Favorite films

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  I Was a Teenage Frankenstein 1957

  ★★★★ Added

  I see I'm in the minority on this, but I liked this film quite a bit. It was mostly what I was hoping it would be. Great makeup design, brisk pace, and I especially liked the (admittedly not-so-subtle) allusions to disaffected youth and teenage alienation. Almost like a proto Edward Scissorhands take on the monster. It's fun 50's drive-in schlock with extra pathos, which is pretty cool if you ask me.

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  The Astro-Zombies 1968

  ★½ Added

  Boring as fuck, but I kinda dug the atmosphere.

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  Friday the 13th 2009

  ★★★ Added

  While it definitely isn't one of the best F13 films, I always thought that it got a bad rep. I think there's a lot to like here, especially Derek Mear's aggressive portrayal of Jason. It plays kind of like a greatest hits compilation of the first 4 films, which I think is kinda cool. Not amazing, but good for what it is. I admittedly liked it a lot more when I was younger, and ended up seeing it in theaters…

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  Them! 1954

  ★★★★ Added

  There were many films about giant bugs made throughout the 1950's, but for my money this one outdoes the competition by a long shot. Easily the best film of it's type. It's surprisingly effective and suspenseful considering the type of movie that it is. It's still far from Hitchcock, but there's a feel for pacing and atmosphere that most other films of this type lack. It's basically everything you'd want out of a movie about giant radioactive ants in New Mexico.

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