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<title>Joe Dante on "Giant From The Unknown"</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hapless supporting players flee from yet another B-picture monster on the loose. The only real legacy of this fairly obscure 1958 drive-in staple was forged by numerous tv showings as part of various regional Creature Feature programs.]]></description>
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<title>Larry Cohen on "Foreign Correspondent"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:01:33 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hitchcock's second American movie is an up-to-the-minute, brilliantly designed (Wm Cameron Menzies) international espionage thriller, a prototype for his subsequent Hollywood career. Full of memorable setpieces and sporting a snappy script by Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison, James Hilton and Robert Benchley! Released days before the blitz of Britain, the final scene is stirring even today.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "Written On The Wind"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:27:28 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The most operatic of Weimar emigre Douglas Sirk's flamboyant imitations of life, this deliberately artificial yet incisive slice of Americana documents the fall of a powerful Texas oil family and is considered by many to be the director's masterpiece. It's one of the great Hollywood movies, encapsulating the lurid Universal-International unreality of the 1950s.]]></description>
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<title>Jonathan Kaplan on "El Dorado"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:05:16 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The second entry in Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo trilogy is a virtual remake, ostensibly more playful and less a riposte to High Noon than the (better, let's face it) original. Still a fun ride with Wayne and Mitchum having an obviously swell time in their only screen pairing.
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<title>Josh Olson on "The Warriors"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:01:41 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Walter Hill's surreal NYC gang flick was way ahead of its time and richly deserves its cult status. The later "director's cut" DVD re-edit has sparked some controversy, which makes a fit subject for one of Josh Olson's celebrated rants. "Can you dig it?!"]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "Woodstock"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:02:33 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Michael Wadleigh's game-changing document of the 500,000 strong 1969 New York music festival exists in so many different versions it's almost impossible to keep track of them. But all have influenced documentarians for decades as well as providing a lasting income source for Time Warner.]]></description>
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<title>Dan Ireland on "The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:07:48 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Billy Wilder's elegant take on Conan Doyle's enduring sleuth never reached theaters in its intended 3-hour Roadshow form, but still ranks as one of the most memorable Holmes outings. It's fairly obscure these days, but perhaps the boxoffice success of the recent Robert Downey vehicle will lead viewers back to sample the remains of what was certainly one of Wilder's best pictures.]]></description>
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<title>Larry Cohen on "Hell Up In Harlem"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:58:20 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Larry Cohen details the typically unorthodox story behind the hurry-up production of the sequel to his sleeper hit Black Caesar. Fred Williamson's Black Godfather is resurrected from his semi-death to avenge himself on the Mafia. James Brown's music was dumped by Larry in favor of Edwin Starr, and ended up on Brown's album "The Payback".]]></description>
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<title>Jack Hill on "Spider Baby"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:01:11 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Once likened to a sitcom directed by Luis Bunuel, Jack Hill's bizarre mini-budget debut feature was barely seen until the video revolution. This one-of-a-kind jet-black comedy casts Lon Chaney as the harried caretaker of an inbred family of homicidal maniacs. Weird, dark and funny, with standout performances by Chaney, Sid Haig and the mesmerising Jill Banner, who died in a car accident at 39.]]></description>
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<title>Roger Corman on "Bloody Mama"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:13:42 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[TFH welcomes movie legend Roger Corman to the Guru ranks with his 1970 fantasia on the Depression-era Barker crime family. AIP wanted him to shoot it on the Warner Bros. backlot, but he convinced them to shoot on Arkansas locations, which made all the difference. A no-holds-barred  Shelley Winters is the definitive Ma Barker.]]></description>
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<title>Larry Karaszewski on "All Through The Night"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:02:23 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Released soon after Pearl Harbor, audiences in 1941 didn't find this Runyonesque comic melodrama in which familiar Warner gangsters unite to fight Nazis all that funny. But years of tv exposure has built up the following it deserves. It's no To Be Or Not To Be, but Vincent Sherman's second time directing Bogart (and a terrific cast) is fast, funny and patriotic in the best sense.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Return of Doctor X"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:02:43 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A studio contract player has to accept what he's assigned to, which explains Bogart's presence in this 1939 horror sequel from the Warner B unit. Hardly his finest hour, but Bogart doesn't phone it in.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "Casablanca"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:03:53 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The movie that cemented Bogart's star status remains a miracle of studio filmmaking over 50 years later. Troubled behind the scenes, yet every element coalesced into a stirring, satisfying entertainment that still merits its status as one of the top Hollywood pictures ever.  We can only imagine the impact it had on wartime audiences.]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:55:27 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall is broken early and often in Frank Tashlin's wacked-out followup to The Girl Can't Help It, which bears little resemblance to the Broadway play it's based on but is still a heck of a lot of fun. 1950s "culture" is skewered mercilessly, especially television--at times it looks like this was produced directly by The National Association of Theater Owners. Jayne Mansfield's career highlight.]]></description>
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<title>Allison Anders on "Reform School Girl"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:59:24 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Stooges and Bowery Boys director Edward Bernds brings his budget-savvy aesthetic to one of AIP's profitable drive-in delinquency teen exploitation pics. (Great poster, btw) Bernds was accidentally nominated for an Oscar a year earlier, when the Academy confused his Bowery Boys vehicle High Society with the Bing Crosby-Grace Kelly musical. Jonathan Kaplan remade this in 1994 for cable.]]></description>
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<title>Darren Bousman on "Lady In A Cage"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:59:59 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A surprisingly dark and vicious entry in the middle-aged-actress horror boom of the period. What was shocking and melodramatic in 1964 still holds up today as an almost comically bleak social satire with monstrous mother Olivia deHavilland trapped in her private elevator while her world collapses around her. Banned in England for 36 years!]]></description>
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<title>Larry Cohen on "Black Caesar"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:58:16 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Harlem gangster Fred "the Hammer" Williamson takes on the Mafia and crooked cops in Larry Cohen's own version of The Godfather saga, which spilled over into a sequel (Hell Up in Harlem), released only 8 months later.  Larry takes us behind the scenes of one of his biggest hits. Songs by The Godfather of Soul, James Brown.]]></description>
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<title>Jack Hill on "Coffy"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:00:50 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sexy Pam Grier poses as a hooker to wipe out some druglords and in the process becomes a full-fledged superstar in one of the most popular blaxploitation titles of the '70s. Writer-director Jack Hill explains how it went down.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "Welcome Home Brother Charles"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:08:52 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A bitter ex-con employs a most, er, unusual weapon to knock off his enemies. Jamaa Fanaka's UCLA student project is one of the rare such films to receive wide theatrical distribution (from drive-in kings Crown-International Pictures). Avoid the heavily cut reissue version titled Soul Vengeance.]]></description>
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<title>Neil Labute on "Day For Night"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:57:23 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Shooting a movie is like a stagecoach trip. At first you hope for a nice ride. Then you just hope to reach your destination." Francois Truffaut's warm, funny and knowing dramedy is one of the greatest movies about movies and the act of making them. The project in question, "Meet Pamela", is obviously a potboiler, but the complex relations between cast and crew mirror every movie large or small. Another great George Delerue score is the cherry on top.]]></description>
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<title>Katt Shea on "Klute"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:01:24 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[From the bygone days (1971) when studios routinely made the kind of adult material now found mainly in indies. Jane Fonda pulled down a well-deserved Oscar for her portrayal of the call girl without a heart of gold who gets wrapped up in a murder investigation. Brilliantly shot by Gordon Willis.]]></description>
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<title>Larry Karaszewski on "The Loved One"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:23:02 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Tony Richardson's take on the veddy British Evelyn Waugh's skewing of Hollywood culture and the death business wasn't very popular with audiences in 1965, but has become one of the key films of the era. Shot largely on the grounds of LA's Doheny Mansion, the upscale location equivalent of Bronson Canyon.]]></description>
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<title>Don Coscarelli on "3 Days Of The Condor"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:46:17 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For years studio development execs have tried to use Sydney Pollack's classic conspiracy thriller as a template for would-be blockbusters, but hardly any of the various subsequent attempts have equalled it. A model of plot construction and cleverly built tension.
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<title>Josh Olson on "A Boy and His Dog"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:00:08 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Harlan Ellison's Nebula-winning post-WW IV sci-fi novella is transferred to the the screen by longtime character player-turned-director L.Q. Jones, who never directed another film despite its instant-cult hit status. It's hard to imagine this one getting produced in any era but the 1970s.]]></description>
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<title>John Badham on "Anatomy Of A Murder"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:06:18 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Otto Preminger learned a lot from Hitchcock, publicity-wise. The autocratic Viennese director basically stars in this trailer for one of his biggest hits, based on a real murder case and shot on the actual locations in Michigan. Once again Preminger baited the censors with provocative material and got away with it, opening the doors to franker screen treatments.]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "The Phantom Planet"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:13:35 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We're giving the gurus a week off for the holiday, but to tide you over here's a beloved bargain-basement gobbler that impressed little Micky Garris in 1961. It's an amusing riff on Gulliver's Travels with lots of ambition and little resource. Co-star Coleen Gray must have been wondering how she got from Kubrick's The Killing to this in only five years!]]></description>
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<title>John Badham on "The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:55:34 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Unique and memorable, this period recreation of the last days of what was then called baseball's Negro League is an unsung classic with a terrific cast. John Badham was there, directing his first feature (a guy named Spielberg decided to make Close Encounters instead).]]></description>
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<title>Allison Anders on "The Big T.N.T. Show"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:03:45 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[AIP's 1966 followup to the smash rock concert hit The T.A.M.I. Show is fun but had less cultural impact. The lineup is stellar but producer Phil Spector didn't hit the jackpot this time out.]]></description>
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<title>Katt Shea on "The Pom Pom Girls"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:12:59 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Even in 1976 Joe Ruben's drive-in sexploitation hit was considered a cut above the usual, so its relative obscurity today can only be ascribed to its long unavailablity.]]></description>
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<title>Larry Karaszewski on "Cool Hand Luke"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:03:02 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Paul Newman's signature role has been a bit overshadowed by the ubiquity of Florida prison camp commandant Strother Martin's much quoted and parodied line, "What we got here is failure to communicate". George Kennedy won a best supporting actor Oscar as Newman's antagonist-turned-buddy.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "Blow Out"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:55:09 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Brian DePalma's intriguing amalgam of Blow Up, The Conversation and The Parallax View casts John Travolta as a movie sound technician who records more than he bargained for. Top tech contributions from cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and composer Pino Donaggio distinguish a
boxoffice disappointment that has gained in stature over the years.]]></description>
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<title>David DeCoteau on "The Anniversary"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:04:51 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Bette Davis must have enjoyed making The Nanny, as she returned for a second Hammer Films project, this one a black comedy written by studio workhorse Jimmy Sangster. She's another monstrous mom who torments her dysfunctional brood. We at TFH like this one a lot more than David Decoteau does.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Five"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:01:36 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Survivors of an atomic blast fight for survival in a bleak, irradiated world. Radio pioneer Arch Oboler was the first filmmaker to seriously approach the concept of a post apocalyptic society. It's an earnest, arty low budget indie that occasionally skirts pretentiousness, but it's passionately sincere and progressive for the period.]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "The Lost World"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:06:20 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Irwin Allen's 1960 big studio remake of the 1925 classic boasts a stellar cast and big sets, many appropriated from the previous year's Journey to the Center of the Earth. An after-school favorite for decades, but it has more in common with One Million BC than Arthur Conan Doyle.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "Alien"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:01:28 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The monster in Ridley Scott's influential sci fi classic was played by a 7'2 Nigerian design student and set some kind of record for coating with K-Y Jelly, not to mention the shredded condoms standing in for its yucky jaw tendons. A huge success, it spawned three sequels.]]></description>
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<title>Adam Rifkin on "Halloween"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:55:23 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The sleeper of the century and the first of the modern horror franchises. John Carpenter's low budget suburban slasher movie lurched out of nowhere to become one of the most infuential pictures of all time, changing the face of the genre for decades. Followed by seven sequels and Rob Zombie's remakes.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "The Howling"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:09:50 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[1981 turned out to be the Year of the Werewolf, enticing horror fans with American Werewolf, Full Moon High, Wolfen, and the first out of the gate, Joe Dante's buff-oriented mixture of lupine chills and hip chuckles. An unexpected hit, it spawned six sequels but no remake--yet.]]></description>
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<title>Eli Roth on "I Dismember Mama"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:09:31 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the classic gimmick trailers, entirely staged with only a few short glimpses of the combo program it's pitching (The Blood Spattered Bride and a retitled reissue of Poor Albert and Little Annie). They don't make trailers like this anymore, more's the pity.]]></description>
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<title>Neil Labute on "Black Narcissus"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:00:25 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Jack Cardiff's breathtaking cinematography for Powell-Pressburger's spectral saga of madness and Himalayan nunnery is one of the greatest uses of Technicolor ever. One of a kind, essential viewing for anyone interested in cinema.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "Dr. Renault's Secret"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:07:22 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mad doctor George Zucco is at it again, this time turning an ape into a (very unhappy) J. Carrol Naish. This forgotten Fox B-picture is as good-looking as any of their A's and at a brisk 58 minutes it's a lot of lurid fun. The final film of intermittently stylish director Harry Lachman.]]></description>
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<title>Larry Cohen on "The Americanization Of Emily"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:01:54 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Paddy Chayefsky's thoughtful, witty adaptation of William Bradford Huie's anti-war novel is one of the more unusual WW II movies, tackling themes of courage and morality in a sardonic manner that seems daring even today. James Garner is said to consider this his favorite performance.]]></description>
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<title>Larry Karaszewski on "The Last of Sheila"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:55:00 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins deservedly won the mystery writers' Edgar Award for their witty screenplay to this clever 1973 puzzler based on a series of actual real-life scavenger hunts they organized for their friends. An all-star cast plays an amusing assortment of sybaritic showbiz types whose dark sides get darker as the whodunit progresses.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "Circus of Horrors"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:58:54 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[German actor Anton Diffring, who specialized in playing Nazis and sinister aristocrats, is the psychotic plastic surgeon who takes over a French circus and populates it with disfigured criminals whose faces he reconstructs. Director Sidney Hayers topped this a year later with "Burn Witch Burn". The theme song "Look for a Star" became an unexpected pop hit in the Summer of 1960.]]></description>
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<title>John Badham on "What's Up Tiger Lily?"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:07:19 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Woody Allen's first stab at moviemaking is still one of his funniest.
