AbrAxas: Guardian of the Universe (videorecord PRSM 001)

AbrAxas is the true life documentary of how Jesse “The Body” Ventura came to earth. You see, before he was a wrestler or a governor he was an alien, an intergalactic cop alien to be exact, a 10,000 year old intergalactic cop alien to be precise. Mr. The Body was sent on a mission by his superiors to catch a rebel 10,000 year old intergalactic cop alien who was seeking to impregnate a fertile member of the human race so as to create the “Comater” and get the anti-life equation. When first you learn that Secundus (the rebel) needs to impregnate a birthing member of our race you think, can they really show this old guy raping a teenager in a movie that seems to be marketed toward the teen preteen crowd, well he only kind of does, he puts his hand on her tummy and then 5 minutes later she has a baby while still fully clothed. Jesse Ventura gives perhaps the driest performance of his career in what can only be considered the Grand Poobah of Intergalactic Cop movies.

Gegege no Kitaro (DVD EAL 887)

I decided to watch this film because the cover was entirely inexplicable to me. There are 11 characters on the front cover. One might not be able to distinguish two such characters as being characters, but they are. You could not be able to distinguish them as characters because on is an eyeball and one is a roll of cotton. There is also an old woman with a tuft of hair growing down her face, a frightened child and a train with a head that is on fire on the front. The hero of the movie, Kitaro of the Ge Ge Ge Forest, is a ghost who is kind of an ambassador of the Yokai to the humans who shoots needles from his hair. The move is packed with weirdo Yokai monsters with police/birds that are reminiscent of The Never Ending Story. Plus at the end all the characters do the Thriller Dance.