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R.I.P.: Tobe Hooper, Part IV, 2004-2017
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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The Best of 2017
(Image above from Methane Studios— check them out.)Time for the annual roundup of the 10 Best Films viewed in 2017. Like 2016, 2017 was a busy year during which we watched and wrote about way fewer...
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Troll 2 (Italy/USA, 1990)
Preamble: Regular readers of A Wasted Life (assuming there are any) might already know, from the 18 July 2017 blog entry Shameless Self-Promotion, that this blog's meat-eating and lard-loving[only]...
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R.I.P. Umberto Lenzi, Part II: 1964-68
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: M Is for Masticate (USA, 2014)
"Remember kids, synthetic drugs are all fun and games until somebody loses an ear."GizmodoA short written and directed by Robert Boocheck, who was born 1 September 1976and has a killer smile. (That's...
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Shark Week (USA, 2012)
Where to begin? With the fact that this is an Asylum movie? Or with the fact that it was directed by Christopher Ray, the same miscreant who foisted Mega Shark Vs Crocosaurus(USA, 2010) upon the world...
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R.I.P.: Umberto Lenzi, Part III: 1969-72
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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Christmas Evil (USA, 1980)
Christmas is already a little while back, but then we never do put our reviews online in a timely manner. The original title of this odd little film was You Better Watch Out, which is perhaps the more...
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Short Film: Pica-Don (Japan, 1978)
"Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!"Donald "Size...
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Freaked (USA, 1993)
Every once and a while you stumble upon an unknown flick where, after you've watched it, you can only say, "What the fuck?" Even rarer, you stumble upon something that not only gets you to say "What...
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R.I.P. Umberto Lenzi, Part IV: 1976-82
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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Mutant Chronicles (Great Britain/USA, 2008)
(Spoilers.) When we uncovered the unopened, plastic-wrapped, German/English-language DVD — "Exxklusive Sonderedition mit Dog Tag" [Exclusive Special Edition with Dog Tag] — to this assumedly obscure...
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Short Film: Lagomorph: The Destructor (USA, 2009)
Hey! Happy Easter. Here's a short film chosen not only because we find it funny and entertaining, but because it's that time of year when people think bunnies. And candy. And candy makes you fat. And...
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Zhui xiong 20 nian / Nude Fear (Hong Kong, 1998)
Nude Fear is a relatively obscure Hong Kong psychological thriller that delivers more than might be expected, were it not the directorial debut of Alan Mak, half of the team Mak and [Andrew] Lau, the...
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R.I.P.: Umberto Lenzi, Part V, 1983 – 1990
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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Cult (USA, 2007)
(Spoilers, not that it matters.) It's always a bad sign when less than three hours after one has watched a movie, one can no longer remember which characters lived and which died. That means,...
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Short Film: Malafafone (USA, 2017)
Way back in 2016, when we presented Fist of Jesus(2012) the Short Film of the Monthfor April of that year, we mentioned how "when bored, we are likely to search the web using unlikely word combinations...
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Day of the Animals (USA, 1977)
Aka Something Is Out There. You know you're talking double-cheese when you're talking William Girdler (22 Oct 1947 – 21 Jan 1978), and double-cheese this film is. That man, going by his films that...
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R.I.P.: Umberto Lenzi, Part VI – 1991-2017 & Addendum
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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The Outing aka The Lamp (Texas, 1987)
(Spoilers.) Nice poster, or? The Outing and The Lamp is one and the same flick: it was entitled The Lamp for its British release, and then when it later reached the US, where it was actually filmed in...
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