#Godfrey Ho

[theactioneer]

Golden Ninja Invasion (Godfrey Ho, 1987)

#ninja #80s movies #vhs #direct to video #godfrey ho

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Thunder of Gigantic Serpent | 1988

#Thunder of Gigantic Serpent #Godfrey Ho #snake #kaiju #daikaiju #monster movie #practical effects #bff #Hong Kong horror #horror #pet snake #lfg #lets go #Hammersmith Horror

[trash-fuckyou]

Ninja Operation 7: Royal Warriors aka Hands of Death, 1988

#godfrey ho #movies

[videoreligion]

Ninja Terminator (1986)

#Richard Harrison #Ninja Terminator #Godfrey Ho #AAV Creative Unit #on the phone #phone call #phone #Garfield Phone #call #calling #talking #talking on the phone #80s #action movie #b movie #b-movie #80s action #ninja #ninja movie #ninja films #gif #gifs #my gif #my gifs

[ksantillus]

Yuffie has to reform the ninja empire

#yuffie kisaragi #final fantasy vii #ff7 #godfrey ho #fanart #art #procreate

[watching-pictures-move]

Movie Review | Honor and Glory (Ho, 1993)

“What tape? Who the hell are you? What are you talking about?” This is a line from a supporting character in the last act of the movie, and he might as well be speaking for the audience. I realize that most of the Godfrey Ho movies I’ve seen have not been the cut and paste efforts he Frankensteined together from existing movies and new ninja footage, but all new original movies purely by his hand. And let me tell ya, for the most part the plots do not seem to hang together any better.

This one has something to do with an evil finance bro who embezzled a billion dollars from his own company and is now trying to get ahold of a nuclear trigger stolen from the Soviets, despite this being made in 1993 after the collapse of the Soviet Union. If you’re wondering how the particulars tie together into the plot, they don’t. So don’t worry your pretty little heads about it. What you do need to know is that there are a lot of scenes where the finance bro, played by an extremely hammy John Miller, deals with his business troubles, and its pretty funny how much Ho commits to this despite it barely hanging together.

Anyway, Miller is terrible, but he has a lot of scenes with Chuck Jeffreys, who is probably the best thing about this. In part, it’s because he looks better as an actor thanks to Miller hamming it up, but it’s also because he has the closest thing to an arc here, thanks to his regrets about being a hired goon for Miller and eventually turning against him. He also has some pretty good chemistry with Donna Jason, who plays a reporter, not that her profession has any bearing on the plot. Jeffreys kinda looks like Eddie Murphy and Jason kinda looks like Rene Russo, so you can pretend you’re watching them instead if you get bored.

You also have Cynthia Rothrock as an FBI agent and Robin Shou as her Hong Kong cop boyfriend (?), and maybe the four of them should go on a double date. Despite Rothrock being on the poster, she’s not in this for that much and disappears for large chunks of the movie. If you’re looking for a Ho-directed Rothrock showcase, Undefeatable is probably a better bet. It’s the sleazier A-side to this one’s goofier B-side, and has a positive anti-gang message to boot.

Anyway, it sounds like I’m ragging on the movie pretty hard, but despite its impossible to follow plot, it hits the spot if you’re hankering to watch people punch and kick each other. That happens with great frequency and with the smallest provocation, and is performed and captured with a reasonable level of skill. (Exhibit A: Jason gets interrupted during a news report by a woman angry that Jason ruined the reputation of her senator father. They fight, and despite the woman pulling out a knife, Jason bests her easily. The woman is never seen again.) At its best, this presents a utopian vision where every single person you run into knows martial arts, and a fight can break out at any moment.

#film #movie review #honor and glory #godfrey ho

[hystpod]

Tim saves Jen’s bacon by explaining a Frankenstein’s monster of a thriller brought to you by cut-and-paste filmmaker Godfrey Ho. Hear the whole episode at our Patreon!

The movie Crocodile Fury is available on YouTube, and we honestly can't recommend it highly enough.

#cult movies #movies #podcast #cult cinema #trash cinema #cult media #godfrey ho #what the hell

[davealmost]

Thunder of the Gigantic Serpent

#Thunder of the Gigantic Serpent #godfrey ho #Hong Kong #snakes #kaiju #martial arts #taiwan

[grindhousecellar]

#ROBO vampire trilogy #ROBO vampire #Devil’s dynamite #counter destroyer #Godfrey Ho #vampires #ROBOcop #robocop rip off #horror #ninjas #ninja movie #hopping vampires #movie title #movie titles #Devil dynamite #grindhousecellar

[negaversebuffet]

B U S I N E S S

clip from Clash of the Ninja

#ninja #vhs #found footage #godfrey ho

[theactioneer]

American Commando 4: Dressed to Fire (Godfrey Ho, 1988)

#pierre kirby #godfrey ho #80s #action movie #ifd films #movie poster #direct to video

[babylon-crashing]

“Relive History: as it happened!”

