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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Dr. Whom - Today at 01:05:25 AM
The Vampire Lovers (1970)

Hammer movies don't do much for me. I find them too stilted to have either atmosphere or suspense, and this one is no different. This is adaptation of Sheridan LeFanu's Carmilla, using the plot device of vampires having aliases that are anagrams of each other.
Ingrid Pitt is wholly unconvincing as a debutante, but she does make a very good predatory femme fatale. Her vampire powers are all over the place, being usually whatever is convenient at that precise moment. One thing puzzles me though. It is repeatedly established that vampires are repelled by the sign of the cross, so why do they hang out in cemeteries and chapels where there are crosses all over the place?
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Press Releases and Film News / Re: RIP Hayden Panettiere
Last post by Dr. Whom - Today at 12:53:11 AM
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#23
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by lester1/2jr - Today at 12:47:05 AM
Circle Jerks was the first "show" I ever saw. My lasting memory though is of the local opening band Slapshot, whose singer carried a sawed off hockey stick and who were terrifying. I was 12.
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Bad Movies / Re: 100 *alliterative* movie t...
Last post by bob - August 16, 2026, 11:22:17 PM
Quote from: zombie no.one on August 16, 2026, 05:34:44 PM80. DEATH DIMENSION (1978)


(I messed up putting SEVEN SAMURAI at 77, didn't notice we'd already had it. have deleted my reply)

No worries 🙂
#26
Press Releases and Film News / RIP Hayden Panettiere
Last post by Alex - August 16, 2026, 11:13:31 PM
Just saw on BBC news that the Heroes actress has died at the age of 36.
#27
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by LilCerberus - August 16, 2026, 08:47:30 PM
Tonight's Stinker
A Noose Is Waiting for You Trinity(1972)
https://youtu.be/VLVTonRRwaQ?si=g2rOyEOJToDsMjq4

A gunfighter rides into town, Remembers how his newlywed brother was murdered, finds the killer, & shoots him...
Six years later, he rides back into town, finds out about the hardships his wife & kids went through after he left, then kills the killer's three friends....
He rides back to his old home in hopes of winning back his wife & kids, & promises not to use a gun again...
Unfortunately, he has to deal with a group of thugs working for a local landgrabber, while Klaus Kinski shows up as a bounty hunter who spends most of his time standing around & watching....

Supposed to be a sequel to an identical film, but really not that original to begin with, just tries to stay sappy most of the time.....
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by FatFreddysCat - August 16, 2026, 07:21:38 PM
"Circle Jerks: My Career as a Jerk" (2012)
Documentary about the long and often volatile history of the Circle Jerks, the L.A. punk band made up of ex members of Black Flag and Redd Kross. Over the years, dozens of members came and went (ex Megadeth guitarist Chris Poland even filled in on bass for a tour in the mid 80s!) but vocalist Keith Morris and guitarist Greg Hetson were the band's backbone through the decades. Lots of good stories and intense live footage make for a punk-as-f**k viewing experience.
#29
Entertainment / Re: New! Reading Anything Thre...
Last post by indianasmith - August 16, 2026, 06:24:57 PM
REGIME CHANGE: INSIDE THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY OF DONALD TRUMP by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swann

  It is very difficult to write history as it happens, but I will give full props to these two NYT journalists for trying to keep their narrative as balanced and fair as their chaotic subject allows.  Interviewing dozens of White House insiders - with some of their accounts so accurate they left the President's staff scrambling to find who leaked what - they take us from the inauguration through the events of March, following the Trump administration as it dished out tariffs left and right, sought vengeance on all the President's perceived enemies, tried to defer the release and limit the fallout from the Epstein files, negotiate an end to the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, and cut deals left and right that seemed far more designed to line the pockets of Trump's family than to advance America's national interests.  Fans of the President will regard it as a hack-written attack piece; his more inveterate enemies will say it was too soft on his criminality and utter lack of ethics, but overall, this is a fascinating account from inside the White House of the most controversial President in American history.  Highly recommended! 
#30
Bad Movies / Re: 100 *alliterative* movie t...
Last post by zombie no.one - August 16, 2026, 05:34:44 PM
80. DEATH DIMENSION (1978)


(I messed up putting SEVEN SAMURAI at 77, didn't notice we'd already had it. have deleted my reply)