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Hercules against the Moon Men (Italy, 1964)
(Let's meander!) Far from the best of the peplums, Hercules against the Moon Men, like most movies of the genre, has enough going for it that it remains fun and watchable even though you know you could...
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Babe of Yesteryear – Allison Hayes, Part IV: 1957
Allison Hayes (6 Mar 1930 – 27 Feb 1977) was an American film and television actress and model who could perhaps be described as a poor man's Jane Russell (21 Jun 1921 – 28 Feb 2011) — ironically,...
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Compulsion (Canada, 2013)
Not to be confused with Richard Fleischer's far more famous courtroom drama from 1959, Compulsion (trailer), which is based on a fictionalized account of the Leopold and Loeb murder trial, nor with the...
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Sherlock Holmes & the House of Fear (USA, 1945)
When it comes to the classic Holmes/Watson franchise of the 1940s, Universal, Roy William Neill and the two lead stars, Basil Rathbone (as Sherlock Holmes) and Nigel Bruce (Dr. Watson) were on a...
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Vanguard (China, 2020)
Jackie, Jackie, Jackie! How low can you go? Okay, you were a relatively wrinkle-free 66 when you made this, so even if you aren't the one who does the main action and fights and stunts in the movie,...
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Babe of Yesteryear Allison Hayes, Part V: 1958-59
Allison Hayes (6 Mar 1930 – 27 Feb 1977) was an American film and television actress and model who could perhaps be described as a poor man's Jane Russell (21 Jun 1921 – 28 Feb 2011) — ironically,...
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Messiah of Evil (USA, 1974)
(Spoilers.) Oh, baby! Baby you make me hot and bothered, the way you do the things you do... and Messiah of Evil, you do it good. We are on our knees, mouths agape, sweaty and quivering, in awe of what...
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Arthur & Merlin: Knights of Camelot (Brexitland, 2020)
"I'd sooner dip my cock in a witch's cauldron." Not to be confused with Arthur & Merlin, an even more forgettable movie with a similarly low budget, that came out five years earlier in 2015...
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Gogol. Nachalo. / Gogol: Origins (Putinia, 2017)
Another cutout DVD that we perhaps would not have bought had we been paying more attention. Not because Gogol: Origins is bad — it isn't — but because it is not exactly what we would call a "real...
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Babe of Yesteryear – Allison Hayes, Part VI: 1960-65
Allison Hayes (6 Mar 1930 – 27 Feb 1977) was an American film and television actress and model who could perhaps be described as a poor man's Jane Russell (21 Jun 1921 – 28 Feb 2011) — ironically,...
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The Woman in Green (USA, 1945)
"I smell the faint, sweet odor of blackmail."Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) That he does. Called in by Scotland Yard's Inspector Gregson* (Matthew Boulton [20 Jan 1893 – 10 Feb 1962] of The Man in...
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Ghosts of War (Brexitland, 2020)
War films aren't exactly the usual preferred viewing pleasure of a wasted life, unless they are bad and made in the Philippines (like Warbus [1985]), but much like western horror flicks, if we notice a...
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Gangnam Zombie / 강남좀비 (South Korea, 2023)
One thing for sure, if this is a typical Korean zombie movie, then the Korean cuisine is definitely a lot better than their zombie films. (Bosintang — Yum! Yum! Yum!) Not that the direction of Soo Sung...
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Dead and (Not) Completely Forgotten – Dale Berry, Part I: 1960-62
"I had a great life and enjoyed every minute of it, I would not change a thing, even if I could do it all over." Dale Berry In the case of Dale Berry (3 Sept 1928 – 20 Oct 2011), he is less forgotten...
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Don't Look in the Basement (Planet Texas, 1973)
"Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a hunting For fear of little men..."William Allingham (19 Mar 1824 – 18 Nov 1889) (Spoliers.) Made as The Forgotten, this infamous little...
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Project Ithaca (Forever Canada, 2019)
"I don't want to die."Alex the Junkie (Caroline Raynaud) (Spoilers!) The Roswell incident says hello. Project Ithaca uses the classic urban legend — fact? — as the foundation of its narrative,...
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Arrowhead (Australia, 2015)
(Spoilers.) Also known as Alien Arrival. We are tempted to say that Arrowhead is actually a good movie, because we did enjoy it. But as a genre and science fiction movie, it simply dishes out too much,...
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Mesa of Lost Women (USA, 1952/53)
"In fact, it's so bad you have to ask yourself, is it actually evil?" (Critic Nigel Honeybone on Mesa of the Lost Women.) (Spoilers — not that it really matters.) A mind-blowing bad-film anti-classic...
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Dead and (Not) Completely Forgotten – Dale Berry, Part II: 1964-65
"I had a great life and enjoyed every minute of it, I would not change a thing, even if I could do it all over."Dale Berry As we mentioned in Dead and (Not) Completely Forgotten – Dale Berry, Part I:...
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The Hollow (Canada, 2015)
Talk about a surprise. Released on DVD as The Burning Curse, this movie proves that sometimes contemporary TV horror movies can easily hold their own as decent flicks. In another time, in the days back...
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The Terror by Night (USA, 1946)
"Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night."Psalms 91:5 Of the numerous series that Universal had in production in the thirties and forties, the Sherlock Holmes series was definitely of the most...
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Hickok (USA, 2017)
Opening amidst a Civil War battle in which the nattily dressed-in-black Hickok (Luke Hemsworth, yet another hot-bodied Hemsworth brother, this one generally found in genre films like Death of Me [2020...
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Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (USA, 1988)
"The name's Earl, but the ladies back home call me Longhorn, maybe you can guess why." Earl Hooter (Lee McLaughlin) Okay, we admit it: we were fans of Elvira's original Movie Macabre broadcasts way...
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Dead and (Not) Completely Forgotten — Dale Berry, Part III: 1966-76
"I had a great life and enjoyed every minute of it, I would not change a thing, even if I could do it all over."Dale Berry As we mentioned in both Dead and (Not) Completely Forgotten – Dale Berry, Part...
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The Survivalist (USA, 2022)
(Spoilers.) Not to be confused with The Survivalist (2015 / trailer), a somewhat older and even more low-budget, post-apocalyptic movie that is both a bit more demanding and memorable. But if this...
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