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April 9th, 2012: The Attic (1980)

1 Comment Posted in Black Comedy, Drama, Horror, Independent, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Old Dark House, So-Bad-It's-Good, Thriller, Tragedy, Women's Picture Tagged abusive father, Atlantic Releasing Corporation, attic, Carrie Snodgrass, chimpanzees, disappearance, double cross, fantasy sequence, father-daugther relationship, fiance, fire, Frances Bay, Gary Graver, George Edwards, home movies, it's not over, librarian, library, low-budget, movie theater, murder, overbearing father, paralysis, pyromaniac, Ray Milland, sailors, secret, twist, wheelchair

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 29th, 2012: The Beast Must Die (1974)

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Leave a comment Posted in Based on a Short Story(ies), Horror, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Thriller, Werewolves, Whodunnit Tagged Amicus, Britain, British Lion Film Corporation, Calvin Lockhart, Charles Gray, country estate, dog as wolf, Drive-In, gimmick, hunters, it's not over, James Blish, low-budget, Michael Gambon, most dangerous game, Peter Cushing, twist

March 21st, 2012: So I Married an Axe Murderer

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Cops, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Romance, Serial Killer, Thriller, Whodunnit Tagged Alan Arkin, Alcatraz, Amanda Plummer, Anthony LaPaglia, axe murders, bad poetry, California, cameos, Charles Grodin, coffee shop, Debi Mazar, interrupted wedding, Michael Richards, Mike Hagerty, Mike Myers, Nancy Myers, Phil Hartman, poet, San Francisco, Scots, Steven Wright, tabloids, Tri-Star, wedding, wedding night, World Poetry Day

March 12th, 2012: The Bourne Identity (2002)

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Based on a Book, Chase, Espionage, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Remake, The Original, Thriller Tagged Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, amnesia, assassin, Brian Cox, Chris Cooper, CIA, Clive Owen, conspiracy, Czech Republic, double cross, Doug Liman, Frank Marshall, Franka Potente, Germany, hit man, Hypnotic, improvised weaponry, Julia Stiles, Kennedy/Marshall Company, Matt Damon, Mini Cooper, Paris, Robert Ludlum, rogue agent, shotgun, sniper, spies, spineless bureacrats, The Marines, Universal Pictures, upstairs downstairs, Walton Goggins

March 9th, 2012: Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Crime, Detective, Espionage, Film Noir, Independent, Movie of the Day, Mystery Tagged Albert Dekker, before they were famous, Classical allusion, Cloris Leachman, detective, Ernest Laszlo, ethnic stereotype, femme fatale, Frank DeVol, hitchhiking, Jack Elam, low-budget, MacGuffin, mechanic, Mickey Spillane, Paul Stewart, Ralph Meeker, Robert Aldrich, scientists, Strother Martin, United Artists

March 1st, 2012: Bijo to Ekitainingen aka The H-Man (1958)

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Leave a comment Posted in Blobs, Cops, Crime, Horror, Monster, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi Tagged "kill it with fire", Akihiko Hirata, blobs, dancers, drug deal gone bad, drug dealers, drugs, Eiji Tsuburaya, fishermen, fishing boat, flamethrowers, ghost ship, Ishiro Honda, Japan, Kenji Sahara, lounge act, Masaru Sato, mobsters, moll, musical interlude, night club, police procedural, radiation, radiation mutation, rip-off, scientists, sewers, Takeshi Kimura, Toho, Tokyo, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Yumi Shirakawa

February 24th, 2012: Santa Sangre

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Arthouse, Drama, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Revenge, Thriller Tagged adultery, Alejandro Jodorowsky, circus, Claudio Argento, clowns, controlling mother, cult, deaf people, domestic violence, double amputee, elephant, homage, incest, insanity, knife thrower, low-budget, Mexico, mimes, mother, mother-son relationship, murder, Rene Cardona Jr., Republic Pictures, theater, twist

February 21st, 2012: Pontypool (2008)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Horror, Independent, Indy, Movie of the Day, Mystery, The Original, Zombies Tagged Afghan War vet, Bruce McDonald, Canada, DJ, IFC Films, it's not over, language, language barrier, Lisa Houle, low-budget, news broadcasts, premonition, radio show, reporter, Stephen McHattie, traffic reporter, twist, veteran, virus zombies

February 14th, 2012: Picnic at Hanging Rock

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Period Film Tagged ambigious ending, Australia, Australian Film Commission, disappearance, girls' school, homoerotic subtext, low-budget, Peter Weir, teens, Victorian era

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