Hipstock

Posted on 6 september 2020 by Jeppe Kleijngeld

“Mountaineer”

A Hipstamatic shot by Jeppy K.

R.I.P. Filmdungeon

Posted on 15 augustus 2020 by Jeppe Kleijngeld

Filmdungeon.com (/ fiIḿduƞᵷeon /) was a website for cult-, genre- and exploitation films. The website was founded in 2008 by Jeppe Kleijngeld and was taken offline on 25 august 2020. A new landing page for the site can be found on the founder’s personal blog.

History
Dutch blogger and journalist Jeppe Kleijngeld founded the site as a pet project beside his full time work as an editor in business economics. Kleijngeld has been a cinema-nut ever since his parents bought him his very first movie encyclopedia. The reviews, credits and black- and white images obsessed him to a point where he wanted to see all the movies from the book. This mission was never achieved, although he certainly came a long way. And he created an IMDb-sized trivia database in his mind. Kleijngeld is especially fond of crime and horror flicks and westerns, but is open to everything that is cinema. He started Filmdungeon so he would be able to rant about films all the time and praise the ones that he loves the most. He was also hoping to pass on his enthusiasm to the younger film fans out there. His website could hopefully inspire a few kids – like himself when he got his first movie encyclopedia – to discover what a beautiful medium film really is.

Ending
Due to an outdated technical structure, and the large investment that it would take to upgrade the site, Kleijngeld decided to pull the plug in 2020. He was mostly working on his blog anyway, so figured he could integrate Filmdungeon within his blog that can be found under the url www.fragmenten.blog. As of 2020, most of the content has not been republished, but Kleijngeld has announced that this will occur from 2021 onward on a special landing page. He has also announced several eBooks that will be published in the coming years. Two of those will be focusing on the genres horror, car movies, drugs movies, cult films, spaghetti westerns and will also contain several special features. He will also release an eBook on American gangster movies for the completist.

Filmdungeon – HOME

Posted on 15 augustus 2020 by Jeppe Kleijngeld

Filmdungeon.com is dead. Read the obituary here: R.I.P. Filmdungeon (2008 – 2020)

But not to worry, the site’s content will be republished here, on the personal blog of the site’s founder Jeppe Kleijngeld.

For more about the Brainfood screenplay, check out this page.

American Gangster Films
– American Gangster
– Angels with Dirty Faces
– The Asphalt Jungle
– Backtrack
– Black Caesar
– Blood In, Blood Out
– Bonnie and Clyde
– A Bronx Tale
– A Brooklyn State of Mind
– Casino
– Fist of Honour
– Frank Nitti: The Enforcer
– The Funeral
– The Godfather
– The Godfather: Part II
– The Godfather: Part III
– GoodFellas
– Gotti
– The Last Don
– The Last Don II
– Little Caesar
– The Many Saints of Newark
– Mean Streets
– Miller’s Crossing
– New Jack City
– Once Upon a Time in America
– The Outfit
– The Public Enemy
– Pulp Fiction
– Reservoir Dogs
– The Roaring Twenties
– Scarface (1932)
– Scarface (1983)
– The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
– Sugar Hill
– The Valachi Papers
– White Heat
– Witness to the Mob

Carsploitation
– Cannonball!
– The Cannonball Run
– Convoy
– Death Proof
– Death Race
– Death Race 2
– Death Race 2000
– Deathsport
– Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
– The Driver
– Duel
– Gone in 60 Seconds
– The Gumball Rally
– Mad Max
– Mad Max 2
– Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
– Race with the Devil
– Roadracers
– Smokey and the Bandit
– Smokey and the Bandit II
– Smokey and the Bandit Part 3
– Speedracer
– Two-Lane Blacktop
– Vanishing Point