"Key of Keys", a low budget Japanese spy movie, is recut and entirely redubbed into a free-form comedy in which the Macguffin is the world's greatest egg salad recipe. A huge favorite on college campuses in the late sixties, this exists in several versions. Beware one that runs on TCM, which has "politically corrected" all the funniest material.]]></description>
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<title>Larry Karaszewski on "Pink Angels"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:03:29 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This forgotten grindhouse concoction pits a flamboyantly gay biker gang against the straights. Further proof, as if any was needed, that the world of '70s cinema was light-years from our own. Priscilla Queen of the Desert it's not!]]></description>
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<title>Bill Duke on "The Spook Who Sat By The Door"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:59:26 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Spook" being both a racial slur and slang for CIA agent, Ivan Dixon's filmization of Sam Greenelee's 1969 novel is one of the most astonishing Hollywood films of the Nixon era. Not merely subversive but a genuinely revolutionary call to arms, it's not exactly polished but it is passionate. Original distributor UA pulled it from circulation for years.]]></description>
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<title>Neil Labute on "Leave Her To Heaven"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:02:11 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Leon Shamroy's lush, Oscar-winning Technicolor photography has caused some to question the Noir status of John Stahl's classic melodrama. The missing link between Stahl's '30s domestic melodramas and Douglas Sirk's '50s remakes. Fox's top-grossing film of the 1940s.]]></description>
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<title>Larry Karaszewski on "Myra Breckinridge"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:05:14 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Any movie that begins with John Carradine slicing off Rex Reed's penis can't be all bad... but this legendary disaster comes pretty close. One of the most bizarre major studio pictures ever.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "Freebie and the Bean"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:55:11 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Richard Rush's buddy/cop action comedy made hardly a ripple in its theatrical release (although there was a short-lived 1980 tv series), but over the years it's developed a cadre of hard-core followers, not least of which is Mr. Olson. This pan-and-scan trailer is one of the dullest and least representative we've ever run here at TFH.]]></description>
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<title>Adam Rifkin on "Mondo Cane"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:10:26 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's hard to imagine today the impact this tawdry but fascinating Italian "shockumentary" had on the world in 1962, when the bizarre customs of people in other lands seemed both exotic and horrifying to Western eyes. Its smash success spawned a whole genre of mostly phony Mondo movies, each outdoing the other for pure sleaze, which lasted into the 80s and paved the way for something much more upsetting: Reality TV.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "The Vikings"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:57:46 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the best historical spectacles of the period, this 1958 adventure provided the template for every subsequent Norse saga. Lots of violent fun, ripe acting and striking location shooting makes this Richard Fleischer epic one of the most popular Viking movies ever.]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "House Of Wax"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:59:33 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The slickest and most iconic of the 1950s major studio 3D movies is a period-set remake of the grittier, contemporary 1933 Mystery of the Wax Museum.This trailer is so intent on selling the new Natural Vision 3D process that it includes no scenes from the movie.]]></description>
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<title>Larry Karaszewski on "Valley of the Dolls"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:54:03 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Jacqueline Susann's mega-best-seller became a popular kitchfest in the hands of director Mark Robson and writer Helen Deutsch. Pill-popping, bed-hopping starlets meet various gloomy tinseltown fates in one of the enduring camp classics of the late sixties. Uncredited among the screenwriters is the one who did the initial adaptation, Harlan Ellison!]]></description>
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<title>Larry Cohen on "Drums Along the Mohawk"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:04:52 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We apologize for this monochrome trailer, which accompanied the 1947 black and white re-issue of the John Ford classic, his first in vibrant Technicolor! To replace a battle he didn't have time to shoot, Ford put Henry Fonda against a wall, peppered him with questions about what took place as the actor improvised the battle scenario. This take, with Ford's voice removed, took the place of the action scene.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "The Hired Hand"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:36:28 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Peter Fonda's directorial debut is a leisurely, naturalistic western offset by ace cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond's dreamy slow-dissolve images. Too quiet for mainstream success, it has garnered a strong following over the years. Bruce Langhorne's score is memorable.
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<title>John Landis on "The Professionals"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:34:21 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A quintessential piece of Hollywood craftsmanship, Richard Brooks' post-Mexican revolutionary western is star-studded, action packed and completely satisfying.]]></description>
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<title>Adam Rifkin on "Born Losers"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:42:42 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Tom Laughlin's dry run for his indie smash Billy Jack introduces the character as a part-Native American Vietnam vet who cleans out a townful of psychotic bikers. Raping, pillaging and karate moves ensue. Costar Elizabeth James wrote the screenplay.
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<title>Larry Karaszewski on "Joe"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:18:54 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A pre-Rocky John Avildsen directed this grungy NY indie that was conceived as an exploitation film but evolved into something more immediate and disturbing. Peter Boyle, in his breakthrough role as a hippie-hating hardhat, teams up with ad exec Dennis Patrick, who has just accidentally killed his daughter's drug-dealer boyfriend. Boyle and Patrick are terrific but the picture is not well known today.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Portrait Of Jennie"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:08:59 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Obsessive producer David O. Selznick fussed over this metaphysical celebration of wife Jennifer Jones for years before finally releasing it in 1948 to dismal boxoffice returns.   One of the most haunting love stories ever to come from Hollywood, it improves on the poetic Robert Nathan novella it's based on. Beautifully shot and scored, it won an Oscar for its special effects. A unique and spiritual movie.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "The Long Goodbye"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:08:09 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Robert Altman and Leigh Brackett, cowriter of the screenplay for The Big Sleep, turn Raymond Chandler's LA gumshoe into a figure of '70s angst in what many consider Altman's masterpiece and Elliott Gould's finest hour. Bonanza star Dan Blocker was to have played Sterling Hayden's role, but passed away before filming began. John Williams' witty score is almost entirely variations on one theme.]]></description>
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<title>Bill Duke on "Shaft"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:56:49 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Gordon Parks and Ernest Tidyman transformed the action film with this charismatic, Chandleresque Brooklyn private eye played by Richard Roundtree, the spiritual father to Foxy Brown, Cotton, The Hammer and many others. One of the first and slickest of the "blaxploitation" films, it was followed by two sequels, a tv series and a recent remake starring Samuel L. Jackson. Isaac Hayes' title song won the Oscar.]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "Lady In The Lake"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:02:56 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Robert Montgomery stars and directs himself, sort of, as detective Philip Marlowe in an ususual, "experimental" studio picture. Told entirely from Marlowe's point of view, the subjective camera sees everything as he would see it, including fleeting glimpses of the actor himself in mirrored reflections. This was a lot harder to accomplish in 1946 than it would be today, and the picture has a small but devoted fan following.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "Batman '66"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:55:22 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Although the wacky tv show was a national craze, this 1966 feature version didn't do much business, since audiences could see the same thing for free in their living rooms. Probably not what Bob Kane had in mind, but it sure put Batman back on the map and led to the later megahit movies.]]></description>
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<title>Larry Cohen on "Buck Privates"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:07:21 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The peacetime draft in pre-Pearl Harbor America forms the background for Abbott & Costello's breakthrough movie, full of their best vaudeville material flawlessly perfomed. Its blockbuster success paved the way for Bud and Lou to reign as film and radio's top funnymen throughout the war years. They ended up competing with themselves when their earlier movies were reissued by Realart in the 1950s while they were still making new movies for Universal.]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "The Three Stooges Go Around The World In A Daze"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:04:45 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Stooges' next to last feature after their early 60s resurgence is a low-budget Jules Verne knockoff. The Boys, though elderly, are as antisocial as ever.]]></description>
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<title>Eli Roth on "The House With The Laughing Windows"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:59:16 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Unreleased theatrically in America, this is the undubbed Italian trailer for Pupi Avati's atmospheric pseudo-giallo set in a small Southern Italian village. Only a fraction of these films were seen outside Europe, but the advent of dvd has opened up a whole new appreciation for such influential but generally unheralded genre films.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "Zulu"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:54:04 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Producer Stanley Baker stars in Cy Endfield's epic recreation of the 1879 Battle of Rorke's Drift, in which 1000 stiff-upper-lip British soldiers gave a good account of themselves in a battle with 4000 Zulu warriors. Not scrupulously accurate, but rousing and excitingly staged, with a great John Barry score.]]></description>
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<title>Larry Cohen on "Hondo"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:59:16 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[John Wayne's contemporaneous version of Shane, directed on Mexican locations by the underrated John Farrow from a Louis L'Amour novel. One of The Duke's most archetypical performances, and in 3D yet!]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "The Conqueror Worm/ Witchfinder General"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:57:53 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Although it stirred little notice on its US release in 1968, the late Michael Reeves' final film (of three and a half) has attained deservedly classic status as one of the darkest, most bleak historical treatments of human ignorance and misery on film. Price plays a true historical character, although the real one was much younger. We prefer the faux-Poe US version only for the devastating poem Price reads at the end: "The play is the tragedy, Man. And its hero, The Conqueror Worm." Get out the sleeping pills!]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "Scream and Scream Again"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:58:43 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Reputedly a favorite of Fritz Lang, this is an oddly structured sci-fi horror spy movie that anticipates a number of later horror trends. Fans tend to either love it or hate it, but it does provide a welcome break from the increasingly formulaic genre films of the period. Peter Cushing is misidentified in this trailer. Didn't the promo people watch these things?]]></description>
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<title>Adam Rifkin on "The Abominable Dr. Phibes"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:01:49 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Designer/director Robert Fuest and art director Brian Eatwell created a unique and popular art deco period horror film for Price which gave his career a boost with it's Love Story parody ad campaign. Wronged by doctors, Phibes murders them in the manner of biblical plagues. Followed by a sequel, it sets the stage for one of Price's triumphs, Theater of Blood.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "House of Dracula"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:02:18 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Cut-rate climax to the "straight" Universal Frankenstein series gives us two Lon Chaneys for the price of one. In addition to playing the Wolf Man he's seen here burning up again as the Monster in stock shots from Ghost of Frankenstein-- inadvertently fulfilling the dropped idea of having him play both roles in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man. Here at TFH we're especially partial to these music-driven, title-card-filled studio trailers.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "It's Alive"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:00:07 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Although not a hit when released in 1974, the 1977 reissue with the tagline "There is only one thing wrong with the Davis baby. It's Alive!" hit the boxoffice jackpot, leading to two sequels. Larry Cohen's killer baby movie gives us very limited footage of Rick Baker's infant monster, and the trailer affords no glimpses at all. Ok, so it's not a vampire! But we bet It wanted to be!]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "Count Yorga, Vampire"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:03:19 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Originally intended as a soft-core sex picture, this popular 1970 indie was picked up by AIP, which re-submitted it several times to the MPAA to get its initial X/R rating reduced to PG. The late Robert Quarry made his mark as the bloodsucking  Count, reprising the role in the bigger-budgeted sequel/remake, The Return of Count Yorga.]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:02:14 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Clint Eastwood teams up with Jeff Bridges for something more than a male version of Thelma and Louise from director Michael Cimino before he became controversial. A buddy picture that transcends all sexual readings, this is an overlooked gem. Some great character bits by Bill McKinney and Dub Taylor, and the great George Kennedy is once again the villainous spine holding this heist/bonding picture together.
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<title>Larry Karaszewski on "The Getaway"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:14:27 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Steve McQueen romances Ali MacGraw out from underneath b.f. Robert Evans' watchful eye. We at TFH aren't against remakes--some of our favorite movies are remakes-- but the 1992 redo of Walter Hill's screenplay from a Jim Thompson novel found it hard to top this 1972 original. One of director Sam Peckinpah's smoothest (and some say most impersonal) productions, this is still a darn good thriller.]]></description>
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<title>John Badham on "Julius Caesar"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:04:28 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of Marlon Brando's greatest performances. Joe Mankiewicz's 1953 prestige MGM version of the classic is still one of the best film treatments of Shakespeare and saw a lot of 16mm classroom use during the 60s and 70s.
It's still a lot of fun seeing familiar character pros like John Hoyt and Douglas Dumbrille spouting dialogue by The Bard.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "Slap Shot"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:59:59 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the great tradition of hockey comedies--wait, is there a tradition of hockey comedies? Anyway, this one was seriously undervalued in 1977 and is viewed today as a landmark in cynical sports humor as well as wall-to-wall profanity. Full of quotable dialog. A locker room favorite.
	
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<title>Larry Karaszewski on "The Love God?"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:01:47 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most offbeat (and therefore least popular) of Don Knott's series of Universal comedy vehicles, this one takes a more adult tone, spoofing the Playboy ethos. Audiences didn't respond, but it plays pretty well --when you can find it. Co-star Edmond O'Brien is misidentified in this trailer.  ]]></description>
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<title>Adam Rifkin on "Broadway Danny Rose"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:08:39 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of Woody Allen's most endearing projects, full of affection for broken-down vaudevillians and dead-end-career comics, not to mention nostalgia for a lost world of New York show biz. Perhaps Mia Farrow's most charming performance. The framing device with the table full of real life comedians at the Carnegie Deli is inspired.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "Black Christmas"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:56:45 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<i>"If this movie doesn't make your skin crawl...it's on too tight!"</i>  Bob Clark's Canadian precursor to Halloween (also released as Silent Night, Evil Night) has become comparatively obscure but rates as one of the most influential of "slasher" movies. Surprisingly,it was not a boxoffice hit, and played on cable tv under the title Stranger in the House.
