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The Horde (France, 2009)
Going by this website here, the subtitled version of The Horde that we caught was the French theatrical version. Not that the missing footage really changed our visual experience all that much, other...
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R.I.P.: Harry Reems, Part III (1973-74)
Harry ReemsAugust 27, 1947 — March 19, 2013On 19 March 2013, Herbert Streicher — better known under his later name Harry Reems — went on to start selling real estate to those taking part in the great...
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Short Film: Jasper and the Haunted House (USA, 1942)
Perhaps some of you noticed that the great Ray Harryhausen, born 29 June 1920, died this month just short of his 93rd birthday on 7 May 2013. Currently we here at A Wasted Life are working on a career...
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Der Rote Kreis (Denmark/Germany, 1960)
Aka Den blodrøde cirkel and The Red Circle, Der Rote Kreis was director Jürgen Roland's feature-film début after doing about a dozen episodes of the then-popular German crime series, Stahlnetz...
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R.I.P.: Harry Reems, Part IV (1975-79)
Harry Reems August 27, 1947 — March 19, 2013On 19 March 2013, Herbert Streicher — better known under his later name Harry Reems — went on to start selling real estate to those taking part in the great...
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Piranha 3DD (USA, 2012)
Piranha 3DD Red Band Trailervon teasertrailer "Josh cut off his penis because something came out of my vagina."Shelby (Katrina Bowden) Let's talk about sequels. Many suck, without a doubt — for every...
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R.I.P.: Ray Harryhausen, Part II
Ray Harryhausen June 29, 1920 – May 7, 2013The Lost World (1925, dir. Harry O. Hoyt)1925 Promotional Film to The Lost World:OK, we admit that Ray Harryhausen had nothing to do with this film here or...
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Short Film: The Backwater Gospel (Denmark, 2011)
Some dude named Bo Mathorne, one of a group of eight for whom this short was a bachelor project at the Danish Animation Workshop, directed this finely made Western horror. (The Animation Workshop, an...
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R.I.P.: Jim "The Dragon" Kelly
Jim "The Dragon" KellyMay 5, 1946 - June 29, 2013 Handsome, ass-kicking Afro-American martial artist of questionable thespian talents who made some fun movies during his quick rise and fall in...
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Tokyo Gore Police / Tôkyô zankoku keisatsu (Japan, 2008)
As far as we can tell, Tokyo Gore Police is the first feature-length gore film directed by Japanese special affects master Yoshihiro Nishimura, "the Tom Savini of Japan," who a year later brought us...
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The Fear: Resurrection (USA, 1999)
German Trailer: This totally forgotten movie is, in theory, a sequel to the equally unknown movie The Fear (1995 / trailer), but in the end it is far more a straightforward remake because it far less...
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Short Film: Plot Device (USA, 2011)
Here we have a relatively recent short film that was actually made to hawk the wares of the software firm Red Giant.Red Giant likes to claim that they "understand the challenges of creating a high...
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The Wasp Woman (USA, 1959)
One thing you gotta say, Roger Corman always knew a good title when he saw one. So if a title as harmless as The Fly (1958 / trailer) brought in the crowds, surely something so much more monstrous like...
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Zu Warriors / Shu shan zheng zhuan (Hong Kong, 2001)
Possibly driven by the unique international success of Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000 / trailer), famed Hong Kong director and producer Hark Tsui followed up his pyrokinetic gangster...
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Demonia (Italy, 1990)
Gory nunspliotation horror — and, despite what should be a great mixture (gore + nuns + horror, with a dash of boobage in one scene), a dull and scatter-shot movie that is less scary or dreamy and...
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R.I.P.: Harry Reems – Part I
August 27, 1947 — March 19, 2013Born Herbert Streicher, the legendary former (heterosexual) porn star of the Golden Age has gone to the porn shoot in the sky.A biography will follow one day... but till...
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Short Film: I, pet goat II (Canada, 2012)
I, pet goat II from Heliofant on Vimeo. So, this month we've decided to jump on the bandwagon and share this wonderfully surreal and beautifully nightmarish short film from the Northern regions of the...
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Skeleton Man (USA, 2004)
Filmed under the title Cottonmouth Joe, this little Nu Image flick was originally made for and aired on the Sci Fi Channel, but it has since somehow found its way onto DVD. It is to date (5 April 2013)...
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Demoniac (French, 1975)
This Jess Franco flick, like most of the dearly departed director's films, is available under assorted names (for example, L'éventreur de Notre-Dame and/or Exorcism) and versions; Demoniac is the cut...
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Jeepers Creepers (USA, 2001)
Aside from the yellow press infamy that he gained with the revelation in 1995 that he had regular sexual relations with a twelve-year-old boy in 1988, Victor Salva has also gained a reputation for...
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