How many of us who found ourselves in junior high or middle school in the early eighties remember when HBO was a single, premium cable channel and at one time repeatedly showed a movie titled, Kill and Kill Again?
How many of us at the time thought it was the coolest bad-ass karate movie ever?
Okay, so in retrospect it's now a laughable flick with a severely underdeveloped storyline and a cast of caricatures. It's basically a showcase of martial arts choreography for the sake of martial arts choreography.
But, it's still pretty freakin' cool, even if just for its nostalgic value.
Created by South African filmmakers as a pseudo-sequel to the 1980 movie Kill Or Be Killed (aka Karate Killer and also Karate Olympia), the movie "reunites" a crack team of covert operatives recruited to infiltrate a secluded community of townspeople under the pharmacological influence of a billionaire megalomaniac self-named "Marduk" and to rescue a kidnapped scientist whose potato-based creation is the source of Marduk's mind-controlling influence over the town of Ironville, re-named New Babylonia in accordance with his utopian vision of world domination.
I decided to create this blog in hopes of attracting and encouraging input from other fans of this terrible and awesome movie.
Anyone and everyone with an appreciation of this movie, please feel free to comment and add to the general knowledge base of the film. I am by no means an "authority" on the film, its making, and especially not the martial arts styles it demonstrates.
So I look forward to learning more from those of you more knowledgeable than I.
Eee-yah!
How many of us at the time thought it was the coolest bad-ass karate movie ever?
Okay, so in retrospect it's now a laughable flick with a severely underdeveloped storyline and a cast of caricatures. It's basically a showcase of martial arts choreography for the sake of martial arts choreography.
But, it's still pretty freakin' cool, even if just for its nostalgic value.
Created by South African filmmakers as a pseudo-sequel to the 1980 movie Kill Or Be Killed (aka Karate Killer and also Karate Olympia), the movie "reunites" a crack team of covert operatives recruited to infiltrate a secluded community of townspeople under the pharmacological influence of a billionaire megalomaniac self-named "Marduk" and to rescue a kidnapped scientist whose potato-based creation is the source of Marduk's mind-controlling influence over the town of Ironville, re-named New Babylonia in accordance with his utopian vision of world domination.
I decided to create this blog in hopes of attracting and encouraging input from other fans of this terrible and awesome movie.
Anyone and everyone with an appreciation of this movie, please feel free to comment and add to the general knowledge base of the film. I am by no means an "authority" on the film, its making, and especially not the martial arts styles it demonstrates.
So I look forward to learning more from those of you more knowledgeable than I.
Eee-yah!
