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The Professor’s Fall Journal: October Week One

Oct25 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animation, Based on a Book, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Comedy, Demons, Drama, Fairy Tale, Fantasy, Found Footage, Ghost, Gothic Horror, Horror, Independent, Made for TV, Melodrama, Monster, Mummy, Mystery, Nightmares, Period Film, Quick Reviews, Sci-Fi, Short, Silent, Spoof, Stop Motion Animation, Werewolves, Whodunnit Tagged ABC, Arch Oboler, Best Picture, Bigfoot, Bugs Bunny, Canada, CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Christopher George, Claude Akins, cops, cruise ship, Dark Fantasy, David Keith, David Suchet, Dirk Benedict, Dracula, Edgar Allan Poe, Egypt, fishmen, France, George Melies, Guillermo Del Toro, Halloween, Halloween party, haunted house, Hugh O'Brien, Italy, John Forysythe, John Schneider, Kevin Smith, Lee Merriwether, Lights Out, low-budget, Lucio Fulci, Lynda Day George, Maya, Mel Blanc, Michael Shannon, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Ovidio G. Assonitis, park ranger, Poirot, Pre-Columbian contact, Quiet Please, radio show, Ray Milland, Roger Mosley, Satan, satanism, seance, Sears Radio Theater, Spain, Stella Stevens, toxic waste, Vincent Price, Wil Wheaton, Yugoslavia

December 4th, 2014: Aelita aka Aelita: Queen of Mars

Dec4 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Aliens, Arthouse, Black and White, Drama, Event Film, Fantasy, Issue Film, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Propaganda, Sci-Fi, Silent, Space Travel Tagged aliens as monarchist allegory, allegory, aristocracy, Communism, engineers, extraterrestrial radio signals, king, Mars, Queen, Radio, revolution, Soviet, Soviet Union, Soviets, space exploration, workers

October 9th, 2014: Zoku Zatôichi Monogatari aka The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (1962)

Oct9 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Action, Adventure, Arthouse, Black and White, Chanbara, Drama, Jidaigeki, Martial Arts, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Road Trip Tagged blind, brothers, Daiei, double cross, insanity, Japan, masseuse, master swordsman, samurai swords, Shintaro Katsu, sword cane, wanderer, Yakuza, Zatoichi

October 3rd, 2014: Chôjikû Yôsai Macross: Ai Oboeteimasuka aka SDF-1 Macross: Do You Remember Love? aka Macross: The Movie aka Macross in Clash of the Bionoids

Oct3 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Aliens, Animation, Anime, Based on a TV Show, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Remake, Romance, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good, War Movies, War Soap Opera, War with Aliens Tagged alcoholic, Bad Dubbing, cash-in, clones, Japan, love triangle, Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS), mecha, music calms the savage beast, musical interlude, protoculture, quotably bad dialogue, singer, space cannon, spaceship crash, stilted dialogue, transformable robot, war of the sexes

September 6th, 2014: Sins of the Fleshapoids

Sep6 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Apocalypse, Arthouse, Comedy, Dark Future, Drama, Independent, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Robots, Sci-Fi, Short, Spoof Tagged "they blew it up", biblical allusion, Bob Cowan, George Kuchar, homage, killer robots, low-budget, Mike Kuchar, New York City, nuclear war, post-apocalyptic, robot servant, robots, sexy robots, underground films

August 7th, 2014: Johnny Guitar (1954)

Aug7 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Camp, Drama, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Revisionist Western, Western Tagged "the railroad is coming", attempted lynching, bank, bank robbers, bank robbery, bar, bartender, Cult Film, double cross, Ernest Borgnine, gunfighter, guns, Joan Crawford, John Carradine, lynching, Mercedes McCambridge, mob, National Film Registry, Nicholas Ray, Paul Fix, Peggy Lee, railroad, Republic Pictures, Royal Dano, saloon, Sheb Wooley, stagecoach, Sterling Hayden, Ward Bond

July 25th, 2014: Mekagojira no Gyakushu aka Terror of Mechagodzilla

Jul25 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Dinosaurs, Drama, Event Film, Kaiju, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Robots, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Tragedy, War with Aliens Tagged "I can't love you, "sound defeats the monster", Akihiko Hirata, Akira Ifukube, aliens from a dying world, Bad Dubbing, black hole, cuts in U.S. version, cyborg, daughter, dinosaurs, disgraced scientist, father, father-daughter relationship, femme fatale, Godzilla, Godzilla noir, gojira, Goro Mutsumi, Henry G. Saperstein, I'm a cyborg", Interpol, Ishiro Honda, Japan, JDF, Kenji Sahara, mad scientist, Mechagodzilla, prison, prison break, prisoner, scientists, silver space man jumpsuit, sonar, sonic weapon, submarine, suicide, superhero Godzilla, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka

July 16th, 2014: Casa De Mi Padre (2012)

Jul16 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Slapstick, Spoof, Western Tagged Adam McKay, brothers, cartel, Dan Haggerty, Diego Luna, drug smugglers, drugs, father, father-son relationship, Gael Garcia Bernal, international crime cartel, Lionsgate, Mexico, Pedro Armendariz Jr., ranch, rancher, Will Ferrell

June 14th, 2014: Casablanca

Jun14 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Play, Black and White, Drama, Issue Film, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Propaganda, Romance, The Original, Tragedy Tagged Best Actor Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Director, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Music Nominee, Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Writing, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, double cross, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Max Steiner, Michael Curtiz, musical interlude, National Film Registry, Nazis, Paul Hendrid, Peter Lorre, S. Z. Sakall, Screenplay, Sydney Greenstreet, twist, Warner Brothers, World War Two

May 25th, 2014: Tôkyô Nagaremono aka Tokyo Drifter (1966)

May24 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in "Foreign Film", Action, Arthouse, Camp, Crime, Drama, Gangster, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Road Trip Tagged bar, bar fight, betrayal, brawl, code of honor, double cross, go go dancers, hero sings his own song, homage, Japan, low-budget, mobsters, nightclub, Nikkatsu, powder blue coat of honor, prostitutes, protege, samurai swords, Seijun Suzuki, singer, snow, surrogate father, Technicolor, torch singer, train, Yakuza

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