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Camp Blood (USA, 1999)
The fact of the matter is, not all shit stinks equally. Take for example, films like The Wickeds (2005) or Final Hour (1995): total shit, both films, and they stink like a putrid, diarrhea-smeared anus...
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Trailer of Promise – Films We Haven't Seen: The Pink Angels (1971)
DVD Drive-In points out the obvious about The Pink Angels, "the world's only gay biker [feature] film": "The Pink Angels is a film most can't believe was actually written, directed, acted, and released...
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Ten Best Films in 2015
GIF from the probably NSFW tumblr weirdgifsystem.Year 7 of A Wasted Life's "Ten Best Films of [Last Year]" list... the rules:1. The films need not be made in the year in question (2015), they need only...
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Beyond Hypothermia / Sip si 32 dou (Hong Kong, 1996)
(Spoilers.) A lean, mean, moving, and unjustly forgotten movie from the tail end of the Golden Age of Hong Kong bullet ballets, Beyond Hypothermia is well worth searching out. What makes this move...
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R.I.P.: Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven, Part V (2000-05)
2 August 1939 – 30 August 2015What follows is a look at some the projects he was involved in — actually and/or presumably. TV series are ignored.Go here for Part I (1970-77) Go here for Part II...
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Incubus (USA 2006)
(Spoilers — but, like, who fucking cares?) Written by Gary Humphreys, who also wrote True True Lie (trailer), another unknown movie likewise filmed that same year in Romania, which, going by a...
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Short Film: The Hobbit (USA / Czechoslovakia, 1966)
As of yet, all Short Films of the Month presented here at A Wasted Life were presented because we found them good. Here, however, is one presented because we think it sucks. And sucks enough to be...
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The Curse of Frankenstein (Great Britain, 1957)
(Spoilers!) The film that made Hammer… and both Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee's careers, though in the case of the latter, he really didn't gain all that much international attention until the...
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R.I.P.: Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven, Part VI (2006-16) + Addendum (1976)
2 August 1939 - 30 August 2015What follows is a look at some the projects he was involved in — actually and/or presumably. TV series are ignored.Go here for Part I (1970-77)Go here for Part II...
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Teenage Caveman (USA, 2002)
In all truth, for the main gist of the following review, you can skip down to the final paragraph... but read on, should our normal meandering and verbosity interest you in any way.(Spoilers.) Way back...
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Short Film: Un Chien Andalou / An Andalusian Dog (France, 1929)
We are continually surprised at how many people have not yet seen this film. Sure, everyone who's ever gone to art school or studied filmmaking has seen it, but if you get down to it, that's a smaller...
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Art of the Devil II / Long khong (Thailand, 2005)
One of two follow-up movies to Tanit Jitnukul's original horror movie of the same name (2004 / trailer), Art of the Devil ll is a titular sequel only and is completely unrelated to the first film. (Art...
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Grabbers (Ireland/GB, 2012)
We like to drink. And we know many other people who like to drink. And when we all go out drinking together, we generally have a great time: we're witty and funny and party hardy and life is grand....
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Zombeavers (USA, 2014)
Let's get down to it, you can't really fault a movie with a title like Zombeavers'cause, like what? You expect the directorial talent of Orson Wells and don't find it? You miss the thespian abilities...
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Trailers of Promise: Mad Monster Party (USA, 1967)
Directed by Jules Bass. Jules Bass (born 16 September 1935) was one half of Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc., a US American production he founded on September 14, 1960, as Videocraft International, with...
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Short Film: How to Undress in Front of Your Husband (USA, 1937)
Poster thanks to The Cinema Masochist."I think this worry is about over, though. In a few moments, Trixie will fold up like a dump truck and call it a day. Yes, I was right. The dreadnought is about to...
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Beneath Still Waters (Spain, 2005)
Beneath Still Waters is an emphatically serious Spanish-lensed horror movie based on a 1989 novel of the same name by Matthew Costello. The tale is clearly Lovecraftian when reduced to it intrinsic...
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Detour (USA, 2003)
"Oh hell woman! It's time you open yo eyes! We're a million miles from dick, Cashie's trippin' and we got some kinda freak stalkin' us! ... and you're tellin' me ... that I'M over-reacting?"Loopz /...
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Jack Brooks, Monster Slayer (Canada, 2007)
The feature-film directorial début of Canadian director Jon Knautz, the title of this horror comedy is of course an obvious homage to a far more successful movie (1992 / trailer) and series (1997-2003...
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Short Film: Fist of Jesus (Spain, 2012)
When bored, we are likely to search the web using unlikely word combinations such as "Jesus with a boner" or "Zombie Mohammed" (or the inverse) just to see what we discover. While our Mohammed searches...
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