November 2009
23 posts
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Surrogates (127/365)
The Devil Rides Out (128/365)
Cannibal Holocaust (126/365)
House by the Cemetary (125/365)
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Black Waters of Echo's Pond (124/365)
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Drive-In HorrorShow (123/365)
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Girl Number Three (122/365)
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Sculpture (121/365)
There is an unspoken/unwritten agreement between C-Movie makers and their audience suggesting the movie move along at a decent pace and get to the point.
With Scupture it was nearly 45 minutes into the film before anything vaguely genre-like started to happen. I understand these movies are not big budget slick productions (re Black Waters of Echo’s Pond), but dragging out the character...
Legion of Terror (119/365)
Shellter (118/365)
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2012 (117/365)
2012 is the ultimate popcorn movie. It pushes the disaster movie genre past the stereotype of threatening the Earth with a meteor or aliens blowing up the Eiffel Tower to the obvious conclusion, the literal end of the world. If you consider the idea of a movie is to entertain the viewer, 2012 delivers. The movie has all of the required parts for a SFX blockbuster, and then some. I found 2012 to...
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Trick r Treat (114/365)
It is said that Halloween is the night when the dead rise to walk among us and other unspeakable things roam free. The rituals of All Hallows Eve were devised to protect us from their evil mischief, and the small town of Warren Valley, Ohio, is about to be taught a terrifying lesson that some traditions are best not forgotten. Costumes and candy, ghouls and goblins, monsters and mayhem…the tricks...
Diabolique (113/365)
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Don't Torture a Duckling (112/365)
Italian director Lucio Fulci is probably known more for his groundbreaking gorefest films that revolutionized what we see in horror films today. But before he was known as the “Godfather of Gore”, he was known more for his giallo (lurid thrillers) and sex comedies.
Don’t Torture a Duckling is Fulci’s personal favorite of his giallo films; an intriguing tale of small town...
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Stop Making Sense (111/365)
Before Jonathan Demme brought us Something Wild and Silence of the Lambs he teamed up with seminal New York (via Baltimore) post punk art rock giants Talking Heads to bring us Stop Making Sense.
Unlike most directors, Demme adapted to the visual style of Talking Heads rather forcing the band to use his own. Demme keeps the cameras trained on the stage, rather than the standard phony audience...
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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (110/365)
Clint Eastwood is The Good, Lee Van Cleef is the Bad, and Eli Wallach is The Ugly.
Together, these three icons of American cinema (okay maybe not Lee Van Cleef), represent a timeless piece of America, or maybe even simply the human race.
The story is simple. Three men of varrying levels of character search for stolen gold while maneuvering through the inconvenience of the American Civil War. ...
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Team America: World Police (109/365)
What else can I say…
America, Fuck Yea!
No need for discussion.
I give Team America: World Police 4 out of 5 stars.
Team America: World Police - 2004 - Rated R (I watched the Unrated Version) - 96 minutes.
#109 of 365 - DVD at Home.
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Assassination of a High School President (108/365)
High school is not always what it seems. Sophomore Bobby Funke (Reece Thompson) writes a scathing article for the school paper suggesting the student body president stole the school’s SAT tests. Ulimately, he uncovers a conspiracy as complicated as being a teenager. Determined to find the truth, Funke digs deeper and discovers the sordid truth about his school where student council...
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Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (107/365)
When I was much younger, maybe somewhere between 10 and 14 years old, I would have loved this movie. It speaks directly to its target audience (pre-drivers licence kids). However, in today’s world of Twilight emo vampire bullshit and Saw torture porn, entertaining and “sweet” little movies like this don’t stand a chance. Not surprisingly, this movie bombed. In two weeks...
Getting Caught Up
Clearly I underestimated the time required to watch and document 365 movies in 365 days. Actually, not the watching part. I am a pro at multitasking and the movie part can actually help me get more done; it is the documenting that’s problematic.
The collection - not including TV shows - over 1400 movies and growing.
More honestly, it is accepting that every movie review does not need to...
Curse of the Cat People (106/365)
The title of this film is decieving. While the producers were looking for a profitable sequel to Cat People, what the got was a scentimental, vaguely creepy, Christmas story. Six year old Amy is very shy and has no friends, but finds solace with Mrs. Farren, an old actress and an imaginary friend. As it turns out, Amy’s imaginary friend is her father’s long dead former wife, Irena - from...
Cat People (105/365)
Cat People isn’t really a horror movie, it come across more as an psychological thriller, loaded with an atmosphere of dread and fear. Irena Dubrova is a young Serbian-born artist who meets the handsome Walter Reed, falls in love, and ultimately marry. However, Irena can not bring herself to consumate the marriage because of an ancient curse tied to her familial bloodline; a curse that might...
Return to Horror High (104/365)
A group of filmmakers decide to make a movie about a series of brutal unsolved murders that happened at Crippen High School many years ago. Because the budget is low and the producer is cheap, they not only shoot the movie in the very halls of the now abandoned high school where the killings took place, they also live there.
Once the movie begins production, the crew begins to disappear,...