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Last night... The Iron Rose (cause the wife hadn't seen it, even though I'd just revisited it). Not Rollin's best but loads of atmosphere, a great location, a cute female lead who actually gives a good performance (she creeps me out a bit once it all starts to unravel in the end) and a nifty score. I like this movie a lot.

Followed that up with Zone Troopers, a WWII American GIs Vs. Nazi's in Italy with weird aliens movie. The PG rating hurts this one, it would have worked better with some gore, simply because the story isn't quite interesting enough to carry it. They should have gone full on Mars Attacks! (the trading cards, not the watered down movie) with this one and it would have rocked. Instead it doesn't really rock, but it was a moderately entertaining 85 minutes.

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Cold Sweat - I thought this was going to be a South American Saw/Hostel type piece of shit, it sort of started off that way, but once it picked up it went in its own direction. There's a lot of wicked black humor in the story that makes this more fun and more interesting than it probably should have been, and there are some cool gore effects and some boobies too.

GOG - a fair bit talkier than it should have been, this is still a reasonably entertaining time killer. The opening scene in the lab where a couple of poor buggers get frozen to death is well done and the robots themselves used in the last half hour or so are definitely not. Entertaining enough though.

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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky - goriest kung-fu prison monster movie ever made? I still love this film no matter how many times I see it. The Blu-ray looks okay, better than the DVD, but won't blow you away. Happy to have it though.

Yakuza Weapon - the guy who made Versus made this one for Sushi Typhoon, so it's low budget CGI straight to video nonsense. It's fun, entertaining enough, but about twenty minutes too long.

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Andrzej Zulawski's On the Silver Globe: Watching it on loop as I sleep. Amazing cinematography and minimalist set design that very creatively gets around the fact that the budget was low. It's an incomplete film but I feel the real flaw is the dialog. There's tons of poetic dialog like in a Goddard picture and if there was only a little bit of it or the characters would start speaking in this manner only in really important scenes it would've been okay. I hate to say it but the lengthy albeit pretentious dialog holds it back despite amazing sequences. I chalk this up to Zulawaski adapting a work by his Granduncle and not wanting to change the dialog too much. I faced the same problem when I did a short that was taken from a book I love; you want to pay tribute to the work so you don't change things in a way that suite film as opposed to a book.

Saturn 3: One of my many guilty pleasures. Honestly I don't think it's that bad aside from Harvey being inexplicably dubbed. The set design is pretty good. The villainous robot looks pretty authentic in the pre-Terminator and Robocop years. And it's a fun pulpy sci-fi horror story.

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Heartworn Highways. This needs to come back into print. Great post-Cash-wad country documentary, and the "More Perfmances" extra is so good it's like a double A-side. Great moment: Townes Van Zandt slipping down giant rabbit hole: my son asked, "so is that how he died?"

Warning: may make you want to drink & play guitar in Guy Clark's kitchen.

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BATMAN BEYOND: RETURN OF THE JOKER (Standard DVD). I'm a big fan of super hero animation. Got a lot of those DC Animated Movies, only three of the Marvel ones. Looking forward to THE AVENGERS season 2, GREEN LANTERN: THE ANIMATED SERIES and ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN. These damn things are like crack cocaine to me. Over and out.

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A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas - this was pretty funny. Stupid, as you'd expect, but funny. And it had lesbians nuns in it.

Bad Girls Go To Hell - finally got around to this one, typical Wishman style in that it's pretty much all over the place but it's cool looking, the female lead is foxy, and it's got some nice footage of the city and Central Park. Good stuff.

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I watched Hell's Highway last night. for some reason I've had a urge to watch some scare films lately (never seen any) and this was suggested to me. Great documentary but man...some of that shit was tough to see. There's a dead baby scene that is incredibly upsetting.

But I didn't turn it off. I guess I'm getting less sensitive as I get older.

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W*A*L*T*E*R and the first couple of episodes of AfterMASH. Radar's dumped on his wedding night but now he's walking the beat, and Victoria Jackson dances on the drugstore counter as a cure for suicide; Father Mulcahy gets his groove back and cures a vet's amputation & racism issues by painting his artificial leg brown. RIP, M*A*S*H.

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I watched Hell's Highway last night. for some reason I've had a urge to watch some scare films lately (never seen any) and this was suggested to me. Great documentary but man...some of that shit was tough to see. There's a dead baby scene that is incredibly upsetting.

But I didn't turn it off. I guess I'm getting less sensitive as I get older.

I've wanted to see that for a while.

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Last night....

Impasse - Burt Reynolds, Anne Francis and VIC motherfuckin' DIAZ (in a pretty big supporting role)? I'm in. This was decent, a little too light in spots when I'd hoped that it would get darker but Burt and Anne make a good team and it makes good use of the Filipino locations.

Whispers - I remember seeing ads for this Koontz adaptation as a kid and thinking it was a vampire movie. I even told Alison last night before we put it on 'Oh, it'll be good, it's a vampire movie.' It's not. haha. Sorry, no vampires. It was moderately entertaining though, even if you can kinda see the twist coming once you realize it has nothing to do with vampires at all.

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The Mortician - starring Method Man and Edward Furlong (who is in it for about 2 minutes). This was made up to look like a horror movie going by the cover art but it's not at all, despite a few eerie moments. It's actually a fairly well made character study/drama that takes place in a pretty ravaged looking part of Louisianna involving a mortician who gets involved in the lives of a small family unit that is having some trouble with a local gangster. Method Man is actually pretty good in this. I expected this to be complete trash and was kinda hoping for a goofball modern day blaxploitation/horror mix when I put it on, but wasn't disappointed that it turned out the way it did. I dug it.

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Rolling Thunder on blu. Tommy Lee Jones zippin' up in hi-def! Nice cover, too.

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I'm still waiting for my copy.

Last night, Human Centipede II which I already posted about and Sword Of Desperation, which was a rock solid samurai film with a good lead performance from Etsushi Toyokawa. Like most samurai movies, it deals with honor and betrayal and loyalty and it doesn't really reinvent the wheel or bring anything all that new to the genre but it's really well shot and well acted and it builds nicely to a pretty fantastic conclusion.

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Dementia: Daughter of Horror. Really well shot but the music took me right out of it. The music is too bland and doesn't add to the impressive visuals. I'd like to see the version with a soundtrack by Boyd Rice: http://youtu.be/93aCicyftJU