Tag: Adventure
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School In The Crosshairs (1981)
I remember seeing Hausu a long time ago (presented by Kenta McGrath at the UWA Film Society) and my memory of it has always been an all-encompassing, wild, super-visual horror dream. Keen to see further films from Hausu’s director Nobuhiko Obayashi, particularly since a few of them are available in HD on the Rarefilmm website.… Read.
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Freaky Farley (2007)
I was finally motivated to watch Freaky Farley (2007), my first Motern Media movie thanks to an interview in The Important Cinema Club Journal with actor/writer/producer Matt Farley (he and director Charles Roxburgh are the people behind the production company, Motern Media). Farley mentions Silent Night Deadly Night Part 2 in this interview as one… Read.
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The Sword And The Sorcerer (1982)
Was it a dream or was it a memory? I have this vague recall of being a child and seeing the video cover art for The Sword And The Sorcerer (1982), one of those beautiful painted medieval fantasy posters that carry over the lurid charge of thick paperback novels and comic-books, muscular men with gleaming… Read.
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The Lair Of The White Worm (1988)
Ever since I read about a scout’s unfortunate end – his own ‘end’ separated in a bathtub by the fangs of Lady Sylvia Marsh (Amanda Donohoe) – in a copy of Empire magazine as a wee slip of lad (I think as part of a weird section on unfortunate ends to male genitalia in the… Read.
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Lone Wolf And Cub: Sword Of Vengeance (1972)
It’s hard not to be nostalgic for things like Saturday Cult Movie nights on SBS with Des Magnan with the type of movies I’d get exposed to on free to air TV growing up as a teenager. The Lone Wolf And Cub series tended to get played a lot, and I think I’ve only seen… Read.
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