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Fool's Views (4/16 – 4/30)
You're gonna need a bigger cigar box....Greetings, my friends! It’s funny how things fall out in the Doc’s office. I started off the year knocking out a bunch of director Richard Fleischer’s films, and...
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SLUGS (1988) Blu-ray review
Slugs (1988) d. Juan Piquer Simon (Spain/USA) (89 min) Simon, the maestro behind the gut-busting splatter flick Pieces, delivers another heaping helping of the red sauce, this time with toxic waste-fed...
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SCALPEL (1977) Blu-ray review
Scalpel (1977) d. John Grissmer (USA) (95 min) Dr. Phillip Reynolds (Robert Lansing), a renowned plastic surgeon, has a bit of a conundrum. His wealthy and recently deceased father-in-law has cut him...
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THE SEDUCTION (1982) Blu-ray review
The Seduction (1982) d. David Schmoeller (USA) (104 min) L.A. anchorwoman Jamie Douglas (Morgan Fairchild) has it all: a glamorous career on a top-rated news show, a luxurious house in the hills, and a...
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HELL NIGHT (1981) Blu-ray review
Hell Night (1981) d. Tom DeSimone (USA) (101 min) As a fraternity/sorority initiation rite, pledges Marti (Linda Blair), Jeff (Peter Barton), Denise (Suki Goodwin), and Seth (Vincent Van Patten) must...
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SUTURE (1993) Blu-ray review
Suture (1993) d. Scott McGehee / David Siegel (USA) (96 min) The wealthy and self-assured Vincent (Michael Harris) meets his blue-collar half-brother Clay (Dennis Haysbert) at their father's funeral...
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SUBMERGED (2016) Blu-ray review
Submerged (2016) d. Steven C. Miller (USA) (99 min) When a local business magnate (Tim Daly) cuts a goodly percentage of his work force, the ensuing negative press prompts the decision to promote his...
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THE UNCANNY (1977) Blu-ray Review
The Uncanny (1977) d. Denis Heroux (Canada/UK) (89 min) From the producing team of Milton Subotsky (purveyor of those awesome early ’70s Amicus anthologies) and Claude Heroux (the man behind such...
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Prepare for the coming CINEPOCALYPSE!!!
Cinepocalypse, Chicago’s premiere festival for electrifying and provocative genre cinema, returns to the Music Box Theatre June 13th for eight days of features, shorts, events and surprises, including...
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THE TORTURE CHAMBER OF DR. SADISM (1967) Blu-ray Review
The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967) d. Harald Reinl (Germany) (83 min) Sumptuously lensed German feature (aka Castle of the Walking Dead, Blood of the Virgins, and The Blood Demon, among others)...
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FENDER BENDER (2016) Blu-ray Review
Fender Bender (2016) d. Pavia, Mark (USA) (91 min) Following his auspicious feature debut, a much-lauded screen adaptation of Stephen King’s The Night Flier in 1997, we’ve heard precious little from...
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THEATER OF BLOOD (1973) Movie Review
Theater of Blood (1973) d. Douglas Hickox (UK) (104 min) In reportedly his personal favorite role over a very long career, Vincent Price has the time of his life as critically-reviled Shakespearean...
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PHANTASM (1979) Blu-ray Review
Phantasm (1979) d. Don Coscarelli (USA) (88 min) Following the death of their parents, teenager Mike (Michael Baldwin) develops a crippling fear that his older brother Jody (Bill Thornbury) will desert...
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THE NIGHT CREATURE FEATURES DIED (2018) DVD Review
The Night Creature Features Died (2018) d. John Stanley (USA) (105 min) While not technically a film, this collection of the between-movie, in-studio high jinks of the last four episodes of Creature...
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Fool's Views (5/1 – 5/15)
Hello, troops! The first half of the month was filled out in grand fashion with various spontaneous groupings of Views, from auto-related thrillers (Fender Bender, Submerged) to surgical theme nights...
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THE CLEANING LADY (2018) DVD Review
The Cleaning Lady (2018) d. Jon Knautz (USA) (90 min) Professional aesthetician and self-described “love addict” (complete with AA-type meetings) Alice (Alexis Kendra) finds herself embroiled in an...
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WHEN A STRANGER CALLS BACK (1993) Blu-ray Review
When a Stranger Calls Back (1993) d. Fred Walton (USA) (94 min) Five years after a terrifying baby-sitting ordeal, Julia (Jill Schoelen) is trying to put her life together when the past comes back to...
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DEATH WARMED UP (1984) Blu-ray Review
Death Warmed Up (1984) d. David Blyth (New Zealand) (80 min) Using experimental mind-controlling drugs, Dr. Archer Howell (Gary Day) diabolically murders his partner (David Weatherly) and his wife...
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FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN (1967) Blu-ray Review
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) d. Terence Fisher (UK) (92 min) Neatly rebounding from 1964’s quasi-Universal clunker, The Evil of Frankenstein, the fourth chapter in Hammer’s Frankenstein saga has...
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THE ENTITY (1982) Blu-ray review
The Entity (1982) d. Sidney J. Furie (USA) (125 min) Based on a documented case study from 1974, Barbara Hershey turns in a brave, harrowing performance as Carla Moran, a widow who is repeatedly raped...
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