Golden Needles

It's Friday, it's late and I don't have the energy to come up with a proper post.  Instead, I thought I'd give you a random obscure seventies move trailer:



The fact that Golden Needles was an AIP production probably tells you everything you need to know about the movie's quality, (that and the fact that it has such a bizarre cast). AIP were, for a good quarter of a century, simply the greatest producers and distributors of exploitation movies the world has ever seen. They produced everything from grade Z drive in horror and biker flicks to near art house exploitation items like Witchfinder General.  This film, an attempt to cash in on the Bruce Lee/kung fu bandwagon, sits somewhere in the middle of this range, and is fairly typical of AIP's seventies output, as they tried to move away from the horror genre. 

I must admit, I've never seen the movie, although I vaguely remember it being on late night TV, probably in the early eighties, (but I could be confusing it with some other low-budget exploitation movie with a similar theme).  It sits, alongside other, now forgotten, seventies action flicks like Jaguar Lives on my list of exploitation titles I really must eventually track down and watch.  As far as I'm aware, Golden Needles has never been released on DVD in the UK (a region 1 DVD was available in the US from MGM a couple of years ago), but you might be able to get a second hand VHS copy from eBay.   (I think my VHS player still works, so maybe I should try that).

So, there you are - a random obscure movie trailer.  Maybe this could become a regular feature?