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<title>Joe Dante on "Blood And Black Lace"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:58:05 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mario Bava's trend-setting murder parade played only grindhouses and drive-ins in its day, but has since become recognized as one of the major influences in the giallo genre as well as one of the greatest Technicolor extravaganzas since The Red Shoes.]]></description>
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<title>Allan Arkush on "Blackboard Jungle"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:00:29 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A turning point for rock and roll. Bill Haley and the Comets provide the groundbreaking context as former teacher turned crime writer Evan Hunter's novel becomes, in the hands of director Richard Brooks,  primarily an expose of the corruption of urban school systems. Uncharacteristically realistic for the period, this set the tone for another half decade of juvenile delinquency exploitation films.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "Shogun Assassin"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:56:04 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Blood-spattered amalgam of two different samurai entries in the 6-part "Lone Wolf/Baby Cart" series, cobbled together with an '80s techno-music score by American producers for the drive-in trade. Voice dubbers include Sandra Bernhardt and Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Has a remarkably avid following considering the superiority of the originals.]]></description>
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<title>David DeCoteau on "Strait Jacket"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:59:31 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<i>"WARNING! This picture vividly depicts AXE MURDERS!"</i> Well, not all that vividly. Not as crappy as 13 Frightened Girls, but certainly one more step in director William Castle's mid-sixties decline. Star Joan Crawford had Anne Helm fired as her daughter and replaced by Diane Baker, whose performance she undercut in the editing room. Our favorite moment is the kitchen scene with the six-pack of Pepsi so prominently displayed.]]></description>
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<title>Larry Karaszewski on "Sweet Sugar"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:01:55 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<i>"The searing  sting of the whip burned the brand of hate into her heart!"</i> Narrator Paul Frees (at his sleaziest) hawks the dubious charms of this sub-New World imitation chicks-in-chains nudity-fest from Dimension, the Avis of drive-in suppliers. It's hard to believe anything could look cheaper than the Doll House movies that inspired this, but check out the shameless cardboard gateway to the prison camp in this one.]]></description>
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<title>Rod Lurie on "Patton"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:58:48 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[George C. Scott declined the Oscar he won for his towering portrayal of General George S. Patton, warrior out of time, but the film garnered seven other Academy Awards in most of the major categories. Epic in scope, photographed in 65mm Dimension 150, and sporting another brilliant Goldsmith score, this is the war movie for people who hate war movies.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Bravados"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:01:46 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Gregory Peck tracks down the gang of varmints who murdered his wife in Henry King's tough-minded western morality play. It's no Ox-Bow Incident, but it's well cast and produced, with only Fox contractee Joan Collins seeming a bit out of place.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "Tora! Tora! Tora!"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:02:08 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of a kind co-production between 20th Century Fox and Japan's Toei Studios depicts the fateful (mostly wrong) decisions leading up to the world-shaking events of December 7, 1941, depicted with semi-documentary accuracy. The fiery spectacle is real, not computer-generated, and some of the stunts herein have never been topped. No love interest, a non-star cast of memorable character actors and a powerful Jerry Goldsmith score sets this one apart from the later CGI-fest, Pearl Harbor.]]></description>
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<title>Eli Roth on "The Mole People"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:00:17 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the less beloved Universal sci-fi horrors of the '50s, this monster-laden lost civilization potboiler still has its fans. If Howard Hawks had trouble figuring out how a Pharoah talked, imagine how hard it was for writer Laszlo Gorog (Gorog spelled backwards) to approximate the speech patterns of Ancient Sumerians!]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "All The Kings Men"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:54:57 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Rumor has it there was a recent remake of this Best Picture Oscar-winner, but nobody seems to remember seeing it. Broderick Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge also won deserved Oscars, but John Ireland, in his best role ever, didn't. Neville Brand played the lead in a two-part 1958 Kraft Theater TV version directed by Sidney Lumet.]]></description>
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<title>Allan Arkush on "Where The Boys Are"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:01:03 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Spring break in Fort Lauderdale got a huge publicity boost from this 1960 MGM musical, notable as the film debut of the fabulous Paula Prentiss. It's a proto-New World Picture, a four-girl adventure with a healthy emphasis (bold for the times) on S-E-X, or what Preston Sturges used to refer to as "Topic A".]]></description>
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<title>Ernest Dickerson on "Jason And The Argonauts"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:55:25 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It all comes together memorably in this, the Jewel in the Crown of the Ray Harryhausen/Charles Schneer mythological adventures. An uncommonly literate and intelligent script (by Jan Reed and Beverley Cross) and brisk direction by Don Chaffey that showcases Ray's fx brilliance make this an enduring classic. Bernard Herrmann's music score is one of his finest.]]></description>
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<title>Allan Arkush on "Grand Theft Auto"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:02:11 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ron Howard's smashing, crashing directorial debut is a family affair with  relatives, friends and co-workers pitching in to provide producer Roger Corman with one of his most successful car crash drive-in movies ever. Allan and Joe worked behind the camera on this one, along with a lot of other New World regulars both on and offscreen.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:01:38 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The tentpole that wasn't. A late-career stumble for producer George Pal, this hopelessly square and underfunded adaptation of Kenneth Robeson's pulp novel series was intended to inaugurate a Bond-like series, but it sank without a trace. Spielberg and Lucas re-energized the pulp movie six years later with Raiders of the Lost Ark.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "Race With The Devil"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:09:19 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Enraged devil-worshippers give chase to a winnebago full of infidels who witnessed their human sacrifice in a wild chase movie from the unjustly forgotten action director Jack Starrett (The Losers). Part '70s conspiracy film, part Deliverance, and all drive-in movie energy, it's apparent that the makers of From Dusk Til Dawn liked this one.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Hold That Ghost"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:00:53 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ok, so there's no ghost--but this is one of the best Abbott & Costello movies, with the boys mixed up with gangsters, haunted houses and stolen loot. Besides, what could be scarier than the Andrews Sisters?]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "Arsenic And Old Lace"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:00:50 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[After a run of 1,444 performances on Broadway, Frank Capra's 1941 filmization of the blockbuster play was finally allowed to be released--in 1944. Dismissed even by its star Cary Grant, who disliked his manic (but hilarious) performance, it has since become one of Capra's most beloved movies.]]></description>
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<title>Adam Rifkin on "The Ghost and Mr Chicken"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:04:05 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A baby-boomer favorite from the mid-60's Universal Studios assembly line. Fidgety small town typesetter Don Knotts spends the night in a haunted house and hilarity ensues. First in the series of comedies Knotts made for the big screen following his Emmy-winning role as Deputy Barney Fife of Mayberry. Vic Mizzy's organ music score is a keeper.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Abominable Snowman"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:58:03 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Yeti. Eerie. Mysterious. Does it exist? Sure does, according to this unsung Hammer classic from Nigel Kneale and Val Guest which was tossed off on double bills in America with an especially obtuse ad campaign. The question it asks is, who is the monster, it-- or us? By now it appears we all know the answer...]]></description>
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<title>Adam Rifkin on "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 22:04:30 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the strangest and darkest children's films ever made, this shot-in-Bavaria adaptation of Roald Dahl's book (he hated the movie) features what may be Gene Wilder's greatest performance. Would make a great double bill with Dr. Seuss's The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T (which he hated as well).]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "Knightriders"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 21:58:52 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A most atypical George Romero picture about a troupe of traveling motorcycle jousters which pretty much fell through the cracks in theatrical release. Naturalistic, epic-length and altogether unexpected, with nary a vampire or zombie in sight.]]></description>
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<title>Katt Shea on "Dog Day Afternoon"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 22:04:43 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Pacino Unleashed! Sidney Lumet's riveting true-life recreation of an amateur bank heist gone tragically yet comically wrong balances character study with powerful drama and suspense. The kind of intelligent, engrossing major studio movie they just don't make anymore.
The trailer, like the movie, has no musical score.
"Attica! Attica!]]></description>
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<title>Adam Rifkin on "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 22:02:56 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The immortal BBC phenomenon Monty Python's Flying Circus went memorably cinematic with their first genre spoof (following an early feature debut consisting of recycled tv sketches). Memorable moments abound, including the killer rabbit, the Knights who say Nee!, the dismemberment duel, and on and on. To many comedy buffs this is The Holy Grail.]]></description>
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<title>Larry Karaszewski on "Real Life"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 21:56:47 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Get out your 3-D glasses....then put them away, as director/writer/comic Albert Brooks personally hawks his debut feature in a special Hitchcockian trailer (with no footage from the actual movie) presented entirely in 3-D -- Not. This is Brooks in his post-Saturday Night Live period, a funny warm up for his masterpiece, Modern Romance. One of the great trailers of our time.
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<title>Josh Olson on "Kentucky Fried Movie"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 21:54:32 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Before Broken Lizard and the Farrelly Brothers there was/were The Zuckers (plus Abraham) to burst the bounds of taste and political correctness with this often-imitated smorgasboard of skits, parodies and general silliness. Samuel L. Bronkowitz's valedictory triumph was directed by TFH Guru John Landis.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Son of Dracula"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 21:58:45 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The most underrated of the wartime Universal horror films is steeped in atmosphere and situations that anticipate later vampire pictures. Lon Chaney is Count Alucard (the first time that now-wheezy monicker was employed) who materializes at a Southern mansion looking for new blood, and finds it.]]></description>
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<title>Eli Roth on "Star Crash"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 21:55:47 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Italian fan-turned-director Luigi Cozzi (as "Lewis Coates") specialized in energetic mini-budget spectacles inspired by his favorite movies, from Harryhausen to Hercules to Star Wars. This comic-book space opera is loaded with ambitious home-made special effects, but somehow the spectacle of ray gun-toting Caroline Munro strutting around in her leather bikini outdoes them all.
	
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<title>David DeCoteau on "Crazy Mama"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 21:57:54 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Oscar-winner Cloris Leachman" falls face first into a wedding cake in this zippy trailer for Jonathan Demme's second directorial outing about a 1950s family crime spree. Believe it or not, this was originally conceived as a time-travel sequel to Big Bad Mama with Shirley Clarke directing!]]></description>
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<title>Allan Arkush on "Eat My Dust"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 22:01:30 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[First in the New World smashathon car chase series, made economically to say the least by vet Corman scribe Chuck Griffith. The ensuing wave of drive-in car crash pictures filled LA's junkyards to overflowing with twisted metal. Allan lets us in on the secrets of New World trailerizing.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "Masters Of The Universe"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 21:56:02 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[TV cartoon characters Skeletor, He-Man, Beast Man and Evil-lyn spring to live action life in a broken tentpole from the pinchpennies at The Cannon Group. Josh Olson was there and gives us a breathtaking on-set report.]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "Videodrome"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 21:56:54 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Is nothing sacred? The just-announced remake of David Cronenberg's bizarre and prescient sci-fi classic is unlikely to recapture the innovative impact of the original despite the technological update. A uniquely creepy and thought-provoking movie, the making of which is chronicled in Tim Lucas's book Videodrome from Centipede Press.
Long Live the New Flesh!]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "X - The Unknown"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 22:01:48 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A radioactive blob terrorizes the Scottish highlands in this low key but suspenseful thriller. Hammer's attempt to continue the adventures of Professor Quatermass on its own was squelched by series creator Nigel Kneale, but even with the name change the result still plays like Quatermass 1 1/2.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "Vera Cruz"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:01:28 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The seeds of many a Euro Western were sown by this Robert Aldrich classic. Produced by co-star Burt Lancaster, who's seen here in all his most blinding toothiness. Plenty of well-staged action and a great supporting cast make this one a fan favorite.]]></description>
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<title>Tim Hunter on "7 Men From Now"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:56:04 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This first in a series of unique Randolph Scott/Budd Boetticher collaborations defines the phrase "adult western" which was primarily used to describe tv shows of the late 50s. This is a textless version of the trailer, made for foreign use, with backgrounds devoid of title cards.]]></description>
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<title>Howard Rodman on "Warlock"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:02:22 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of Sergio Leone's favorites, with Henry Fonda in a virtual dress rehearsal for his triumphant cold-blooded killer role in Once Upon a Time in the West. Fonda introduces the trailer for Edward Dmytryk's unjustly neglected existential western, based on a novel drawn from the career of Wyatt Earp.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "The Day The Earth Caught Fire"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:57:21 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Global warming in 1961! Is it a newspaper picture, or a disaster picture, or a political picture, or...well, it's all of these and more. Former journalists Val Guest and Wolf Mankowitz bring a bracingly realistic slant to their persuasive end-of-the-world scenario through the use of real Fleet Street newspapermen, including non-actor Arthur Christiansen, editor of The Daily Express. Tossed off as an exploitation picture in the US, it's one of the great unsung science fiction pictures, and a must-see.
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<title>Joe Dante on "Children Of The Damned"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:56:27 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Underrated sequel-cum-remake of Village of the Damned didn't get much attention in 1963, but it's a gripping and well-made movie with plenty to say politically and allegorically. One of the better British films of a fertile period.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "The Green Slime"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:00:18 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Perhaps to save on dubbing costs, this tacky Japanese-produced space opera features an entirely non-Asian cast (it certainly wasn't Occidental).  Most of the background players are US military personnel.
Opinions on its not-very-slimy jello monsters vary, but one thing everybody agrees on: the funky title song is Outta This World! G-R-E-E-E-E-N-S-L-I-I-I-I-I-M-E!!!!!!!]]></description>
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<title>Jon Davison on "White Dog"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:57:48 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A milestone---the first TFH trailer for a movie that never had a trailer! Sam Fuller's final Hollywood picture, whose non-release at the hands of gutless studio execs drove him to Europe for the rest of his career, didn't merit a finished trailer or even a poster. This is the never-seen rough cut for the unfinished trailer, a fuzzy black-and-white dupe with narration. Producer Jon Davison explains the inexplicable.]]></description>
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<title>Ernest Dickerson on "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:59:57 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Last and biggest of Sergio Leone's "Dollars" trilogy, this Euro western classic dazzles with gorgeous imagery and sheer scope. Filled with memorable setpieces, none more grand than  Eli Wallach's delirious graveyard run to the pounding strains of Ennio Morricone's "Ecstasy of Gold". The term "horse opera" was never so apt.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "Where The Sidewalk Ends"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:59:54 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Quintessential forties leading man Dana Andrews excels in perhaps his finest performance as another brutal cop who can't control himself (shades of Robert Ryan and Kirk Douglas!) in Otto Preminger's gripping, corrosive noir classic--the flip side of the sensitive cop Andrews played for him in Laura.]]></description>
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<title>Don Coscarelli on "King Creole"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:08:43 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Reputedly Elvis's own favorite performance and certainly one of his best movies, much of it shot on New Orleans' Beale Street locations by the great Michael Curtiz. Based on a Harold Robbins novel. The current dvd version replaces the hit "Hard Headed Woman" with a previously cut stripper scene with a different song.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "The Bandwagon"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:56:31 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Vincente Minnelli, Arthur Freed and Comden & Greene's timeless classic is the musical for people who don't like musicals: so clever, so witty and so brilliantly executed that the usual objections to musical numbers "stopping the story" don't apply. The music is the story, a sophisticated backstage Broadway trifle steeped in artifice but fabulously entertaining. After all, "That's Entertainment"!
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<title>Chris Wilkinson on "Gimme Shelter"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:07:25 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Dark Side of Woodstock? The death knell of '60s counterculture? The End of peace and love?  Pretty much. Maysles-Zwerin's now-classic documentary about the 1969 Rolling Stones American concert tour inadvertently captures the darkest side of the American psyche as a murder takes place during a free performance at Altamont Raceway, CA.
Essential, but let's face it, a bummer]]></description>
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<title>Larry Karaszewski on "The Human Tornado"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:54:40 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["What you call dirty words, I call ghetto expression", said in-your-face underground standup comic and R&B singer Rudy Ray Moore, who  passed away last year at 81. This is the sequel to his first vehicle, Dolemite, which he based on a trash-talking wino who frequented an LA record shop Moore managed. Although his mainstream profile was minimal, Moore was well-known in the counterculture and influenced many comics and hip-hop artists.]]></description>
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<title>Ernest Dickerson on "Truck Turner"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:00:32 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Kaplan's badass starring vehicle for musician Isaac Hayes is simply one of the all-time greatest blaxploitation movies, which came out near the end of the cycle and never garnered the reputation it deserves. Don't tell us John Woo never saw the crazy hospital shoot-out at the end!]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "Boss Nigger"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:01:28 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Popular 70's star Fred "The Hammer" Williamson teamed up again with director Jack Arnold for this horseback follow up to their earlier Black Eye-- which plays remarkably like Blazing Saddles without the jokes. As politically incorrect as the title is today, back in 1975 it rated no more than a PG.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Madmen Of Mandoras"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:07:38 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mostly nobody saw this in its limited 1963 second feature run, but a decade later it was transformed into one of the most notorious syndicated tv titles of the era. Suffice it to say that even the author of Mein Kampf would probably find this one a pretty dire experience.
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<title>Mick Garris on "Tormented"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:56:07 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[FX-driven director Bert I. Gordon eschews his usual giant monsters for a more intimate ghost story set in a haunted lighthouse. Genre vet Richard Carlson returns to his noirish roots (Behind Locked Doors, The Amazing Mr.X) and distinguished d.p. Ernest Laszlo apparently shuttled between this second feature cheapie and the classy Inherit the Wind.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "Galaxy Of Terror"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:59:08 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the more popular of the later New World Pictures, this gory "worst fears" extravaganza builds on footage from previous Corman space operas and has engendered quite a cult following over the years. In fact, as much as director Bruce Clark's movie has been accused of ripping off Alien, the later Event Horizon seems to have stolen even more stuff from this one! Future King of the World Jim Cameron provided the unforgettable insectoid sexual assault sequence.]]></description>
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<title>Larry Karaszewski on "Dr. Black And Mr. Hyde"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:59:39 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Director William Crain followed his popular Blacula with another switched-race horror film, not quite as successfully. Ghetto doctor Bernie Casey turns his new dual personality to activities Robert Louis Stevenson probably never conceived of, like ridding the world of prostitutes.]]></description>
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<title>Michael Lehmann on "The Hospital"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:57:35 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A pre-Network Paddy Chayefsky wrote this dark, trenchant medical satire, outrageous in its time, that now plays like a semi-documentary! George C. Scott and Diana Rigg are sensational. And beware The Paraclete of Kaborka!]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Candy Stripe Nurses"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:59:11 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the most popular of the New World "nubile nurses" series and the only one to star the late Candice Rialson, who passed away seemingly unaware of her near-Bettie Page-like cult following. Brainless, breathless and taste-free in the late, lamented New World drive-in fodder fashion.
