#cirio h. santiago

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Vampire Hookers (1978) | Dir. Cirio H. Santiago

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The Sisterhood (Cirio H. Santiago, 1988)

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Affiche du film de Cirio H. Santiago, "The Sisterhood" (Concorde-New Horizons, 1988). - Source Heritage Auctions.

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Naked Vengeance (1985)

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Equalizer 2000 has been released on Blu-ray by Scream Factory. Limited to 1,500, the 1987 post-apocalyptic action B-movie is available for $29.98 exclusively from Shout Factory.

Cirio H. Santiago (TNT Jackson) directs from a script by Frederick Bailey (Skeleton Man). Richard Norton, Corinne Wahl, William Steis, and Robert Patrick star.

Equalizer 2000 has been newly restored in 2K from the original 35mm negative. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Interview with writer/actor Frederick Bailey

Theatrical trailer

In a bleak and nightmarish future, the sadistic governing force known as The Ownership rule with an iron fist. A ragtag band of rebels are the only survivors with the will to oppose them... until a warrior of the wasteland, Slade, emerges to take up the struggle. Armed with the high-tech weapon of incredible power known as the Equalizer 2000, Slade and the rebels engage in one last stand against The Ownership for control of what's left of civilization.

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Film after film: Vampire Hookers (dir. Cirio H. Santiago, 1978)

This film is mostly entertaining in a silly, stupid, annoying, sexist way, with a bunch of English-speaking white-clothed white hunky soldiers, stationing somewhere in the Philippines (it's at least where the film was shot) and coming across some hot vampire action while looking for night sex. Carradine plays the senior vampire with not much emotional engagement.

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Fast Gun

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Watched Today: The Muthers (1976)

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A Tiny Stick of Dynamite

Laced With TNT

I'm A Firecracker, Hot As I Can Be!

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Vampire Hookers (1978) | Dir. Cirio H. Santiago

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Silk (Cirio H. Santiago, 1986)

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BLOOD ISN'T ALL THEY SUCK! | Vampire Hookers (1978) | Movie Review

I was in the mood to review a late 70's, low budget, shot in the Philippines exploitation movie from the King of Filipino Exploitation Cinema

Cirio H. Santiago.

Against my better judgement, I watched 1978's "Vampire Hookers".

Which is about a pair of horny sailors on leave in the Philippines looking for a good time (women and booze).

While at a bar with their commanding officer, he hits it off with a woman and gets driven to a cemetary to get it on.

The next day, when he doesn't show up, they go out looking for him, spot the cab driver that took their friend away, follows him to the cemetery and finds out that an old suave vampire pimp (played by John Carradine) has a bevy of vampiric beauties at his disposal to lure victims to their lair to become their meal.

A truly bad Horror sex "comedy" that can still be enjoyed?

Come find out!

Directed by Cirio H. Santiago and starring John Carradine, Bruce Fairbairn, Trey Wilson, Karen Stride, Lenka Novak and Vic Diaz.

Watch Vampire Hookers for free on TUBI and on PLEX:

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"The Muthers" (1976) is an action women-in-prison film written and directed by Cirio H. Santiago. The movie stars Jeannie Bell, Rosanne Katon, Trina Parks, and Jayne Kennedy, which Santiago filmed in the Philippines. It was typical for producers to make women-in-prison movies in the Phillippines during the 1970s, and many were straightforward action flicks. Pam Grier's earlier appearances in films like "The Big Bird Cage" and "Women in Cages" are in the same genre, introducing Grier to a broader audience. The four stars in "The Muthers" were beauties from the 70s. Bell and Katon posed for Playboy, Parks was a Bond girl (Diamonds Are Forever), and Kennedy was a supermodel.

Director: Cirio H. Santiago Writers: Cirio H. Santiago, Cyril St. James

Starring Jeannie Bell, Rosanne Katon, Trina Parks, Jayne Kennedy, Tony Carreon, John Montgomery, Sam Sharruff, Dick Piper, Ken Metcalfe, Rocco Montalban, Bill Baldridge, Bert Olivar

Storyline This black-oriented women's prison film from Filipino director Cirio H. Santiago (T.N.T. Jackson) stars Playboy Playmates Rosanne Katon and Jeanne Bell as the pirate gang leader who goes undercover at a prison farm to save Bell's sister. As the wicked Serena, Jayne Kennedy cracks a whip and acts nasty until finally leading the obligatory insurrection. The prisoners pick coffee beans, and the pirate women know kung-fu, making this one of the quirkier entries in the subgenre.

Available on Blu-ray and streaming services

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TNT Jackson, The Final Comedown, and Savage! have been released on Blu-ray together via Scream Factory. Limited to 1,500, the triple feature is available for $34.98 exclusively in the Shout Factory store.

