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April 23rd, 2014: Romeo and Juliet (1968)

Apr23 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Play, Drama, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Romance, Tragedy Tagged Best Cinematography, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Costume Design, Best Director Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Britain, co-production, Dino De Laurentiis, duel, feuding families, Franco Zeffirelli, Italy, Michael York, Milo O'Shea, monks, nurse, poison, Renaissance, teens, Verona, William Shakespeare

March 9, 2013: The English Patient (1996)

Mar9 by bellabone

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Drama, Epic, Espionage, Movie of the Day, Romance, Tragedy, War Movies Tagged 1930s, adultery, affair, Africa, amnesia, Anthony Minghella, Best Actor Nominee, Best Actress Nominee, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Director, Best Film Editing, best music original dramatic score, Best Picture, Best Sound, Best Supporting Actress, best writing nominee adapted screenplay, Colin Firth, desert, double agent, Juliette Binoche, Kristin Scott Thomas, mistaken identity, morphine, Naveen Andrews, nurse, Ralph Fiennes, thief, unexploded bombs, Willem Dafoe, World War Two

August 20th, 2013: An American Werewolf in London

Aug20 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black Comedy, Comedy, Horror, Lycanthropy/Jekyll and Hyde, Movie of the Day, Slapstick, Tragedy, Werewolves Tagged "it's all in their heads-or is it?", "The Moors", backpackers, Best Makeup, Brian Glover, Britain, college students, cover-up, cranky ghost, curse, David Naughton, doctor, dream sequence, Elmer Bernstein, Frank Oz, full moon, Griffin Dunne, hospital, in-joke, Jenny Agutter, John Landis, London, mix-tape soundtrack, Muppets, nightmares, nurse, older woman, panic, PolyGram, porn theater, punks, Rick Baker, Rik Mayall, stealth remake, transformations, undead, unfriendly locals, warnings from townsfolk, werewolf

March 8th, 2013: The Honeymoon Killers

Mar8 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Arthouse, Black and White, Con, Crime, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Thriller, True Crime Tagged child death, con artist, controlling mother, cult, Doris Roberts, double cross, Drive-In, grindhouse, insanity, Leonard Kastle, low-budget, mother, mother-daugther relationship, New York City, nurse, pregnancy, Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco

January 11th, 2013: The Brain that Wouldn’t Die (1962)

Jan11 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Black and White, Horror, Independent, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good, The Original Tagged "what's locked in the closet", Acting!, artist model, bad special effects, burlesque, car accident, cash-in, decapitation, deformed assistant, disfigured face, double cross, Drive-In, father, fiance, grindhouse, head on a platter, head transplant, kidnapping, low-budget, mad scientist, models, nurse, organ transplantation, overbearing father, plastic surgery, quotably bad dialogue, rip-off, Sammy Petrillo, Science!, scientists, sleazy, strippers, surgery

April 10th, 2012: The Crazies (1973)

Apr10 by Professor Mortis

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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

March 8th, 2012: The Honeymoon Killers

Mar8 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Arthouse, Black and White, Con, Crime, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Thriller, True Crime Tagged child death, con artist, controlling mother, cult, Doris Roberts, double cross, Drive-In, grindhouse, insanity, Leonard Kastle, low-budget, mother, mother-daugther relationship, New York City, nurse, pregnancy, Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco

December 22nd, 2011: Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

Dec22 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Assumed Identity, Black and White, Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Holiday, Movie of the Day, Romance, Satire, Screwball, The Original Tagged architect, baby, Barbara Stanwyck, Connecticut, farm, interrupted wedding, Jack L. Warner, nurse, publisher, S. Z. Sakall, sailors, shipwrecks, Sydney Greenstreet, Warner Brothers

The Ward (2010)

Nov2 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Full Reviews, Ghost, Horror, Independent, Mystery, Period Film, Reviews, So-Bad-It's-Bad, Thriller, Whodunnit Tagged Amber Heard, asylum, child abuse, child molestor, domineering nurse, insanity, it's not over, John Carpenter, ModernVideo Film, nurse, orderly, psychiatrists, repressed memories, rip-off, teens

May 7th, 2011: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

May7 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Based on a Book, Black and White, Body Snatchers, Independent, Killer Plants, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged Allied Artists, conspiracy, doctor, Don Siegel, Drive-In, flashback, insanity, Kevin McCarthy, low-budget, narration, nurse, paranoia, Sam Peckinpah, town doctor, Walter Wanger Productions, Whit Bissell

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