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December 15th, 2014: Incubus (1966)

Dec15 by Professor Mortis

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6 Comments Posted in Arthouse, Black and White, Demons, Fantasy, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged allegory, before they were famous, Conrad L. Hall, Daystar Productions, game with the devil, homage, incubus, Leslie Stevens, low-budget, rip-off, sacrifice, succubus, William Shatner

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

September 26th, 2014: Cool Hand Luke

Sep26 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Crime, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Prison Tagged allegory, Anthony Zerbe, before they were famous, Best Actor Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Original Score Nominee, Best Supporting Actor, chain gang, Charles Tyner, Christ figure, Clifton James, Conrad Hall, Dennis Hopper, George Kennedy, Harry Dean Stanton, J.D. Cannon, Joe Don Baker, Lalo Schifrin, low-budget, National Film Registry, Paul Newman, prison, prison warden, prisoner, Ralph Waite, Rance Howard, Robert Donner, Seven Arts Productions, Strother Martin, Wayne Rogers

August 5th, 2014: Mothra (1961)

Aug5 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Event Film, Giant Insects, Kaiju, Killer Plants, Lost World, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged Akihiko Hirata, allegory, atomic, atomic testing, evil businessman, gods, insects, Ishiro Honda, Japan, Kenji Sahara, kidnapping, music summons the monster, musical interlude, natives, newspaper, nightclub, radiation, radiation mutation, reporter, Robert Dunham, scientists, Shinichi Sekizawa, shipwrecks, stowaway, Takashi Shimura, telepaths, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, twins

July 22nd, 2014: Ganja and Hess

Jul22 by Professor Mortis

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5 Comments Posted in Addicition, Arthouse, Blaxploitation, Drama, Horror, Vampires Tagged addiction, allegory, anthropologist, Bill Gunn, blood cult, church, cult, Duane Jones, freezer, gospel choir, insanity, it's not over, low-budget, Marlene Clark, minister, occult, professors, suicide, triple threat, vampirism as addiction metaphor

July 4th, 2013: Vigilante Force

Jul4 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Cops, Crime, Heist, Independent, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged allegory, Andrew Stevens, before they were famous, Bernadette Peters, boomtown, Brad Dexter, brothers, Charles Cyphers, corrupt cops, Dick Miller, double cross, Gene Corman, George Armitage, Hicksploitation, Independence Day, Jan Michael Vincent, Kris Kristofferson, Loni Anderson, low-budget, marching band, maverick cops, mayor, oil, oil crisis, parade, Paul Gleason, prostitutes, rednecks, the declining years, U.S.A.!U.S.A.!, United Artists, Victoria Principal, Vietnam veterans, vigilantes

June 10th, 2013: Dead End Drive-In

Jun10 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black Comedy, Comedy, Dark Future, Drama, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Thriller Tagged adults playing teens, allegory, Brian Trenchard-Smith, cops, Drive-In, Hammer of Symbolism, low-budget, Ozploitation, scavengers, teens, totalitarian society

February 7th, 2013: El Topo (1970)

Feb7 by Professor Mortis

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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

October 15th, 2012: Matango aka Attack of the Mushroom People

Oct15 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Drama, Horror, Killer Plants, Movie of the Day Tagged addiction, AIP, Akira Kubo, allegory, Eiji Tsuburaya, fungi, hallucinations, Hiroshi Koizumi, insanity, Ishiro Honda, it's not over, James H. Nicholson, Japan, Kenji Sahara, Kumi Mizuno, lone survivor, movie stars, mushrooms, musical interlude, radiation, sailors, Samuel Z. Arkoff, scientists, shipwrecks, Takeshi Kimura, temptation, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, transformations, twist, William Hope Hodgson

April 19th, 2012: The Holy Mountain (1973)

Apr19 by Professor Mortis

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4 Comments Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Black Comedy, Fantasy, Independent, Movie of the Day, Satire Tagged Alejandro Jodorowsky, allegory, art, artists, enlightenment, gore, guru, head film, Mexico, mountain climbing, mountains, mystics, reinvention, spirtual journey, surreal

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