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- Created: 08 October 2018
- Published: 08 October 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
Perhaps it is the close-up on the eyeball in the shadows. Piercing. Constant. Terrifying. Or maybe it is the SCREAM that stops a silent movie, separating the audience into steady streams of shock as a motion picture stops its own rollout to pay tribute ...
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- Created: 07 October 2018
- Published: 07 October 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
To this day, there remains something insanely special about director Brian De Palma’s Carrie. It is based on the once-discarded novel by Stephen King, but was painstakingly adapted for the screen by Lawrence D. Cohen. Cohen got everything about King’s first novel right ...
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- Created: 06 October 2018
- Published: 06 October 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
A solid synth score leads things off. GREAT. A spooky setting is quickly made clear as the titles begin and end. AWESOME. There’s a jump scare early on and then…and then…nothing. What the hell, man?! Blessed Are the Children starts right out of the gate ...
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- Created: 06 October 2018
- Published: 06 October 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
It begins in a dingy motel room. A cassette player is on. A disheveled looking man, worn out but determined, is listening to his own recording. That voice speaks honesty. He is determined to get his story published. It is important. No matter how ridiculous it sounds ...
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- Created: 05 October 2018
- Published: 05 October 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
Remember the Master-Blaster character combo from Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome? The Master, played by Angelo Rossitto, was positioned on top of The Blaster, played by Paul Larsson and together they operated the methane-heavy Underworld ...
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- Created: 04 October 2018
- Published: 04 October 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
I am STILL not sure of what I have seen. My first trip with this sequel was in high school. But the idea of hypnosis as a vehicle for good and evil just didn’t take hold. It still doesn’t. All I remember liking about this movie was Linda Blair in a see-through nightgown. Seriously ...
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- Created: 01 October 2018
- Published: 01 October 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
"26 million miles from Earth, and the dolls are still the same!" Bedazzling certain items in your wardrobe is nothing new. Cute! Cute! Cute! Just look at what Queen Yllana does to her mask in the laser-brained adventure that is Queen of Outer Space. The glitter! The sparkles! ...
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- Created: 30 September 2018
- Published: 30 September 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
Don’t you dare cover your eyes! Once Body Melt begins, there is no looking away. This is a movie concerned about the equipping the human body with the right fuel in order to make it run better. It is also a movie about enlarged tongues and exploding boners that grow to ...
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- Created: 29 September 2018
- Published: 29 September 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
Even by Atomic Age standards, this low grade exploration into the effects of radiation on living animals is pretty terrible. Maybe drunk enough, this low budget matinee flick comes alive. As it is, The Cyclops is hit-and-miss adventure that features rather large lizards, snakes, ...
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- Created: 29 September 2018
- Published: 29 September 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
KAPOW! GLURP! CRRAAACK! BIF! BAM! BANG! KAYO! There’s no way in hell you can convince me that director Robert O’Neil’s Wonder Women isn’t inspired in some part by the uproarious camp of Batman, the television show. This B-movie might be the only film in history that sexualizes ...
