Mostly important historically as the first Mexican horror film, and arguably more gothic than horror. Interesting, though, to see how the advent of sound films and the "new" horror genre was received and responded to outside the US, and the decision to base the film around a specifically Mexican and specifically sound-based legend was a good one. And, in fairness, it's hard to fully appraise the film when it survives only in such mediocre shape; I imagine in 1933 it would still have been as stiff as early talkies tended to be, but at least in 35mm it would've looked pretty good.
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Blood Freak 1972
Weird how none of the discourse I've seen about this film mentions the ACTUAL TURKEY DEATH, which kind of came out of nowhere... Remarkably, this X-rated Christian horror film about a Vietnam vet who eats drugged turkey meat and turns into a turkey-headed blood-swilling junkie pretty much lived up (down?) to its legend; this is classically bad filmmaking of a kind that even Herschell Gordon Lewis (after whom the main character was apparently named) would've been considered unacceptably shit. Director…
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Dune 1984
To be specific, I watched a very particular version of Dune, i.e. Michael Warren's compilation of the theatrical and TV versions plus deleted scenes that can be found on Vimeo. This is a bold attempt to come up with the longest-known version (a bit over three hours), with some undeniable but unavoidable rough edges; it's a film I've frankly hated in both its theatrical and TV versions, and I was hopeful that this edit might finally reveal it as a…
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No More Excuses 1968
Weird collage of previously existing Downey footage (his first short film about a time-travelling Civil War soldier plus an ABC News story on the singles dating scene) with new stuff added. A bit of a mess, though an entertaining one; brevity is a virtue here.
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