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Dead Man's Brain: June 2009
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Monday, June 29, 2009. Let The Right One In (2008). If you want adolescent vampire love with hutzpah, you want Let The Right One In. It's a Swedish film, taken from a Swedish novel that I am SO buying and reading. Well What more can I say? Tons, but I don't want to give away too much of a great story. Suffice it to say this one is not just a Watcher, but a Go-Right-Out-And-Buy-It Keeper as well. I've got the film and novel both, right on my Amazon Shopping List. And, lest you worry that Let The Right One...
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Dead Man's Brain: Frankenstein on Film - Hammer
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Wednesday, June 10, 2015. Frankenstein on Film - Hammer. Frankenstein on Film - The Silents. Frankenstein on Film - Universal Part 1. Frankenstein on Film - Universal Part 2. Frankenstein on Film - Hammer. Well then. The Hammer Frankensteins are a completely different animal than the Universals were. Anyway. Here's a quick look at each monster, along with its actor out of makeup. The Curse of Frankenstein. Let's see here. Curse. This was Hammer's first go at Frankenstein's monster. Word is, they were...
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Dead Man's Brain: Sector 7 [Chilgwanggu] (2011)
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Thursday, December 25, 2014. Sector 7 [Chilgwanggu] (2011). Come ON, people. The movie wasn't that bad. Kind of. less a review and more of a. stream of consciousness, ranty kind of a thing.). So I read, or at least skimmed, *fourteen* reviews for this thing. Thirteen of those reviews panned. The film and one said "eh, it was okay.". You know, that often-overlooked-by-critics aspect of the filmatic experience, the part where you just sit back and enjoy watching it? Heck, I watched it twice. Good of a movie.
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Dead Man's Brain: August 2009
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009. King Kong was not that tall. I make a habit of keeping up with Mark Hodgson's Black Hole DVD Reviews. His stuff is thorough, entertaining, spoiler-free and you could search the site for a week without coming across the same title twice (the pond is well stocked). In this particular entry. Over at Black Hole, Mark talks about buying a particular horror anthology magazine as a kid. Reading it brought back a few childhood memories of my own. So she marched over to my Dad and gave h...
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Dead Man's Brain: Frankenstein on Film - The Silents
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Thursday, October 28, 2010. Frankenstein on Film - The Silents. Frankenstein on Film - The Silents. Frankenstein on Film - Universal Part 1. Frankenstein on Film - Universal Part 2. Frankenstein on Film - Hammer. Forgive me, Reader, for I have sinned. It's been seven months since my last post. I REALLY love to compare things.). Did I mention that I really love to compare things? Far as I know, the first film version of Frankenstein was done in 1910 by Edison Studios and titled, appropriately enough, "Fra...
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Dead Man's Brain: October 2009
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009. Santo in the Wax Museum [Santo en el Museo de Cera] (1963). I've never been one to seek out a Mexican masked wrestler movie, but the local access channel was playing one the other night and I literally. Couldn't find anything better to watch. I mean, a movie about a professional wrestler who wears his mask *all* the time? Who drives his sports car around solving mysteries, a la Scooby-Doo? Here's the thing, though. I kind of liked it. So the gist of the story was this:. Well,...
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Dead Man's Brain: January 2015
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015. Frankenstein on Film - Universal (Part 2 of 2). Frankenstein on Film - The Silents. Frankenstein on Film - Universal Part 1. Frankenstein on Film - Universal Part 2. Frankenstein on Film - Hammer. Okay So I think this post will be a little shorter than Universal Part One. Partly because that one took waaaay longer to write up than I wanted it to, and partly because. well, I just have less to say about these films than I did the earlier ones. 1943), House of Frankenstein.
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Dead Man's Brain: September 2009
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009. Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971). Ah, that small but big-hearted genre we all know and love - Gender Bender Horror. Okay, it's maybe not so much a genre as it is one movie. I can't think of another horror film who's storyline involves it's main character transforming from one sex into another. Sure, there are a few cross-dressing movie villains out there, and the odd fellow who slaughters women so he can dress up in their skins (gross). But full on sexual transmutation?
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Dead Man's Brain: November 2014
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014. Frankenstein on Film - Universal (Part 1 of 2). Frankenstein on Film - The Silents. Frankenstein on Film - Universal Part 1. Frankenstein on Film - Universal Part 2. Frankenstein on Film - Hammer. And, just a smidgen over four years after the first Frankenstein films post, I' m on to the second one. So To continue what I started with the Frankenstein silents. I'm going to take a look at Frankenstein's Monster as portrayed in all eight (eight! Universal films. And this. Mean ...
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Dead Man's Brain: April 2009
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Thursday, April 9, 2009. The Bad Sleep Well (1960) and Stray Dog (1949). I recently tuned in on Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa. I guess he's a pretty big name in Japan, with over 25 movies and a buttload of awards between 1943 and 1993 (he died in 1998). The two movies I've seen (so far) are older - 1960 and 1949 - and have an intense, gritty film noir sense that I really liked. First one I saw is called The Bad Sleep Well. Well worth the 151 minutes it takes to watch. 5 brains. 野良犬) (Nora inu), f...