Cult Movies
– Across the Universe
– Backbeat
– Barbarella
– Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens
– Bride of the Monster
– Buffy the Vampire Slayer
– Crimewave
– Eating Raoul
– The Family That Eats Soil
– Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
– Fast Times at Ridgemont High
– Glen or Glenda
– Heavy Metal
– The Ice Pirates
– Jail Bait
– Night of the Ghouls
– Plan 9 from Outer Space
– Repo Man
– Stone
– Streets of Fire
– They Live
– Turkey Shoot
– The Violent Years
– The Warriors

Cult Radar
– Cult Radar: Part 1
– Cult Radar: Part 2
– Cult Radar: Part 3
– Cult Radar: Part 4
– Cult Radar: Part 5
– Cult Radar: Part 6
– Cult Radar: Part 7
– Cult Radar: Part 8
– Cult Radar: Part 9
– Cult Radar: Part 10
– Cult Radar: Part 11
– Cult Radar: Part 12

Double Bill
– Double Bill #01: 2001: A Space Odyssey & A Clockwork Orange
– Double Bill #02: Grindhouse (Planet Terror & Death Proof)
– Double Bill #03: The Terminator & Terminator 2: Judgment Day
– Double Bill #04: Jackie Brown & Out of Sight
– Double Bill #05: Dirty Harry & Death Wish
– Double Bill #06: Angel Heart & The Devil’s Advocate
– Double Bill #07: Seven Samurai & The Magnificent Seven
– Double Bill #08: Die Hard & Die Hard 2
– Double Bill #09: Apocalypto & Mad Max: Fury Road
– Double Bill #10: Dune: Part Two & Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
– Double Bill #11: The Truman Show & The Matrix
– Double Bill #12: The Big Lebowski & The Jesus Rolls
– Double Bill #13: Double Impact & Hard Target
– Double Bill #14: Yesterday & Nowhere Boy
– Double Bill #15: Taxi Driver & Bringing Out the Dead
– Double Bill #16: The Punisher & Showdown in Little Tokyo
– Double Bill #17: Kill Bill Vol. 1 & Kill Bill Vol. 2
– Double Bill #18: Fargo & A Simple Plan

Drug Movies
– Altered States
– Bad Lieutenant
– Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
– Blow
– Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie
– Dazed and Confused
– Easy Rider
– Enter the Void
– Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
– Nice Dreams
– The Rum Diary
– A Scanner Darkly
– Up in Smoke
– Where the Buffalo Roam
– Withnail & I

Dungeon Classics (2)
– Dungeon Classics #36: Braindead
– Dungeon Classics #37: Coffy
– Dungeon Classics #38: Foxy Brown
– Dungeon Classics #39: True Romance
– Dungeon Classics #40: Killing Zoe
– Dungeon Classics #41: L.A. Confidential
– Dungeon Classics #42: Sexy Beast
– Dungeon Classics #43: Die Hard with a Vengeance

Features
– 5 Reasons ‘Scarface’ Rarely Makes it to Critics’ Favorite Lists
– The 7 Best Movies About Restaurants
– 10 Management Lessons From Highly Successful Gangsters
– 10 Reasons the Nineties’ Cinema Kicked Ass
– 15 coolest (or most ridiculous) DVD packages
– 15 Differences Between The Godfather Novel and Movie
– The 20 Greatest Ultra Villains in Movies
– 22 Unforgettable Character Introductions in Movies
– Beverly Hills Cop Revisited
– Book: Peter Jackson & the Making of Middle-Earth
– Bruce Campbell: A B-Moviestar’s Biography
– Cannibalism Now! (About Cannibalism in Movies)
– A Collection of Movie Trivia
– Favorites From 50 Years of Cinema
– George Lucas, Not Guilty
– Hunter Goes to Hollywood: Hunter S. Thompson Triple Bill
– James Bond: 10 Best Pre-Credit Scenes
– James Bond: 10 Best Title Sequences
– James Bond: 10 Finest Bond Girls
– James Bond: 10 Greatest Henchmen
– James Bond: 10 Greatest Licensed Kills
– James Bond: 10 Greatest Villains
– James Bond: 10 Most Memorable Deaths (Caused by Bond’s Adversaries)
– The James Bond Features (Collection)
– The James Bond Films Rated From Worst To Best (24-11)
– The James Bond Films Rated From Worst To Best (Top 10)
– James Bond: Top 20 Action Sequences
– James Bond: Top 10 Gadgets
– James Bond: Top 10 Vehicles
– Jeppy’s 100 – My All Time Favorite Movies (2018)
– My 10 Favorite Horror Movies Ever
– My 10 Favorite Movie Endings
– My 10 Favorite Movie Openings
– My Greatest Cinema Moments Ever
– Revenge of the Sith is 20 Years Old. It Is a Prophetic Vision of America Today
– A Special Christmas Viewing of Lethal Weapon
– Stanley Kubrick’s Favorite Movie
– Tarantino About Homosexual Subtext in ‘Top Gun’
– What Do Gollum, Darth Vader & Agent Smith Have in Common?
– What Many People Missed in Fight Club
– Who Are You in Reservoir Dogs?
– Wiseguy Guide for Rookies

