Streaming Kino: Jack The Ripper (1988)

One of many adaptations of the "Jack the Ripper" material, this one stands out with great acting performances, suspense, and historical accuracy.

Michael Caine and Jane Seymour star in this two-part TV mini-series, turned into one 3-hour feature film. Do not despair at the runtime, you probably won't even notice the extra 90 minutes - it's a TV-friendly production, but still a very exciting ride. Some obvious effort went into creating a reasonably accurate picture of both the crimes, and the period. It's a captivating detective story, with flashes of horror, and some interesting character development.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cnG9XlHfFQ

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095388/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper_(miniseries)

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Streaming Kino: Riki-Oh ("Story Of Ricky", 1991)

Comic-adaptation "Riki-Oh" is a guilty pleasure that doesn't give you much time to catch your breath.

It's a cult movie, thanks to its unapologetic approach to both adapting the original material to live action film, and the on-screen violence. Where others might have changed the tone, director Lam Nai-Choi ("The Seventh Curse") chose to closely mimic the original, only with actors, latex, styrofoam, and large amounts of fake blood. 

"Riki-Oh" is a fast moving manga-style prison drama, with grotesque, funny, bizarre moments, and a lot of very brute, very gory violence. If you have a strong stomach, it's a highly entertaining watch.

Fun fact: Actors Fan Mei-sheng and Louis Fan Siu-wong, playing the master of the prison and Riki-Oh, respectively, are father and son in real life.

video source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlRfZ8-pgGY
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More information about "The Story Of Ricky" (1991):
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102293/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riki-Oh:_The_Story_of_Ricky

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Streaming Kino: Shock Waves (1977)

Ken Wiederhorn's super chilling Nazi zombie classic, featuring Brooke Adams in a major, and the legendary Peter Cushing in a minor role.

Very creepy 1977 movie "Shock Waves" wasn't the biggest success on initial release, but has since become a cult classic, and quite rightfully so. It's grindhouse cinema at its best. Exploitative, speculative, low-budget, gritty, bleak. The focus is less on the big action, but more on the nightmarish, claustrophobic situation of being trapped on a island, desperately trying to escape inevitable doom. 

As you can see in the preview picture, the undead Nazi soldiers look amazingly ghoulish. "Shock Waves" has a unique atmosphere, and is probably best watched late at night. If possible, the night before you take a boat trip to an island.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r919pHIAPLE
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076704/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_Waves_(film)

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Streaming Kino: The Crazies (1973)

Bring your body bags: George A. Romero's chilling vision of the TRIXIE virus disintegrating society, and humankind eliminating itself.

The gritty original "The Crazies" movie from 1973 is a low-budget production with a big scope. The similarities to the later, and more dynamic "Dawn Of The Dead" (1978) are obvious. But "The Crazies" is more realistic, as there are no undead, and it creates an even bigger picture of how humankind handles the catastrophe.

A cult classic of virus outbreak-horror, "The Crazies" is an analytic dissection of social mechanics under extreme stress, and a template for many zombie movies to come. It's not a perfect production, but still a highly thought provoking and exciting thriller - essential viewing!

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faHBYEednqA

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069895/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crazies_(1973_film)

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Streaming Kino: L'Inferno (1911)

Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" is an essential piece of literature that has inspired countless other works. The first cantica (section, "song"), titled "Inferno", has been adapted many times in film. The 1911 version, directed by Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, and Giuseppe De Liguoro, is the earliest of them.

If you're new to very old films, you'll be surprised by the richness and boldness some of these silent, black-and-white movies put on screen. "L'Inferno" was a big production, and a financial success. It's an important piece of film history, but also an impressive depiction of the underworld. Moral standards and technical possibilities were a little different back in the early 20th century, cinema was in its infancy, but that doesn't necessarily mean there's a lot of holding back. 

