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Elvis - Aloha From Hawaii - this spends a bit too much time with the whole 'Holy shit Elvis is in a chopper!' intro/landing but once he hits the stage, he delivers. Gotta love the jumpsuit. Some cool medlies here, some interesting experiments. He'd gotten a bit loungy at this point but the guy still pulls it off like nobody else.

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Terminator 2: Last time I really hated John Connor and now he doesn't bother me. It's still a very tight, intelligent, and gripping (sorry for using an over used buzz word for trailers) picture that absolutely holds your complete attention. Some cheesy moment ("We're not going to make it are we? People I mean.") and some cliches that became the norm after this picture made its mark. Still a remarkable film.

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Auto-Stoppeuses En Chaleur - A French man named Francoise drives around and has various sexual exploits - he picks up two hippy chicks from Denmark and bones them, he screws Brigitte Lahaie in a car and then watches her get boned by her husband after he catches them, eventually he winds up picking up the two hippy chicks again and bringing them back to his where they get it on with he and his wife. This was decent enough, steamy when it needed to be funny when it wasn't steamy. Fairly well shot, and the guy who played Brigitte's husband kinda looked like George Eastman.

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"steamy when it needed to be funny when it wasn't steamy"....eh?

I watched a Twisted Sex trailer comp (and fell asleep to it) last night. Not much to say about what I saw except I love trailers. Well, ones from 30-50 years ago anyway.

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THE MANHATTAN PROJECT vs WARGAMES. MANHATTAN PROJECT for sciencefair geekiness, Cynthia Nixon > Ally Sheedy, Lithgow > Dabney (just). Or, WARGAMES despite Ferris for NORAD hole geekiness, John Wood's pterodactyl Forbin, Madsen on the trigger, and floppies a man could be proud of. Really, can't go wrong either way: like tic-tac-toe, you just can't lose.

CREATURE: miniseries mini-greatness. Shark-dolphin Nam-paddy hybrids are just the beginning. Pierre Eliot Trudeau cameo. Warning: sea-lion imperilment and fakeass voodoo.

FACE/OFF. B+, 8/10.

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Joy - interesting enough French erotic-drama with some decent set pieces and WAYYYY too many bad eighties fashions on display.

Talk Dirty To Me - John Leslie and Richard Pacheco are funny. Aunt Peg is creepy but really into oral. Jessie St. James is pretty until you realize that she's got a lot of arm hair.

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Recoil - Stone Cold Steve Austin drives from Texas to Washington to take on a biker gang lead by the seemingly omnipresent Danny Trejo. He helps out a pretty dark haired lady who runs a hotel and beats up a lot of bad guys. He's a vigilante out for justice to avenge the death of an innocent girl, but the cops don't see things his way. It was pretty dumb, but it was a Stone Cold Steve Austin movie so you kind of have to expect that going in.

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Rumpelstilskin - SWV DVD-R of the K. Gordon Murray version of this odd kid's story. The midget guy who plays Rumpy is weird but isn't given enough screen time nor is he quite evil enough. The Sinful Dwarf is way more sinful, so take that non-believers.

Her Private Hell - Norman J. Warren's sexploitation picture is pretty good. Well shot, neat camerawork, an okay plot (it's pretty predictable) and a wacky twist at the end. Lots of go go dancing and quirky sixties fashions and some nudity. A good score. I liked it.

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The Magnetic Monster - this was short, seventy-five minutes. Kinda fun, but it had no monster in it, so it was only half true (there was magnetism). I like that it has the line 'fat, sassy baby' in it and it played out like kind of a Twilight Zone episode. Neat ending with some cool 50s era sci-fi gadgets.

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Blank City - a decent and pretty interesting documentary on the no wave/cinema of transgression movement that took place in NYC through the seventies and eighties. Interesting archival footage and cool interviews with Jim Jarmusch, Thurston Moore, Lydia Lunch, Richard Kern, Nick Zeed, Amoes Poe, the B's and plenty of others. A little pretentious in spots, but not inappropriately so. Definitely worth a watch.

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Friday The 13th Part VI - I forgot the guy from Return of the Living Dead was in this. Alice Cooper music too. Nice Bruce Lee Fights Back From The Grave intro.

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Nice Bruce Lee Fights Back From The Grave intro.

Haha! Last night I watched the BD of THE BOSS, I think this one is my least fav of the trilogy but still a kick ass film. The cold-blooded betrayals never fail to amaze me. I now have these films in 3(!) versions, the import dvds, the region 1 set and the BD set...damn. I'd rate MILANO CALIBRO 9 first, then MANHUNT. I love how Bacalov uses slightly reworked cues from a couple of these films - a cue that he originated in WE STILL KILL THE OLD WAY I believe.

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I was watching a sequel to Umberto Lenzi's Nightmare City.

It was actually a dream I just had:

It was just like one of those really bad straight to video sequels that has little to do with the original, or nothing at all like Gates of Hell part 2.

It ret-cons the ending of Nightmare City to have it end during the Hospital massacre and somehow Hugo Stiglitz is declared insane and locked in the insane ward surrounded by mentally disturbed people, one of them happens to be one the zombies. Que the 'nightmare becomes reality' end credits.

The sequel picks up right after this; Stiglitz is long dead and there's a group of mentally disturbed people all standing and sitting in a group, and one to the far left just eating oatmeal. The one to the far left looks just like one of the Zombpires from Lenzi's film only with cheaper makeup. So suddenly the zombie stops eating his oatmeal and becomes self-aware, even starts smiling and talking. Then we hear the interior monologue of the zombie and he starts thinking that he can control minds and cause things to happen by saying a word (I don't know what word exactly it was) and as soon as he speaks it all of the insane people in his room suddenly keel over, but are not dead.

Then he approaches the jail cell door of his ward and a zombie security guard approaches him and tells him to get back to his bed. Again, the zombie says this word and the door suddenly opens and the security guard falls flat on his ass. Suddenly three little kids dressed as police officers hear the alarm that a door opened and they arm themselves. Finally this zombie just walks out of the hospital and immediately begins running through 42nd Street during the wee hours -so presumably the filmmakers can steal the shot- and runs up to a helpless wanderer, says a one liner, and bites him, and then continues to run and bite people. Then three little kids are shown to be in pursuit.

Then I woke up. I'm pissed that it was all a dream.

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I just finished watching POINT OF TERROR and DON'T ANSWER THE PHONE back to back.

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The Woman In Black - I liked this a lot and will elaborate on it more later. Good stuff.