Horror Films
– The Addiction
– Army of Darkness
– Bad Taste
– The Beyond
– Dawn of the Dead
– Day of the Dead
– Diary of the Dead
– The Evil Dead
– Evil Dead II
– The Faculty
– The Hills Have Eyes
– Horror of Dracula
– Hostel
– Land of the Dead
– Maniac Cop
– Martin
– The Midnight Meat Train
– Night of the Living Dead
– Planet Terror
– Rogue
– Scanners
– Videodrome
– Zombie Flesh Eaters

Movies About Movies
– Bullets Over Hollywood
– Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
– Full Tilt Boogie: The Making of ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’
– Light & Magic: The Making of Cinema Magic
– Mr. Scorsese
– My Voyage to Italy
– Not Quite Hollywood
– A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
– QT8: The First Eight
– The Story of Film: Time Traveling For the Cinemad
– Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

Spaghetti Westerns
– A Bullet for the General
– Compañeros
– Death Rides a Horse
– Django
– Django Kill… If You Live, Shoot!
– Face to Face
– A Fistful of Dollars
– A Fistful of Dynamite
– For a Few Dollars More
– Four of the Apocalypse
– A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe
– God Forgives… I Don’t!
– The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
– The Great Silence
– Keoma
– My Name is Nobody
– Once Upon a Time in the West
– They Call Me Trinity
– Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die!
– Trinity Is STILL My Name!

TV Dungeon
– 5 Must See TV-shows Before You Die
– 5 Unforgettable Twin Peaks 2017 Moments
– The 10 Greatest TV-Show Covers
– 15 Thoughts on The Rings of Power Season 2
– 25 Years Ago On This Day, Pop Culture History Was Written
– Andor Season 2: The Most Political Star Wars Show Arrives at Exactly the Right Moment
– Ash vs Evil Dead Season 1: Five Greatest Moments
– Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 Kicks Evil’s Ass Literally
– Ash vs Evil Dead Season 3: Final Goodbyes
– The Book of Boba Fett – a Postmodern Mashup
– Deadwood: The Movie (2019)
– Fans of American Popular Culture Really Can’t Refuse This Show
– How to Write a Television Series
– It’s Official: The Acolyte is Disney’s First Real Star Wars Failure
– A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
– My Favorite TV Episode of All Time
– My Sopranos Obsession: Final Analysis
– Return of the Dragon (House of the Dragon SE2)
– The Sopranos: 10 Favorite Episodes
– The Sopranos: 100 Greatest Moments
– The Sopranos Ending Explained
– The Sopranos Features (Collection)
– The Sopranos Turns 20: Celebrating a Classic
– TV Dungeon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
– TV Dungeon: Cold Feet
– TV Dungeon: Corleone
– TV Dungeon: Deadwood
– TV Dungeon: I, Claudius
– TV Dungeon: Justified
– TV Dungeon: Kung Fu
– TV Dungeon: The Office (UK)
– TV Dungeon: Oz
– TV Dungeon: Romanzo Criminale
– TV Dungeon: Shameless
– TV Dungeon: Six Feet Under
– TV Dungeon: The Sopranos
– TV Dungeon: Spaced
– TV Dungeon: Twin Peaks
– TV Dungeon: The Wire

