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R.I.P. Maria Rohm, Part IV: 1976 – 2007
13 August 1945 – 18 June 2018 Vienna-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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Torso — The Evelyn Dick Story (Canada, 2002)
So, anyway, we were invited over to a friend's place to watch a flick entitled Torso. We went expecting the legendary Italian giallo from 1973, starring the great Suzy Kendall and directed by...
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Misc. Film Fun (Faux Trailer) – Hell No: The Sensible Horror Film (2013)
A few years older than that other faux horror movie trailer we so like, Handjob Cabin(2015), this Austin-lensed faux trailer, Hell No: The Sensible Horror Film, not only has as many bull's-eyes as that...
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Shock Waves (USA, 1977)
(Meander with Spoilers.) Aka Almost Human and Death Corps. Here is an interesting if flawed low-budget semi-shocker from the seventies which, like so many cult favorites, is not quite as good as its...
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Freddy vs. Jason (USA, 2003)
Let us pay our respects to director Ronny Yu. He, like fellow Hong Kong master stylist John Woo, is a man who knows how to make a movie. Like Woo, he is a genre master, but unlike Woo he never truly...
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Babes of Yesteryear – Uschi Digard, Part I: 1968-69
Babes of Yesteryear: Within the world of exploitation and cult film, there is an inordinate amount of women who had their 15 seconds in exploitation and, for whatever reason — no talent, terrible...
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Q (USA, 1982)
A.k.a. Q: The Winged Serpent. Larry Cohen's genre masterpiece about a city terrorized by a monster pigeon. Just kidding — about the monster pigeon, that is. In this prime slice of 1980s genre...
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Short Film: Closed Mondays (USA, 1974)
Let's take a moment to honor the man pictured directly above, the American animator and filmmaker William Gale Vinton (born 17 Nov 1947), who took that final boat trip with Charon almost two months ago...
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Book of Blood (Great Britain, 2009)
(Spoilers.) The introduction of HD can only be seen as an event to rue. Since the advent of the HD DVD, one no longer knows for sure whether a film just looks like a TV movie because it was truly...
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Short Film: Beauty of Horror – Christmas Claymation (USA, 2018)
So, once again t'is the season to be pretend to be jolly and feel brotherly love, support crass commercialism and gain weight and argue with the family and generally repeat the same shit as last year...
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The Butterfly Room (USA/Italy, 2012)
Somehow it seems oddly fitting that it was an Italian, Jonathan Zarantonello, that, after years if not almost decades, finally gave the great Barbara Steele a lead role in another horror film. After...
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Babes of Yesteryear – Uschi Digard, Part II: 1970, Part I
Babes of Yesteryear, a wasted life's irregular and PI cis-gender feature, takes a look at the filmography of the underappreciated actresses cum sex bombs of low-culture cinema of the past. Some may...
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Best Films Watched in 2018
Photo above taken from the Crackedarticle 6 Creepy Things That Happen To The Human Body (When You Die).And thus another year has come to an end — but, unbelievably enough, the world hasn't. Like Rome,...
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Curse of the Puppet Master (USA, 1998)
(Also known as Puppet Master 6.) Many years ago, some filmmaker named Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator [1985]) directed a flop, produced by Charles Band, entitled Dolls(1987 / trailer). Two years later,...
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Skenbart: En film om tåg / Illusive Tracks (Sweden, 2003)
(Spoilers) Skenbart: En film om tåg, which didn't really reach the English-speaking world (but for various film festivals, mostly LGBTQ) asIllusive Tracks, is an entertaining if slightly schizophrenic...
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Short Film: The Snow Man (USA, 1940)
In many places in the world, January is still a snowy winter month. And that is why we're presenting a winter-kind of short film. In theory, this film is set in the summer month of July, but snow is...
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R.I.P.: Dick Miller
25 Dec 1928 – 30 Jan 2019While we had planned to post something else today, we awoke to find out that one of our all-time favorite character actors, the American thespian treasure known as Dick Miller,...
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Way of the Gun (USA, 2000)
Supposedly a cult movie, which leaves us here at a wasted lifewondering why. True, The Way of the Gunhas more forced quirkiness and idiosyncratic characters and excessive violence and guns and secret...
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Babes of Yesteryear – Uschi Digard, Part III: 1970, Part II
Babes of Yesteryear: a wasted life's irregular and PI feature that takes a meandering look at the filmographies of the underappreciated actresses cum sex bombs of low-culture cinema of the past. Some...
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Isle of Darkness / Mørkets øy (Norway, 1997)
If there's one thing all city slickers should know, it's that the rural backlands are dangerous. We've seen the proof of that in hundreds, if not thousands, of movies. Whether in the Appalachians, as...
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