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Hiruko the Goblin (1991)
Hiruko the Goblin (1991, aka "Yôkai hantâ: Hiruko", directed by Shin'ya Tsukamoto, screenplay by Shin'ya Tsukamoto based on a manga by Daijirô Morohoshi)
Review By Goat Scrote
Hiruko the goblin is a small six-legged monster with a prehensile tongue and a penchant for singing "tender melodies" through the severed heads that it steals and attaches to itself. If you aren't perking your ears up already, then you might as well abandon ship now because you're not the target audience. "Hiruko the Goblin" is bloody, strange, and fun. It has loads of decapitations and arterial spray, slapstick comedy, inventive camera work, and gross stop-motion monsters.
Oh, Hiruko, you torrid she-devil, you tempestuous vixen. You had me at "goblin", darling. Yōkai is a broad term for all kinds of monsters, demons, and spirits, but goblin is as good a word as any for… whatever it is Hiruko is.
Take a hike creeps, this is a Nilbog free picture
Writer-director Shin'ya Tsukamoto is the multitalented man who gave birth to the art-house sci-fi body-horror freakout "Tetsuo: The Iron Man" (1989). It's difficult to avoid mentioning that fact, even if it's only to point out that the two movies actually bear almost no resemblance to one another despite being made just a couple of years apart. "Hiruko" is different in tone, style, and intention from his other work. If there's any serious social commentary whatsoever in this movie it was completely lost on me. "Hiruko the Goblin" is a horror/comedy. It sets out to entertain the hell out of us and it succeeds better than most. If you're a fan of J-horror as a genre you're likely to enjoy "Hiruko" regardless of how you feel about any of Tsukamoto's diverse other films.
Mr. Yabe (Naoto Takenaka), an archeologist and high school teacher, is exploring an underground tunnel. One of his students, a girl named Tsukishima (Megumi Ueno), follows him. Something invisible attacks and drags them both away screaming. I am already enjoying the movie and it's just barely started.
Howdy, Climb up inside my sinuses and stay awhile
Masao Yabe (Masaki Kudou), the son of the archeologist and (wannabe) boyfriend of Tsukishima is on summer break but has nothing better to do than wander the school grounds with his friends drinking beer. His father and the girl have both disappeared, but the kids spot her through a window at the school as some guy prepares to kiss her. The boys leave and don't see the man die in a spray of blood. As he dies, Masao collapses, clutching his burning back.
An extremely nervous boy band
Naturally, there is a scary old man issuing dire warnings. That role is filled by sinister groundskeeper Watanabe (Hideo Murota) who carries around a hand-scythe, shouts at those damned kids to get the hell off his lawn, and later cuts the phone lines so that no one can call for help. Thanks asshole. (It turns out he has his reasons.)
They're kinda like faberge eggs
An old friend of the family turns up and rescues Masao just as he's about to be attacked by the invisible Hiruko. Hieda (Kenji Sawada) is an archeologist like Masao's father, but his reputation has been soiled by his belief in goblins. The archeologist has two homemade gadgets, one for detecting goblins, the other for killing them. The weapon soon gets broken but the detector keeps the goblin from sneaking up on them like it does to everyone else.
The Agony of Constipation
Masao's two friends get separated. Hiruko kills them off by singing, which leads them to decapitate themselves with whatever is handy: Razor blades; Broken glass; Chainsaws. It makes sense to me, I have a similar reaction to "American Idol". Masao has a mysterious supernatural connection to the deaths. The face of each victim is painfully scorched into his back when they die.
The souls of Asians make me hungry an hour later
Hiruko terrorizes Masao and Hieda several times but leaves them alive, a decision the monster will later regret I'm sure. At one point, the groundskeeper shows up and beats the hell out of both of them. Eventually Hiruko gets the drop on Masao and sticks its slimy tongue down his throat. Ewww, gag me with a latex goblin.
tonsil hockey Goblin style
Hiruko gives its victims happy dream-visions that cause them to willingly chop off their own heads. Hieda rescues Masao from this fate. Next Hiruko latches onto the groundskeeper Watanabe and swabs his tonsils with its phallic mouth-appendage. Watanabe sees that his own face has already appeared on Masao's back so he walks away and shoots himself in the head. Well, that way the goblin doesn't get it, at least. Before he dies he explains what he knows.
I'm displeased by these facelift results
The school has been attacked by goblins before. They were stopped by a boy wearing a three-horned crown who had the faces of the victims branded into his back.This was Masao's grandfather, and he entrusted young Watanabe with keeping the goblins contained. The school is built on top of the goblins' tomb and that there's a secret entrance. Hieda recites a magical passage at the inner door of the tomb and it opens. They enter armed with a single can of bug spray, hand tools, a flashlight, a photograph, and strong moral fiber to protect themselves from an army of immortal head-severing monsters. It's not a brilliant plan but it's a pretty ballsy move.
I'm gonna need a bigger can of Raid
Inside is a pit full of goblins, which is somehow roofed by the moonlit lake at the school. I don't really understand how that works but it looks neat so I won't raise a fuss. They find a crown similar to the one Watanabe described. Masao's father Yabe appears and he is looking greenish and pretty dead, but he's temporarily in charge of himself. He warns his son to flee and then the goblins attack. Yabe loses control and his head tears itself loose to join the chase.
Hey, that Echo and the Bunnymen video is on VH1 again
Hiruko is waiting at the door, blocking them in, and it calls the entire goblin horde. The two lovable goofballs jump out of the tomb door as Hieda chants the words to close it. The other goblins are trapped inside but Hiruko is still free. It attacks the archeologist and makes him recite the passage to open the door again, using a vision of his dead wife.
The inside of your bowels when you eat too much Siracha
The crown grows horns and the kid finds a piece of paper inside. He reads more magic words and puts on the crown which makes the goblins burst into flames, sucks them into the tomb, and seals the door on them all, including Hiruko. Hieda is lucky to be alive. Masao's burns are gone.
Beef-a-roni fatality
A watery magic beam runs from the lake into the sky. It has Tsukishima's face although it kind of looks like a giant mutant sperm. Her soul flies to the stars with the other goblin victims, Masao stays as the new tomb guardian, and Hieda goes home to work on digging up some nice monsters for a change.
It's time for a sing-a-long!
Feed Us Seymour!
I'm not angry, somebody drew on these sharpie brows that way
No pick one of these other delicious Human-Lobster hybrids out of the tank for your meal!
Labels: Asian, Goat Scrote Reviews, gore, Japan, magic, Monsters, violence
La Setta (1991)
"La Setta" (1991, aka "The Sect", aka "Demons IV: The Sect" aka "The Devil's Daughter", directed by Michele Soavi, screenplay by Dario Argento, Giovanni Romoli, and Michele Soavi.)
If you're only ever going to watch one Michele Soavi movie it should be "Dellamorte Dellamore"/"Cemetery Man" (1994). "The Sect" is not in the same league. It's good but not great. It is stylish and has a lot of positive qualities that help balance its flaws. If you're in the mood for a visually pleasing, slow-burn supernatural horror-thriller and you don't need it to make an awful lot of sense, this ought to do the job. There's creative camera work, vivid use of colors, some cool sets, good special effects, and plenty of weird atmosphere. The story is the weakest part. It's more than a little a bit convoluted, the ending is nothing special, and it runs too long (about 109 minutes in the version I saw, 125 minutes in the Italian version).
This is yet another one of those movies that was released under the "Demons" banner in some markets, but is in no way an actual sequel to the "Dèmoni" films. All of that shouldn't stop you from giving it a try, though, especially if you've enjoyed any of Michele Soavi's other directorial work. "La Chiesa"/"The Church" (1989) , the third "Demons" movie, is Soavi's actual contribution to the series… that of course, and his role as a silent, metal-masked villain in the first "Demons" (1985). Unlike those films, "La Setta"/"The Sect" isn't a monster movie, it's a Satanic cult story, an Italian take on the Beelzebaby subgenre.
Beezlebaby incubator wombs sold separately
Performances range from adequate to excellent. Kelly Curtis from "Trading Places" (1983) plays the main character. The consistently superb Herbert Lom plays the central villain, and he definitely brings the creepy. Lom is one of the few actors I've ever watched who stole scenes out from under Peter Sellers (in the "Pink Panther" series)! Horror veteran John Morghen plays a character named Martin Romero, a little reference to George Romero and his film "Martin" (1976).
