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Hammer Vol. 1 – Fear Warning!
Starting out in 1939 as the little studio that could, Hammer would finally make their reputation in the late fifties reimagining Universal’s…
Articles by Charlie Largent
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How Much Shock Can You Stand?
Ghosts are famous for their flexibility, spiraling through keyholes and up from the floorboards in search of their next mark. But movies…
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Blood Feast
1963’s Blood Feast, the infamous gorefest from director Herschell Gordon Lewis, is a pox on our culture; grossly stupid, comically inept and…
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Othello
Shakespeare didn’t invent Orson Welles but he did define him; it can be said that if any one director took arms against the…
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The Hidden
After a demanding evening spent bumping and grinding at The Harem Room, a weary young dancer packs up her gear and exits…
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Personal Shopper
Written and directed by the French filmmaker Olivier Assayas, Personal Shopper is the story of a young woman in the midst of…
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Don’t Torture a Duckllng
Lucio Fulci’s most consistent trait might have been his instability. In fact it may have been the Italian director’s defining quality; lingering…
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THE WONDERFUL WORLDS OF RAY HARRYHAUSEN, VOLUME ONE: 1955-1960
Since the early days of home video Ray Harryhausen’s films have been a lightning rod for companies eager to one-up the competition…
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The Piano Teacher
Her face merely a mask just waiting to crack along with her sanity, the tortured spinster at the center of The Piano…
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David Lynch: The Art Life
Twin Peaks: The Return recently ended its 18 hour run on Showtime and with that it can be said that the 41…
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La Poison
One of the most insightful commentaries on Sacha Guitry’s La Poison can be found right there on the cover of Criterion’s beautiful…
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
A how-to book for fledgling libertines, David Reuben’s bestselling Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)…
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Jerry Lewis Returns to the Cosmos
On August 20, 2017, Jerry Lewis took a pratfall off this mortal coil, presumably knocking an unwitting dowager on her keister and…
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Bob Hope on Blu-ray
You pick up a lot of baggage when you live to be 100, a sentiment confirmed by the long, long movie career…
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Re-Animator
Released in 1985, Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator remains the grandest of Grand Guignols, a viscerally entertaining comedy that is just grindhouse enough for…
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Lost in America – The Criterion Collection
According to a Newsweek cover story published that same year, 1984 was “The Year of the Yuppie”, referring to those ferociously materialistic young…
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Straw Dogs – The Criterion Collection
Adrift from civilization, an attractive young couple find themselves threatened, assaulted, and eventually compelled to defend themselves in a bloody showdown. That…
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Ugetsu
In 1941 Orson Welles was busy giving the film industry a hot foot with Citizen Kane, a bullet-train of a movie whose…
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Dracula & The Mummy: Complete Legacy Collections
The 2016 blu ray release of the Frankenstein and Wolf Man Legacy Collections was a moment of celebration for movie and monster…
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THE LOVED ONE / BROKEN ARROW
Funeral Director: Before you go, I was just wondering… would you be interested in some extras for the loved one? Next Of…
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I BURY THE LIVING / THE SCREAMING SKULL
I Bury the Living implicates us in a primal childhood thought-crime… what if you stepped on a crack and really did break…
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RUMBLE FISH / EDGAR WALLACE COLLECTION
Rumble Fish, Francis Ford Coppola’s Young Adult tone poem, unspools in a black and white never-never land of sullen teens, pool tables…
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CHAMBER OF HORRORS / A GAME OF DEATH
Near the turn of the century a struggling war correspondent named Edgar Wallace began churning out detective stories for British monthlies like…
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AFTER THE FOX / BEING THERE
After The Fox, a sunny mid-sixties farce about con-artists and movie-makers, boasts a powerhouse pedigree featuring leading men Peter Sellers and Victor Mature,…
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ELLE / BLOW UP
Michèle Leblanc, glamorous entrepreneur of a successful video game company, is the calm at the center of many storms. Her son’s girlfriend…
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MULTIPLE MANIACS
Andy Warhol was nothing if not a multi-media maven. Along with his ubiquitous silkscreens and sculpture, he embraced movie-making beginning as early as…