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Bingo Hell (Amazon, 2021)
Like Oz Rodriguez's horror comedy Vampires vs. the Bronx (2020 / trailer), Gigi Saul Guerrero's Bingo Hell is a horror comedy critique of a real-life horror that even hipsters of the type both movies...
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R.I.P.: Bert I. Gordon, Part III (1972-2015)
Bert I. Gordon24 Sept 1922 – 8 Mar 2023 After 100 years, he's gone! Trashmaster Bert I. Gordon, "Mister B.I.G.", a seminal influence on the filmic taste of a wasted life, has entered the Film Palace in...
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Wei Qing Zhui Zong / Red Force 5 (Hong Kong, 1996)
A.k.a. Yes, Madam 5— a title which could easily lead one think that the movie is a bordello-set sex film instead of a police flick. Whether titled Red Force 5 or Yes Madam 5, to date the movie is the...
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Women of the World / La donna nel mondo (Italy, 1963)
Damn, if this film weren't so obviously from 1963 in its overall look, one could easily imagine that after TikTok and YouTube and Romanian jail, where he surely has enjoyed having to bend over for the...
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R.I.P.: Ken Russell, Part II (1975–2011)
Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell* 3 July 1927 – 27 Nov 2011 In a career that spanned decades, British director Ken Russell was the undisputed enfant terrible of the movie industry, and his Baroque vision...
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Piranha Sharks (2016, USA)
Over at imdb, the bio page of director Leigh Scott, the director, producer and co-scripter of this slab of malodorous filmic cheese currently (26 June 2023) states that "Leigh has always looked to push...
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Film: Jess Franco's Bésame monstruo a.k.a. Kiss Me Monster (1967 / trailer), with Janine Reynard.*That's German for Summer Break.
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Okay, prior to being waylaid by killer temperatures throughout July (which led to our decision to simply take the month of August off), we had planned to present Alan Resnick's This House Has People in...
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D.O.A. (USA, 1950)
"The medical facts in this motion picture are authentic. Luminous toxin is a descriptive term for an actual poison."* *Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Klaus.Along with When Worlds Collide (1951 /...
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B.o.Y.: The Women of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Part XIII – Phyllis...
Fifty-three years and three months ago, on 17 June 1970, Russ Meyer's baroque masterpiece Beyond the Valley of the Dolls hit the screens in the US of Anal. One of only two movies he ever made for a...
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Space Marines (USA, 1996)
Whether or not you will like Space Marines will probably depend on what you are expecting and how you approach this D2V movie. It is doubtful that most people who decide to watch this flick are...
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The Broken (Great Britain, 2008)
This flawed but slick and engrossing horror film is the second feature-film project written and directed by Sean Ellis, his follow-up film to his absolutely repulsive feature-film directorial debut,...
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Misc. Film Fun: Music from Movies – Happy Birthday to Me (USA, 1981)
Happy Birthday to Me is a late-career directorial project of the prolific British film director John Lee Thompson (1 Aug 1914 – 30 Aug 2002), whose final western film, The White Buffalo (1977), we took...
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First Spaceship on Venus (GDR/Poland/USA, 1960)
Poster by Ernst Litter (5 June 1918 – 27 Dec. 2006) "In 1985, during the course of the work undertaken to irrigate the Gobi Desert, a strange fragment of rock was discovered. Several remarkable...
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The Furies (Australia, 2019)
One would be hard-pressed to claim that the this relatively obscure (at least in Europe and possibly stateside) Australian horror flick in any way brims with true creativity or new ideas, but as...
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BOY — Babes of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Part XIII: Phyllis Davis, Pt....
"Using unknowns you avoid highly exaggerated salaries and prima donnas."Russ MeyerBeyond the Valley of the Dolls, Russ Meyer's baroque 1970 masterpiece, one of only two movies he ever made for a major...
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Natural Selection (Planet Texas, 1999)
"Billy, quit covering your titties and play ball!" Coach Al Sand (Bob Richardson) (Spoilers) There is a serial killer on the loose in small town Texas, a homicidal postman who's about to become a...
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Unrest (USA, 2006)
(Spoilers.) Sometimes the question is not how a film ever got made, but why the film doesn't kill someone's career. It is surprising that this dull and predictable and often laughable slab of...
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Hue & Cry (Great Britain, 1947)
Hue & Cry is the tertiary feature film project of British director Charles Crichton (6 Aug 1910 – 14 Sept 1999), a former film editor (on many an English classic) who had, only three years earlier,...
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Background Babe of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Part XV: Veronica Ericson
"Using unknowns you avoid highly exaggerated salaries and prima donnas."Russ Meyer To repeat, yet again, what we've more or less said time and again since 17 June 2022 in our multi-part Babe of...
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