Nekoneko’s Movie Litterbox!!

There’s another Trailer out for the “Girls with Guns” exploitation film, “Bitch Slap” due for theatrical release this December…. and if you like your girls all sassy, dangerous, and violent, you’ll probably want to check it out. So here’s Trailer #2, courtesy of the nice and ever so lucky people at Twitchfim.

Ahhhhh…… Tasty!! As you know, Neko likes these “Female Empowerment” films a whole lot, as they really help petite lil’ me channel my inner Tomboy…. (although I’ve probably scared away many a date with my choice of cinema goodness….)

All I really wanna know is where was I when they were casting for the part of Yuki? Another missed opportunity for your Favorite Catgirl Princess….

Sigh…. Oh well.

Anyway…. Neko knows that all you guys like this sort of silly action movie just as much as she does…. so c’mon….. It’s time to get “Bitch Slapped” all over again!!!

Hehehehe!! Now you all KNOW you gotta “Read On” to see all the video goodness!!

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This time out, it’s the Philippine horror fest “Mag-Ingat Ka Sa…. Kulam” aka “Beware of…. Witchcraft!” It’s another of those creepy Asian ghost stories….. and you all know just how much Neko loves her ghost stories!!

The synopsis for it reads as follows: “Mag-Ingat Ka Sa… Kulam” concerns Mira (Judy Ann Santos), a recent survivor of a car accident that has partly affected her memory, and her grip on reality as well. Mira tries to regain bits and pieces of her life with her husband Paul (Dennis Trillo) and blind daughter Sophie (Sharlene San Pedro). Meanwhile, Dave (TJ Trinidad), Mira’s business associate with whom she has an illicit affair, convinces Mira to leave her husband, as what she has planned to do before the car accident. But what drives Mira to further confusion are the strange things that start to occur in her home. As a malevolent presence threatens to destroy her marriage to Paul and her relationship with Sophie, Mira is forced to confront her past and discover her true history.”

Creepy, eh? Well let’s not just stand around here, let’s “Read On” shall we?

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This time out… a break from the Asian ghosts, monsters, and kung-fu antics that usually populate the trashy cinema I like to watch. With Halloween approaching, I lucked out and discovered this lil’ gem, a double feature parody of old 40’s serial adventure cliffhangers and 50’s alien invasion films, “Monarch of the Moon” and “Destination:Mars!”.

I ran into this one quite by accident, and was lucky enough to find a copy of the two disc collector’s release of this one by BCI/ Image Entertainment.

So…. is it a nostalgia filled look at the films of old I saw on Saturday mornings? Let’s take a look!

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Well…. it’s Sunday, and your Favorite Catgirl Princess has finally gotten herself set up with a brand spankin’ new system, all ready to go, full o’ RAM and delightfully zippy and best yet…… virus free!

This should finally end the drought of new material that has gripped the “Litterbox” throughout all of October and let me start posting again without wrestling with the java interface WordPress uses for management.

First up, the long awaited review of “Monarch of the Moon/ Destination: Mars!” that I had promised before my terrible virus attack/ computer crash….. Hopefully there are still some of you out there waiting for this…… I’m done work this afternoon, so let’s get to it….

Well gentle visitors, seems as though I haven’t been able to post in ages….. (And thanks to multiple computer issues I really… really…. haven’t been able to….. so sad, I’ve missed Halloween this year at DV and the Litterbox….. can you ever forgive this lil’ Catgirl?)

Like as not, until I decide to go on that diet of Ramen noodles and Dr Pepper for about a month, I wont be buying a new computer, so I’ll have to struggle along with the prehistoric “loaner” that a friend lent me to keep Internet access.

In the meantime, it seems that my Imagehost for all my old reviews has lurched back into existence after a 2 month absence and with it all the posters and pics for my old reviews….. Now is the time for you all to check them out dear Readers… and I’ll try to make it up to you with at least some new material as it’s possible to do so in the next day or so.

One of the great genre film stars of Indonesia passed away this last week, and I only just found out today…. This lil’ Catgirl is sad, as perhaphs her best known film here in the US, “The Queen of Black Magic”, just got a glorious restoration by Mondo Macabro and she herself had begun acting again in films….. such a sad, sad thing to happen……… Here’s the news, direct from Indonesia….

“Legendary and irreplaceable Queen of horror films, actress Suzanna, saddens the nation with her passing.

Suzanna, aka Suzzanna/ Susanna Martha Frederika van Osch (she was of mixed German/ Dutch/ Javanese/ Manado blood), born in Bogor in 1942, known as the Queen of Horror (Ratu Horor) died of diabetes related complications on 16th October 2008 at her home in Magelang.

Suzanna began acting in the 1950’s in straight roles, but is eternally remembered for her horror and mystical films, beginning in the 1970’s, like “Bernapas Dalam Lumpur” (1970), “Beranak Dalam Kubur” (1971), “Pulau Cinta” (1978), “Ratu Buaya Putih” and “Ratu Ilmu Hitam” (1981).