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<title>Josh Olson on "Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:01:01 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[After Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid was mutilated by MGM, Sam Peckinpah regrouped with this raw, violent and blackly comic compendium of all the director's familiar themes. Possibly Warren Oates' best performance, and arguably Peckinpah's most personal --and bizarre--project. A must-see.]]></description>
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<title>Larry Karaszewski on "Baby Doll"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:01:42 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Today it's difficult to conceive just how scandalous Elia Kazan's steamy adaptation of two Tennessee Williams playlets really was in 1956. Condemned from church pulpits and picketed by (naturally) people who'd never seen it, this saga of a child bride in rural Mississippi was actually withdrawn from numerous theaters before its opening day.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Hideous Sun Demon"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:09:03 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Not  widely distributed (more kids saw the photos in Famous Monsters of Filmland than ever saw the movie), actor-turned-producer/director Robert Clarke's home-made vehicle is remembered fondly today primarily for one of the cooler monster masks of the '50s.]]></description>
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<title>Chris Wilkinson on "Monterey Pop"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:58:19 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[D.A. Pennebaker's groundbreaking 16mm record of the one and only 1967 Monterey music fest is really the first concert film as we know it. The acts comprise a who's who of the rock world during the Summer of Love.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Monster A-Go Go"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:13:52 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Is it possible? Could this be the Worst Movie Ever? Another unfinished amateur production gets the minimum attention required to make it fit for the Southern drive-in circuit. "Go Monster Go!"]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "Death Race 2000"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:09:43 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The recent big-budget "re-imagining" of Paul Bartel's tacky but wacky original lost all the subversive wit and cartoonish outrageousness that made the property a drive-in cult classic in the first place. He's not in the trailer, but The Real Don Steele steals it as a crazed sportscaster.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "The Court Jester"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:03:24 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For many people today comic Danny Kaye is an acquired taste, but love him or hate him, this elaborate costume spoof is his funniest movie. One of the cleverest comedy scripts of the period excels in witty dialog and hilarious situations, very little of which seems to have made it into this conventionally bland trailer.]]></description>
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<title>Howard Rodman on "The Man In The White Suit"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:13:24 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Capital and labor work together to suppress a great invention in this essential Ealing comedy. Alec Guinness invents an indestructible cloth that threatens to destroy the textile industry. Dry, witty and subversive satire from the versatile Alexander Mackendrick.]]></description>
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<title>Michael Lehmann on "My Man Godfrey"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:04:31 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The quintessential screwball comedy, Gregory LaCava's wacky 1936 classic features Oscar-nominated Carole Lombard and real-life ex-hubby William Powell as a spoiled rich girl and her forgotten-man-turned butler. The ensemble cast is fabulous and the economic milieu is becoming all too recognizable.]]></description>
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<title>Rod Lurie on "All The President's Men"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:01:19 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the great newspaper movies. Even though today we know the identity of "Deep Throat", Alan Pakula and William Goldman's tense reconstruction of Woodward & Bernstein's Watergate investigation still grips and surprises. Impeccably cast. Another movie that lost the Best Picture Oscar to...Rocky.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:12:45 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There was a remake of Joe Sargent and Peter Stone's quintessential New York subway heist movie, but it was hard-pressed to match the economy, ambience and wit of the original. Every role, down to the smallest bit, is perfectly cast.
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<title>Eli Roth on "Superfuzz"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:04:15 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Although not widely distributed theatrically, Sergio Corbucci's little-known Italian-Spanish superhero comedy has a tremendous fan base of kids who saw it on HBO in the early 80s. Terence Hill (Mario Girotti), who usually made comic westerns with partner Bud Spencer (Carlo Pedersoli), is Dave Speed, telekinetic flying supercop, who makes life tough for his bewildered partner Ernest Borgnine.
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Corruption"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:58:32 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the tradition of The Corpse Vanishes and Eyes Without a Face, this sleazoid classic casts Peter Cushing as a mad Swinging Sixties London surgeon who dismembers screaming women for their pituitary glands to restore the beauty of his  disfigured fiancee. Despite the sordid surroundings Cushing gives his usual all-out performance. A longer, even scuzzier Continental version exists under the title The Laser Killer.
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Curse Of Frankenstein"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:00:57 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The international sleeper hit of 1957. Terence Fisher's then-gorily shocking re-imagining of Mary Shelley's novel jump-started Hammer Films into becoming the major supplier of genre fare for the next decade--and introduced Peter Cushing as the definitive Dr. Frankenstein as well as Christopher Lee in his first monster role. Followed by six sequels.
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<title>Jesus Trevino on "Dr. Cyclops"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:03:11 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Crazy near-blind jungle scientist Albert Dekker shrinks unwanted visitors with his miniaturization ray. This  Paramount B-picture, in dazzling Technicolor from the makers of King Kong, has "A" production values and Oscar nominated special effects.]]></description>
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<title>Chris Wilkinson on "Boxcar Bertha"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:09:36 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Martin Scorsese's first Hollywood movie, for Roger Corman and AIP, was maligned by curmudgeons like the star of Devil's Angels, but it already shows some of the dynamic style he would bring to his next breakthrough picture, Mean Streets. The blood-soaked climax is vintage Scorsese.
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<title>George Hickenlooper on "Paper Moon"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:03:02 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Peter Bogdanovich followed the success of Last Picture Show with this deliberately retro thirties-style portrait of a depression-era con man and the little girl he may be passing off as his daughter. Ryan O'Neal has the Adolphe Menjou part and his daughter Tatum plays the Shirley Temple role.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "To Catch A Thief"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:58:42 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The mid-50s French Riviera provides an attractive backdrop to one of Hitchcock's lightest thrillers, with reformed cat burglar Cary Grant romancing a dazzling Grace Kelly, a spoiled rich girl whose Edith Head-designed clothes budget could bankroll several small countries for a year. Pure escapism. Won Robert Burks a best cinematography Oscar.
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<title>Chris Wilkinson on "Don't Look Back"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:59:40 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The great D.A. Pennebaker documents Bob Dylan's controversial transition from acoustic to electric on his 1965 English tour in a seminal documentary about one of the 20th century's leading artists. A classic.
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<title>Joe Dante on "Scared to Death"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:04:58 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The sinister presence of Bela Lugosi at his skulkiest (though he's hardly in this trailer) adds the only layer of distinction to this disjointed poverty row "mystery" which at times seems like an unfinished feature stitched together in editing. Still has some delirious moments for die-hard fan]]></description>
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<title>Larry Karaszewski on "Color Me Blood Red"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:01:55 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Last and least of the notorious Blood Trilogy from "Godfather of Gore" H.G. Lewis. This sleaze favorite rips off the plot of Corman's A Bucket of Blood, only this time the crazy artist needs more blood to paint his corpuscular canvases.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Horror Island"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:56:02 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Fast-paced B-movie fun in the Old Dark Castle mode. Treasure hunters on a pirate island are knocked off one by one by....?  A throwaway assembly line dualler, as amiable and entertaining in its way as the classically generic trailer that promotes it.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "Mighty Joe Young"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:58:09 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A fan favorite from 50 years of tv broadcasts, this family-oriented amalgam of Kong and Son of Kong is a girl-and-her-giant-ape saga with a cheery, breezy tone. Terrific fx work by Willis O'Brien and devoted fan/assistant Ray Harryhausen gives Joe Young a more complex personality than most of his stop-motion predecessors.]]></description>
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<title>Larry Karaszewski on "The Chinese Connection"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:12:43 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[(AKA: Fist of Fury) The amazing Bruce Lee's second Hong Kong starring vehicle is a bigger-budget step up from his first, The Big Boss. There's a lot of title confusion over the various global releases of this Raymond Chow production, but not enough to keep it from being widely considered a martial arts classic. This is the Chinese export trailer.]]></description>
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<title>Rod Lurie on "Taxi Driver"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:03:08 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Bernard Herrmann's pulsating final score propels one of the great New York movies, which brilliantly captures a time and place that has largely disappeared. But the dark corners of Paul Schrader's disturbing screenplay are illuminated by Martin Scorsese's intensely affecting collaboration with star Robert De Niro in perhaps his greatest role. This lost the Best Picture Oscar to...Rocky.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "Ben-Hur"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:03:20 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the most successful remakes in Hollywood history, William Wyler's eye-popping take on Fred Niblo's 1925 spectacle Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (itself a remake of a 1907 short version) won 11 Oscars. The climactic chariot race ranks among the greatest action sequences in movie history. That's Les Tremayne extolling the high-minded hyperbole on the soundtrack.]]></description>
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<title>Larry Karaszewski on "Skidoo"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:03:17 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Otto Preminger's legendary disaster was also Groucho Marx's last movie, and he's awful in it. The director's characteristic browbeating probably didn't help him much.
Like Roger Corman, Preminger experimented with LSD to make this movie, but a few screenings of this hopelessly clueless effort could fund another ten years of "Just Say NO" propaganda. As usual for this point in Otto's career. a great, if bizarre, cast is wasted.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "The Wild Bunch"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:58:41 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sam Peckinpah's blood-flecked classic was a boxoffice disaster in its Vietnam-era day, but has come to be recognized as one of the all-time greats, a brilliant portrait of the end of an era of tough S.O.Bs made by...well, a tough S.O.B. This pan-and-scan trailer is identical to the ones supplied to theaters in 1969.]]></description>
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<title>Ernest Dickerson on "For A Few Dollars More"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:01:18 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sergio Leone's more elaborate followup to A Fistful of Dollars became one of the seminal Euro westerns, turning the Man with No Name series into a Bond-like tentpole for distributor United Artists and cementing Clint Eastwood's international stardom. That unforgettable Ennio Morricone score ain't bad either!]]></description>
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<title>Jesus Trevino on "The Magnificent Seven"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:01:05 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[John Sturges' Mexico-set remake of The Seven Samurai was one of the biggest hits of its era and inspired three not-as-good sequels and a tv series. Elmer Bernstein's indelible music score became best-known as the theme for Marlboro cigarette ads throughout the '60s.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Tingler"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:16:08 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[William Castle's craziest and most famous ballyhoo extravaganza unfolds in "PERCEPTO - Newest and most startling gimmick on the screen!"
Also one of the most complicated to install in theaters, although in recent years many revival bookings have duplicated the seat-buzzing thrills that made this a late-blooming classic.
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<title>Mick Garris on "Wicked Wicked"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:01:15 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["MGM introduces a New Film Experience: DUO-VISION !
No glasses--All you need is your eyes!"  Despite the breathless promise of "Twice the tension! Twice the terror!", this proved the only outing for this split-screen gimmick, which bears the signs of a conventional project tricked up in the editing.
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<title>Stuart Gordon on "Mr. Sardonicus"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:56:03 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The last big gimmick of William Castle's Golden Era was The Punishment Poll, where the audience ostensibly decided the fate of the rictus-faced heavy. It's cheap, lurid and sensationalistic all the way, but Ray Russell's source novel was a step up from the usual Castle material and the picture has remained a fan favorite.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "Private Parts"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:07:35 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Too Out There for producer MGM, which released it through a subsidiary company, this wild and wooly multiple-murder perversity is director Paul Bartel's most fully realized movie, a zonked-out psychosexual thriller beautifully shot by future director Andrew Davis. Lucille Benson is a memorable Aunt Martha in one of the great cult movies.
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<title>George Hickenlooper on "Gaslight"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:02:26 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This enduring model for the cads-driving-women-crazy genre is a classy Hollywood remake of the 1940 British version of Patrick Hamilton's "Angel Street", which was buried for decades by MGM. Ingrid Bergman is the unfortunate victim of oily hubby Charles Boyer's homicidal scheming, and won an Oscar for her justifiably paranoid ravings.
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<title>Howard Rodman on "Freud: The Secret Passion"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:02:35 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<I>The Secret Passion<I/> was added when John Huston's pseudo-biopic flopped in 1962, but the little-seen film has its adherents, and some consider it one of Huston's best pictures. Susannah York is the composite patient who exhibits all the relevant symptoms to illustrate Freud's theories.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Them"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:03:57 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Nine years after Hiroshima the atomic chicken has come home to roost in the shape of giant ants, soon to be followed by jumbo mutant radioactive lizards, locusts, scorpions, etc. The near-biblical template for the dozens of nuclear monster movies that followed it, this is one of the most influential movies ever.]]></description>
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<title>Ernest Dickerson on "Caltiki, The Immortal Monster"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:01:57 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Described in ads as a "Slimy Glob of Doom", this large economy-size micro-organism found in a Mayan temple out-slithers The Blob. Directed by Italy's Riccardo Freda, in collaboration with d.p.-turned-first time director Mario Bava. Formerly a staple of late-nite tv Creature Features, this one has been hard to see in recent years.
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<title>Jesus Trevino on "The Fly '58"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:05:28 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Once it was human, even as you and I!" Initiated by Fox's Lippert B-unit but bumped up to A-status, this 1958 baby-boomer classic spawned two sequels and David Cronenberg's 1986 remake, which he recently turned into an opera. Vet director Kurt Neumann never lived to see his last film become one of the studio's most unexpected hits. He passed away a week before its general release.]]></description>
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<title>Eli Roth on "Africa Blood and Guts"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:57:44 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Italian creators of the worldwide '60s smash Mondo Cane, initiators of the popular "shockumentary" genre, set their sights on the troubled Dark Continent with predictably lurid results. WARNING: contains images of human and animal violence which many may find offensive.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "Ms. 45"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:18:27 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Director Abel Ferrara followed up his debut film, The Driller Killer, with this mini-budget cult classic. A gritty urban nightmare set in a hellish New York where a mute seamstress obsessively avenges her rapists in a series of gruesome tableaus that Charles Bronson could only envy.
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<title>Mick Garris on "Dirty Duck"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:58:39 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A satirical labor of love from animator Charles Swenson that ended up vying with "Fritz the Cat" for X-rated grindhouse playing time. There's a lot of wit and imagination on view, but hardly anyone ever saw the picture.
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<title>Ernest Dickerson on "It Came From Beneath The Sea"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:14:35 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The top half of one of the seminal 50's Saturday matinee double features (co-feature: Creature with the Atom Brain), Sam Katzman's sci-fi monsterfest petrified a pre-Jaws generation of kids into avoiding the ocean altogether. Atomic subs, on-location San Francisco photography and giant tentacles courtesy of Ray Harryhausen make this one a memorable part of any baby-boomer's childhood.]]></description>
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<title>Jesus Trevino on "It! The Terror from Beyond Space"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:55:54 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Marooned Mars expedition survivor Marshall Thompson is blamed for the murder of his entire crew, but the real culprit, stalking the shadowy spaceship, is ....IT! Economical to say the least, Edward L. Cahn's mini-budget cheapie has entertained fans for decades, including, it seems, Ridley Scott!
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<title>Joe Dante on "It Conquered the World"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:06:51 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of Roger Corman's most beloved 1950s drive-in double-bill quickies. A pointy-headed alien from Venus moves into a cave in Bronson Canyon and mind-controls nearby scientists in time-honored fashion. Sci fi stalwarts Peter Graves and Beverly Garland risk their lives for us all.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "The Three Musketeers"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:54:35 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Boisterous, rollicking, side-splitting-- adjectives that are usually promo hype-- but applied to Richard Lester's comic masterpiece they're totally accurate. By far the wittiest, cleverest and most atmospheric retelling of Dumas' classic, with a cast to die for.]]></description>
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<title>Chris Wilkinson on "Demetrius and the Gladiators"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:54:52 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Less pompously reverent than its predecessor (the history-making first  CinemaScope production The Robe), Delmer Daves' expansive sequel is an action-packed gladiator spectacle, anticipating DeMille's upcoming Ten Commandments as well as years of Euro sword-and-sandal offshoots.]]></description>
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<title>Ernest Dickerson on "The Thief Of Bagdad '40"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:59:32 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Often imitated and remade but never equalled,  this multi-Oscar- winner is the greatest Arabian adventure fantasy of all time, made over a period of years during WW II on several continents with numerous directors, including the producers (uncredited). Screen magic.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Circus of Fear"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:56:56 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of numerous entertaining coproductions based on the voluminous writings of British mystery writer Edgar Wallace, this was released in Germany and the US only in black-and-white, the latter in a heavily cut version and the former because the German coproducers wanted to promote another film, Phantom of Soho, as the first color Edgar Wallace film.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "Winter Kills"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:55:04 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Paranoia reigns supreme in William Richert's blackly comic conspiracy theory extravaganza which connects patriarchs, technology and assassins in a potent Cold war fable that's as crazy as it is prescient. Hardly seen during its initial release, it has since engendered a small but dedicated following on video.]]></description>
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<title>Michael Lehmann on "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:58:41 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This most beloved of all political movie classics has influenced generations of politicos and filmmakers, but Michael Lehmann has a surprisingly darker take on it in light of current events.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Ghost Of Frankenstein"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:54:25 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The third sequel continuing Universal's Frankenstein saga firmly descends into B-picture territory, but it's still a lot of fun and remarkably well produced with a classic cast. A fan favorite that set the tone for the next four sequels.]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "Rabid"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:59:45 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Canadian writer-director David Cronenberg, the Tod Browning of the 70s, tapped porn star Marilyn Chambers to topline his second commercial feature, another meditation on the corruption and eventual dessication of the human body. A viral plague of vampirism manifests itself as a blood-sucking carnivore in Ms. Chambers' armpit!