To this day, the imagery in "L'Inferno" is stunning, with beautifully decorated sets, strong use of light and shadow, inventive camera tricks and picture composition, and most of all an - obviously - far more traditional understanding of the rules and appearance of good and evil. It's more of a fresco on a church wall come alive, than the dynamic rush of modern horror movies. All of that combined makes "L'Inferno" an interesting, mesmerizing, and actually pretty creepy watch, both for the historian, and the horror geek. Maybe even for the casual viewer, who will be enlightened by its unfamiliar, sweet bizarreness. 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfZraM2oIMY
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0002130/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Inferno

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Streaming Kino: Firecracker (2005) - Karen Black, Mike Patton

"Firecracker" is a little gem, directed by Steve Balderson, that is based on some real life murder case from the 1950s, and has a couple of similarities with pre-code shocker "Freaks" (1932). It's also starring horror queen Karen Black, and, in a surprisingly credible role, Faith No More singer Mike Patton. The movie won a good round of prizes at fan festivals, and got rave reviews. But it's still remarkably unknown, which is a shame.

Due to movie piracy, the director decided to put the full movie on his YouTube channel.

It's time this dreamy, moody masterpiece gets some proper recognition. Watch it, head over to the director's channel, like it, share it, subscribe, comment, get him the clicks - "Firecracker" deserves a million views. Thank you, Mr. Balderson, it's an outstanding movie!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMo9vk4rFtA
https://www.youtube.com/@Balderson

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Streaming Kino: The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) - Roger Corman, Jonathan Haze

Issue seven of "Streaming Kino": Corman's classic comedy featuring a man-eating plant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Shop_of_Horrors#/media/File:LittleShop.jpg

Roger Corman was very good at making quick money with a nice movie - in case of "The Little Shop of Horrors", he reused some sets of his previous production, A Bucket of Blood, and filmed it in only a couple of days. The result is hard proof that time and budget doesn't necessarily equal quality - creativity, charm, and willingness, on the other hand, does.

Written by Charles B. Griffith, "The Little Shop of Horrors" is a very witty and funny film indeed. Upon release, it didn't have too much of an impact, but over the years grew a cult following - and spawned a stage production, another movie, and even a little animated TV series.

This man-eating plant certainly has left its mark on pop culture. "The Little Shop of Horrors" features Jack Nicholson in an early role. 

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https://archive.org/details/TheLittleShopOfHorrors1960

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Streaming Kino: Night of the Living Dead (1968) - George A. Romero, Duane Jones

The groundbreaking, genre-defining zombie movie that has set the mark for all zombie movies to come.

A study of social psychology, a picture of its time, a pioneer in gore cinema, and an overall exciting and scary movie, "Night of the Living Dead" is still and will probably forever remain in the top five of the genre.

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https://archive.org/details/NightOfTheLivingDead_201508

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Streaming Kino: The Satanic Rites Of Dracula (1973) - Lee, Cushing, Coles

A secret service agent narrowly escapes the deadly rituals of worshiping the devil, and based on the evidence so far, Scotland Yard decides to consult occult expert Van Helsing...

"The Satanic Rites Of Dracula" is a later entry in the Hammer/Lee/Cushing series of Dracula films, and it might not come across as an overly "typical" episode, but it still looks absolutely Hammer, only with motorcycles and tape reels. Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing are in it, a couple of other familiar faces, and as all Hammer Draculas, it's a solid production in all regards. Chilling and entertaining, "The Satanic Rites..." can easily be recommended to all horror movie fans, and of course is a must see for everyone who likes vampires and the Hammer Dracula series. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070634/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Rites_of_Dracula

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https://archive.org/details/SatanicRitesOfDracula1973

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Streaming-Kino: Horror Express (1972) - Cushing, Lee, Savalas

Third part of "Streaming-Kino": Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee und Telly Savalas all in one movie!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/Horrorexpress.jpg

And together with Cushing, Lee und Savalas also Helga Line, Alberto de Mendoza, and Alice Reinheart in this slightly flashy, highly entertaining low-budget monster-shocker.