Was going to stick to asian cinema only tonight after yamada, but going through 'to watch mountain' I discovered PROTEUS, a monster on the loose aboard an oil rig movie (one of the first I think) directed by FX maestro Bob keen. Hadn't seen this since the old vhs days so decided to stick it on. Actually felt more like the old vhs days by virtue the dvd looks like a shoddy VHS rip!
Still, managed to get through it, and actually think it holds up pretty well. It's a little flat and very cheesy, but also a great deal of fun and still better than a lot of the creature loose on oil rig films that preceded it. Nice cameo from Doug Bradley as well!
After that I stuck on CORPSE MANIA. A shaw brothers giallo with plenty of gore and some necrophillia thrown in as well! Fairly sleazy and icky its got some great set design and is quite a bit of fun with a nice twist near the end.
Then finally....
KILLER SNAKES!
Another Shaw brothers one, with this think Street trash/Combat shock meets Stanley. A sexually inadequate street kid who lives in a dirty shack in Hong kong has a pretty rotten life. He's frequently abused and robbed and the one girl who shows any interest in him ends up forced into prostitution, on top of that he's pretty traumatised after growing up forced to hear his parents loud sado-masochistic sex sessions. Left to brood alone in his shack with a collection of violent pornography, one day he finds an injured snake that he nurses back to health soon the snake and a bunch of it's chums help our wayward street urchin extract some revenge, with plenty of murder-by-snake, and one unpleasant sexual assault with snake.
Killer snakes is a grimy, sleazy horror that keeps the action primarily at street level amongst Hong kongs underclass and is a pretty unpleasant little movie. That said its also pretty good for those who can stomach it and certainly not as bat-shit mental as calamity of snakes.