Posts tagged Movie reviews
Ogling Inward: Evil Toons (1992)

The film’s level of self-awareness indicates that director Fred Olen Ray is gazing not only at breasts but also at himself.

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Hard on the Heroine: The Maze (1953)

Despite bad manners and even worse omens, Kitty still tries to discover why her estranged fiancé spends his evenings wandering a topiary maze.

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Rich Soil: Children of the Corn - Runaway (2018)

I heartily commend the decision to lavish funds upon a franchise that has sustained itself for some time on modest budgets.

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Unpleasant Tenant: Day of the Dead - Bloodline (2018)

Max expresses his affections as any lovelorn fellow might, ensuring that he and his beloved are regularly forced into uncomfortably close confines and carving her name rather skillfully into his arm.

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Deeply Committed: Unsane (2018)

The entire production was filmed on a “smart” telephone, a model that I understand is quite popular.

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Deadly Digit: Netherworld (1992)

Like so many Full Moon movies, it projects the scrappy charm of a young schoolboy who has hastily assembled his big presentation only the night before it was due.

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Monster Mash-Up: Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)

Even if you’re a lycanthrope or an ungodly amalgamation of corpse pieces, it can be awfully nice to meet new people every once in a while.

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Agressive Hospitality: 2001 Maniacs (2005)

Pleasant Valley fosters a secret cannibal culture that seems to mostly eat heads, which admittedly does provide a certain dramatic flair when the dinner bell is rung. 

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Creature Catering: The Pit (1981)

You may think me a doddering “coot” bemoaning the eroding morals of young people today but I simply cannot abide by meat thieving, attempted livestock appropriation or murder by shoving.

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The Comforts of Home: Manhattan Baby (1982)

While fans of agonizingly gradual eye punctures may have to look elsewhere for their gory treats, anyone intimately familiar with Fulci will delight in this stylistic departure that speaks so clearly to his own fear of departures.

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Demi-Gremlin: Munchies (1987)

Some might find Munchies to be nothing more than a shameless Gremlins imitation but I would argue that it fills a a yawning void in in contemporary cinema -- namely, that there are only two Gremlins movies.

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