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<title>Edgar Wright on "The Sentinel"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:00:39 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Konvitz's best-selling horror novel was brought to the screen by Michael Winner, considered in some circles one of cinema's great vulgarians. With the aid of a top-notch cast Winner threw any notion of good taste to the winds, resulting in one of the most non-p.c. studio movies ever.]]></description>
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<title>Katt Shea on "I Walked With A Zombie"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:14:25 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hoping to horn in on Universal's wartime horror windfall, RKO saddled Val Lewton with titles like this one, but the producer, incapable of making dumb movies, turned it into one of his greatest achievements. Dark, moody, poetic and altogether memorable despite its meager budget.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Curse Of The Cat People"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:09:05 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the strangest sequels ever, this offbeat psychological fantasy employs characters from the original Cat People but heads off in a completely unexpected direction. The lurid ads sold it as a horror film, but it's more of an art film, unique and magical.]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "Cat People"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:00:18 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The celebrated RKO B-picture that started producer Val Lewton's five year run of poetic competition to Universal's more earthbound '40s horror pix. Clever use of the power of suggestion allowed audiences to transfer their own internal fears to the characters onscreen, a technique too seldom used today.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "Bonnie and Clyde"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:58:45 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Although it flopped in its first release in 1967, this landmark New Hollywood gangster saga from Warren Beatty and Arthur Penn was rediscovered by some of the same critics who had savaged it and went on to become a blockbuster hit, influencing fashion, culture and filmmaking techniques for decades.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "You Can't Cheat An Honest Man"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:57:55 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As traveling con man Larson E. Whipsnade, W.C. Fields battles with radio sensation Edgar Bergen and his acerbic wooden pal Charlie McCarthy in this jumbled but funny hodgepodge of vaudeville and circus gags which would forever redefine the Fields image, much to his dismay.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "Charley Varrick"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:26:52 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This taut, underrated Don Siegel thriller stars Walter Matthau in one his greatest roles as a small time crook in trouble with the mob, although Matthau inexplicably bad-mouthed the movie after making it. So good it takes two Grindhouse Gurus to do it justice!]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "Straw Dogs"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:47:42 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sam Peckinpah, banished from Warner Bros. after the commercial failures of The Wild Bunch and Ballad of Cable Hogue, headed for England and outraged his critics anew with this violent, highly controversial study in homicidal rage. Bookish mathematician Dustin Hoffman finds his inner Rambo when Cornish toughs assault his sexy wife, leading to a Shakespeareanly high body count.]]></description>
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<title>Howard Rodman on "The Ipcress File"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:16:31 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Len Deighton's nameless working class spy becomes Harry Palmer, "the thinking man's Bond" in the first of three downsized Harry Saltzman productions (star Michael Caine revisted the character in two '90s entries). Many personnel from the Bond films contributed, but it's director Sidney Furie's off-center compositions and clever use of Techniscope that makes this one fly.
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<title>George Hickenlooper on "The Towering Inferno"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:58:18 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Irwin Allen followed up The Poseidon Adventure with another big budget disaster spectacle that gives the hotfoot to some of Hollywood's biggest stars. Hardly Paul Newman's greatest achievement, but he approaches it with the same powerful presence he brought to all his films, and teams up effectively with fellow superstar Steve McQueen.
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<title>Edgar Wright on "The Black Hole"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:56:05 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Disney's first PG-rated release tries to combine Star Wars and 2001 into one expensive but rather muddled package that doesn't quite know which one it wants to be. Still, a seminal experience for many 1979 kids which has a dedicated cult following despite its mix of childishness and attempted profundity.]]></description>
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<title>Eli Roth on "Rolling Thunder"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:59:51 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[John Flynn (The Outfit) was the director, but writer Paul Schrader's Taxi Driver sensibilities seem to dominate this unjustifiably obscure, violent entry in the betrayed-Vietnam-vet sweepstakes, which is not on DVD and deserves to be better known.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "Tarzan And His Mate"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:03:23 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Generally regarded as the pinnacle of MGM's Tarzan series, this pre-code entry is the second in the 12-picture Weissmuller series, spectacularly produced and unexpectedly violent considering the kid-friendly tone of later episodes. Though credited to veteran art director Cedric Gibbons, most of the film was directed by Jack Conway and James C. McKay.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Cosmic Man"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:59:43 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For decades this small-scale programmer, like the title character, was hard to see. Then a few years ago it turned up on video and pretty much put everybody to sleep. John Carradine plays yet another misunderstood alien who turns out to be a good guy after all. Narrator Paul Frees seems to find it all pretty exciting, tho.]]></description>
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<title>Jesus Trevino on "The Thing From Another World"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:57:01 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The quintessential cold war alien movie. Howard Hawks' trend setting, character-driven classic remains snappy and scary even after the elaborate 1982 remake. Dmitri Tiomkin's music and the largely unbilled cast of character actors are terrific. "Watch the skies! Keep watching the skies!"]]></description>
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<title>George Hickenlooper on "The Blob"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:58:32 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[That goopy, gelatinous glob of muck turns 50(!) this month!
Maybe it's only a few notches up from an industrial film, but this Valley Forge, Pa., indie has outlasted its sequel and remake. Newcomer "Steven" McQueen leads the pack of elderly "teen" hot-rodders who save the blockhead adult authority figures from the malevolent space goo.]]></description>
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<title>Josh Olson on "The Apple"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:58:43 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Still playing midnight shows at theaters across the country after 28 years, this astounding futuristic relic from those wacky guys at Cannon Films has become one of the most popular, even beloved stinkaroos of all time, the guiltiest of guilty pleasures. There really are no words, but Josh Olson gives it a shot anyway.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Conquest of Space"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:00:07 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Star-gazer George Pal's infatuation with scientifically accurate depictions of our interplanetary future came to an end with this ill-starred venture which ended up playing second feature bookings. It's ambitious and full of spectacle, but dramatically it's pretty primitive.]]></description>
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<title>Jesus Trevino on "Things To Come"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:04:15 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Fascinating, contradictory amalgam of H.G. Wells' Utopian liberal-fascist politics and William Cameron Menzies' brilliant production design. One of a kind epic accurately predicts World War II and offers up some amazingly cool retro-futuristic imagery. The first reel, especially, is killer.
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<title>Joe Dante on "College Confidential"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:13:30 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Noted moralist Al Zugsmith takes the directorial reins on this smutty followup to High School Confidential that pushes the envelope about as far as a 1960 studio picture could go, and emerges as pretty entertaining for mostly the wrong reasons. Steve Allen (!) is the crusading sex researcher who seems to find Mamie Van Doren a suitable target-- for study of course.
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<title>Tim Hunter on "Champagne Murders"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:04:40 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[At the tail end of his "commercial period" France's Claude Chabrol tried one those international coproductions with a US studio, only to see the result land with a resounding thud. From then on it was one acclaimed arthouse hit after another and this one remains an interesting footnote in a distinguished career.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "The Alamo"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:41:10 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Republic. I like the sound of the word."
No, it's not John Wayne talking about his former studio employers, but his directorial debut, the 70mm roadshow epic portrayal of the battle for Texas independence. Wayne lost a fortune on the picture, which was hacked into several shorter, less coherent general release versions, but it's been belatedly restored to its original 192 minute version. Beware shorter cuts.
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Sadist"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:57:11 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Grinning lunatic Arch Hall Jr. terrorizes three teachers in a desert junk yard for 94 real-time minutes in this little-seen but powerfully intense mini-budget drive-in classic. Hall even resembles Charles Starkweather, whose real-life teenage killing spree also inspired Badlands a decade later.]]></description>
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<title>Katt Shea on "The Egg and I"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:51:46 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As big a hit as it was, this progenitor of Green Acres probably wouldn't have been rereleased if supporting characters Ma and Pa Kettle hadn't broken out and spawned nine more popular barnyard comedies.]]></description>
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<title>Allison Anders on "Wild Guitar"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:02:34 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Designed for the bottom of drive-in double-bills, this rags-to-rocker saga stars Arch Hall Jr. as a pompadoured rube who becomes an instant sensation on a low-rent American Bandstand knockoff and heartbreak, naturally, ensues. Grunge auteur Ray Dennis Steckler directs and costars (as "Cash Flagg").]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Blast of Silence"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:57:58 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Finally retrieved from undeserved obscurity, Allen Baron's 1961 shoestring feature debut
is one of the seminal New York City movies. A dead-eyed mob hit man reaches the end of the line at Christmastime. Bleak, pessimistic and gritty, with similarities to Irving Lerner's  Murder by Contract.
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<title>Katt Shea on "Where Danger Lives"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:58:15 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Introducing Howard Hughes' latest discovery, Faith Domergue, as a wacko femme fatale who hooks fall guy doctor Robert Mitchum in her web. The underrated John Farrow provides his usual smooth direction including an amazing seven minute take. Mitchum sure is mean to Claude Rains in this trailer.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "Point Blank"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:00:06 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[John Boorman's dreamily stylized adaptation of a Donald E. Westlake novel was way ahead of its time, adapting New Wave techniques to produce a deliberately alienating effect that confused and annoyed the brass at MGM, and might even be a moment-of-death flashback. Lee Marvin's greatest role. Remade more conventionally as Payback in 1999.]]></description>
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<title>Eli Roth on "Rock 'N Roll High School"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:01:06 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Probably the most sheer fun New World Picture ever, Allan Arkush's classic would probably never have attained its legendary status without its most brilliant component -- the casting of The Ramones, the band your parents warned you about even though they didn't know they existed!
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<title>Howard Rodman on "Caged Heat"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:55:55 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Having produced several biker and Filipino women-in-cages pix for Roger Corman, Jonathan Demme got his chance to direct with this sleazy 1974 drive-in special replete with socially-committed prison-abuse trappings, costarring Russ Meyer starlet Erica Gavin and the indelible Barbara Steele. Joe Dante's first (overlong and way too expensive) trailer for New World.]]></description>
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<title>Jack Hill on "The Big Doll House"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:47:58 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Jack Hill recalls the making of his mega-hit, the Roger Corman/Cirio Santiago jungle prison flick that started the avalanche of busty-broads-behind-bars pix that packed the drive-ins throughout the 70s.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Satanic Rites of Dracula"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:26:46 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Last of the Hammer Draculas. A barely seen swan song, general neglect has relegated this one to the fuzzy world of the public domain,  where it can be had most anywhere for 99 cents as well as part of various cheapo "100 Horror Classics" DVD boxes.
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<title>Mark Pellington on "To Sir, With Love"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:57:07 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sidney Poitier is indelible in one of his  signature roles. A very popular model of the selfless-teacher-inspires-disaffected-highschoolers genre that has flourished ever since. Writer-director James Clavell avoids sentimentality to a surprising (but not entirely absent) degree and the film remains an audience favorite 40 years later.]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "High Plains Drifter"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:55:31 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As close to a horror film as Clint Eastwood ever made. The Man With No Name returns, sort of, in director Eastwood's first western. Dedicated to Don Siegel and Sergio Leone. A bit of a dry run for the later Pale Rider. Not in the forefront of progressive portraits of women onscreen.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Skull"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:58:10 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Probably the most accomplished of the non-omnibus Amicus horror pix. Dedicated occult collector Peter Cushing scores a coup - the skull of the Marquis deSade. But it doesn't make him --or anyone else--very happy!]]></description>
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<title>Mark Pellington on "The Courtship of Eddie's Father"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:56:09 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mark Pellington has a very personal take on this bracingly unschmaltzy Vincente Minnelli domestic drama which is both more realistic and more emotional than the popular tv series it spawned.]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "Martin"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:58:29 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Wrapping up our George Romero tribute in conjunction with the Melbourne Film Festival, here is one of his least heralded independent productions, which plays fast and loose with many horror traditions. John Amplas is the titular serial-killer-vampire -- or is he?
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<title>Eli Roth on "Creepshow"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:55:57 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[With a slightly heftier budget and his first big-name cast, George Romero teams up with Stephen King for a quintet of E.C.-like comic book chillers that Really Do Look Like Comic Books!]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Day of the Dead"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:10:34 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[By this time the Dead have triumphed and human beings are on the run. Coolly received at the time of its spotty unrated release in 1985, this third Dead movie has been staging something of a critical comeback in recent years.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "Dawn of the Dead"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:35:08 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Some call this first Living Dead sequel Romero's masterpiece. Social satire alternates with gut-ripping gore to the strain's of Goblin's Argento-infuenced soundtrack. Exists in at least five different international versions. Currently being converted for reissue in 3-D .
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Giant Gila Monster"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:56:14 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Not all 50s monster pix came from Hollywood--some were regionally produced on miniscule budgets, like this minor entry in the enlarged varmint sweepstakes, slavishly following the misunderstood teens vs.clueless adult authority formula pioneered at AIP. The monster blows up real good, though.
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<title>John Landis on "King Solomon's Mines"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:55:24 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Actually filmed in the wilds of the Dark Continent!"  H. Rider Haggard's adventure classic gets the MGM treatment with spectacular location shooting that provided years of stock footage for cheaper jungle pictures.]]></description>
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<title>Mark Pellington on "Dial M for Murder"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:02:00 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hitchcock's only 3-D film is a sturdy and cleverly cast adaptation of a popular stage play which came at the tail end of the craze and played virtually all its bookings in 2-D.]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "The Fury"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:13:12 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[After the exploding head in Scanners everybody thought, okay, there's nothing more we can do to the human body --WRONG! What Brian dePalma does to John Cassavetes in this picture, Hitler did to Poland!
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<title>Michael Lehmann on "The Man Who Fell To Earth"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:57:30 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This (British) trailer goes out of its way to sell David Bowie (the best-cast alien since Michael Rennie in Day The Earth Stood Still) as The Second Coming, but Nic Roeg and Paul Mayersberg's adaptation of Walter Tevis' novel is one of the finest sci-fi pix ever made. Brutally cut for its initial US release, it's since been restored and is a must-see.
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<title>Howard Rodman on "The 10th Victim"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:57:29 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ursula Andress's bullet-spraying bra was the talk of the nation when Elio Petri's 1965 pop-sci fi spoof hit the screen. In the 21st century, violence is legally channeled into televised "hunts" for the public's amusement, an outlandish idea then--but dangerously close to reality (TV) today! Unforgettable jazz-lounge score by Piero Piccioni.]]></description>
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<title>Katt Shea on "They Call Her One-Eye"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:13:01 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Distributed under several titles including Thriller: A Cruel Picture  and Hooker's Revenge, this violent 1974 Swedish female revenge fantasy included hardcore inserts in some versions, but AIP's R-rated cut got the most play. Star Christina Lindberg is mute throughout.
