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When radioactive
debris from outer space crashes through the
roof of a rat infested house, a small mid-western
town becomes the epicenter of a titanic battle
between man and beast in this glorious homage
to 1950s giant monsters flicks, 1970s eco-disaster
epics and 1980s teen horror comedies like “Return
of the Living Dead.” |
When the new
girl in town and the local loner cross paths
sparks fly, but it’s not romance that’s
in the air. In this pre-Columbine odyssey down
misanthropic teenager lane, two seriously maladjusted
high school students channel their sexual frustrations
into a killing spree after entering into a competition
to see who can seduce and kill more victims
in one month’s time. This coal black comedy
is sort of like “Heathers” meets
“Scream” with a twist of “Very
Bad Things.” |
In this modern
take on the classic voyeuristic, Hitchcockian
thriller, three roommates, looking forward to
a hot night on the town, inadvertently witness
the murder of a young woman and report it to
the police only to find that there is no evidence
of foul play. Their world is then thrust into
a chaotic maelstrom of paranoia and terror when
they return home to discover that the woman’s
corpse has been planted their by the mysterious
killer, thus beginning a deadly game of cat
and mouse! |
When a cooler-than-an-Eskimo’s-nuts
hit man and his high-class hooker wife decide
they need a well deserved vacation (following
the murder of a corrupt vice detective) the
duo make their minds up to take a cross-country
road trip to Disney Land, where they hook up
with everything from skinheads to cheerleaders
to angels. Harkening back to classic road flicks,
this movie is one part “Badlands,”
one part “True Romance” and two
parts “National Lampoon’s Vacation.”
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This high-octane adaptation of Hamlet, set
amidst the pre-millennial angst of the 1990s,
is full of sex, death, drugs, pop culture
references and everything else the last decade
of the 20th century was all about.
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This adaptation of Graham Masteron’s
horror masterpiece concerns a presidential
candidate who’s full of hell…
literally
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This slapstick comedy about a female mob
boss was based on an original screenplay by
the famed Coen brothers – I was called
in to “funny” it up, which I did
in spades – now here’s hopin’
somebody makes the damn thing!
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This stylish murder mystery, composed in
the tone of classic giallo and set in an all
girls’ school for the musically gifted,
twists and turns through a maze of terror
and sexual perversity heading inevitably toward
a shock ending that you won’t soon forget.
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This action packed biopic is based on the
life and times of famed emerald czar Eishy
Hyata, who left Japan for the rugged life
of a treasure hunter in the harsh Colombian
outland, eventually becoming the world’s
largest emerald exporter.
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Taking up where “Omega Man” left
off, this post-apocalyptic black comedy deals
with the life and times of the last man on
Earth. A bleak world where cable is always
out, porn is almost impossible to find and
one must battle hordes of plague ridden vampires
just to get a roll of toilet paper and a six-pack.
Dark, twisted… fun.
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Carpenter’s Cove is the perfect small
town… to bad it sits on top of a hell
mouth that’s poised to crack open spew
forth demonic creatures hell-bent on plunging
the entire planet into an apocalyptic inferno.
This supernatural thriller combines the unraveling
of a theological mystery ala’ the “DaVinci
Code” with the balls-to-the-wall scares
of classic horror opuses such as “Demons.”
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The first in a trilogy of outlandishly epic
living dead films which beg the question:
“If the world had been taken over by
zombies in the late 1960s, where would the
human race be now?” This non-traditional
take on the living dead genre has everything
from rampaging zombie gorillas to samurai
warriors to robo-corpses to a good, old fashioned
confrontation with the former Red Menace itself.
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This hilarious coming of age comedy, set
firmly in the tradition of classic John Hughes
coming of age flicks, tells the tale of a
young man who travels to L.A. to stay with
his weed mogul brother (after unfairly losing
his scholarship to NYU) and inadvertently
finds himself working his way up behind the
scenes through porn industry.
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This southern-fried comedy tells the tale
of a kid who idolizes the legendary Evel Kneivel,
only to find himself comatose for seven years
following an ill-fated stunt. He then wakes
up to a world he doesn’t understand
ready to track down the woman he loves kick
some serious ass!
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This neo-noir mystery deals with a grizzled
ex-cop cum private dick, a dying mob boss,
a one legged hit man, a prom queen, an underage
porn star, a set of sexy quintuplets, a Nazi
priest, Mexican banditos, a deadly cheerleading
squad, Hitler’s DNA, white slavery and
a cache of stolen plutonium… Yeah, you
can almost hear Bogie rolling around in his
grave.
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Epic sci-fi adventure meets the ultimate
disaster flick when the high-tech civilization
of “Ichthyopoids,” who have been
silently dwelling in the deepest regions of
the seas, finally grow weary of the human
race’s polluting ways and rise up to
wage war on mankind with all manner of bizarre
creatures and technology – pure fun!
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This neo-spaghetti western is a 21st century
take on the classic themes of mercenary grit,
cold blooded ruthlessness and old fashioned
revenge that made Sergio Leone’s flicks
so endearing.
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A modern day fable in which a hard edged,
Chinese-American cop finds out that he is
heir to a mystical legacy and is sucked into
a fantastic world of ancient Chinese sorcery,
specters and dragons in order to rescue his
son who has been kidnapped by an demonic entity
hell-bent on tearing apart the fabric of reality
and becoming the ruler of the world.
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This irreverent comedy explores the life
and times of a group of petty criminals on
a chain gang. Think “Cool Hand Luke”
if it had been written by Broken Lizard.
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