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  Too Many Cooks 2014

  ★★★½ Rewatched 04 Mar 2025

  This Adult Swim concoction is a subversive 14 minute pastiche of cheesy 80's TV opening credits married to a deep dark underbelly of looping existential dread and a meta-machete wielding killer.

  But of course the real star here is Smarf.

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  Little Bites 2024

  ★★★ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  Following in the footsteps of big brother Rob Zombie, Spider One serves as co-producer/production designer/writer/director for this riff on 'The Babadook' as a young widow must offer up her flesh to appease a demon so it doesn't go after her young daughter.

  Krsy Fox also wears multiple hats, starring as the widow, while also co-producing/editing/sound designing. Fox is a fine actress and avails herself the deep emotional beats required of her.

  A trio of B-movie royalty co-star in the form…

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  Cimarron 1931

  ★½ Watched 11 Feb 2025

  Considered one of the worst Best Picture winners at the Academy Awards, this saga follows a family at the dawn of Oklahoma and their trials and tribulations over 40 years. There's storylines here which harken to several modern movies like 'Far and Away,' 'There Will Be Blood,' and 'Killers of the Flower Moon.' So it can't be that bad... right?

  Richard Dix is a multi-shingle frontiersman, all silent movie acting here, a big block of wood in a big white…

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  The Midnight Hour 1985

  ★★★★ Rewatched 27 Oct 2021 3

  Watched as part of Cinematic Void's 'Void-O-Ween' Movie Challenge
  #28 - TV Movie

  I was introduced to the Halloween glory of this movie as the very first one shown during the Cinemadness Movie during the early pandemic days. I had no idea what to expect, but was pleasantly, ne giddily surprised to find a lovingly crafted ode to the holiday with all the humor, action, romance and music you could want.

  Soon to be veteran TV director Jack Bender perfectly…

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