A small team of isolated, American scientists in the arctic have a strange encounter with a couple of Norweigians who seem hell bent on chasing down and killing a dog. The two manic Norweigians end up dead and a couple of the Americans fly out to their neighbor’s base to see what could have caused […]
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The plot to Frankenweenie is deceptively simple: Boy loves dog. Dog loves boy. Dog dies tragically. Boy brings dog back to life. Neighbors remember being forced to read Frankenstein in High School and FREAK. Let’s be fair though, when your neighbors look like this “Mad Sciencing” shouldn’t be that much of a surprising hobby. I […]
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Andy and his mom have just moved to a new town. Andy is having trouble making friends, so to make him feel better, Andy’s mom gives him an early birthday present: A Kaslan Buddi doll, one in a line of high-tech, animatronic dolls that are designed to be a lifelong companions, learn from their surroundings, […]
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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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LAPD detectives Roger Mortis and Doug Bigelow are in the middle of trying to solve a bizarre string of bank and jewelry store robberies. They think they’ve caught a break when they manage to corner two of the supposed suspects at a jewelry store. But despite a huge police presence and clearly being shot multiple times, the robbers seem strangely unstoppable. Roger and Doug manage to kill two of the suspects in a violent shoot-out that leaves dozens of officers dead. But they quickly find out that their case is much more complicated than they thought, when one of the coroners, Rebecca, informs them that she’s seen these two men before: on her autopsy slab several days earlier. She points out the previous autopsy sutures and the photos she took of the corpses as proof.
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The Gamma People starts off innocently enough. Two journalists, Mike and Howard, are on a train, off to cover some festive European festival of some sort. On the way there they enjoy, what I can only assume to be, a riveting game of chess… Who’s turn was it again? I zoned out. Because on the […]
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A jogger in London passes out during a run and wakes up to a silent, uncooperative nurse and the realization that he’s had his leg amputated. Meanwhile, Konratz, a military man returning to his unidentified home country that’s currently under the rule of a military regime, is seen slowly killing off his superiors so that […]
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Mike goes off on his own to try to find a way to defeat The Tall Man, forcing Reggie to go (on yet another long car trip) after him. Along the way Reggie encounters zombies and a stranded motorist, while Mike tries to learn about the The Tall Man and come up with a plan […]
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You know, I think I’ve seen this before. It certainly seems familiar, but I couldn’t give you a time frame of when I actually viewed it. If I did it was probably on SciFi before SyFy came along and started to suck. Phantasm III picks up immediately after the end of the last installment. Reggie […]
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Phantasm II picks up directly where the first Phantasm leaves off. It then goes through a great big time skip that finds Mike and Reggie hunting down their old nemesis. The Tall Man is up to his old tricks, stealing the dead and raising an undead army with the help of some very swift metal […]
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