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Hello!
Just discovered your website (thanks to
"the B Monster") and I have a quick
question. Do you know of any plans to
release "Horror of
Party
Beach"
to DVD? If it already IS out, I am
unaware of it...
Brad
Last I heard some theme
park - either Universal or Disney - owns the
rights to it and play it at one of their
attractions. However, I'm happy to report that Hypnotic
Video has a copy available.
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"The
eccentric millionaire wants proof of the
supernatural, ghosts and, more importantly, what
lies beyond death." the reason for sending
Florence tanner and the others was because the
old guy Rolf Rudolph Deutsch bought the
mansion/castle and wanted to know if "the
legend of hell house" was true. Not because
he was on his deathbed. In the movie. what did
he do to make this house so evil. Alcoholism,
drugism, beastiealiy, necrophilia, sadism,
mutilation, murder shall I go one."
(something like that.)
Anonymous
Uh,
no. In the novel he is terminally ill and wants
to know if there's any chance of an afterlife
and that is what he wants his hired team to find
out. The film just kind of glosses over this.
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First
of all, I just wanted to say that I love reading
your column and I check for updates every couple
of days. Your writing is excellent.
However, it's pretty obvious from your latest
review that you don't know nearly as much about
music. It's Jim Steinman, not Jim Steinham.
Jim Steinman also wrote & produced big hits
for Bonnie Tyler ("Total Eclipse of the
Heart"), Air Supply ("Making Love Out
of Nothing At All"), and Barry Manilow
("Read 'Em And Weep"). He also
produced several songs of the movie
"Streets of Fire", a film which could
easily qualify for your site some day. Thanks
for allowing me to feel briefly superior to a
person that has taken the time to create an
excellent and entertaining website!
Pat
Bracken
Yeah,
yeah. Okay, fine. I was too lazy to walk over to
the my old cassette deck and check out my old
Bat of Hell tape to get the proper spelling.
Steinman without Meatloaf is kind of like potatoes
without gravy, though.
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I
have to thank you. You solved a childhood
mystery 20 years in the making for me. I've
always wondered what that movie was called where
the group of kids are on a wild goose chase
finding clues, and only really remembered one
scene: the one in the diner. I went to google,
typed in the words: "movie "Huge
M" necklace" and up came your site and
a few others.
The
weird thing is, I've even heard of the movie
"
midnight
madness" but never thought I'd seen
it. Well, I don't care if it's a bad movie or
not, I've waited two decades to find out what it
is and see it again. (it thrilled me as a 10
year old) so I'm going to find it and watch
it.
THANKS
A MILLION!!
Bob
Moore
You're
welcome, Bob.
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The
'25 most gloriously stupefying etc.' is one of
the finest additions yet to your site, Mr.
Plambeck. I keep reading it over and over,
helplessly. Always a good sign.
Cliffasaurus
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Just
read through your 25 Stupefying moments in
B-Cinema History! Great stuff! I'm surprised
that one of the death scenes from "Happy
Birthday To Me" didn't make the grade. If
you haven't seen it yet, do so... but fast
forward to the halfway point. The weightlifter's
death scene is hilarious. Apparently the guy
lifting weights knows the killer, who adds some
more weight onto the bench-pressing bar and is
helping spot his brawny cohort. As the guy lifts
the bar, the killer pulls the bar-rest away,
forcing the weightlifter to hold the heavy
weights up in the air. Then the killer grabs a
barbell and holds it over the lifter's
crotch..... AND DROPS IT! The lifter drops the
bar and is killed. Simply must be seen to be
believed. Also, there's a scene in "The
Boogeyman" (and the Boogeyman 2) where a
kid peeks his head in a window, yells BOOGEYMAN,
and is then crushed as the window crashes down
on him. Perhaps one or both can become honorable
mentions? Keep
up the awesome work on the site!
Jordan
/ The
B-Movie Film Vault
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HKC
here, and just checked out the list over at 3B
Theatre, and thought I'd add some
additional suggestions...
WTF?!?!
moments:
The
Witch's Curse : Standard peplum fare, until you
realize that Maciste is riding around 17th
century
England
?
