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Herschell Gordon Lewis – Godfather Of Gore, Part VII: 2002-2008
15 June 1929 – 26 September 2016"He seen somethin' different. And he done it."A seminal force in the world of trash filmmaking, he is considered the inventor of the modern gore film. (In theory, a...
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Short Film: Le Noeud Cravate / The Necktie (Canada, 2008)
Here's a semi-melancholic little tale, dabbed with a dash of horror, from the French-speaking northernmost of the Americas, written and directed by Jean-François Lévesque. Lévesque, born in...
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Biohazard (USA, 1985)
The name Fred Olan Ray is familiar if not legendary to anyone mildly interested in the B-films of the 80s and 90s. Had he been around 50 years earlier, without doubt he would've been a staple director...
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The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (Canada, 1976)
"You should see the way the fire lights up your hair. All yellow and gold. [coughing] Such lovely hair."Frank Hallet (Martin Sheen)1976 was a busy year for Jodie Foster, at that time a child actress...
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Short Film: Rotting Hill (New Zealand, 2012)
Ah! True love! How we all hope to have it. And as this little short reveals, you never know when you might finally find it. Here's 5 minutes of zombie horror romance from New Zealand, a country on our...
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Herschell Gordon Lewis – Godfather Of Gore, Part VIII: 2009–2010
15 June 1929 — 26 September 2016"He seen somethin' different. And he done it."A seminal force in the world of trash filmmaking, he is considered the inventor of the modern gore film. (In theory, a...
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Organ (Japan, 1996)
Thank our non-existent god for Wikipedia. If you really don't know what the fuck the film you just saw was about, Wikipedia is normally there to tell you at least the basics. So, after we finished...
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Nemesis (USA, 1992)
OK, we admit it: we have a weak spot for Albert Pyun movies ever since we caught his directorial debut, The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982 / trailer), in a double feature with Beim Jodeln juckt die...
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Short Film: Red Nightmare (USA, 1962)
Original entitled Freedom and You, Red Nightmare is vintage US propaganda ala the Twilight Zone— only instead of Rod Serling, you get Jack Webb. Made for the US government by Warner Bros, Red Nightmare...
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Herschell Gordon Lewis – Godfather Of Gore, Part IX: 2010-16 + Addendum
15 June 1926 - 26 September 2016 "He seen somethin' different. And he done it."A seminal force in the world of trash filmmaking, he is considered the inventor of the modern gore film. (In theory, a...
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Riding the Bullet (USA, 2004)
Some years ago, in 2009, we watched another of Mick Garris's Stephen King adaptations, the miscarriage entitled Sleepwalkers(1992 / trailer), and were moved to scream, among other things, "Director...
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Blade (1998, USA)
(Spoilers.) Back in the 1970s, when the comic companies realized that it might be a good idea to create a few Afro-American heroes, Marv Wolfman and Gene Colon (1 Sept 1926 – 23 June 2011) created the...
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Short Film: Love of the Dead (USA, 2011)
A slow film, but an oddly disturbing one.This short, a student project from Yale, of all places, is seriously disquieting on too many levels. Not funny; upsetting — a seriously effective (if not...
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Password - Das Rätsel / L'Ultimo Codice (Italy, 2005)
Way back in 2015, among the movies we here at A Wasted Life screened that made our list "Ten Best of 2015"is an disasterpiece entitled Frozen Scream (1975), a cinematic experience "almost Dali-esque...
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Misc. Film Fun — Faux Trailer: Mad Feet (2015)
Fabulously WTF in a fun way. Nico Bellamytook the audio to the trailer of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015 / trailer), George Miller's masterful reboot-cum-sequel of Miller's own earlier Ozploitation classic...
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via GIPHYCapitalism makes strange bedfellows!Imagine: an author from A Wasted Life— actually, A Wasted Life's only author, seeing that this blog is a one-person undertaking — is now also writing for...
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Dinocroc vs. Supergator (USA, 2010)
"I'm telling you. It's aliens! First they go for our animals, then they go for our women."Roy (Jim Wynorski)"I've seen your wife. Trust me, Roy; she's safe."Charlie Swanson (John Callahan)"I...
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Short Film: I Live in the Woods (USA. 2008)
God is Dead! Long live the New God! Were this short not already nine years old, we would be tempted to say this is some obscure, symbolic reflection of the current state of the American presidential...
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Tremors 2: Aftershocks (USA, 1996)
Way back in 1990, Kevin Bacon, deep in a career slump at the tender of age of 30, bemoaned the fact that he was "doing a movie about underground worms!" Bacon's career eventually revived itself —...
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Killer Angels (Hong Kong, 1989)
This flick is the first of two on a cheap, German double DVD entitled Megaforce 1& 2, which we bought alone due to the wonderful cover art: with its big-boobed white babe with Farrah Fawcett hair...
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