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[indianasmith]

ZOMBIE MASSACRE II: REICH OF THE DEAD

Caught this late on Showtime the other night and recorded it to watch later; then sat and watched it all last night.
German Dr. Mengele is using a "fear enzyme" extracted from the brain of a concentration camp victim to turn other concentration camp victims into zombies to use against the Allies.  Slow moving and rather dull, this movie had some decent zombie effects and not much else going for it.  HUGE plotholes. 2.5/5

[Rev. Powell]

DRACULA: PAGES FROM A VIRGIN'S DIARY (2002): A ballet adaptation of DRACULA, directed by Guy Maddin in his delirious silent film style. Maddinphiles may wish that Guy was allowed to cut loose more---he's constrained by adapting someone else's work, and by being forced to substitute dance for narrative---but with a Dracula who bleeds coins when stabbed, there's enough eccentricity to satisfy. 3.5/5.

[lester1/2jr]

Night and Fog (I955) - a Decade or so after the liberation of Auschwitz, french film maker films some shots (of there and Majdanek) inter cut with footage from when they were both active. part of Criterion collection. I was at Logan airport the day after 9/11. that was the spookiest thing I ever saw but this is spookier. fairly short 5/5

[indianasmith]

HALLOWEEN (2019) Jamie Lee Curtis returns as Laurie Strode in this direct, 40-year-later sequel in which a geriatric Michael Meyers escapes from a mental institution and returns to chop up teenagers (and anyone else he runs into) while Laurie goes into full survival mode in order to finish him off.  Overall, not too bad, but I think I liked the 2008 Rob Zombie version better.  Still no clue as to why Michael kills or what keeps drawing him back to Haddonfield, just this relentless murder machine hacking his way through innocents for an hour and a half. 4/5

[Alex]

HALLOWEEN (2019) Jamie Lee Curtis returns as Laurie Strode in this direct, 40-year-later sequel in which a geriatric Michael Meyers escapes from a mental institution and returns to chop up teenagers (and anyone else he runs into) while Laurie goes into full survival mode in order to finish him off.  Overall, not too bad, but I think I liked the 2008 Rob Zombie version better.  Still no clue as to why Michael kills or what keeps drawing him back to Haddonfield, just this relentless murder machine hacking his way through innocents for an hour and a half. 4/5

I go with Dr. Loomis's explanation that he is just pure evil. As for why Haddonfield, well I guess at heart he is just a home town boy.

[FatFreddysCat]

"Theory of Obscurity: A Film About The Residents" (2015)
Documentary about the anonymous, eyeball-masked, surrealist art collective/band whose worldwide cult following includes members of Primus, Devo, Neurosis, and more. I knew next to nothing about the Residents before watching this, and I still don't "get" them at all, but it was an interesting ride through their 40-plus-year history.

[indianasmith]

MA (2019)

Maggie, a high school senior, moves to her Mom's home town following her parents' divorce.  Being pretty and kind, she quickly makes several friends, and they in turn are befriended by a 40something black woman named Sue Ann, who invites them to come party and drink in her sizable basement, since she doesn't want them driving drunk or going to dangerous places.  Her house quickly becomes the party hangout for all the teens in town, but none of them realize "Ma," as they affectionately call Sue Anne, has plans of her own - plans of revenge for a humiliating prank played on her 20 years before.

This was better than I thought it would be, nice to see Juliette Lewis in a film role again as Maggie's mom.  Interesting twist at the end. 4/5

[FatFreddysCat]

"The Initiation" (1984)
Sorority pledges are assigned to sneak into a high-end department store after it closes and spend the night. Unfortunately there's also an escaped lunatic roaming the aisles, picking them off one by one. Daphne Zuniga, later known as "Princess Vespa" in Spaceballs, made her film debut in this needlessly complicated '80s slasher flick that gets some points for its unique setting, but for the most part this is pretty standard stuff. I've seen worse, but I've seen lots better.

[Rev. Powell]

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