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mybrainisbrian

Favorite films

  • Rushmore
  • Blade Runner
  • Night of the Living Dead
  • The Blues Brothers

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  • Re-Animator

    ★★★★★

  • Strangers on a Train

    ★★★★★

  • The Slime People

    ★★★★

  • Aguirre, the Wrath of God

    ★★★★★

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  • Re-Animator

    Re-Animator

    ★★★★★

    There is no shortage of zombie films, vampire films or exorcism/ possessed creepy little kid films but, Frankenstein? 
    That genre for some inexplicable reason remains relatively uncharted.
    Fortunately thats exactly what Stewart Gordon and Dennis Paoli thought when deciding to make a horror film. They settled on H.P. Lovecrafts Reanimator series as inspiration and- while I haven’t read the story I don’t think it would matter because this blood soaked slice of graphic gory horror is in a class by…

  • Strangers on a Train

    Strangers on a Train

    ★★★★★

    A chance meeting on a train between two men leads to murder, a disturbing party trick and a deadly carousel accident.
    That sounds crazy when it’s written out but somehow Alfred Hitchcock is able to pull it off in a taunt, suspenseful thriller that ratchets up the tension so much you forget how unlikely it all is.

    Farley Granger plays Guy, a professional tennis player with an ex wife who won’t grant him a divorce and has the unfortunate luck…

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  • Aguirre, the Wrath of God

    Aguirre, the Wrath of God

    ★★★★★

    I first saw this in 1988 when video rentals were just coming out. In those days you’d be lucky to find anything out of the mainstream so, cult like films were VERY hard to find. My older brother Terry who was an early fan of all things film read about it and the director Werner Hertzog in some magazine and we bugged our local rental place to carry his work.

    Well, from the first scene I was mesmerized: a slow…

  • Johnny Guitar

    Johnny Guitar

    ★★★★★

    Well… If Freud could come back and direct a western with barely hidden lesbian themes and reversed gender roles he still wouldn’t come up with something as great as this. Joan Crawford and Mercedes Mcambridge practically chew their way through the scenery in this story about a former prostitute (Joan) her old lover Johnny Guitar who comes to her place to work for her who then get mixed up in a bank heist, lynch mob and a gang of outlaws,…

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