Terrible Delights: Grindhouse Film Reviews

This week's pick is the 1976 pirate/blaxploitation/women in prison film the Muthers. A female pirate leader infiltrates a coffee plantation fronting as a women's prison to rescue her kidnapped sister. Mild action and boobs scenes commence.

This week's pick is the 1977 natural horror film Day of the Animals. TD Hall of Famers Christopher George and Richard Jaeckel star in rather subdued roles (which disappointed Bill) alongside a fiendish Leslie Nielson who steals the show as a huge prick. They are part of a hiking group that is terrorized and attacked by animals gone mad from the effects of a depleted ozone layer.

This week's pick is the 1980 killer kids horror flick the Children. Toxic gases turn the youngsters in a small Western Massachusetts town into zombies that can microwave you to death with their flesh-melting hugs.

We kick off season five with the 1974 threequel the Streetfighter's Last Revenge. Important questions are asked like: Can Sonny Chiba keep up his intense face energy from the previous two movies? Why is there an evil mariachi strongman? And why does Chiba become a ghoulish vampire briefly? Help!

This week's pick for our season 4 finale is the Shaw Brother's insanity soaked the Battle Wizard from 1977. This film features finger lasers, a dart shooting bone gun, fire breath, power smoke, a giant red snake, a man with extendable metal chicken legs, and a gorilla.

We also induct four excellent new members to the Terrible Delights Hall of Fame: Fred Williamson, director Enzo Castellari, Danny Lee, and the Shaw Brothers.

This week's pick is the 1974 poliziotteschi film Street Law. Franco Nero is Carlo, a timid engineer turned vigilante who seeks revenge on some thugs that kidnapped and assaulted him. He eventually befriends Tommy, a small-time crook with a kind heart, in his quest for justice.

This week's pick is the 1981 Cannon Films release Enter the Ninja starring Franco Nero and his mustache, along with Will Hare aka Old Man Peabody from Back to the Future, and Terrible Delights Hall of Famer Christopher George. Cole has just completed his ninja training and visits his old war buddy, Frank, helping him to fight off the thugs Mr. Venarius keeps sending in an effort to bully Frank off his valuable land. Venarius tries to counter by hiring ninja Hasegawa, who despises Cole for becoming a Caucasian ninja, bucking Japanese tradition.

This week's pick is the 1981 revenge/action film Lovely But Deadly. Teenager Lovely seeks revenge on the drug dealers that caused her brother to drown while high. Featuring Irwin Keyes as dull witted and horny Gommorah.

This week's pick is the 1974 blaxploitation filmTNT Jackson. tough lady Diana "TNT" Jackson encounters thugs and drug dealers after traveling to Hong Kong to search for her missing brother. Many asses are kicked and many backflips are performed. Written by the legendaryDick Miller!

This week's pick is the 1976 action-like thriller Project: Kill. An elite assassin (a sweaty Leslie Neilsen) flees a government mind control program he headed to blow the whistle on it. He completely abandons this plan almost immediately upon arriving in the Philippines and instead looks for love while being pursued by his former second in command (a sweaty Gary Lockwood), as well as local police and Terrible Delights Hall of Famer Vic Diaz!