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eBay Good viewing cassette. Original Rare Hard to Find MEDIA HOME ENTERTAINMENT in art sleeve, COMPLETE & UNCUT, except BOTTOM FLAP Missing. 1983 FIRST PRINTING. Hard to find rare video collectible from earliest days of the home video entertainment industry. FAST and SAFE DELIVERY. 1982. Directed by Edward D Murphy. TAGLINES : "Its nourishment - human flesh. Its guardian - the undead. Its sanctuary - the island" "Raw Force! Untamed and Unleashed to Kill!" "Once on the island the excitement and horror begins." - A group of martial-arts students is heading to an island that supposedly is home to the ghosts of martial artists who have lost their honor. A Hitler lookalike and his gang are running a female-slavery operation on the island as well. When the two groups meet, all sorts of crazy things happen, involving cannibal monks, piranhas, zombies, and more. VIEWER COMMENT : "Putrid film, but VERY entertaining! "Raw Force" is like an ultra-sleazy and perverted version of "The Love Boat", with additional Kung Fu fights, demented cannibalistic monks, white slaves trade, energetic zombies and a whole lot of lousy acting performances. It's got everything exploitation fanatics are looking for, blend in a totally incoherent and seemingly improvised script! The production values are extremely poor and the technical aspects are pathetic, but the amounts of gratuitous violence & sex can hardly be described. "Raw Force" has piranhas, wild boat orgies, Cameron Mitchell in yet another embarrassing lead role and 70's exploitation duchesses Camille Keaton ("I spit on your Grave") and butt-kickin' Jillian Kesner, in an utterly insignificant but magnificent cameo appearances. There's loads of gore, including axe massacres and decapitations, hammy jokes and bad taste fornication. The trash-value of this movie will leave you speechless. Maybe that's why the movie stops with "To Be Continued", instead of with "The End". BEHIND THE SCENES TRIVIA : The first treatment of the script was written under the title "Kung-Fu Zombies" and a treatment was written for a possible sequel that would have starred Jonathan Winters as the ex-husband of Hope Holiday's character. Cameron Mitchell would have also returned as Capt. Harry Dodds in the sequel. However, for reasons which have never been explained, no sequel was ever made. One of Jewel Shepard's early roles. She told Femme Fatales magazine she was cast in this and other films around that time because she was willing to go topless. She said, "Once again, I got to show off my boobs and got several close-ups. I could always guarantee myself at least one close-up in films where I went topless. And, hey, you do whatever it takes to bring home the bacon." In between the small low-paying roles she was getting, she supported herself by working at strip clubs, pointing out that she made more from the hundreds of guys who saw her bare breasts in person than the thousands of guys who saw them in movies.A library of 20,000 to 30,000 video items from 1978 forward, including multiples, is being offered for the first time to the eBay community. ALL inventory is OFFSITE from eBay listing center, so singular items may not be described individually, but in general to the collection. Some images may be representative. The quality of playback and visual presentation is GOOD to VERY GOOD to FINE. Some items may be Brand New Factory Sealed, while a few may slip through in a lesser quality. These items are inspected but individual items slip through occasionally, and we apologize for this inconsistency. Please, ask questions before purchase, we will do our best to oblige you. (Condition: Pre-Owned)

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