Mmm.... Marzipan barrel
There's a very good, atmospheric musical score by composer Pino Donaggio. He composed music for a number of Brian DePalma's best films, including "Carrie" (1976) and "Body Double" (1984). He also scored Dario Argento's "Trauma" (1993), Joe Dante's "Piranha" (1978) and "The Howling" (1981), as well as a ton of other movies, and he is still working his magic in 2014. Also worth noting for music nerds, he wrote the song "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" ("Io Che Non Vivo") which was performed by Elvis Presley, among others.
There's a lot more talent packed into this movie than you might expect.
It's California, 1970, and there's a horrifying evil threatening the land… hippies! This fiendish bunch of breast-painting, dope-smoking, clock-smashing, guitar-playing layabouts threaten civilization with their brand of patchouli-scented tie-dyed fun. Guitar-guy is playing along with America's "Horse With No Name". This is absolutely the easiest guitar song in the world and can still be played even after you've had eight fingers amputated and up to 70% of your brain scooped out. True fact. It seems worth pointing out, given the sorts of things that are about to happen to guitar-guy.
Damon otherwise known as Marlie Chanson
A blurry prophet-from-the-desert figure (Tomas Arana) comes marching out of the heat. His name is Damon. They all sit around at dinner misquoting "Sympathy for the Devil" at each other and talking about how, like, profound the Rolling Stones are, man. It's so cosmic when Jagger says that part where he says, you know, what's nurturing you is the puzzle of my game, man. Hey, does anyone have some carob chips or some of those macrobiotic brown rice crackers? I've really got the munchies, brother.
Fucking Italians!
Later that night Damon brutally murders the hippies just as any rational, decent human being would be morally obligated to do. The way things are presented it seems at first like they might all be having wild sex. That moment of ambiguity highlights the way horror movies conflate sex and death while making a bit of a dark inside joke about it, as well. The whole peacenik camp, children included, has been sacrificed to Satan. Damon has a posse, it turns out, and they're something like a cross between the Manson family and the Hell's Angels, a "faceless army" of biker-cultists willing to kill at his word. They have connections to a powerful Satanic hierarchy from "the old country," and the higher-ups have a mysterious long-term master plan.
Official Spielberg Temple of Doom torn out heart Tchotchkes
The story shifts to Frankfurt, Germany, in 1991. A family man (John Morghen) stalks a woman to her home to assassinate her for betraying the cult. A pickpocket on the subway discovers the Satanic killer has a human heart in his pocket, wrapped in the victims golden cross bracelet. When the cops cuff him he jerks one of their guns into his mouth and forces the trigger down… he won't be a witness! I wonder if Satanist martyrs get special perks in Hell, like a bowl of ice cream once a century or something?
The story shifts focus yet again and we finally meet the main character, Miriam (Kelly Curtis). She nearly hits a sickly old man with her car, and lets him stay at her house for the night. The old man, Moebius (Herbert Lom), has some kind of medical condition that requires him to drip a red liquid into his eyes from time to time. He soon rewards Miriam's compassion and generosity by taking a big crawly insect from a box he carries and letting it wiggle up her nose while she sleeps.
Bunny Hugglewugs
Miriam has a nightmare while the bug is, presumably, burrowing into her brain. This sequence is short but pretty impressive. It did evoke the feeling of a dream, with its irrational form and the unpredictable way distance, perspective, and tone shifted. In the dream Miriam is in a field of bright poppies. She hears the cries of a baby and follows Rabbit into a forest full of wind chimes, to a naked, partially unseen person tied to a tree. Miriam struggles with the ropes and even tries to chew the captive free. She collapses on her back after she uses all her strength to pull apart one of the knots. Her feet are impossibly far away from her across the grass, and the unknotted ropes stretch away to the tree, now far off in the distance. Something travels up the length of her dress. A brutal-beaked bird bursts from her bodice (say that ten times fast). The bird rips wounds into her throat and she wakes up to find things have gone topsy-turvy in the real world as well.
Check out my impression of Brion James in Blue Sunshine!
The old man has trashed the place and collapsed. The phones are down, so Miriam drives away to a neighbor who is also a doctor to get help. As soon as she is gone the old man stands up and carries his brown-wrapped package down to the basement. He opens a secret passage to a strange basement chapel, with a big spiral window and reveals a secret well leading down to a water-filled tunnel. He sets the box of bugs on fire and throws it in, then pulls the cover back into place. Miriam's pet rabbit (named Rabbit) watches the whole thing. Moebius collapses again and tries to takes his medicine. Rabbit hated him from the start, and knocks the medicine down into well then cavorts victoriously atop his corpse. Just before he dies, Moebius pulls a handkerchief over his face like a shroud. Miriam and the doctor, Frank (Michel Addate), return and discover the passage opened by Moebius and follow it to the chapel, where they find the dead body. The authorities take the cadaver away but Moebius isn't finished spreading mayhem, not by a long shot.
Argento's homage to Monty Python
Something is brewing in the water under the house, and it's in the pipes. I really like the short sequence where the camera travels from the well in the basement through the pipe system up to the house. Blue slime leaks from the kitchen plumbing. Miriam drinks some of the water, and there are traces of slime inside her glass. An Asian woman breaks in and tries to steal the burial shroud that Moebius had over his face. The thief is caught in the act but escapes.
Regular basketball is for pussies
Rabbit is watching TV, and changing channels with his little paws. Demonic possession has never been so dang cute! Even the sweet-natured pooch in "Devil Dog: Hound of Hell" wasn't this adorable. Michele Soavi appears briefly as a magician on the TV while Rabbit is channel-surfing. A news story reveals that Moebius Kelly was an expert on Satanism who disappeared. Rabbit spends most of his time lurking menacingly. Honestly, I'm not quite sure what's going on with Rabbit… he starts acting unnatural pretty quickly, but it's not clear which side he's on, exactly. He kills villain Moebius but he also attacks Miriam's allies. Still, it's pretty impressive that they managed to make Rabbit seem even a little bit sinister.
Don't clean your tub with a Toilet Duck
Miriam is a teacher, and a girl in her class draws the insect that Moebius put up Miriam's nose. The girl later needs a ride home and as a result Miriam meets the girl's mother. The mother studies an insect that has been extinct for 10,000 years which would lay eggs inside a woman's brain, and the babies would eat the brain for nourishment. This is not sounding good for poor Miriam. It's the same bug which we know is living inside her skull, and she swoons and passes out at the sight of it.
One of the Real Housewives needs to get back to the Plastic Surgery operating table
Miriam's friend Kathryn (Mariangela Giordano) stops by and finds the handkerchief left by Moebius, miraculously imprinted with his face like an an anti-Shroud-of-Turin. The shroud clings to her and tries to suffocated her, but she is rescued by Cheryl. This could have been really corny but the death shroud attacks are very well-done and creepy. Kathryn flees the house in a rush. She then picks up a random trucker, and we can see that she brought along a blade. His friends hear some strange noises and run to the scene, and unexpectedly, the trucker is stabbing Kathryn to death with her own kitchen knife. He's horrified when he realizes what he's done. For once, the Devil really did make him do it.
Sissy Spacek in the Italian version of The Shining
Miriam's goldfish are dead, eaten from the inside by the blue worms in the tap water. Miriam responds to this discovery by taking a long bath, soaking in the murky, wormy, fish-killing water. Yikes. Something is definitely not right with her. Soon she gets an impossible phone message from the dead Moebius. He says that he left his diary at her house. This bizarre message is followed up with a call that Kathryn is in the hospital dying from her injuries. Later the corpse gets up and attacks her, blames her for the death, and then cuts its own throat shouting "I'd die for you Miriam!"
Help! I forgot how to swim
