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[theactioneer]

1990: The Bronx Warriors French poster (Enzo G. Castellari, 1982)

#foreign movie posters #post apocalyptic #80s movies #movie poster #mark gregory #fred williamson #vic morrow #enzo g. castellari

[suspiria76]

BRONX WARRIORS 2

also known as ESCAPE FROM THE BRONX

Italy

1983

Directed by Enzo G Castellari

#cult cinema #italian cinema #post apocalypse #post apocalyptic #action #eighties #enzo g. castellari #mark gregory #henry silva #antonio sabato

[fitsofgloom]

"Remember, we in the Bronx live with death!"

#1990: the bronx warriors #i guerrieri del bronx #enzo g castellari #mark gregory #stefania girolami #1982

[adamwatchesmovies]

1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

I watched 1990: The Bronx Warriors as part of my exploration of the “Road Warrior Post-Apocalyptic” genre. For the most part, the various imitators and derivatives have been aping the Mad Max franchise. This is the first time I’ve seen “inspiration” principally drawn from the other two establishing films of the genre: Escape from New York and The Warriors. The results are one of the most uninteresting and cheap attempts I’ve seen so far.

In (the then futuristic) year 1990, New York’s Bronx is dominated by crime and declared a No Man’s Land. The police have given up all attempts to bring order to the raving biker gangs who roam the streets. Ann (Stefania Girolami), the 17-year-old heiress to the nefarious Manhattan corporation runs to the lawless wasteland to hide from the responsibilities she will soon inherit. There, she befriends The Riders and their leader, Trash (Marco Di Gregorio). To get the woman back to the boardroom where she belongs, the Manhattan Corporation hires a mercenary named Hammer (Vic Morrow) to do anything it takes.

It begins as a thinly veiled rip-off of John Carpenter’s memorable action film and then turns into a cheaper, lazier, and endlessly duller version of Walter Hill’s cult-classic. You go in assuming this will be a cheap film; the other Post-Apocalyptic adventures didn’t exactly have big budgets. Even so, this is inexcusable. This film is too low-grade to deliver even the mildest form of vehicular carnage, which is a shame because the Warriors’ – I mean the Riders’ – motorcycles look so flimsy you know they’d fly in a million pieces if they hit even a medium-sized pothole. I’m not joking when I say it looks like they bought a bunch of Halloween decorations – on November 1st when they’re heavily discounted- and then glue-gunned them onto the steering wheel of their motorcycles.

The performances are horrible and the actors are made to look even worse by the ADR. Everyone’s all mush-mouthed, and with the home release’s lack of subtitles, you’ll struggle to understand what anyone is saying. Had this plot had any kind of substance or complexity to it, you’d be completely lost. Nonetheless, you keep watching, hoping there will be some cool stunts or hand-to-hand combat scenes to make this effort worth your time. Your hope is in vain.

The only way to draw enjoyment from 1990: The Bronx Warriors is by making fun of it. Even so, it doesn’t have much to offer. It’s agonizingly dull and so obviously devoid of any kind of passion, enthusiasm or effort. The one thing that might bring a smile to your face are some of the characters’ names and the art direction. If it seems as though I’m grasping at straws, I am but how could you not laugh at characters named Hotdog (Christopher Connelly), Witch (Elisabetta Dessy), The Ogre (Fred Williamson), Ice (John Loffredo) and… Paul (Rocco Lero)? Some of the random gangs receive given quirks that make them mildly diverting, such as a group of mimes who perform a coordinated dance, but those add nothing to the story. It’s a flat picture, obviously shot in a run-down neighbourhood. It drains the life out of you.