Ireland
?
Scotland
?
wearing a friggin' loincloth and sandals....
Orgy
of the Dead : Yeah, it's an Ed Wood writing
credit...but...
After
the couple's car crash, the film becomes an
nudist movie on acid.
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Happy
4th Birthday!
I'd
send you four cases of beer and the movie
"Manos: Hands of Fate" to celebrate,
but beer 'aint cheap and and I think the Geneva
Convention outlawed "Manos". So
instead, I'll just have to convey my thanks to
you for all the great entertainment you provide.
I've always been a fan of horror movies in
general, and the really bad ones are always the
most fun. Give me "The Giant Claw" or
"Blood Freak" over "2 Fast 2
Furious" and it's slick, high budget ilk
any day of the week.
Your
reviews are intelligent, entertaining and funny
as hell. It's very much appreciated by me and
all of your readers. Happy four years and here's
to many more! *raising a can of beer* No
stranger to crap cinema, I wrote a guest review
of Feardotcom over at Braineater. Check it out
sometime. I'd like to think I can give you back
a bit of the laughter at a bad movie's expense
that you've provided me. In
the spirit of your Top 25 most Gloriously
Stupefying Moments in b-movie history, here are
my top 10.
- 10
- In "Dungeons and Dragons", The comic
relief character, Snails, getting killed off in
a suitably nasty fashion. I mean, how often have
we all prayed for that to happen? Thank you,
movie. From the bottom of our hearts.
- 9
- Our first look at the bloodsuckers in that
movie where the vampires all sleep in bathtubs
with their freakin' LUNGS floating at the top of
the water. (I've been trying to find out the
name of this movie for years. I saw it once and
it was SO bad.)
- 8
- Every scene Keanu Reeves does in "Bram
Stoker's Dracula". I swear the guy was once
outacted by a pencil. In his moments of supposed
terror, he only manages to look constipated.
- 7
- The werewolf sex scene in Howling II where the
two werewolves transform during the act, which
manages to be about as erotic as a root canal.
- 6
- The fetus-eating scene in
"Bleeders". Damn. Just plain... Damn.
- 5
- The Tree-rape scene in "Evil Dead".
(Yeah, it's a disgusting example of
sexploitation...not to mention treesploitation.
Yet it amuses me no end. And as a rape survivor
myself, I'm allowed to say that.)
- 4
- That scene in "Gremlins" where the
female lead tells the story of her dad dressing
up as Santa and being roasted on an open fire.
Other than that, the movie's harmless fluff.
That scene brings forth a heretofore unknown
level of "Ha-ha-ha! This movie's funny,
there's the...wait. Did she just say her father
got burnt alive on Christmas Eve?"
- 3
- Samuel L. Jackson getting served up as an
appetizer to the superintelligent Sharks in
"Deep Blue Sea" just as he's starting
one of his famous 'Oscar Moment' speeches. That
took guts.
- 2
- Janet Leigh getting offed by
Norman
in
"Psycho" in the first few minutes of
the film. Kudos to the classics.
- 1
- That climactic moment during "The Sixth
Sense" when suddenly, you realize that...
Hey! This movie sucks ass.
Take
care,
Nicole
Thanks,
all of you. Glad you enjoyed it and we are
currently working on the 10 most stupefying
moments that probably should have made the first
cut in B-Cinema History.
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"Reader
James Fry rightfully points out that Chris
Claremont was the scribe for the Wolverine
mini-series and X-Books but I still list Miller
as a major co-conspirator on Wolverine's
change."
Uh...
why? He didn't write it. He didn't make the
call, he just drew what Claremont
wrote. Undoubtedly there was some degree of
input, but the whole thing was plotted by Claremont, and
certainly the elements you refer to were a major
part of Claremont's
ongoing plan for Wolverine -- any artist
could've drawn the miniseries. Blaming Miller
for it is like looking at an ugly building and
blaming the guy who built it, not the architect
who actually designed it.
Not
that it's a big deal. Just strikes me as a
strange position to take.
