Hot Picks

- Ready for My Close Up 2019

- Talk of the Dead 2016

- Script of the Dead 2024

- The Bell Affair 2023

- Easter Bloody Easter 2024

- Velma 2022

- Everwinter Night 2023

- Main Character Energy 2023

- Stupid Games 2024

- Bittertooth 2023

- 4 Minutes of Terror: Night Slasher 2024

- Apart 2024

- The Abandoned 2006

- Becky 2024

- The Evil Fairy Queen 2024

- The Black Guelph 2022

- Followers 2024

- Silence of the Prey 2024

- Battle for the Western Front 2024

- Beware the Boogeyman 2024

- Subject 101 2022

- Driftwood 2023

- The Legend of Lake Hollow 2024

- Black Mass 2023

- Skinwalkers: American Werewolves 2 2023

- The Manifestation 2024

- Spirit Riser 2024

- Garden of Souls 2019

- It's a Wonderful Slice 2024

- Caleb & Sarah 2024

- The Thousand Steps 2020

- The Desiring 2021

- When a Stranger Knocks 2024

- Quint-essentially Irish 2024

- Son of Gacy 2024

- Saltville 2024

- The True Story of the Christ's Return 2024

- Whenever I'm Alone with You 2023

- Jurassic Triangle 2024

- Midnight Peepshow 2022

- Offworld: Alien Planet 2024

- The Swiss Conspiracy 1976

- Sex-Positive 2024

- Here for Blood 2022

- All Over Again 2024

- The Color Yellow 2023

- Des Töchterleins Leid 2024

- I Am a Channel 2024

- The Hermits 2023

- Murdaritaville 2024

- Inheritance 2024

- The Devil's Partner 1960

- Pareidolia 2023

- First Impressions Can Kill 2017

- A Killer Conversation 2014

- Star Crash 1979

- Strangler of the Swamp 1946

Gilgamesh

USA 2014
produced by
Richard Chandler, Nunzio Puleo (executive), Holid Love (executive), Jean Chandler (executive), Angel Connell (line) for Boston Film Family
directed by Richard Chandler
starring Joshua Davis, Melantha Blackthorne, Emily Coleman, Joseph R. Gannascoli, Oselito Joseph, Richard Chandler, Ray Hryb, Jon Pierce, Carver Riot, Lilith Astaroth, Giancarlo Madonnini, Jim Baker, Sarah Michelle, Matthew Colicci, Emilie Faith Lewis, Joe Victor, Peter Morse, Alexandra Cipolla, David Bockenkamp, Natalia Musatova, Shannon Carter, Chris Goodwin, Todd Therrien, Alexander Hauck, Matthias Lupri, Van Brockmann, Chaunty Spillane, Angel Connell, Ray Boutin, Christine Cilano, Robbie Reid, Jody Celentano, James R. Green Jr, .Christian Cromwell, David Palmer, Shane Graham-Bevis, Donn Kelly, Mike Brophy, Angela Molihan, Rob Sherman, Morte McAdaver, George Raynor, Mathew Fisher
written by Richard Chandler, music by Avery Stemmler, theme music by Anthony Fadeyev, songs by Necrodemon, 208 Talks of Angels, Pleasure Garden, Blacksoul Seraphim, special effects by Justin Briggs, digital effects by Simon Hannon

