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March 8th, 2013: The Honeymoon Killers

Mar8 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Arthouse, Black and White, Con, Crime, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Thriller, True Crime Tagged child death, con artist, controlling mother, cult, Doris Roberts, double cross, Drive-In, grindhouse, insanity, Leonard Kastle, low-budget, mother, mother-daugther relationship, New York City, nurse, pregnancy, Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco

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

August 22nd, 2012: Children of the Corn (1984)

Aug22 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Cults, Demons, Horror, Independent, Killer Kids, Killer Plants, Movie of the Day, Road Trip, The Original Tagged "murder the adults", before they were famous, cash-in, child death, child killer, Cinema Group, corn, Drive-In, farmer, farmers, fields, gods, Hal Roach Studios, Linda Hamilton, low-budget, New World Pictures, Peter Horton, R. G. Armstrong, Stephen King, teens, wrath of the gods

July 4th, 2012: The Crowd (1928)

Jul4 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in Black and White, Drama, Movie of the Day, Silent Tagged advertising, amusement park, Bert Roach, Best Director Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, child death, Coney Island, everyman, Irving Thalberg, King Vidor, National Film Registry, New York City

April 13th, 2012: M (1931)

Apr13 by professormortis

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5 Comments Posted in "Based on a True Story", "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Black and White, Cops, Crime, Drama, German Expressionism, Movie of the Day, Serial Killer, Thriller, True Crime Tagged child death, child killer, Fritz Lang, Germany, Peter Lorre, police procedural, serial killer, trial

March 8th, 2012: The Honeymoon Killers

Mar8 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Arthouse, Black and White, Con, Crime, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Thriller, True Crime Tagged child death, con artist, controlling mother, cult, Doris Roberts, double cross, Drive-In, grindhouse, insanity, Leonard Kastle, low-budget, mother, mother-daugther relationship, New York City, nurse, pregnancy, Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco

December 2nd, 2011: Suburbia (1983)

Dec2 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Drama, Independent, Issue Film, Juvenile Delinquent, Movie of the Day, Music Tagged abusive father, before they were famous, child abuse, child death, child molestor, cops, Drive-In, feral child, Flea, grindhouse, live performance, low-budget, New World Pictures, Penelope Spheeris, punks, Roger Corman, squatters, suburbia, teens, traumatized children

July 2nd, 2011: Jaws (1975)

Jul2 by professormortis

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1 Comment Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Animals Attack, Based on a Book, Movie of the Day, The Original, Thriller Tagged "New England", "We Can't Close the Beaches!", Best Film Editing, Best Picture Nominee, Best Score, Best Sound, child death, Great White, homage, John Williams, Lorraine Gray, Murray Hamilton, panic, Peter Benchley, police chief, Richard Dreyfus, Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider, scientists, sex=death, shark, skinny dipping, Steven Spielberg, Universal Pictures

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