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<title>John Landis on "The Alamo"</title>
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<description><![CDATA["Republic. I like the sound of the word."
No, it's not John Wayne talking about his former studio employers, but his directorial debut, the 70mm roadshow epic portrayal of the battle for Texas independence. Wayne lost a fortune on the picture, which was hacked into several shorter, less coherent general release versions, but it's been belatedly restored to its original 192 minute version. Beware shorter cuts.
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Sadist"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:57:11 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Grinning lunatic Arch Hall Jr. terrorizes three teachers in a desert junk yard for 94 real-time minutes in this little-seen but powerfully intense mini-budget drive-in classic. Hall even resembles Charles Starkweather, whose real-life teenage killing spree also inspired Badlands a decade later.]]></description>
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<title>Katt Shea on "The Egg and I"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:51:46 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As big a hit as it was, this progenitor of Green Acres probably wouldn't have been rereleased if supporting characters Ma and Pa Kettle hadn't broken out and spawned nine more popular barnyard comedies.]]></description>
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<title>Allison Anders on "Wild Guitar"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:02:34 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Designed for the bottom of drive-in double-bills, this rags-to-rocker saga stars Arch Hall Jr. as a pompadoured rube who becomes an instant sensation on a low-rent American Bandstand knockoff and heartbreak, naturally, ensues. Grunge auteur Ray Dennis Steckler directs and costars (as "Cash Flagg").]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Blast of Silence"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:57:58 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Finally retrieved from undeserved obscurity, Allen Baron's 1961 shoestring feature debut
is one of the seminal New York City movies. A dead-eyed mob hit man reaches the end of the line at Christmastime. Bleak, pessimistic and gritty, with similarities to Irving Lerner's  Murder by Contract.
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<title>Katt Shea on "Where Danger Lives"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:58:15 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Introducing Howard Hughes' latest discovery, Faith Domergue, as a wacko femme fatale who hooks fall guy doctor Robert Mitchum in her web. The underrated John Farrow provides his usual smooth direction including an amazing seven minute take. Mitchum sure is mean to Claude Rains in this trailer.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "Point Blank"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:00:06 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[John Boorman's dreamily stylized adaptation of a Donald E. Westlake novel was way ahead of its time, adapting New Wave techniques to produce a deliberately alienating effect that confused and annoyed the brass at MGM, and might even be a moment-of-death flashback. Lee Marvin's greatest role. Remade more conventionally as Payback in 1999.]]></description>
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<title>Eli Roth on "Rock 'N Roll High School"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:01:06 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Probably the most sheer fun New World Picture ever, Allan Arkush's classic would probably never have attained its legendary status without its most brilliant component -- the casting of The Ramones, the band your parents warned you about even though they didn't know they existed!
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<title>Howard Rodman on "Caged Heat"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:55:55 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Having produced several biker and Filipino women-in-cages pix for Roger Corman, Jonathan Demme got his chance to direct with this sleazy 1974 drive-in special replete with socially-committed prison-abuse trappings, costarring Russ Meyer starlet Erica Gavin and the indelible Barbara Steele. Joe Dante's first (overlong and way too expensive) trailer for New World.]]></description>
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<title>Jack Hill on "The Big Doll House"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:47:58 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Jack Hill recalls the making of his mega-hit, the Roger Corman/Cirio Santiago jungle prison flick that started the avalanche of busty-broads-behind-bars pix that packed the drive-ins throughout the 70s.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Satanic Rites of Dracula"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:26:46 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Last of the Hammer Draculas. A barely seen swan song, general neglect has relegated this one to the fuzzy world of the public domain,  where it can be had most anywhere for 99 cents as well as part of various cheapo "100 Horror Classics" DVD boxes.
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<title>Mark Pellington on "To Sir With Love"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:57:07 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sidney Poitier is indelible in one of his  signature roles. A very popular model of the selfless-teacher-inspires-disaffected-highschoolers genre that has flourished ever since. Writer-director James Clavell avoids sentimentality to a surprising (but not entirely absent) degree and the film remains an audience favorite 40 years later.]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "High Plains Drifter"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:55:31 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As close to a horror film as Clint Eastwood ever made. The Man With No Name returns, sort of, in director Eastwood's first western. Dedicated to Don Siegel and Sergio Leone. A bit of a dry run for the later Pale Rider. Not in the forefront of progressive portraits of women onscreen.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Skull"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:58:10 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Probably the most accomplished of the non-omnibus Amicus horror pix. Dedicated occult collector Peter Cushing scores a coup - the skull of the Marquis deSade. But it doesn't make him --or anyone else--very happy!]]></description>
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<title>Mark Pellington on "The Courtship of Eddie's Father"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:56:09 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mark Pellington has a very personal take on this bracingly unschmaltzy Vincente Minnelli domestic drama which is both more realistic and more emotional than the popular tv series it spawned.]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "Martin"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:58:29 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Wrapping up our George Romero tribute in conjunction with the Melbourne Film Festival, here is one of his least heralded independent productions, which plays fast and loose with many horror traditions. John Amplas is the titular serial-killer-vampire -- or is he?
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<title>Eli Roth on "Creepshow"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:55:57 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[With a slightly heftier budget and his first big-name cast, George Romero teams up with Stephen King for a quintet of E.C.-like comic book chillers that Really Do Look Like Comic Books!]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Day of the Dead"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:10:34 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[By this time the Dead have triumphed and human beings are on the run. Coolly received at the time of its spotty unrated release in 1985, this third Dead movie has been staging something of a critical comeback in recent years.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "Dawn of the Dead"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:35:08 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Some call this first Living Dead sequel Romero's masterpiece. Social satire alternates with gut-ripping gore to the strain's of Goblin's Argento-infuenced soundtrack. Exists in at least five different international versions. Currently being converted for reissue in 3-D .
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Giant Gila Monster"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:56:14 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Not all 50s monster pix came from Hollywood--some were regionally produced on miniscule budgets, like this minor entry in the enlarged varmint sweepstakes, slavishly following the misunderstood teens vs.clueless adult authority formula pioneered at AIP. The monster blows up real good, though.
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<title>John Landis on "King Solomon's Mines"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:55:24 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Actually filmed in the wilds of the Dark Continent!"  H. Rider Haggard's adventure classic gets the MGM treatment with spectacular location shooting that provided years of stock footage for cheaper jungle pictures.]]></description>
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<title>Mark Pellington on "Dial M for Murder"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:02:00 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hitchcock's only 3-D film is a sturdy and cleverly cast adaptation of a popular stage play which came at the tail end of the craze and played virtually all its bookings in 2-D.]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "The Fury"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:13:12 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[After the exploding head in Scanners everybody thought, okay, there's nothing more we can do to the human body --WRONG! What Brian dePalma does to John Cassavetes in this picture, Hitler did to Poland!