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Quick Links

Abbott & Costello

The Addams Family

Alice in Wonderland

Arsène Lupin

Batman

Bigfoot

Black Emanuelle

Bomba the Jungle Boy

Bowery Boys

Bulldog Drummond

Captain America

Charlie Chan

Cinderella

Deerslayer

Dick Tracy

Dr. Mabuse

Dr. Orloff

Doctor Who

Dracula

Edgar Wallace made in Germany

Elizabeth Bathory

Emmanuelle

Fantomas

Flash Gordon

Frankenstein

Frankie & Annette Beach Party movies

Freddy Krueger

Fu Manchu

Fuzzy

Gamera

Godzilla

Hercules

El Hombre Lobo

Incredible Hulk

Jack the Ripper

James Bond

Jekyll and Hyde

Jerry Cotton

Jungle Jim

Justine

Kekko Kamen

King Kong

Laurel and Hardy

Lemmy Caution

Lobo

Lone Wolf and Cub

Lupin III

Maciste

Marx Brothers

Miss Marple

Mr. Moto

Mister Wong

Mothra

The Munsters

Nick Carter

OSS 117

Phantom of the Opera

Philip Marlowe

Philo Vance

Quatermass

Robin Hood

The Saint

Santa Claus

El Santo

Schoolgirl Report

The Shadow

Sherlock Holmes

Spider-Man

Star Trek

Sukeban Deka

Superman

Tarzan

Three Mesquiteers

Three Musketeers

Three Stooges

Three Supermen

Winnetou

Wizard of Oz

Wolf Man

Wonder Woman

Yojimbo

Zatoichi

Zorro

The 2030s: Archeologist David (Joshua Davis) is hired to go on a dig to Sibiria with the army - only to find out his presence is just facade, and the army's secretly looking for some kind of secret weapon ... but then the soldiers start shooting at each other as if taken over by some invisible force, and David just runs, despite not at all being familiar with the terrain - and eventually reaches a hut where he finds a beauty in a bikini, Inanna (Emily Coleman), locked in a cage. She says she's kept here by a psycho, but he saves her ... and then it gets hazy for him, until he wakes up in a hospital in Boston, USA, in a bed next to hers, his wife Kristen (Melantha Blackthorne) by his side. Inanna and Kristen take an instant dislike to one another, but David doesn't care too much, in a few days he's out of the hospital and he doesn't have to see Inanna ever again and can go on that long-promised extended vacation to the Bermudas with his wife ... or so he thinks, as Kristen out of the blue tells him she's pregnant, and while he had been told he's sterile and yet she insists she hasn't cheated on him - well, that's a bit much to handle ... and then he meets Inanna again, out on the streets one night, and she seems to be hell-bent on making him her boyfriend - to the point where she tries to get his best friend (Ray Hryb) to kill Kristen.

There is something more sinister going on on a larger political stage, too, the entity Gilgamesh (Oselito Joseph), who has kept Inanna, a sort-of deity, entrapped for more than a thousand years, has come to the USA to kill everybody involved with the mission, the US is under immediate threat from a meteorite, and in regards of all of this, Soviet agent Lars (Richard Chandler) finds it rather easy to personally assassinate the indecisive American president (Peter Morse) who has turned on the Russians for help, torture relevant information out of the vice president (Alexandra Cipolla), make the USA a part of the USSR, and ... make quite the same mistakes as they did. As everybody else, he thinks he can make Gilgamesh and Inanna make a pawn in his game, not realizing he's way outclassed, and the whole confrontation creates the most unlikely of heroes ...

 

Admittedly, Gilgamesh is a movie that blends motives of science fiction, fantasy and political thriller, with elements of horror and action cinema thrown in, rather wildly ... but it does so in a very imaginative and wildly entertaining way. Basically the film might not always make perfect sense, especially if you take it too seriously, but it really shows the joy of storytelling behind all of it: Here's a wild story for sure, but it flows so well, and despite lofty concepts on a low budget even because writer/director Richard Chandler is really into the story he tells, has the desire to entertain and brings the necessary craftmanship to deliver on a (tight) budget. And add to that a pretty good cast, and you'll really like this one!

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

Feeling lucky?
Want to
search
any of my partnershops yourself
for more, better results?
(commissions earned)

The links below
will take you
just there!!!

Find Gilgamesh
at the amazons ...

USA  amazon.com

Great Britain (a.k.a. the United Kingdom)  amazon.co.uk

Germany (East AND West)  amazon.de

Looking for imports?
Find Gilgamesh here ...

Thailand  eThaiCD.com
Your shop for all things Thai

Something naughty?
(Must be over 18 to go there!)

x-rated  find Gilgamesh at adultvideouniverse.com


Thanks for watching !!!

 

 

In times of uncertainty of a possible zombie outbreak, a woman has to decide between two men - only one of them's one of the undead.

 

There's No Such Thing as Zombies
starring
Luana Ribeira, Rudy Barrow and Rami Hilmi
special appearances by
Debra Lamb and Lynn Lowry

 

directed by
Eddie Bammeke

written by
Michael Haberfelner

produced by
Michael Haberfelner, Luana Ribeira and Eddie Bammeke

 

now streaming at

Amazon

Amazon UK

Vimeo

 

 

 

Robots and rats,
demons and potholes,
cuddly toys and
shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

is all of that.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to
-
a collection of short stories and mini-plays
ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic
to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle, all thought up by
the twisted mind of
screenwriter and film reviewer
Michael Haberfelner.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

the new anthology by
Michael Haberfelner

 

Out now from
Amazon!!!