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Planet of the Sharks (USA, 2016)
It pretty much goes without saying that when one pops in a film produced by The Asylum or SyFy, one knows that one is not going to be watching an Oscar contender. Which isn't to say that one does not...
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Dementia 13 (USA, 1963)
(Spoilers.) A.k.a. The Haunted and the Hunted. What do you do when you make a tidy little horror film titled Dementia and then find out that there is already a movie out there — see our not-so-short...
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Jurassic Prey (USA, 2013)
The plans of Jackie (Danielle Donahue), a woman who wants to rip-off her bank director ex-husband, and three losers — Andy (Jeff Kirkendall), ringleader Sparks (Robert Dennis), and Ed (James Carolus) —...
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B.o.Y.: The Women of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Part XVI – Edy Williams,...
"Using unknowns you avoid highly exaggerated salaries and prima donnas."Russ MeyerTo repeat ourselves: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Russ Meyer's baroque 1967 masterpiece, one of only two movies he...
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Parents (USA, 1989)
Here's a uniquely odd, disquieting and blackly funny horror comedy from the end of the '80s that remains unjustly unknown, despite being a mild financial and critical success when released. The...
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Boogeyman 3 (USA, 2008)
(Spoilers.) The vagaries of eBay. You buy a €1 DVD of some film, say The Boogeyman (1980 / trailer), and get the DVD, keeping it sooooo long in your "to-watch pile" that by the time you pull the DVD...
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Creature (USA, 1985)
(Spoilers.) Not to be mistaken with 2004's Creature, also known as Alien Lockdown and Predatorman, this Creature is from the fabulous '80s, as is more than obvious by the fabulously horrible '80s hair...
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The Ten "Best" of 2023
As regular readers of a wasted life know, "Best of" is always relative at this blog as the films we give good reviews don't always show up in our end of the year round-up while films we trash do. This...
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Croc (USA, 2007)
A made-for-TV flick that got screened on the SyFy Channel in the US and had a DVD release in Europe (and maybe elsewhere), Croc is pretty much what one might expect from "award-winning" director...
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Night Fright (Planet Texas, 1967)
Night Fright, a regional movie shot and produced in Planet Texas for the drive-in market (where most of the teenage audiences probably were too busy necking to ever really care what was on the screen),...
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B.o.Y.: The Women of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Part XVII – Edy...
"Using unknowns you avoid highly exaggerated salaries and prima donnas."Russ MeyerIn case you didn't already know: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Russ Meyer's baroque 1967 masterpiece, one of only...
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Cry of the City (USA, 1948)
"Oh Marty, why did you have to shoot? Why did you have to kill?"Teena Riconti (Debra Paget) Two years after his acknowledged classic of film noir, The Killers (1946), which we here at a wasted life...
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3 A.M. (USA, 2001)
Not to be confused with any of the Thai series of portmanteau horror movies, 3 A.M. [2012 / trailer], 3 A.M. Part 2 [2014 / trailer], or 3 A.M. Part 3 [2018 / trailer].(Spoilers) This 3 A.M. here is...
View ArticleA Message from Our Sponsors
"When the park sirens go off, it's time to run for your lives!"We were brought to this funny but horrific "advertisement" by way of the ever-entertaining website boingboing, a source of interesting...
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The Suspect / Gik do chung faan (Hong Kong, 1998)
A mid-career action thriller from Hong Kong action thriller specialist Ringo Lam (8 Dec 1955 – 29 Dec 2018), The Suspect pretty much is an illustrative example of how even a competent genre specialist...
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B.o.Y.: The Women of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Part XVIII – Edy...
Trailer toBeyond the Valley of the Dolls:"Using unknowns you avoid highly exaggerated salaries and prima donnas."Russ Meyer In case you didn't already know: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Russ Meyer's...
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Autopsy: A Love Story (Aridzona, 2002)
Okay, we'll admit it: dunno how we did it, but when we procured the DVD to this film here, we actually though that we were getting a copy of that ancient slice of Eurotrash, Armando Crispino's 1975...
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The Body Snatcher (USA, 1945)
"It is through error that man tries and rises. It is through tragedy he learns. All the roads of learning begin in darkness and go out into the light." Hippocrates of Kos The eighth, and final,...
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Empire of the Sharks (USA, 2017)
Well, we would not be living up to the name of this blog if we didn't, on occasion, waste our time by sporadically watching lousy films more than once. So let us admit here and now that we did exactly...
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