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Per Sempre (Italy, 1987)
(Spoilers.) Also known as Until Death, this film is occasionally touted as an unofficial sequel to the popular Canuck horror film of 1980, The Changeling (trailer), which was directed by the facile...
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Ten Best in 2012
And now, for the fourth year in a row, A Wasted Life presents its list of the 10 Best Films in 2012. Again, as is the case every year, the films chosen need not have been made or released within the...
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Short Film: Bimbo's Initiation (USA, 1931)
For a long time now we here at A Wasted Life have thought about presenting a Betty Boop cartoon as the Short Film of the Month, but the big problem faced was that there are so many excellent early...
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Der Frosch mit der Maske (Germany/Denmark, 1959)
English trailer: (Spoilers.) When it comes to the famed German Edgar Wallace film series, this is the one that started it all: the first post-WWII, German-language film of an Edgar Wallace story. It...
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The Prometheus Project (USA, 2010)
By the time it hit the DVD store shelf, this film got re-titled to Frankenstein Syndrome—we would've guessed because the mythological reference of the original title may have been considered too...
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Wheels / Tockovi (Republic of Yugoslavia / Serbia, 1999)
How pleasant: a totally unknown film about which we knew nothing that turned out to be an absolute gem of a black comedy. In all truth, however, you'll probably never have a chance to see Wheels — or...
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Alien Prey (Great Britain, 1978)
Released in Germany as The Destructor. Though no longer active as a feature film director, beginning in 1968 with his B&W debut sexplotation flick Her Private Hell (trailer) English director Norman...
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Short Film: Plot Device (USA, 2011)
Here we have a relatively recent short film that was actually made to hawk the wares of the software firm Red Giant.Red Giant likes to claim that they "understand the challenges of creating a high...
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The Wasp Woman (USA, 1959)
One thing you gotta say, Roger Corman always knew a good title when he saw one. So if a title as harmless as The Fly (1958 / trailer) brought in the crowds, surely something so much more monstrous like...
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Zu Warriors / Shu shan zheng zhuan (Hong Kong, 2001)
Possibly driven by the unique international success of Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000 / trailer), famed Hong Kong director and producer Hark Tsui followed up his pyrokinetic gangster...
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Demonia (Italy, 1990)
Gory nunspliotation horror — and, despite what should be a great mixture (gore + nuns + horror, with a dash of boobage in one scene), a dull and scatter-shot movie that is less scary or dreamy and...
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R.I.P.: Harry Reems – Part I
August 27, 1947 — March 19, 2013Born Herbert Streicher, the legendary former (heterosexual) porn star of the Golden Age has gone to the porn shoot in the sky.A biography will follow one day... but till...
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Short Film: I, pet goat II (Canada, 2012)
I, pet goat II from Heliofant on Vimeo. So, this month we've decided to jump on the bandwagon and share this wonderfully surreal and beautifully nightmarish short film from the Northern regions of the...
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Skeleton Man (USA, 2004)
Filmed under the title Cottonmouth Joe, this little Nu Image flick was originally made for and aired on the Sci Fi Channel, but it has since somehow found its way onto DVD. It is to date (5 April 2013)...
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Demoniac (French, 1975)
This Jess Franco flick, like most of the dearly departed director's films, is available under assorted names (for example, L'éventreur de Notre-Dame and/or Exorcism) and versions; Demoniac is the cut...
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Jeepers Creepers (USA, 2001)
Aside from the yellow press infamy that he gained with the revelation in 1995 that he had regular sexual relations with a twelve-year-old boy in 1988, Victor Salva has also gained a reputation for...
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Dirty War (Spain, 1984)
(Spoilers.) Aka Guerra sucia and Schmutziger Krieg. We pulled this DVD out of our"DVDs from Hell" pile: a (much too high) pile of cheap DVDs that we have no idea how they ever even got in our...
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Short Film: Dead Man's Lake (UK, 2012)
Can you add a new twist to the old dead-teenager chestnut of annoying teens trespassing to camp out next to some distant lake and the terrible fate that awaits them? Ben Franklin, the co-writer and...
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R.I.P.: Harry Reems – Part II (1969-1972)
Harry ReemsAugust 27, 1947 — March 19, 2013On 19 March 2013, Herbert Streicher — better known under his later name Harry Reems — went to the great porn shoot in the sky. The following is the first...
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R.I.P.: Ray Harryhausen
Ray HarryhausenJune 29, 1920 – May 7, 2013Master American stop-motion animator and highly influential film maker — a career review will follow (eventually).
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