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The Dark Secret of Harvest Home - I was wary of putting this on because of the long run time but thankfully this was entertaining enough that it flew by. A family moves to a new town after stopping there by chance and being offered a house for a good price and while the wife and daughter seem to get more and more drawn into the towns local customs the husband begins to investigate and becomes more and more suspicious of the town. A great slow burn well worth the run time and low quality video/sound!
Watched this on Youtube since there doesn't appear to be a release of it. The 2 part version (Part 1, Part 2) looked better than the one that has both parts as a single video (darker and stretched) but they both appear to be from the same source as they both have other problems that are identical.

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Queen Of Villains - Netflix series about All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling in the late 70's/early 80's, focusing on Dump Matsumoto. I had no knowledge of any of this going in, but it turned me into a fan. (Luckily, there's a ton of old matches and promo stuff on youtube and reddit.) Cool underdog story with great production values and attention to detail. Interesting too, the show doesn't 100% break kayfabe, which is fun.

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The Intruder Within - It's not hard to see the heavy Alien influence on this fun TV movie about people drilling for oil in the deepest part of the sea who bring up a new deadly creature that tries to mate with and kill them. The creature even looks like the alien from Alien in it's early stages and a bit like a cross between the same Alien and Chatterer fully grown, even the oil rig is reminiscent of the ship. All in all a good time, I've really been getting into these older TV movies lately.

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Frogs Kino Cult Blu-Ray: This is a movie that I first saw when I was thirteen and have had a great affection for ever since. There isn't much to write home about when it comes to this release, but it does have a fun audio commentary with David Del Valle and Dan Marino (the son of the football player), who acknowledge that the movie is really goofy but they clearly love it. However, Marino goes a little too far with his running joke about taking a shot every time a frog is onscreen. There's also an interview with Joan Van Ark, which was on the Scream Factory double feature with this and Food of the Gods, but it's only ten minutes long. Still, she's clearly come around to not seeing this movie as an embarrassment, which she admits she used to. It would've been nice to hear Sam Elliot talk about this, but I know you'd never get him to.

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The Comedy of Terrors Kino Lorber Blu-Ray: I really enjoy this flick. It's one of my personal favorite AIP movies from that period, with the actors all giving wonderful and hilarious performances. This Blu-Ray not only has an old interview with Richard Matheson talking about writing the movie but also an audio commentary by Tim Lucas, which was interesting and fun (although, I kept getting distracted while listening to it).

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The Muppets-Blu ray

Wanted a comedy. Ended up singing along with every song. Plus mom watched it with us. So wondered why we both kept laughing when first the Barber shop quartet did Nirvana then Gonzo's chicken's covered FUCK YOU.

Beethoven-Youtube Free movies

got told that after dinner we were doing a movie. Cool,and it had to be funny. "Not funny in the way you find stuff funny." So saw this was on YT. Holds up fairly well for an early 90s kids movie.

Maggot Ass the Wonder mutt would look at the screen any time a dog barked or howled.

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Desecration - Though it wasn't anything great I was pleasantly surprised by this one as it is one I've passed on for years thinking it would be a terrible mess. Instead I found it coherent enough and even found a few of the scenes to be pretty well done in the creepy sense, the story is somewhat blah and convoluted but it's really nothing terrible imo. The worst thing about this movie is the video quality since apparently all that exists of this one is a tape master but I feel like it could have been better seeing as how there seemed to be frame rate/motion issues throughout the whole movie.

Hollywood 90028 - A lot of the comments about this movie go on about it being a sort of time-capsule movie and while I agree I would also suggest that this might just be the best thing about this movie. Aside from the sights and locations it's predictable and somewhat below-average with a really great final shot. Overall I thought it was OK but my doubts about it turned out to be not so unfounded.

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Godzilla Minus One: Watched this with my dad last night. Saw it in theaters last year and it was really cool to check it out again. Definitely an awesome Godzilla movie in every respect, and it looked really good on the Blu-Ray. However, this specialized release from Godzilla.com, which is an Americanized version of the Japanese 4K/Blu-Ray set, has the special features disc but there are no subtitles. Before you even get to the menu, it comes up and says, "In order to give you an authentic Japanese home media experience, there are no subtitles here." Well, that may make it authentic, but that's downright useless for someone who doesn't speak Japanese.

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Turner and Hooch

Tonight's after dinner movie. I haven't seen it since the VHS rental days. And it aint bad. Worth seeing but not worth owning. On Youtube free movies right now.

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The Skull. I'd seen this once before. Definitely an unusual and sometimes surreal film, with long stretches without any dialogue, and Peter Cushing carrying much of it, despite there being other noteworthy actors in it, including Christopher Lee, who only appears in three or four scenes. This Region B Eureka! Video release has two interviews, one with Jonathan Rigby and the other with Kim Newman, both whom of give a lot of insight into the movie, as well as Amicus Films in general.

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Spider Baby. Seen this five years ago. Definitely an oddball movie and unique for its time, and while I may not be absolutely in love with it like so many people are, I do think it's interesting, Lon Chaney Jr., in particular, giving a great performance. This Arrow Video Blu-Ray has all of the features from the Dark Sky Entertainment edition, as well as a couple of new ones, like a panel discussion on the movie from 2012 and The Host, a short film that Jack Hill made, which also starred Sid Haig.

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Joe Bob's airing of Deathstalker from the Corman tribute show.

Love me some early 80s Sword and Sorcery films. Deathstalker is fun.

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Night of the Living Dead Criterion Collection Blu-Ray. Avoided getting this for a long time, as I simply didn't want to buy another copy of this, especially one as pricey as the Criterion Collection often is. But, when I found it for $20 at McKay's a couple of months ago, I figured, "Why not?" I didn't listen to either of the commentaries (I listened to the laser disc one with George Romero, Karl Hardman, and some others years ago and didn't find it too interesting, so I wasn't interested in the one with Russ Streiner and John Russo), nor did I watch the Night of Anubis workprint or the silent dailies (they could've at least put music to those) but I did watch all of the other features. Very interesting stuff, especially the interviews with the more obscure actors, although I wish that great documentary from the Dimension Extreme edition was ported over to this.

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Land of the Dead Scream Factory Collector's Edition. Again, didn't watch the actual movie or the commentaries, but did check out the other special features, as there are plenty of them. They were quite cool and informative, including interviews with John Leguizamo, Robert Joy, and other actors, including those who played the most notable zombies, Roy Frumkes' Dream of the Dead, as well as a commentary for it and deleted footage, and all of the features that were on the original DVD release. While this isn't among my absolute favorites of George Romero's living dead series, it's fine enough and this edition is definitely worth having.