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old dark house: January 2012
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Sunday, January 22, 2012. It's been a couple of dec. Ades since I've seen this low budget Paramount potboiler, and over the years I remembered it as being pretty deranged.but until a revisit I didn't realize just how brilliant the damned thing really is. Say, if Quentin Tarantino had directed a movie in 1941, it might look something like this genre-bending lollapalooza. Transplants her freshly-executed brother's brain into a gorilla's skull! And to a contemporary audience, it's easy to miss the deliberat...
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old dark house: April 2011
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Thursday, April 7, 2011. Okay, straight up? On the face of it,. Is mostly indefensible. If you want to take it on the surface. Not that that’s a bad thing, necessarily. I have no problem with strippers packing big guns being used as exclamation points between explosions. I’m still breathing, right? Especially since this doesn’t pretend (too much) to be high art…this is Zack Snyder. Being given millions of dollars just to unleash his id on the screen. All this setup is played out in an opening gambit that...
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old dark house: BLOOD STALKERS (1975)
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Encountering the regional shocker Blood Stalkers. For the first time is a little like coming across a forgotten Mason jar stuffed with a perfect chunk of. 1978 A lot was happening in horror that year, so it’s easy to understand why Robert Morgan’s first and only shot was drowned out in the roar. Admittedly another in a long line of Deliverance. As-Grand Guignol shockers, Blood Stalkers. Main misfortune was to arrive so late in the game to have the door slammed in their faces.
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old dark house: Ebert Still Rawks
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Thursday, May 10, 2012. Yeah, I'm a film reviewer. Note I say reviewer, not critic. Although I suppose I am. But I don't have the education, resources or drive to consider myself a critic. And calling oneself a film critic is sort of embarrassing anymore. Hard not to be. But I still get paid to watch movies, so suck it. Yeah, easy targets. But the old school is pretty fair game these days. I can put religion aside, though. He also wrote the screenplay for Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Granted, the scre...
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old dark house: July 2012
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Encountering the regional shocker Blood Stalkers. For the first time is a little like coming across a forgotten Mason jar stuffed with a perfect chunk of. 1978 A lot was happening in horror that year, so it’s easy to understand why Robert Morgan’s first and only shot was drowned out in the roar. Admittedly another in a long line of Deliverance. As-Grand Guignol shockers, Blood Stalkers. Main misfortune was to arrive so late in the game to have the door slammed in their faces.
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old dark house: June 2013
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Sunday, June 23, 2013. Sorry, Virginia. despite the swell concept art. That was all over the 'net at the beginning of the process, we don't get our. Actually, there’s no trace of Max Brooks’ clever zombie novel World War Z. To be found here, other than some echoes in the dialogue. And the name. They could have just labeled it Brad Pitt vs. The Zombies. Oral histories, the novel obviously calls out for a HBO project in the style of Ken Burns. Or play some Left4Dead. And here the infected come a’runn...
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Saturday, February 18, 2012. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A Nattering Nabob of Negativity Brightened Occasionally by Brief Flickers of False Hope. View my complete profile. La ritual de lo habitual:. Mobius Home Video Forum. Trust Me. It's a Geek Thing.
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old dark house: July 2011
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Friday, July 15, 2011. Now, I absolutely love Carpenter's The Thing. I'm happy to say that I saw it opening weekend back in 1982 and it stands as one of my favorite theater-going experiences. Not to mention that if you get a bunch of horror geeks in the same room arguing over what the greatest horror film ever made is, The Thing. Just might win. Well, at least most of the time. I rate it as the second greatest horror film in the history of history. And no. The Shining. New monster mythos was. But here's ...
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old dark house: Okay, I'll Cop...
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Thursday, May 17, 2012. Okay, I'll Cop. I have to say I like Katy Perry. She’s a nice package and she delivers well. Zooey eyes and ruby lips, swimming in a cascade of black hair. Here she’s got her sexy techno voice slithering over a throbbing groove. He kind of pop theatre safe enough to allow a mechanic or jock to admit he hates her songs, but. I’m betting her videos get more late night hits from middle-aged men than teenaged girls. Pure flirt porn. But I don’t like Creed. View my complete profile.
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old dark house: February 2013
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Monday, February 4, 2013. THE ROCKET MAN (1954). A forgotten film with John Agar and Anne Francis? And written by Lenny Bruce. Well, sort of. It's before Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet. And John Agar as he transitions from Shadow of The Duke to fighting monsters. And Bruce was only brought in to punch up a weary script by Jack Henley, the scribe behind some of the Ma and Pa Kettle. And it shows. The world of The Rocket Man. O reason given why Rocket Man gives a child a raygun. M. A raygun in the ...