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<title>Michael Lehmann on "The Man Who Fell To Earth"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:57:30 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This (British) trailer goes out of its way to sell David Bowie (the best-cast alien since Michael Rennie in Day The Earth Stood Still) as The Second Coming, but Nic Roeg and Paul Mayersberg's adaptation of Walter Tevis' novel is one of the finest sci-fi pix ever made. Brutally cut for its initial US release, it's since been restored and is a must-see.
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<title>Howard Rodman on "The 10th Victim"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:57:29 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ursula Andress's bullet-spraying bra was the talk of the nation when Elio Petri's 1965 pop-sci fi spoof hit the screen. In the 21st century, violence is legally channeled into televised "hunts" for the public's amusement, an outlandish idea then--but dangerously close to reality (TV) today! Unforgettable jazz-lounge score by Piero Piccioni.]]></description>
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<title>Katt Shea on "They Call Her One-Eye"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:13:01 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Distributed under several titles including Thriller: A Cruel Picture  and Hooker's Revenge, this violent 1974 Swedish female revenge fantasy included hardcore inserts in some versions, but AIP's R-rated cut got the most play. Star Christina Lindberg is mute throughout.
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<title>George Hickenlooper on "The Last Voyage"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:54:39 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Another semi-documentary style thriller from Andrew Stone, who stressed real locations in his movies. This time he sinks an actual ocean liner for your viewing pleasure. Irwin Allen must have blanched with envy.]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Venom"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:36:31 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Notable for its great cast of functioning alcoholics, this British-made kidnap thriller deserves a better rep than it's got. Plenty of suspense and some swell shocks make it well worth checking out.]]></description>
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<title>Eli Roth on "The Birds"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:14:27 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Another marathon Hitchcock cult-of-personality trailer with not a single shot from the actual movie. Drolly scripted by Hitch's tv series intro-writer James Allardice.]]></description>
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<title>Allison Anders on "Forty Guns"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:29:11 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Not Sam Fuller's greatest western, but still stylish, ballsy and memorable if only for this exchange-- Barbara Stanwyck to Barry Sullivan about his gun: "Can I touch it?" - "It might go off in your face."]]></description>
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<title>Mark Pellington on "Rosemary's Baby"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:03:25 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[William Castle's greatest movie-- because it was directed by Roman Polanski! May be the finest book to film adaptation ever, brilliant in every detail. Naturally, it's slated to be remade--but we dunno who'd be foolish enough to try and improve on it]]></description>
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<title>Allison Anders on "Jailhouse Rock"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:53:39 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It helps to be an Elvis fan, but this 1957 deliquency drama (his third acting role) is still one of The King's better movies, from the "serious" period before The Colonel pimped him out to Sam Katzman.
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<title>Mark Pellington on "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:40:16 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Even today, 60 years later, the money-pit jokes in this picture still resonate. Cary Grant's attempt to build a house in the country leads to predictable disaster. Remade as The MONEY PIT and ARE WE DONE YET?, but this one's the best.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "The Errand Boy"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:56:33 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In his third outing as star and director, Jerry Lewis wrecks a movie studio that looks a lot like Paramount did in 1961. Mostly a series of backlot gags, this prefigures in some ways his most Pirandellian project, The Patsy, made three years later.]]></description>
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<title>Jack Hill on "Foxy Brown"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:55:38 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Don't mess aroun' with Foxy Brown!"  Writer-director Jack Hill made blaxploitation history with Coffy, then followed it up with another Pam Grier vehicle that mines the same AIP formula of sex and sensationalism . Watch out for those razor blades in her Afro!]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "The Defiant Ones"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:57 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Stanley Kramer's once controversial saga of two chain gang escapees on the run seems in retrospect pretty gutsy for its era. This trailer, like the feature itself, has no musical score.]]></description>
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<title>Stuart Gordon on "The Thing With Two Heads"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:59:42 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["They transplanted a WHITE BIGOT'S HEAD on to a SOUL BROTHER'S BODY! And now with the Fights, the Fuzz, the Chicks and the Choppers...Man, they're in really deeeeep trouble!"  That about covers it... but Rick Baker's 2-headed gorilla doesn't even make it into the trailer!]]></description>
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<title>Howard Rodman on "Touch Of Evil"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:26 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When top-billed Charlton Heston pushed for co-star Orson Welles to direct this late noir nobody imagined it would emerge as one of the key works in the Welles canon despite being recut and partially reshot by Universal. His last Hollywood studio project has become arguably Welles' most popular picture, although in 1958 it was dumped into theaters as a second feature.]]></description>
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<title>Stuart Gordon on "Nightmare Alley"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:02:23 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the darkest major studio movies of the post-war period, this bleakly cynical melodrama anticipates the most nihilistic upcoming noirs despite its classy auspices. A movie Tom Cruise needs to remake.]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Asylum"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:50:39 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Another terrific cast in one of the best of the Amicus multi-story horrors, set in a madhouse. Reissued as "House of Crazies".]]></description>
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<title>Rick Baker on "Mad Love"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:50:22 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Peter Lorre's Hollywood debut is one of the weirder pix ever to come from MGM, or maybe anywhere else. One of ace cinematographer Karl Freund's rare forays into directing, and his last. Gregg Toland photographed it, and years later Pauline Kael would claim he stole a lot of shots from this to use in Citizen Kane! ]]></description>
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<title>Michael Lehmann on "The Asphalt Jungle"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:52:49 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The King of Noirs. John Huston's powerful adaptation of W.R. Burnett's heist novel benefits from top-notch performances by a perfectly cast ensemble and Ben Maddow's terrific adaptation. You can bet Kubrick saw this several times before making "The Killing".]]></description>
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<title>Michael Lehmann on "Repulsion"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:01:25 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Roman Polanski's first English-language film is one of his best, a a brilliant study of a young French girl's descent into madness. Catherine Deneuve's most iconic performance, with one of the great closing shots ever.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "The Curse Of The Werewolf"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 00:01:25 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Oliver Reed scores in one of his early lead roles as the tormented hero of Hammer Films' only foray into lycanthropy, set in 18th century Spain. Anthony Dawson is great as the depraved, syphilitic Marques Siniestro who sets the plot in motion.
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<title>Michael Lehmann on "Johnny Guitar"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:17 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Nick Ray's wild "revisionist" western must be the most critically dissected Republic Picture ever. Pure fifties hysteria with Mercedes McCambridge at her most terrifyingly overwrought. Great cast and terrific score by Victor Young.
