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Was once neighbors with Tom Savini

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  • Dead of Night
  • The Witch Who Came from the Sea
  • Fiend
  • Martin

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  • Wuthering Heights

  • Amateur

    ★★★★

  • Fiend

    ★★★★½

  • Shriek of the Mutilated

    ★★★★

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Alien Outlaw
★★★★★ Liked Watched

Alien Outlaw is a low budget science fiction / western set in the Appalachian hills of North Carolina. The movie follows a group of redneck alien poachers who hunt the local townsfolk. The only person who can stop them is Jesse Jamison, a hot shot trick-shooter on a trip to visit her mentor and friend (western b-movie legend, Lash LaRue) on his countryside property.

This is regional daylight horror at its finest; a menagerie of six-shooter alien mayhem and circular…

Martin
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Got to see this at the Carnegie Museum of Art with local filmmaker and Braddock native, Tony Buba in attendance.

I feel confident saying Romero was not a great director. That is not to say his best movies aren’t fun or important— quite the contrary. Romero at his best made brilliantly disguised social satire in the form of pop culture horror— even if it was completely circumstantial, the end result is no less impactful.

That said, Martin stands as Romero’s…

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Wuthering Heights
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Movie equivalent to shopping at Trader Joe’s

Viewed at the Manor Theater in Squirrel Hill

Carnival of Blood
★★½ Watched

Boredom of the psychotronic variety. While it may have put me to sleep, I did rewatch it several times from the beginning so it’s worth something. I’m a sucker for anything regional or set in amusement parks and this has both.

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Expostulations
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Saw a 16mm excerpt at Bottlerocket PGH, presented by Flea Market Films as the opener for Night of the Living Dead.

Romero scholar Adam Charles Hart gave an intro

Night of the Living Dead
★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

16mm print shown at Bottlerocket Social Hall along with the rare early experimental Romero short, Time Present— via Flea Market Films. First time seeing on film. Best time to live in Pittsburgh.

Introduction by Romero scholar Adam Charles Hart.