{"id":4091,"date":"2011-10-27T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T22:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=4091"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:53:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:53:12","slug":"iow-ninjas-dominate-dark-maze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=4091","title":{"rendered":"IOW: Ninjas dominate Dark Maze"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dipping into the video well that keeps us drunk with satisfaction, C-U Blogfidential<\/strong> is happy to share more goodness from Champaign<\/strong>\u2019s Dark Maze Studios<\/strong><\/a>. At some point, Dark Maze became an unofficial dojo<\/em> for rogue ninja assassins beginning with the lethal (and quite tactless) “Lin-ku” from the PRESS START<\/strong> movies and Web series, followed by the original animated show SPACE NINJA<\/strong> designed by comics artist Alex Mitchell<\/strong> and based on his own book. Ed Glaser<\/strong> has now teamed up with Brad Jones<\/strong> of The Cinema Snob<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and Stoned Gremlin Productions<\/strong> for his first live-action Web opus since ROBOGIRL<\/strong> that, one guesses from the oddball teaser below, must<\/em> be seen to be believed:<\/p>\n

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Given Glaser\u2019s loving attention to foreign genre fare as evidenced in Dark Maze\u2019s award-winning series, DEJA VIEW<\/strong>, we must ponder the possibility of NINJA THE MISSION FORCE<\/strong> being a low-budget tour de force<\/em> in splicing together the old with the retro-new. We\u2019ll sort out the source(s) of our eventual enjoyment from said series when it raids the Interwebs. Until then, we should point your ninja-starved peepers towards the most recent installment of SPACE NINJA<\/strong> which we have sadly neglected on CUBlog<\/strong> until right now:<\/p>\n

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Finally, we stray from badass defenders to a more rural breed of murderer in the current episode of DEJA VIEW<\/strong>, during which Glaser compares the original STRAW DOGS<\/strong> directed by Sam Peckinpah<\/strong> to an unofficial Turkish adaptation from the era, KARTAL YUVASI<\/strong> (1974):<\/p>\n

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Wild, wacky, and high-quality stuff, all from deep within the Dark Maze!<\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the \u201cImages of the Week\u201d Dept.: Dark Maze Studios of Champaign lives by the sword of the ninja in one current series, SPACE NINJA, and one upcoming, NINJA THE MISSION FORCE, while exploring remakesploitation of Peckinpah in a new DEJA VIEW. Whew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,20],"tags":[164,437,824,329],"class_list":["post-4091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images-du-cu","category-production-updates","category-videos-du-c-u","tag-dark-maze-studios","tag-deja-view","tag-ninja-the-mission-force","tag-space-ninja"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}