If I haven't already made it clear, I love shitty movies. Just genuinely grade-A crap in any form, from Chipwrecked to grainy 60's Bollywood Kung-Fu, I'll watch it all and puke my pants in nonstop giggles. I love garbage. The exceptions to this rule are invariably boring horror movies with awful CG that take place in small-town America. They air this crap on the SyFy and Space channels and I find it INFURIATING when they make a movie called 'SPACE TWISTER' as melodramatic and BORING as possible.
However, there's a line, even for me. There's but one man who takes the crapcake all the way home, cuts it into various other cakes and sells it as different types of cake for 15 years. Also Ninjas.
Godfrey Ho, also called 'Ed Woo' is a legendarily prolific martial arts director who made 100+ films with a variation of NINJA KICKBOXER in the title. His dubbing, editing and incomprehensible plots are like a rose garden of cinema to me. It's just so bad
. He'd make two or three 90 minute action films over the course of about an afternoon, cut them to pieces and assemble like a dozen different movies with two simultaneous plots that only slightly crossover. His most famous work is perhaps USA CATMAN:
Here's some weird fan video that shows all of the moustachioed caucasian men he loved to cast as Alexander, John, Albert or, rarely, Tyler. Because last names just make things too overcomplicated.
If you want to get into being a cynical bitter butthead like me, start combing your local Value Bucket for his stuff and similar. You will (not???) be disappointed.
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