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<title>George Hickenlooper on "The Last Voyage"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:54:39 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Another semi-documentary style thriller from Andrew Stone, who stressed real locations in his movies. This time he sinks an actual ocean liner for your viewing pleasure. Irwin Allen must have blanched with envy.]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Venom"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:36:31 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Notable for its great cast of functioning alcoholics, this British-made kidnap thriller deserves a better rep than it's got. Plenty of suspense and some swell shocks make it well worth checking out.]]></description>
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<title>Eli Roth on "The Birds"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:14:27 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Another marathon Hitchcock cult-of-personality trailer with not a single shot from the actual movie. Drolly scripted by Hitch's tv series intro-writer James Allardice.]]></description>
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<title>Allison Anders on "Forty Guns"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:29:11 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Not Sam Fuller's greatest western, but still stylish, ballsy and memorable if only for this exchange-- Barbara Stanwyck to Barry Sullivan about his gun: "Can I touch it?" - "It might go off in your face."]]></description>
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<title>Mark Pellington on "Rosemary's Baby"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:03:25 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[William Castle's greatest movie-- because it was directed by Roman Polanski! May be the finest book to film adaptation ever, brilliant in every detail. Naturally, it's slated to be remade--but we dunno who'd be foolish enough to try and improve on it]]></description>
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<title>Allison Anders on "Jailhouse Rock"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:53:39 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It helps to be an Elvis fan, but this 1957 deliquency drama (his third acting role) is still one of The King's better movies, from the "serious" period before The Colonel pimped him out to Sam Katzman.
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<title>Mark Pellington on "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:40:16 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Even today, 60 years later, the money-pit jokes in this picture still resonate. Cary Grant's attempt to build a house in the country leads to predictable disaster. Remade as The MONEY PIT and ARE WE DONE YET?, but this one's the best.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "The Errand Boy"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:56:33 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In his third outing as star and director, Jerry Lewis wrecks a movie studio that looks a lot like Paramount did in 1961. Mostly a series of backlot gags, this prefigures in some ways his most Pirandellian project, The Patsy, made three years later.]]></description>
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<title>Jack Hill on "Foxy Brown"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:55:38 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Don't mess aroun' with Foxy Brown!"  Writer-director Jack Hill made blaxploitation history with Coffy, then followed it up with another Pam Grier vehicle that mines the same AIP formula of sex and sensationalism . Watch out for those razor blades in her Afro!]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "The Defiant Ones"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:57 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Stanley Kramer's once controversial saga of two chain gang escapees on the run seems in retrospect pretty gutsy for its era. This trailer, like the feature itself, has no musical score.]]></description>
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<title>Stuart Gordon on "The Thing With Two Heads"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:59:42 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["They transplanted a WHITE BIGOT'S HEAD on to a SOUL BROTHER'S BODY! And now with the Fights, the Fuzz, the Chicks and the Choppers...Man, they're in really deeeeep trouble!"  That about covers it... but Rick Baker's 2-headed gorilla doesn't even make it into the trailer!]]></description>
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<title>Howard Rodman on "Touch Of Evil"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:26 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When top-billed Charlton Heston pushed for co-star Orson Welles to direct this late noir nobody imagined it would emerge as one of the key works in the Welles canon despite being recut and partially reshot by Universal. His last Hollywood studio project has become arguably Welles' most popular picture, although in 1958 it was dumped into theaters as a second feature.]]></description>
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<title>Stuart Gordon on "Nightmare Alley"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:02:23 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the darkest major studio movies of the post-war period, this bleakly cynical melodrama anticipates the most nihilistic upcoming noirs despite its classy auspices. A movie Tom Cruise needs to remake.]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Asylum"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:50:39 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Another terrific cast in one of the best of the Amicus multi-story horrors, set in a madhouse. Reissued as "House of Crazies".]]></description>
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<title>Rick Baker on "Mad Love"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:50:22 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Peter Lorre's Hollywood debut is one of the weirder pix ever to come from MGM, or maybe anywhere else. One of ace cinematographer Karl Freund's rare forays into directing, and his last. Gregg Toland photographed it, and years later Pauline Kael would claim he stole a lot of shots from this to use in Citizen Kane! ]]></description>
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<title>Michael Lehmann on "The Asphalt Jungle"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:52:49 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The King of Noirs. John Huston's powerful adaptation of W.R. Burnett's heist novel benefits from top-notch performances by a perfectly cast ensemble and Ben Maddow's terrific adaptation. You can bet Kubrick saw this several times before making "The Killing".]]></description>
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<title>Michael Lehmann on "Repulsion"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:01:25 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Roman Polanski's first English-language film is one of his best, a a brilliant study of a young French girl's descent into madness. Catherine Deneuve's most iconic performance, with one of the great closing shots ever.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "The Curse Of The Werewolf"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 00:01:25 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Oliver Reed scores in one of his early lead roles as the tormented hero of Hammer Films' only foray into lycanthropy, set in 18th century Spain. Anthony Dawson is great as the depraved, syphilitic Marques Siniestro who sets the plot in motion.
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<title>Michael Lehmann on "Johnny Guitar"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:17 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Nick Ray's wild "revisionist" western must be the most critically dissected Republic Picture ever. Pure fifties hysteria with Mercedes McCambridge at her most terrifyingly overwrought. Great cast and terrific score by Victor Young.
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<title>Allison Anders on "The Fastest Guitar Alive"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 01:34:59 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The great Roy Orbison's movie career goes down in a blaze of bullets in this ill-advised wild west stinkaroo, his first and last "acting" appearance. Roy doesn't even get a single line reading into this trailer, which is probably for the best. But he did just fine without the movies, thank you very much!]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Phantom Of The Paradise"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 23:57:11 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Brian De Palma and Paul Williams' satirical glam-rock-opera takeoff on the Lon Chaney classic is the very definition of a midnight movie: bizarre, stylish and totally out there in that unique anything-goes 70s mode that looks positively classical today.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Frankenstein 1970"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 00:01:30 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Well, it seemed pretty futuristic in 1958! At least there's a new-fangled atomic reactor in the Baron's basement. Boris Karloff returns to the property that made him famous, but this time it's 6' 8" wrestler Mike Lane playing the monster.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "In Society"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 23:57:12 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Wartime phenomena Bud and Lou at the height of their fame in one of their better-received vehicles, which happens to incorporate one of their best vaudeville reclaimations, the "Floogle Street" routine, here rechristened "<A HREF="http://youtube.com/watch?v=hSp0sMHVEpQ" TARGET="_blank">Bagel Street</A>", but given short shrift in the trailer.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "The Shootist"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 00:02:33 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Duke rides into the the sunset forever with a moving performance as a dying gunfighter in his final film, surrounded by a top-notch cast and crew.]]></description>
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<title>Allan Arkush on "The Horse Soldiers"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 23:53:07 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For some reason, this late John Ford cavalry picture has been relegated to the also-ran section, but it's one of his most accomplished works. Plus it's the one where Constance Towers leans her decollatage toward Wayne and Holden and purrs, "Would you like a leg or a breast?"]]></description>
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<title>Stuart Gordon on "True Grit"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 00:18:11 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[John Wayne finally landed an Oscar for his role as one-eyed marshal Rooster Cogburn in Henry Hathaway's scenic blockbuster, which charmingly retains the archaic speech patterns of the source novel. Great supporting cast.]]></description>
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<title>Michael Lehmann on "The Party"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 00:10:34 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers approach silent-movie purity in this non-stop, quintessentially '60s gagfest set at the kind of Hollywood party that Fatty Arbuckle wishes he'd lived to see.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "Kind Hearts And Coronets"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 23:58:04 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the greatest of the Ealing comedies, this blackly humorous multiple murder farce is best known for Alec Guinness's eight roles as all the D'ascoyne family victims, but it's really murderous lead Dennis Price who walks away with the acting honors.]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "Sullivan's Travels"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 23:58:32 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You couldn't tell from this trailer, which completely obscures the plot, or the obfuscating ad campaign ("Veronica Lake is on the take"(!)), but Preston Sturges' brilliant Hollywood satire, which inspired the Coen Bros. "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" and has been the target of decades of aborted remake attempts, is one of the finest movies about the movies ever made.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 00:50:47 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The second of Ray Harryhausen's low budget Columbia series improves on It Came from Beneath the Sea thanks to a better screenplay by blacklisted Bernard Gordon and straightforward direction by the ever-employed Fred F. Sears.
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<title>George Hickenlooper on "Five Million Years To Earth / Quatermass and the Pit"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:54:23 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Third of Nigel Kneale's visionary Quatermass features adapted from his groundbreaking BBC serials, this one dispenses with Hammer's '50s reliance on transplanted US stars and took a decade to make it into production. Although somewhat cribbed from ideas in Arthur C Clarke's "Childhood's End", it's still one of the most challenging and intelligent sci-fi movies ever. This is the original British trailer.
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<title>Rick Baker on "Fiend Without a Face"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:13:06 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Renowned for the flying brains and sputtering gore of its final reel, this British sci-fi set in Canada has maintained semi-classic status over the decades despite the fact that it's actually pretty uneventful.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "This Is Spinal Tap"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:57:05 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This classic mockumentary about The World's Loudest Heavy Metal Band was largely improvised before unsuspecting patrons of various LA rock emporiums, who accepted Spinal Tap as a real band. May be the best film of its type ever.
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<title>Jon Davison on "Hollywood Blvd"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:40:26 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Producer Jon Davison takes us through the hurry-up production of one of the last of Roger Corman's "three girls" drive-in exploitation pictures in which nubile nurses, teachers or in this case starlets have semi-clothed adventures around LA for 80 minutes or so. Enthusiastically narrated, to say the least, by The Real Don Steele.]]></description>
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<title>George Hickenlooper on "Yellow Submarine"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:26:39 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Only a Blue Meanie could hate George Dunning's  limited animation classic, which screwed the pyschedelic cap onto the 1968 toothpaste that also included Kubrick's 2001 and predated MTV music videos by some 12 years.
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<title>Eli Roth on "Forbidden Planet"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:25:36 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dr. Morbius. His daughter Altaira. Robby the Robot. The Monster from the Id.  Did we mention Altaira? (!) All are cultural icons introduced in the best-loved space opera of the nifty fifties, based on The Bard and bolstered by memorable fx by Disney's Josh Meador as well as a famous free ticket promo gimmick from Quaker Oats. "Welcome to Altair 4, gentlemen."]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "This Island Earth"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:55:31 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the bigger interplanetary spectacles of the 50s, and one of the last films shot in 3-strip Technicolor, Universal's "Supreme Excitement of Our Time" brought out the sense of wonder in a generation of cold war tykes while scaring them half to death with the unlikely but cool "Mutants": "similar to the insect life on your own planet, but larger of course."]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Silent Running"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:17:09 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Stephen Bochco and Michael Cimino were among the writers of fx wizard Doug Trumbull's melancholy 1971 space odyssey, which has taken on belated luster in our globally steam-heated present. One of Bruce Dern's finest hours.]]></description>
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<title>Jon Davison on "Cockfighter / Born To Kill"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:57:54 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Producer Roger Corman was certain Monte Hellman's down home redneck version of The Hustler would be popular south of the Mason-Dixon line without realizing that cockfighting was a general market embarrassment by 1974. Here we have both the original trailer plus a somewhat desperate attempt to re-release it sans its basic gimmick.
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<title>Joe Dante on "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. "</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:01:37 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Columbia Pictures chief Harry Cohn never forgave producer Stanley Kramer for this early Dr. Suess fantasy that was supposed to be another Wizard of Oz but turned out more like Willie Wonka as directed by Liberace. One of the stranger major studio "family" films, with subtexts you just don't wanna know about.]]></description>
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<title>Eli Roth on "Exorcist II"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:13:14 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Eli Roth loves the trailer, hates the movie-- altho some of us at TFH regard John Boorman's ill-fated sequel as one of the most prodigiously imaginative and intellectually audacious, if dramatically inert, studio movies of the decade. Mangled after its disastrous opening, it's since been restored on dvd.]]></description>
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<title>George Hickenlooper on "Vanishing Point"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:57:30 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dodge Challenger sales spiked when this existential road trip hit the screen in 1971. Symbolism abounds but there's a gonzo rebel tone that makes this car chase extravaganza one of the cooler pix of the era, and one that defines the term Cult Classic. Charlotte Rampling's cameo as an Angel of Death was cut before release but exists in the British version, an extra on the dvd.
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<title>Allan Arkush on "Rebel Without a Cause"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:57:02 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's pretty much a bromide that if James Dean had not died at his peak he might have ended up like Troy Donahue, but in this emblematic Nick Ray film, released after Dean's death in a 1955 auto accident, he continues to electrify new generations with his raw emotion.]]></description>
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<title>Michael Lehmann on "Easy Rider"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:18:22 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dennis Hopper's counterculture classic started out as one more drive-in biker flick but morphed into something deeper, the right picture at the right time to sum up the 1960s and question the American Dream. A kick in the pants to the Hollywood establishment that jump-started the indie movement of the '70s.]]></description>
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<title>George Hickenlooper on "Night Of The Living Dead"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/184?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:57:17 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One-time industrial filmmaker George Romero's seminal Pittsburgh indie (an unauthorized re-imagining of "I Am Legend") changed the face of horror films and redefined the word "zombie" for a generation. It spawned a flood of imitations, but a copyright snafu sent Romero's signature work into the public domain and he had to remake it in color to reclaim rights to what became a popular series.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:21 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The kind of dual-bill programmer they stopped making in the early 60s, this combines tv-level production values with mildly horrific elements and a slumming cast of aging veterans. It does have lotsa skulls, though.]]></description>
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<title>Eli Roth on "Squirm"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:07:05 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Worms Gone Wild! The debut film of underrated director Jeff Lieberman is another entry in the popular 1970s nature-strikes-back genre, filmed on location in Georgia and a slimy drive-in staple for the next decade.]]></description>
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<title>Eli Roth on "Three On A Meathook"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:56:35 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The vanished grindhouse era of gory, misogynist Ed-Gein-inspired Psycho knockoffs lives again, at least for the three minutes it takes Eli Roth to guide us through this frustratingly misguided trailer.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Blood of the Man Devil/House of the Black Death"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:01:06 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When is a movie not even a movie? When it's just a patchwork of senseless footage cobbled together to make an unfinished project marginally releasable. Even the trailer for this is a mess.]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "Horrors Of The Black Museum"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/139?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:18:54 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dr Emile Franchel, then-star of LA channel 13's "Adventures in Hypnotism" program, introduces you to "Hypno-Vista" ("You can't resist it--it actually puts YOU in the picture!") as crazed crime writer Michael Gough dispatches victims with inventive torture devices. AIP's ad campaign is one of their best, even if the picture isn't.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "The Beguiled"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/170?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:03:13 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood used their combined boxoffice clout to get Universal to make this arty, Ambrose Bierce-like civil war gothic melodrama full of not-so-repressed psychosexuality. This trailer sells it like a Gone with the Wind soap opera. It flopped, but it's a unique and creepy movie.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Invasion, U.S.A."</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/171?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:59:01 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Lest America become overrun with Commie hordes, this urgent warning from Al Zugsmith in the form of a mass hallucination of stock footage destruction puts us on the right path to stockpiling armaments. It's actually lots of fun and it features both Lois Lanes from the tv Superman series in small roles.]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "The House That Screamed"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/163?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:28:16 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the year's big hits in its original Spanish 70mm version, but in America it was just another drive-in horror dualler for AIP. Even in its GP-rated cut there's a lot of creepy eroticism on view, and the girls' school setting provides lots of pulchritude, if not much nudity.]]></description>
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<title>Michael Lehmann on "Seconds"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/134?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:04:34 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[John Frankenheimer's chilling adaptation of David Ely's sci fi novel is one of the last classic works of his prolific 60s period before a dry spell and comeback in the 90s. A great score by Jerry Goldsmith and probably Rock Hudson's best performance.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Lord of the Flies"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/146?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:56:45 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Author William Golding turned down numerous entreaties for movie adaptations of his provocative novel, finally accepting Peter Brook's concept of taking 30 or so boys to a tropical island and semi-improvising a feature film. The result, surprisingly, was one of the most faithful movie versions of a novel to date.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "Don't Look Now"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:20:15 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For his third outing as a director, cinematographer Nicolas Roeg  came up with this sublimely creepy adaptation of a Daphne Du Maurier story shot on location in Venice. The simultaneous release of "The Exorcist" took some of the wind out of its sails in the US, but it's now considered a horror classic.
