Nobody Likes You, Sadistik!

It doesn’t take many “Phicen” searches before you get tired of seeing this guy, does it?



I wish Robyn Hood and La Muerta we’re this readily available.

I've never seen this guy before, but I totally agree on La Muerta.

LOL, poor Sadistik. Those taglines are just so incredibly cheesy I can't even.

Here’s some info on the character if anyone’s interested:

http://doubleosection.blogspot.com/2009/08/comic-con-movie-review-diabolikal-super.html

I got a bunch of the 1967 Turkish films.

I found Turkish to be very easy on the ear!

Kilink Istanbul'da (Killing in Istanbul)
Kilink Ucan Adama Karsi (Killing vs Flying Man)
Kilink Soy Ve Oldur (Killing Strip and Kill)
Sihirbazlar Krali Mandrake Kiling'in Persinde (Killing vs. Mandrake)











When ER first announced the figure I was tempted for a little while.

This is the first I see of this. I'm not familiar with the source material, and I don't know what it says about taste or creativity that some turn to resurrecting such relatively obscure and distant works, from this "Euro-sleaze" to the Romanian Comrade Detective, so I will not comment on that. The figure looks accurate to the character, which means it accomplishes its goals, even if the look is a little dated. The slightly stylized unmasked head looks good too, whether or not it is accurate.

Ha! I had zero interest in the fig when I first checked this topic, but now, after seeing those DVD or magazine covers...

... well... no... I still don't need the figure, but it's cool that it was issued, and I appreciate Xavion's original post because it prompted Asta's entertaining reply!

How much do they cost? The fig, I mean?

About $150 USD on eBay.

And yeah, apparently "nobody likes you" is accurate. This fig seems to be readily available for a pre-TBLeague circa 2014 release.

Would a figure that old, under the Phicen name, have the older plastic armature?

davidd wrote:Would a figure that old, under the Phicen name, have the older plastic armature?

Well, neither the source nor the figure are really my cup of tea, and I certainly don't have any of the older Phicen male sets (I do have the more recent Steve Reeves Hercules, Alexander, and Barbarian Soul). That said, 2015 is the year when they introduced their first male seamless body (I think), and that had a steel skeleton -- I double-checked by review of M30 and M31 (HERE). M30's product number (PL2015-M30) does indicate 2015 as the time of production, but that does not, in itself, guarantee that this body was either available or utilized for this set (I think the first set to do so was their first Death Dealer). It doesn't really look much like there is an M30 inside that skeletal clothing, either, though I might be mistaken. Whether or not they were already experimenting with the leaner and taller M31 body (produced as a base body in 2016, judging by its product number), I don't know, but I'm not sure that could be in there either. So, it is possible the internal skeleton is not steel but plastic. However, it is also possible that this is a hard plastic open jointed body to begin with, and not a seamless at all. I'm not sure Phicen had male seamless bodies before M30.

GubernatorFan wrote:So, it is possible the internal skeleton is not steel but plastic. However, it is also possible that this is a hard plastic open jointed body to begin with, and not a seamless at all. I'm not sure Phicen had male seamless bodies before M30.

Here's a not-very-thorough but way over-long video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3Z3seoIU9Y

The reviewer does not show the body, but at one point states "it is a Phicen body" (yeah, how unhelpful is that?). Shortly after he states that it is the "older plastic armature," and opines that it would be less durable than the steel armatures.

This is the only review of the figure I was able to find.

Well, if even one Sadistik gets sold, I’ve accomplished something with this thread.

In fact, now that I think about it, maybe I should round them all up myself and let a gang of 20 to 30 Sadistiks loose in the toy room. It will give my girls something more pressing to do than nitpick each other.

Just watched the review. Apparently only the torso is squishy, while the arms and legs are conventional hard plastic open-jointed limbs. This sort of combination was found (and perhaps is still found) in some other bodies out there, but at any rate, this confirms that it will not be a real seamless body (not even one with a plastic endoskeleton).

Xavion2004 wrote:Well, if even one Sadistik gets sold, I’ve accomplished something with this thread.

Aha! You've tipped your hand! You're actually Sadistik's evil sidekick, aren't you?  

Xavion2004 wrote:In fact, now that I think about it, maybe I should round them all up myself and let a gang of 20 to 30 Sadistiks loose in the toy room.

Or, round them all up, create an impression of scarcity to drive up the price, then gradually release your stash back on to the market at a tidy profit.  

GubernatorFan wrote:Just watched the review. Apparently only the torso is squishy, while the arms and legs are conventional hard plastic open-jointed limbs. This sort of combination was found (and perhaps is still found) in some other bodies out there, but at any rate, this confirms that it will not be a real seamless body (not even one with a plastic endoskeleton).

That sounds like an unattractive combination, although I suppose it wouldn't matter too much in a figure meant to be displayed in a full-body costume. I suppose it represents one of the first steps toward the seamless bodies of today. There has been significant evolution in the seamless bodies in just a few years.