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<title>Allison Anders on "The Fastest Guitar Alive"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 01:34:59 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The great Roy Orbison's movie career goes down in a blaze of bullets in this ill-advised wild west stinkaroo, his first and last "acting" appearance. Roy doesn't even get a single line reading into this trailer, which is probably for the best. But he did just fine without the movies, thank you very much!]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Phantom Of The Paradise"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 23:57:11 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Brian De Palma and Paul Williams' satirical glam-rock-opera takeoff on the Lon Chaney classic is the very definition of a midnight movie: bizarre, stylish and totally out there in that unique anything-goes 70s mode that looks positively classical today.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Frankenstein 1970"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 00:01:30 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Well, it seemed pretty futuristic in 1958! At least there's a new-fangled atomic reactor in the Baron's basement. Boris Karloff returns to the property that made him famous, but this time it's 6' 8" wrestler Mike Lane playing the monster.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "In Society"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 23:57:12 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Wartime phenomena Bud and Lou at the height of their fame in one of their better-received vehicles, which happens to incorporate one of their best vaudeville reclaimations, the "Floogle Street" routine, here rechristened "<A HREF="http://youtube.com/watch?v=hSp0sMHVEpQ" TARGET="_blank">Bagel Street</A>", but given short shrift in the trailer.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "The Shootist"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 00:02:33 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Duke rides into the the sunset forever with a moving performance as a dying gunfighter in his final film, surrounded by a top-notch cast and crew.]]></description>
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<title>Allan Arkush on "The Horse Soldiers"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 23:53:07 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For some reason, this late John Ford cavalry picture has been relegated to the also-ran section, but it's one of his most accomplished works. Plus it's the one where Constance Towers leans her decollatage toward Wayne and Holden and purrs, "Would you like a leg or a breast?"]]></description>
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<title>Stuart Gordon on "True Grit"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 00:18:11 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[John Wayne finally landed an Oscar for his role as one-eyed marshal Rooster Cogburn in Henry Hathaway's scenic blockbuster, which charmingly retains the archaic speech patterns of the source novel. Great supporting cast.]]></description>
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<title>Michael Lehmann on "The Party"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 00:10:34 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers approach silent-movie purity in this non-stop, quintessentially '60s gagfest set at the kind of Hollywood party that Fatty Arbuckle wishes he'd lived to see.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "Kind Hearts And Coronets"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 23:58:04 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the greatest of the Ealing comedies, this blackly humorous multiple murder farce is best known for Alec Guinness's eight roles as all the D'ascoyne family victims, but it's really murderous lead Dennis Price who walks away with the acting honors.]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "Sullivan's Travels"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/151?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 23:58:32 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You couldn't tell from this trailer, which completely obscures the plot, or the obfuscating ad campaign ("Veronica Lake is on the take"(!)), but Preston Sturges' brilliant Hollywood satire, which inspired the Coen Bros. "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" and has been the target of decades of aborted remake attempts, is one of the finest movies about the movies ever made.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 00:50:47 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The second of Ray Harryhausen's low budget Columbia series improves on It Came from Beneath the Sea thanks to a better screenplay by blacklisted Bernard Gordon and straightforward direction by the ever-employed Fred F. Sears.
Unfortunately that tinny music is carried over, but it's still a classic of 50s sci fi. ]]></description>
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<title>George Hickenlooper on "Five Million Years To Earth / Quatermass and the Pit"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:54:23 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Third of Nigel Kneale's visionary Quatermass features adapted from his groundbreaking BBC serials, this one dispenses with Hammer's '50s reliance on transplanted US stars and took a decade to make it into production. Although somewhat cribbed from ideas in Arthur C Clarke's "Childhood's End", it's still one of the most challenging and intelligent sci-fi movies ever. This is the original British trailer.
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<title>Rick Baker on "Fiend Without a Face"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:13:06 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Renowned for the flying brains and sputtering gore of its final reel, this British sci-fi set in Canada has maintained semi-classic status over the decades despite the fact that it's actually pretty uneventful.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "This Is Spinal Tap"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:57:05 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This classic mockumentary about The World's Loudest Heavy Metal Band was largely improvised before unsuspecting patrons of various LA rock emporiums, who accepted Spinal Tap as a real band. May be the best film of its type ever.
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<title>Jon Davison on "Hollywood Blvd"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:40:26 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Producer Jon Davison takes us through the hurry-up production of one of the last of Roger Corman's "three girls" drive-in exploitation pictures in which nubile nurses, teachers or in this case starlets have semi-clothed adventures around LA for 80 minutes or so. Enthusiastically narrated, to say the least, by The Real Don Steele.]]></description>
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<title>George Hickenlooper on "Yellow Submarine"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:26:39 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Only a Blue Meanie could hate George Dunning's  limited animation classic, which screwed the pyschedelic cap onto the 1968 toothpaste that also included Kubrick's 2001 and predated MTV music videos by some 12 years.
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<title>Eli Roth on "Forbidden Planet"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:25:36 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dr. Morbius. His daughter Altaira. Robby the Robot. The Monster from the Id.  Did we mention Altaira? (!) All are cultural icons introduced in the best-loved space opera of the nifty fifties, based on The Bard and bolstered by memorable fx by Disney's Josh Meador as well as a famous free ticket promo gimmick from Quaker Oats. "Welcome to Altair 4, gentlemen."]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "This Island Earth"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:55:31 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the bigger interplanetary spectacles of the 50s, and one of the last films shot in 3-strip Technicolor, Universal's "Supreme Excitement of Our Time" brought out the sense of wonder in a generation of cold war tykes while scaring them half to death with the unlikely but cool "Mutants": "similar to the insect life on your own planet, but larger of course."]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Silent Running"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:17:09 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Stephen Bochco and Michael Cimino were among the writers of fx wizard Doug Trumbull's melancholy 1971 space odyssey, which has taken on belated luster in our globally steam-heated present. One of Bruce Dern's finest hours.]]></description>
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<title>Jon Davison on "Cockfighter / Born To Kill"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/195?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:57:54 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Producer Roger Corman was certain Monte Hellman's down home redneck version of The Hustler would be popular south of the Mason-Dixon line without realizing that cockfighting was a general market embarrassment by 1974. Here we have both the original trailer plus a somewhat desperate attempt to re-release it sans its basic gimmick.
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<title>Joe Dante on "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. / Crazy Music"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:01:37 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Columbia Pictures chief Harry Cohn never forgave producer Stanley Kramer for this early Dr. Suess fantasy that was supposed to be another Wizard of Oz but turned out more like Willie Wonka as directed by Liberace. One of the stranger major studio "family" films, with subtexts you just don't wanna know about.]]></description>
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<title>Eli Roth on "Exorcist II"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:13:14 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Eli Roth loves the trailer, hates the movie-- altho some of us at TFH regard John Boorman's ill-fated sequel as one of the most prodigiously imaginative and intellectually audacious, if dramatically inert, studio movies of the decade. Mangled after its disastrous opening, it's since been restored on dvd.]]></description>
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<title>George Hickenlooper on "Vanishing Point"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:57:30 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dodge Challenger sales spiked when this existential road trip hit the screen in 1971. Symbolism abounds but there's a gonzo rebel tone that makes this car chase extravaganza one of the cooler pix of the era, and one that defines the term Cult Classic. Charlotte Rampling's cameo as an Angel of Death was cut before release but exists in the British version, an extra on the dvd.