I suffered through 1990: The Bronx Warriors so you wouldn’t have to. There’s no reason to see this, even if you enjoy the stories it’s shamelessly burglarizing. I didn’t think it could get any worse than Exterminators from the Year 3000, but here we are. To survive these films, I’m going to have to set the bar way lower than expected. This Italian production has not one, but two sequels and I can’t imagine either being any better than this. (On DVD, August 4, 2018)

#1990: The Bronx Warriors #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #Enzo G. Castellari #Elisa Livia Briganti #Dardano Sacchetti #Vic Morrow #Christopher Connelly #Fred Williamson #Mark Gregory #1982 movies #1982 films

[schlock-luster-video]

On October 23, 1987 Thunder Warrior debuted in Mexico.

#thunder warrior #denmark #fabrizio de angeles #action thriller #action movies #exploitation films #exploitation cinema #revisionist western #movie art #art #drawing #movie history #pop art #mark gregory #modern art #pop surrealism #cult movies #portrait #cult film

[actionflickchick]

1990: The Bronx Warriors- Just Look at that Freakin' Cover!

Just look at the freakin’ cover for this film and tell me it doesn’t look amazing! Having now seen it, I can say that it does live up to the amazingness promised by the cover, although whether it’s amazing in a legit good film kind of way or amazing in a really bad and weird kind of way remains the question.  Continue reading Untitled

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#1990 The Bronx Warriors #1990: The Bronx Warriors plot #action #action chick #Action Flick Chick #Christopher Connelly #Enzo Castellari #Fred Williamson #Marco De Gregorio #Mark Gregory #Massimo Vanni #movie #post-apocalyptic #R-rated #Stefania Girolami Goodwin #The Bronx Warriors ending #The Bronx Warriors spoilers #Vic Morrow #violence #zombies

[maibeloved]

Bonnie meets the child

#fnaf #fnaf security breach #glamrock freddy #glamrock bonnie #fnaf gregory #glamrock fronnie #fivenightsatfreddyssecuritybreach #five nights at freddy's #fnaf fanart #freddy fazbear #ive been practicing drawing the animatronics! hope there was sum improvement 🤞 #been consuming mark’s playthrus and trying to finish his whole fnaf playlist #and no this is not related to Gregory being an animatronic theory the line came to me when thinking about THAT scene in the books sksjbdnd

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Mark Gregory

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[guerrillagay]

Mark Gregory in Thunder Warrior II (1987)

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[heartburiedingreece]

Edit: I changed the lonelyeyes art to the photo of Ben and Alasdair cause I couldn't find and credit the artist

#formula 1 #sebmark #sebastian vettel #mark webber #the magnus archives #lonelyeyes #elias bouchard #peter lukas #lestappen #max verstappen #charles leclerc #hornywolff #toto x christian #christian horner #toto wolff #house md #hilson #james wilson #gregory house #makkinen #michael schumacher #mika häkkinen #mika hakkinen #brocedes #nico rosberg #lewis hamilton #six of crows #kaz brekker #jesper fahey #kazper

[cinematicjourney]

Pinocchio (2022) | dir. Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson

#guillermo del toro's pinocchio #pinocchio #guillermo del toro #gregory mann #tilda swinton #ewan mcgregor #david bradley #christoph waltz #finn wolfhard #cate blanchett #films #movies #animation #screencaps #mark gustafson #stop motion

[theactioneer]

1990: The Bronx Warriors VHS art (Enzo G. Castellari, 1982)

#mark gregory #enzo g. castellari #80s #post apocalyptic #movie art

[suspiria76]

BRONX WARRIORS

Italy

1982

Directed by Enzo G Castellari

#cult cinema #action #post apocalypse #post apocalyptic #italian cinema #eighties #gore #enzo g. castellari #mark gregory #fred williamson #vic morrow

[adamwatchesmovies]

Bronx Warriors 2 (1983)

When I began my exploration of the Post-Apocalyptic Action genre, I subjected myself to many films that could be described as "mediocre" at best. What few drops of amusement Steel Dawn, Exterminators from the Year 3000, Cyborg and 1990: The Bronx Warriors and contained were swimming in a sea of boredom. Bronx Warriors 2: Escape from the Bronx, a.k.a. Escape from the Bronx a.k.a. Escape 2000 is the film I'd been waiting for. A thin plot padded out with relentless carnage, bad special effects and endlessly entertaining action scenes. It’s a great bad movie.

