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THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1964) - Roger Corman's colour-coded Poe
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH(1964, UK)Gorgeous, colourful, complex, bloody, Roger Corman adaption of PoeThe Masque of the Red Death is a costumed ball held in a castle fortress for the rich landowners,...
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BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE (1958) a choice of DVDs
BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE(1958, UK)Hammer films opened the bloodgates of sadistic melodrama!A sadistic doctor is using 'lunatic asylum' patients for his merciless experiments – trying to separate human...
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THE HITCHER (1986) - road movie, horror movie
THE HITCHER(1986, USA)Memorable shocks in the intelligent, original road movie horrorA young man (C. Thomas Howell) is making some extra cash by delivering a new car by driving across several states....
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LUCKY LUKE (2009) - Jean DuJardin, hero of the wild west
LUCKY LUKE(2009, France/Argentina)Cowboy spoof, action comedy, more fun than The ArtistLucky Luke, cowboy, sharpshooter, drifter, do-gooder... Renowned for his heroics across the wild west, Luke is...
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Everything JAWS in the Black Hole...
The extensively restored Jaws Blu-ray is almost with us, along with a new feature-length documentary The Shark Is Still Working.So far, my coverage of Jaws has turned into, well, a bit of a monster. So...
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BLADE RUNNER - thirty years later, to the day
BLADE RUNNER(1982, USA)"You're talking about memories..."Wednesday, August 15th, marked the thirtieth anniversary of my first experience of Blade Runner. Thanks to Starburst magazine, readers were...
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JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (1959) - now on Blu
Twilight Time only started releasing DVDs and Blu-rays last year, aiming for classic older movies that the big studios have neglected. Their remit has stretched to titles as recent as As Good As It...
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THE SPACE CHILDREN (1958) - rare Jack Arnold sci-fi now on Blu
THE SPACE CHILDREN(1958, USA)Love me, love my blob...At a top secret military missile project, some of the worker's children spot a light from the sky that adults can't see. Following it down, they...
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INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978) - creepy, paranoid, body horror
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS(1978, USA) A San Francisco health inspector (Donald Sutherland) and a friend at work, an analytic scientist (Brooke Adams), begin to start encounter people who've...
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GYO: TOKYO FISH ATTACK! (2012) - Junji Ito anime adaption
GYO: TOKYO FISH ATTACK!(2012, Japan)Don't gyo anywhere near the water...The DVD cover art makes this look like a Sharktopus derivative (and nowadays, ripping off Roger Corman would be a very low...
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CORMAN'S WORLD: EXPLOITS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL (2011)
CORMAN'S WORLD:EXPLOITS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL(2011, USA)Who's Roger Corman? You're kidding me...The name Roger Corman no longer ignites the interest of young moviegoers that it used to. His name can now...
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TALES FROM THE CRYPT (1972) - 40 years old and now on Blu-ray
TALES FROM THE CRYPT(1972, UK)Another look at the first EC horror comics movieTo mark the 40th year of Amicus Films' Tales From The Crypt, I watched the recently released Australian blu-ray, a very...
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Man of a Million Faces - Martin Landau in conversation
Martin Landau in conversationQ&A at the BFI South Bank, October 9th, 2012I've been watching Martin Landau for decades in TV and film. As a teenager, I was scared by him as 'The Man Who Never Was'...
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MY AMITYVILLE HORROR (2012) - a documentary about Daniel Lutz
The legend continues...The London Film Festival screened this smartly-produced new documentary at NFT3 last night. I went in almost completely 'cold', knowing only that one of the Lutz family children...
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ALL THIS AND WORLD WAR II (1976) - a history lesson with The Beatles
ALL THIS AND WORLD WAR II(1976, USA)A 90-minute documentary feature attempting to cover the whole of World War II, all set to songs of The Beatles.Not a completely crazy idea after the acclaimed...
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Filming Location: BODY DOUBLE - the Chemosphere House
Movie Location - The Chemosphere House(seen in Body Double (1984), The Outer Limits (1963))Retro-futuristic architecture is even more fun to visit if it's appeared in a movie. This octagonal house,...
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ABSENTIA (2011) - the tunnel of horror!
ABSENTIA(2011, USA)With an underpass, you can be scared of the dark any hour of the dayHorror fans were twittering about this at a parade of film festivals, so I took a look when it hit the UK,...
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Filming Location: ABSENTIA (2011) - creepy Glendale
Movie location - Kenilworth Avenue tunnel!(seen in Absentia (2011))Coincidence (or was it LoveFilm) popped Absentia through the letterbox a week before our holiday trip to Los Angeles. I started...
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A hundred years of THE LOST WORLD (1925) - and the three best DVDs
THE LOST WORLD(1925, USA)Dinosaurs attack! The seminal story and 1925 movieThis month marks the centenary of Arthur Conan Doyle's story 'The Lost World' completing its first ever run as a serialised...
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ROAR (1981) - lion and tiger mayhem... for real
Animals attack - the making of ROAR...I was half-interested in The Life of Pi, once again drawn in by the promise of 'a true story' of a man trapped with a wild animal in a rowboat at sea, with Ang Lee...
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