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R.I.P.: Janine Reynaud, Part I, 1965-68
13 August 1930 - 30 January 2018Last week Boot Hillannounced the death of cult actress Janine Reynaud, a surprise to us here at A Wasted Life because we had assumed that she went to make bad films in...
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Short Film: Neomorphus (2011, Brazil)
Here's three-minute oddity by the Brazilian production company Animatorio. A mixture of stop motion with a dash of CGI, this nightmarish little short is a visual if twisted treat. We were too taken in...
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Amphibious 3D (Netherlands / Indonesia 2010)
Five years after the less than notable Spanish horror movie Beneath Still Waters(2005), Brian Yuzna dusted off his pen, checkbook, megaphone and folding chair to write, produce and direct a less than...
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Short Film: The Nose (France, 1963)
Much like Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450 – 9 Aug 1516) is now seen as an early (if unwitting) surrealist painter, the Ukrainian-born writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (31 March 1809 – 4 March 1852) is now...
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R.I.P.: Janine Reynaud, Part II – 1969-2000
Wednesday, 13 Aug 1930 - Tuesday, 30 Jan 2018Last month Boot Hillannounced the death of cult actress Janine Reynaud, a surprise to us here at A Wasted Life because we had assumed that she went to make...
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1922 (USA, 2017)
"I discovered something that night that most people never have to learn. Murder is sin. Murder is damnation. But murder is also work."Wilfred JamesWow! Imagine that! A Stephen King movie that doesn't...
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Der Mönsch mit der Peitsche (Germany, 1967)
German Trailer:Aka: The College Girl Murders & The Prussic Factor. (Spoilers — but skip the first paragraph plot description and you skip the spoilers.) Der Mönsch mit der Peitsche opens with two...
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R.I.P. Maria Rohm, Part I: 1964-67
13 August 1945 – 18 June 2018We were so busy putting together Part II of our career review of cult actress Janine Reynaud that the passing of another cult beauty of the 60s slipped past us: Vienna-born...
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Short Film: Left to Right (USSR, 1989)
Directed by Ivan Maksimov. This month's Short Film is located smack dab in the middle of "WTF Land"— as in: "WTF does that mean?" Left to Right, aka Sleva Napravo (Russian: Слева направо) is a student...
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Latidos de Pánico / Panic Beat (Spain, 1983)
(Spoilers.) Aka Nightmare House, Cries of Terror and Frantic Heartbeat.Paul Naschy movies are a bit like Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. They've been around forever and (generally) have terrible...
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Go GIF Yourself!
Found @ the tumblr oddities. Taken from the 1966 Czechoslovakian movie Sedmikrásky, aka Daisies, directed by Věra Chytilová (2 February 1929 – 12 March 2014). Though made with state funding,...
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R.I.P. Maria Rohm, Part II: 1968-70
13 August 1945 – 18 June 2018Vienna-born Maria Rohm (nee Helga Grohmann), talented cult actress and wife of British independent film producer and screenwriter Harry Alan Towers (19 Oct 1920 – 31 July...
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The Babysitter (USA, 2017)
(Spoilers.) Ah, the babysitter. Tragically misrepresented in the movies. Beginning with their looks. In all three babysitter movies we know of — The Babysitter (1969 / trailer), The Babysitter (1995 /...
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Short Film: Mickey Mouse in Vietnam (USA, 1968)
Here's a short and silent little underground animated treasure from the days of yesteryear. As with our Sept 2013 Short Film of the MonthBambi Meets Godzilla(1969) and our Oct 2016 Short Film of the...
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The Ghoul (Great Britain, 1933)
First, the history lesson: Hot on the heels of his two horror hits (and eventual classics), James Whale's Frankenstein (1931 / trailer) and Karl Freund's The Mummy(1932 / trailer), Boris Karloff...
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Short Film: Less than Human (Denmark, 2017)
Although a zombie film, this award-winning computer animation short film is anything but a display of gut-munching and blood. No, the best word that might describe Less than Human,which is as much of a...
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R.I.P. Maria Rohm, Part III: 1970-75
13 August 1945 – 18 June 2018Vienna-born Maria Rohm (nee Helga Grohmann), talented cult actress and wife of British independent film producer and screenwriter Harry Alan Towers (19 Oct 1920 – 31 July...
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Rammbock / Berlin Undead (Germany, 2010)
(Spoilers) Rammbock, at little over 60 minutes in length with credits, is a bit too long to be a short film and a bit too short to be a feature film, but in the end it proves just long enough to...
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Castle of Blood (Italy, 1964)
"My heart isn't beating. It hasn't beaten for 10 years. I'm dead, Alan. Dead."Elisabeth BlackwoodAka The Castle of Terror, Coffin of Terror, Tombs of Terror, Tombs of Horror, The Long Night of Terror,...
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Short Film: The Haunted House (France, 1908)
This month's short film is the oldest one we have ever presented here at a wasted life— it beats November 2015's The Mystery of the Leaping Fish(USA,1916) by 8 years and February 2016's Un Chien...
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