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  • Pieces

    ★★★

  • The Blob

    ★★★★

  • The Thing

    ★★★★

  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    ★★★

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  • Pieces

    Pieces

    ★★★

    Low-budget horror trash at its unintentionally funny (I think?) finest!

    I gather this movie was originally filmed in Spanish and then rather poorly, but hilariously, dubbed into English?

    Full of surprisingly believable gore (they apparently had a connect that worked at a slaughterhouse), an abundance of gratuitous T&A, and plenty of "WTF?!" moments you can't help but laugh at: if you're into shitty horror that's so bad it's good, this one's for you.

  • The Blob

    The Blob

    ★★★★

    What better way to spend a rainy Labor Day than sitting in a theater, drinking beer, and watching a Steve McQueen sci-fi classic?

    Low production values, dated effects, and the over-acting characteristic of the era; yet I wouldn't change a thing—a truly entertaining B movie.

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  • The Timekeepers of Eternity

    The Timekeepers of Eternity

    ★★★

    An experimental reworking of the 1995 Stephen King miniseries The Langoliers, which was literally printed out on copy paper, frame by frame, and then painstakingly re-animated like the world's most ambitious flip book.

    The result is an unsettling and effective feature-length film incised from the bloated corpse of its 3-hour progenitor.

  • The Thing

    The Thing

    ★★★★

    The third movie I saw on $3 Cinema Day and probably my favorite of the bunch. I only saw this one for the first time earlier this year at the behest of a former roommate who couldn't believe I'd never seen it. We put it on, cracked some cold ones, and I was all in from the first scene.

    Since then I've had the opportunity to see it twice in theaters and it just gets better every time. The cold ones are a necessity though 🍻

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