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I Know What You Did Last Summer

When You Weren’t Dancing the Macarena In this competent little giallo from the Wes Craven factory, four sexy recent HS grads with bright futures and no problems accidentally turn July 4th into Halloween..) While driving home from a beach party, … Continue reading

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The Necro Files VHS

Sometimes Death won’t solve your problems To quote Stan Marsh of South Park: “Dude, this is pretty fucked up right here.” This ultra-low budget effort from Todd Tjersland’s Threat Theatre video gore factory is one of the most twisted and … Continue reading

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Face/Off

Losing Face For John Woo’s third Hollywood feature, it was announced that he would be getting back to something much closer to the Hong Kong action thrillers that made him famous. Being a big fan of Woo, especially those HK … Continue reading

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Fireworks

“Beat” Cop Goes On Sad to say, but “Beat” Takeshi Kitano is probably most recognized for his guest spots as villains in movies like Johnny Mnemonic and Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence. But to those in the know, Takeshi is the … Continue reading

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Lost Highway

Next Exit: Weirdsville Bill Pullman plays a nervous jazz musician, suspicious that his wife (Patricia Arquette imitating Bettie Page) has been having an affair. The vaguely unhappy couple suddenly has their lives invaded by a supernatural demon (Robert Blake imitating Bela Lugosi), … Continue reading

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Last Man Standing

Last Remake You Can Stand Walter Hill tries his hand at Kurosawa’s Yojimbo (itself based on Hammett’s Red Harvest), with Bruce Willis playing a prohibition era American samurai.

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Killer: A Journal of Murder

Public Enemy Number 1 In the ‘20s, Leavenworth guard Henry Lesser (Robert Sean Leonard) befriended prisoner Carl Panzram (James Woods), who’d broken “every law known to God and man”. Lesser risked his job to allow Panzram to write down his … Continue reading

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Escape from L.A.

Pure Escapism Bet you thought Snake Plisken was dead? Well he’s back – and so are Kurt Russell, producer Debra Hill, and director John Carpenter, who all concocted the plot for this nutty flick.

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The Frighteners

Ghost Ghostbusters Those that feared that kiwi auteur Peter Jackson would turn “respectable” after Heavenly Creatures can rest easy – his latest offering is as solidly psychotronic as anything he’s ever done.

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Deafula

No one can hear you scream This is one of the rarest of all vampire films, which you see listed in a lot of movie guides but not many people have seen it. Most describe it as a version of … Continue reading

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