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Row 19 (2021) demonstrates the reason it’s important to stay seated with your seatbelt securely fastened on an airplane flight. If the plane makes a sudden drop and you’re standing in the aisle, you’ll be thrown to the ceiling, then slammed down on the floor, likely left unconscious. If such imagery disturbs you, or that…
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There are two 1980 science-fiction films I remember seeing at the Esquire Theater in my home town of Enid, Oklahoma, that I absolutely did not like. In fact, I haven’t seen either one since. One was The Final Countdown, one of only a couple moviegoing experiences during which I fell asleep. The other was Hangar…
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It was thrilling for me to learn that I could watch an Alfred Hitchcock film as one of the movies for this year’s #countdowntohalloween. Number 17 (1932) was his 21st film and the last one he made for British International Pictures. While it was a disappointment, there’s some comfort knowing that the master himself thought…
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I’ve fallen victim to false advertising many times, but no movie in a long while has been as egregious with it as Sweet Sixteen (1983.) However, I don’t blame Century International; they needed some kind of an angle to sell this one. Remove the pretty, underaged (and underdressed) young woman who’s about to turn 16…
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With the exceptional quality of horror movies independent filmmakers are churning out these days, it must be tough going for creators in other genres. I imagine it’s harder to get good actors that can deliver the material while making it seem… genuine. Also, counterintuitively, it must be more difficult for simple settings to look and…
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If you thought Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) had the stars, wait until you see Fourteen Hours (1951.) You might have to look a little harder, though. Sure, the headliners are easy to spot, but try to find these uncredited actors among the chaos of a New York street scene as “thousands” of people…
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13 Ghosts (1960) starts strong. For the first half, maybe two-thirds, it holds its own with William Castle’s two previous films, House on Haunted Hill and The Tingler, both released a year earlier. I was enjoying it greatly, but then I grew weary. This was about the time young Buck Zorba (Charles Herbert) goes down…
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Time travel movies sometimes raise the question if the person who claims to have travelled is instead suffering some type of mental breakdown. In these cases, we, the audience, usually know the truth. In 12 Monkeys (1995), though, I was not convinced that James Cole (Bruce Willis) wasn’t in the middle of his own delusion.…
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Hear me out! If you wonder why we’re discussing a crime drama with virtually no thrills or chills, let me share the plethora of behind-the-scenes tidbits that tantalized me to make Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) horror-adjacent. First, it was directed by Don Siegel and we had just released an episode of The Classic…
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10 Rillington Place (1971) is another film I never watched because of the VHS cover box. I couldn’t tell what it was, really… it seemed like more of a a drama or a stuffy British film with people of whom, at the time, I’d never heard. I was interested only in movies that were clearly…
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