io9: Albert Pyun

Buffy's Clare Kramer is a sexy "spree killer" in the latest movie from the director of Brainsmasher and Cyborg!

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:07:59 PDT

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Check out the new trailer for Albert Pyun's latest exploitation film, Road to Hell. When a serial killer meets two hot female "spree killers" in a weird greenscreened landscape that's somewhere between Hell and Purgatory, sparks are sure to fly. Sparks, in this case, meaning Range Rover bondage and knifeplay. And kissing. But wait — there's a little kid! More »

Your Chance to Smoke a Bowl and Appreciate the Original Captain America

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:30:00 PDT

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The original 1990 Captain America film was a trainwreck — by all accounts, the investors pulled out a short time into filming, and the budget had to be slashed mercilessly — but it's also a supreme achievement of campy superhero action. More »

Could Manborg be the cyborg-vs.-demons movie we've all been waiting for?

Charlie Jane Anders — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:30:00 PDT

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Hell has taken over the Earth, led by the evil Count Draculon, and the human resistance is utterly crushed. Until one dying soldier gets transformed into the ultimate engine of vengeance... Manborg! Uh, what? More »

"Director's Cut" of the 1990 Captain America movie coming in May

Charlie Jane Anders — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:00:00 PDT

Just in time for the release of Marvel's huge new Captain America film, you're going to get a new expanded edition of the much-reviled 1990 version, director Albert Pyun tells io9. More »

Is it finally time for the director of the original Captain America to get some love?

Charlie Jane Anders — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:29:57 PST

This week, Albert Pyun's classic movie Cyborg is getting reissued, in a fancy director's cut. And people are finally seeing the bloody, demented film Pyun set out to make. Is it finally time for some Pyun appreciation? More »

The Post-Apocalyptic Dance Sequence That The Road Somehow Left Out

Charlie Jane Anders — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:19:14 PST

When you've survived a post-apocalyptic world of cannibals and evil gangs, there's nothing left to do but have a 1940s-style dance routine. For some reason, this sequence didn't appear at the end of The Road, so we're including it here. More »

Come To Post-Apocalyptic Boston For The Eastern European Charm, Stay For The Sewer Mutants

Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:30:00 PST

Welcome to the streets of post-apocalyptic Boston, Massachusetts: the plague hit so hard, the buildings look Bulgarian and the cars are all Yugos. It's just one of the charms of Adrenalin: Fear The Rush, including a great sewer mutant fight. More »

How To Reattach A Severed Robot Head

Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:00:00 PST

Rutger Hauer finds a severed robot head on the ground, and helps it get a new body, in this hilariously unconvincing sequence from Omega Doom. Too bad Robot Blade was using that head as a soccer ball... and he's pissed. More »

Kevin Sorbo Gives Good "Sleazy Guy"

Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:00:00 PST

As you might have noticed from his guest spot as the sexist 1960s Middleman last year, Kevin Sorbo is really good at playing a sleaze. Here he is as a TV personality/hunter in Never Cry Werewolf. More Sorbo sleaze below. More »

How To Get Root On Angelina Jolie's Brain

Charlie Jane Anders — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:14:00 PDT

Could this be the greatest Angelina Jolie moment ever? Long before she starred in Wanted — before Hackers, even — she played a cyborg named Cash Reese in 1993's Cyborg 2, directed by the great schlock-meister Albert Pyun. Here are some of our favorite moments from the film, including a scene where a lady hacker gets root on Angelina's brain by talking to her about cream. Oh yes. More »

The Midget Mafia Of Atlantis Demands A Woman-On-Woman Cage Match

Charlie Jane Anders — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:30:07 PDT

Supermodel Kathy Ireland descends into a netherworld of tinsel hair and woman-on-woman brawls to the death, in Alien From L.A., which may be schlockmeister Albert Pyun's masterpiece. And then the squeaky-voiced Kathy gets drugged and sold to the local mob boss. Maybe I missed the explanation for why Atlantis — a Blade Runner-knockoff dystopia built around a crashed spaceship at the center of the Earth — has a super-Mafioso in Kabuki makeup? The gangster, incidentally, is played by Deep Roy, best known as the Oompa Loompas in Tim Burton's Willy Wonka and the pig-brained ventriloquist's dummy Mr. Sin, from Doctor Who. More »

Captain America Teaches English Lessons — With His Fists

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:40:07 PST

The Red Skull sounds like Tweety Bird with a fakey Italian accent in this awesome clip from the original live-action Captain America movie. All the Skull wants is some English lessons, but instead Captain America kicks his ass, only to wind up strapped to a silly-looking Nazi rocket. The scene ends with the obligatory villain self-amputation, one of my favorite action-movie cliches. With Marvel working on a new Captain America film, this is the perfect time to celebrate the little-known original, with another clip after the jump. More »