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  Swamp Women 1956

  Watched 13 Mar 2025

  Now we're cooking with Corman. A chixploitation joint where it's natural to cut your pants into Daisy Dukes and girl fight in swamp water. But what makes it feel big is the intercutting of b-roll to put characters at a Mardi Gras parade or expand the bayou into a sprawling labyrinth of water. A gender swap riff on FIVE GUNS WEST, where a gang of violent, double crossing criminals go treasure hunting—except it's all entertaining. First Corman that's end-to-end capital-F Fun.

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  Day the World Ended 1955

  Watched 19 Jan 2025

  The concept is stretched threadbare over its runtime. Come on Corman, spend an extra $150 for more mutant time and less on post-apocalyptic horny triangles and underdeveloped telepathic buffoonery. That said, the opening and ending exclamation points are bangers and almost makes you forgive what's in the middle.

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  The Substance 2024

  Watched 21 Sep 2024

  I'm a bit mixed on the whole but I had so much fun that I'm choosing to lean into it. Is it subtle? Absolutely not. But neither are the billboards on the Sunset Strip, the outfits seen on a Gelson's run, the sunbathed bodies stretched from the beaches of Venice to Malibu, dating profiles that look more like modeling samples, or the endless parade of actors, aspiring actors, and delusional wannabe-actors who trawl this city for shallow rewards heaped upon…

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  Carol for Another Christmas 1964

  Rewatched 17 Dec 2024 2

  "Politics? Now grasp this if you can. Humanity is no longer a political thesis. It is not a subject for debate. There are no pros and cons, no arguments and rebuttals. We are talking about human want, and human need. And this is a fact of life."

  Children marred and decimated by bombs, sycophants foaming for their individualist leader, a crowd calling for a Black man's blood, ethnic "others" locked away in cages—cuts like a sword and still as angry 60 years later. The dreamy, nightmarish Christmas Present segment goes so hard.