She goes down to the morgue with her doctor friend, Frank, for reasons that I was never quite clear on. Frank finds an "unknown" sealed metal coffin there and opens it… with a can opener! Ha! It shoots corpse-juice in his face at first and it's a pretty gross scene. Inside is a soup of fluids with body parts floating in it. The old man's corpse has disappeared, I guess?
I've fallen down, someone call me a cab so I can get to the set of the latest Hellraiser sequel
Back home the phone message and the shroud are also gone. Frank gives her a sleeping pill and while she snoozes he finds the diary of Moebius. The bunny has its eyes on him, and Frank doesn't notice that there are blue worms wriggling in Miriam's ears. Frank is busy examining the weird pipes running through the house, and following a diagram in the diary he makes his way to the weird satanic chapel with the shaft and the spiral window. The diary falls into the shaft and he climbs down after it. The death shroud surfaces in the water and seems to look at Frank like a face. He hears voices and follows a side tunnel the exits into the outdoors in a strange, rather pretty wetland.
Damon the biker-cult leader, now much older, turns up again. He's performing some kind of ritual along with a bunch of other cultists gathered around a tree under the full moon. Damon uses giant hooks to pierce their sacrificial victim all around her face. The cultists reflect moonlight on her with mirrors and call out to Shub-Niggurath, the black goat with a thousand young, a reference to one of the unspeakable alien gods of HP Lovecraft's horror fiction. I guess this is sort of legit. Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan and showman of PT Barnum proportions, included two "official" ceremonies in his 1972 book "The Satanic Rituals" which call on the creatures invented by Lovecraft. If you didn't understand that LaVey was a prankster before… well, now you know. Occultism is a wacky business.
OK who invoked me, I was about to retire to my chamber with some chamomile tea and a savory biscuit
To demonstrate just how zany black magic can be, Damon tears the victims face off with the hooks and places the skin onto the dead body of the old man. Moebius instantly sits up and points directly to Frank's hiding place. Frank flees and climbs back up the shaft to the house. At the top the bunny attacks him and sends him back into the water. The death shroud surfaces and wraps around his face. I know a bunny and a hanky don't sound very threatening, but this movie manages to make the scene work. Even so, you can't help but giggle when you think about it. Death by bunny-bite, falling down an open manhole, and choking on a handkerchief… what an embarrassing way to die.
Rip Taylor got drunk on Night train again
Frank shows up at Miriam's front door acting really weird, not dead after all. He has a kitchen knife and he's going to "save her" from her "destiny". She locks him out, so he upgrades to a pickaxe and starts hacking down the door Jack Torrance style. She gets to her car and drives away, but Frank leaps on board and causes a wreck. Later Damon and his toughs find Frank, who dies in a car explosion.
Oh Shit, did I forget to set my DVR for Masterchef again?
Miriam stumbles back home, where the resurrected Moebius is waiting for her. He and his cohorts inject something into her nose and she wakes up, still drugged, in the Satanic chapel in the basement. A giant heron-like bird flies up out of the well, and she falls backward into a nest of ropes. The shadow of the bird can be seen changing into a man, who starts having sex with her, but when she opens her eyes it is the bird from her dream pecking at her throat.
Dar, is that you calling me, Oops I flew into the wrong movie again!
Afterward, the Satanists salve the gaping wound in her neck. The cultists drop a whole lot of heavy jive on Miriam all at once: Darth Moebius is her father; Every detail of her life from the beginning has been arranged by the cult; Her basement contains a doorway to Hell; And she is going to be Satan's baby-mama. Then they lower her into the water of the Hell-gate. There are women down in the water with her, midwives for the Antichrist. As an eclipse of the moon occurs, down in the water she gives birth to something. It is born "in the caul", with the amniotic sac still intact (a traditional folkloric omen that a child will have spiritual powers).
Yippie, Now I've got the last hummel figurine for my collection
Moebius offers her the chance to raise the child, but when the right moment arrives, Miriam shoves one of the Satanists down the shaft to bounce off the walls and die. Then she goes grabs the baby and runs. The bikers chase her to the site of the burning car where Frank died, and one of the bikers is set aflame. Miriam flings herself and the baby into the fire, and Moebius follows. They wrestle in the flames and end up resembling a crispy charcoal briquette. Impossibly, the firefighters discover a live and naked Miriam inside the charcoal. She believes the child protected her from the flames because he loved her. Sure, I guess. Miriam sees a bird of prey flying by, different from the bird which attacked and raped her… perhaps the spirit of her child? I never did figure out what the rabbit and bird motifs throughout the movie signified exactly, but oh well.
Labels: Argento, Beelzebabies, bikers, bugs, creepy, Demons Series, Goat Scrote Reviews, Italian, magic, Satan, Series
Point/ Counterpoint Review: Frozen Scream
Tonight on TOG'S critics battle we've got a real stinker, a torrential diaper that Mary Whitehouse and her army of Conservative chuckleheads deemed worthy for the Video Nasty List. We've invited Webberly Rattenkraft, the resident fact expert over at CREEPY KOFY MOVIE TIME, my favorite local California horror host program. Even though there's a big TV star in our midst, that doesn't mean punches will be pulled--fuck that shit! As you'll soon find out however, NO ONE in their right mind could honestly like this movie! It made me wish I entered the carbonite chamber and became frozen forever.
This is our third critics battle, a very special one, because this time it's mutant vs. rodent--two commentators enter the arena--no one wins!
FROZEN SCREAM Directed By Frank Roach, Starring Renee Harmon (1975)
CRANKENSTEIN: The only movie where it's acceptable to start with a poem read over stock footage of the sea is Lady Terminator and this ain't it!
Sorry, I was busy working on my research paper for Anthropology
WEBBERLY: Oh, Lady Terminator. Where are your sultry terminating skills when we really need them? Nothing could improve this movie like having Lady Terminator stride into the room to terminate the shit out of everyone in sight, starting with the goddamn narrator. More about him in a bit.
Arghhh I'm Harry Reems' stunt cock!
CRANK: A googly eyed hunchback, fishes victims out of a pool carries them around on his back. All of these non sequiturs happen during the credits!
Hey, slow down director we've got an hour to kill!
Tom Girard a tan sweater wearing weenie keeps getting prank calls and goes to investigate, but he gets jumped by out of work porn actors in black cloaks! They inject him with mysterious needles. If the second half is as berserk as the first, we're in for a real blast!
TURN BACK NOW WHILE THERE'S STILL TIME!
WEBB:I have to admit, the black pointy hoodies lend a festive Ray Dennis Steckler air to the proceeding. This movie would be at least 66% better with the Lemon Grove Kids involved.
OW! my face, these Botox injections were just administered
CRANK: His wife Anne is down at the hospital and everything she says is over explained by Sergeant McGuire, a narrating detective. The audio sounds like it was recorded while they were running the film and gives it an extra bit of unintentional hilarity.
WEBB: How bad is the sound recording? So bad that I'm still not convinced that the actor playing McGuire and the narrator claiming to be McGuire are the same person. Now, I can't prove that the actor was so traumatized by his experiences on set that he refused to come back and do the voice-over so they had to call in a sound-sort-of-alike, but does any other theory make any kind of sense? No. Therefore I am right.
HAHA Too late to turn back now!
CRANK: Lil Stanhope (any relation to Doug, the Beatle hating comedian)? Her bad accent sounds like Ariana Huffington doing the audio for a Charlie Brown holiday special.
When I went to film school they tried to brainwash me by saying don't over narrate everything that's happening on the screen, this clumsy movie breaks all the rules. Gradually you begin to realize nothing in this piece of shit makes any sense at all, abort, abort!!!
Audio collides into narration and stumbles into supreme awkwardness, if you find this irritating and not an advantage then don't watch this movie, you're gonna have a bad time!
WEBB: Most of the people in the movie read their lines they're like a casting agent prompting the seventy-fifth auditioner of the day, but not Lil Stanhope. No, she just sounds like she memorized her lines phonetically and has no idea what she's actually saying.