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<title>Allan Arkush on "Rebel Without a Cause"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:57:02 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's pretty much a bromide that if James Dean had not died at his peak he might have ended up like Troy Donahue, but in this emblematic Nick Ray film, released after Dean's death in a 1955 auto accident, he continues to electrify new generations with his raw emotion.]]></description>
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<title>Michael Lehmann on "Easy Rider"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/166?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:18:22 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dennis Hopper's counterculture classic started out as one more drive-in biker flick but morphed into something deeper, the right picture at the right time to sum up the 1960s and question the American Dream. A kick in the pants to the Hollywood establishment that jump-started the indie movement of the '70s.]]></description>
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<title>George Hickenlooper on "Night Of The Living Dead"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/184?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:57:17 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One-time industrial filmmaker George Romero's seminal Pittsburgh indie (an unauthorized re-imagining of "I Am Legend") changed the face of horror films and redefined the word "zombie" for a generation. It spawned a flood of imitations, but a copyright snafu sent Romero's signature work into the public domain and he had to remake it in color to reclaim rights to what became a popular series.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:21 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The kind of dual-bill programmer they stopped making in the early 60s, this combines tv-level production values with mildly horrific elements and a slumming cast of aging veterans. It does have lotsa skulls, though.]]></description>
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<title>Eli Roth on "Squirm"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:07:05 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Worms Gone Wild! The debut film of underrated director Jeff Lieberman is another entry in the popular 1970s nature-strikes-back genre, filmed on location in Georgia and a slimy drive-in staple for the next decade.]]></description>
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<title>Eli Roth on "Three On A Meathook"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:56:35 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The vanished grindhouse era of gory, misogynist Ed-Gein-inspired Psycho knockoffs lives again, at least for the three minutes it takes Eli Roth to guide us through this frustratingly misguided trailer.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Blood of the Man Devil/House of the Black Death"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:01:06 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When is a movie not even a movie? When it's just a patchwork of senseless footage cobbled together to make an unfinished project marginally releasable. Even the trailer for this is a mess.]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "Horrors Of The Black Museum"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/139?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:18:54 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dr Emile Franchel, then-star of LA channel 13's "Adventures in Hypnotism" program, introduces you to "Hypno-Vista" ("You can't resist it--it actually puts YOU in the picture!") as crazed crime writer Michael Gough dispatches victims with inventive torture devices. AIP's ad campaign is one of their best, even if the picture isn't.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "The Beguiled"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/170?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:03:13 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood used their combined boxoffice clout to get Universal to make this arty, Ambrose Bierce-like civil war gothic melodrama full of not-so-repressed psychosexuality. This trailer sells it like a Gone with the Wind soap opera. It flopped, but it's a unique and creepy movie.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Invasion, U.S.A."</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/171?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:59:01 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Lest America become overrun with Commie hordes, this urgent warning from Al Zugsmith in the form of a mass hallucination of stock footage destruction puts us on the right path to stockpiling armaments. It's actually lots of fun and it features both Lois Lanes from the tv Superman series in small roles.]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "The House That Screamed"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:28:16 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the year's big hits in its original Spanish 70mm version, but in America it was just another drive-in horror dualler for AIP. Even in its GP-rated cut there's a lot of creepy eroticism on view, and the girls' school setting provides lots of pulchritude, if not much nudity.]]></description>
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<title>Michael Lehmann on "Seconds"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:04:34 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[John Frankenheimer's chilling adaptation of David Ely's sci fi novel is one of the last classic works of his prolific 60s period before a dry spell and comeback in the 90s. A great score by Jerry Goldsmith and probably Rock Hudson's best performance.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Lord of the Flies"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/146?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:56:45 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Author William Golding turned down numerous entreaties for movie adaptations of his provocative novel, finally accepting Peter Brook's concept of taking 30 or so boys to a tropical island and semi-improvising a feature film. The result, surprisingly, was one of the most faithful movie versions of a novel to date.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "Don't Look Now"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:20:15 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For his third outing as a director, cinematographer Nicolas Roeg  came up with this sublimely creepy adaptation of a Daphne Du Maurier story shot on location in Venice. The simultaneous release of "The Exorcist" took some of the wind out of its sails in the US, but it's now considered a horror classic.
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<title>Joe Dante on "Blood And Roses"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:55:50 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Even with a trailer tracked with library music from Teenagers from Outer Space, Roger Vadim's gorgeous and sexy pre-Bava Euro-horror is one of the coolest, most unjustly neglected vampire pix of all time, mostly because it's been unseeable for years. Come on, Paramount, where's the DVD?]]></description>
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<title>Michael Lehmann on "Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/167?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:59:20 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It <I>seemed</I> like a good idea at the time-- give the sequel to one of Fox's soap opera hits to skinflick auteur Russ Meyer in the heady days of X-rated prosperity. Ok, it didn't work out so well at the boxoffice, but it did give us a touchstone for big studio psychotronic insanity that has yet to be matched. This trailer is mainly a staged photo shoot selling Russ-as-auteur.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "The Brain That Wouldn't Die"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/129?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:13:31 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Shot near Tarrytown, New York as "The Head That Wouldn't Die", this sleazy little gem sat unreleased for two years until AIP picked it up in 1962. Their numerous censor cuts for reasons of "good taste" (as if!) have been since restored and the whole sordid farrago is now available pretty much everywhere in its full, fuzzy public domain gory, er, glory.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "No Name On The Bullet"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:36:52 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sci fi specialist Jack Arnold's best Western casts Audie Murphy against type -or is he?- as a cold-blooded hit man who just might be Death personified and brings fear to a town full of guilty people. An underrated gem.]]></description>
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<title>Allan Arkush on "Winchester '73"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/153?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:18:24 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The first of eight collaborations between noir specialist Anthony Mann and a newly flinty James Stewart, this psychological western exudes corrosive post-war anxiety. It also trailblazed a groundbreaking profit participation deal (engineered by Stewart's agent Lew Wasserman) that transformed the industry. Dan Duryea shines in a classic bad guy performance that defined his career.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "Ulzana's Raid"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:14:18 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Robert Aldrich's brutal Cavalry vs Indians western is a Vietnam allegory that pulls no punches when it comes to violence. However, there seems to be no definitive version, since Aldrich and star Burt Lancaster each prepared different cuts of the film which were released domestically and abroad, and then recut again, often to eliminate horse falls. Various video releases add and drop scenes, dialog and alter the music score.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Creature From The Haunted Sea"</title>
<link>http://www.trailersfromhell.com/trailers/164?auto=1</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:02:58 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Roger Corman's goofiest movie didn't play many theaters in 1961 but found its audience during the following decade on late nite TV Creature Features. More off-kilter fun from writer Chuck Griffith. The third lead, billed as Edward Wain, is <I>Chinatown</I> screenwriter Robert Towne!]]></description>
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<title>Allan Arkush on "A Night At The Opera"</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Although some bemoan Irving Thalberg's civilizing influence on the Marx Brothers when they moved to MGM, this is probably their most popular picture. And seen with an audience, one of their all-time funniest.]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "The Magic Christian"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:12:03 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Long before Gordon Gekko told us "greed is good", Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers) embarked on a mad quest to prove that everyone has their price. Terry Southern transforms his cynical novel into a nihilistic lark full of celebrity cameos and Monty Python-esque gags, some contributed by actual soon-to-be Python members.