Anyway,
I just saw this turd of a pilot about fifteen
minutes ago, and Jesus Christ, it's awful. The
animation is certainly good enough, particularly
in comparison to other things produced around
the same time, but I had major trouble sitting
still while I watched it; whenever someone
opened their mouth I just wanted to grab two
icepicks and stick them in my ears. Wolverine's
accent is indeed bizarre and the acting is
terrible, but Colossus was the worst of the
bunch. The "ha ha, Colossus is very
Russian,ho ho" approach made him
sound like a retard who has absolutely no
conception of anything that goes on around him,
but laughs anyway...
Mikki
Yeah
but I can yell at the contractor if he pissed in
the concrete can't I?
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Actually,
"Pryde Of The X-Men" actually did see
air time when the "Marvel Comics Action
Hour" (which featured Spider-Man and His
Amazing Friends, RoboCop, and DinoRiders)
premiered in syndication in various UHF networks
(FOX in my area) as part of their saturday
morning line-up in 1989. The pilot was pretty
much used to suck in a new audience for
Spider-Man and the toy-fodder shows they stuck
in with it (I actually kinda liked RoboCop in
some weird way but there isn't anything better
then Frank Miller's dark humor version).
Thankfully,
FOX actually revamped the X-MEN series into the
successful cartoon show it became. I do always
wonder though if Marvel would have ever broken
it's "curse" if Spider-Man and X-Men
would never have been allowed to escape from the
'80s.
Nightmare1971
Really?
I'm not surprised that I missed it, even though
the Fantastic Four cartoon from that period was
kind of cool -- every other Marvel cartoon produced
sucked total ass. Nothing but commercials for
Toybiz that muddled continuity that leeched back
into the comics. Ah, well. They're the younger
generations heroes now. I've still got mine
boxed up over in the corner to reread.
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Here's
something to chew on, perhaps. Chelsea Brown of
the cast of The
Thing With Two Heads might be none other
than the gentle coroner on CSI
MIAMI
.
Maybe a name change to Khandi Alexander? They
both have backgrounds in dancing, curiously. And
they look just alike. Let
me know if you find out anything!
Kitty
Nope,
sorry, that's not her.
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Howdy.
Found
your site by accident and thought it was great.
I do have a humble suggestion, however: seek out
and watch the movie "Troll 2" at all
costs. I'm sure you get plenty recommendations from
lame asses who can't tell the difference between
a magnificently horrendous piece of cinematic
art and insufferable crap (e.g.,"Ishatar", "Swept
Away"), but if you thought that "Blood
Freak" was something special, I personally
guarantee you that "Troll 2" will
blow it out of the water in terms of sheer absurdity,
porn-grade acting and directorial
incompetence. What?!
Still not convinced? It was directed by the
infamous Joe D'Amato. Its "stars"
never worked in the business before or
since, and were almost all straight
from community theater; the extras are all
incredibly homely locals from whatever hellhole Texas
town
they filmed it in. It is speculated that
the dialogue was originally written in Italian,
then translated into English.
NS
You
know, I just snagged a copy of Troll 2. You're
right on all counts. We may have to tackle a
Troll double feature someday.
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I
love and know a lot about B-movies and most
horror movies. In
fact this is my list of top ten movies:
- 1.
Astro-Zombies
- 2.
Track of the moon beast tied with Corpse
Grinders
- 3.
The incredible melting man
- 4.
Octaman
- 5.
Mutant Hunt
- 6.
Reservoir Dogs (ok, thats not a B-movie but it
rocks!)
- 7.
The Intruder
- 8.
The Keep
- 9.
Ilsa, she-wolf of the SS
- 10.
Day of the dead and Dawn of the dead both tied
with the Burning (Tom Savini Rocks!!!!!)
I'm
14 love doing, special make-up effects (Started
up a group consisting of me and a friend called
"Chop Shop" we have made many gory and
scary creations) and A big fan of Rick Baker. I'm
looking for Octaman on video or
DVD, I remember
renting it about a year ago and then they threw
it away. I can't find it anywhere! I live Australia,
Melbourne
and
want to know where I can get
"Octaman".
