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Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion work in Mysterious Island is the stuff of legend AND nightmares. Featuring memorable attacks from a gigantic crab, an oversized bee, a large prehistoric bird, and an angry snail, the fantasy kept many a young person up at night. It also ...
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I freakin’ love The Alien Factor. Filmed in Baltimore, Maryland by a bunch of freaks and geeks, the schlocky film is a throwback to the classic run of 1950’s creature features and has just the right amount of humor and gore to make it worth revisiting time and time again ...
Read more: The Alien Factor: Limited Signed Edition (1978) - Blu-ray Review
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For anyone who hates on exploitation film auteur Jack Hill’s The Swinging Cheerleaders for its objectification of women – namely cheerleaders – there’s a need for a brief lesson in film and cultural history. Made during the 1970s, Hill’s movie was a very tough and very real examination of powerful ...
Read more: The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974) - Blu-ray Review
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There is something incredibly haunting about Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s feature-length debut. Shot in black-and-white and filmed in and around the Phoenix area, Suture is a neo-film noir examination into a person’s identity. What makes a person know themselves? ...
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Doctor Mordrid: Master of the Unknown is not a very good movie. Even on our pint scale of beer it earns the lowest ranking possible. It’s just lazy, lazy filmmaking on a project that, had there been a bit more effort put into its script and, well, everyone involved, could ...
Read more: Doctor Mordrid: Master of the Unknown (1992) - Blu-ray Review
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Centron Corporation. You’re probably more familiar with their output then you are with their name. Housed in Lawrence, Kansas, this is the production company that supplied school districts across the United States with hundreds of educational films once viewed via film ...
Read more: Carnival of Souls: Criterion Collection (1962) - Blu-ray Review
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With a ceremonial crashing of cymbals, Bernard Herrmann’s thunderous score – completely without the use of strings - kicks off the drama and stop-motion wonder in Jason and the Argonauts. Directed by Don Chaffey (of Pete’s Dragon and One Million Years B.C. fame) ...
Read more: The Fantastic Films of Ray Harryhausen (1958-1977) - Blu-ray Review
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Thank you, Scream Factory for this updated treat! Operating as neither a sequel to or a part of George A. Romero’s Zombie series, The Return of the Living Dead doesn’t really profess to be much of anything…except a hell of a lot of gory fun. That doesn’t...
Read more: The Return of the Living Dead: The Collector’s Edition (1985) - Blu-ray Review
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William Castle never met a gimmick he didn’t like. Known for filling theaters with anxious audiences, his gimmicks, whether they be 13 Ghosts’ special Dr. Zorba ghost viewer or the auditioning of girls from different countries to be in 13 Frightened Girls, he knew how to sell ...
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I am sure there are some people involved in director Pierre De Moro’s Hellhole that wish the film did not still exist. The truth is that the cinematic sleaze contained in this flick almost didn’t survive the ravages of time. Culled together from the best sources available, Scream ...
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Released in 1973 as the bottom-half of a double feature, The Boy Who Cried Werewolf never could match wits with its running mate, Sssssss. Both were creature features. Both were low budget offerings. Both were weird enough, yet cult filmmaker Nathan Juran (Attack ...
Read more: The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973) - Blu-ray Review
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Comedian Rudy Ray Moore (Dolemite & The Human Tornado) came into this world as a 10-year-old boy ready for battle. Wearing diapers and beating the white doctor’s ass who delivered him (and then his father for “keeping him up at night”) is certainly a hell of a way to ...
Read more: Petey Wheatstraw: The Devil's Son-in-Law (1977) - Blu-ray Review
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Now, THIS shit is bananas. While I’m sure Gwen Stefani did not have Hardcore Henry – or anything like it – in mind when she penned the lyrics to her song, the chorus fits in describing almost EVERY element of the action flick. Produced by Wanted’s Timur Bekmambetov ...
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“Can you still do the things with your eyes? You’re not crazy if you can still do the thing with your eyes.” I will NEVER forget the first time I saw Philip Kaufman’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I wouldn’t go outside in the rain for weeks afterwards thanks to the opening ...
Read more: Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Collector's Edition (1978) - Blu-ray Review
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To this day, The Adventures of Bukaroo Banzai remains one helluva wild ride. There is no other film that quite matches its new wave swagger. Nothing comes close to its style or its wit and, while a complete product of its time, the film has remained relatively ageless due ...
Read more: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension (1984) - Blu-ray Review
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