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OSS117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

2 Comments Posted in "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Comedy, Espionage, Fish-Out-of-Water, Period Film, Quick Reviews, Reviews, Satire, Slapstick, Spoof Tagged Canal+, CineCinema, double cross, Egypt, France, Gaumont, Jean Dujardin, M6 Films, Mandarin Films, Michel Hazanavicius, musical interlude, Nazis, OSS117, princess, Soviets, Suez Canal, World War II Veterans, World War Two

April 8th, 2012: Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter

Apr8 by professormortis

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3 Comments Posted in Action, Comedy, DTV, Independent, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, Sequel, Slapstick, So-Bad-It's-Good, Spoof, Unofficial Sequel, Vampires Tagged biblical allusion, Canada, El Santo, homage, Jesus, low-budget, luchadores, musical interlude, Phil Caracas, sexy vampires

April 1st, 2012: April Fool’s Day (1986)

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2 Comments Posted in Comedy, Holiday, Horror, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Slasher, Spoof, The Original, Whodunnit Tagged Amy Steel, Charles Bernstein, Clayton Rohner, college students, Danilo Bach, Deborah Foreman, ferry, Frank Mancuso Jr., Fred Walton, island, it's not over, jack-in-the-box, Ken Olandt, low-budget, Paramount Pictures, party, prank gone awry, pranks, spoiled rich kids, Thomas F. Wilson

March 27th, 2012: The Producers (1968)

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Con, Movie of the Day, Musical, Satire, Spoof, The Original Tagged backstage, Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, Christopher Hewett, cross dressing, Crossbow Productions, Dick Shawn, Embassy Pictures Corporation, Gene Wilder, insanity, Joseph E. Levine, Kenneth Mars, Lee Meredith, Mel Brooks, Nazis, New York City, producer, scam, secretary, theater, William Hickey

Dead Snow (2009)

Mar8 by professormortis

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4 Comments Posted in Black Comedy, Comedy, From Beyond the Grave, Full Reviews, Horror, Independent, Revenge, Slapstick, Spoof, Zombies Tagged "spam in a cabin", cabin, gold, gore, grenade, homage, intelligent zombies, isolation, it's not over, low-budget, machine gun, medical student, mountains, Nazis, Norway, outhouse, snow, snowmobile, tool using zombies, treasure, undead, weekend getaway, World War Two

March 3rd, 2012: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Mar3 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Buddy Flick, Comedy, Dracula, Horror, Lycanthropy/Jekyll and Hyde, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, Sequel, Slapstick, Spoof, Vampires, Werewolves Tagged Bela Lugosi, brain transplant, brains, Bud Abbott, children of famous people, delivery men, femme fatale, Frank Skinner, Glenn Strange, in over their heads, Invisible Man, it's not over, Larry Talbot, Lon Chaney Jr., Lou Costello, musical interlude, scientists, Universal International Pictures, Universal Pictures, Vincent Price

February 22nd, 2012: What’s Opera Doc?

Feb22 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animation, Based on a Folk Tale, Based on an Opera, Comedy, Epic, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, Romance, Screwball, Slapstick, Spoof Tagged Arthur Q. Bryan, Bugs Bunny, Chuck Jones, Elmer Fudd, lightning, Mel Blanc, Merrie Melodies, National Film Registry, opera, Richard Wagner, Warner Brothers

February 12th, 2012: APE* aka Attack of the Giant Horny Gorilla

Feb12 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in 3D, Comedy, Event Film, Giant Animals, Giant Apes, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Slapstick, So-Bad-It's-Good, Spoof Tagged actress, apes, bad special effects, before they were famous, cash-in, Drive-In, interspecies lust, kidnapping, Korea, low-budget, models, movie production, movie stars, rip-off, shark, sleazy movie producer

February 6th, 2012: Forgotten Silver (1995)

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Mockumentary, Movie of the Day, Spoof Tagged as himself, before they were famous, film clips, film history, film within a film, filmmaking, Harvey Weinstein, Leonard Maltin, low-budget, New Zealand, New Zealand Film Commission, New Zealand On Air, Peter Jackson, Sam Neil, silent Hollywood, Sue Rogers, Wing-Nut Productions

January 11th, 2012: ¡Three Amigos!

Jan11 by professormortis

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3 Comments Posted in Assumed Identity, Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Mistaken Identity, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Slapstick, Spoof, Western Tagged Alfonso Arau, banditos, Brian Thompson, Chevy Chase, Elmer Bernstein, HBO, Hollywood, homage, Joe Mantegna, John Landis, Jon Lovitz, Lorne Michaels, Martin Short, Mexico, musical interlude, Orion, Patrice Martinez, Phil Hartman, Randy Newman, Saturday Night Live cast, Seven Samurai situation, silent Hollywood, Steve Martin, Tony Plana, village

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