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Six Dope Analog Sci-fi Nugs (1978-87) Now Streaming on Prime
Biiitch, and I mean you youngsters, you're all spoiled with your blah blah, but (cranky presuppository position insert), back in the day all we had was STAR WARS, and its special effects were analog -...
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Amazon Streams: Five Treasures drug up from Prime's Post-JAWS Riverbed (+...
It's so cold one thinks of summer. And the beach and the water, and the sharks, and the river... piranha... up the Amazon.... Prime.... There's so many retro fabulous options to choose, it's...
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New World Rebel Girls on Prime: 7 Must-Sees from the 70s
On my recent New World kick (thanks to so much of it being on Prime), I went too far, and saw the savage self-parodying weirdness of Dante's and Arkush's Hollywood Boulevard, (not on Prime but I have...
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Post-Futuristic Gang Violence on Prime, Italian-style: 5 Badass Trips from...
Sergio Martino's 2019: AFTER THE FALL OF NEW YORK--filmed in 1983, a post-nuclear Manhattan serves as ground zero for a stealthy battle between mutants, ape men acrobats, robots, and a Catholic-style...
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The Broken Mirror Dagger in the High of The Beholder: CLIMAX
Numerous and horrific, indeed, are the woes that can result when one is dosed with way too much LSD without knowing it, in the wrong company, at the wrong time, and to the wrong music. This is the...
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Argh, Matey! THE WITCH WHO CAME FROM THE SEA (1976)
Hey sweetie, let a man 'splain it for you: the 70s were a great time for feminist horror, though the word back then was "women's lib." It was all about being liberated, one way or the other: Sex,...
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10 Surreal Cult Gems of the 80s: A Prime-Stream Special
What was the 80s and why was it such a golden age for weird sci-fi and head trips? Was it thanks to the dawn of MTV and Night Flight to amuse stoned kids back from the punk shows on weekends? Repo Man,...
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Cocaine + Calvins = Conan / Pulp on Prime: 4 Post-TARZAN Barbarian Wonders...
I was walking to work the other morning, the horrors of FINDING NEVERLAND playing over and over in my head, when a seemingly unconnected epiphany took hold: the reason Italian-American directors love...
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Suki of the Wasteland (AKA Escape from Burning Man): THE BAD BATCH, FUTURE WORLD
British model-turned-capable actress Suki Waterhouse has become indie cinema's de-facto Mad-Max-on-a-budget psychedelic-sampling wasteland wanderer, all thanks to two very similar post-apocalyptic...
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The Long Arm of Coincidence: SCARED TO DEATH (1947)
Bela Lugosi's only color film, and maybe the only horror film (if it can be called that) to come out in the lean post-war, noir-stuffed year of 1947, there's a lot of "only" attached to SCARED TO...
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Psychedelisexploitation of the Virgin-Whore: BARBARELLA
Dino Di Laurentiis' 1968 sexy sci-fi opus Barbarella probably comes closer than most other mainstream films trying to tap into (as well as satirize) the sense of psychedelic 'free love' that...
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The Dance of Tripper Mimsy: RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP (1967)
Based on true events! The AIP/MGM police/hippie hybrid movie RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP (1967) reminds us that back LA's rock venue-packed Sunset Strip was once so clogged with amok youth that the lawmakers...
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Indelible Ennio (Primo); 7 Giallo Classics on Prime (Morricone Scores Pt. 1)
I was asked to explain 'why Ennio?" while preparing this post (i.e. watching 20+ Ennio-scored movies back-to-back on Prime), and I really tried: When it comes to scores, I said, proudly, there is Ennio...
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Hallucinatural: MIDSOMMAR
One of the cooler and more noteworthy things about the critical buzz for the highly trippy new horror folk film MIDSOMMAR is the notion that one should not do psychedelics before seeing it. There have...
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Happy 20-Year Anniversary: BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and 'Frightened Male Monthly'!
Let the human blood be spilled as the witch's special request dietary cake, for it is 20 years ago today the Blair Witch opened wide and gave the world the willies. After so many 'POV' / SOV horrors...
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Disinformation Please: LOS ESPOOKYS, and the Mythic Real
“Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true.” ― Jean Baudrillard"Fake it 'til you make it"- old AA proverbWritten and conceived by doe-eyed El...
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Sharktopi vs. Various Things: Best of Syfy Shark Movies Part 2
Summer always brings three things to casa de Acidemic: Marlene Dietrich movies, Val Lewton, and bad shark movies. For reasons known only to them, Syfy isn't deluging us with their Asylum and Offshoot...
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Air Auda Beya Lah: THE BEACH BUM (2019)
One of a trio of neo-'head' movies (along with CLIMAX and MIDSOMMAR) that marks 2019 as the year psychedelics became the new weed and weed became a nootropic, THE BEACH BUM signals the return to the...
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Prime's Neo-Jungian Faerie-Wave: NEVERLAKE, THE FORBIDDEN GIRL, THE GATEHOUSE
Leave it to Europe to deliver on the promise of HD cameras and non-union expressionist German handwerkers, taking the time to bring old masters' lighting and composition to even their low budget...
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Off the Road: NIGHT CHILD, THE BRAIN, LILITH'S AWAKENING
America, Canada, the North, vast empty night skies, rows of dreary tract homes without trees or sidewalks. The Winter, the dwindling Fall, dying err it arrives. Can it be here at last, the chill, the...
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