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Misc. Film Fun: Two Levi's Advertisements
A good film, long or short, generally succeeds on many levels: technically, emotionally, visually. On occasion, usually a rare one, commercial advertisements manage to succeed at these levels to such...
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R.I.P.: Tobe Hooper
25 Jan 1943 — 26 Aug 2017 Like George Romero (4 Feb 1940 — 16 July 2017), director Hooper was possibly plagued by the fact that his first general release feature-film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre...
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Short Film: The Heisters (USA, 1964)
Four days ago, on Saturday, the 26th of August, 2017, famed horror director Tobe Hooper died — one hopes not at the hands of some x-girlfriend. In honor of the passing of this influential director of...
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Ninja Cheerleaders (USA, 2008)
OK, if you're expecting anything along the lines of similarly R-rated and entitled exploiters like Zombie Strippers (2008 / trailer) or Zombeavers (2014 / trailer) — or even the 2002 no budget flick...
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R.I.P.: Tobe Hooper, Part I: 1964–1982
Tobe Hooper25 Jan 1943 — 26 Aug 2017Like George Romero (4 Feb 1940 — 16 July 2017), director Hooper was possibly plagued by the fact that his first general release feature-film, The Texas Chainsaw...
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Mega Shark Vs Crocosaurus (USA, 2010)
The little tyke wearing the rubber suit in Fred Olen Ray's less than spectacular Biohazard(1985 / fan trailer), Christopher Olen Ray, has grown up to follow his father's footsteps and now makes movies...
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Happy Birthday to Us!
As of today, we've wasted ten years of our life on this blog, the first review of which — for an amazingly fun and badly made and bloody Thai movie entitled Devil Species(2004), trailer below— we...
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Short Film: Seduction of the Innocent (USA, 1961)
"This is America in the second-half of the twentieth century and Jeanette is a slave. Not a slave by circumstance of birth or force, but by choice. A choice she made herself not so very long ago, a...
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A Bucket of Blood (USA, 1959)
"You're a real artist now. Now go back and scrub down those garbage cans."Leonard de Santis (Antony Carbone)(Spoilers.) Another super-low budget quickie from the great Roger Corman that defies its...
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R.I.P.: Tobe Hooper, Part II: 1983 – 1991
25 Jan 1943 — 26 Aug 2017Like George Romero (4 Feb 1940 – 16 July 2017), director Hooper was possibly plagued by the fact that his first general release feature-film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre...
View ArticleMisc. Film Fun – Two Music Videos that Tell Stories
The Australian electronic music group The Avalanches does some pretty groovy music videos. The visuals to their songs Frank Sinatra (2016), Subways (2016), and Frontier Psychiatrist (2000) are...
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R.I.P.: Umberto Lenzi
6 August 1931 – 19 October 2017"A mostly unsung titan has passed." The great Umberto Lenzi has left us! In a career that spanned over 30 years, the Italian director churned out fine quality as well as...
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Short Film: A Charlie Brown Christmas Reunion (2012)
Way back in October, 2016, we unearthed the old but perennially entertaining student film, Bring the Head of Charlie Brown(1986). Darned if we didn't stumble upon another fun short that takes aim at CB...
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Megaforce 2 / Devil Hunters / Lie mo qun ying (Hong Kong, 1989)
(Spoilers.) This is the second flick on a cheap German double DVD entitled Megaforce 1 & 2 which, as we mentioned in our review of Killer Angels(1989), "we bought alone due to the wonderful cover...
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Tobe Hooper, Part III: 1992 – 2003
25 Jan 1943 — 26 Aug 2017Like George Romero (4 Feb 1940 — 16 July 2017), director Hooper was possibly plagued by the fact that his first general release feature-film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre...
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El Topo (Mexico, 1970)
"You are seven years old. You are a man. Bury your first toy and your mother's picture." (The first line uttered in the movie, fromEl Topoto his son.)My, they did make strange movies once upon a time,...
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R.I.P.: Umberto Lenzi, Part 1: 1958–63
6 August 1931 – 19 October 2017 "A mostly unsung titan has passed." The great Umberto Lenzi has left us! In a career that spanned over 30 years, the Italian director churned out fine quality as well as...
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Short Film: Ego zhena kuritsa / Hen, His Wife (Soviet Union, 1990)
Some seven years ago, we presented a classic underground short film, Suzan Pitt's Asparagus (1979), as our Short Film of the Month for February 2010 with a simple narrative of the when and where we...
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Diary of the Dead (USA, 2007)
Over the course of film history, there have been some pretty big changes in the lore of the zombie. If in Victor Halperin's pre-code White Zombie(1932 / trailer) the zombies were still not exactly...
View ArticleShort Film: Winter Stalker (USA, 2010)
"Deck the halls with boughs of Holly"— it's that time of year again — but whatever you do, don't touch her! Seven years ago, director Stephen Reedy, in his very-short short film Winter Stalker, picked...
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