Keith J. Rainville
@keithrainville.bsky.social
Curator of VintageNinja.net and FromPartsUnknown.net, champion of lucha libre and vintage Mexican horror, 70s 'star kid' and vintage toy collector, obsessed with barbarian action figures and somehow paying the rent marketing opera in Los Angeles...
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RIP Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa. I like to imagine he's eating sushi off some naked chicks with Brandon Lee in action movie heaven.
December 5, 2025 at 6:01 AM
RIP Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa. I like to imagine he's eating sushi off some naked chicks with Brandon Lee in action movie heaven.
This was my all time favorite film moment as a kid, totally burned into my psyche...
November 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
This was my all time favorite film moment as a kid, totally burned into my psyche...
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Santo vs Evil Brain. 1961. Santo's movie debut, a thrilling fusion of mad scientist and Lucha Libre lunacy shot in Cuba on the brink of revolution. Legend.
#horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #santo #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam
#horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #santo #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Santo vs Evil Brain. 1961. Santo's movie debut, a thrilling fusion of mad scientist and Lucha Libre lunacy shot in Cuba on the brink of revolution. Legend.
#horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #santo #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam
#horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #santo #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam
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I don’t know why, but this is the funniest thing I’ve seen in weeks.
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I don’t know why, but this is the funniest thing I’ve seen in weeks.
I encourage all vintage movie poster collectors to look at the Japanese versions of your favorite films' marketing, there's often a way different, striking take on the familiar. While you're at it, the Mexican version will likely have art you've never seen too...
Day 24 #NoirvemberChallenge Best #filmnoir poster, including international prints. "Best" is subjective but here's one of my personal favorites, a Japanese tatekan poster for The Street With No Name. (Thanks to the eagle eye of @keithrainville.bsky.social for this find!)
November 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I encourage all vintage movie poster collectors to look at the Japanese versions of your favorite films' marketing, there's often a way different, striking take on the familiar. While you're at it, the Mexican version will likely have art you've never seen too...
Reminder that if you're holiday shopping already, the new SASUKE blu set from @animeigo.com is a killer gift with multi-generational appeal, and an absolute must for any shinobi-cinemaphile.
vintageninja.net/review-sasuk...
vintageninja.net/review-sasuk...
November 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Reminder that if you're holiday shopping already, the new SASUKE blu set from @animeigo.com is a killer gift with multi-generational appeal, and an absolute must for any shinobi-cinemaphile.
vintageninja.net/review-sasuk...
vintageninja.net/review-sasuk...
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Voluptuous vampires, masked Mexican wrestling and John Carradine, can't ask for much more than that. Lovably tatty riot of camp vamp insanity. 1969.
#horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam #monsterfam
#horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam #monsterfam
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Voluptuous vampires, masked Mexican wrestling and John Carradine, can't ask for much more than that. Lovably tatty riot of camp vamp insanity. 1969.
#horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam #monsterfam
#horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam #monsterfam
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Hollywood was better when execs were just doing a lot of cocaine and greenlighting everything that sounded cool
November 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Hollywood was better when execs were just doing a lot of cocaine and greenlighting everything that sounded cool
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I have a new secret page full of secret sketches, designs, animation, ramblings and whatnot.
Here's the secret link: secretlucha.straw.page
Here's the secret link: secretlucha.straw.page
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I have a new secret page full of secret sketches, designs, animation, ramblings and whatnot.
Here's the secret link: secretlucha.straw.page
Here's the secret link: secretlucha.straw.page
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This photo of Andreza Giant Panda vs Unagi Sayaka is incredible.
November 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This photo of Andreza Giant Panda vs Unagi Sayaka is incredible.
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Matango is basically Gilligan’s Island imagined by Lovecraft and Kafka
Matango is basically Gilligan’s Island imagined by Lovecraft and Kafka
A quick thought.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Matango is basically Gilligan’s Island imagined by Lovecraft and Kafka
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Steven Kostanski crafts a love letter to 80s and 90s filmmaking and the fun of Deathstalker 2! Bernhardt is fantastic but the true star are the practical in camera effects. So many wonderful creatures, make up, gore and violence effects. An absolute blast from start to finish!
November 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Steven Kostanski crafts a love letter to 80s and 90s filmmaking and the fun of Deathstalker 2! Bernhardt is fantastic but the true star are the practical in camera effects. So many wonderful creatures, make up, gore and violence effects. An absolute blast from start to finish!
Haunting as a screen presence, now he'll be haunting us from beyond. RIP Tatsuya Nakadai...
