Jeffrey Shuster
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The Curator of Schlock #20: Santa Claus, The Movie
The Curator of Schlock #20 by Jeffrey Shuster Santa Claus, The Movie If you hate this movie, you hate Christmas I took one look at Santa Baby 2 starring Jenny McCarthy and put my foot down. Enough made-for-TV Santa Claus movies! Even the Museum of Schlock has standards! It was time to watch something with Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #16: Cannibal Apocalypse
The Curator of Schlock #16 by Jeffrey Shuster Cannibal Apocalypse, AKA Invasion of the Flesh Hunters I tried to think of a movie to review for Thanksgiving. I know many of you are looking forward to munching down on succulent turkey in a few days, but have ever been tempted to sink you teeth into something Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #15: Chernobyl Diaries
The Curator of Schlock #15 by Jeffrey Shuster Chernobyl Diaries: Free Beef Jerky Included With Tour! I’m a sucker for cheap DVDs. Amazon was having a blowout sale the other week of $5 dollar DVDs. I purchased Falling Down, Up In Smoke, and Flashdance. And then I bought a $4 dollar DVD, Chernobyl Diaries. I remember 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 #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 #10: The Hand: A Story about a Phantom Limb (Mwa ha ha ha ha)
The Curator of Schlock #10 by Jeffrey Shuster The Hand: A Story about a Phantom Limb (Mwa ha ha ha ha) 1981’s The Hand is a psychological horror movie starring Michael Caine. Over here at The Museum of Schlock, we typically thumb our nose at psychological horror. We want blood and guts and zombies and devil 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 #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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