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Pre-Code Capsules: STAMBOUL QUEST, MAN IN POSSESSION, JEWEL ROBBERY, ONE WAY...
THE WORLD CHANGES1933 - dir. William Wellman***One of the punchier gutsier entries in the 'tycoons through the ages' sagas that unfurled tight and fast on the pre-code Warner's lot, this tale of the...
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Micro-Manager Munchausen: THE STRAIN, SHARKNADO 2: THE SECOND ONE
Heroes used to dread their appointed hours, would resist the call, dart around asking for help from civilians who all suddenly turn coward or complacent. They'd blame poor marksmanship, or their Quaker...
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TCM Pre-Code Alert: Thurs. is Lee Tracy Day
Fans of pre-code raciness, get your hands on a remote and press some 'record' buttons as you scroll ahead on the channel guide. One of the key actors of pre-code is getting his own full day on TCM....
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Shatner on the Altar: HORROR AT 37,000 FEET, DEVIL'S RAIN, KINGDOM OF THE...
Hail to thee, mighty Shatner! Hail Kirk, Hawksian organizer of men! Hail committed ham player of crisis-bound priests and rock-like teachers. Hail Shakespearean Arizona sheriff 'Dances with...
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Netflix of the Witch: ALL CHEERLEADERS DIE, THE CRAFT, THE PUNK SINGER
Conjuring-from top: Fairuza (The Craft); Kathleen Hannah (Punk Singer);Sianoa Smit-McPhee (Cheerleaders)I summon thee,Netflix, unholy ghost streamer.The CraftĀ and now All Cheerleaders Die wait within...
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Beyond the Green Inferno: HERZOG: The Collection (16 film blu-ray collection)...
The story of Brando and Francis Ford Coppola colliding in the Philippine mud making Apocalypse Now (1979)Ā is by now a true Hollywood cautionary tale of amok ambition and dangers of trusting in the...
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Misterioso Blu Review: PUMPKINHEAD (1988), LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE (1973)
"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā --- NietzscheLEGEND OF HELL HOUSE1973 - directed...
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Warren William, Titan o' Vitaphone: THE MOUTHPIECE, SATAN MET A LADY, SECRET...
Fridays this month on TCM are devoted to pre-code Hollywood and, honey, pre-code Hollywood is devoted to its King Tut, Warren William. Maestro of Satanic bravado and merry carnivore sparkle, if Basil...
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Tales from the Benway Pharmacy: BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW, THE MACHINE (on...
If I ventured into the Netflix Stream, between the viaducts of retrofuturist science fiction hallucination dreams, would you, too? Well I did, and I'm still throbbing, thanks to their amazing synth...
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Dystopian Parables for the Masses: DIVERGENT, CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER...
Jump, baby, Jump! Jump into the Uncanny Valley, wherein chicks and hunks in black and silver body suits are slicked over with CGI-bearing golden-brownish glow air brush make-up as they fight the onrush...
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October Capsules: OCULUS, SHIVERS, DETENTION, HOWLING, MIMIC 2: HARDSHELL
OCULUSĀ (2013)***1/2A brother and sister reunite at the house where their dad and mom lost their minds inside the influential sphere of a haunted mirror ten years ago. She's got it all wired for sound...
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24-hours of Netflix Streaming Horror--A Curated List of 16 Weird, Spooky Wonders
The all-night horror marathon --a long-standing tradition wherever Halloween traditions are solidly entombed in the crypt of cinematic history. The idea behind it is simple: the longer you stay up, the...
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Alex de la Iglesia's Comedic Horror Masterpiece WITCHING AND BITCHING on...
FX's AMERICAN HORROR STORY: FREAK SHOW so far has been mawkish and cliche, with harrowingly brutality thrown in for a fake 'edginess' as trite as it is upsetting. But if you have Netflix streaming and...
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Our Merry Modern Mephisto: Vincent Price Collection II (Blu-ray review: THE...
While horror fans wince at TCM's bizarre choice to fill the bulk of October with dull sanitized 50s musicals and 60s Doris Day movies, and for horror a lot of overly familiar Brit nonsense, there's...
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Samhain Cocktails: Recommended Halloween Films/Lists: Slant, TCM, Netflix and...
I'm insane, indisposed, and in SLANT:13 Obscure Horror Films You Should See This Halloween,A few of them are on Amazon Instant (Prime, of course), if you need 'em:VAMPIRE AND THE BALLERINA (1960),...
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Meta Murderous Surreal Post-Modernism in Under Twelve Minutes: TOO MANY COOKS...
No amount of David Lynch or Eric Andre can compare with or prepare you for TOO MANY COOKS, the recent 4 AM informercial on Cartoon Network once and now existing only on the VHS-ish Youtube pages of...
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THIRTEEN WOMEN (1932) and Peg Entwistle, Ghost of the Hollywood Sign
Imagine if Fu Manchu's insidious sadist daughter (Myrna Loy's character in MASK OF FU MANCHU -1932) went off to a ritzy college in America, tried to join a sorority, but was snubbed because of her...
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Tales from the Retrofuturist Pharmacy, Part II: PHASE IV, Boards of Canada,...
The future is always already then, as then is the future. So it wasn't written. Some tomorrows are maybe yesterdays' correct prediction and if you're blind enough to believe man is the axis of his own...
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The Ancient She-Shaman and her Shrooming Exhumer: SZAMANKA (1994)
The American holiday trifecta has already passed its first hurtle, Thanksgiving. Now the sluggish traffic and unruly Wal-Mart tazing begins in earnest and a skittish mummified shamanic Pisces like me...
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Growing up ALIEN: PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES, THE TERROR WITHIN
I was a young kid when ALIEN(1979) cameĀ out, too young to see it in theaters and VHS didn't exist, and we knew it would be edited to death when it finally cam to the ABC Movie of the Week, so it was...
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