P.S.
TED V. MIKELS ROCKS!!!!!
Seb
M
That's
an impressive list. I don't mind Ted V. Mikels, I
just don't like it when he sneaks up on me. If
you still need a copy of Octaman click on over
to Tapes
of Terror. They can take care of you.
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Thank
you very
much for writing your review of Target
Earth, I have been trying to figure out the name
of this movie for what seems like years. I
finally was lucky enough to find your review
using a google search, with the seemly unrelated
words “robot boxy tubes”. . . amazing.
I
vaguely remember watching this movie on TV in
the early 60’s with my brother, being scared
out of my mind and my older brother busting my
balls about it. Anyway, now that I know
the name I can get it for him as a Christmas
present.
Zsolt
Szeless
You're
welcome. Glad I could help out.
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Hey
there. I found your website whilst looking up details
on one of my all time favourite movies, 'The
Cannonball Run'. I think maybe you and I are
similar in the belief that even truly bad films,
like Dark Star are so much more enjoyable after
a few beers. I Bought Cannonball run today on
dvd and it was every bit as stupid as I
remember it. That's why i love it. The reason
for the email was I saw in your listing a movie
called Zone
Troopers...I
couldn't believe it! I saw that movie when I was
a child and had totally forgotten all about it.
Looks like I will be buying another dvd...that
is if they even made this onto dvd. Great site.
I am still laughing.
Lord
Sh*tnipple
You're
welcome, uh, your majesty(!?)...
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Why
is there no DVD of King Kong yet?
Don
I
understand that it's coming. It's just taking a
little longer to restore it. I say we've waited
this long, we can wait a little while longer and
let them get this puppy right.
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In
response to the Battleground
review: Eh?
Van Jonson? Funny, I'd have sworn that was
Pat O'Brien !
Sandra
Ack.
You're right. We'll get that fixed.
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Hi.
I agree that BATTLEGROUND is one of the best war
movies ever. It's far superior to the
bigger budgeted BATTLE OF THE BULGE, although
that's pretty good, especially Robert Shaw's
performance, but too Hollywood. I
like the fact that in BATTLEGROUND the GIs
mostly don't know what the hell is happening, or
even what country they're in..("Belgium?
I thought this was France.")
By
the way, I once saw a documentary on the battle
in which Col Harper (I guess) said that Gen
McAuliffe's real response to the German demand
for surrender was "Fuck!". But he
couldn't write that, so he changed it to the
famous "Nuts!" (Just lately, the
Powers That Be have decreed that it's okay to
use the word in print, as long as it's an
expletive, and not a reference to sexual
intercourse, so it's started popping up on TV etc.
Did
you see that HBO series, BAND OF BROTHERS? It
was about the 101st Airborne, and one episode
was about Bastogne.
Sandra
Yes
I did see Band of Brothers and thought it was
fantastic. I've heard that rumor on McCauliffe's
alternate reply. That is pretty funny. And since
you were using the word "fuck" in the
right context, we won't edit it here, either.
Just a second, there's a knock on the door. Hey
those guys look like Jehovah Witnesses with
badges...uh-oh.
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In
"It Came From Hollywood"
there is a scene from a movie that I think Gilda
Radner described as the worst movie musical
ever. It has a bunch of "Natives"
dancing around a tropical looking area, singing
some god awful song. Terrible music, terrible
choreography and bad acting.
What
is the name of the movie. What is the song?
Jeff
If
memory serves that's from the film Sunny Side
Up. But I could be wrong.
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Just
in time for Halloween 2003 the makers of Rock n'
Roll Frankenstein
have uploaded the entire 90 minute feature to
the web
(via RealMedia streaming). That's right, you can
now see the movie that was banned by the IFFM,
hounded by animal rights activists
for alleged gerbil abuse, and dares suggest
Liberace might have
been less than heterosexual... absolutely free!
R&R
PRODUCTIONS LLC
Words
fail me, folks.
