In the future, we’ll still have carrots, tanks will be able to talk to us about baseball, and humanity will have collectively run out of good ideas for element names. Gunhed is a weird, messy movie, but it’s one I highly enjoyed for all its quirks and bizarre problems. I should give some personal background […]
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Believe (2000)
This cover is very misleading. Ben has been kicked out of several boarding schools thanks to his love of pulling pranks. With few other options open to them, his parents send him to live with his estranged, paternal grandfather, a man Ben hasn’t seen since he was five years old. Not long after arriving at […]
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Spine Tingler: The William Castle Story (2007)
Spine Tingler: The William Castle Story is a documentary about film producer/director William Castle. Castle is best known for the series of gimmicks he used to promote his B-movie horror films in the 50s and 60s. He had directed films prior to that, but before that they had been primarily crime and comedy B-movies. The film […]
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Sucker Punch (2011)
Sucker Punch tells the very trippy tale of Baby Doll, a young girl who’s just had a shit-ton of wrenches thrown into the machine that is her life. The film starts with a sequence of events depicting Baby Dolls background in some (alternate?) version of the 1950s. We learn that her mother has just died, […]
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The Love Witch (2016)
Modern day witch, Elaine Parks, just wants to be loved. So she concocts a series of love potions and gives them to men she finds attractive in the hopes that they will fall in love with her. As a testament to her skill, Elaine’s potions work splendidly and the men she gives them to become […]
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The Butterfly Room (2012)
The Butterfly Room is about Ann, an reclusive older woman with an affinity for butterflies. Some time in the past, Ann is befriended a charming, yet eerie young girl named Alice. The two of them establish a bizarre mother-daughter relationship, but Ann soon discovers that she is not the only woman vying for Alice’s affections. […]
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Evil Dead (2013)
David and three friends head to his family’s cabin in the middle of the woods to help David’s junkie sister, Mia, detox from some unnamed substance. When they get there, they realize that someone has broken in. Some time later they discover that whoever broke in has strung up dozens of dead cats in the […]
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Dagon (2001)
It’s a Spanish produced film! That means it counts for foreign film month! Paul and his girlfriend Barbara are on a boat vacationing with their friends Vikki and Howard. While near a small fishing town off the coast of Spain the boat gets caught in a sudden storm and winds up stuck amongst some jagged […]
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Reincarnation (2005)
AKA Rinne Reincarnation is about a group of filmmakers who decided to make a movie about a massacre that happened at a rural hotel. Thirty-five years earlier, college professor Norihasa Omori visited the hotel with his video camera and two children. During the course of his day he stabs his wife and kills 11 people, […]
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The Truth Beneath (2016)
Kim Yeon-hong and her husband Kim Jong-chan seem to have the perfect life. Their previously troublesome daughter, Min-jin, has turned her life around, improving her grades and staying away from her old, rebellious friends. Meanwhile Jong-chan, a former announcer, has turned into a popular young political candidate who looks like he might have a shot at beating out the local incumbent. Jong-chan’s campaign is making great strides, but a mere 15 days before the election Min-jin suddenly goes missing.
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