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Konga (1961)

2 Comments Posted in Revenge, So-Bad-It's-Bad, Horror, Kaiju, Mad Scientist, Full Reviews, Reviews, Giant Apes Tagged rip-off, cash-in, college, Britain, college students, gorilla suit, chimpanzees, Michael Gough, Merton Park Studios, teacher's pet, botanist, carnivorous plants, embiggened

It Came From Kuchar

Apr3 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Arthouse, Documentary, Full Reviews, Independent, Indy, Reviews, Short Tagged 8mm, brothers, California, film clips, film history, filmmaking, George Kuchar, homage, insanity, low-budget, Mike Kuchar, New York City, outsider artist, San Francisco, The Bronx, twins, underground films

Dark Night of the Scarecrow

Mar12 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in From Beyond the Grave, Full Reviews, Ghost, Horror, Made for TV, Revenge, Reviews, Slasher, Thriller Tagged before they were famous, Charles Durning, Claude Earl Jones, courtroom scene, developmentally disabled, farmers, Frank De Felitta, Halloween, Halloween party, J.D. Fiegelson, Jocelyn Brando, Lane Smith, Larry Drake, mailman, overalls, Robert F. Lyons, scarecrow

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

Chisum (1970)

Dec7 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Epic, Event Film, Full Reviews, Reviews, Western Tagged Andrew J. Fenady, Andrew Prine, Andrew V. McLaglen, Ben Johnson, Bruce Cabot, cattle rustling, children of famous people, Christopher George, Christopher Mitchum, Forrest Tucker, Glen Corbett, Hank Worden, hostage situation, John Agar, John Mitchum, John Wayne, Lynda Day George, Patrick Knowles, Pedro Armendariz Jr., Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, posse, Richard Jaeckel

The Ward (2010)

Nov2 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Full Reviews, Ghost, Horror, Independent, Mystery, Period Film, Reviews, So-Bad-It's-Bad, Thriller, Whodunnit Tagged Amber Heard, asylum, child abuse, child molestor, domineering nurse, insanity, it's not over, John Carpenter, ModernVideo Film, nurse, orderly, psychiatrists, repressed memories, rip-off, teens

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

Oct26 by professormortis

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4 Comments Posted in Arthouse, Black Comedy, Comedy, Full Reviews, Horror, Independent, Mockumentary, Reviews, Slasher, Spoof Tagged Ahab, Cassandra, cider press, double cross, farm, film within a film, final girl, homage, it's not over, librarian, library, low-budget, meta, morgue, orchard, psychiatrists, Robert Englund, twist, Zelda Rubenstein

Anchors Aweigh (1945)

Sep1 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Buddy Flick, Comedy, Event Film, Full Reviews, Music, Musical, Naval, Reviews, Romance Tagged before they were famous, Best Actor Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture, Best Picture Nominee, Best Song Nominee, composer, Dean Stockwell, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, George Sidney, Joe Pasternak, Jose Iturbi, Kathryn Grayson, Loew's, Los Angeles, love triangle, MGM, pianist, Rags Ragland, sailors, shore leave, World War Two

Conquest (1983)

Aug18 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Buddy Flick, Fantasy, Full Reviews, Reviews, So-Bad-It's-Bad, Sword and Sorcery Tagged Bad Dubbing, barbarians, black magic, brain eaters, cannibalism, cash-in, cavemen, Claudio Simonetti, Clesi Cinematografica, gift from the gods, gods, gore, hero rage, Italy, Jorge Rivero, low-budget, Lucio Fulci, magic weapon, prophecy, rip-off, Sabrina Sellers, snakes, twist, witch

Brigadoon (1954)

Aug17 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in Fantasy, Full Reviews, Musical, Reviews, Romance, The Original Tagged "love breaks the spell", alcoholic, Arthur Freed, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Sound Recording Nominee, curse, cursed town, Cyd Charisse, deus ex machina, Elaine Stewart, Gene Kelly, love at first sight, MGM, miracle, New York City, Scotland, Tudor Owen, Van Johnson, village, Vincente Minnelli, warnings from townsfolk

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