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Movies Till Dawn: Dr. Caligari’s Cabinet of Horrors (Halloween 2019, Part 2)
“Anna and the Apocalypse” (2018, Cinedigm) High schooler Ella Hunt discovers that the only thing worse than unrequited romance or stubborn parents is a zombie outbreak. Director John McPhail‘s mix of living dead horror and teen musical never quite gels … Continue reading
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Movies Till Dawn: A Slew of Saturday Morning Strange
“Boom!” (1968, Shout! Select) Wealthy, pill-popping Sissy Goforth (Elizabeth Taylor) is interrupted in her task of writing her memoirs at her sprawling Italian villa by Christopher Flanders (Richard Burton), a struggling poet/artist who may or may not also be the … Continue reading
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Movies Till Dawn: The Tough Ones, Part II
“The Harder They Come” (1973, Shout! Select) Jimmy Cliff turns outlaw and self-styled folk hero when his dreams of becoming a reggae singer are met with corruption from the Kingston music industry and brutality at the hands of the police. … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: Under the Radar 3 (Even More Rarely Seen, Forgotten or Hard to Find)
“High Life” (2018, Lionsgate Home Entertainment) A spaceship heads for a black hole, while on board, its crew of convicted criminals – including Robert Pattinson – are subjected to reproduction experiments by glam mad scientist Juliette Binoche. That’s a linear … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: Under the Radar 2 (More Rarely Seen, Forgotten or Hard to Find)
“Putney Swope” (1969, Vinegar Syndrome) A black advertising executive (Arnold Johnson) remakes his company into a counterculture engine (“Truth and Soul, Inc.”) that skewers social and political hypocrisy with its no-holds-barred commercials. Satire from Robert Downey, Jr’s father, Robert Sr., … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: #MonsterSquadGoals3
“Mothra” (1961, Mill Creek Entertainment) First screen appearance of Toho Studios’ god-monster Mothra, which descends on Japan to rescue the tiny twins (Emi and Yumi Ito, a.k.a. pop duo The Peanuts) that serve as its ladies-in-waiting from greedy businessman Jerry … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Hammer Films, Mill Creek, Severin Films, shout factory, Toho, VInegar Syndrome
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Movies Till Dawn: All Night Crime Wave 2019
“Phantom Lady” (1944, Arrow Video) Fresh from a squabble with his wife, Alan Curtis invites an anonymous woman (Fay Helm) to see a Latin jazz band (fronted by Carmen Miranda‘s sister, Aurora). When he returns home, he finds his wife … Continue reading
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Movies Till Dawn: #MonsterSquadGoals2
“Us” (2019, Universal Home Video) A middle-class family – mom Lupita Nyong’o, dad Winston Duke and two kids – is beset by what appear to be their mindless, murderous doubles, who seem to be a harbinger of a larger and … Continue reading
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Tagged Kino Lorber, Mondo Macabro, Severin Films, shout factory, Universal Home Video, VInegar Syndrome
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Movies Till Dawn: The Wide World of Thrills and Chills Edition
“Princess Mononoke Collector’s Edition” (1997, Shout! Factory/GKIDS) A tribal prince in feudal Japan is inflicted with a curse after an attack by a woodland god corrupted by an iron ball in its body. To lift the curse, he travels to … Continue reading
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Tagged Flicker Alley, GKids, Second Run DVD, shout factory, Studio Ghibli, VInegar Syndrome, Warner Archives Collection
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Movies Till Dawn: The Saturday Morning Strange Strikes Again
“Zachariah” (1971, Kino Lorber) Cowboy naifs John Rubenstein and Don Johnson vie to be the most fearsome gunfighter in an Old West where rock groups and gurus share space with sagebrush and six-guns. Enthusiastically freaky “electric” Western, based loosely on … Continue reading
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Tagged Kino Lorber, Severin Films, VCI Entertainment, VInegar Syndrome
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