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Enjoyed
your review of The
Bad News Bears
- it interested me in the
movie again, and I plan to rent it next time I
go to the video store. Seeing
that you plan to also review the two sequels, I
thought I would pass along some information about
the
Japan
sequel that you might be able to use, if you
don't already know it. If you can dig
up Tony Curtis' autobiography, you'll find he
wrote a bit about his experience on the movie.
From what I remember, he ended his discussion on
the movie by saying that while the movie was a
moneymaker for Paramount, he
thought it was a terrible movie and he regretted
ever being involved in it. (However, the guy
helping him write the autobiography wrote an
aside where he gave specific praise to his
performance, like how he handled lines like
"[A few thousand dollars] won't get you
through college, but it'll get you some women in
college.") If you're wondering why Curtis
signed on in the first place, it was only
because his professional career had been in the
toilet for several years already.
Greywizard
Considering
his vapid performance, I can see why his career was in the crapper.
Still looking for his book, though.
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All
this testimony on your site, claiming it's a
hoax really baffles me. Firstly, let me
tell you, that tape's haunted me for the past
4-5 years. And I've only seen in once.
I do live in MN. Well here's what I have
to say, when that tape was aired, I was in high
school. I was talking talking to a
friend about it, and next to us, another student
caught wind of it and dropped in saying
"Yeah, I seen that too." He told
me that the McPherson family were friends of his
mother and his family, and his mother even
confirmed this as well. And the kicker is,
she was wondering why she couldn't get in
contact with them anymore. Now my
immediate assumption is that someone in the
government or from where ever hired so and so to
cover this up, as well as make an extremely
credible backround/story to go with
it--Including actors, directors, backround, ect.
I honestly don't buy any of it. I believe
to this day, that tape is real. You
cannot put special effects on a standard camera
such as the one used. Anyways, I'd
like you to take this in consideration, that
these people are not actors and I do know people who were good friends of the family.
Haven't you ever wondered how, these no names
listed...acted sooo good? I can tell you
believe it's real too, but like me, you don't want
to believe it. Get back to me.
Jake.
I've
said it before and I'll say it again. I honestly
believe in the existence of extraterrestrials
but the Alien Abduction tape is total and
complete bullsh*t.
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Greetings,
Jim!
SUPERB
PAGE!!!
I,
exactly like you, was a rabid fan of the
animated Filmation series "The New
Adventures of Flash Gordon" since its
inception in 1979, during my pubescent years (I
am still haunted by those Harem of Ming scenes).
I've been avidly trying to collect all the
episodes and movies associated with this series.
So far, scant luck at best. Do you have any
information on how I might be able to acquire
copies of *all* the episodes and how I might get
my hands on "FG: The Greatest
Adventure..."? I'd sure appreciate any help
you could offer!
Thanks
in advance,
Orestes
Papazisis
At
last check Amazon had the movie available.
Beyond that, keep checking eBay or do a Google
search. And who's this Jim guy?
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Would
love a link. Check out my out
of print film book site lots of horror and
fantasy and sci-fi material. Thanks.
Cinemagebooks
Can
I get my site, Horror
Movies, added to your links.
Goatsrule99
Hi
Love your site! Just wanted to know if you'd be
interested trading links for Atomic
Monsters. Thanks.
Rich
Hello there horror friends. My name is
Dan Kopperud and I'm the webmaster of the
rapidly growing horror film site The
Flesh Farm
- The Macabre, Strange, and Bizarre. I visited your 3B
Theater site today and was very
impressed. So I am writing you in
regards to perhaps submitting my link. Your
welcome to review my site and visit anytime
you please. I hope to hear from you
soon and hope we can work something out.
Thank you.
Dan
Just wanted to send you a quick letter saying
that I've really enjoyed reading 3B! You
do a kick-ass job, and your hard work is
appreciated. I run a cult movie review website called
Mutant
Reviewers From Hell, and we want to put a link
to your site on our Links page. I hope that's okay!
Keep up the great job.
Justin
Hey there,
I love your site and I'm happy to see
someone finally exposed "Glitter" for
what it really is. I run a bad movie website myself, it's called
Brokedown Cinema and I was wondering if I could
link with you. We
really need to update the links section. Please
be patient everyone. I've finally got caught up
on the mail. The links section is next.
