Ellissinema Podcast

A couple unite - she is fluent in Crane style kung fu, he is in Tiger style. They have a son, but the boy's father is killed by the evil eunuch Pai Mei. Disguised as a girl, his mom trains him in Crane style while he secretly learns Tiger style to ultimately avenge his father's death. Starring Chen Kuan-tai, Lo Lieh, Lily Li, Wong Yue, Cheng Kang-Yeh, Gordon Liu, Chiang Tao, Tien Ching, and many m...

Constantly bullied, and a father who refuses to teach him kung fu, a young Wong Fei Hung must train under Luk Ah Choy to avenge the disrepect being shown by rival schools. Starring Gordon Liu, Chen Kuan-tai, Lily Li, Lau Kar-leung, Lau Kar-wing, Chiang Yang, Shih Chung-Tien, Liu Chia-Yung, Chiang Tao, Cheng Kang-Yeh, Fung Hark-On, Billy Chan, and many more. Cinematography by Wang Tien-Yu. Choreogr...

Word of a monster ape ten stories tall living in the Himalayas reaches fortune hunters in Hong Kong. They travel to India to capture it, but most are dissuaded by the elements, except Johnny. Johnny finds the monster and discovers a scantily-clas woman, Samantha. Samantha has become apart of the jungle ever since surviving a plane crash years prior. In the idyllic jungle, Johnny and Samantha fall...

The Shaolin Temple is the last place to resist defeat by the Manchu Dynasty because of their unique fighting style. Men from far and wide come to wait outside the temple, hoping they will be admitted as pupils. As the Abbot becomes older, he realizes that the Manchus are determined to destroy the temple and eradicate the Shaolin fighting techniques. To this end, he decides that it is time at last...

Five students escape from the destruction of their beloved Shaolin Temple. Now, each must take revenge and train in their own seperate fighting styles to become...the Five Shaolin Masters. Starring David Chiang, Ti Lung, Alexander Fu Sheng, Kuan-Chun Chi, Lung Wei Wang, Fei Meng, Hark-On Fung, Tao Chiang, and many more. Music by Chen Yung-Yu. Cinematography by Mu-To Kung. Chorepgraphy by Lau Kar L...

Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn into a world of corruption, gang warfare, and evil... Where his only protection is his famed fighting. Starring Chen Kaun-tai, Ching Li, David Chiang, Ku Feng, Tien Ching, Nan Chinag, Yi Feng, Kang-Yeh Cheng, and many more. Music by Chen Yung-Yu. Cinematography by Mu-To Kung and Ting-Bang Yuan. Chor...

King Boxer (Five Fingers of Death) is a tale of a young martial artist who battles his way into a national tournament, in the name of love, honor, and revenge. His journey from young fighter in training to master of the Iron Palm Technique delves deep into mythic kung fu lore. Starring Lo Lieh, Wang Ping, Feng Tien, James Nam, Hsiung Chao, Shen Chen, Wen-Chung Ku, Ki-joo Kim, Mien Fang, and many m...

A former special agent is called in for a secret mission: safely escort the world's first human clone, whose body may hold the key to defeating death itself. But as the enemy closes in, the pair is forced to make an impossible choice. Starring Gong Yoo, Park Bo-Gum, Jang Young-Nam, Jo Woo-Jin and more. Music by Jo Yeong-wook. Cinematography by Lee Mo-gae. Written and Directed by Lee Yong-ju

In 1940s New York, down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle endears himself to a clairvoyant and her mentalist husband ay a traveling carnival. Using newly acquired knowledge, Carlisle crafts a golden ticket to success by swindling the elite and wealthy. Hoping for a big score, he soon hatches a scheme to con a dangerous tycoon with the help from a mysterious psychiatrist who might be his most formidable...

When widowed astronomer Steve Mills inadvertently causes a gravitational disruption in space, a race of hyper0advanced alien lifeforms sends one of their own to investigate, disguised in the alluring human form of Celeste. Tasked with seducing the lovelorn Steve in a bid to gain accessto his scientific research, Celeste finds herself falling for a man she's been sent to swindle. But they've not co...

A teen street gang is pitted against an invasion of savage alien monsters. It turns a London housing project into a sci-fi battleground, the low-income apartment complex into a fortress under siege. And it turns a crazy mix of kids into a team of kick ass heroes. It's inner city versus outer space and it's going to explode. Starring John Boyega, Jodi Whittaker, Alex Esmail, Franz Drameh, Leeon Jon...

Mercenaries with nothing to lose are hired to rescue a bioengineer imprisoned in a cold war bunker. Upon entering the ominious facility, they find themselves in a fight for thier lives when they come under attack from an unknown and deadly creature. Today I sit down with writer and director of Death Valley, Matthew Ninaber. We discuss how the project came to be, his inspirations, and delivering it...

