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[Doggett]

Elvira Mistress Of The Dark
4.99 recurring /5

As much as I love this film, it always slightly bothers me that it ends on tassel twirling
They should have it at the beginning or the middle.
It's kinda out of place at the end.
Especially for a family film.

[Doggett]

The Blob (1988)
4/5
This was great, okay, so the male lead comes across as camp as opposed to tough, which is what I think he was going for. But it was so much fun and I couldn't help but think of the mood slime from Ghostbusters II. Great 80s effects, you couldn't ask for more...

[Jack]

Fugitive Rage (1996) - A mob boss apparently tries to have his girlfriend killed, so he's in court on attempted murder charges.  His lawyer gets him off, but the girl's sister walks up to him and puts six rounds into him at point blank range.  But he lives    The woman is put in prison, but the FBI offers her freedom if she'll kill the mob boss.  So they take her to a safe house where she's given about two minutes of training.  She was apparently some sort of skilled commando in the past, I dunno.  Did I mention she put six rounds in this guy from point blank range and didn't manage to kill him?  Anyhow, this junk consumes the middle part of the movie, while the mob dude's idiot henchmen try to kill her.  It's too stupid to explain.  Okay, I'll try.  The woman is walking down the street, the mob guys run into her with their car.  Apparently they weren't going fast enough to hurt her, so she winds up on the hood of the car.  They drive down the street for a while, eventually coming close to the curb and going slow enough for her to jump off uninjured.  They're so busy looking at her out the back window of the car that they run into a parked car in front of them, roll over, and the whole thing erupts into a huge fireball.  They then get out of the car - uninjured - and try to shoot her.

Uh, yeah.  The woman eventually attacks the mob boss' house, easily going through all his blind, deaf and moronic guards.  The biggest problem with this movie is that the mob boss is fairly well acted and interesting, while the good girl is poorly acted and dull as dirt.  Next problem is that it's fairly boring overall.  There's a smattering of gratuitous nudity, but that really doesn't help much.  Last problem is all the fight scenes - there are a lot of them, and they're all laughably stupid.  If you're looking for something to do an MST3K routine on, this might fit the bill.  Otherwise I think it's pretty safe to skip it.

[InformationGeek]

I've been watching Monster A Go-Go now that I have gotten it.  I've been taking breaks after every 10 minutes to make it through it.  The plus side of watching this movie is that my review of it is looking rather good and pretty funny.  Anyways, I'll finish watching the movie today.

Speaking of Monster A Go-Go, I've also watched the Mystery Science Theater verison of it recently.  It was pretty good.

[lester1/2jr]

info geek-  man I hated that movie.  do you have the version with "psyched by the 4 d witch"?  I hated that movie even more

[InformationGeek]

info geek-  man I hated that movie.  do you have the version with "psyched by the 4 d witch"?  I hated that movie even more

I have that verison with that movie.  I will not watch though because it doesn't sound like my kind of thing and it sounds extremely dumb.  After finishing Monster A Go-Go, I can't take watching another stupid movie for a while.

[Rev. Powell]

THE GUY MADDIN COLLECTION

ARCHANGEL (1991):  In frozen Archangel in 1919, a one-legged lieutenant meets a woman whose husband has amnesia and believes it is always their wedding day, while the local militia fights both Germans and Bolsheviks, not realizing that both World War I and the Russian Revolution are over.  A dreamlike and melancholy meditation on forgetfulness, ignorance and confusion, done in the style of an early sound film.  Watch for the humorous scene where a dying coward uses his own intestine to strangle a Bolshevik.  3.5/5. 

TWILIGHT OF THE ICE NYMPHS (1997): A prisoner returns to his childhood home on an ostrich farm, and becomes involved with two mysterious women.  An uninspiring protagonist in an uninvolving plot leads to a slow slog through a surrealist bog, thankfully livened by wonderfully stylized sets with brash, clashing color schemes that make the film work (somewhat) as a kind of slideshow with (too much) dialogue. 2/5.

THE HEART OF THE WORLD (2000): State scientist" Anna studies "the heart of the world" and learns it is in desperate shape, all while trying to chose between suitors: brothers Osip (a mortician) and Nicolai (an actor playing Christ in a passion play), along with "dark horse" industrialist Akmatov.  Director Guy Maddin pulls out all the stops in this dreamlike, hyperkinetic 6 minute tribute to silent films (especially Soviet Constructivist films such as AELITA, QUEEN OF MARS). At only 6 minutes, this award-winning short is the place to start for anyone wondering about the weird world of Guy Maddin.  5/5. 

Overall, I'd give the set a 4/5, and advise watching TWILIGHT OF THE ICE NYMPHS with the sound off.   

