klu9Going through my free streaming bookmarks, I thought I'd watch The One-Armed Swordsman (1967, Chang Cheh).
But when I click "Watch for free"... I get a one-eyed samurai!
Looking at Tubi, I see they have a Japanese film called Tange Sazen: One Armed Swordsman: The Ghosts of the Past, which might be what Plex is showing. Except the run time is half an hour longer
https://tubitv.com/es-mx/movies/100047858/one-armed-swordsman-the-ghosts-of-the-past
PlayTorrio has 117 minute version (same runtime as listed on Wikipedia) but none of the 4 options for subtitles in English are properly synced :(
Oh well, I'll watch FantastiCozzi instead, documentary about the #BMovie director Luigi Cozzi beloved of #Monsterdon for films like Starcrash & Hercules and beloathed of #MonsterMiru for inserting real footage of dead people into his 1977 cut of Godzilla
https://flixhouse.com/video/5793/fantasticozzi
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For those who watched The Adventures of Hercules in #Monsterdon , Urania is not only the name of the muse of astronomy & astrology in Greek mythology, but also the popular Italian sci-fi magazine that Luigi Cozzi grew up reading.
Cozzi got his start with a Kodak Brownie camera, writing pieces for scifi magazines around the world & attending the Trieste International Science Fiction Film Festival, which awarded #Monsterdon "favourite" X: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes its 'Silver Spaceship' trophy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trieste_Science%2BFiction_Festival
Cozzi's 1st film at 21 y.o. was an experimental low-budget adaptation of a "Truman-Show-esque" Frederik Pohl story. To fund it, he & his friend Alfredo Castelli would sell story ideas for the comic Diabolik & use each payment to buy more film stock
He purposely made it confusing because he knew critics would be afraid to write negative reviews of something they didn't understand :D
But it caught Dario Argento's eye...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tunnel_Under_the_World_(film)
Cozzi & Argento's 1st collaboration was a "giallo" mystery/horror/thriller inspired by a Perry Mason book & is free to watch on Plex & Mometu (in some countries)
https://watch.plex.tv/en-GB/movie/four-flies-on-grey-velvet
https://watch.mometu.com/feature/four-flies-grey-velvet
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/four-flies-on-grey-velvet
#LuigiCozzi #SciFi #Monsterdon #Giallo #PerryMason #LegitFreeMovies
Cozzi's 1st commercially-made film was an "extended remake" of a giallo episode he made for TV, & is also available legit free streaming (in some countries), under various titles (as it was banned for violence when originally produced, so re-edited & re-titled)
The Killer Must Kill Again / The Dark is Death's Friend
https://tubitv.com/es-mx/movies/12018/the-dark-is-death-s-friend
https://fawesome.tv/movies/10537613/killer-must-kill-again
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-killer-must-kill-again
After 2 directing efforts, Cozzi started working in a film distribution company, buying rights to release colourized & dubbed versions of old scifi films/Monsterdon-bait like:
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
The Day of the Triffids (1963)
The Thing From Another World (1951)
Invaders From Mars (1953)
and of course:
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956) (US-ified version with Raymond Burr)
Cozzi's boss refused to distribute Godzilla, King of the Monsters! in black & white, so Cozzi decided to colourize it & pump up the volume with "Sensurround" explosions, as well as extend it with real footage from Hiroshima etc. He seems very pleased with the results but I think this is where he & #Monsterdon / #MonsterMiru strongly diverge.
The documentary FantastiCozzi doesn't address the issue of real dead people in the footage.
In 1976, Cozzi directed a romance "The Last Concert"
1. Big hit in Italy & Japan
2. Still wanting to do scifi, he used his own money from that to make a scifi special FX reel to shop to producers
3. Got turned down by producers, uninterested in a scifi project
4. 15 days later, Star Wars came out & became a gigantic hit
5. Surprise, surprise, producers called him back real interested! 😆
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Caroline Munro was Cozzi's 1st choice for the lead in Starcrash after seeing her in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)(now taking bets on that as next Monsterdon poll option 😜)
The producers didn't know her, decided to get a US star. As shooting approached, they still hadn't got the money for a big star & went with Cozzi's 1st choice.
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-golden-voyage-of-sinbad
🦆🦆 J Riley 🪿@klu9 Caroline Munro is also in Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter, Dracula A.D. 1972, and both Dr. Phibes.
All of which would be amazing Monsterdon films
Cozzi also wanted Caroline Munro in Contamination, but the producer insisted on an actress recommended by Sergio Leone
& he wanted her in Hercules too, but the producers didn't want to deal with her husband
I need to check out those films you mentioned, haven't seen them
@klu9 The two Dr. Phibes films are campy Vincent Price bonkers comedy-esque slapstick horror. They’re absurd and weird and boring. They remind me of Magical Mystery Tour.
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter and Dracula AD 1972 are both Hammer films. Captain Kronos is an interesting mix of styles with swashbuckling action and fighting vampires. I have it 4 out of 5. Dracula AD 1972 has both Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. I gave it 3 out 5.
Thanks for the info, added Kronos & 1972 to my wishlist.
PS I see on NeoDB one of the alternate titles is "Vampyren jager hotpants" 😆 You had me at "hotpants"!
