Reefer Madness is public domain here, as is NOTLD so you sometimes have to beware of what transfer you're getting. I'm just upset that my previously region free player decided yesterday to refuse a region 2 and a region 3 DVD, so unfortunately I'll have to wait at least a couple more days before I can watch Kore-eda's latest and some more Oshima.

Hell of the Living Dead has a sequence that seems out of place with the film that comes close to being socially relevant. When the swat team or whatever they are goes after the terrorists at the beginning of the film it has a chance to make some relevant comment about the state of Italian politics at the time, but just seems to disregard it. The film reminded me of the Beyond only in that the zombies were ridiculously slow, and no matter how many times you told someone to shoot them in the head they still didn't catch on.

I'm learning right now just how ignorant I am of world cinema via Jonathan Rosenbaum's elitist Essential Cinema book, so I might be working on that a while.