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June 16th, 2013: Son of Godzilla

Jun16 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Event Film, Family, Giant Insects, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged "Beauty Tames the Beast", "Son of", "This Lost World is Gonna Blow!", Akihiko Hirata, Akiro Kubo, asshole reporter, Big Damn Spider, Eiji Tsuburaya, father, father-son relationship, Godzilla, Godzooky, insanity, island, Japan, Jun Fukuda, jungle, jungle girl, Kenji Sahara, mantis, Masaru Sato, Minilla, parachute jump, poison, remote island, reporter, Science!, scientists, Shinichi Sekizawa, spiders, Tadao Takashima, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, weather control, webs

June 11th, 2013: Big Jake (1971)

Jun11 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Western Tagged Batjac Films, Bobby Vinton, Bruce Cabot, children of famous people, Christopher Mitchum, Drive-In, Elmer Bernstein, Estranged parent, father, father-son relationship, grandfather, Hank Worden, Harry Carey Jr., hostage, hostage situation, Jim Davis, John Agar, John Wayne, kidnapping, Maureen O'Hara, old men, old timer, overbearing father, Patrick Wayne, ranch, rancher, ransom, Richard Boone, Roy Jenson, Texas Ranger

January 11th, 2013: The Brain that Wouldn’t Die (1962)

Jan11 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in Black and White, Horror, Independent, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good, The Original Tagged "what's locked in the closet", Acting!, artist model, bad special effects, burlesque, car accident, cash-in, decapitation, deformed assistant, disfigured face, double cross, Drive-In, father, fiance, grindhouse, head on a platter, head transplant, kidnapping, low-budget, mad scientist, models, nurse, organ transplantation, overbearing father, plastic surgery, quotably bad dialogue, rip-off, Sammy Petrillo, Science!, scientists, sleazy, strippers, surgery

December 10th, 2012: Supersonic Man (1979)

Dec10 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Independent, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good, Superheroes Tagged alien superhero, bad special effects, Cameron Mitchell, cash-in, father, Juan Piquer Simón, killer robots, lady reporter, low-budget, mastermind, reporter, rip-off, scientists, Spain

October 12th, 2012: I Married a Witch

Oct12 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Comedy, Fantasy, Independent, Movie of the Day, Romance, Screwball, The Original, Witches Tagged "lightning ressurects the dead", Best Score Nominee, burned at the stake, Cecil Kellaway, cranky ghost, curse, family curse, father, father-daugther relationship, fiance, flashback, Frederic March, interrupted wedding, light, love potion, love triangle, politician, Preston Sturges, Puritans, Rene Clair, Salem, Salem Witch Trials, shrew, United Artists, Veronica Lake, wedding, wedding night, witch

October 11th, 2012: Out of Sight (1998)

Oct11 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Albert Brooks, attempted rape, bank, bank robbers, bank robbery, Barry Sonnenfeld, before they were famous, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, boxing, cash-in, Catherine Keener, Danny DeVito, Dennis Farina, Detroit, Don Cheadle, double cross, Elmore Leonard, evil businessman, father, father-daugther relationship, FBI, Florida, George Clooney, Isaiah Washington, it's not over, Jennifer Lopez, Luis Guzman, Miami, Michael Keaton, Nancy Allen, prison break, Samuel L. Jackson, Steve Zahn, Steven Soderbergh, U.S. Marshall, Universal Pictures, Ving Rhames

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

August 23rd, 2012: Viva Knievel! (1977)

Aug23 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Crime, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good, Sports Tagged alcoholic, as himself, Cameron Mitchell, cash-in, Dabney Coleman, Drive-In, drug dealers, drugs, Estranged parent, Evel Knievel, father, father-son relationship, Frank Gifford, Gene Kelly, lady reporter, Lauren Hutton, Marjoe Gortner, Mexico, Red Buttons, reporter, The Border, the declining years, vanity project, Warner Brothers

July 30th, 2012: Hercules in New York aka Hercules Goes Bananas aka Hercules -The Movie aka

Jul30 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on Myths, Comedy, Fantasy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Independent, Movie of the Day, Slapstick, So-Bad-It's-Bad, So-Bad-It's-Good, Spoof, Sword and Sandals Tagged Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Stang, before they were famous, Classical Mythology, Drive-In, father, father-son relationship, Hercules, James Karen, low-budget, Michael Lipton, mobsters, New York City, wicked stepmother, wrestler

July 22nd, 2012: The Limey

Jul22 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Arthouse, Crime, Indy, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Revenge Tagged Artisan Entertainment, Barry Newman, Bill Duke, California, Cockney slang, daughter, double cross, drug dealers, drugs, ex-con, father, father-daugther relationship, Lesley Ann Warren, Los Angeles, Luis Guzman, Nicky Katt, Peter Fonda, record industry, sins of the father, Steven Soderbergh, Terence Stamp

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