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Theatrical release review

Habit VHS

Reality Bites Look around the average video store these days and you’ll see that the vampire movie is still alive, undead and well. The shelves are crowded with direct-to-tape bloodsuckers, all vying for the rental bucks of goth-bedecked Anne Rice … Continue reading






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Organ DVD

The Organ Grinders Numata (Kenjin Nasa), a tough cop, and his partner Tosaka are on the trail of a gang of human organ thieves that have been preying on runaways and homeless. When the gang picks up an unconscious man, … Continue reading






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Gorgo DVD

Wait til Mama comes home Director Eugene Lourie, working in the field created by Cooper and Schoedsack for King Kong, created the template for the modern giant monster movie in the 1950s, and then went on to become one of … Continue reading






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The Girl Who Knew Too Much DVD

Vintage Bava thriller It was supposed to be a romantic thriller ala Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes, but for director Mario Bava, that approach just wouldn’t do. He was just returning from his first break in years, six months off following … Continue reading






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Another Day, Another Man

Continued from previous post… Another pure product of its time is Another Day, Another Man, shot with much of the same cast and locations as Bad Girls. Steve (Rod Reagan) has news for his wife Ann (Barbie Kemp, spelled “Kenmp” … Continue reading






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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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Nude on the Moon DVD

Lunar nature camp Okay, all you ladies — scram! I want to talk to just the men for a while. Go check out the Buffy bulletin boards for a while or something. Are they gone? Good. Hey cats, ever want to see … 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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Barn of the Blood Llama

No Fernando, no Lorenzo, but plenty of other llamas Well, if I’ve said it once, I’ve said it fifty times: they make the weirdest movies in Texas. From Larry Buchanan (Mars Needs Women, The Naked Witch) to Tobe Hooper (The … Continue reading






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Kronos DVD

Giant robot gyros from space This prime example of 1950s science fiction has been much overshadowed in intervening decades by more expensive productions like Forbidden Planet. This is unfortunate, as in some ways Kronos (1957) was ahead of its time, and … Continue reading






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