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August 29th, 2014: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Aug29 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Arthouse, Based on a Board Game, Based on a Poem, Comedy, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Prison, Road Trip, Slapstick Tagged 1930s, absent father, bank robber, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, buried treasure, chain gang, Charles Durning, Classical allusion, Classical Mythology, convict, crossroads, dam, deal with the devil, escaped convicts, father, George Clooney, Holly Hunter, homage, husband, John Goodman, John Turturro, Mississippi, music contest, pomade, radio station, Roger Deakins, Studio Canal, T Bone Burnett, Tim Blake Nelson, Touchstone Pictures, Universal Pictures, wife, Working Title Films

April 19th, 2014: Bedazzled (1967)

Apr19 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Comedy, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Romance, Satire Tagged 20th Century Fox, before they were famous, Britain, cook, deal with the devil, devil, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, game with the devil, nun, Peter Cook, Raquel Welch, Satan, Seven Deadly SIns, soul, Stanley Donen, waitress

September 17th, 2013: Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam aka The Golem (1920)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Based on Myths, Black and White, Fantasy, German Expressionism, Horror, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Prequel, Silent Tagged Astaroth, deal with the devil, demon, Expressionism, Germany, ghetto, golem, lightning, Prague, Rabbi

August 17th, 2013: Angel Heart (1987)

Aug17 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Demons, Detective, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Neo-Noir, Thriller Tagged Alan Paker, amnesia, Britain, Canada, Carolco Pictures, deal with the devil, game with the devil, Lisa Bonet Charlotte Rampling, Mickey Rourke, New Orleans, New York City, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Robert De Niro, twist, Voodoo

September 19th, 2012: Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

Sep19 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black Comedy, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Music, Romance, Satire, Spoof, Stalker, Thriller, Tragedy Tagged 20th Century Fox, before they were famous, Best Music Nominee, Brian De Palma, deal with the devil, disfigured face, double cross, Drive-In, George Memmoli, Gerrit Graham, homage, insanity, Jessica Harper, music industry, musicians, Paul Williams, Rod Serling, William Finley

May 13th, 2012: Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

May13 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Cults, Demons, Drama, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, The Original, Thriller Tagged apartment, Charles Grodin, creepy neighbors, D'Urville Martin, deal with the devil, demon, doctor, Elisha Cook Jr., Ira Levin, John Cassavetes, Maurice Evans, Mia Farrow, new home, old men, pregnancy, Ralph Bellamy, Roman Polanski, Ruth Gordon, Satan, satanism, Victoria Vetri, William Castle, William Castle Productions

March 18th, 2012: The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Comedy, Demons, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Thriller, Witches Tagged Best Score Nominee, Best Sound Nominee, Carel Struycken, Cher, deal with the devil, George Miller, it's not over, Jack Nicholson, John Williams, Michelle Pfeiffer, Richard Jenkins, single mother, Susan Sarandon, Veronica Cartwright, Vilmos Zsigmond, Warner Brothers

October 19th, 2011: Petey Wheatstraw

Oct19 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Blaxploitation, Comedy, Horror, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged "martial arts", Cliff Roquemore, comedian, comedian turned actor, deal with the devil, double cross, grindhouse, Jimmy Lynch, Leroy and Skillet, live performance, low-budget, nightclub, quotably bad dialogue, Rudy Ray Moore, Satan, watermelon, Wildman Steve

March 22nd, 2011: Faust (1926)

Mar22 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Based on a Play, Black and White, Fantasy, Horror, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Silent Tagged deal with the devil, demon, Emil Jannings, Expressionism, F.W. Murnau, Germany, hell, myth, Universum Film (UFA)

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