I'll admit, I did not have the patience to sit through the entire review. It did appear to me, however, that the visible part of the neck post was a shiny plastic, which suggested to me that it was hard plastic. But then I caught the line about the body being soft and having a plastic armature, so I thought it might have been a trick of the lighting. Thanks for taking the time to watch the review more closely.

While I'll pass on Mr. Sadistik myself, I'm looking forward to the pics of thirty of the little buggers running rampant in Xav's toy room!

(I like the use of a "k" in each word that should be spelled with a "c" in Sadistik's advertising. It reminds me of how Bratz dollz advertising used to put a "z" at the end of every word that would normally end in "s.")

davidd wrote:That sounds like an unattractive combination, although I suppose it wouldn't matter too much in a figure meant to be displayed in a full-body costume. I suppose it represents one of the first steps toward the seamless bodies of today. There has been significant evolution in the seamless bodies in just a few years.

Yeah, I skipped ahead to where he was showing the body, and he was appropriately discussing its features there. I listened long enough to catch the additional information, although he didn't really go into much detail, and his terminology was ambiguous. The way he described what he was feeling reminded me a bit of the CM Toys (apparently = Coo Model) Roman gladiators from a few years back, except I think those had seamless arms as part of the torso. In modern terms, I think it is more likely to be a bit like those DAM or Soldier Story (?) bodies that have a rubbery seamless neck and chest, except that does not extend farther below. But as you point out, it usually doesn't make a difference when it is fully covered up as here. Before seeing the review I did not realize that the skeletal mask was actually a cloth mask -- thought it had two alternate heads, one masked, one unmasked.

Correction: Never mind about the CM Toys gladiator bodies... just realized they were also seamless over the knee, although otherwise the legs had an open joint where they joined the torso.

and once again i learned something new, neither was i aware of the obscure source material nor the age of the figure when i casually skipped it, browsing my usual retailer a few months ago.
with even these figure seeing the light of days, maybe we'll get a louis de funes "fantomas" someday

Well that's interesting. Never thought I would see a Turkish character being made into a figure, maybe there's still hope for El Chapulin Colorado.

Theboo-bomb wrote:Well that's interesting. Never thought I would see a Turkish character being made into a figure, maybe there's still hope for El Chapulin Colorado.  

He was originally an Italian villain that appeared in lurid photo comics in the 1960s.

In the early ‘60s, a distinctive anti-hero theme emerged in Italian comics. It was typified by Diabolik and Kriminal—both masters of disguise, and both thieves who preyed upon other criminals. Diabolik came first, in 1962, and Kriminal followed in 1964, adding the wrinkle that the protagonist was also a remorseless killer.

And in 1966, Killing blew both of them out of the water. The title character swiped Kriminal’s costume—a skeleton costume topped with a skull mask—but Kriminal’s was bright yellow, and Killing sported a more standard Halloween-issue black and white union suit. Killing (a/k/a Satanik, a/k/a Sadistik, a/k/a Kilink…) further upped the ante in the violence department by eschewing comic book style drawings in favor of photo illustrations, so all the violence was represented graphically with Grand Guignol theatrical effects. The resulting book was misogynistic as hell and utterly without redeeming value, so naturally it became a trans-oceanic phenomenon, published under the various names listed above not just in Italy, but Germany, Belgium, and several South American nations.

A selection of the lurid comic covers, and the violent photo stories:

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/lurid_covers_from_killing_the_transcendentally_trashy_european_murder_comic


Diabolik got his own bigger budget film in 1968:



Directed by Mario Bava, with music by Ennio Morricone, and featuring none other than Terry Thomas, Danger: Diabolik! was a real swinging sixties affair.

Welcome to the forum, Xavion. Great Character and pictures. No One ? No. I like him. Without bad guys, good guys are just..... guys ?

I wasted so much time looking at "Danger:Diabolik" images after seeing that post!

And looking through images of the Sadistik photo-comics! Live-action comics: what a cool concept! Altho' in this case, obviously targeting a specialized niche market.

davidd wrote:I wasted so much time looking at "Danger:Diabolik" images after seeing that post!

The film is quite an experience. Pure '60s psychedelia.

Diabolik has a penchant for Jaguar E-Types, and there's a few on-board camera shots of him racing that will become reminiscent of Claude Lelouch's 1976 street racing film, C'etait un rendez-vous.

John Phillip Law, who played the angel, Pygar, in Barbarella, plays the devilish Diabolik with such intensity, with those manic eyes! His mask is so skin tight that it looks like it's painted on, until his girlfriend peels it off.

He lives in a James Bond-like huge secret underground lair, which is apt since the mobster, Valmont, is Adolfo Celi, who was Largo in Thunderball.

The soundtrack is raucous, yet catchy.


(After referring to C'etait un rendez-vous, I remembered the classic car chase movie, Bullitt which shared the year 1968 with Danger: Diabolik. Both films released in the UK within days of each other in January 1969).