New South African DVD releases for 2010

[Trevor]

Writing the liner notes for these right now:

Boland [The High Land] ~ a love story set in the beautiful Cape Winelands.

Ongewenste Vreemdeling [The Unwanted Stranger] ~ a tale of murder in a sinister logging community in the Eastern Cape with a truly shocking ending.

Rip Van Wyk ~ teaches you not to drink moonshine liquor in 1859 because you might just wake up in 1959. 

Lokval In Venesie [The Venice Trap] ~ a James Bond type film with a singing detective pursuing diamond thieves in Venice, believe it or not. 

Ride The High Wind ~ a very creepy film set in the Kalahari Desert, involving Death guarding a fortune in Boer War gold bullion. 

Satan's Harvest ~ South African drug smugglers try to off George Montgomery and all they really accomplish is to p**s him off highly.

King Hendrik ~ SA's first political comedy about a small town that declares itself legally independent from the rest of SA.

Kill & Kill Again ~ SA's first international box-office success and a great film.

[The Burgomaster]

Ride The High Wind

Kill & Kill Again ~ SA's first international box-office success and a great film.

RIDE THE HIGH WIND sounds like what happens after I eat Mexican food.

Is KILL AND KILL AGAIN the one from the 1970s or 1980s?  If so, I remember the U.S. television ads (I think it played on some double features with KILL OR BE KILLED).  I also believe we had it on VHS in the video store where I used to work.

[Trevor]

Ride The High Wind

Kill & Kill Again ~ SA's first international box-office success and a great film.

RIDE THE HIGH WIND sounds like what happens after I eat Mexican food.



Is KILL AND KILL AGAIN the one from the 1970s or 1980s?  If so, I remember the U.S. television ads (I think it played on some double features with KILL OR BE KILLED).  I also believe we had it on VHS in the video store where I used to work.

My friend and mentor David Millin ASC who directed RTHW, would have loved that remark. 

Kill & Kill Again is the one you're thinking of and it'll be great to have a good DVD copy of it from the film masters. Kill Or Be Killed is also getting released next year but in Afrikaans as Karate Olympia.

[Trevor]

Some more titles I've been working on.....

Geheim Van Nantes [The Nantes Secret]

Another tale of the Cape Winelands and one wine farmer's deep dark secret: based on a 200 hour radio serial condensed into a 99 minute film.

Karate Olympia

AKA Kill Or Be Killed: the tale of a revengeful Nazi martial arts coach  who hosts a tournament to the death in his desert castle.

More to follow: I'm up to 2011 already.