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<title>Dan Ireland on "The Girl Can't Help It"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:56:32 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Former animator Frank Tashlin sums up the 1950s in this hilarious live-action cartoon, a Mad Magazine parody come to life. The first major studio picture to showcase breakout rock&roll stars.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Mesa of Lost Women"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:55:45 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Have you ever been kissed by a woman like this?"   There are no words to describe this one, but Joe comes up with a few anyway.]]></description>
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<title>Allan Arkush on "Queen Of Outer Space"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:12:14 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Howdya like to drag that one to the High School Prom?" leers a horny astronaut while ogling the shapely acolytes of Queen Yllana, leader of the all-girl Venusian population. "I hate zat qveen", grumbles Chief Scientist Zsa Zsa Gabor, who doesn't appear to be in on the joke. Silly, spoofy and cheerfully chauvinistic, this one has many fans, some of them straight.]]></description>
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<title>Michael Lehmann on "Strangers on a Train"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:05:38 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Memorable setpieces and brilliant visuals abound in Hitchcock's return to major studio filmmaking after several uneven independent ventures. Robert Walker's finest hour.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Target Earth"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:58:36 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Before Robby and The Terminator, movie robots tended toward the bulky and box-like. One such vacuum-hosed menace stands in for offscreen hordes in this cheap but fun alien invasion saga, circa 1954.
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<title>Rick Baker on "The Man of a Thousand Faces"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:12:14 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For their 1957 "Silver Jubilee", Universal offered this occasionally accurate biopic of its biggest silent star, Lon Chaney, as portrayed by the always reliable James Cagney.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Confessions of an Opium Eater"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:59:43 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Albert Zugsmith's shining moment in an amiably disreputable career that nonetheless included producing pix by Sirk, Welles and Jack Arnold. Only Fu Manchu is missing from this hypnotically retrograde yellow peril hallucination starring Vincent Price and half the Asian actors in Hollywood.]]></description>
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<title>Allan Arkush on "The Trip"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Writer Jack Nicholson and star Peter Fonda told Roger Corman he couldn't make a movie about LSD without trying it at least once. So Roger took a caravan of pals to Big Sur, where he dutifully dropped acid and communed with the elements. Out of it all came his most personal and revealing film, a pop art time capsule that was banned in Britain for nearly a decade.
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<title>Dan Ireland on "The Haunting"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:13:02 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The subtle terror techniques that Robert Wise learned from his mentor Val Lewton are on uncanny display in the creepiest haunted house movie of them all. (The trailer's not too subtle, though.) Compare the original to the lamentable remake to see the difference between art and CGI junk.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Beast of Yucca Flats"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:13:51 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[By the time Swedish wrestler and best-selling Halloween mask Tor Johnson made this, his all-time worst picture, his career was behind him and the days of Ed Wood must have looked like Eden. The longest 54 minutes in movies.
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<title>Allison Anders on "Peeping Tom"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:29:39 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The first Video Nasty came not only before video but from the esteemed Michael Powell, whose career was sidetracked into shorts for The Childrens' Film Foundation by this much maligned and misunderstood rumination on the dark powers of cinema. In the US it was relegated to skinflick houses and grindhouse second features.]]></description>
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<title>Jack Hill on "Blood Bath"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:09:42 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Footage from several different movies has been cannibalized for this sleazy AIP favorite, which exists in alternate versions with various titles. Jack Hill, one of the co-conspirators, gives his side of the story for film scholars to pull out their hair over.]]></description>
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<title>Rick Baker on "How to Make a Monster"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:57:39 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Remarkably self-reflexive drive-in monster rally set at American International Studios, whose execs are being murdered by actors in monster makeups. Unofficial sequel to both Teenage Werewolf and Teenage Frankenstein.
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<title>Dan Ireland on "Imitation of Life"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:01:17 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Fannie Hurst's four-hankie bestseller had been filmed before in 1934, but Douglas Sirk's 1959 remake, his last Hollywood film, is the one to remember.
Derided at the time by critics and audiences, it has come to sum up Sirk's serial attack on the hypocritical institutions of family and motherhood as practiced in '50s America.]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Twitch of the Death Nerve"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:04:44 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The US trailer for Mario Bava's ecological killing field tries to talk us out of seeing the movie!]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "Once Upon A Time in the West"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:01:13 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sergio Leone's 1968 masterpiece gives the lie to the term "spaghetti western".
In a hastily shortened version it was a box-office disappointment in the U.S.but
it played in the same theater in Paris for years.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Horror of Dracula"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:59:50 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Terence Fisher's seminal vampire triumph pits Cushing against Lee in their greatest Hammer pairing and sets the pace for the next two decades of movie horror. This is the original Universal theatrical trailer, not the video reconstruction that appears on the Warner dvd.]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Carnage"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:07:16 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is the international export trailer for Mario Bava's trend-setting 1971 murder spree, presented entirely in solarized images. This film has had so many titles over the years that we don't have room to list them, but the one that stuck was the brilliant US reissue title "Twitch of the Death Nerve".]]></description>
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<title>Dan Ireland on "Bad Day At Black Rock"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:07:01 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[John Sturges' formalist masterpiece is also a progressive studio movie confronting post-WW2 racism. Andre Previn's possibly career-best music score turns up again in, of all places, the "Forbidden Planet" trailer!]]></description>
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<title>Rick Baker on "The War of the Worlds"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:03:21 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[George Pal's pioneering H.G. Wells adaptation updates the action to 1953 Los Angeles, with Oscar-winning state-of-the-art visual fx and sound effects so great they're still in use today.]]></description>
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<title>Rick Baker on "I Was a Teenage Werewolf"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:01:18 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Lightning in a bottle: AIP's penchant for making bargain- basement movies based on title and poster research paid off in spades with this hugely influential amalgam of juvenile delinquent and monster genres. The surprise hit of 1957.]]></description>
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<title>Jack Hill on "The Black Swan"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:57:22 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A great cast swashbuckles its way through Henry King's piratical spectacular with an assist from Leon Shamroy's Oscar-winning Technicolor cinematography. Splendid hokum in the overstuffed Darryl Zanuck tradition.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "International House"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:55:07 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The long-vanished 1930s tradition of feature-length parades of vaudeville and radio acts reaches its zenith with this racy pre-code vehicle for performers both famous and forgotten. What we wanna know is, where can we find more of Colonel Stoopnagle and Budd??!
