my strangest dvds

Happy Birthday DVD's! Today you turn 15. Yes, that means you can finally have that asymmetrical haircut you've always wanted. In honour of this illustrious landmark, I thought i'd countdown the strangest DVD's I own in amongst my 7600+ collection on triple j breakfast this morning:

REPO: THE GENETIC OPERA
Crazy/bad cult musical starring Paris Hilton, Sarah Brightman and Giles from Buffy > Set in a future where you take out a loan on organ transplants and when you cant pay them back they have this repo man who attacks you with a scalpel to repossess your organs.... all of which he does in song...oh and emo makeup. It has Paris hilton singing. nuff said.


ROBOGEISHA
Japanese movie about a geisha who is...um.... also a robot with nipples that turn into machine guns, and her legs turn into tank tracks... think martial arts, slapstick gore, soft-core fetish-wear, soap-opera.


I KNOW HOW MANY RUNS YOU SCORED LAST SUMMER.
Aussie horror movie set on a cricket pitch... I'll be honest: I never finished it.


FACES OF DEATH
CREEEEEEPY. A whole bunch of (actual) death footage clipped together. They got archival footage of people being executed and an car crashes and then they cut it together with faked death scenes. Banned in Australia for ages until recently...


RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE ADAPTATION
So, back in the 80’s, 3 kids from Mississippi decided that they were going to do a shot for shot remake of INDIANA JONES & RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK with their parents camcorder... it took em 6 years to make. Awesome.


FOR YOUR HEIGHT ONLY
A 70’s Filipino rip off of James Bond... played by a 4-foot midget named WENG WENG...Amazing.


BADI aka TURKISH bootleg of E.T
It's a little known fact that TURKEY are the worlds biggest rip-offs and they do the most bizarre ripoffs of movies. This is the most crazy lo-fi thing ever: imagine E.T made out of paper mache with a smoke machine stuck up his arse.

there’s also SEYTAN (Turkish bootleg of the Excorcist)


PULGASARI
North Korean version of Godzilla (where Godzilla represents capitalism) the movie was actually executive produced by freakin' KIM JONG IL himself.......and he needed to kidnap a director from South Korea to get it made.


MEGASHARK VS GIANT OCTOPUS
Ultra B-Grade monster flick starring Lorenzo Lamas (that doyen of quality cinema) and 80's pop hasbeen Debbie Gibson caught up between... well... a giant shark and a mega octopus. It features an awesome scene where a shark leaps out of the water to eat a 747. AMAZING


WARWICK CAPPERS SEX TAPE
Exactly 69 minutes long....maybe. It's just mostly him fiddling with himself and then watching himself. I swear the only reason I have this was for a story I was working on. I swear.