TNT Jackson is a 1974 Blaxploitation action film directed by Cirio H. Santiago and written by actor Dick Miller (Gremlins) and Ken Metcalfe. Jeanne Bell, Stan Shaw, Pat Anderson, and Chiquito star. Roger Corman executive produces.

The Final Comedown is a 1972 Blaxploitation drama written and directed by Oscar Williams (Truck Turner), based on Jimmy Garrett's play We Own the Night. Billy Dee Williams and D'Urville Martin star. Roger Corman executive produces.

Savage is a 1973 Blaxploitation action film directed by Cirio H. Santiago and written by Ed Medard. James Iglehart, Lada Edmund Jr., and Carol Speed star. Roger Corman executive produces.

TNT Jackson has been newly scanned in 2K from the interpositive, while The Final Comedown and Savage have been newly scanned in 2K from the original camera negatives. All three films feature 2.0 Mono DTS-HD Master Audio. Special features are listed below.

TNT Jackson special features:

Theatrical trailer

Radio spot

Image gallery

Martial arts expert Diana “T.N.T.” Jackson (Jeannie Bell) is pure dynamite when she takes to the streets of Hong Kong in search of her missing brother and runs afoul of the city's most villainous drug pushers.

The Final Comedown special features:

Radio spot

Image gallery

Johnny Johnson (Billy Dee Williams) is a young man with a promising future. But push him too far, and you've got a revolution on your hands!

Savage special features:

Theatrical trailers

TV spots

Radio spot

Image gallery

James Iglehart stars as a criminal on the run who finds even more trouble when he is caught between two warring factions in a tropical nation's bloody conflict.

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Movie Review | The Secret Rivals (Ng, 1976)

Like a lot of these somewhat less celebrated kung fu movies, I had to watch this in an English dub, and like a lot of these somewhat less celebrated kung fu movies, all the voices except those of the heroes were in a constant state of shrieking or cackling. Obviously the main villain should do his share of cackling. But the children shriek. The good looking lady who presents a possible love interest shrieks. A bald guy who plays a minor baddie has a more guttural cackle. He and his goons decide to antagonize some poor bastard and you hear all of them shriek and cackle at the same time and the kid charges in and starts shrieking and one begins to wonder if this scene would have played more tolerably in its original audio.

That being said, this is not a purely unpleasant auditory experience, thanks to some deftly applied "borrowed" music. During a recent viewing of Cirio H. Santiago's Firecracker, I noticed how the liberal use of the Shogun Assassin score significantly upped the energy level. (The heroine in that one was played by Jillian Kesner, who I understand once played the girlfriend of the Fonz and was the real-life wife of Gary Graver, and let's just say she wasn't hired for her martial arts prowess.) Here, we open with Ennio Morricone's theme for The Big Gundown, and let's just say that it makes this relatively small scale movie feel a lot more epic. (The Korean forest locations also help greatly in this respect, and it was nice to see this in a pretty decent transfer on Tubi, as a lot of these movies are only available in much worse condition.) And it definitely adds to the excitement when that same theme is deployed during a training sequence when one of the heroes learns how to fight by kicking. But lest you assume that's the only music that's well used, I must note that the arrival of the main villain is announced by the James Bond theme.

There is a plot here, about a pretty tepid rivalry that is not easy to invest in, and let's just say that when you notice both leads are sympathetic and a more overtly villainous character arrives (with the aforementioned Bond theme queue), you won't win any prizes for guessing how this turns out. Most of this is pretty episodic, with an early incident involving an asshole foreign fighter who looks like a burlier William Redfield, a scene where one of the heroes tells the other to get outta town with real "Leave town, please, I'll be your friend" energy. Also Yuen Biao is briefly in this as a goon who fights one of the heroes at around the middle of the movie. I actually watched this for his involvement, because I'm trying to game my Letterboxd stats and get him to my most watched actor this year.

As far as Ng See-Yuen's directorial efforts go, this lacks the kookiness and some of the verve of Game of Death II and Invincible Armour, but knows mostly how to capture the fights in engaging ways, even if the style isn't terribly sophisticated and he sometimes cuts when he shouldn't. There is a bit of sharply used handheld near the end, which feels participatory without losing coherence, and the final fight has a cutaway that anticipates a much funnier use of the same flourish in Invincible Armour. I will note that in casting John Liu, Don Wong Tao and Hwang Jang-Lee, you have three extremely talented martial artists that are great fun to watch fight other people and especially each other. The latter two are saddled with an awful bowl cut and shitty blonde wig, respectively (one wonders how many of these martial arts stars resented Bruce Lee for popularizing a hairdo that only he could pull off). Liu however comes off as one cocky sonofabitch, and apparently had quite the ego offscreen, but when you see him kicking Tao in the face like his legs were windshield wipers, or swooping low kicks at Hwang like he's breakdancing, maybe some of that cockiness was justified.