The Cage
A favorite from my Teen years where Lou Ferrigno saves Reb Brown in Vietnam however whilst doing so gets shot in the head and ends up with the mind on a Child. Brown ends up looking after him while they run a bar. However Ferrigno is duped by a couple of down on their luck low level Gangsters into participating in brutal underground Cage Fights in order to pay of their debts. Brown ends up looking for him in Chinatown where Tongs are holding the fights.
This is still a really good film where the fights are actually violent and the script does had layers of depth into the main characters. It does have this soppy song during the opening credits which did make me think that I had the wrong film.
I WOULD LIKE A UK DVD/BLU-RAY RELEASE PLEASE (I was able to get an import of The Cage II)
Outlaw Force
A man based in the Country has his Wife raped and murdered and his young Daughter kidnapped by a gang. He travels to L.A. in order to get her back before she's sold to a child porn ring and get revenge.
A low budget version of Death Wish, which Video Shops would have 1 copy in it's lowest rental tier and would be placed strategically next to the popular new releases so that the case would attract customers looking for an alternative. The acting and script wasn't good but can't say I wasn't entertained.
Enemy Territory
Gary Frank is a out of luck Insurance Salesman who has to go into a run down Tower Block in order to get some papers signed. However he encounters the wrath of The Gang (Lead by Tony Todd) who hunt him and the people who help including Ray Parker. Jr. and Jean Michael Vincent.
I remember seeing both versions of trailers on previous EIV rentals and wanted to see it so badly as it looked so exciting however neither of my 2 Video Shops had it until (I'm assuming) Video Magic probably did a trade with another store and got it in, when I had it rented, I was not disappointed, it was so thrilling. I got my Aunt to tape it when it was on Sky Movies back in the day (And watched it many times) It was as good today as it was back then, it just flew by. Tony Todd was amazingly terrifying in this film.
I WILL BE VERY ECSTATIC IF THIS GOT ANNOUNCED FOR A UK RELEASE
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