Author: Dave Franklin
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Crawlspace (1986)
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Read more: Crawlspace (1986)Sometimes you want a movie to educate, move or inspire you. And sometimes you just wanna watch that pint-sized Teutonic nutter Klaus Kinski collect eyeballs. Now I’m not one to condemn actors for their off-screen behavior or ill-judged Tweets. I don’t really care what they get up to or what their political affiliations are. I…
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Early Days: Part Two
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Read more: Early Days: Part TwoBlaxploitation As you probably know, I likes me a bit of blaxploitation, even though much of it was an unashamed rip-off of whatever whitey was up to. Westerns, horror, crime, comedies… the blacks always had some sort of crappy facsimile to hand as typified by the likes of Blacula and Black Shampoo. Well, everyone’s gotta…
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Early Days: Part One
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Read more: Early Days: Part OneBy Dave Franklin I’ve met a handful of folk who insist old movies are boring. They don’t like stuff from cinema’s greatest decade, the 1970s, because it’s slow or the special effects aren’t as good or the hairdos are silly. Anyhow, after I’ve stabbed these ignoramuses and they’ve begun to recover from the shock, I…
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Fucked Up Films #4 -Deep River Savages/AKA Man from Deep River/AKA Il paese del sesso selvaggio/AKA Sacrifice
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Read more: Fucked Up Films #4 -Deep River Savages/AKA Man from Deep River/AKA Il paese del sesso selvaggio/AKA SacrificeFilm Title Deep River Savages/AKA Man from Deep River Synopsis A Club 18-30 holiday for the most ardent of masochists Director Umberto Lenzi Cast Ivan Rassimov Me Me Lai Pratitsak Singhara Sullalewan Suxantat Ong Ard What are these sick bastards doing? I don’t think I caught the hero’s name, but given his wondrous flaxen mane…
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Starring debuts #16: Aaron Eckhart in In the Company of Men (1997)
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Read more: Starring debuts #16: Aaron Eckhart in In the Company of Men (1997)Perhaps the key scene in Neil LaBute’s caustic debut is the one in which business exec Chad (Eckhart) gets a junior colleague to expose himself. It’s during this brief humiliation that we grasp Company’s true interest: the increasingly unpleasant methods Chad will use to clamber over other men in the workplace. A fair chunk of…
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Fucked-Up Films #3: I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
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Read more: Fucked-Up Films #3: I Spit on Your Grave (1978)Film Title I Spit on Your Grave Synopsis Woman 4 Men 1 Director Meir Zarchi Cast Camille Keaton Eron Taber Richard Pace Anthony Nichols Gunter Kleemann What are these sick bastards doing? Bored by the prospect of going bowling yet again and the lack of choice at the local cinema, four men in rural Connecticut…
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Starring debuts #15: Ralph Macchio in The Karate Kid (1984)
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Read more: Starring debuts #15: Ralph Macchio in The Karate Kid (1984)There are wish fulfillment movies and then there’s the fucking Karate Kid. Macchio plays Daniel LaRusso, a wholesome, 17-year-old kid who’s arrived in LA with his upbeat mom. A five-strong gang of bullies, who’ve been taught ‘no mercy’ by their evil karate teacher, zero in. Well, big deal. Daniel still gets the buxom, high-class girl…
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The Natives Are Getting Restless
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Read more: The Natives Are Getting RestlessMan has long excelled at picking on animals and fucking up the environment, a dismal trait I’m fine with as long as it generates good eco-horror movies. This sub-genre is staggeringly rich and diverse, tackling everything from sentient frogs and mutant sea creatures to walking plants and extraterrestrial viruses that powderize your blood. It has…
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Not Taking The Michael
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Read more: Not Taking The MichaelSome talented actors appear to have a bitch of a time choosing a worthwhile script. It’s almost as if a load is dumped in front of them, they close their eyes and pick one. Travolta’s a prime example, having appeared in nine thousand flicks but only a handful of classics since he first got going…
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Starring Debuts #14: Emily Lloyd in Wish You Were Here (1987)
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Read more: Starring Debuts #14: Emily Lloyd in Wish You Were Here (1987)That arch wit Morrissey obviously knows a thing or two about holidaying in dismal seaside towns. Just listen to the brilliant Everyday is Like Sunday in which he dreamily yearns for such places to be bombed: This is the coastal town that they forgot to close down. Armageddon, come Armageddon! Come, Armageddon, come! Everyday is…