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Favorite films

  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  • Videodrome
  • The Hourglass Sanatorium
  • The Wicker Man

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  • X-Cross

    ★★★

  • Aesthetics of a Bullet

    ★★★½

  • The Snake Woman

    ★★★

  • Matador

    ★★★★

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Burial Ground
★★★★½ Liked Added

WARNING: THIS REVIEW SMELLS OF DEATH!!!

Bianchi’s notorious zombie shocker often plays second fiddle to the likes of the Italian ‘big boys’ of the genre, with Fulci’s Zombie Flesh Eaters, The Beyond, City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery stealing the hearts (and brains) of most horror fans. Add to this already impressive list the likes of Marino Girolami's Zombie Holocaust, Lenzi’s fun, radioactive zombie apocalypse vehicle Nightmare City, and even Mattei’s cheese-fest Zombie Creeping Flesh,…

I Drink Your Blood
★★★★½ Liked Added

I Drink Your Blood is one of my favourites from the 1970s, and is one of those films that does what it says on the tin, whilst subjecting 1970s post Charles Manson America to its own fetid paranoia of the satanic drug-riddled hippy cult.

Horace Bones' memorable opening quote sums the film up very nicely:

"Let it be known, sons and daughters, that Satan was an acid head. Drink from his cup; pledge yourselves. And together, we'll all freak out."…

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Electric Dragon 80000V
★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

It's been 20 years or so since I first watched this. An indicator I'm getting older is when I found myself thinking how much his electric bill would be when I saw those electricity usage meter numbers creep up higher and higher...

Pick-up
★★★½ Liked Watched

Trippy, Hippie love fest about a couple of young girls who hitch a ride with hippie Chuck, who has been tasked to deliver a mobile bus home across country. After a storm leaves them stranded somewhere in the Florida Everglades it is the perfect excuse for lots of spirituality, sex, and self-discovery.

This one is a real curio. Not your typical sexploitation flick at all, as it often borders on arthouse, with plenty of surrealism thrown in on top of…

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Sucker Punch
Watched

Before they added all the slo-mo, this was apparently a 6 minute music video.

Batman
★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Why I love this film so much:

- The Bat Copter!
- Bitch-slapping an exploding shark
- Dodgy Irish accented cop
- 'That' theme tune
- The Bat Boat!
- The nobility of a suicidal porpoise (!)
- A ball point banana
- Jet-pack umbrellas
- "Bless my dust pan!" & "Holy Halloween!"
- 'Dehydrated' pirates.
- "Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb!"
- 'Re-hydrated' pirates
- The Bat Cycle!
- Cat in a dinghy
- Umbrella/sword duel atop a submarine
- Bat Centrifuge!
- Bat ropes!

In summary: Forget Nolan's films; watch this instead.