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SPIDER BABY

Time hasn’t been kind to this loveable 1964 oddity, but it remains a memorable film with unforgettable performances

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SPECIAL EFFECTS

This 1984 cheapie appears to be writer-director Larry Cohen’s answer to PEEPING TOM, a unique and intelligent account of voyeurism and exploitation in the movie business that, as usual with Cohen, is all-but done in by its low budget and uninspired direction

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SOUTHERN COMFORT

This horrific bayou-set kill fest is a key action-suspense film of the 1980s, and one of the finest-ever outings by director Walter Hill

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SOUL VENGEANCE

This “blaxploitation” movie is infamous for a one-minute scene near the end involving a homicidal penis…which is indeed an eye-opener, but the rest of the film is pretty crappy

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SONNY BOY

The 1990s were filled with independent films marketed, most often misleadingly, as “bizarre”, “shocking”, “subversive” and other similarly enticing adjectives.  For a nineties indie that really is all those things go directly to SONNY BOY

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ROUGH BEASTS

As the title warns, the stories collected here are from the early days of Harlan Ellison’s career, specifically the late 1950s

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THE ROOM

There are so many things wrong with THE ROOM, the first (and thankfully only) novel by Canadian author Michael Grey, that it’s difficult to know where to start the criticism

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ROBOCOP VERSUS THE TERMINATOR

ROBOCOP VERSUS THE TERMINATOR, which as the title indicates brings together the universes of ROBOCOP and THE TERMINATOR, has been called “The Greatest Crossover of all Time.” I don’t agree

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RIPPLE

A graphic novel that may not be horrific enough for my readers, yet will almost certainly be too freaky and aberrant for the mainstream

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