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2000 Maniacs (1964, Herschell Gordon Lewis)
It is my dad’s fault that I’ve wanted to see this for so long, since he mentioned it years ago. I figured it’d be pretty bad, but I didn’t count on it being a self-conscious bit of low-budget camp...
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A Horrible Way To Die (2012, Adam Wingard)
A Horrible Movie To Watch Okay, I’ll try a little harder. Sarah (Amy Seimetz of Joe Swanberg’s Silver Bullets and Alexander the Last) meets a nice guy (Joe Swanberg himself) at an AA meeting. Turns out...
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Return to Salem’s Lot (1987, Larry Cohen)
As Nathan Rabin might say, this film is quite poor. But look who co-stars: It opens, as all respectable horror films do, with a tribal ritual sacrifice. Maverick tough guy journalist Michael Moriarty...
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The Handmaid’s Tale (1990, Volker Schlondorff)
A real stinker of a bland-looking generic 1980’s movie, starring Natasha Richardson (Mary Shelley in Gothic) as a “handmaid” in the future whose job is to get pregnant for rich barren women (Faye...
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The Maze (1953, William Cameron Menzies)
Oh this was awful! The worst, slowest, MST3K-worthy British (“made in Hollywood USA,” the end titles promise, but trust me) “horror” movie, back when horror meant anything out of the ordinary. And yeah...
View Article31 (2016, Rob Zombie)
What a disappointment after the great Lords of Salem. All I can think is that Zombie was contractually obligated to deliver another full-length movie by the end of 2016, and after touring his band...
View ArticleThe Last Ten Minutes vol. 20: Award-Winning Edition
The Sea of Trees (2015, Gus Van Sant) Just for a change of pace, let’s start with something that played in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, by a director I’ve often loved. McConaughey is...
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Hellraiser 10: Judgment (2018, Gary Tunnicliffe)
I’d been calling this Hellraiser 9, deciding the 2011 semi-reboot Revelations shouldn’t count, but then, do any of them count? Everything since part two has been direct-to-video fan-fiction. It’s time...
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Doctor Sleep (2019, Mike Flanagan)
“Running away from myself, I guess.” From the moment Ghost Scatman appeared to dump exposition, we know this is gonna be a big obvious movie. This was my token stinker of the month, which I watched in...
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Our Lady of the Turks (1968, Carmelo Bene)
Rare is the movie that makes me daydream about making my own movies. I have no particular vision or story, no equipment or skill, no network of collaborators, no funds, no interest. But all during this...
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