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Tetsuo II: Body Hammer 1992
i've seen the original Tetsuo probably a half dozen times over the years, and i watched the third one a long time ago and recall being pretty unimpressed with the digital photography, but somehow never got around to this first sequel despite sitting on a copy for nearly a decade. dude this fucking rips shit so hard it's ridiculous. the production design, the cinematography, the sound design, this whole thing is just peak industrial aesthetic to me. this is everything i've ever wanted out of this whole subgenre of hyperviolent tokusatsu (Meatball Machine, etc). i'm very tempted to say i like this more than the original.
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The Night of the Hunter 1955
perfectly framed, perfectly lit, dreamlike and haunting and also Robert Mitchum hollering like yosemite sam he gets drilled with a shotgun
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Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend 1985
when my uncle was a prop artist for this movie he tried to stuff Baby's head full of weed before it got flown to africa with him for the jungle scenes, but he accidentally loaded up the wrong head, the one that was staying in hollywood for the on-set scenes. eventually the smell of weed being cooked inside a rubber dinosaur head by the studio lights became unmistakable and someone found it but my uncle was never implicated or at least nobody cared enough to get him in trouble when he got back
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