Yeah look - I'm going to qualify it slightly. I shouldn't have used the word female, because everyone's reading it as a gendered comment, not at all unreasonably.

I know that both those people are influenced by grindhouse films, but I am not aware of any 'grindhouse revival' in the 90s. I don't think "Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez made films in the 90s" is the same as a grindhouse revival.

What point? I didn't make a point! I didn't say anything about sexism.

The remake of Fantasy Zone II actually changes the text of the "good" ending, I just noticed from viewing the above.

Thank you for telling me who the female actor is married to.

I am very much a fan of genre films, I'm pretty au fait with it all. So am I just having a brainfart or does anyone else struggle to know what the author means by "the 90s grindhouse revival"?

This album is bloody great.

Well for what it's worth I would be equally skeptical of End Of Days or Demolition Man's inclusion in this series of articles too. And sure, the fact that he never made a Terminator or a Rocky doesn't undermine his batting average, but this article series, surely, is about the Terminators and the Rockys?

Shogun Assassin, the re-dub/edit of Lone Wolf And Cub too, so there's a bit of a mutation going on there with Miller. I accept that ninja fever was already in the air, I'm not disputing that. I still stand by the suggestion that Kosugi's films were what codified and solidified it in cinematic terms.

Haha, don't worry I deleted that part of the comment anyway after remember that whole thing about James Bond movies not being American.

The actor who plays Mercy is alarmingly beautiful. I always thought that. You know how some people have faces that are frighteningly well put together? I think she is one of those people.

I know it predates it, I wasn't suggesting otherwise. I was saying that the Kosugi film is what put the ninja film on the map. "Being the film that got the better more well-known and influential film made" is not really a huge deal, is it? That'd be like doing Heroes Shed No Tears instead of A Better Tomorrow, or…

Those are pretty much the only two I enjoy, and I wouldn't really call Way Of The Dragon a "Chuck Norris Movie" in the way that that usually means.

I stand by my argument that Sho Kosugi was the one who put the ninja film on the map.

Hmm, I suppose I hadn't thought of that - that trend starts with the Kosugi stuff for me, surely today if you ask somebody about "80s ninjas" then they're more likely to say Enter The Ninja etc than The Octagon? Or is it just a regional thing around my way, perhaps, that The Octagon doesn't have much cache in that…

"You got something to do with death" was cribbed from Sergio Leone's screenwriters. Carpenter is an avowed fan and first became aware of Dario Argento - now a lifelong friend - through his contributions to Once Upon A Time In The West.

I think there's a few stretches there. He's categorically NOT the only reason Cannon made money, and "being Cannon's biggest star" is not exactly any significant or objective measure of stardom or success or influence or even commercial significance. I think that there's also a very reasonable argument to be made…

So basically these transmitters could be carried by cops, is what you're saying.

I'm not joking when I tell you that my OTHER Christmas Movie tradition is Silent Night Deadly Night. It's not exactly a scary movie though I guess.

Oh god, do we really need to talk about Chuck Norris in this series? He's never been very good, that whole internet meme started from that Maddox idiot, and he's always been a bit of an also-ran. Are there really no better 1980 action movies?