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<title>Joe Dante on "Blood And Roses"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/168?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:55:50 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Even with a trailer tracked with library music from Teenagers from Outer Space, Roger Vadim's gorgeous and sexy pre-Bava Euro-horror is one of the coolest, most unjustly neglected vampire pix of all time, mostly because it's been unseeable for years. Come on, Paramount, where's the DVD?]]></description>
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<title>Michael Lehmann on "Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/167?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:59:20 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It <I>seemed</I> like a good idea at the time-- give the sequel to one of Fox's soap opera hits to skinflick auteur Russ Meyer in the heady days of X-rated prosperity. Ok, it didn't work out so well at the boxoffice, but it did give us a touchstone for big studio psychotronic insanity that has yet to be matched. This trailer is mainly a staged photo shoot selling Russ-as-auteur.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "The Brain That Wouldn't Die"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:13:31 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Shot near Tarrytown, New York as "The Head That Wouldn't Die", this sleazy little gem sat unreleased for two years until AIP picked it up in 1962. Their numerous censor cuts for reasons of "good taste" (as if!) have been since restored and the whole sordid farrago is now available pretty much everywhere in its full, fuzzy public domain gory, er, glory.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "No Name On The Bullet"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:36:52 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sci fi specialist Jack Arnold's best Western casts Audie Murphy against type -or is he?- as a cold-blooded hit man who just might be Death personified and brings fear to a town full of guilty people. An underrated gem.]]></description>
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<title>Allan Arkush on "Winchester '73"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/153?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:18:24 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The first of eight collaborations between noir specialist Anthony Mann and a newly flinty James Stewart, this psychological western exudes corrosive post-war anxiety. It also trailblazed a groundbreaking profit participation deal (engineered by Stewart's agent Lew Wasserman) that transformed the industry. Dan Duryea shines in a classic bad guy performance that defined his career.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "Ulzana's Raid"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:14:18 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Robert Aldrich's brutal Cavalry vs Indians western is a Vietnam allegory that pulls no punches when it comes to violence. However, there seems to be no definitive version, since Aldrich and star Burt Lancaster each prepared different cuts of the film which were released domestically and abroad, and then recut again, often to eliminate horse falls. Various video releases add and drop scenes, dialog and alter the music score.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Creature From The Haunted Sea"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/164?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:02:58 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Roger Corman's goofiest movie didn't play many theaters in 1961 but found its audience during the following decade on late nite TV Creature Features. More off-kilter fun from writer Chuck Griffith. The third lead, billed as Edward Wain, is <I>Chinatown</I> screenwriter Robert Towne!]]></description>
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<title>Allan Arkush on "A Night At The Opera"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/169?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:55:57 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Although some bemoan Irving Thalberg's civilizing influence on the Marx Brothers when they moved to MGM, this is probably their most popular picture. And seen with an audience, one of their all-time funniest.]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "The Magic Christian"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/162?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:12:03 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Long before Gordon Gekko told us "greed is good", Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers) embarked on a mad quest to prove that everyone has their price. Terry Southern transforms his cynical novel into a nihilistic lark full of celebrity cameos and Monty Python-esque gags, some contributed by actual soon-to-be Python members.
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<title>Dan Ireland on "The Girl Can't Help It"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:56:32 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Former animator Frank Tashlin sums up the 1950s in this hilarious live-action cartoon, a Mad Magazine parody come to life. The first major studio picture to showcase breakout rock&roll stars.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Mesa of Lost Women"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/145?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:55:45 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Have you ever been kissed by a woman like this?"   There are no words to describe this one, but Joe comes up with a few anyway.]]></description>
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<title>Allan Arkush on "Queen Of Outer Space"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/133?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:12:14 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Howdya like to drag that one to the High School Prom?" leers a horny astronaut while ogling the shapely acolytes of Queen Yllana, leader of the all-girl Venusian population. "I hate zat qveen", grumbles Chief Scientist Zsa Zsa Gabor, who doesn't appear to be in on the joke. Silly, spoofy and cheerfully chauvinistic, this one has many fans, some of them straight.]]></description>
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<title>Michael Lehmann on "Strangers on a Train"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/159?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:05:38 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Memorable setpieces and brilliant visuals abound in Hitchcock's return to major studio filmmaking after several uneven independent ventures. Robert Walker's finest hour.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Target Earth"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/135?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:58:36 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Before Robby and The Terminator, movie robots tended toward the bulky and box-like. One such vacuum-hosed menace stands in for offscreen hordes in this cheap but fun alien invasion saga, circa 1954.
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<title>Rick Baker on "The Man of a Thousand Faces"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:12:14 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For their 1957 "Silver Jubilee", Universal offered this occasionally accurate biopic of its biggest silent star, Lon Chaney, as portrayed by the always reliable James Cagney.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Confessions of an Opium Eater"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:59:43 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Albert Zugsmith's shining moment in an amiably disreputable career that nonetheless included producing pix by Sirk, Welles and Jack Arnold. Only Fu Manchu is missing from this hypnotically retrograde yellow peril hallucination starring Vincent Price and half the Asian actors in Hollywood.]]></description>
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<title>Allan Arkush on "The Trip"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Writer Jack Nicholson and star Peter Fonda told Roger Corman he couldn't make a movie about LSD without trying it at least once. So Roger took a caravan of pals to Big Sur, where he dutifully dropped acid and communed with the elements. Out of it all came his most personal and revealing film, a pop art time capsule that was banned in Britain for nearly a decade.
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<title>Dan Ireland on "The Haunting"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:13:02 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The subtle terror techniques that Robert Wise learned from his mentor Val Lewton are on uncanny display in the creepiest haunted house movie of them all. (The trailer's not too subtle, though.) Compare the original to the lamentable remake to see the difference between art and CGI junk.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Beast of Yucca Flats"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:13:51 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[By the time Swedish wrestler and best-selling Halloween mask Tor Johnson made this, his all-time worst picture, his career was behind him and the days of Ed Wood must have looked like Eden. The longest 54 minutes in movies.
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<title>Allison Anders on "Peeping Tom"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:29:39 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The first Video Nasty came not only before video but from the esteemed Michael Powell, whose career was sidetracked into shorts for The Childrens' Film Foundation by this much maligned and misunderstood rumination on the dark powers of cinema. In the US it was relegated to skinflick houses and grindhouse second features.]]></description>
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<title>Jack Hill on "Blood Bath"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:09:42 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Footage from several different movies has been cannibalized for this sleazy AIP favorite, which exists in alternate versions with various titles. Jack Hill, one of the co-conspirators, gives his side of the story for film scholars to pull out their hair over.]]></description>
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<title>Rick Baker on "How to Make a Monster"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:57:39 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Remarkably self-reflexive drive-in monster rally set at American International Studios, whose execs are being murdered by actors in monster makeups. Unofficial sequel to both Teenage Werewolf and Teenage Frankenstein.
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<title>Dan Ireland on "Imitation of Life"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:01:17 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Fannie Hurst's four-hankie bestseller had been filmed before in 1934, but Douglas Sirk's 1959 remake, his last Hollywood film, is the one to remember.
Derided at the time by critics and audiences, it has come to sum up Sirk's serial attack on the hypocritical institutions of family and motherhood as practiced in '50s America.]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Twitch of the Death Nerve"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:04:44 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The US trailer for Mario Bava's ecological killing field tries to talk us out of seeing the movie!]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "Once Upon A Time in the West"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:01:13 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sergio Leone's 1968 masterpiece gives the lie to the term "spaghetti western".
In a hastily shortened version it was a box-office disappointment in the U.S.but
it played in the same theater in Paris for years.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Horror of Dracula"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:59:50 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Terence Fisher's seminal vampire triumph pits Cushing against Lee in their greatest Hammer pairing and sets the pace for the next two decades of movie horror. This is the original Universal theatrical trailer, not the video reconstruction that appears on the Warner dvd.]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Carnage"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:07:16 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is the international export trailer for Mario Bava's trend-setting 1971 murder spree, presented entirely in solarized images. This film has had so many titles over the years that we don't have room to list them, but the one that stuck was the brilliant US reissue title "Twitch of the Death Nerve".]]></description>
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<title>Dan Ireland on "Bad Day At Black Rock"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:07:01 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[John Sturges' formalist masterpiece is also a progressive studio movie confronting post-WW2 racism. Andre Previn's possibly career-best music score turns up again in, of all places, the "Forbidden Planet" trailer!]]></description>
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<title>Rick Baker on "The War of the Worlds"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:03:21 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[George Pal's pioneering H.G. Wells adaptation updates the action to 1953 Los Angeles, with Oscar-winning state-of-the-art visual fx and sound effects so great they're still in use today.]]></description>
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<title>Rick Baker on "I Was a Teenage Werewolf"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:01:18 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Lightning in a bottle: AIP's penchant for making bargain- basement movies based on title and poster research paid off in spades with this hugely influential amalgam of juvenile delinquent and monster genres. The surprise hit of 1957.]]></description>
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<title>Jack Hill on "The Black Swan"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:57:22 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A great cast swashbuckles its way through Henry King's piratical spectacular with an assist from Leon Shamroy's Oscar-winning Technicolor cinematography. Splendid hokum in the overstuffed Darryl Zanuck tradition.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "International House"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:55:07 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The long-vanished 1930s tradition of feature-length parades of vaudeville and radio acts reaches its zenith with this racy pre-code vehicle for performers both famous and forgotten. What we wanna know is, where can we find more of Colonel Stoopnagle and Budd??!
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<title>Rick Baker on "The Time Machine"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:21:00 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[George Pal's greatest work finds the humanity in H.G. Wells' classic, ably served by Oscar-winning fx, Russ Garcia's memorable score and Rod Taylor and Alan Young's warm performances. A touchstone for a generation. Paul Frees seems quite enthusiastic about it!]]></description>
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<title>Jack Hill on "White Heat"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:25:33 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Raoul Walsh's most muscular gangster pic with an all-time great James Cagney as Cody Jarrett, the psychotic killer that only a mother could love. She's the underappreciated Margaret Wycherly, brilliant as the most monstrous mom since Agrippina. But she doesn't get much attention in the trailer.]]></description>
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<title>Dan Ireland on "Experiment in Terror"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:20:16 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Comic director Blake Edwards revisits his noir roots in this 1962 suspense classic cannily filmed on San Francisco locations. One of the biggest hits of the early 60s. And one of the most unusual trailers.]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Raw Meat"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:02:40 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A rather inelegant retitling of Gary Sherman's British thriller "Deathline", originally pitched to the grindhouse crowd but eventually rediscovered by critics and audiences on tv and video. One of Donald Pleasance's finest hours.
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Black Sleep"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:05 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Basil Rathbone's coldly obsessed Dr. Cadman looks like a dry run for Peter Cushing's Baron Frankenstein in this florid period monster rally with scary makeups by Gordon Bau. Akim Tamiroff's role was intended for Peter Lorre.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "The Bride and the Beast"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:15:11 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An angora-loving gorilla sets his sights on the curvy heroine in this bizarre Ed Wood jungle concoction that's evaded the Golden Turkey brigade only because he didn't direct it. They don't make 'em like this anymore, and anyway, they hardly ever did.]]></description>
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<title>Allison Anders on "Psych-Out"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:59:14 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dick Clark produced Richard Rush's ode to the Haight-Ashbury scene, filmed on location by Laszlo Kovacs in Psychedelic Color. Remember, as Dean Stockwell tells us, "all the games gotta go, or else it's just a plastic hassle"!
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<title>Allan Arkush on "Wild in the Streets"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:05:02 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[AIP toppers were floored by the unexpectedly positive reviews this lightning-in-a-bottle satire garnered in the volatile political world of 1968. The right movie at the right moment, it captured the mood of a country in crisis and propelled star Christopher Jones into a short-lived mainstream career that included a starring role in David Lean's "Ryan's Daughter".

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<title>Allison Anders on "Privilege"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:13:51 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Anticipating punk rock, Peter Watkins' semi-documentary study of a future society using music to enslave the masses appropriates some unauthorized reenactments from the National Film Board of Canada's groundbreaking Paul Anka docu "Lonely Boy". How Universal ended up distributing this is a mystery even they couldn't solve.
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<title>John Landis on "Sweet Smell of Success"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:56:54 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman's corrosive look at Power in America as typified by an unscrupulous and possibly insane Broadway columnist modeled on Ed Sullivan and Walter Winchell. Brilliantly directed by the underrated Alexander Mackendrick. A must-see.
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<title>Joe Dante on "Mr. Arkadin"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:38:03 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Orson Welles' most mysterious film has him playing a sinister international tycoon who, like Charles Foster Kane, is obsessed with his past, which he can't remember -- or can he? A motley assortment of the director's pals fill out the various roles, including then-wife Paola Mori.]]></description>
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<title>Allison Anders on "The Naked Spur"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:22:07 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Art Gilmore's breathless narration propels us through this classic trailer for the third collaboration between James Stewart and Anthony Mann, a rugged five-character psychological western with a great cast and gorgeous Rocky Mountain locations.
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<title>Joe Dante on "Tarantula"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:06:40 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Universal was the leader in slickly produced 50s genre pix, and here's another eerie desert-set chiller from Jack Arnold with good special fx and creepy makeups. Leo G. Carroll, one of Hitchcock's favorite actors, classes up the joint as the scientist whose serum results in big buggery.]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "Dementia 13"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:05:21 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Take the "D-13 Test" to find out if you're too crazy to see this shot-in-Ireland axe murder thriller from fledgling director Francis Ford Coppola. The gorgeous Luana Anders has one of her infrequent leads here, and Ronald Stein's score is one of his best.]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Suspiria"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:08:27 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Edgar has his own thoughts on the very different American trailer that accompanied the US release of Argento's classic.
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<title>Mick Garris on "White Zombie"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:23:19 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sure it's creaky, but this early talkie from poverty row was the first zombie movie and visually it's still pretty cool. Bela Lugosi is the indelibly named Murder Legendre, head zombie master on a Haitian plantation where the dead don't charge for their labor. First takes seem to be the rule, as there are a number of flubbed lines and missed camera moves. This is the 1952 reissue trailer.
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<title>John Landis on "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:56:02 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[After "Young Frankenstein", this is probably the best-loved horror comedy of all time and is more elaborately produced than the previous two serious Frankenstein films. Bela Lugosi's final turn as Dracula, and his last major studio picture. Great music score by Frank Skinner turned up in numerous subsequent A&C monster rallies.
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Suspiria - International Version"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:10:06 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Taking up the lurid mantel of Mario Bava, former film critic Dario Argento rocketed to international prominence with this highly influential giallo which spawned countless imitations.