CRANK: This film should've been on the Audio Atrocities list not the Video Nasty one!
Sven the mad doctor sounds like he was dubbed by a guy that says "jive turkey" a lot, but sadly never does. One of the doctor's hooded goons splits a girls cranium with a hatchet (her eyelids move underneath the blood splatter).
Down at the beach a cult chants "love and immortality" and we see a nipple pop out, don't expect more nudity cause you ain't getting any!
You think that's a nipple, but it's really a big hairy wart.
WEBB: I should probably confess that I really didn't pay close attention to FROZEN SCREAM, but that's hardly my fault. The thing is like attentional Teflon. You try to look at it, and your brain just slides right off, whoosh! I remember the jive turkey guy clearly, though, and wish the movie had been about him fighting drug dealers or ninjas or maybe ninja dealers. Maybe that wouldn't have been much better, but at least it wouldn't have been this movie.
CRANK: The score is not all that bad--Hey there's a positive! Sometimes it sounds like the synthesizer is trying to recreate a car accident by going WARRRRRRRMMMMMMMMPPPPPHHHHHHH. It must be the same kind of instrument that Ferris Bueller had when he fooled everyone at school!
Abe Frohman, the Sausage King of Chicago is behind the frozen zombie plague
WEBB: I bet Ferris Bueller was actually a frozen zombie. Remember his clammy palms? Classic sign. You shake hands with someone who's got clammy palms, odds are very good that he's a frozen zombie. Stab him, just in case.
CRANK: I cannot believe that director Frank Roach didn't return to the mental institute where he should've remained. He managed to escape in 1984 to film something called Nomad Riders! Renee Harmon (who played Lil Stanhope) went onto Van Nuys Blvd., The Executioner 2 (not the Duke Mitchell one, the Chris Mitchum one) and even showed up in something called Lady Street Fighter (with Liz Renay). All the other actors died of embarrassment or got jobs at the DMV.
Not to be confused with Lady Terminator!
WEBB: Was it ever proved that Frank Roach wasn't just 10,000 cockroaches all crammed together in a people suit? Because that would explain a lot. I tried to get 60 Minutes interested in an expose, because if there are bugs running around trying to make movies the American people need to know about it, but the producer I met with wouldn't even get off the phone long enough to talk to me. He just kept screaming that a giant rat had broken into his house and would the police please hurry up. Hollywood types can be so rude. I was thinking of taking it to Jerry Springer, but that guy's house is like a fortress. What the hell is he so worried about?
Only a gutless wimp would be afraid of a giant punk rodent
CRANK: Good Point Sir! and as for appearing on a trash talk show, I'm sure Maury would hook you up!
I've heard that there's a worse VIDEO NASTY called Miss You Hugs and Kisses with Elke Sommer, I shudder at the thought of ever sitting down ludovico style in front of that monstrosity! On all the message boards, they talk about the "plot" like it's easy to figure out, we both agree that there is ZERO PLOT! According to Dailygrindhouse.com it defies analysis or understanding and they warn not to spend any money on a bootleg DVD or Video of it!
WEBB: Did you know Elke Sommer was in THEY CAME TO ROB LAS VEGAS? That's the second time that movie has come up today, which usually means I should go watch it, except it's not on Netflix so I guess I'm outta luck. On the bright side, those few minutes I just spent researching it were minutes during which I wasn't thinking about FROZEN SCREAM at all. Gotta look at the positives.
It looks like they got Weng Weng's brother Steve Weng to appear
CRANK: I did have a blast watching it chatting on the Creepy Kofy Face Book page with a bunch of pals who watch the show every Sat., because it was a laugh riot. I highly recommend viewing it heavily medicated with friends who can appreciate bad movies, because this film lowered the bar to infinity.
Thanks Webb for joining me tonight on this debate and keeping the ravenous fans of your local horror host show satisfied while the show was on hiatus.
WEBB: And in return I thank you for the platform from which to vent my movierage. I second the recommendation for movie medication, because without some kind of mental armor to cushion the blows, this movie will leave marks on your psyche, and nobody wants a psyche that's all scuffed and weeping.
Thanks again and next time bring some Cavegirls!
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Labels: American Trash, bugs, cheesy, drugs, famous people, miserable, Point/ Counterpoint Review, Shameless promotion, terrible dubbing
Kris Gilpin's Unearthed Works: M 3-D THE MOVIE
This was originally printed in Subhuman, an incredible zine created by Cecil Doyle, which Kris frequently wrote for and thanks to Greg Goodsell, here comes another edition of "The Unearthed Works of KG". Apparently all of the back issues were bought up by Lux Interior of The Cramps for a hefty sum and have been kept out of the public eye, until now. More to be transcribed, dusted off and re-animated later, stay tuned!
There was a long line standing outside the Nuart "art" theatre at Midnight waiting to see the world's first 3-D hardcore porn epic, M3-D! The Movie, which was bering shown in "Deep-vision". "You'll duck when John Holmes cums on screen!" proclaimed the lurid flyers and ad mats (which of course. LA's mainstream newspapers refused to run). Directed by "Norm DePlume" (chuckle), this was also hyped with the legend, "Scene you'll never see on MTV!"
MTV should sue. This piece of grunt has not a thing in common with the musical cable channel; the distributors apparently simply ripped off their call letters in hope of attracting (and duping) a youthful crowd.
The glasses which were handed out were the better kind, sporting red and blue lenses instead of the inferior, uniformly grey ones. It was a decent crowd for a Midnight show (the theatre had just shown a double bill of Manhattan and The Apartment). Since Subhuman (or TOG) is not afraid to stoop to the lowest level of human degradation (and since I have always enjoyed the pure-schlock, William Castle-ish gimmick of cinematic 3-D), I donned the cellophane spectacles and hoped for Cody Nicole inside.
Does this chair make my ass look fat?
The first tip-off came right at the start when the film began with a title card M3-D! The Movie, which had been spliced into the front of the print. Next came names like John Seeman and Bill Margold, people who haven't made fuck films in years, which meant that this movie (I know not its original title) is actually somewhere around 15 years old. It was however, originally shot in the three-dimensional process, though the photography was gaudy and washed-out, making it look almost like a black & white movie. The disturb hadn't even bothered to strike a fresh print, and this one was full of tape splices. The credits listed "Ann Nonymus" as a co-writer, The Lucious Lickers as composers (Available on scratchy 78s") and they'd even spelled John "Holms" name incorrectly.
Sadly, the popsicle twins didn't make an appearance
With a dipshit musical theme ("La-la-la-la-laaaaa!"), the story skips all over the screen, beginning with three Roman assholes bouncing on a trampoline (the first stupid 3-D effects in the film). The funniest line in the whole flick comes after one of these stooges kicks a large fruit on the ground ("Oh Melon of Troy!"), and why was it they'd have people act like total schmucks (complete with embarrassing overacting) in the name of "comedy" for these early shitters? Were they making slime for readers of Hustler of Highlights? We then cut abruptly to the Dandy Candy Co. (run by a guy who keeps forgetting his bogus British accent and his assistant named Miss Breastworthy), which is given seven days to save itself from eviction. They are saved when some liquid drips on a bunch of lollipops which,when licked give folks the horn. Meanwhile, the three dolls pop in and out of the picture, saying they are looking for "the Fellatio Mines".
I want my STD!
The audience was at first dumbfounded, as usual, then soon began laughing at the film (as opposes to with it);some guys in the audience were getting drunk on something and started hooting at the action on-screen. During the most effective 3-D cum shot, someone yelled, "Run for your lives!!!"
And all went apeshit when the infamous Johnny Wadd mounted some poor girl ("It's Alive!!" "Eat it!!" "Cornhole!!")
The dialogue was along the lines of: "They're suckers for those lollipops!" (She: "I love wine; on the other hand, port makes me fart") And, "Gee, Wilbur you know you don't need a lolly to score with me". The uninspired 3-D FX included nets, wooden boards, record albums, brooms, mailing envelopes, eggs, telephones and even garbage being thrust in front of the camera lens.
ARGGGHHHHH, I cannot unsee so many revolting pairs of genitals!
Typical boredom set in half-way through this cum flick, and I heard a couple behind me say "What the fuck are we doing here at 1 A.M.?!" They spent the remainder of the movie guessing who they thought on screen were now dying of AIDS.
