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More Morricone
Old style justice was served during this years Academy Awards ceremony when one of the great living film soundtrack composers, Ennio Morricone, finally received the honorary Oscar that had thus far...
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Zombies I Have Known
Did you ever wonder where Zombies come from? If the movie is by George Romero, then some of them may have just been innocent bystanders on set grabbed by Romero and pressed into Zombie service. One...
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A Rose Grows in the GRINDHOUSE
Okay, I’ll admit that I’ve been ignoring all the hooplah surrounding the upcoming release of the Tarantino/Rodriguez double-team GRINDHOUSE flick. I gave up on post-modern super-cool macho-posturing...
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Ox vs. Snake: Only In New York!
I had the good fortune of meeting wrestler Ox Baker the other day while helping out as a camera person on a documentary in development about old school wrestling champions. In case you’re wondering why...
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MAD MAX Sans Mel?
The Mad Max series of films have always been a favorite of mine, although it’s hard to categorize them into a specific genre as the basic premise is sci-fi but the car crashing setpieces have always...
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Signs of CGI in Zodiac
I’m never comfortable calling a real-life crime drama a horror film as it feels like a disservice to the surviving participants of a life-shattering event to reduce their pain into a convenient genre...
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R.I.P. Freddie Francis
It’s always hard to measure the worth of an individual artist who’s greatest achievements come from their collaborations with other artists who’s infamy so far outweighs their own. And so it was that...
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The Beatles vs. The Zombies!
There are two things I simply cannot stand. One is movie remakes. Rare is the redux of a film that I love which hasn’t made me violently angry. I usually avoid seeing them, although on a few occasions...
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R.I.P. Herman Stein
You may not immediately recognize the name of film music composer Herman Stein, but chances are that if you’re someone who loves the classic Universal-International sci-fi and horror films of the...
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Monday’s Scores
Monday morning at work. Is there anything scarier? Marauding mutant sharks, pretentious serial killers, unkempt chainsaw wielding maniacs and your run-of-the-mill holiday-themed revenge-seeking...
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Trailers From Hell!
What is it with movie trailers these days? Why do most of them stink? When I was growing up in the movie theatre (and that’s no joke, folks — about 3/4 of my ill-spent youth was in front of some kind...
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Freaky Tuesday?
I was cruising the web to see how Dario Argento’s latest project, La Terza Madre (The Third Mother), is coming along. If you speak Italian or enjoy using the babelfish translator, feel free to check...
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Bruises & Blues in The Body Shop
I’m always amazed at how technology changes the way cinematic storytellers are able to craft their tale. Computer generated imagery has supplanted the realm of some of the most standard on-set special...
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Geek Nostalgia Part 1
It’s not until I’m sitting around and talking with fellow horror film geeks my own age that I realize how old I am. And the media culture has changed quite a bit since I first reached teenager-hood...
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Dick & Dickens
This past weekend I had the pleasure of engineering an audio commentary session with legendary film producer and distributor Richard Gordon that was moderated by Tom Weaver — a writer who’s voluminous...
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“Hail to the king, baby!”
The Fear Friday movie on AMC this week is fan-favorite Sam Raimi‘s Army of Darkness, starring cult film icon Bruce Campbell in the role god molded his chin to play — Ash, the reluctant zombie killer....
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Children Shouldn’t Play With a Black Christmas Story
It’s with sadness this morning I’m reporting that director Bob Clark and his son were killed in a car accident yesterday in Los Angeles by some drunken moron driving an SUV in the wrong lane. Clark...
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The Other Side of Friday
I know you’re at work now reading this because you need a break from the daily grind (don’t worry, I won’t tell anybody). It’s Friday, yes, but it’s been a long work week and the unseasonably cold...
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Cyborg vs. Robot!
There’s something terribly wrong in Hollywood if they can’t even make an hommage to low-budget drive-in garbage that doesn’t cost damn near 60 million dollars. I haven’t sat through Grindhouse yet,...
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Grindhouse Roundhouse Grouse
While blow-hard movie executive Harvey Weinstein pretends to have some idea why Grindhouse didn’t shatter box office records this weekend (and really, go here if you want to read the excess verbiage...
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