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Movies Till Dawn: Beyond Belief Part 3
“Police Story 3: Supercop” (1992, 88 Films) Third entry in Jackie Chan’s long-running action-crime film series (which includes one spinoff and two reboots) is also one of its most entertaining thanks to the proliferation of eye-popping stunts and the addition … Continue reading
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Tagged 88 Films, Greenwich Entertainment, Kino Lorber, Severin Films, Unearthed Films
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Movies Till Dawn: B/W
“The Night of the Iguana” (1964, Warner Archives Collection) Sin and redemption (but mostly sin) in Puerto Vallarta, with Richard Burton as a defrocked priest leading American tours in Mexico and Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, and Sue Lyon as various … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: Beyond Belief Part 2
“M3GAN” (Universal Home Video) Toy designer Allison Williams (who’s fast becoming a horror star) seeks to resolve a need for companionship in her niece (Cady McGraw), who is grieving the loss of her parents, and creates the titular robot friend, … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: Beyond Belief
“The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” (1974, Dark Sky Films) Tobe Hooper’s landmark horror film has been imitated, duplicated, and sequelized multiple times, all of which (even Hooper’s own 1986 revisit) haven’t come close to the anarchic, nightmarish terror of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Dark Sky Films, Kino Lorber, Lightyear Entertainment, MVD Visual, Scorpion Releasing, Severin Films, Synapse Films
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Movies Till Dawn: “Women’s Pictures”
“A Woman Kills” (1968, Radiance Films) A string of murders involving prostitutes in Paris appears to come to an end with the execution of one of their own for the crimes, but the murders continue unabated, and serve as the … Continue reading
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Tagged 88 Films, Grindhouse Releasing, Kino Lorber, Mondo Macabro, Radiance Films
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Movies Till Dawn: Cinematic Journeys
“5-25-77” (2022, MVD Visual) Bittersweet, if overly long tribute to the pros and cons of the creative in the form of a nostalgic valentine to backyard moviemaking and teenage nerd-dom. Writer/director Patrick Read Johnson – a former special effects creator … Continue reading
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Tagged Diabolik DVD, Flicker Alley, IndiePix, Lightyear Entertainment, MVD Visual, Red Shirt Entertainment
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Movies Till Dawn: New and Vintage Action from Asia
“Millionaire’s Express” (1986, Arrow Video) Sammo Hung, a small-time criminal with oversized ambitions, hatches a scheme to revive his small town by derailing the titular train and forcing its wealthy passengers to spend money at his new hotel/brothel. This admittedly … Continue reading
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Tagged 88 Films, Arrow Video, Capelight Films, MPI Home Video, Radiance Films
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Movies Till Dawn: House of the Saturday Morning Strange
“House of Terrors” (1965, Mondo Macabro) In the wake of her husband’s mysterious death, Yuko Kusunoki inherits the titular manse, a gloomy country estate on a mountain side with a hunchbacked caretaker (Ko Nishimura) and spirits intent on doing harm … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Cauldron Films, Kino Lorber Fims, Mondo Macabro, Raro Video, Synapse Films
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Movies Till Dawn: Ghost Stories for Christmas
“Ghostwatch” (1992, 101 Films/MVD Visual) British mock-documentary (though nothing about it is funny in the least) tricked out as a live TV investigation of supernatural activity involving a mother and her two daughters plagued by a poltergeist whose scope of … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: The Saturday Morning Strange Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things
“Smile” (2022, Paramount Home Video) Burnt-out therapist Sosie (daughter of Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin) Bacon discovers that she is the latest target of a monstrous entity with a diabolical M.O.: it plagues its victims with terrifying hallucinations that drive them … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Kino Lorber, Paramount Home Video, VCI Entertainment, Warner Archives Collection
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