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Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood 1973
A wonderful and assumed ‘lost’ film until recently unearthed and championed as part of Arrow video’s American Horror Project this is quite rightly described by many as a missing link between Night of the Living Dead and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but what marks it out is some great psychedelic touches as we delve into a ghoul filled underworld beneath the Rickety wooden roller coasters and cotton candy stands of what would now be called a theme park. It’s low…
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Lean on Pete 2017
There’s just not enough downbeat Americana on the big screen these days, which is why fans of ‘The Straight Story’, ‘The Wrestler’, and ‘Wendy and Lucy’ should lap up this beautiful film and get down to their local microplex before it dissapears into pre-home release limbo as it demands a big screen. Plot and theme-wise it echoes Soderberg’s ‘King of the Hill’ and of course ‘Kes’. Great to have Buscemi back again and (relative) newcomer Charlie Plummer puts in a…
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Annihilation 2018
Remember that bloody awful Ivan Reitman film ‘Evolution’? Did you ever want to see a serious version of it with mini-rip-offs... erm, I mean homages to ‘Under the Skin’ and ‘Midnight Special’? Me neither. Sadly this film annihilated nearly 2 hours of my life.
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You Were Never Really Here 2017
There’s nothing like going to see a flick that is broadly categorised as ‘arthouse’ to make you feel a bit special, but the tag does this film a disservice, as it’s very accessible and could be enjoyed by millions if someone had the foresight to actually release the bloody thing on more than a few dozen screens and let people see it. It’s a very simple tale of rescue, vengeance, loss and redemption minus the exposition. Oh and it’s very…
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