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<title>Rick Baker on "The Time Machine"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:21:00 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[George Pal's greatest work finds the humanity in H.G. Wells' classic, ably served by Oscar-winning fx, Russ Garcia's memorable score and Rod Taylor and Alan Young's warm performances. A touchstone for a generation. Paul Frees seems quite enthusiastic about it!]]></description>
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<title>Jack Hill on "White Heat"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:25:33 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Raoul Walsh's most muscular gangster pic with an all-time great James Cagney as Cody Jarrett, the psychotic killer that only a mother could love. She's the underappreciated Margaret Wycherly, brilliant as the most monstrous mom since Agrippina. But she doesn't get much attention in the trailer.]]></description>
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<title>Dan Ireland on "Experiment in Terror"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:20:16 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Comic director Blake Edwards revisits his noir roots in this 1962 suspense classic cannily filmed on San Francisco locations. One of the biggest hits of the early 60s. And one of the most unusual trailers.]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Raw Meat"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:02:40 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A rather inelegant retitling of Gary Sherman's British thriller "Deathline", originally pitched to the grindhouse crowd but eventually rediscovered by critics and audiences on tv and video. One of Donald Pleasance's finest hours.
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Black Sleep"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:05 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Basil Rathbone's coldly obsessed Dr. Cadman looks like a dry run for Peter Cushing's Baron Frankenstein in this florid period monster rally with scary makeups by Gordon Bau. Akim Tamiroff's role was intended for Peter Lorre.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "The Bride and the Beast"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:15:11 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An angora-loving gorilla sets his sights on the curvy heroine in this bizarre Ed Wood jungle concoction that's evaded the Golden Turkey brigade only because he didn't direct it. They don't make 'em like this anymore, and anyway, they hardly ever did.]]></description>
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<title>Allison Anders on "Psych-Out"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:59:14 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dick Clark produced Richard Rush's ode to the Haight-Ashbury scene, filmed on location by Laszlo Kovacs in Psychedelic Color. Remember, as Dean Stockwell tells us, "all the games gotta go, or else it's just a plastic hassle"!
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<title>Allan Arkush on "Wild in the Streets"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:05:02 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[AIP toppers were floored by the unexpectedly positive reviews this lightning-in-a-bottle satire garnered in the volatile political world of 1968. The right movie at the right moment, it captured the mood of a country in crisis and propelled star Christopher Jones into a short-lived mainstream career that included a starring role in David Lean's "Ryan's Daughter".

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<title>Allison Anders on "Privilege"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:13:51 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Anticipating punk rock, Peter Watkins' semi-documentary study of a future society using music to enslave the masses appropriates some unauthorized reenactments from the National Film Board of Canada's groundbreaking Paul Anka docu "Lonely Boy". How Universal ended up distributing this is a mystery even they couldn't solve.
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<title>John Landis on "Sweet Smell of Success"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:56:54 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman's corrosive look at Power in America as typified by an unscrupulous and possibly insane Broadway columnist modeled on Ed Sullivan and Walter Winchell. Brilliantly directed by the underrated Alexander Mackendrick. A must-see.
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<title>Joe Dante on "Mr. Arkadin"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:38:03 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Orson Welles' most mysterious film has him playing a sinister international tycoon who, like Charles Foster Kane, is obsessed with his past, which he can't remember -- or can he? A motley assortment of the director's pals fill out the various roles, including then-wife Paola Mori.]]></description>
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<title>Allison Anders on "The Naked Spur"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:22:07 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Art Gilmore's breathless narration propels us through this classic trailer for the third collaboration between James Stewart and Anthony Mann, a rugged five-character psychological western with a great cast and gorgeous Rocky Mountain locations.
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<title>Joe Dante on "Tarantula"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:06:40 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Universal was the leader in slickly produced 50s genre pix, and here's another eerie desert-set chiller from Jack Arnold with good special fx and creepy makeups. Leo G. Carroll, one of Hitchcock's favorite actors, classes up the joint as the scientist whose serum results in big buggery.]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "Dementia 13"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:05:21 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Take the "D-13 Test" to find out if you're too crazy to see this shot-in-Ireland axe murder thriller from fledgling director Francis Ford Coppola. The gorgeous Luana Anders has one of her infrequent leads here, and Ronald Stein's score is one of his best.]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Suspiria"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:08:27 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Edgar has his own thoughts on the very different American trailer that accompanied the US release of Argento's classic.
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<title>Mick Garris on "White Zombie"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:23:19 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sure it's creaky, but this early talkie from poverty row was the first zombie movie and visually it's still pretty cool. Bela Lugosi is the indelibly named Murder Legendre, head zombie master on a Haitian plantation where the dead don't charge for their labor. First takes seem to be the rule, as there are a number of flubbed lines and missed camera moves. This is the 1952 reissue trailer.
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<title>John Landis on "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:56:02 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[After "Young Frankenstein", this is probably the best-loved horror comedy of all time and is more elaborately produced than the previous two serious Frankenstein films. Bela Lugosi's final turn as Dracula, and his last major studio picture. Great music score by Frank Skinner turned up in numerous subsequent A&C monster rallies.
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Suspiria - International Version"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:10:06 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Taking up the lurid mantel of Mario Bava, former film critic Dario Argento rocketed to international prominence with this highly influential giallo which spawned countless imitations.
This is the international trailer made for export.
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<title>Allan Arkush on "The Knack"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:12:32 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Philadelphia-born Director Richard Lester sandwiched this wacky paeon to Swinging '60s London between "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help!". Based on Ann Jellicoe's play and notable as the fleeting screen debuts of Jacqueline Bissett, Jane Birkin and Charlotte Rampling.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:02:10 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Although one wag said of director Stanley Kramer's all-star Cinerama extravaganza, "it shows what happens when a man who doesn't understand drama tries to do comedy", the years have been kind to it. Nostalgia for the once-in-a-lifetime ensemble cast alone would get it by, but the extravagant stunt work that seemed so unwhimsical in 1963 is now commonplace in movie comedy.
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<title>Mick Garris on "Kiss Me Stupid"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:11:23 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Billy Wilder took a lotta brickbats for this "vulgar", "tasteless" and "crude" sex comedy set in Climax, Nevada, which was roundly condemned from pulpits and lecterns countrywide in 1964. Its sleazy reputation has been somewhat rehabilitated over the years as pop culture has raced to embrace such concepts as DNA hair gel and carnal relations with baked goods.
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<title>Joe Dante on "Daughter of Dr. Jekyll"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:30:21 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Low-budget auteur Edgar G. Ulmer, who gave us "Detour" and "Man from Planet X" proves you can't win 'em all with this derivative and nonsensical second-feature set in the 1800s, but shot in a Hancock Park mansion through whose windows 1957 cars can be seen driving by.
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<title>Allison Anders on "All That Heaven Allows"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:25:47 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Another lacerating depiction of the values of post-war middle-class Americans from Douglas Sirk, who Universal seemed to regard merely as their house soap-opera specialist. Once again a long-suffering spouse is put through the ringer; here it's widow Jane Wyman taking flak from the country club set as well as her selfish kids for her affair with much younger free spirit Rock Hudson.
