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Kicking off with a typically trashy generic and forgettable Eighties score and littering the screen with images of shockingly attired youngsters outside video shops (including an advertisement for Rambo 8: Rambo takes Russia) everything looks... Read more
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When I posted on-line that I had received a screener for The Initiation for reviewing purposes one of my on-line buddies enthused about how much he loves the film. Upon watching the film, and finding stretches of it dragging, it got me... Read more
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Quest for Fire, or “La guerre du feu” to give it it’s original title, is a challenging, daring and very unique film. Based on the 1911 Belgian novel by J.H. Rosny Sr. director Jean-Jacques Annaud (The Name of the Rose and The Bear)... Read more
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Possession is a complete mind-fuck of a movie, a full-on assault of your senses and one that just has to be seen to be believed. Unconventional and unsettling Possession will leave you gasping, with plenty to ponder after. By turns irritating... Read more
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Following on from his rather lacklustre The Fury (1978) and his curious comedy Home Movies (1979) director De Palma was in the process of writing a screenplay that he had based on an article written by Gerald Walker, which in turn became a... Read more
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The very idea of reading a book devoted to Witchfinder General was not an opportunity this reviewer leaped for joy over. Regardless of the accolades and acclaim that Michael Reeve’s Witchfinder General has reaped since its release, and over... Read more
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Santa Ynez, a small mountain town in Utah, is being terrorised by a rather naughty black car. You see this black car, a Lincoln Continental Mark III, has a very nasty habit of running people over, you know as in killing them outright, and then... Read more
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They say that when it comes to writing, always write what you know, and that’s exactly what Cronenberg did with the Brood, his fourth feature film. In penning a film where mutant children attack anyone that their mother feels anger towards... Read more
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Once upon a time, well 1812 to be precise, there was published, a fairy tale by the name of Hänsel and Gretel. The Brothers Grimm’s tale was about a brother and sister who get caught by a witch but manage to escape by throwing the old hag into... Read more
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Maybe I’m blinkered in my notion of what determines a cult film but doesn’t this mean it has a following of sort kind? Whoever The Vineyard‘s followers are they must be a shy bunch, and quite rightly so too given their apparent lack in good... Read more