The Verdict
– Army of the Dead
– The Banshees of Inisherin
– Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.
– Clerks III
– The Creator
– Crimes of the Future
– Fear Street Trilogy
– John Wick: Chapter IV
– The Last Duel
– The Matrix Resurrections
– Nightmare Alley
– Palm Springs
– Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off
– Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos

Video’s
– 10 Favorite Villains from Classic 1980s Cartoons
– Enforcer Nr. 1 (About Luca Brasi from The Godfather)
– Picture Book (Iconic Cinema Images)
– Ranking the Top 100 Beatles Songs – Part 1
– Ranking the Top 100 Beatles Songs – Part 2
– Reservoir Dykes: Four Times Tarantino Referenced the Netherlands
– Schwarzenegger’s 100 Greatest Kills
– Sharpshit Troopers (About Star Wars)
– The Sopranos – A Quantum Mechanical Ending

Cult Radar: Part 10

Posted on 11 augustus 2020 by Jeppe Kleijngeld

The final one?

FilmDungeon.com is glad to explore the video trenches to find that oddball treasure between the piles of crap out there. Off course a treasure in this context can also be a film that’s so shockingly bad it’s worth a look, or something so bizarre that cult fans just have to see it. Join us on our quest and learn what we learn. Hopefully we’ll uncover some well-hidden cult gems.

Researched by: Jeppe Kleijngeld

Westworld (USA, 1973)

Directed by: Michael Crichton
Written by: Michael Crichton
Cast: Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin

Before the big budget HBO-series, there was the cult movie Westworld. And it’s a blast also! Delos Vacation is the vacation of the future today. Go to Roman World, Medieval World or Westworld to fuck and kill. But, as usually happens in movies about AI, robots get tired of being humanity’s servants and go rogue. The decadent will pay for their behaviour! Much like the vacation advertised by Delos, Westworld is Big Fun.

Enemy Territory (USA, 1987)

Directed by: Peter Manoogian
Written by: Stuart Kaminsky, Bobby Liddell
Cast: Gary Frank, Ray Parker Jr., Jan-Michael Vincent

An insurance agent and phone repairman get trapped at night in a massive tower building. This is the territory of the Vampires, a deadly gang. What follows is the typical ‘stalk and kill’ scenario. Unfortunately, the movie did not age well and is thus not very tense by today’s standards. The acting is also poor, so unfortunately there is not much to recommend this for.

Starship Troopers: Invasion (Japan / USA, 2012)

Directed by: Shinji Aramaki
Written by: Flint Dille (screenplay), Robert A. Heinlein (novel)
Cast (voices): Leraldo Anzaldua, Shelley Calene-Black, Luci Christian

Third sequel to Paul Verhoeven’s original sci-fi classic Starship Troopers from 1997 and this time it is animated. Want to know more? The first sequel was horrible and the second was not all that great. This one is a pretty decent made-for-DVD flick, much like Clone Wars is for the Star Wars prequel trilogy. The first part is mostly marine macho bullshit, but the animated girls make it all worthwhile (all the animation is pretty well done). In the second part, the makers actually manage to add a story worth adding to this bug-infested universe. Could have done with a little more suspense and over the top gore, but it is certainly worth a look.