We had all been lured in by the ad, which was much more effective than any "effect" they pooted out in the film. So beware won't you?
Suckered again!
So Ya feel cheated by a shitty 70's porn do ya, what did you expect?
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You can call me the No Mom because I'm finished being the Yes Mom.
You can call me the No Mom because I'm finished being the Yes Mom.
Children and their dynamic in the family is a tough area to navigate. We can think we're doing everything right and then whammo, something hits us smack in the face and we need to change course. This happened to me this week and I had to put it onto paper. I concluded that I need to be the No Mom because the Yes Mom is raising ungrateful children.
The amount of love I have for my children is inexplicable. From the moment I knew they were growing inside of me until this very moment my love continues to expand. This love, perhaps, has lead me to say yes just a few times too many.
My children don't usually ask for things. I try to anticipate their needs and stay ahead of the curve. I will make them special breakfast just for fun, if it's a nice day I ask if they'd like to go to the park and for the most part, everything runs very smoothly.
However, when my kids ask for something I generally say yes. Why? It makes no difference to me if they play this game or that, have spaghetti instead of chicken for dinner or pick out a small toy when we go shopping. I love seeing them happy and this has perhaps lead my children to believe that I'm incapable of saying no.
Without intention, I have become the Yes Mom.
It happened just a few days ago. I was having a rough day. My spouse was supposed to take me on a long overdue date and ran into car trouble, I packed the kids and dog into the minivan at 6:30 at night to prepare for the hour-long drive to get him. After driving for a bit, I learned that he already received help and I had to turn the entire crew around. I thought, why waste the night? I have my kids dressed and in the van and I was hoping for a fun evening anyway.
I stopped, without a second thought, to pick up a light fixture that was on sale. I had been eying it for months and it was suddenly $30 reduced. As I put the minivan into park, immediately the whining started. "But Mom, we want to go to Target!" One yelled "I want to go to Target Now!!" I explained that I wanted to go to Lowes and not Target, and that our house needed this light fixture.
To my surprise, the whining continued to the point where my 5-year-old yelled, among other things: "You are going to get me a toy RIGHT NOW!" I thought. Oh no. Oh no, no, no. I immediately started thinking back and thought, when have I ever really said "no" to the kids?
I did go and get my light fixture.
I turned around and said: "If we don't go to get this light fixture, we are not going to Target ever again." You are going to behave politely, get out of the van and go pick up this super cool fixture with me. Then we are going home and you are all going straight to bed.
They woke her, No Mom, and she cannot be put back into the bottle.
Why it's important to say no to children.
I realized that saying yes whether intentionally or not was, in fact, setting my kids up for an unrealistic world. When my kids grow up, they are not always going to hear "yes." In fact, they will probably more often hear no. The world is full of nos and as parents, it's our responsibility… it's my responsibility to prepare them for this.
So, I am packing up the "Yes Mom" and replacing her with a still kind, chocolate chip making-pancake flipping Mom, just one who says "no" more often. Just for the heck of it, I'm going to say no. Not because I am not willing to do things for my kids, but because the world isn't full of Yesses and I want them to be well-rounded adults, not entitled young men who believe everything should be handed to them.
Okay, so I will never be the Mom who sends my kids to bed hungry. Especially the picky eater with medical problems. He'll always have that special cheese sandwich. However, I am making a point of saying no. Not because I can't say yes, but because they need to understand that hearing "no" is part of life and is not the end of the world.
Maybe I'll set a goal to say no X amount of times per week, but they're going to hear it and I believe we'll be a better family because of it.
I hope to find balance and add this life lesson on my journey to raise responsible, thankful and humble young men.
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The new models will undoubtedly appeal to young, wealthy business moguls, who go by their own rules with cars that are "just as uncompromising and unapologetic in their choice of living and lifestyle as their predecessors."
Technically and aesthetically, the 'Black Badge' is darker, more assertive, more confident and powerful, and more demanding than the standard Rolls-Royce silhouette. Black Badge leaves a powerful presence on the luxury landscape, marking a transformative moment for the great brand.
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On October 13, 2017, Governor Brown signed SB 798, amending Business and Professions Code Section 805, Civil Code Sections 43.7 and 43.8, and Evidence Code Section 1157 to include licensed midwives within their scope. Notably, these changes only apply to licensed midwives, those professionals who pass the North American Registry of Midwives examination and are licensed by the Medical Board of California. This bill does not apply to certified nurse midwives licensed by the California Board of Nursing.
Business and Professions Code Section 805, et. seq. provides a peer review and reporting structure for listed professionals. SB 798 amends Section 805 to include licensed midwives under the definition of "licentiate" and to include midwifery under the types of professional societies that may have peer review obligations. Section 805(b) sets forth the mandatory reporting requirements when certain peer review actions are taken or recommended. As of January 1, 2018, licensed midwives will be subject to being reported to the Medical Board under Section 805 ("805 Reports"). SB 798 does not, however, add licensed midwives to the definition of "licentiate" under Section 809(b) of the Business and Professions Code. So, just like physician assistants who were added to Section 805 in 2013, licensed midwives do not fall within the list of practitioners who must be afforded the statutory hearing rights under Section 809.1 through 809.6 when they are the subject of an 805 Report.
Sections 43.7 and 43.8 of the Civil Code protect peer review participants and the peer review bodies of professional societies from monetary liability and damages for acts and proceedings under specified circumstances. SB 798 adds licensed midwives to those protections. As of January 1, 2018, licensed midwives will be protected where their actions are taken as part of a committee to maintain the professional standards of the society or they are a peer review committee reviewing the quality of care of listed professionals, as long as the actions are taken without malice, after reasonable effort to obtain the facts, and with the reasonable belief the action is warranted by the facts. Under Section 43.8 licensed midwives will be protected from monetary liability and damages actions for communicating information when the communication is intended to help in the evaluation of the "qualifications, fitness, character, or insurability of a practitioner . . . ." (Civ. Code, § 43.8.)
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Buying a boat is truly awesome. Whether you are buying it for business or just as a hobby owning a boat can be amazing because it's not something a lot of people get to do. There are so many options out there so you are bound to find something that you like but these options also make it rather hard to navigate the market. When buying a boat you need to know exactly what you want and you need to make sure that you get the right one as you only have one chance to get it right. Here are a few things that you need to pay attention to when buying a boat.
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What you know what you want it's important to get a good idea on your limits. In most cases, the first limit would be the price. Apart from that, there might be a host of other things that you don't want to have in your boat and paying attention to these are as important as paying attention to the features that you do want. The amount of time and effort you can put into maintenance, the size of the boat are a few things that you need to look into in terms of limits. This is an important step so don't skip it.
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A boat can be a rather hefty investment so you need to make sure that you pay attention to the quality of the product that you are buying.
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extern crate compile_msg;

