Tag: Tubi
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Nothing Underneath (1985)
Nothing Underneath (1985) is a 1980s-era late-period giallo thriller that fully knocks off the Brian De Palma style. Even composer Pino Donaggio reuses a variation of the ‘Telescope’ theme from Body Double a few times. An American model, Jessica Crane (Nicola Perring), in Milan is in danger (also she has the same blonde punkish cut… Read.
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Fatal Pulse (2018)
FINAL STAGE – GLASS BRICK PORTALFEBRUARY 1991Fatal Pulse (2018) announces itself as operating within the Yuppie Fear thriller mode, using clips and trailers of The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, Pacific Heights, Deceived, etc. The actual experience of Fatal Pulse itself is comparable to Tim and Eric, Inland Empire, and Southland Tales. An evisceration of a cultural era – the early 1990s in… Read.
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Despiser (2002)
We look back on practical effects that might have been cheap, but they become appreciated for their aesthetic value and effort, in contrast to CGI now. So it will be with dated CGI, particularly as the decades pass and what was once the new thing becomes ossified into a time-stamped style. Directed by Phillip J.… Read.
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Endgame (1983)
Directed by Joe D’mato, Endgame (1983) is another Italian rip-off post-apocalypse movie and much like Lucio Fulci’s Warriors of the Year 2072, it’s about televised death sports, preempting The Running Man movie, though more than likely copying Rollerball. While not as stylish or gory as Fulci’s film, I enjoyed Endgame more. It spends 30 minutes in the world of ‘Endgame’, where three hunters… Read.
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Four Of The Apocalypse (1975)
Four Of The Apocalypse (1975) is a late-period spaghetti western, as the Italian genre was on the decline in the 1970s, directed by Lucio Fulci. Even though this before Fulci’s ‘Gates of Hell’ trilogy, and some of the more gnarlier movies that would make his name as a horror filmmaker (Zombi 2, The New York… Read.
