any word on mondo macabros snake sisters?

[Jack J]

Originally Posted by Robert F

Once again sorry Jack, I have no idea where to find these films (any version). Yeah it's a pretty long trailer, hopefully it's doesn't give away all the goods. Yeah I tend to notice a lot of there trailers have english narration and based on what I've seen newer Filipino/Tagalog films tend to have some english dialog as well.

From what I've read during this time they produced a lot of these "massacre" films based on true stories unfortunately.

Oh okay. Too bad. Thanks, Robert.

[Andrew Leavold]

The Carlo J. Caparas Debate has been raging ever since he was declared National Artist for the Visual Arts.

A National Artist status is a big deal in the Philippines. Eddie Romero was awarded one for film; the late Lino Brocka and Lamberto Avellana are also National Artists. There are very few awarded.

...which brings us to Caparas. As a director, he's regarded as a joke. His output since the Seventies has been komik adaptations and a spate of "Massacre" movies, and has recently moved into TV series.

However, as an author of komik stories he's well-regarded, most notably for his "Panday" character, a mythical blacksmith played by Da King, Fernando Poe Jr, in a quartet of films in the late 70s/early 80s, and last year by Senator Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr in his 2009 Metro Manila Film Festival comeback film.

Caparas was NOT a komik artist, but an author, and as such the National Artist award for Visual Arts seems like a token nod to his ability to market himself as a successful brand name. It's this crass self-promotion, plus his embarrassing back catalogue of B and C films, which has led to the call to strip him of his accolade.