extern crate libc;

use std::ffi::{CString};
use std::sync::mpsc::{Sender};
use std::sync::Mutex;
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#[doc(hidden)]
pub mod ffi;

/// This static variable  will store the android_app* on creation, and set it back to 0 at
///  destruction.
/// Apart from this, the static is never written, so there is no risk of race condition.
static mut ANDROID_APP: *mut ffi::android_app = 0 as *mut ffi::android_app;

/// This is the structure that serves as user data in the android_app*
#[doc(hidden)]
struct Context {
    senders: Mutex<Vec<Sender<Event>>>,
}

/// An event triggered by the Android environment.
pub enum Event {
    EventUp,
    EventDown,
    EventMove(i32, i32),
}

impl Copy for Event {}

#[cfg(not(target_os = "android"))]
compile_note!("You are not compiling for Android");

#[macro_export]
macro_rules! android_start(
    ($main: ident) => (
        pub mod __android_start {
            extern crate android_glue;

            // this function is here because we are sure that it will be included by the linker
            // so we call app_dummy in it, in order to be sure that the native glue will be included
            #[start]
            pub fn start(_: int, _: *const *const u8) -> int {
                unsafe { android_glue::ffi::app_dummy() };
                1
            }

            #[no_mangle]
            #[inline(never)]
            #[allow(non_snake_case)]
            pub extern "C" fn android_main(app: *mut ()) {
                android_glue::android_main2(app, move|| super::$main());
            }
        }
    )
);

/// This is the function that must be called by `android_main`
#[doc(hidden)]
pub fn android_main2<F>(app: *mut (), main_function: F)
    where F: FnOnce(), F: Send
{
    use std::{mem, ptr};

    write_log("Entering android_main");

    unsafe { ANDROID_APP = std::mem::transmute(app) };
    let app: &mut ffi::android_app = unsafe { std::mem::transmute(app) };

    // creating the context that will be passed to the callback
    let context = Context { senders: Mutex::new(Vec::new()) };
    app.onAppCmd = commands_callback;
    app.onInputEvent = inputs_callback;
    app.userData = unsafe { std::mem::transmute(&context) };

    // executing the main function in parallel
    let g = Thread::spawn(move|| {
        std::io::stdio::set_stdout(box std::io::LineBufferedWriter::new(ToLogWriter));
        std::io::stdio::set_stderr(box std::io::LineBufferedWriter::new(ToLogWriter));
        main_function()
    });

    // polling for events forever
    // note that this must be done in the same thread as android_main because ALooper are
    //  thread-local
    unsafe {
        loop {
            let mut events = mem::uninitialized();
            let mut source = mem::uninitialized();

            // passing -1 means that we are blocking
            let ident = ffi::ALooper_pollAll(-1, ptr::null_mut(), &mut events,
                &mut source);

            // processing the event
            if !source.is_null() {
                let source: *mut ffi::android_poll_source = mem::transmute(source);
                ((*source).process)(ANDROID_APP, source);
            }
        }
    }

    // terminating the application
    unsafe { ANDROID_APP = 0 as *mut ffi::android_app };
}

/// Writer that will redirect what is written to it to the logs.
struct ToLogWriter;

impl Writer for ToLogWriter {
    fn write(&mut self, buf: &[u8]) -> std::io::IoResult<()> {
        let message = CString::from_slice(buf).as_slice_with_nul().as_ptr();
        let tag = b"RustAndroidGlueStdouterr";
        let tag = CString::from_slice(tag).as_slice_with_nul().as_ptr();
        unsafe { ffi::__android_log_write(3, tag, message) };
        Ok(())
    }
}

/// The callback for inputs.
pub extern fn inputs_callback(_: *mut ffi::android_app, event: *const ffi::AInputEvent)
    -> libc::int32_t
{
    fn send_event(event: Event) {
        let senders = get_context().senders.lock().ok().unwrap();
        for sender in senders.iter() {
            sender.send(event);
        }
    }
    fn get_xy(event: *const ffi::AInputEvent) -> (i32, i32) {
        let x = unsafe { ffi::AMotionEvent_getX(event, 0) };
        let y = unsafe { ffi::AMotionEvent_getY(event, 0) };
        (x as i32, y as i32)
    }
    let action = unsafe { ffi::AMotionEvent_getAction(event) };
    let action_code = action & ffi::AMOTION_EVENT_ACTION_MASK;
    match action_code {
        ffi::AMOTION_EVENT_ACTION_UP
            | ffi::AMOTION_EVENT_ACTION_OUTSIDE
            | ffi::AMOTION_EVENT_ACTION_CANCEL
            | ffi::AMOTION_EVENT_ACTION_POINTER_UP =>
        {
            send_event(Event::EventUp);
        },
        ffi::AMOTION_EVENT_ACTION_DOWN
            | ffi::AMOTION_EVENT_ACTION_POINTER_DOWN =>
        {
            let (x, y) = get_xy(event);
            send_event(Event::EventMove(x, y));
            send_event(Event::EventDown);
        },
        _ => {
            let (x, y) = get_xy(event);
            send_event(Event::EventMove(x, y));
        },
    }
    0
}

/// The callback for commands.
#[doc(hidden)]
pub extern fn commands_callback(_: *mut ffi::android_app, command: libc::int32_t) {
    let context = get_context();

    match command {
        ffi::APP_CMD_INIT_WINDOW => {

        },

        ffi::APP_CMD_SAVE_STATE => {

        },

        ffi::APP_CMD_TERM_WINDOW => {

        },

        ffi::APP_CMD_GAINED_FOCUS => {

        },

        ffi::APP_CMD_LOST_FOCUS => {

        },

        _ => ()
    }
}

/// Returns the current Context.
fn get_context() -> &'static Context {
    let context = unsafe { (*ANDROID_APP).userData };
    unsafe { std::mem::transmute(context) }
}

/// Adds a sender where events will be sent to.
pub fn add_sender(sender: Sender<Event>) {
    get_context().senders.lock().ok().unwrap().push(sender);
}

/// Returns a handle to the native window.
pub unsafe fn get_native_window() -> ffi::NativeWindowType {
    if ANDROID_APP.is_null() {
        panic!("The application was not initialized from android_main");
    }

    loop {
        let value = (*ANDROID_APP).window;
        if !value.is_null() {
            return value;
        }

        // spin-locking
        std::io::timer::sleep(std::time::Duration::milliseconds(10));
    }
}