Zombie Flesh Eaters 2 (Italy, 1988)

Directed by: Lucio Fulci
Written by: Claudio Fragasso (story), Claudio Fragasso (screenplay)
Cast: Deran Sarafian, Beatrice Ring, Ottaviano Dell’Acqua

This masterpiece (originally called Zombi 3 in Italy) is a cash-in on Zombie Flesh Eaters/Zombi 2 which was made to profit from the zombie-rage caused by Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, which was released as Zombi in Italy. Still with me? This one is about an infection on a small island caused by the military working on bacterial weapons (again). The virus causes people to eat each other. The zombies in this film are the first fast & furious zombies(*1) I’ve seen, that would later appear in films such as 28 Days Later that resurrected the genre. And some of them even talk. Not that surprising though, this was three years after Bub(*2) after all. They are killed pretty easily though. No brain impalement required. Though not as atmospheric as the original Zombie Flesh Eaters, Fulci still delivers in terms of shocks and bad taste. To be concluded by Zombie Flesh Eaters 3/Zombi 4.

*1 At least some of them are. Others are as slow and dumb as ever.
*2 Of Day of the Dead fame

Zombie Flesh Eaters 3 (Italy, 1989)

Directed by: Claudio Fragasso
Written by: Rossella Drudi, Rossella Drudi
Cast: Jeff Stryker, Candice Daly, Massimo Vanni

Whoever green-lit this dog? Exploiting the extremely capable zombie master Romero is one thing, but at least come up with a rip-off that delivers some of the goodies. The acting in this Italian piece of trash is HORRIBLE and so are the dialogues. The direction is a complete joke now that Fulci left. This distracts so much that watching it is a complete waste of time. Only for the braindead, others avoid at all costs.

Westworld

Enemy Territory

Starship Troopers: Invasion

House on the Edge of the Park (Italy, 1980)

Directed by: Ruggero Deodato
Written by: Gianfranco Clerici, Vincenzo Mannino
Cast: David Hess, Annie Belle, Christian Borromeo

From the director of Cannibal Holocaust comes an early home invasion flick, very much like Funny Games. A psycho and his simpleton buddy crash a party of young folks and as the night progresses, they use (sexual) violence on them. Often quite unpleasant to watch, but the acting is pretty decent. With a nice little twist at the end.

The Cars That Ate Paris (Australia, 1974)

Directed by: Peter Weir
Written by: Peter Weir, Keith Gow, Piers Davies
Cast: John Meillon, Terry Camilleri, Kevin Miles

Ozploitation flick about the small town of Paris, where the inhabitants cause fatal car crashes to plunder the vehicles. Strange early creation of Australian director Peter Weir, who went on to make great films like The Truman Show, Fearless and Dead Poet Society. This one provides in mood and production design (low budget, but cool), but misses the finer touches that Weir displayed in his later work. A must see? No. But interesting and entertaining enough.

Space Shift (USA / UK, 1992)

Directed by: Anthony Hickox
Written by: Anthony Hickox
Cast: Zach Galligan, Monika Schnarre, Martin Kemp

This masterpiece, also known as Waxwork II: Lost in Time, is a sequel to the 1988 film, Waxwork. After dealing with evil waxwork, this time the heroes travel through time in what appears to be a horror reenactment game. They become part of stories like Frankenstein, Alien and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The writing of this homage is not very well done. But is does feature legend Bruce Campbell in an amusing role.

Mega Force (Hong Kong / USA, 1982)

Directed by: Hal Needham
Written by: Bob Kachler, James Whittaker, Albert S. Ruddy, Hal Needham, Andre Morgan
Cast: Barry Bostwick, Michael Beck, Persis Khambatta

From the director of Smokey and the Bandit comes another hilarious eighties classic. About a phantom force, armed with the latest technology, that is called into action whenever geopolitical problems arise. The leader of the team: Ace Hunter! And the action, stunts and gadgets can compare with James Bond… almost. Worth watching if only for the soundtrack and images of the ‘MegaForce’ on their special motorcycles.

Assault on Precinct 13 (USA, 1976)

Directed by: John Carpenter
Written by: John Carpenter
Cast: Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer

Suspenseful early flick from great horror maestro John Carpenter. About L.A. gangs who team up to assault a nearly abandoned police station kamikaze-style. Very tense atmosphere and excellent character building. Remade in 2005 with Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne and Gabriel Byrne, but the original is better.