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Details: Created: 09 June 2018; Published: 09 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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When birds attack! Being pecked in the face repeatedly is no laughing matter. I once had a run-in with a chicken when I was a small boy. It’s no fun. Those dinosaur descendants will peck your eyes out if you aren’t careful. In Zombie 3, now on blu-ray thanks to ...

Details: Created: 07 June 2018; Published: 07 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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“It’s as if it is deliberately trying to ram us!” When it comes to farewell lines in seafaring history, there might not be a more prophetic sentence spoken… unless, of course, someone on the Titanic uttered something about needing ice for a drink mere seconds before the ...

Details: Created: 03 June 2018; Published: 03 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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Venice is now a dead city. No, I am not talking about “Vexit” or any other number of concerns that currently plague Italy’s beautiful city. I’m talking solely about director Bruno Mattei’s 1989 Italian science-fiction rip-off of two of the most awesomely awesome films ...

Details: Created: 03 June 2018; Published: 03 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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Get those squirt guns loaded, Freaks and Geeks! There are nuclear age creatures living below San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. These psychotic dudes are fierce, too. When not munching on oversexed teenagers, they eat pigeons and are armed to the teeth ...

Details: Created: 02 June 2018; Published: 02 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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Where’s Sweetback? He started from the bottom now he's here, man. I t is a movie made for the cool in you. Yes, Babyface, I am copping that title as well for this review. You see, this landmark movie, written, co-produced, scored, edited, directed ...

Details: Created: 01 June 2018; Published: 01 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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Because a life on the run is never that much fun! America loves its guns. It is possible that this film noir classic, featuring a bevy of fascinating performances, best explains why. The power they wield is an attraction that cannot be matched. Bang, bang, ...

Details: Created: 31 May 2018; Published: 31 May 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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“Damn. That incidental music is scary!” They are baaaaack! Writer/director Glen Coburn’s creature feature remains a B-grade classic of camp and horror. Vinegar Syndrome gloriously embraces the return of these Bloodsuckers from Outer Space! Chainsaw beheadings never looked this good! ...

Details: Created: 30 May 2018; Published: 30 May 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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“Darling, I’m home!” A child’s birthday should be a special occasion. Full of balloons, kazoos, and party hats, there ought to be smiles on every child in attendance…especially when the cak guye is being presented. The obligatory birthday song follows. And then, as the ...

Details: Created: 24 May 2018; Published: 24 May 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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Sickly sweet trashterpieces made for Gore-Gore Gorillas and Horror Hounds are rarely this good. We tend to like them because we laugh at them and understand the humor involved; some of us appreciate the lo-fi vibe of such DIY efforts. Others just dig the grit and ...

Details: Created: 23 May 2018; Published: 23 May 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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"You move me, Sail, you really do. You mark me the deepest," says Laura Dern as Lula to Nicolas Cage. It is a haunting moment in an equally haunting tale that features an unforgetable Willem Dafoe as an accident prone bank robber, a blonde-haired Isabella Rossellini ...