[Jack]

Heartstopper (2006) - A really evil dude is executed in prison.  He's taken to a hospital to be autopsied, unfortunately he was into the black arts so he comes back to life and starts ripping people's hearts out.  There's also a young guy and girl at the hospital, Mr. Evil wants to transfer his soul into the girl, so he chases those two around for the remainder of the movie.  Robert Englund also has a part as the sheriff.  A very "okay" movie overall, nothing especially bad about it, but nothing noteworthy either.  The two kids are a bit bland to carry the movie, the killer's a fairly typical evil dude, atmosphere in the hospital is okay.  One good gore scene.  A very run-of-the-mill 3/5.

[Doggett]

Frankenhooker. 5/5
Brilliant.
I gotta admit, I found the zombie hooker kinda attractive. 

I'm worried.

[mlnick]

It came! I watched it! ALUCARDA (1975)!

DAM! Really bizzare devil poosesion movie from Mexico. If you like the sound of screaming....really hysterical screaming,this is the movie for you.

A girl named Justine is placed in a convenet where the nuns all dress in what seems to be filthy,bloody rags.Her roomie is a weird girl named Alucarda,who is obssesed with death. They meet up with some weird gypsies,rifle through what seems to be an old tomb,and both become possessed by demons.

Some really silly dialouge,weird imagery,and lotsa blood. LOTS of blood. It seems like someone is bleeding every other minute in this movie! Not quite the classic I expected,but a wild movie nevertheless.

BEST SCENE: Justine is found in a blood filled coffin by one of the nuns....and the crazy demon girl slashes the poor Sister up with her fingernails like a wild animal! Lotsa blood and screaming ensues!

Just found this site searched for one of my favorites and found this post good taste in movies sir

[RCMerchant]

info geek-  man I hated that movie.  do you have the version with "psyched by the 4 d witch"?  I hated that movie even more

I have that verison with that movie.  I will not watch though because it doesn't sound like my kind of thing and it sounds extremely dumb.  After finishing Monster A Go-Go, I can't take watching another stupid movie for a while.

Though I enjoyed MONSTER A GO-GO, PSYCHED BY THE 4-D WITCH is really,really an excrutiating experiance! BE AFRAID.BE VERY AFRAID.

[Mr. DS]

paquita- I'm sorry, but don't remeber the scene where the girl lets her boyfriend eat her brains!

I think Paquita is thinking of Part 2.  Same cast, different situation. 

[Doggett]

Elvira's Haunted Hills 3/5
Bad acting, special effects, and boob jokes that were old fashioned by the l80's. The third worst film I own. Ever.

Body Snatchers 4/5
Here's the problem, surely we should see people before they turn into pods ?
Isn't that were the scares and chills come from ?
To dump people in the middle of an invasion seems a bit pointless, don't we have to watch the familiar, human, surroundings change to pod surroundings. As it's an army base,would we tell the difference between pod routine and military routine ?


The last half an hour is terriffic.
Best ending of all the pod films.

[Rev. Powell]

BAD BOY MADE GOOD: THE REVIVAL OF THE BALLET MECANIQUE:  A documentary originally shot for PBS.  In 1924 "bad boy" anat-garde composer George Anthiel wrote a composition scored for "two grand pianos, three xylophones, four bass drums, and a tam-tam, 16 synchronized player pianos, sirens, bells and 3 airplane propellers."  The piece could never be performed the way Anthiel imagined it, however, because the existing technology at that time couldn't synchronise the player pianos.  Decades later, with the help of modern MIDI technology, the piece was finally performed as Anthiel intended.  This documentary is the story of Anthiel, the avante-garde scene in Paris in the 1920s, and the use of modern technology to recreate an artist's dream.  If any of those subjects interest you, its worth seeking out.  3.5/5.

The composition was originally meant to be performed together with an experimental film created by Fernand Léger, but again they were never performed together as intended because of synchronization problems.  Of course, through the miracle of modern technology, you can now see them together, if you're brave enough.  It's still pretty freaky stuff today, you can imagine how people might have reacted in the 1920s.

Ballet mecanique part I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SgsqmQJAq0&feature=related
Part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEBCJjQKoh0&feature=related

[Psycho Circus]

The Phantasm Sphere:

All four of the series nicely packaged in a silver sentinel. I liked the first film in the end after initially being baffled and annoyed at all the bad cuts and editing. The scene in the garage with the hammer, is quite possibly the funniest thing I've ever watched and The Tall Man is one scary SMF! I hated the whole "Jawa" slave concept and the sqaushing of dead bodies...that was too stupid, but the scenes with The Tall Man at the end completely make up for it! More balls needed too! 

As for the rest....Blah! Pretty much the same cast (why won't Reggie die!?), same story (only more confusing), lots of driving around and nobody ever dies!! More balls needed again!!