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May 15th, 2013: Blood Feast (1963)

May15 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in Cults, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Serial Killer, Slasher, So-Bad-It's-Good, The Original, Thriller Tagged beach, caterer, Connie Mason, cops, David F. Friedman, Drive-In, dump truck, Egyptians, feast, gore, grindhouse, H.G. Lewis, incompetent cops, Ishtar, Miami, Playboy bunnies turned actresses, plot specific radio, serial killer

April 21st, 2013: The Fog (1980)

Apr21 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in From Beyond the Grave, Ghost, Independent, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Slasher, The Original Tagged "We Can't Close the Beaches!", Adrienne Barbeau, alcoholic, annoying children, baby sitters, centenary, Charles Cyphers, children of famous people, cursed town, Darwin Joston, Dean Cundey, DJ, double cross, Drive-In, fishermen, George "Buck" Flower, ghost story, grindhouse, Hal Holbrook, hitchhiking, it's not over, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman, low-budget, Nancy Kyes, ocean, priest, Rob Bottin, Tom Atkins, weatherman

March 21st, 2013: Faster, Pussycat, Kill! Kill!

Mar21 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in Action, Adult, Black and White, Camp, Comedy, Crime, Hostage Situation, Independent, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Road Trip, So-Bad-It's-Good, Softcore Tagged car racing, dirty old man, double cross, Drive-In, go go dancers, grindhouse, Haji, low-budget, muscle man, Russ Meyers, treasure, Tura Santana

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

February 17th, 2013: Slaughter (1972)

Feb17 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Blaxploitation, Buddy Flick, Crime, Movie of the Day, Revenge, The Original Tagged AIP, casino, Don Gordon, double cross, Drive-In, funk soundtrack, Green Beret, grindhouse, handball, Jim Brown, MacGuffin, Mafia, Marlene Clark, maverick, Mexico, mobsters, racism, racist cops, racists, revenge, Rip Torn, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Stella Stevens, T-Men, veteran, Vietnam veterans

February 12th, 2013: Mitchell (1975)

Feb12 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Cops, Crime, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged Allied Artists, Andrew V. McLaglen, cash-in, children of famous people, corrupt cops, corrupt politicians, double cross, Drive-In, drug dealers, drug smugglers, drugs, grindhouse, helicopter, heroin, Hoyt Axton, incompetent cops, it's not over, Jerry Hardin, Joe Don Baker, John Saxon, Linda Evans, low-budget, Martin Balsam, maverick, maverick cops, Merlin Olsen, mobsters, murder, rip-off

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

February 7th, 2013: El Topo (1970)

Feb7 by professormortis

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3 Comments Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Fantasy, Independent, Movie of the Day, Road Trip, Spaghetti Western, Western Tagged Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alfonso Arau, allegory, father-son relationship, gore, grindhouse, gunfighter, head film, low-budget, Mexico, midnight movie, religion, surreal

January 26th, 2013: Detroit 9000

Jan26 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Blaxploitation, Buddy Flick, Cops, Crime, Independent, Movie of the Day Tagged Alex Rocco, Arthur Marks, cash-in, cops, corrupt cops, Detroit, double cross, Drive-In, funk soundtrack, grindhouse, Hari Rhodes, Herbert Jefferson Jr., location shooting, low-budget, Luchi De Jesus, maverick cops, Michigan, racist cops, rip-off, robbery, Scatman Crothers, twist, Vonetta McGee

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

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