ANIMATION / ANIME / MANGA
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Shido Tatsuhiko is not only a private detective, he's a vampire with amnesia. He also
takes jobs from the NOS, a Japanese government agency that handles supernatural
threats like the demonic Nightbreed, (no relation to Clive Barker's film). Apart from
Yayoi, his beautiful contact with the NOS....[Read More]
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If you grew up in the 80s, Voltron was one of the dozen cartoon shows you either
watched or had cued up to record on your VHS player before getting ready to go to
school everyday of the week. To kick-start your morning all we needed was a large bowl
of your favourite cereal and a large....[Read More]
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From The beaver boys: (Dilly and Krink) a pair of white wine and shrimp guzzling partying
boys who love twins, white wine, shrimp and vomiting to the freaky Spagett: a bald man
with sauce around his face who likes to hide behind things and jump out at people, to the
bizarre relationship of Carol and Mr Henderson....[Read More]
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Director Ruben Fleischer has created the funniest, goriest, and most creative zombie film
that I have seen ever! The comedic value surpasses Shaun of the Dead. The gore level is
close to being on par with many of the zombie films of the last decade and caters to an
audience with a sharp....[Read More]
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Some critics have said that Diablo Cody and her writing talents may have been limited to
writing the story of Juno and thus categorizing her as a one-hit wonder and they may
have been right and that “maybe” is only a slight “maybe”. I say that because the story,
albeit not too highly....[Read More]
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Black Metal has always been a musical genre and life-style that has always intrigued me,
as far back in Junior High at the age of 11 years old when I first started to seriously get
into metal, borrowing my first Venom cassette tape, entitled Black Metal. Purists will say
Venom's album is....[Read More]
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CULT / CLASSIC / EXPLOITATION
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Dawn of the Dead has been hailed as Romero’s masterpiece, his best film and “one of the
best horror films ever made” (Ebert). There is no denying that Dawn of the Dead is a
classic film. Although not my favourite Romero (I prefer Martin) it’s definitely in my top
three. We’ve probably all....[Read More]
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I knew I would expecting too much for the brilliant Jean Rollin to produce a modern film
that would be equal to - if not greater than his various masterpieces from the ‘70s. And
well…Dracula’s Fiancée is just… I will just say that I prefer to remember him for the great
filmmaker he was....[Read More]
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It has to be seen that to the average gorehound, Lucio Fulci will always primarily be
remembered for 5 films made between 1979 and 1982; Zombi 2, City of the Living Dead,
The Beyond, The House by the Cemetery and New York Ripper, as these titles were
involved in the UK ‘Video....[Read More]
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Just a year later in 1975, the first of these sequels, Emmanuelle 2 (aka Emmanuelle: The
Joys of a Woman or Emmanuelle 2: The Anti-Virgin) appeared, with director Francis
Giacobetti replacing Just Jaekin at the helm. Giacobetti also takes co-writing credit for the
film (his only directorial outing) and went on to produce.....[Read More]
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The French have always been synonymous with erotic cinema and pornography; from
stag films being shown in Paris brothels at the turn of the last century, through the
modern age with films such as Exterminating Angels, The Last Mistress or Pascale
Ferran's adaptation of D.H Lawrence’s erotic classic....[Read More]
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Directors Franz Antel (Naughty Roommates, Tower of Screaming Virgins) and Michel
Caputo have collaborated and created a delightfully playful comedy filled with loads of
sex and nudity. This film is also complemented by some of the most gorgeous women
unclothed on film; none other than cult femme fatale Sybil Danning....[Read More]
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Little Otik, or to use its original Czech title, Otesánek (known also as Greedy Guts in the
USA), is surrealist master Jan Svankmajer’s updating of a popular Eastern European
fairytale from the mid-nineteenth century by Karel Jaromír Erben. As with Svankmajer’s
best known works....[Read More]
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Actress Haruka Ayase plays the role of a beautiful blind musician named Ichi who
journeys throughout the land in search for a blind masseur (either though the characters
name is never mentioned, its in fact the legendary Zatoichi - a fictional character featured
in one of Japan's longest....[Read More]
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The writers of Japanese genre films have an awful way with words, particularly when it
comes to the construction of dialogue. This could be one of two things. It could be
intentional, or it could be the fact that the Japanese language doesn’t translate well into
English. It’s debatable which....[Read More]
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HORROR / THRILLER / SUSPENSE
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This is the story of a squad of U.S. Army soldiers sent to Cambodia on a recon mission to
find out what happened to their scientists goes awry when the remains of them are strewn
about the lab. There is also one other minor detail I neglected to mention; the scientists
and Army soldiers have turned into zombies due to a bizarre infection caused by being
bitten by a rare scorpion....[Read More]
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Trick ‘r Treat is one of those old ‘80s anthology films like George Romero's Creepshow
(1982), Deadtime Stories (1986) or even that cheesy TROMA title Chillers (1987), where
you have a full length feature that is made up of a handful of short spooky stories that all
somehow are....[Read More]
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This gritty British film titled Mum & Dad would have to be one of the most sadistic films to
be released on DVD in 2009. As we all know family means the world to some families and
to others, depending on your upbringing and what happens behind closed doors can either
be embarrassing or a....[Read More]
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When Ice Queen opens with a wet T-shirt contest, a blonde hard-body with fake tits
tipping a bucket of cold water onto her scantily clad chest as a group of horny drunken
males try to contain their erections, you know right off the bat that the filmmakers are not
only going to insult your intelligence for the next ninety minutes....[Read More]
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Years ago Mobius Lockhardt was a preacher who got married and then got his wife
pregnant and all of the whores in the town of Amnesty go completely crazy and murder
every last person, including the preacher and his pregnant wife. The preacher, Mobius
(Andres Bagg), denounces Christ and becomes....[Read More]
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Nicholas Dread (Flambeaux) is a Catholic Priest and Inquisitor that finally comes to the
conclusion that this whole “burning witches at the stake” just isn’t right and goes to tell his
superiors that they are doing something wrong. Unfortunately, the powers that be don’t
agree with his viewpoint on things....[Read More]
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TELEVISION / BOXSETS / MISC GENRES
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A legendary Aussie punk film that has perhaps grown bigger in stature more for its hard
to find soundtrack and its star, the well hung Michael Hutchence, than for the actual movie
itself. But now that Umbrella Entertainment have released this special 2 DVD set, digitally
restored and re-graded to widescreen....[Read More]
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Never has one season of a reality television show portrayed someone that is so
superficial, vain, greedy, and arrogant such as Gene Simmons vocalist and bassist of the
legendary rock band KISS. I completely see why none of the original members of KISS
are ever making appearances on....[Read More]
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Sanctuary begins with Dr. Helen Magnus (Amanda Tapping - Stargate SG-1) who happens
to run a secret foundation where humans who suffer from abnormal genetic defects
(which are classified abnormals) are welcome to come and go as they please in Dr.
Magnus Sanctuary (a overly large underground shelter/prison)....[Read More]
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