This is the international trailer made for export.
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<title>Allan Arkush on "The Knack"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:12:32 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Philadelphia-born Director Richard Lester sandwiched this wacky paeon to Swinging '60s London between "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help!". Based on Ann Jellicoe's play and notable as the fleeting screen debuts of Jacqueline Bissett, Jane Birkin and Charlotte Rampling.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:02:10 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Although one wag said of director Stanley Kramer's all-star Cinerama extravaganza, "it shows what happens when a man who doesn't understand drama tries to do comedy", the years have been kind to it. Nostalgia for the once-in-a-lifetime ensemble cast alone would get it by, but the extravagant stunt work that seemed so unwhimsical in 1963 is now commonplace in movie comedy.
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<title>Mick Garris on "Kiss Me Stupid"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:11:23 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Billy Wilder took a lotta brickbats for this "vulgar", "tasteless" and "crude" sex comedy set in Climax, Nevada, which was roundly condemned from pulpits and lecterns countrywide in 1964. Its sleazy reputation has been somewhat rehabilitated over the years as pop culture has raced to embrace such concepts as DNA hair gel and carnal relations with baked goods.
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<title>Joe Dante on "Daughter of Dr. Jekyll"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:30:21 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Low-budget auteur Edgar G. Ulmer, who gave us "Detour" and "Man from Planet X" proves you can't win 'em all with this derivative and nonsensical second-feature set in the 1800s, but shot in a Hancock Park mansion through whose windows 1957 cars can be seen driving by.
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<title>Allison Anders on "All That Heaven Allows"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:25:47 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Another lacerating depiction of the values of post-war middle-class Americans from Douglas Sirk, who Universal seemed to regard merely as their house soap-opera specialist. Once again a long-suffering spouse is put through the ringer; here it's widow Jane Wyman taking flak from the country club set as well as her selfish kids for her affair with much younger free spirit Rock Hudson.
 
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<title>Allan Arkush on "House of Bamboo"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:06:08 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Former tabloid reporter Sam Fuller's dynamic movies have been called crude and primitive, but at their best they play like a punch in the jaw. Fox's Darryl F. Zanuck believed in him and afforded the indie-oriented Fuller his most mainstream commercial opportunities in the 50s. This is the most exotic of the group.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "From Hell It Came"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:01:41 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An indication of the attention to detail that distinguishes this 1957 triumph
of concept over execution is that the walking tree monster Tobonga (who terrorizes the tropical island of Griffith Park) is identified as
Baranga in this trailer!

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<title>John Landis on "Sunset Boulevard"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:02:36 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Billy Wilder royally p.o.'d most of the Hollywood establishment with this devastatingly dark yet moving take on the tragic decline of silent movie queen Norma Desmond (an unforgettable Gloria Swanson), pushed aside by an unfeeling industry. One of the all-time greats. "I AM big! It's the PICTURES that got small!"
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<title>Sam Hamm on "The Intruder"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:59:14 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In 1961 Roger Corman took a flyer from his exploitation roots and made one from the heart, from Charles Beaumont's angry novel inspired by the rabble-rousing exploits of Southern racist John Kasper.  When exhibitors refused to book it, Corman returned to Edgar Allan Poe and the movie disappeared into grindhouse hell under titles like Shame and I Hate Your Guts. William Shatner stars, but Corman's first choice was...Tony Randall!
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<title>Mick Garris on "Son of Kong"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:05:26 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Everybody's favorite director Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) is dodging bill collectors who want him to pay for King Kong's Big Apple antics and finds himself back on Skull Island with the lovely Helen Mack in this hastily-produced sequel.
A family tragedy during production resulted in fx genius Willis O'Brien entrusting some of the animation to assistants.
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<title>Larry Cohen on "Marnie"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:20:53 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Another elaborate personalized Hitchcock trailer. His "sex mystery" followup to The Birds has its adherents, but Larry Cohen isn't one of them. Nice Bernard Herrmann score though, and the star of Family Plot has a supporting role.
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<title>Allan Arkush on "Bucket of Blood"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:54:56 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Life is an obscure hobo, bumming a ride on the omnibus of art."
The wit and wisdom of writer Charles B. Griffith, Roger Corman's hipper-than-thou alter-ego, is in even fuller flower here than in his classic followup, "Little Shop of Horrors", aided immeasurably by Dick Miller's indelible performance as psychotic busboy Walter Paisley. 
<B>Update: Chuck passed away the week of 9/26/07 at the age of 77, leaving a legacy of brilliantly off-center, if unjustly underappreciated, satirical comedy.</B>
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Revenge of Frankenstein"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:55:17 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Terence Fisher returns to direct the first (and best?) of six sequels to the groundbreaking Curse of Frankenstein, bringing new complexity and plenty of gallows humor to the character of Baron Frankenstein, the alternately malevolent and admirable protagonist whose grand experiments just never seem to work out.
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<title>Allan Arkush on "Rio Bravo"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:00:35 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Howard Hawks' riposte to the likes of "High Noon" and "3:10 to Yuma" is one of the great Movie Star Westerns, cannily targeted at every demographic available.

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<title>John Landis on "Psycho"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:16:48 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A most unusual trailer (almost a short subject at nearly 7 minutes long) from 1960, when Hitchcock had merchandised himself a la Walt Disney into one of the most recognizable movie directors on earth.
WARNING! MR. LANDIS REQUESTS YOU WATCH THIS TRAILER FIRST WITHOUT HIS VOICEOVER TO ENJOY MR. HITCHCOCK'S NARRATION.  ]]></description>
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<title>Sam Hamm on "20 Million Miles to Earth"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:04:56 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The dino-like Ymir is one of Ray Harryhausen's most personable stop-motion creations and the last to benefit from his brilliant black-and-white lighting. Currently available in a lamentably colorized video version which shows Ray's work to its least advantage.

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<title>Mary Lambert on "The Masque of the Red Death"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:02:51 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This time the Corman/Poe series moves to England for what is generally considered the best film in the series. Tabloid news was made circa 1964 when costar Jane Asher's boyfriend visted the set: Paul McCartney.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Innocents"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:30:02 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Jack Clayton's masterpiece, one of the greatest cinematic ghost stories, is ill-served by this lowbrow trailer that sells it like a cheap Eurotrash import. Film debut of the
lovely and talented Pamela Frankin.
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<title>Mick Garris on "The Raven"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:15:20 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Having added some comedy to his earlier Poe trilogy "Tales of Terror", Roger Corman went all out for humor in this popular 1963 entry, which was nevertheless sold basically as a straight horror film. But the image of Peter Lorre in a bird costume was kind of a tipoff...
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<title>Sam Hamm on "Scream of Fear"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:01:16 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Psycho" spawned a cottage industry of twist-ending killer-thrillers, and this modest Hammer entry is one of the best. Psycho's unconventional ad campaign also led to gambits like this one, pretending the movie was just too scary to show any actual footage in the trailer!
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<title>Larry Cohen on "God Told Me To A.K.A. Demon"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:49:14 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We know, we've already posted a commentary about this one, but it seemed like once we got its director, Larry Cohen, in the Trailers from Hell chair we'd be remiss if we didn't ask him to talk about it as well... so here's the first TFH commentary by the Director of the actual movie!]]></description>
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<title>Larry Cohen on "El Cid"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:14:32 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Another enormous Samuel L. Bronston historical spectacle with big stars and epochal Euro production values, directed by the perennially underrated Anthony Mann, fresh from his being fired from Spartacus.]]></description>
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<title>Mary Lambert on "Carnival of Souls"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:17:08 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Kansas industrial filmmaker Herk Harvey's barely-distributed 1962 ghost story languished in obscurity for years, but has now taken its place as one of the most influential indie productions of the sixties.]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:41:56 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hammer competitor Amicus Films found their mojo with this 1964 multi-story horror omnibus, which led to countless iterations of the same formula, including their biggest hit "Tales from the Crypt". The genius of the portmanteau system was that the actors were often needed for only a few days, which allowed for casts that were almost ridiculously classy.]]></description>
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<title>Larry Cohen on "Black Sunday AKA-Mask of the Demon"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:23:02 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The worldwide success of Mario Bava's official directorial debut spurred the brilliant cinematographer on to a new career and made an international star of the entrancing Barbara Steele. U.S.distributor AIP changed the title and claimed it was too scary for anyone under the age of...well, 12.

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<title>Sam Hamm on "13 Ghosts"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:59:11 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Aiming squarely at the allowances of moppet readers of Famous Monsters of Filmland, William Castle followed "Percepto" with a new gimmick in 1960, "Illusion-O".
Paul Frees' scary narration probably got him the job as the voice of the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "She Demons"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:17:42 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Castaways on a tropical island run by Nazi fugitives who turn native girls into monsters! If that sounds appealing to you, then this threadbare 1958 drive-in cheapie is up your alley!
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Cyclops"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:57:56 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Giant monster specialist Bert I. Gordon's only somewhat improved followup to "King Dinosaur" was shot in 1955 but didn't make it to theaters til 1957, on a double bill with Ulmer's "Daughter of Dr. Jekyll", satisfying only the fans of pert starlet Gloria Talbott, who starred in both.

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<title>Mary Lambert on "The Pit and the Pendulum"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:58:50 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Probably the best known of the AIP Corman/Poe series, circa 1961.  Writer Richard Matheson  had to concoct an almost entirely new story incorporating Poe's central  situation. The great Paul Frees narrates the trailer.]]></description>
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<title>Larry Cohen on "Invaders From Mars"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:22:01 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[His 1935 "Things to Come" is more prestigious, but famed production designer Wm. Cameron Menzies reached his directorial zenith with this deliberately unreal "B" that has creeped out several generations of kids.  The great Art Gilmore narrates a classic trailer for a seminal movie. In SuperCineColor!]]></description>
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<title>Mary Lambert on "Village of the Damned"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:56:33 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A "sleeper" is a boxoffice success that comes out of nowhere.  And no one expected  this modest 1960 British import, based on John Wyndham's "The Midwich Cuckoos", to catch the attention of a worldwide audience and inspire its own (some think even better) sequel.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "These Are The Damned"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:32:34 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Fascinating mixture of science fiction and social comment from Hammer Films circa 1961. Rumored for a long-overdue dvd release, this bleak but moving atomic parable still packs a punch and was recently unveiled in its original cut on Turner Classic Movies over 40 years after its truncated release. With an emotion-packed score by James Bernard.

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<title>Sam Hamm on "Kronos"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:32:17 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Jack Rabin and Irving Block were a couple of indie FX mavens whose works ranged from Night of the Hunter to Robot Monster.  But one of their most offbeat creations was the giant alien robot Kronos, who wanted not Our Women but Our Energy. On its own terms it's a pretty nifty little picture, with an emblematic 50s sci-fi cast.
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<title>Mick Garris on "God Told Me To A.K.A. Demon"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:31:54 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Shot guerilla-style all over New York City by celebrated maverick and TFH contributor Larry Cohen, this is one crazy movie!
A homicide spree hits town and the perps have only one thing in common: they all say "God told me to!"  Apocalyptic to say the least! ]]></description>
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<title>Larry Cohen on "Spartacus"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:31:21 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Credited to Stanley Kubrick, taking over from Anthony Mann (whose casting choices appear in abundance), this troubled epic from revered Lefties Dalton Trumbo and Howard Fast has become a touchstone of 60s cinema and for good reason -- it's less pious and more honestly moving than the comparatively overblown Ben-Hur.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:32:34 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When it was released on a 1958 double bill with "War of the Satellites", no one could have predicted that this mini-budget exploitation film would become one of the most famous titles in movie history.]]></description>
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<title>Mary Lambert on "House of Usher"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:02:18 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[First in Roger Corman's profitable series of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, this 1960 excursion into quality from AIP spawned an entire series based on the idea that high school kids could watch them and then do book reports without reading the originals!]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Monster From Mars A.K.A. Robot Monster"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:41:02 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This much maligned and conversely beloved 1953 cheapie, one of the most bizarre and notorious  "bad movies" ever, sports some surprisingly imaginative use of 3-D. Sold to tv only a few months after its theatrical release, it provided a surreal video jolt for fifties tykes with its lurid end of the world scenario.
With a cool music score by the then-blacklisted Elmer Bernstein.
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<title>John Landis on "Colossus: The Forbin Project"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:37:16 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Made in 1968 and shelved for nearly two years, this is one of the most intelligent science fiction pictures of its decade, but it failed to find an audience. An updated remake has recently been announced. Could we really be worse off with a computer running everything?]]></description>
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<title>Sam Hamm on "Journey to the Lost City"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:08:03 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An exploitation picture staple was the cutdown feature version of the 12-chapter serial, but they were seldom directed by filmmakers as distinguished as Fritz Lang, who fled Hitler to become a Hollywood success. But in 1960 AIP bought two elaborate 1957 German-made Lang adventures and combined them into one hectic movie.
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<title>Mick Garris on "The Vampire Lovers"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:32:55 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The first coproduction between England's Hammer Films and American International Pictures is an appropriately lurid affair, with many heaving bosoms showing the telltale marks of Carmilla, the lesbian vampire. Not as arty as Roger Vadim's superior "Blood and Roses", this was a big enough hit in 1970 to spawn two pulchritudinous follow-ups, "Lust for a Vampire" and "Twins of Evil".
 
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<title>Mick Garris on "X - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:34:08 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's not exactly "The Lost Weekend", but Oscar-winner Ray Milland does pretty well for himself by this low-budget but intriguingly Promethean 1963 sci-fi outing from Roger Corman, which anticipates the alternate reality concepts of his later "The Trip". Of course the trailer is more interested in the "X-ray specs" aspects of the idea, like seeing through women's clothes!
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Fiendish Ghouls"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:33:52 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The truncated third US release (after earlier tries as "Mania'", then "The Psycho Killers'") of John Gilling's 1960  retelling of the Burke and Hare story that formed the basis for Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Body Snatcher". Cut by a reel and a half and aimed at the lowest of brows, this version ends with Donald Pleasence getting a torch in his face.
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<title>John Landis on "The Fall of the Roman Empire"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:33:44 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[They don't make 'em like this anymore: those huge sets and cast of thousands aren't computer-generated but absolutely real, and those 1964-era actors are a darn sight more interesting than a lot of those we have on hand today.]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Danger Diabolik"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the great comic book movies of all time from the brilliant Italian director Mario Bava, whose visual dexterity was never widely appreciated during his lifetime.<br><br>An uncharacteristically elaborate 1967 pop art production for which Bava nonetheless employed his usual lovingly hand-made in-camera tricks.
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Incredible Petrified World"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:45:35 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Petrified is right! 30 percent new movie plus 70 percent stock footage equals one of the more outrageous excuses for a feature film since, well, since the previous Jerry Warren picture! But you gotta hand it to Jerry -- he made Ed Wood look like Bernardo Bertolucci, but he got these things made and people paid to see 'em!]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Unearthly"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you want monsters, this last gasp (circa 1957) of the old-fashioned mad doctor movie delivers in  spades. Made for a division of ABC television.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Terror"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:35:58 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This 1963 offshoot of Roger Corman's popular Edgar Allan Poe series has slipped into the public domain and is available on countless video labels, usually in crummy looking prints... this is from an original 35mm Technicolor print.]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "House on Haunted Hill"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:23:35 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[William Castle followed up "Macabre" with this trend-setting, darkly comic quintessential  B-picture whose 1959 success cemented Vincent Price as a horror icon for the next two decades.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "The T.A.M.I.  Show"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 15:38:57 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most of the archival footage you've seen of seminal rock acts comes from this groundbreaking musical documentary, shot In "Electronovision" and a huge hit for AIP in 1964.]]></description>
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