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WHALE MUSIC

The late John Candy was a galvanizing force behind this film, which was released in 1994 (the year of Candy’s demise)

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GOING BERSERK

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the untimely March 4, 1994 death of the great John Candy, here’s a look back at his first-ever Hollywood starring vehicle

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STOP!

One of the most famous “lost” films of the late Twentieth Century was this never-released counterculture drama from the late Bill Gunn

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THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND SINS

Fifteen stories: energetic and focused to a fault, and exhibiting an unnerving willingness to gaze unblinkingly into the darkest depths of madness, mutilation and sexual deviance

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IN THE DARK

By 1994 the late Richard Laymon had been a professional writer for over fifteen years, and that accumulated skill illuminates IN THE DARK

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9/30/55

A unique movie novelization from one of the top novelizers of the 1970s and 80s

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On KIN-DZA-DZA!

One of the world’s major science fiction films, regardless of whether the world knows about it or not

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