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Saving Private Perez

Leave a comment Posted in Action, Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Full Reviews, Gangster, Independent, Reviews, Slapstick, Special Operations, Spoof, War Movies Tagged brothers, childhood friend, drug dealers, drug smuggler, Guerrillas, hit man, hostage, Iraq, low-budget, machetes, Mexico, mother, narcos, rescue mission, The Marines, U.S. Army, younger brother

Ministry of Vengeance

Mar2 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Espionage, Full Reviews, Independent, Revenge, Reviews, So-Bad-It's-Good, Thriller Tagged "I'm Done Fighting", airport, attempted rape, cash-in, child death, Concorde Pictures, double cross, flashback, George Kennedy, hard ass seargant, hostage, Italy, James Tolkan, John Schneider, last stand, Lebanon, low-budget, Middle East, military training, minister, Ned Beatty, post traumatic stress disorder, pushed too far, Rome, terrorists, the declining years, torture, training sequence, TV actors, twist, under siege, Vietnam, Vietnam veterans, Yaphet Kotto

Nightmare at Noon aka Death Street USA

Feb18 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Buddy Flick, Disaster, Horror, Independent, Quick Reviews, Remake, Reviews, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good, Western, Zombies Tagged albinos, Bo Hopkins, Brion James, drifter, Drive-In, ex-cop, George Kennedy, Hans Zimmer, helicopter, hitchhiking, intelligent zombies, Kimberly Beck, lawyers, motor home, rip-off, scientists, sheriff, tool using zombies, vigilantes, virus zombies, Wings Hauser, yuppies

5 Dolls for an August Moon aka Island of Terror

Feb9 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Giallo, Mystery, Quick Reviews, Reviews, Thriller, Whodunnit Tagged chemical formula, chemist, double cross, Drive-In, freezer, grindhouse, inventors, island, isolation, it's not over, Italy, low-budget, MacGuffin, Mario Bava, murder, private island, rip-off, scientists, teens, twist, William Berger

Django Unchained

Jan9 by professormortis

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3 Comments Posted in Buddy Flick, Comedy, Event Film, Full Reviews, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Revenge, Reviews, Revisionist Western, Satire, Slapstick, Spaghetti Western, Spoof, Western Tagged Bob Weinstein, Bruce Dern, Christoph Waltz, Columbia, Columbia Pictures, Dennis Christopher, Don Johnson, Don Stroud, Franco Nero, Harvey Weinstein, James Remar, Jamie Foxx, Johnny Cash, Jonah Hill, Kerry Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio, M.C. Gainey, Michael Parks, Quentin Tarantino, Reginald Hudlin, Russ Tamblyn, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Savini, Tom Wopat, Walton Goggins, Weinstein Company, Zoe Bell

Condor

Jan6 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Crime, Detective, Made for TV, Quick Reviews, Reviews, Robots, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Bad Tagged "They got Manny", androids, before they were famous, cash-in, Craig Stevens, drone, extortion, failed pilot, futures past, helicopter, informant, James Avery, laser, Los Angeles sewers, Orion, paramilitary group, Phil Fondacaro, ransom, Ray Wise, reused props, rip-off, scientists, sewers, stun setting, terrorists, TV actors, Virgil W. Vogel

Up Tight!

Jan5 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Crime, Drama, Full Reviews, Independent, Issue Film, Movie of the Day, Remake, Reviews, Tragedy Tagged alcoholic, betrayal, Booker T and the MGs, Civil Rights, Cleveland, Dick Anthony Williams, Frank Silvera, housing project, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Juanita Moore, Jules Dassin, Julian Mayfield, Martin Luther King assassination, Max Julien, militants, paramilitary group, prostitutes, racist cops, racists, Raymond St. Jacques, revolution, revolutionaries, Robert DoQui, Ruby Dee, stilted dialogue, Time is Tight

The Stabilizer

Oct7 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Independent, Quick Reviews, Reviews, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged Bad Dubbing, cash-in, double cross, drug dealers, drugs, gimmick weapon, Golden Triangle, heroin, Indonesia, kidnapping, low-budget, quotably bad dialogue, revenge, rip-off, scientists, Troma

Fire and Ice

Oct6 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in Animation, Fantasy, Independent, Quick Reviews, Reviews, Sword and Sorcery Tagged barbarians, cash-in, dinosaurs, father, father-daugther relationship, Frank Frazetta, glacier, Maggie Roswell, masked avenger, mother, mother-son relationship, overbearing mother, Ralph Bakshi, rip-off, rotoscoping, sorcerer, volcano

Vamp (1986)

Sep14 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Buddy Flick, College, Comedy, Full Reviews, Horror, Independent, Reviews, Road Trip, Vampires Tagged "kill it with fire", albinos, Billy Drago, cash-in, Chris Makepeace, Deedee Pfieffer, elevator, elevator operator, fire, fraternity, Gedde Wantanabe, Grace Jones, homage, Kansas, kid vampire, less famous siblings, low-budget, Molotov cocktails, nerds, New World Pictures, Oklahoma City, operator, rip-off, Robert Rusler, sexy vampires, street gang, strip club, stripper with a heart of gold, sunlight kills, unfriendly locals, yuppies

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