Is Laughing at Tiny Town OK?

Trying to be Politically Correct!
On Turner Classic Movies Friday night, they showed Terror in Tiny Town. I’ve always wanted to see this film.
If you don’t know the film, it’s a classic western story done with little people.Dwarf and midgets, I think. (are those terms OK to use [...]

Posted by Underbelly on January 19th, 2009

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Guilty Pleasure of the Week – Tremors

I don’t know what it is about this film but I like to think I’m just a little better than that 1990 movie. I pride myself in my taste in films, as I like to watch, and study, some of the greatest movies ever made. Me, [...]

Posted by Underbelly on December 22nd, 2008

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Daughter of Horror – (a.k.a.Dementia) 1955

“You, you out there. Do you know what horror is? Smug, confident, secure because you’re sane. Do you know what madness is or how it strikes? You see the demons that surge through the corridors of the crazed mind? Do you know that in the world of the insane you’ll find the kind of truth [...]

Posted by Underbelly on July 26th, 2008

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The Screaming Skull

The Screaming skull is a motion picture that reaches its climax in shocking horror. It’s impact is so terrifying that it may have an unforeseen effect. It may kill you! Therefor, its producers feel must assure free burial service to anyone who dies of freight while seeing the Screaming Skull!
The tortured ghost who claims [...]

Posted by Underbelly on July 19th, 2008

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Women in the Night!

I first discovered this film through a YouTube video of a trailer for a file called “Curse of a Teenage Nazi” It was an alternate title (in which made no sense, actually) for a film called “Women in the Night”.

The film starts out with a forward that states, “It is a shocking, true story based [...]

Posted by Underbelly on June 20th, 2008

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Women In Cages

Meet the dirty dolls of Devil’s Island
How could you resist seeing a film with a tag line like that!
Pam Grier plays a pot-smoking, white race-hating, lesbian sadist from Harlem named Alabama, who is the matron in an exceptionally sleazy Filipino prison for women. (from the User Comments on IMDB)
“It was called Harlem, baby. I learned [...]

Posted by Underbelly on June 16th, 2008

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Girls on the Loose

Girl gangs that stop at nothing!
Every now and again you come across a cinema masterpiece and you wonder, “why is Citizen Kane always put on the top of the list?” One overlooked “classic” from 1958 is this film by director Paul Henreid.
If you don’t know Mr. Henreid, he was the genius who brought us the [...]

Posted by Underbelly on June 4th, 2008

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Caddyshack – Be the Ball

Click on the arrow to listen.
“The writers have saddled themselves with a bland hero and a perfunctory drama that will be of interest only to the actors’ agent” David Ansen of Newsweek.
After the success of Animal House, 27-year-old Doug Kenney wanted to make a film about in Harold Ramis’ words, “a Buddhist acid fantasy that [...]

Posted by Underbelly on April 24th, 2008

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