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Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory (1962, Italy/Austria)
This Austrian-Italian horror film was originally released under the names Lycanthropus (Italy) and Bei Vollmond Mord (Austria/Germany), but when it was brought to the US in 1963 to join a double-bill...
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Short Film: Swing You Sinners! (1930)
The great master Max Fleischer, the producer behind Betty Boop and so much more, was always good for animated weirdness, as we already revealed last January when we presented one of his weirder early...
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The Heirloom / Zhai bian (Taiwan, 2005)
(Spoilers.) A movie that annoys us enough to make us want to become a pedantic asshole and even argue that it starts going wrong with its title, which arguably should be The Inheritance, but we'll skip...
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R.I.P.: José Ramón Larraz, Part II
José Ramón Larraz1929 (Barcelona, Spain) — 3 Sept 2013 (Málaga, Spain)Go here for Part 1.Whirlpool(1970, writ. & dir. by "J. R. Larrath")Stelvio Cipriani's Haunting Score to Whirlpool: AKA Vortice...
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Wishmaster (USA, 1997)
As a makeup and special effects man, director Robert Kurtzman has solid roots that were nurtured by dozens of genre films, including such fine stuff (to list only those that have been reviewed here at...
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Maniac (USA, 1934)
"The rats eat the cats, the cats eat the rats, and I get the skin."The cat-farming neighbor 'Goof', whose real identity is unknown today.Aka Sex Maniac, under any title it remains another noteworthy...
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Short Film: Kung Fu Cooking Girls (China, 2011)
"What a waste of food"Written by Cloverxie and Jin Roh, the latter of whom also directed. When we first saw this cute little film, we assumed that it was a parody of the modern Asian sock-em-chop-em...
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Short Movie: A Very Zombie Holiday (USA, 2010)
"Deck the halls with boughs of holly, Fa la la la la la la la la...."Yes, 'tis the season to be jolly, so don we now our gay apparel and let us consider the Man whom this Joyous Holiday does honor. And...
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R.I.P.: José Ramón Larraz, Part III (1979-1990)
1929 (Barcelona, Spain) – 3 Sept 2013 (Málaga, Spain) Go here for José Ramón Larraz, Part IGo here for José Ramón Larraz, Part IIThe Golden Lady(1979, dir. José Ramón Larraz)Title Track, by The Three...
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Zzikhimyeon jukneunda / Record (Korea, 2000)
(Spoilers.) Over here in Germany, the DVD release (shorn of probably the movie's best and bloodiest 4 minutes) was saddled with the rather incongruous title Fear No Evil; the English-language title...
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R.I.P.: Harry Reems, Part VI (1985)
Harry ReemsAugust 27, 1947 — March 19, 2013On 19 March 2013, Herbert Streicher — better known under his later name Harry Reems — went to the great porn shoot in the sky. The following is the sixth...
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The Sadist (USA, 1963)
"School's out, teacher!"Charles A. 'Charlie' Tibbs (Arch Hall Jr.) Wow. What a fucking great movie...The set-up is hardly original or uncommon: the car of a group of people — in this case three...
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The Ten Best in 2013
Year 5 of A Wasted Life's "Ten Best Films in XXXX" list... the rules, as they have crystallized over the past five years:1. The films need not be made in the year in question (2013), they need only to...
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Necromancy / The Witching (USA, 1972)
Bert I. Gordon is one of the great heroes of low budget schlock and treasured guilty pleasures, mostly from the third quarter of the 20th century. Director, writer, producer, auteur, the man is still...
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R.I.P.: Alexandra Bastedo
Alexandra Bastedo (9 March 1946 – 12 January 2014) The mostly forgotten (outside of the Commonwealth) 60s sex symbol Alexandra Bastedo, a "devoted animal rights activist" and vegetarian, died the other...
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Nero veneziano / Damned in Venice (Italy, 1978)
A fan-made tribute to Damned in Venice:Hard to believe that such a dull film can be so enthralling... Aka Die Wiege des Teufels and Venetian Black, Damned in Venice is the second movie we've seen from...
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Short Movie: The Pervert (USA, circa 2011)
"A boy succumbs to the evils of perversion."This month's short is from some dude named Adam Rosenberg. We first stumbled upon this little cute little gem some time ago while perusing that eternally...
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The Killer Shrews (USA, 1959)
"If you have to be isolated for your work you sure picked a lonely little island."Thorne Sherman (James Best)Ah, the wonderful films that we all saw on our local creature feature show while growing up...
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R.I.P.: Alexandra Bastedo, Part II
9 March 1946 — 12 January 2014The mostly forgotten (outside of the Commonwealth) 60s sex symbol Alexandra Bastedo, a "devoted animal rights activist" and vegetarian, died the other day of cancer....
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The Hamiltons (USA, 2006)
(Spoilers — but then, it is impossible to write about this movie without giving away a key revelation.)Now this movie was a surprise... one can only wonder what has to later go wrong for two people to...
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