///
pub fn write_log(message: &str) {
    let message = message.as_bytes();
    let message = CString::from_slice(message).as_slice_with_nul().as_ptr();
    let tag = b"RustAndroidGlueStdouterr";
    let tag = CString::from_slice(tag).as_slice_with_nul().as_ptr();
    unsafe { ffi::__android_log_write(3, tag, message) };
}

pub enum AssetError {
    AssetMissing,
    EmptyBuffer,
}

pub fn load_asset(filename: &str) -> Result<Vec<u8>, AssetError> {
    struct AssetCloser {
        asset: *const ffi::Asset,
    }

    impl Drop for AssetCloser {
        fn drop(&mut self) {
            unsafe {
                ffi::AAsset_close(self.asset)
            };
        }
    }

    unsafe fn get_asset_manager() -> *const ffi::AAssetManager {
        let app = &*ANDROID_APP;
        let activity = &*app.activity;
        activity.assetManager
    }

    let filename_c_str = CString::from_slice(filename.as_bytes())
        .as_slice_with_nul().as_ptr();
    let asset = unsafe {
        ffi::AAssetManager_open(
            get_asset_manager(), filename_c_str, ffi::MODE_STREAMING)
    };
    if asset.is_null() {
        return Err(AssetError::AssetMissing);
    }
    let _asset_closer = AssetCloser{asset: asset};
    let len = unsafe {
        ffi::AAsset_getLength(asset)
    };
    let buff = unsafe {
        ffi::AAsset_getBuffer(asset)
    };
    if buff.is_null() {
        return Err(AssetError::EmptyBuffer);
    }
    let vec = unsafe {
        Vec::from_raw_buf(buff as *const u8, len as usize)
    };
    Ok(vec)
}

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Oh I love Frogger and would love to have one of the old stand up games in my house. What did you pay for it on CL if you don't mind me asking. And that's pretty sweet that you got it working with a Dell Power Module. Nice work to be sure.


Very interesting issue you raise, I have found myself in my local Coles supermarket that little by little, all my favourite brands are disappearing and being replaced by the Coles own brand products. Sometimes you can still find the brands, but they have been moved either to the very top or the very bottom of the shelf. I resist this trend, as although I am happy to buy Coles brand bread, sugar, flour, etc I do find the brands (for instance Maille mustard) far superior for specialist products.
It seems to me the big chains are becoming more and more like Aldi every day!


An outstanding source of beta-carotene, orange-fleshed sweet potatoes also have some vitamin C and B vitamins. All sweet potatoes offer dietary fibre.
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АТ «Українська біржа» — фондова біржа цінних паперів України, заснована 15 травня 2008 року.

Історія
15 травня 2008 року у Києві відбулися установчі збори. Статутний капітал становив 12 млн гривень (близько 2,4 млн доларів). Московська Біржа (раніше РТС) є найбільшим акціонером (на момент створення біржі володіла 49 %) та фактичним ініціатором створення. Решта 51 % акцій розподілені серед 21 української компанії. В кінці 2009 року, виконуючи умови Договору про створення ВАТ «Українська біржа», підписаного між акціонерами в травні 2008 року, РТС розподілила 6 % акцій між найактивнішими учасниками торгів, таким чином знизивши свою частку до 43 %.

30 вересня 2010 року відбулися збори акціонерів ВАТ «Українська біржа», на якому організаційно-правова форма біржі була приведена у відповідність до законодавства-змінена з «Відкрите Акціонерне Товариство» на «Публічне Акціонерне Товариство».

Станом на 1 жовтня 2013 року на біржі було зареєстровано 156 учасників — професійних торговців цінними паперами. 19 компаній надавало своїм клієнтам можливість інтернет-трейдингу.

На «Українській біржі» професійним учасникам ринку доступні такі технології: ринок заявок, ринок котирувань, ринок репо, і строковий ринок, а приватним інвесторам — послуги інтернет-трейдингу.

З 18 червня 2018 року у зв'язку з застосуванням санкцій відповідно до Указу Президента України від 14 травня 2018 року № 126/2018 до програмного забезпечення, яке використовувала біржа, було призупинено торгівлю в режимі безадресних заявок 92 акціями, 245 облігаціями, 28 цінними паперами фондів та 22 ф'ючерсними контрактами. Торги відбувалися виключно в режимі адресних заявок.

31 серпня 2018 року Загальні збори акціонерів Української біржі прийняли рішення про придбання ПЗ нової торгової системи та випуск 14063 нових акцій (додатково до 25000 випущених раніше) й запропонувати їх Бохайській товарній біржі (Китай).

Інструменти:

Фондовий ринок
 Акції — 80
 Ринок заявок — 80
 Облігації — 236
 Ринок заявок — 236
 Інвестиційні сертифікати — 17
 Всі інструменти фондового ринку — 333

Строковий ринок
 Ф'ючерси
 Опціони

Біржова комісія встановлена у розмірі 0,01 % від обсягу угоди з кожного боку.

Структура управління
 Вищий орган управління «Української біржі» — Загальні збори акціонерів
 Захист прав акціонерів Біржі та регулювання діяльності Правління — Біржова рада
 Перевірка фінансово-господарської діяльності Біржі — Ревізійна комісія
 Загальне керівництво діяльністю «Української біржі» — Правління
 Очолює виконавчий орган Голова Правління — Ткаченко Олег Васильович

Основні технології
 ринок заявок — анонімні торги з 100 % попереднім депонуванням цінних паперів та грошових коштів (для найбільш ліквідних цінних паперів);
 ринок котирувань — неанонімні торги з розрахунками від T +0 до T +10 (для менш ліквідних цінних паперів);
 режим адресних угод — переговорні угоди з термінами розрахунків до T +30 (для всіх цінних паперів біржового списку);
 ринок РЕПО — працює в режимі переговорних угод
 технологія Центрального контрагента на ринку заявок і на строковому ринку;
 строковий ринок — анонімні торги з розрахунками в гривні — фінансові гарантії будуються на частковому забезпеченні, а також страховому, резервному та гарантійному фонді;
 можливість підключення великої кількості локальних і віддалених користувачів;
 маржирувальні опціони є принципово новим видом інструментів на українському строковому ринку і відкривають широкі перспективи для учасників торгів. Завдяки єдиній системі переоцінки учасники торгів можуть більш ефективно керувати портфелями, що складаються з ф'ючерсів і опціонів, що призведе до якісного розвитку опціонного ринку.

Інструменти, що торгуються та обсяг торгів, млрд доларів США
На фондовому ринку «Української біржі» торгується 313 цінних паперів, з них 197 акцій. На строковому ринку обертаються ф'ючерс на Індекс українських акцій і опціон на ф'ючерс на Індекс українських акцій (квартальні та місячні).
 Обсяг торгів на всіх ринках «Української біржі» у 2012 році — 2,95
 Обсяг торгів на фондовому ринку — 1,34
 Обсяг торгів на терміновому ринку за 2012 рік — 1,6

Основні індекси
Індекс українських акцій 27 квітня 2009 «Українська біржа» почала розрахунок і публікацію Індексу українських акцій. Значення індексу були розраховані з початку торгів, 26 березня 2009 року, і на цю дату значення індексу було прийнято рівним 500. 31 грудня 2009 значення індексу досягло 1 455,47 пунктів, таким чином, за цей період Індекс українських акцій підвищився на 191 %.

Спочатку індексний кошик включав 15 найбільш ліквідних акцій. У березні 2012 року з огляду на ринкову ситуацію Індексний комітет «Української біржі» прийняв рішення про скорочення кількості цінних паперів входять до складу Індексу UX . На даний момент у розрахунок індексу входять 10 акцій українських підприємств.

Індекс українських аграрних компаній (Індекс UXagro) — перший індекс в Україні, що показує динаміку агросектору. До складу індексного кошика Індексу UXagro включено 8 найбільш ліквідних цінних папери емітентів, що ведуть аграрний бізнес в Україні. Датою початку розрахунку було встановлено 1 липня 2013 року. На цю дату значення Індексу прийнято рівним 1000 пунктів. Індекс розраховується один раз на день о 20:00 після закінчення торгів цінними паперами, що входять до складу індексного кошика. Методика розрахунку нового індексу була розроблена Індексним комітетом і 29 липня 2013 затверджена Біржовим радою біржі (протокол № 9 від 29.07.2013 року).

