Wongo

Wongo

Favorite films

  • Once Upon a Time in the West
  • The Perfume of the Lady in Black
  • Falling Point
  • Sitting Target

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  • Shoot the Sun Down

    ★★★

  • Fort Massacre

    ★★★★

  • The Jackals

    ★½

  • Du Guesclin

    ★★★

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  • The Jackals

    The Jackals

    ★½

    The Boer copy of William Wellman’s Yellow Sky (1948).

    They remade it scene by scene, even mostly reusing dialogue, with some minor tweaks to adapt it to South Africa (e.g., black Shangaan tribe instead of Apaches). Changing the name of the ghost town from Yellow Sky to Yellow Rock seems to be the peak of their creativity. Everything here looks similar, but worse in every possible way - flat and dull, especially compared to Joseph MacDonald’s masterful cinematography. Grey-haired Vincent…

  • The Town that Dreaded Sundown

    The Town that Dreaded Sundown

    ½

    They cast Anthony Anderson to play the equivalent of Ben Johnson's ranger character from the 70s drive-in classic. That alone says enough about how shitty this Blumhouse sequel is.

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  • When Evil Lurks

    When Evil Lurks

    ★★★★½

    Evil likes children, and children like evil.

    A Fulci-esque* vision of Pandemonium. Aterrados was great, but this one is even superior. What a ride: intense, primordial and wonderfully gory. The horror movie of the year, without any doubts.

    *Notice the scene with the dog!

  • The Crow: City of Angels

    The Crow: City of Angels

    ★★½

    Category: bad movies with great visuals.