Today I sit down with the very talented Jamie Bernadette and discuss the brutally effective, I Spit On Your Grave Deja Vu. I Spit On Your Grave Deja Vu stars Jamie Bernadette, Camille Keaton, Maria Olsen, Jim Tavare, Jonathan Peacy, Jeremy Ferdman, Holgie Forrester, Roy Allen III, Alexandra Kenworthy, and more. Cinematography by Pedja Radenkovic. Written and Directed by Meir Zarchi.

Melanie Ballard is a headstrong police lieutenant on Mars in the year 2025. Humans have been colonizing and mining on the red planet for some time, but when Ballard and her squad are sent to a remote region to apprehend the dangerous criminal "Desolation" Williams, they discover that he's the least of their worries. The mining operations have unleashed a deadly army of Martian spirits who take ove...

A televised horror film spells doom for the residents of a luxury high-rise apartment, as demons are unleashed through the tv screen at young girl's birthdsy party. As more residents are infected and transformed into blood-thirsty demons, a young couple fights to survive as they try to escape Hell on Earth. Starring David Edwin Knight, Nancy Brilli, Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni, Bobby Rhodes, Asia Arg...

A masked man offers tickets to a horror movie sneak preview at the mysterious Metropol cinema. When a patron is scratched by a prop displayed in the theater lobby, she transforms into a flesh-ripping demon. Starring Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Bobby Rhodes, Karl Zinney, Nicoletta Elmi, Paola Cozzo, Fiore Argento, Geretta Geretta, and more. Music by Claudio Simonetti. Cinematography by Gianlor...

Set in crime-ridden Detroit, in the near future, Robocop centers on police officer Alex Murphy, who is murdered by a gang of criminals and subsequently revived by the megacorporation OCP as the cyborg law enforcer Robocop. Unaware of his former life, Robocop executes a brutal campaign against crime while coming to terms with the lingering fragments of his humanity. Starring Peter Weller, Nancy All...

Taking an ill-advised detour en route to California, the Carter family soon run into trouble when their RV breaksdown in the middle of the desert. Stranded, the family find themselves at the mercy of a group of monstrous cannibals lurking in the surrounding hills. With their lives under threatm the Carters have no choice but to fight back by any means necessary. Starring Russ Grieve, Virginia Vinc...

Now successful writer Jennifer is back to where it all began to face the wrath of the families of those she murdered. Kidnapped along with her daughter Christy, it's tense game of hunt-or be-hunted against a ruthless gang of degenerates overseen by a violently unhinged matriarch, Becky. Starring Jamie Bernadette, Camille Keaton, Maria Olsen, Jim Tavare, Jonathan Peacy, Jeremy Ferdman, Holgie Forre...

This woman has just cut, chopped, broken, and burned five men beyond recognition. But no jury in America would ever convict her. Starring Camille Keaton, Eron Tabor, Richard Pace, Antony Nichols, and Gunter Kleemann. Cinematography by Yuri Haviv. Written and Directed by Meir Zarchi.

A year after her boyfriend Eric burns to death in a mysterious fire, Melody vows to put her traumatic past behind her. But the past isn't ready to Melody go. When Melody and her friends get jobs at the new mall, haunting reminders and inexplicable events begin to occur. With the help of a newspaper photographer, she learns the truth about Eric and the trail of grisly murders at the mall. Starring...

Izumi is a high-schooler forced to grow up quick when her father dies and she finds herself next in line as the boss of a moribund yakuza clan. Wrenched from the security of her classroom and thrust into the heart of the criminal underworld, she must come to terms with the fact that her actions hold the key to the life or death of the men under her command as they come under fire from rival gangs....

A young girl named Sayuri is reunited with her estranged family after years in an orphange - but trouble lurks within the walls of the large family home. Her mother is an amnesiac after a car accident six months earlier, her sullen sister is confined to a hidden attic room, and a young housemade dies unexpectedly of a heart attack just before Sayuri arrives... is it all connected to her father's w...

Whiskey Mountain entails a group of friends who set off into the backwoods on a treasure hunt for valuable civil war guns which turns sour after encountering some unhinged drug dealers. Starring Christopher George, Preston Pierce, Roberta Collins, Linda Borgeson, John Davis Chandler, Robert Leslie, and more. Music by Charlie Daniels. Cinematography by Julio C. Chavez. Written and Directed by Willi...

Sonny Stein, a man who develops the ability to communicate telepathically with man-eating sharks, begins to use his animals to attack anyone that crosses him. Starring Richard Jaekel, Jennifer Bishop, John Davis Chandler, Harold Sakata, Buffy Dee, Ben Kronen, and more. Cinematography by Julio C. Chavez. Screenplay by Robert W. Morgan. Directed by William Grefe.