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  Berberian Sound Studio 2012

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Feb 2025

  I don't think this quite achieves what it's trying to do, but damn to I appreciate it trying. Starts off as essentially a documentary about how effective just the sound of horror movie can be and does it with aplomb, although I think it invokes the aesthetic of 70s educational films than giallo. It also did a lot better with the grim pragmatism of movie making than a lot of other navel gazing "movies about movies" I've seen.

  The vibe…

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  The Earth Dies Screaming 1964

  ★★½ Watched 04 Feb 2025

  I don't exactly remember how this ended up on my watchlist, but there are so many angles: a sci-fi flick from noted Hammer man Terence Fisher, punching above its weight budget wise, a great title, and its obvious influence on Night of the Living Dead. It doesn't all quite come together and feels like a (barely!) extended TV anthology episode; its legacy is more in how in influenced filmmakers to evoke its ideas more effectively.

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  Galaxy of Terror 1981

  ★★½ Watched 16 Sep 2023

  Hooptober X: #1

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  Robert Englund
  X in the Title

  Kicking off the tenth Hooptober with a near blackout of your Roger Corman bingo card: inventive re-use of footage/props from other properties, an egregious monster rape scene, and young actors and crew trying to give the movie a little more to think about maybe in spite of the boss.

  It's tempting to credit James Cameron with the parts this movie gets right, in…

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  Sting of Death 1966

  ★★ Watched 04 Oct 2022

  Hooptober 9: #10

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  If there was ever a movie to watch at 1.25x, it's this one. There are some great shots of the Everglades which give this a novel feel compared to other B movies I've seen of the era and I'm not even mad at the Neil Sedaka dance party or the hokey monster suit of the finale, although the latter would have been greatly improved if the head could have been just…