 
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<title>Allan Arkush on "House of Bamboo"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:06:08 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Former tabloid reporter Sam Fuller's dynamic movies have been called crude and primitive, but at their best they play like a punch in the jaw. Fox's Darryl F. Zanuck believed in him and afforded the indie-oriented Fuller his most mainstream commercial opportunities in the 50s. This is the most exotic of the group.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "From Hell It Came"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:01:41 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An indication of the attention to detail that distinguishes this 1957 triumph
of concept over execution is that the walking tree monster Tobonga (who terrorizes the tropical island of Griffith Park) is identified as
Baranga in this trailer!

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<title>John Landis on "Sunset Boulevard"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:02:36 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Billy Wilder royally p.o.'d most of the Hollywood establishment with this devastatingly dark yet moving take of the tragic decline of silent movie queen Norma Desmond (an unforgettable Gloria Swanson), pushed aside by an unfeeling industry. One of the all-time greats. "I AM big! It's the PICTURES that got small!"
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<title>Sam Hamm on "The Intruder"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:59:14 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In 1961 Roger Corman took a flyer from his exploitation roots and made one from the heart, from Charles Beaumont's angry novel inspired by the rabble-rousing exploits of Southern racist John Kasper.  When exhibitors refused to book it, Corman returned to Edgar Allan Poe and the movie disappeared into grindhouse hell under titles like Shame and I Hate Your Guts. William Shatner stars, but Corman's first choice was...Tony Randall!
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<title>Mick Garris on "Son of Kong"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:05:26 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Everybody's favorite director Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) is dodging bill collectors who want him to pay for King Kong's Big Apple antics and finds himself back on Skull Island with the lovely Helen Mack in this hastily-produced sequel.
A family tragedy during production resulted in fx genius Willis O'Brien entrusting some of the animation to assistants.
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<title>Larry Cohen on "Marnie"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:20:53 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Another elaborate personalized Hitchcock trailer. His "sex mystery" followup to The Birds has its adherents, but Larry Cohen isn't one of them. Nice Bernard Herrmann score though, and the star of Family Plot has a supporting role.
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<title>Allan Arkush on "Bucket of Blood"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:54:56 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Life is an obscure hobo, bumming a ride on the omnibus of art."
The wit and wisdom of writer Charles B. Griffith, Roger Corman's hipper-than-thou alter-ego, is in even fuller flower here than in his classic followup, "Little Shop of Horrors", aided immeasurably by Dick Miller's indelible performance as psychotic busboy Walter Paisley. 
<B>Update: Chuck passed away the week of 9/26/07 at the age of 77, leaving a legacy of brilliantly off-center, if unjustly underappreciated, satirical comedy.</B>
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Revenge of Frankenstein"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:55:17 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Terence Fisher returns to direct the first (and best?) of six sequels to the groundbreaking Curse of Frankenstein, bringing new complexity and plenty of gallows humor to the character of Baron Frankenstein, the alternately malevolent and admirable protagonist whose grand experiments just never seem to work out.
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<title>Allan Arkush on "Rio Bravo"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:00:35 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Howard Hawks' riposte to the likes of "High Noon" and "3:10 to Yuma" is one of the great Movie Star Westerns, cannily targeted at every demographic available.

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<title>John Landis on "Psycho"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:16:48 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A most unusual trailer (almost a short subject at nearly 7 minutes long) from 1960, when Hitchcock had merchandised himself a la Walt Disney into one of the most recognizable movie directors on earth.
WARNING! MR. LANDIS REQUESTS YOU WATCH THIS TRAILER FIRST WITHOUT HIS VOICEOVER TO ENJOY MR. HITCHCOCK'S NARRATION.  ]]></description>
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<title>Sam Hamm on "20 Million Miles to Earth"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:04:56 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The dino-like Ymir is one of Ray Harryhausen's most personable stop-motion creations and the last to benefit from his brilliant black-and-white lighting. Currently available in a lamentably colorized video version which shows Ray's work to its least advantage.

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<title>Mary Lambert on "The Masque of the Red Death"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:02:51 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This time the Corman/Poe series moves to England for what is generally considered the best film in the series. Tabloid news was made circa 1964 when costar Jane Asher's boyfriend visted the set: Paul McCartney.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Innocents"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:30:02 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Jack Clayton's masterpiece, one of the greatest cinematic ghost stories, is ill-served by this lowbrow trailer that sells it like a cheap Eurotrash import. Film debut of the
lovely and talented Pamela Frankin.
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<title>Mick Garris on "The Raven"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:15:20 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Having added some comedy to his earlier Poe trilogy "Tales of Terror", Roger Corman went all out for humor in this popular 1963 entry, which was nevertheless sold basically as a straight horror film. But the image of Peter Lorre in a bird costume was kind of a tipoff...
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<title>Sam Hamm on "Scream of Fear"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:01:16 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Psycho" spawned a cottage industry of twist-ending killer-thrillers, and this modest Hammer entry is one of the best. Psycho's unconventional ad campaign also led to gambits like this one, pretending the movie was just too scary to show any actual footage in the trailer!
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<title>Larry Cohen on "God Told Me To A.K.A. Demon"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:49:14 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We know, we've already posted a commentary about this one, but it seemed like once we got its director, Larry Cohen, in the Trailers from Hell chair we'd be remiss if we didn't ask him to talk about it as well... so here's the first TFH commentary by the Director of the actual movie!]]></description>
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<title>Larry Cohen on "El Cid"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:14:32 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Another enormous Samuel L. Bronston historical spectacle with big stars and epochal Euro production values, directed by the perennially underrated Anthony Mann, fresh from his being fired from Spartacus.]]></description>
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<title>Mary Lambert on "Carnival of Souls"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:17:08 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Kansas industrial filmmaker Herk Harvey's barely-distributed 1962 ghost story languished in obscurity for years, but has now taken its place as one of the most influential indie productions of the sixties.]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:41:56 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hammer competitor Amicus Films found their mojo with this 1964 multi-story horror omnibus, which led to countless iterations of the same formula, including their biggest hit "Tales from the Crypt". The genius of the portmanteau system was that the actors were often needed for only a few days, which allowed for casts that were almost ridiculously classy.]]></description>
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<title>Larry Cohen on "Black Sunday AKA-Mask of the Demon"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:23:02 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The worldwide success of Mario Bava's official directorial debut spurred the brilliant cinematographer on to a new career and made an international star of the entrancing Barbara Steele. U.S.distributor AIP changed the title and claimed it was too scary for anyone under the age of...well, 12.

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<title>Sam Hamm on "13 Ghosts"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:59:11 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Aiming squarely at the allowances of moppet readers of Famous Monsters of Filmland, William Castle followed "Percepto" with a new gimmick in 1960, "Illusion-O".
Paul Frees' scary narration probably got him the job as the voice of the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "She Demons"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:17:42 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Castaways on a tropical island run by Nazi fugitives who turn native girls into monsters! If that sounds appealing to you, then this threadbare 1958 drive-in cheapie is up your alley!
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Cyclops"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:57:56 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Giant monster specialist Bert I. Gordon's only somewhat improved followup to "King Dinosaur" was shot in 1955 but didn't make it to theaters til 1957, on a double bill with Ulmer's "Daughter of Dr. Jekyll", satisfying only the fans of pert starlet Gloria Talbott, who starred in both.

