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March 19th, 2013: House of Wax (1953)

Mar19 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in 3D, Camp, Horror, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Remake, Wax Museum Tagged Andre De Toth, before they were famous, burn victim, burning, Can Can dancers, Carolyn Jones, Charles Bronson, cult, fire, gimmick, insanity, juggler, mad artist, musical interlude, mutes, sculptor, Vincent Price, Warner Brothers, wax figure, wax museum

February 16th, 2013: The Mummy (1999)

Feb16 by professormortis

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4 Comments Posted in Action, Adventure, Comedy, Event Film, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Mummy, Period Film, Remake, Romance, Screwball, Slapstick, The Original Tagged "re-imagined", "This Lost World is Gonna Blow!", Arnold Vosloo, before they were famous, biblical allusion, Brendan Fraser, buried alive, buried treasure, cult, cult leader, cultists, deserted city, doomed expedition, Egypt, Egyptians, Erick Avari, ethnic stereotype, fire, French Foreign Legion, Great War veteran, Jerry Goldsmith, John Hannah, Jonathan Hyde, Kevin J. O'Connor, Legionnaire, librarian, library, Oded Fehr, Odious Comic Relief, pilots, plague, Rachel Weisz, reincarnation, riverboat, scarab, secret society, sorcerer, Stephen Sommers, storm, thief, Universal Pictures, World War One

January 21st, 2013: Hugo (2011)

Jan21 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in 3D, Adaptation, Based on a Book, Coming of Age, Computer Animation, Drama, Event Film, Family, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Period Film Tagged Asa Butterfield, automaton, Ben Kingsley, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Original Score Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Visual Effects, Brian Selznick, Chloe Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee, clockwork, dad bomb, Emily Mortimer, father-son relationship, film history, fire, George Melies, godfather, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, magician, Martin Scorces, orphan, Paramount Pictures, Paris, Ray Winstone, Sacha Baron Cohen, train station, uncle

October 20th, 2012: Thundercrack! (1975)

Oct20 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adult, Animals Attack, Arthouse, Black and White, Black Comedy, Comedy, Hardcore, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Old Dark House, Spoof Tagged bestiality, blow-up doll, circus, crazy old woman, Curt McDowell, fire, George Kuchar, gorilla suit, gorillas, grindhouse, hitchhiking, homage, horny gorilla, insanity, low-budget, mother-son relationship, musical interlude, older woman, porn, secret, storm, tragic past, truck crash, truckers, twist, underground films, vomit, voyeur

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

April 10th, 2012: The Crazies (1973)

Apr10 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Disaster, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, The Original, Thriller Tagged "too expensive to show", allegory, biological warfare, burning, Drive-In, fire, firefighters, George A. Romero, grindhouse, helicopter, high school, incest, insanity, it's not over, low-budget, Lynn Lowry, murder, National Guard, nurse, Pennsylvania, priest, pyromaniac, quarantine, rape, scientists, self immolation, small town, spineless bureacrats, suicide, town doctor, tragedy of errors, veteran, Vietnam allegory, Vietnam veterans

April 9th, 2012: The Attic (1980)

Apr9 by professormortis

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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

March 15th, 2012: The Mist (2007)

Mar15 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Disaster, Horror, Monster, Movie of the Day, Parallel World Tagged "kill it with fire", Andre Braugher, Bob Weinstein, character study, Chris Owen, Dimension Films, fire, flamethrowers, Frances Sternhagen, Frank Darabont, Harvey Weinstein, it's not over, Jeffery DeMunn, Laurie Holden, Marcia Gay Harden, monsters from another dimension, religious nut, Richard Saperstein, secret military project, Stephen King, supermarket, Thomas Jane, Toby Jones, twist, U.S. Army, under siege, Weinstein Company, William Sadler

March 11th, 2012: White Heat (1949)

Mar11 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Crime, Film Noir, Heist, Movie of the Day, Prison Tagged bank robbers, bank robbery, Best Original Screenplay Nominee, controlling mother, double cross, Edmond O'Brien, fire, James Cagney, Max Steiner, mother-son relationship, prison, prison break, Raoul Walsh, undercover, Virginia Mayo, Warner Brothers

June 13th, 2011: Mighty Joe Young (1949)

Jun13 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Black and White, Event Film, Family, Giant Animals, Great White Hunter, Independent, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Stop Motion Animation, The Original Tagged Africa, Argosy Pictures, Ben Johnson, Best Effects-Best Special Effects, cowboys, Ernest B. Schoedsack, fire, gorillas, John Ford, Merian C. Cooper, musical interlude, night club, RKO, Robert Armstrong, Ruth Rose, Willis O'Brien

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