Wings (1927)

Wings contains some of the best aerial combat footage in any film ever. Even if you don't watch silent movies as a rule (though you should of course) its worth checking this film out just for that alone...

Wings is a WW1 aerial adventure starring Charles Buddy Rogers and Richard Arlen. To include superstar actress Clara Bow the original story was adapted to bring in a bit of romance though if we are to be honest that part of the film is overshadowed by the aerial combat sequences.

Making the film was a colossal undertaking, involving hundreds of pilots and extras. The film was very costly and took much longer to make than was usual at the time but it was worth it. It won best picture at the first Oscars, and is still the only fully silent movie to do so.

Another notable fact about the film is that if you stop the DVD at the exact right moment you can see Clara Bow's breasts during the medical examination scene. So i have been told anyway.

Ebola Syndrome (1996)

Now i like all sorts of horrifically violent rubbish, and at times i liked this but at other times this film was so repulsive it even tested me...

Anthony Wong plays a triad on the run for murdering his boss. Hiding out in South Africa he catches the Ebola virus by raping a woman in the bush (in a somewhat non-Politically Correct scene in the film shall we say?) He finds that he is one of the few people whom the virus does not kill but instead he is now a carrier. He then begins a bloody rampage, killing and infecting people - often by rape - across South Africa and back to HK.

If you want to see a film where 3 people are killed and then turned into hamburgers then this is your bag. If you want to see a film where someone uses a pork chop for masturbation purposes and then puts it back in the fridge for cooking later then this is also your bag. For everyone else it may be your sick bag!

A film so dark and evil its wonderful and awful at the same time. A masterpiece. A gory glory.

Ninja Terminator (1985)

What's this film all about? It just doesn't make sense! It's like two separate films merged into one! Well funny you should say that...

Godfrey Ho was notorious for creating "new" movies by splicing together footage from obscure Asian martial arts films with new footage including Western actors, often those films are awful and completely incoherent but Ninja Terminator somehow works.

What makes it magic no doubt is the 1980s cheese, including tiny robots sent to give warnings, a Garfield telephone and ninjas teleporting their way through a fight scene.

The "other" film stars Jaguar Wong and has some really tasty kung fu action, with amazing fight after amazing fight. Really this film is all about fighting, take the fighting out of this film and you'd have about 5 minutes of footage. The splicing has been very well done so at times you do feel the film was all made in one go.

The ninja part of the film, with Richard Harrison as the main "ninja", leads up to an excellent conclusion. I have to say this is in my top 10 movies and my favourite ninja movie. I'm sure we all have one?

Dracula (1931)

This early talkie was the first official film adaptation of the Bram Stoker classic (1922's Nosferatu was "unofficial") and a very atmospheric horror film it is too...

Bela Lugosi plays Dracula, already having played the role on stage, and to be honest this early depiction of Dracula is hard to beat - only Christopher Lee can match him in the Dracula stakes (ahem). Lugosi set the blueprint for screen Dracula with this film and gothic horror in general.

Its not a perfect film, the sound is a bit harsh at times and the ending is rather abrupt but the feel of the film is spot on especially the creepy scenes around the castle.

Its a film with a lot of fog, and floppy bats. Well you have to love it.