“Thrill to the chills of the Siren from Space’s encounters with Samson the Sadducee Strangler, Silus the Syrian Assassin and several Seditious Scribes from Caesarea!”

“Now in glorious Godfrey Ho-rama!”

#coloring page #syssk #historical document #myart #ufo #land of the pharaohs #fun! #godfrey ho

[movie-titlecards]

Hitman the Cobra (1987)

My rating: 4/10

Even for a Godfrey Ho movie, this is pretty bad - mostly because it is quite dull. The pre-existing movie is reasonably well made, but unremarkable, the "Richard Harrison murdering people in the park" stuff is less well made, but still unremarkable (he's neither a ninja nor wearing a mustache in this one, so what is even the point?), and they made even less of an effort than usual to make it seem like the two belong in the same movie. The dubbing is, as expected, remarkably bad, but not enough to carry the movie.

#Hitman the Cobra #Godfrey Ho #AAV Creative Unit #Stephen So #Richard Harrison #Mike Abbott #Phil Parker #Youtube

[tightsbury]

Just relistened to one of the MK Ultra episodes of @ChilluminatiPod while doing the laundry and thought about what an uplifting movie night these would deliver. 😵

#horror #unit 731 #godfrey ho #men behind the sun #nanking #t.f. mou #exploitation cinema

[watching-pictures-move]

Movie Review | Undefeatable (Ho, 1993)

Godfrey Ho is best known for his cut-and-paste style movies, taking pre-existing footage and adding new scenes (usually ninja-related) and releasing them as a new feature, so it's probably a little weird that most of what I've seen from him so far hasn't been in that style. Ninja Terminator very much is in that vein, but The Dragon, The Hero, Princess Madam and this have been entirely his babies, although how well the plots have hung together has varied. He's also been known for being a not very good director, but all the ones I've seen so far have been pretty enjoyable, offering a steady stream of enjoyable action in between the more questionable narrative elements. This one probably holds together the sturdiest, but also has the most... questionable plot of all of them. It's also the least fast paced, lacking the breakneck speed of the other Hong Kong produced movies and perhaps having more in common with North American DTV features.

That's an area that I haven't delved too deeply into, although there are similarities with Tiger Claws, which I just watched a couple of days ago. The most obvious are the presence of Cynthia Rothrock as well as the serial killer plots, although the one here is a lot sleazier. Here, the killer is motivated by rage at his mother for abandoning him, which he channels into abusing his wife, who then leaves him so then starts torturing and murdering random women who resemble her. In Tiger Claws you get a couple of reasonably atmospheric murder scenes but nothing too upsetting (which is helpful because we have to buy the villain undergoing a moral reckoning in the superior Mortal Kombat inspired sequel, which would be harder to accept if the movie went overboard in this department). Here, we get a scene where we cut between the killer raping his wife and him fighting in the ring (although I suppose the movie is right to equate sexual assault to violence), and a series of sexualized torture sequences where the killer chains women in a warehouse. The pungency of these scenes definitely disrupts whatever lighthearted enjoyment you were hoping to get out of a DTV martial arts movie, although I must note that the rape scene is followed by the killer eating a steak, and it also turns out that he doesn't actually lock the door to the warehouse.

So that stuff is maybe hard to take, but action-wise, there's stuff to enjoy here. Cynthia Rothrock plays a waitress who earns some extra money by participating in an underground fighting ring, who gets involved in finding the killer after he murders her sister. She's part of gang who wears matching leather jackets, and the preludes to the fight scenes have a real Sharks vs Jets energy. One of her opponents shows up with football shoulder pads, which seems like cheating, and also brings along his wife, who is wearing a bizarrely out of place floral dress. Rothrock also has a scene where she's jogging in a denim vest with a ribbon in her hair, which is a weird outfit for a grown adult to wear, but serves as one of the movie's sartorial highlights. Yes, I know I was gonna talk about the action but this is very important.

Action-wise, this probably moves at 60% of the speed of Ho's Hong Kong movies that I've seen, but by American standards, the fights are still pretty good. You do get decent injections of visual flair once the heroes start facing off with the killer. This is best known for the gruesome conclusion to the final fight (I'd seen the clip years ago on YouTube, where one of the commenters described the villain as an evil Michael Scott or something to that effect), and I think the movie nicely cranks up the pace of the combat so that the gore pays off the escalating intensity. But lest you think this movie is just sleazy and grim, the very last scene ends on a more cheerful note, with Rothrock and her friends giving up gang life and getting enrolled in college. Always nice to get a positive message at the end of your move.

#film #movie review #undefeatable #godfrey ho

[davealmost]

Counter Destroyer

#Counter Destroyer #Godfrey Ho #vampires #action #hong kong #robo vampire