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August 9th, 2014: Attack aka Attack! (1956)

Aug9 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Play, Black and White, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, War Movies Tagged before they were famous, Buddy Ebsen, coward, double cross, Eddie Albert, Frank De Vol, incompetent officers, Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, low-budget, National Guard, Nazis, revenge, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Aldrich, Robert Strauss, Strother Martin, tank, United Artists, World War Two

August 25th, 2013: Alligator (1980)

Aug25 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Animals Attack, Based on an Urban Legend, Cops, Disaster, Ecological Disaster, Event Film, Giant Animals, Great White Hunter, Horror, Independent, Kaiju, Monster Tagged 1968 Democratic Convention, alligator, alligator wrestling, balding, before they were famous, bomb defusing scene, cash-in, Chicago, cops, cult, Dean Jagger, Drive-In, evil businessman, father-daughter relationship, growth hormones, Henry Silva, it's not over, Jack Carter, John Sayles, Lewis Teague, Los Angeles sewers, low-budget, mad bomber, mad scientist, maverick cops, mother-daugther relationship, National Guard, overbearing father, overbearing mother, Perry Lang, Robert Forster, Robin Riker, scientists, sewer lair, sewers, survivor's guilt, SWAT, Sydney Lassick, wedding

Alligator (1980)

Jul25 by Professor Mortis

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April 10th, 2012: The Crazies (1973)

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Leave a comment Posted in Disaster, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, The Original, Thriller Tagged "too expensive to show", allegory, biological warfare, burning, Drive-In, fire, firefighters, George A. Romero, grindhouse, helicopter, high school, incest, insanity, it's not over, low-budget, Lynn Lowry, murder, National Guard, nurse, Pennsylvania, priest, pyromaniac, quarantine, rape, scientists, self immolation, small town, spineless bureacrats, suicide, town doctor, tragedy of errors, veteran, Vietnam allegory, Vietnam veterans

October 21st, 2011: Dawn of the Dead (1978)

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2 Comments Posted in Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Sequel, The Original, Zombies Tagged Claudio Argento, Dario Argento, Gaylen Ross, George A. Romero, Goblin, grindhouse, helicopter, Ken Foree, low-budget, mall, National Guard, projects, pundits, racists, rednecks, scientists, SWAT, talking heads, Tom Savini, United Film Distribution Company (UFDC)

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