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They Came from Beyond Space (Great Britain, 1967)
"Sentiment! I will not have sentiment interfering with our vital work!"Lee Mason (Jennifer Jayne) We're not in Kansas anymore — which is good, because The Gods Hate Kansas. Or at least they do...
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Breach (USA, 2020)
(Spoilers.) A.k.a. Anti-Life. Hey! To simply steal the entire opening paragraph from our review of Force of Nature (2020): "Towards the end of his life, Sir Laurence Olivier (22 May 1907 – 11 Jul...
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Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman (USA, 1943/44)
Despite being a wartime product, with this film, the fifth in the series of Rathbone/Bruce Holmes & Watson Universal programmers (and seventh if you count the two 20th Century Fox films) the...
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Babe of Yesteryear – Allison Hayes, Part I: 1953-54
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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Zombie Tidal Wave (USA, 2019)
Considering the amount of quirky laughs found in Anthony C. Ferrante's feature film directorial debut, the flawed but at times somewhat scary ghost story Boo/Scream and Run (2005), it really is not all...
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Ninja Hunt (Hong Kong, 1986)
We've had the accidental (dis)pleasure of watching a Joseph Lai/Godrey Ho production before, the last time being back in 2022, when we suffered our way through Golden Destroyers, a cinematic fiasco...
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Silent Venom (USA, 2009)
Let's hear it for the not-very-famous wrestler Fabulous Freddie Valentine, a man who follows his dreams. Including that of being a filmmaker, which is one of the many things he does under his slightly...
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Sherlock Holmes and the Scarlet Claw (1944, USA)
(Spoilers.) In general, this installment of the classic Basil Rathborn/Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson series,The Scarlet Claw, is commonly sited as one of the best of the series, if not...
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Babe of Yesteryear – Alison Hayes: Part II (1955)
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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Iron Sky: The Coming Race (Finland, 2019)
Donald "The Fascist" Trump andIron Sky II – The Coming Race: If you haven't seen Iron Sky (2012 / trailer), the movie that preceded this one, do so. Wonderfully tasteless, at times sweet, still timely...
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White Zombie (USA, 1932)
"Your driver believed he saw dead men... walking."Dr. Bruner (Joseph Cawthorn) This independently produced 1932 pre-Code horror film, eight years shy of a century old at the time of the writing of this...
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Dark Stories to Survive the Night (France, 2021)
A French portmanteau of five tales plus wrap-around segment, Dark Stories to Survive the Night is cut together from episodes that were originally aired on a French TV series roughly two years earlier....
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Sherlock Holmes & the Pearl of Death (USA, 1944)
While most aficionados tend to hold The Scarlet Claw (1944) high as the best of the Rathbone/Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson movies, we here at a wasted life tend to bestow that honor to...
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Rats on a Train / Kuang shu lie che (China, 2021)
Trains, planes and automobiles! There is no transportation vehicle with enclosed space that has yet to be deemed unfit as a setting for a horror movie. While Snakes on a Plane (2006) definitely begot...
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The Ten Best in 2024
As regular readers of a wasted life know — assuming there are any — "Best of" is always relative at this blog as the films we give good reviews don't always show up in our end of the year round-up...
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Project Gemini / Zvyozdniy razum (Russia, 2022)
Project Gemini, a Russian semi-horror science fiction of an indeterminable but probably low budget, hit the DVD bins in the US in March 2022 and has probably since been degraded to the cutouts. The...
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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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Babe of Yesteryear – Allison Hayes, Part III: 1956
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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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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