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"The Thing" (1982)
-Kurt Russell

Plot: Men in an Antarctic outpost battle an alien able to assume the form of life it engulfs.

Phantoms Review: One of the very, very few remakes that is superior to the original. I love the original 1950's version but the John Carpenter film is miles above it. Tense, well acted and with special FX that have yet to be topped.
A true terror classic.

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Old 10-21-2014, 09:01 AM
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Black Devil Doll From Hell (1984)



I have a friend who enjoys seeing bad movies. He stopped by the other night and wanted to watch something "bad". Knowing that I have an immense catalog of bad cinema he actually requested Black Devil Doll From Hell by name. Since it had been 10 years since my last viewing I agreed.

For anyone who hasn't seen this piece of cult cinema, it was shot on VHS and features a very religious black woman buying a puppet/doll which in turn gives her her hearts desire. So if you have a fetish for watching Dolls or Puppets come to life (and talk like Mr. T) and rape overly religious women, this movie is for you.

My friend felt rather speechless when it was over ranking it as probably one of the bottom 2 films he's ever seen.

This was the 3rd time I had subjected myself to this movie. The 2nd time was to hear the alternate Heavy Metal soundtrack rather than the Atari/Nintendo game style soundtrack. When I told him this was my 3rd traversal he looked at me in utter amazement of such a feat. I must admit I feel slightly empowered now having survived 3 viewings. I think I can go another 20 years though before attempting a 4th.
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Old 10-21-2014, 12:27 PM
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Friday the 13th V (1985) - 3 out of 5 stars.

Now watching Friday the 13th VIII. On AMC's FearFest.
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Old 10-21-2014, 12:39 PM
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'Escape From New York' (1981)
-Kurt Russell

Phantoms Review:
My alltime favorite John Carpenter film. Still fun after all these years and many, many viewings.
Kurt Russell is awesome as Snake Plissken. Love it.
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Old 10-23-2014, 03:39 AM
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Kurt Russell and John Carpenter did work well together. ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK and especially THE THING are two favorites.
Entertaining commentary by both on THE THING.
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Old 10-26-2014, 05:01 AM
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SILVER BULLET 1985

Fell in love with this movie again! A young brother and sister do battle with a werewolf decimating their town.
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Old 10-26-2014, 03:20 PM
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ASSUALT ON PRECINCT 13 (1976). Really good John Carpenter that has been described as a hybrid of RIO LOBO and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. Indeed, the gang members trying to get in and the clutching hands in the final siege reminded me a lot of the latter.
Has one extremely shocking scene (even today) involving ice cream that would probably would never go in our current PC society.
Anyone seen the 2005 remake? ***1/2
I have never seen the original but I need to because I love John Carpenter. I really enjoyed the remake but I am curious to see how it compares to the original. There was not an 'ice cream scene'.

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Kurt Russell and John Carpenter did work well together. ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK and especially THE THING are two favorites.
Entertaining commentary by both on THE THING.
I agree 100%!! I think I love the soundtrack to The Thing more than anything (you know, that heart beat kind of sound)

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SILVER BULLET 1985

Fell in love with this movie again! A young brother and sister do battle with a werewolf decimating their town.
Love, love, love this movie!!! Not only is this one of my favorite Stephen King stories/movies but I love Corey Haim!!!!! I miss him
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Old 10-26-2014, 03:29 PM
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I forgot to mention that I watched Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1975) last night for the first time. Omg, loved it!! It was a lot of fun and it had some good wholesome shock value!! I will watch it again down the road some time and I would like to find some more of her films. I found this channel on my Roku for free called Cryptic TV. There is some pretty good stuff on there!!
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Old 10-27-2014, 01:05 AM
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There are 3 other Ilsa films with Dyanne Thorne in them (1 is unofficial).
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Old 10-27-2014, 05:00 AM
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)



They don't make them like this anymore. 5 star film.
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