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<title>Mary Lambert on "The Pit and the Pendulum"</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:58:50 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Probably the best known of the AIP Corman/Poe series, circa 1961.  Writer Richard Matheson  had to concoct an almost entirely new story incorporating Poe's central  situation. The great Paul Frees narrates the trailer.]]></description>
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<title>Larry Cohen on "Invaders From Mars"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:22:01 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[His 1935 "Things to Come" is more prestigious, but famed production designer Wm. Cameron Menzies reached his directorial zenith with this deliberately unreal "B" that has creeped out several generations of kids.  The great Art Gilmore narrates a classic trailer for a seminal movie. In SuperCineColor!]]></description>
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<title>Mary Lambert on "Village of the Damned"</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:56:33 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A "sleeper" is a boxoffice success that comes out of nowhere.  And no one expected  this modest 1960 British import, based on John Wyndham's "The Midwich Cuckoos", to catch the attention of a worldwide audience and inspire its own (some think even better) sequel.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "These Are The Damned"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:32:34 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Fascinating mixture of science fiction and social comment from Hammer Films circa 1961. Rumored for a long-overdue dvd release, this bleak but moving atomic parable still packs a punch and was recently unveiled in its original cut on Turner Classic Movies over 40 years after its truncated release. With an emotion-packed score by James Bernard.

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<title>Sam Hamm on "Kronos"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:32:17 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Jack Rabin and Irving Block were a couple of indie FX mavens whose works ranged from Night of the Hunter to Robot Monster.  But one of their most offbeat creations was the giant alien robot Kronos, who wanted not Our Women but Our Energy. On its own terms it's a pretty nifty little picture, with an emblematic 50s sci-fi cast.
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<title>Mick Garris on "God Told Me To A.K.A. Demon"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:31:54 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Shot guerilla-style all over New York City by celebrated maverick and TFH contributor Larry Cohen, this is one crazy movie!
A homicide spree hits town and the perps have only one thing in common: they all say "God told me to!"  Apocalyptic to say the least! ]]></description>
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<title>Larry Cohen on "Spartacus"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:31:21 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Credited to Stanley Kubrick, taking over from Anthony Mann (whose casting choices appear in abundance), this troubled epic from revered Lefties Dalton Trumbo and Howard Fast has become a touchstone of 60s cinema and for good reason -- it's less pious and more honestly moving than the comparatively overblown Ben-Hur.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:32:34 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When it was released on a 1958 double bill with "War of the Satellites", no one could have predicted that this mini-budget exploitation film would become one of the most famous titles in movie history.]]></description>
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<title>Mary Lambert on "House of Usher"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:02:18 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[First in Roger Corman's profitable series of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, this 1960 excursion into quality from AIP spawned an entire series based on the idea that high school kids could watch them and then do book reports without reading the originals!]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "Monster From Mars A.K.A. Robot Monster"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:41:02 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This much maligned and conversely beloved 1953 cheapie, one of the most bizarre and notorious  "bad movies" ever, sports some surprisingly imaginative use of 3-D. Sold to tv only a few months after its theatrical release, it provided a surreal video jolt for fifties tykes with its lurid end of the world scenario.
With a cool music score by the then-blacklisted Elmer Bernstein.
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<title>John Landis on "Colossus: The Forbin Project"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:37:16 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Made in 1968 and shelved for nearly two years, this is one of the most intelligent science fiction pictures of its decade, but it failed to find an audience. An updated remake has recently been announced. Could we really be worse off with a computer running everything?]]></description>
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<title>Sam Hamm on "Journey to the Lost City"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:08:03 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An exploitation picture staple was the cutdown feature version of the 12-chapter serial, but they were seldom directed by filmmakers as distinguished as Fritz Lang, who fled Hitler to become a Hollywood success. But in 1960 AIP bought two elaborate 1957 German-made Lang adventures and combined them into one hectic movie.
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<title>Mick Garris on "The Vampire Lovers"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:32:55 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The first coproduction between England's Hammer Films and American International Pictures is an appropriately lurid affair, with many heaving bosoms showing the telltale marks of Carmilla, the lesbian vampire. Not as arty as Roger Vadim's superior "Blood and Roses", this was a big enough hit in 1970 to spawn two pulchritudinous follow-ups, "Lust for a Vampire" and "Twins of Evil".
 
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<title>Mick Garris on "X - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:34:08 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's not exactly "The Lost Weekend", but Oscar-winner Ray Milland does pretty well for himself by this low-budget but intriguingly Promethean 1963 sci-fi outing from Roger Corman, which anticipates the alternate reality concepts of his later "The Trip". Of course the trailer is more interested in the "X-ray specs" aspects of the idea, like seeing through women's clothes!
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Fiendish Ghouls"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:33:52 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The truncated third US release (after earlier tries as "Mania'", then "The Psycho Killers'") of John Gilling's 1960  retelling of the Burke and Hare story that formed the basis for Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Body Snatcher". Cut by a reel and a half and aimed at the lowest of brows, this version ends with Donald Pleasence getting a torch in his face.
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<title>John Landis on "The Fall of the Roman Empire"</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:33:44 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[They don't make 'em like this anymore: those huge sets and cast of thousands aren't computer-generated but absolutely real, and those 1964-era actors are a darn sight more interesting than a lot of those we have on hand today.]]></description>
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<title>Edgar Wright on "Danger Diabolik"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the great comic book movies of all time from the brilliant Italian director Mario Bava, whose visual dexterity was never widely appreciated during his lifetime.<br><br>An uncharacteristically elaborate 1967 pop art production for which Bava nonetheless employed his usual lovingly hand-made in-camera tricks.
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Incredible Petrified World"</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:45:35 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Petrified is right! 30 percent new movie plus 70 percent stock footage equals one of the more outrageous excuses for a feature film since, well, since the previous Jerry Warren picture! But you gotta hand it to Jerry -- he made Ed Wood look like Bernardo Bertolucci, but he got these things made and people paid to see 'em!]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Unearthly"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you want monsters, this last gasp (circa 1957) of the old-fashioned mad doctor movie delivers in  spades. Made for a division of ABC television.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Dante on "The Terror"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:35:58 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This 1963 offshoot of Roger Corman's popular Edgar Allan Poe series has slipped into the public domain and is available on countless video labels, usually in crummy looking prints... this is from an original 35mm Technicolor print.]]></description>
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<title>Mick Garris on "House on Haunted Hill"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:23:35 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[William Castle followed up "Macabre" with this trend-setting, darkly comic quintessential  B-picture whose 1959 success cemented Vincent Price as a horror icon for the next two decades.]]></description>
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<title>John Landis on "The T.A.M.I.  Show"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 15:38:57 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most of the archival footage you've seen of seminal rock acts comes from this groundbreaking musical documentary, shot In "Electronovision" and a huge hit for AIP in 1964.]]></description>
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