With Raiders of the Sun we get producer/director Cirio H. Santiago’s most environmentally conscious film yet, and by that I mean 90% of the action in this movie is recycled from his previous films Wheels of Fire and Equalizer 2000. This is the ultimate in low-budget post-apocalyptic filmmaking. as it not only reuses footage but also…
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Dune Warriors (1991) – Review
The 80s were over and most low budget film producers had moved away from Mad Max rip-offs to make ninja movies instead, but producer/director Cirio H. Santiago is not one to let a genre die easy. In this installment we have bandits of the wasteland harassing a small village who then get help from a…
The Sisterhood (1988) – Review
Do you remember the early 80s cartoon Thundarr the Barbarian? It ran two seasons and it took place in the distant future after some apocalyptic event that broke the moon and shattered civilization, in it the heroes battled evil wizards who combined magical spells with reanimated technologies from the pre-catastrophe world, but what does a…
Equalizer 2000 (1987) – Review
Do you like to watch dozens of guys firing off hundreds of rounds of ammunition? Do you like seeing cars modded out with steel bumper rams and multiple spikes? Well, then this is could be the movie for you.
Future Hunters (1986) – Review
Director Cirio H. Santiago is one of the kings of low budget filmmaking, who was the Philippines answer to Roger Corman, and the one genre he was quite a fan of was the post-apocalyptic film – aka the Mad Max rip-offs – but one particular venture into the genre varied greatly from all his other…