara rey, blanca estrada, blind dead, jack taylor, margarita merino, maria perschy, seventies, spanish horror, zombie

BÁRBARA REY SEEKING BLANCA ESTRADA ON 'THE GHOST GALLEON'

Title: THE GHOST GALLEON Year: 1974 Rating: **1/2 Imagine if, in the original KING KONG , Fay Wray never made it past the dense fog when hea...

MARÍA KOSTY & SANDRA MOZAROWSKY IN 'NIGHT OF THE SEAGULLS'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKQKU9lVXK_sIEnjxfk6riDC10X8HDcqlcwd09bBwDRjApl41-L_2lDOSFHphI8CQEpRI58F0SfjqwH_hSmjC-pEffYncf2NsJj7QF9ulcoMpDVr7LHGCZ-MCTjJefW9qVxGdxcDsqcOfWJKCctdwIpZMJVyH7NH35W_Dw2Ff7W3ltLkyGGV1H5ZzcV13_/s1740/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-06%20at%209.36.19%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="920" data-original-width="1740" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKQKU9lVXK_sIEnjxfk6riDC10X8HDcqlcwd09bBwDRjApl41-L_2lDOSFHphI8CQEpRI58F0SfjqwH_hSmjC-pEffYncf2NsJj7QF9ulcoMpDVr7LHGCZ-MCTjJefW9qVxGdxcDsqcOfWJKCctdwIpZMJVyH7NH35W_Dw2Ff7W3ltLkyGGV1H5ZzcV13_/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-06%20at%209.36.19%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: NIGHT OF THE SEAGULLS/ La noche de las gaviotas Year: 1975 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the final act of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/blind%20dead">Amando de Ossorio's Blind Dead Trilogy's</a> fourth and final feature NIGHT OF THE SEAGULLS, there's an obvious nod to George A. Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD as the three survivors are holed up in a rural cabin, desperately bolting the doors from ominous invaders outside... who are slowly creeping inside for what seems the inevitably violent massacre...<br><br>And these aren't just zombies that became lethal after death... the ancient Templar Knights were the Samurai Warriors of the Middle Ages/Crusades, and in order for the peasant-dwelling village to remain protected, a string of beautiful women are sacrificed (including gorgeous native Sandra Mozarowsky), leaving Spanish scream queens María Kosty and Sandra Mozarowsky as our <i>two</i> final-girls... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

amando de ossorio, blind dead, julia saly, maría kosty, sandra mozarowsky, seventies, spanish horror, susana estrada, víctor petit, zombies

MARÍA KOSTY & SANDRA MOZAROWSKY IN 'NIGHT OF THE SEAGULLS'

Title: NIGHT OF THE SEAGULLS/ La noche de las gaviotas Year: 1975 Rating: **** In the final act of Amando de Ossorio's Blind Dead Trilog...

JAMES CAAN AND KATHY BATES IN ROB REINER'S CLASSIC 'MISERY'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSIcAndYTpnIJcjMplVejMLMdVT4XAQ535mfNaATlyKPvOpnrZfb1RoGTD2kY-PdrIblDyr-uGW3B-2S02wHh4g9J67PtO8JWdjlfZSkEr9mEjOzIt1u85lf00Rls2WkQOy3cVGlpLUpgU793SQsGhJjD-KHmi4QpLdhqc_DcKPatYPeyp2Rj7kUaWvi-c/s1740/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-14%20at%2012.27.07%20PM-1%202%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="972" data-original-width="1740" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSIcAndYTpnIJcjMplVejMLMdVT4XAQ535mfNaATlyKPvOpnrZfb1RoGTD2kY-PdrIblDyr-uGW3B-2S02wHh4g9J67PtO8JWdjlfZSkEr9mEjOzIt1u85lf00Rls2WkQOy3cVGlpLUpgU793SQsGhJjD-KHmi4QpLdhqc_DcKPatYPeyp2Rj7kUaWvi-c/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-14%20at%2012.27.07%20PM-1%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>James Caan reluctantly book-burning in MISERY Year: 1990 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Within fifteen-minutes of MISERY (starting fifteen-minutes in before ending at the thirty-minute mark), Kathy Bates' Annie Wilkes goes from giddily eccentric to outright insane, underlining the brilliance of the relative cinematic newcomer's Oscar Winning performance... <br><br>As the equally impressive/important reactions of screen legend James Caan, and director Rob Reiner's ability to channel the works of Stephen King through a deliberately-subtle homage to his favorite director Alfred Hitchcock, providing the tightest and most uniquely satisfying King adaptation... <br></p>

frances sternhagen, horror, james caan, kathy bates, nineties, richard farnsworth, rob reiner, rural, stephen king, thriller

JAMES CAAN AND KATHY BATES IN ROB REINER'S CLASSIC 'MISERY'

James Caan reluctantly book-burning in MISERY Year: 1990 Rating: ***** Within fifteen-minutes of MISERY (starting fifteen-minutes in before ...

JENNIFER RUNYON AND TIM MATHESON ARE GOING 'UP THE CREEK'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbtMlk38LVC2UluxkzhCPNuoBc8cgdpuE5sgJnHbKuYQ4uwMdm49XwsYorczldVm3qfcr-csPh7e2m5Uz9b4VJqXj5T8bThY3cDakhth8xZ9YJRRer5chXIyaM9yBS0Cf-pmRC7gdbJuoQ1ex-bejywWzuzP5T8NDIJrDj0tCLYXsqBYfgMc8oop6Ri2Xb/s2104/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-08%20at%206.25.22%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1044" data-original-width="2104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbtMlk38LVC2UluxkzhCPNuoBc8cgdpuE5sgJnHbKuYQ4uwMdm49XwsYorczldVm3qfcr-csPh7e2m5Uz9b4VJqXj5T8bThY3cDakhth8xZ9YJRRer5chXIyaM9yBS0Cf-pmRC7gdbJuoQ1ex-bejywWzuzP5T8NDIJrDj0tCLYXsqBYfgMc8oop6Ri2Xb/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-08%20at%206.25.22%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jennifer Runyon in UP THE CREEK Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A year following this neglected outdoor comedy, Tim Matheson would ask Chevy Chase to kill him in FLETCH. Chase was originally designed for OTTER in ANIMAL HOUSE, a part that made Matheson, a former child actor who was growing into various roles like a bad cop in MAGNUM FORCE, a household name... but only where cool people live...<br> <br> In FLETCH, Matheson looked somewhere in his late thirties, playing an established businessman. Here he's a broke, grungy college slacker and actually looks much younger than in FLETCH but way too old to be a student. But that's probably intentional...</p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, college, comedy, dan monohan, eighties, james b. sikking, jeff east, jennifer runyon, john hillerman, julia montgomery, stephen furst, tim matheson

JENNIFER RUNYON AND TIM MATHESON ARE GOING 'UP THE CREEK'

Jennifer Runyon in UP THE CREEK Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2 A year following this neglected outdoor comedy, Tim Matheson would ask Chevy Chase...