November 11, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Haunting as a screen presence, now he'll be haunting us from beyond. RIP Tatsuya Nakadai...
If for nothing else than the amazing character designs, go grab AnimEigo's superb SASUKE: The Complete Television Series blu set. Shirato Sanpei's kiddie take on Sarutobi turns into a surreal ninja bloodbath! w/ sub'd Japanese AND English dub. Highly recommended!
vintageninja.net/review-sasuk...
vintageninja.net/review-sasuk...
November 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
If for nothing else than the amazing character designs, go grab AnimEigo's superb SASUKE: The Complete Television Series blu set. Shirato Sanpei's kiddie take on Sarutobi turns into a surreal ninja bloodbath! w/ sub'd Japanese AND English dub. Highly recommended!
vintageninja.net/review-sasuk...
vintageninja.net/review-sasuk...
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The Face of Another (🇯🇵 1966) dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara
November 9, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The Face of Another (🇯🇵 1966) dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara
Alert for overseas readers of VintageNinja (and you domestic night owls) — just published my review of AnimEigo's superb SASUKE: The Complete Television Series blu set, Shirato Sanpei's kiddie take on Sarutobi that turns into a ninja bloodbath! Highly recommended: vintageninja.net/review-sasuk...
November 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Alert for overseas readers of VintageNinja (and you domestic night owls) — just published my review of AnimEigo's superb SASUKE: The Complete Television Series blu set, Shirato Sanpei's kiddie take on Sarutobi that turns into a ninja bloodbath! Highly recommended: vintageninja.net/review-sasuk...
Recalling these Yugoslavian ninja comics from the 1980s I featured on VN a while ago. The 80s boom was robust there, I have plenty of Yugo-market lobby cards from Kosugi movies, and there were homegrown comic series that looked great.
vintageninja.net/eastern-bloc...
vintageninja.net/eastern-bloc...
November 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Recalling these Yugoslavian ninja comics from the 1980s I featured on VN a while ago. The 80s boom was robust there, I have plenty of Yugo-market lobby cards from Kosugi movies, and there were homegrown comic series that looked great.
vintageninja.net/eastern-bloc...
vintageninja.net/eastern-bloc...
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Back on the market after, uh, quite a while, so I made a little portfolio site. Feeling like an actual grown up. Please have a look!
Nathan Long: Writer
Resume and Portfolio site for Nathan Long
nathanlongwriter.carrd.co
November 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Back on the market after, uh, quite a while, so I made a little portfolio site. Feeling like an actual grown up. Please have a look!
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If you have an election in your city/state tomorrow please... Vote.
November 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
If you have an election in your city/state tomorrow please... Vote.
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this is the wildest way to communicate your vision for the game design
and what's hilarious is he actually did make it happen
and what's hilarious is he actually did make it happen
November 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
this is the wildest way to communicate your vision for the game design
and what's hilarious is he actually did make it happen
and what's hilarious is he actually did make it happen
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep:
1.) Ninja movies from the 60s and 80s
2.) Mexican masked wrestler and monster cinema
3.) Vintage toys
1.) Ninja movies from the 60s and 80s
2.) Mexican masked wrestler and monster cinema
3.) Vintage toys
November 2, 2025 at 11:27 PM
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep:
1.) Ninja movies from the 60s and 80s
2.) Mexican masked wrestler and monster cinema
3.) Vintage toys
1.) Ninja movies from the 60s and 80s
2.) Mexican masked wrestler and monster cinema
3.) Vintage toys
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Jet Jaguar
Watercolor on 7” x 10” watercolor paper
#art #godzilla #jetjaguar #kaiju #painting #watercolor
Watercolor on 7” x 10” watercolor paper
#art #godzilla #jetjaguar #kaiju #painting #watercolor
November 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Jet Jaguar
Watercolor on 7” x 10” watercolor paper
#art #godzilla #jetjaguar #kaiju #painting #watercolor
Watercolor on 7” x 10” watercolor paper
#art #godzilla #jetjaguar #kaiju #painting #watercolor
Its a another football Sunday, so here's a look at Eiichi Kudo's baffling 1980 art-housy KAGE NO GUNDAN, complete with a literal ninja football game in the woods.
vintageninja.net/so-about-tha...
vintageninja.net/so-about-tha...
November 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Its a another football Sunday, so here's a look at Eiichi Kudo's baffling 1980 art-housy KAGE NO GUNDAN, complete with a literal ninja football game in the woods.
vintageninja.net/so-about-tha...
vintageninja.net/so-about-tha...