She retired in the early 1990’s but made a couple of comebacks, in 2003 on the television serial “Selma dan Ular Siluman”, and most recently this year in the film “Hantu Ambulance”, in which she was visibly ailing.

She is survived by husband Clift Andre Natalia aka Clift Sangra and stepson Rama Yohanes, and daughter Kiki Maria, from her previous marriage to Dicky Suprapto.” - courtesy of www.indonesiamatters.com blog

At least she left us all a wonderful legacy of horror and fantasy film to enjoy, and if she’s lucky, she’ll live on forever through the magic of those films……

Well…. It’s a Saturday… and the month of October is slowly slipping away from me… and as casual visitors may have noticed, not much is happening here at the ol’ Litterbox. After a good week and a half of work, my operating system went flatline yesterday for what I figure is the last time. It was a shame given the amount of effort I’ve put into getting it back up and running, but sometimes that’s how it goes. I’m currently using my old system…. resurrected from the carton I’d packed it away in, back in service to at least get me back online. It’s old…. clunky and unable to run a lot of the programs I like, but hey… at least it works. ( I knew there was a good reason for saving it…)

I’ve been too busy to go shopping for a new one yet…. but it’s on the top of my priorities list now…. A friend thinks he can wipe the old one’s disc and reformat it with a new OS but it’s a project for in the future. Almost feel like I should burn some incense for it…..

Anyhooo…. I’ve got a review in progress for “Monarch of the Moon”, and I’ve seen a couple of others that I’ll try to get in shape soon, but no firm promises as to when…. I feel I’ve disappointed people far to often to make one of those…..

This is turning out to be the crappiest Halloween month ever for this lil’ catgirl……

Well… seems I’ve restored functionality to my system before October completely slipped by, and so Neko-chan can now share with you again her love of all things ghostly and asian movie wise….

This time out, it’s the Indonesian fright fest “Tali Pocong Perawan” or “Dead Virgin’s String”. Yep.. another of those Indo ghost stories, this time by way of the Malay release by PMP Entertainment.

The synopsis reads as follows:“Nino is a weird guy with a strange personality. Unlike Nino, his brother Aldo is a more outgoing and popular guy. Unsurprisingly, it is easy for Aldo to be with any girl he likes, notably a pretty girl named Virnie. Nino who behaves awkwardly also has feelings for Virnie. Unbeknownst to Aldo and Virnie, Nino often peeps at them together inside the house in intimate moments. This continues until Nino finally decided to steal Virnie away from his own brother. While surfing through the internet, Nino discovers a legend about strings that are taken from female virgin corpses. This certain string has a power that can attract the heart of any women. The way the string must be obtained is by using hands to dig out the grave of a female virgin and then taking off the cotton string by using the mouth. All these feelings of love that Nino has for Virnie, blinds him into thinking not clearly. He finds a virgin corpse that has recently been buried. After getting this mysterious string, he mixes it into the water that is intended for Virnie to drink. Will Nino succeed in stealing Virnie with the string’s power?”

Hmmmm? A creepy Peeping Tom…. schoolgirl suicides…. evil Internet magic lessons…. and floaty shroud covered ghosts…. Yes indeed, Neko’s soooo gonna watch this one. But is it worth it? You’ll just have to “Read On” and find out, now won’t ya?

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I had meant to do some more reviews today and get our “Halloween Review Series” started, but thanks to the “go.google” virus/ trojan thingee, I was off line all day today in a deathmatch wrestling with that particular menace.

It didn’t just redirect me and hijack my homepages…. oh no… nothing THAT simple. It also blocked access to any useful tech sites I might need to find removal info…. as well as blocking Spybot and AVG from updating. It also just about completely destroyed my entire Registry, the Windows Installer, totally unregistered ALL File Types in the system and brought this lil’ Catgirl to tears before I finally managed to stop it’s destructive rampage.

So now I’m sitting in the ruins of my data… with minimal internet access and most programming completely unusable. If I can… I’m going to be spending most of tomorrow repairing the carnage. Then we’ll see if I can finally get back to normal. So if I’m missing for a couple days, at least you few loyal readers will know why……

Why… why… poor lil’ me?

This one took a while to finally make it’s way to DVD, but the wait is over, and now Neko can give you her review of “Hansel & Gretel”, the latest Korean Horror/ Fantasy to be based on an old European Fairy Tale….

The synopsis I found for it reads as follows: “A reckless young man, Eun-soo drives to his mother’s and has a car accident. When Eun-soo wakes up, he meets a mysterious girl and is led to her fairytale-like house in the middle of the forest. There, Eun-soo is trapped with the girl and her siblings who never age. Soon he learns all the adults who have visited or stayed in the house have met mysterious yet terrible ends. More shockingly, their cruel deaths are drawn in details and made into a fairytale book by the children. Scared Eun-soo tries to find the way out, but the house is secluded in the forest with no way out. And then, Eun-soo discovers a book which tells a brutal end of none other than himself!”

Ooooh! Scary sounding stuff… and the Koreans usually do really good horror movies that your Favorite Catgirl Princess likes, so let’s find out, shall we?

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