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Bad Girls Go to Hell DVD

Another DVD, Another Wishman Though this DVD is billed as a “Something Weird Video Drive-In Double Feature” of Bad Girls Go To Hell/Another Day Another Man, in the mid-Sixties, films like these were more likely to be shown in seedy … Continue reading

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A Taste of Blood DVD

H. G. Lewis’ Vampire With a running time of nearly two hours, this is Herschell Gordon Lewis’ longest feature. He also considers the film to be his lone stab at some kind of mainstream film, shot in Eastmancolor with production … Continue reading

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Fargo DVD

How many Paul Bunyan statues are there? A staple of the work of American pulp fiction writers is the doomed character: your everyday everyman, thrown into a set of circumstances either by his own flawed machinations, or merely by the … Continue reading

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The Gruesome Twosome DVD

Flip your wig As old as the gothic novel itself is the cliche of the demented relative who is kept hidden from the outside world, usually locked up in a tower room or basement dungeon. Almost as old is the … Continue reading

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Hollow Man

Don’t get sleepy! I used to consider H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man to be more fantasy than science fiction, especially since Wells’ villain attained his state via injection. Now I read that biomedical engineers at the University of Texas have … Continue reading

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The Omega Code DVD

The NEW New Testament The Omega Code stars Casper Van Dien as Dr. Gillen Lane, a dashing self-help guru whose public success – and habit of leaping over furniture – hides his private failure to keep his family together. He … Continue reading

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The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse DVD

Deserves more eyes on it CBS’ late, unlamented TV show Big Brother ain’t got nothing on Dr. Mabuse. Fritz Lang’s return to the character he made famous in a series of German films reflecting the methods of the rising Nazi … Continue reading

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Something Weird DVD

Psychotronic man Some time in the mid-1960s, Herschell Gordon Lewis met James F. Hurley, a teacher at Triton College and a firm believer in psychic phenomena. Hurley wanted to promote his theories via film, and convinced Lewis to use his … Continue reading

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Martin DVD

Vampire without a cause George Romero caused a sensation with his first feature film, Night of the Living Dead, and changed horror films forever, but he and his partners failed to receive the financial rewards due them. He went on to … Continue reading

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Mission: Impossible 2

Woo 2 I was disappointed in Mission: Impossible, mainly because it tossed aside most of what made the original TV series great, replacing it with an overcomplicated plot and action movie heroics. So I went into the sequel expecting little. … Continue reading

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