Членство в асоціаціях
 World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) — Всесвітня федерація бірж (Affiliate Member)
 SIIA / FISD (Фінансова інформація Послуги відділу програмного забезпечення та інформаційної промисловості асоціації)
 МАБ СНД — об'єднання бірж країн СНД

Історія Української біржі

 2 жовтня 2008 офіційно зареєстровано юридична особа ВАТ «Українська біржа».
 У грудні 2008 року «Українська біржа» отримала ліцензію Державної комісії з цінних паперів та фондового ринку (ДКЦПФР) на організацію торгів.
 20 січня 2009 року відбулися тестові торги за системою ринку заявок. На той момент Україна не мала в своєму розпорядженні подібних інструментів. Так само в Україні був відсутній повноцінний інтернет-трейдинг. У планах «Української біржі» розвивати ці напрямки і до кінця 2010 року охопити 50 % ринку біржових послуг.
 Регулярні торги стартували 26 березня 2009. До торгів було допущено 70 найбільш ліквідних акцій українських емітентів .
 27 квітня 2009 почав розраховуватися і публікуватися індекс Української біржі. Індекс розраховується в режимі реального часу, значення індексу публікуються кожні 15 секунд, а також транслюються всім учасникам торгів через біржовий термінал. Базовим періодом є 26 березня 2009 року — початок регулярних торгів. На цю дату значення індексу прийнято рівним 500. Індекс є зваженим за капіталізацією з урахуванням вільних акцій.

 3 серпня 2009 у торговців з'явилася можливість укладання угод репо. Ще в травні «Українська біржа» надала торговцям можливість виставляння індикативних котирувань репо.
 14 вересня 2009 року відбувся запуск торгів за участю Центрального контрагента і ринку котирувань. Функції центрального контрагента на «Українській біржі» виконував ТОВ «Український центральний контрагент» — торговець-зберігач, спеціально створений для реалізації інституту центрального контрагента в Україні.
 12 січня 2010 року — запуск навчальних торгів у Секції строкового ринку. З допомогою навчальних торгів професійні учасники ринку змогли провести налагодження торговельних систем, налагодити процес торгівлі, а приватні інвестори — освоїти технологію торгівлі строковими контрактами, перевірити свої стратегії в умовах, наближених до реальних.
 28 квітня 2010 року почалася дослідна експлуатація у Секції строкового ринку. Першу операцію розміром в один контракт на ф'ючерс Індексу українських акцій за ціною 2553,00 пункту уклали учасники торгів ТОВ «Аструм Капітал» і АТ «ІК» «Проспект Інвестментс».
 27 травня 2010 року — початок торгів у Секції сторокового ринку.
 В середині вересня 2013 року наглядова рада Московської Біржі (МБ), якій належить 43 % капіталу UX і 50 % +1 акція біржі ПФТС рекомендувала об'єднати обидві українські біржі. Щоб мати можливість прийняти рішення про приєднання UX до ПФТС вирішено викупити через ТОВ «Біржовий центральний контрагент» (БЦК, виконує функцію посередника по операціях на ПФТС, належить МБ) 32 % акцій «Української біржі» і тим самим довести частку МБ в капіталі УБ до 75 %.
 19 грудня 2016 року — початок торгів ф'ючерсними контрактами на BRENT та BITCOIN.

Першим інструментом, який був запущений на строковому ринку «Української біржі», став розрахунковий ф'ючерсний контракт на Індекс українських акцій. У перший день торгів на строковому ринку було укладено 503 угоди об'ємом 5052 контрактів. Мінімальна ціна ф'ючерсного контракту на Індекс українських акцій UX-6.10 протягом дня склала 1706,00, максимальна — 1823,00. Саме ця ціна стала і ціною закриття сьогоднішнього дня. При цьому значення Індексу українських акцій на кінець дня склало 1834,82 пункту.

Члени біржі
 Інвестиційна Група УНІВЕР
 Dragon Capital
 Concorde Capital
 Investment Capital Ukraine

Примітки

Посилання
 Офіційний сайт «Української біржі»
 Біржа молода, ринок старий, Інтернет-портал Fundmarket.ua
 Голова ради Української Біржі Ігор Мазепа: Настпуним етапом в нашому розвитку є запуск строкового ринку, газета «Дело»
 Олег Ткаченко: Зараз ліквідність треба створювати українськими грішми, РБК-Україна
 «Українська біржа» дивиться в майбутнє, «Коммерсантъ-Украина»
 Роман Горюнов: Коли ринок ф'ючерсів зросте, можна буде замислитися про опціони, «Экономические известия»
 Ф'ючерс може стати наступним каталізатором росту, Інтернет-портал Fundmarket.ua
 Алексей Сухоруков: Нужно спасать украинскую экономику, а не Украинскую биржу, Forbes Украина

Див. також
 Індекс UX
 Індекс українських аграрних компаній
 Фондова біржа
 Фондова біржа ПФТС
 Інтернет-трейдинг

Фондові біржі України
Фондовий ринок
Засновані в Україні 2008

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What to do with Lake St. Martin First Nation: Community, not leaders, should decide
Aboriginal Futures, Joseph Quesnel January 10, 2012
The fate of Lake St. Martin First Nation should be up to the people who live there.
Apparently, band members are divided over a proposal to move the community to an interim village site, pending negotiations over a final settlement for the flooded community. The province has purchased private land near the current reserve that could be used for a permanent home.
Residents of Lake St. Martin First Nation face chronic flooding and members are currently being housed in hotel rooms.
The provincial government's plan to build a temporary village, consisting of 157 mobile homes on an old radar base near Highway 6, is being opposed by the community's chief, Adrian Sinclair.
Reports say Sinclair walked away from negotiations when the province did not agree to use a band-owned business to build the actual mobile homes.
JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS
Some immediately accused the chief of placing his own personal financial interest over that of the community. However, a new report indicates Lake St. Martin would receive 60% of the profits, not necessarily Sinclair. The private contractor would receive 40%.
People should not jump to conclusions, but whether this band-owned venture is set up so community members receive all the benefits is not known. This is an important issue, but it should not become more important than the critical matter of finding homes for community members.
For so long, First Nations in this country have been moved around to different places, often for motives unrelated to their own development. The choice of many reserve lands during treaty times was often less than stellar.
For once, they are actually being given a choice of where they wish to live, at least temporarily.
The problem is politics seems to be standing in the way. Concerns are being raised band residents are not truly expressing their preferences out of fear of opposing band leadership.
Manitoba Aboriginal and Northern Affairs Minister Eric Robinson told media he believes the "silent majority" of band members support a move to the interim village.
Apparently, at a meeting, Robinson asked for a show of hands to see who supported the move. A show of hands? How is that supposed to uncover the true democratic will of the community?
This reminds me of a time when I was a teacher's assistant at Carleton University. I was required to be a member of CUPE and we were asked at a union meeting, where most unionized members were not in attendance, our opinions over a mandate to look into the possibility of strike action. We were asked to vote by a show of hands.
When I voted against looking into the possibility of a strike mandate, one of the union officials approached me to ask me about my vote. So democratic of them.
Members need a confidential way to express their preferences without fear of intimidation. It's called a secret ballot and it's the best means to gauge real opinion. Whatever the truth is regarding the chief's decision to not negotiate with the province, that should not prevent the people of Lake St. Martin from making up their own minds.
They've been in hotel rooms for long enough.
It's time for them to have their say.