Set several years after The Bronx Warriors, Trash (Mark Gregory) and the rest of the outcasts living in the lawless New York are being forcibly evicted by the General Construction Corporation. The corporation's private Disinfestors Annihilation Squad clear the space efficiently: they kill without a second thought. To fight back, Trash, Doblòn (Antonio Sabato), ruthless explosives expert Strike (Timothy Brent/Giancarlo Prete), his son (Alessandro Prete) and a crusading reporter named Moon Gray (Valerie Dobson) set out to kidnap General Construction’s president (Enio Girolami).

I didn’t think writer/director Enzo G. Castellari (with the help of Tito Carpi) would rip off “Escape from New York” a second time… but here we are. While Trash’s first adventure mostly stole the setting and world of John Carpenter’s 1981 film, this one steals the plot. There’s a bunch of other stuff going on with the reporter and Trash’s parents but they’re just pleasant time-wasters until the President is kidnapped and brought into a lawless wasteland from which he must be rescued. Yes, this time we’re cheering for the people of the Bronx rather than the eye-patch-wearing antihero looking to save him (though it should be mentioned that a Snake Plissken lookalike is prominently featured) but no one is fooled. On the upside, the bare-bones story and flat characters make room for action, action and more action.

What makes Escape from the Bronx such a good bad movie are the battle sequences. Vehicles in this universe must be fuelled entirely by dynamite. A single bullet tends to reduce them to smoldering, twisted wrecks… unless they don’t. The body count is absurd. There must be hundreds of dead at the end of General Construction’s rescue attempt, as people get electrocuted, shot, bashed in the head, shot, set aflame, shot, and killed in all sorts of other ways you do not expect. It’s a good thing the villains’ minions all wear identical hazmat suits which cover their faces. Otherwise, they would’ve had to hire an army of stunt people. Once in a while, you get that sweet sight of a dummy blown back by a ball of fire and you can even spot the wig coming off its head before the camera turns away. When we are shown charred corpses, they look as though they’re been severely sunburnt rather than brutally murdered.

The performances are in that sweet spot; either the actors are so stiff they might as well be made of plastic, or they’re over-the-top and turn every one of their lines into pure, golden cheese. While it does not contain the same kind of memorable moments as Miami Connection or The Room, Bronx Warriors makes up for it with many big surprises. The action scenes go on for so long they should become boring but they somehow don't and instead, turn into some of the funnest you’ve seen in any bad film.

Watch Escape from the Bronx (or whatever you want to call it) back-to-back with Escape from New York and you’ve got a perfect night of genuine and ironic fun at the movies. (On DVD, September 28, 2018)

#Bronx Warriors 2 #Enzo G. Castellari #Tito Carpi #Mark Gregory #Timothy Brent #Valeria D'Obici #Henry Silva #1983 movies #1983 films #Escape from the Bronx #Escape 2000

[schlock-luster-video]

On May 2, 1984 Thunder Warrior debuted in Portugal.

#thunder warrior #thunder warrior 1983 #fabrizio de angeles #mark gregory #italian film #exploitation film #grindhouse movie #action thriller #action movies #action film #vigilante film #neonoir movies #neonoir thriller #neo western #revisionist western #movie art #art #drawing #movie history #pop art #modern art #pop surrealism #cult movies #portrait #cult film

[arrapso]

'An affair of the heart' ROs X

#aaoth #you get beauty marks and YOU get beauty marks you ALL get beauty marks #john watson #gregory lestrade #hamish #irene adler #a bunch of old portraits i was hesitant to post #but i suppose the longer i wait the less likely i'll be to ever post them so here they are