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Another day, another shit quality screener (though, to be fair, from Ian's review it appears corrected copies have gone out since)...
The Secret of Dorian Gray (1970) -- it's been donkey's years since I saw this. No idea what the cut version looked like, as it's always been available in Oz in its uncut 101m version. TBH, it was all a bit of a bore until Berger went on his apocalyptic 1970 sex bender. But like most of Dallamano's films, it was well photographed. Quite risque for its time, but pretty tame now. Oh yeah...laughed out loud at the hilarious scene in the urinals. Priceless!
"Ahh, I see your schwartz is as big as mine..."Last edited by Mike T; 08-16-2011, 09:19 AM.
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Bad Dreams - Richard Lynch is a weirdo cult leader who haunts the only survivor of a fire that killed everyone else in the cult when she awakes from a coma. Bruce Abbott from Re-Animator plays a doctor with big hair. A fun 80s horror movie with some cool make up effects and a couple of decent kills in it.Rock! Shock! Pop!
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Originally posted by Ian Jane View PostBad Dreams - Richard Lynch is a weirdo cult leader who haunts the only survivor of a fire that killed everyone else in the cult when she awakes from a coma. Bruce Abbott from Re-Animator plays a doctor with big hair. A fun 80s horror movie with some cool make up effects and a couple of decent kills in it.
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As a minor aside -- one thing I didn't get between revisiting Dorian Gray and scanning through a few online reviews: a variety of reviewers claim that the film kicks off, in flashback, in the 1920s. But from what I can ascertain the film remains fairly faithful to the eighteen year timeline of Wilde's novel (being that Renato Romano's character is said to be, in the television report, 43 at the time of his death). If Dorian is only a year older than Alan, whom he murders, and Alan was only 43 at the time of his death - as they had been schoomates - wouldn't that place the flashback sequence somewhere in the late fifties? Anyway, that's what I'm going to run with for my review as, although the film's fairly faithful to the book, it's certainly not gospel.
PS: Maria Rohm was Renato Romano's (Alan) wife -- Herbert Lom's sister was Gwendolyn, played by Margaret Lee (at least that's the way it is in the English version). ;)Last edited by Mike T; 08-16-2011, 10:12 AM.
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Natural Born Killers (1994) -- still, IMHO, one of the greatest American satires of the contemporary age. And yes, it's doubly as brilliant in HD and lossless. What amazed me, from revisiting it for about the umpteenth time today (on BD), is that it was made before internet and social media took off but it's maybe even more relevant now than when it was made. News for profit, as opposed to news for news (to quote Mr. Stone), was the beginning of the end for truth and objectivity in Western media. Perhaps one of the most amazing films of the last twenty years -- and I stand by that statement.
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