The Curator of Schlock
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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 #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 #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 #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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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 #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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