The Curator of Schlock
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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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The Curator of Schlock #4: Death Wish
The Curator of Schlock #4 by Jeffrey Shuster Death Wish (Fill Your Hand) AMC had a Death Wish marathon a few weeks back. I don’t know if the movies AMC airs these days are true classics or what classic even means these days when it comes to cinema. Maybe it’s the influence a movie has over… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #3: On Deadly Ground
The Curator of Schlock #3 by Jeffrey Shuster On Deadly Ground: Below the Belt You can tell Warner Bros. really cared about On Deadly Ground. Not many studios preserve the Pan & Scam jobs–I mean Pan and Scan jobs–they did on movies back in the days of tube TVs. It’s especially prescient for On Deadly Ground which… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #2: The Swarm
The Curator of Schlock #2 by Jeffrey Shuster The Swarm: Bees Kill! I know there are some of you out there that find the idea of a zombie apocalypse preposterous beyond belief. Okay then. How about bees? African Killer Bees! Ladies and gentlemen, I give you 1978’s The Swarm directed by the “master of disaster” himself… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #1: Nightmare City
The Curator of Schlock #1 by Jeffrey Shuster Nightmare City Why should you pop Umberto Lenzi’s Nightmare City into you’re DVD player? It’s called Nightmare City. What makes the city a nightmare city? Zombies. Lots and lots of zombies. Apparently, somewhere in Europe there was a radioactive spill at a nuclear plant. The movie doesn’t specify if it’s… Continue reading
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