Film
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Like a Geek God #11: Finding Our Footage
Like a Geek God #11 by Mark Pursell Finding Our Footage Part of what makes movies so delightful, so transporting, is the fantasy of it all. Even darkly-realistic, psychologically-complex movies are constructed, and no matter how engaged we are by them, there is always, at some level, the slight, smiling recognition that everything playing out before… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #13: Running Man
The Curator of Schlock #13 by Jeffrey Shuster Running Man (20 Seconds: Your Head Explodes) No, this is not a review of the 1987 action movie The Running Man starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto, and Richard Dawson. This is not a review of that dystopian science fiction movie set in a future… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #12: Phenomena
The Curator of Schlock #12 by Jeffrey Shuster Phenomena Many will cite Suspiria or Deep Red (Profundo Russo) and Italian director Dario Argento’s cinematic masterpieces. To be sure, those are fantastic films, journeys into the macabre shot in glorious Technicolor, the last of their kind before the process came to an end in the late… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #11: The House by the Cemetery
The Curator of Schlock #11 by Jeffrey Shuster Freud + Frankenstein= Freudstein (The House by the Cemetery) 1981’s The House by the Cemetery from Italian horror maestro Lucio Fulci starts out with a couple of teenagers getting brutally murdered in (you guessed it) a house by the cemetery. How are they murdered? Well, the one… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #9: Beyond the Door (The Child Must Be Born!)
The Curator of Schlock #9 by Jeffrey Shuster Beyond the Door: The Child Must Be Born! This month, I’m The Curator of Shock, serving you up some super scary movies. I hope you’re ready! First up is 1974’s Beyond the Door, a very freaky movie about demonic possession and demonic pregnancy. It’s The Exorcist and Rosemary’s… Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #8: The Destiny of Ellen Ripley
Like a Geek God #8 by Mark Pursell The Destiny of Ellen Ripley No franchise escapes the law of decay. With the exception, perhaps, of the Harry Potter novels, franchises—whether in books, movies, television, or video games—tend to flame out rather than finish strong. You can attribute this phenomenon to different factors—an exhaustion of ideas,… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #8: Death Wish 5
The Curator of Schlock #8 by Jeffrey Shuster Death Wish 5: The Face of Death If you haven’t figured out by now that the face of death is Charles Bronson, there’s no helping you. I want to make something clear. When Death Wish 5 The Face of Death was released theatrically, it was under the… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #7: Death Wish 4
The Curator of Schlock #7 by Jeffrey Shuster Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (Drugs are Bad!) Death Wish 4 The Crackdown. If you think this movie title suggests drugs, you’re right! Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) is getting his life back together after the event Death Wish 3. He’s cut back to shooting only three street… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #6: Death Wish 3
The Curator of Schlock #6 by Jeffrey Shuster Death Wish 3 (Mr. Vigilante) This is the one we’ve all been waiting for. We languished through the earnest sentimentality of Death Wish 1 and the sleazy sleaziness of Death Wish 2. Now we’ve arrived at Death Wish 3, the masterpiece of the vigilante genre. Its influence… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #5: Death Wish 2
The Curator of Schlock #5 by Jeffrey Shuster Death Wish 2: Who’s To Blame? Oh boy. I guess we have to talk about Death Wish 2 before we get to Death Wish 3. We know we’re in trouble as soon as we see producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus credits appear on the screen. Still, we… Continue reading
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