Jerry
Hey
I am a very big fan of your site i have been
reading reviews there for a while like you I
also am a big fan of B movies and have made a
site, Toxic
Theater,
dedicated to them I was wondering if you could
link me. I will link you back right away.
Joe
Gibel
Okay,
honest. We're finally getting caught up on over
a year's worth of reader mail and Ro-Man as my
witness, the Links page overhaul is next on the
agenda. Unfortunately, that will probably take a
year, too. Let's hope not. I'll try to get all
these very worthy links added ASAP.
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I
am trying to find the title(s) to Japanese
superhero that went by the name of Starman.
I remember the black and white films as a kid and
need help locating them.
Joe
There
are two Starman DVDs currently available from Something
Weird Video that you can order through
their site and Amazon.
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After
reading your stuff about the Encyclopedia
Galactica I realized something….I’ve heard
the term “jumping the shark” a few times but
I don’t know what it means! What does it mean?
M
Wilson
Well,
the term originates from an episode of Happy
Days when the whole cast went to Hawaii for two
part episode that climaxed with Fonzi
water-skiing and jumping over a shark trapped in
a cage. The whole reference refers to sitcoms or
shows that have run out of ideas and pull out
all the stops and do something ludicrous like
having one of their main characters jump over a
shark tank. Hence, when a show has run out of ideas
they "jump the shark" trying to
keep that old gravy train rolling.
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I just came
across your site. I was
wondering if you knew whether a soundtrack for
this movie was ever released on vinyl. I haven't
been able to find any information
regarding this so far. Congratulations on
a cool site and thanks in advance. Cheers!
James
Uhm,
which movie?
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Hi.
I want to do an in depth study of Ed Wood's
writing and was wondering if you had (or know
where to get) copies of his written scripts.
Do they exist? Thanks for your help and I hope
to hear from you soon.
Nathan
Oh,
wow. I wouldn't have a clue where to send you.
Never underestimate the power of a Google-bomb,
though.
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I
am the director of "13 Seconds," a new
independent horror film that has recently played
to sold out audiences at many film festivals.
Douglas Preston, best-selling author of The
Relic, declared it a "terrifying film,
startling, riveting, with a marvelous and
completely unpredictable twist at the end."
We were awarded Best Independent Feature at this
year's Calgary International Horror Film
Festival. We were also awarded Best Horror
Feature at the New York Independent
International Film Festival. And we were
awarded by Ramsey Campbell at this year's
Fantastic Festival of Films. I was wondering if I could send you a screener
for your review?
Absolutely.
And a damn fine film it turned out to be.
Congratulations on getting this film a
distributor. More people need to see it.
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It's
unfortunately nowhere near as interesting a
movie as to make any top *or* bottom 25 films
list -- but the Italian "Exorcist"
knockoff, "The Tempter", has a moment
that's just jaw-dropping to anyone who
recognized it as a blatant rip from the Friedkin/Blatty
film but watched through to the end
anyways. The possessed young woman, who is
confined to a wheelchair but who regains use of
her legs through The Power Of The Devil,
suddenly leaps up from the wheelchair shrieking
hysterically (I swear, I was truly hysterical
watching it) and runs outside -- and down a
big-ass staircase just like the plot-significant
one in "The Exorcist", except in that
film it didn't just suddenly show up and play a
plot role in the last five minutes of the
movie!
Feldspar
Thanks
for the heads up. I'll keep my eye out for it.
There isn't a shortage of Excorcist rip-offs are
there?
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Hi.
Just a "thank you" for all the info
on your site. I was born march 12 1971 and I remember a lot of the movies and
TV series
that you have listed. very nostalgic for me.
very cool to see the young ones and Sleepaway
Camp. No one I know has seen either one. All
the superhero stuff I grew up with too. I love
it and my 3 kids love it now. Thank you
for your time.
Karl
Anytime
Karl. Glad I could help out. And it's e-mails
like these that keeps this site going. Keep them
coming. Thanks one and all.
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