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

Mar21 by professormortis

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

February 11th, 2013: The Goonies (1985)

Feb11 by professormortis

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6 Comments Posted in Comedy, Coming of Age, Event Film, Family, Adventure, Movie of the Day Tagged "Save the Old X", Amblin Entertainment, Anne Ramsey, before they were famous, booby trap, buried treasure, cash-in, children of famous people, Chris Columbus, Corey Feldman, Frank Marshall, Industrial Light and Magic, inventors, Joe Pantoliano, John Matuszak, Josh Brolin, Lupe Ontiveros, Martha Plimpton, Mary Ellen Trainor, pirate ship, pirates, Richard Donner, Robert Davi, Rube Goldberg devices, Sean Astin, skeleton, snobs vs. slobs, Steven Spielberg, teens, treasure, treasure hunt, treasure map, Warner Brothers, wishing well

June 19th, 2012: Romancing the Stone (1984)

Jun19 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Movie of the Day, Road Trip, Romance, Screwball, The Original Tagged Alan Silvestri, Alfonso Arau, Best Film Editing Nominee, children of famous people, Columbia, crocodile, Danny DeVito, Dean Cundey, double cross, fantasy sequence, jungle, Kathleen Turner, MacGuffin, Michael Douglas, ransom, rapids, Robert Zemeckis, treasure, treasure hunt, treasure map, waterfall, writer

May 2nd, 2012: The Rundown (2003)

May2 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Comedy, Movie of the Day, Road Trip, Guerrillas, Buddy Flick Tagged homage, con artist, double cross, Universal Pictures, rip-off, gimmick weapon, children of famous people, whip, Columbia Pictures, Christopher Walken, mobsters, artifact, jungle, mine, Jon Gries, treasure, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Seann William Scott, Peter Berg, Vince McMahon, Rosario Dawson, Ernie Reyes Jr., WWE Films, retrieval expert, chef

April 30th, 2012: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

Apr30 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Epic, Event Film, Movie of the Day, P.O.W., Period Film, Road Trip, Sequel, Spaghetti Western, War Movies, Western Tagged Alberto Grimaldi, Aldo Sambrell, bounty hunters, bridge, buried treasure, Cannon, cemetery, Civil War, Clint Eastwood, Constantin Film Produktion, double cross, Drive-In, Eli Wallach, Ennio Morricone, explosives, gold, graveyard, grindhouse, gunfighter, hanging, homage, interrupted execution, Italy, Lee Van Cleef, Luigi Pistilli, Mario Brega, musical interlude, POW, POW camp, priest, prison, prison warden, Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA), Sergio Leone, shopkeeper, showdown, Spain, train, treasure, treasure hunt, United Artists, wanted poster, West Germany

April 18th, 2012: Gunga Din (1939)

Apr18 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Poem, Black and White, Buddy Flick, Cavalry, Comedy, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original, War Movies, Western Tagged Alfred Newman, Ben Hecht, Best Cinematography Nominee, brawl, Britain, British Army, bugle, captured by the enemy, Cary Grant, cult leader, cultists, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Eduardo Ciannelli, elephant, fanatic, fiance, George Stevens, India, Joan Fontaine, John Sturges, loosely adapted, Montagu Love, National Film Registry, noble savage, noble servant, RKO, Rudyard Kipling, Sam Jaffe, schemer, Thuggee, treasure, Victor McLaglen, water boy

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

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