Smashbomb

"This is just one of those movies that leaves you feeling queasy all over. Eating Raoul plays on all the stereotypical shock/schlock clichés typical of so-called B culture, which at the time (the early 1980s) was also being probed by Paul Bartel’s fellow Angelenos Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw (and perhaps further up the coast by the Kuchar brothers), who were also fascinated with and inspired by the prudish 1950s. Is there a moral here? Does there need to be? Why, exactly, is this film in the Criterion Collection? All questions better to put out of your mind when you pop it in."

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Danny (187 KP) rated Hell Fest (2018) in Movies

Oct 7, 2019

Hell Fest (2018)

2018 | Horror

7.2

(17 Ratings)

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Over the top gore (2 more)

Insane story

Rooster Teeth cast cameos

Give a bunch of gamer enough money to create a horror film...

So the Rooster Teeth team created a horror movie... we know the create some epic entertainment that doesn’t take itself seriously (Red vs. Blue, RWBY). Now give them the means to create the horror movie we’ve all discussed when hanging out... all the ideas in one... then use a festival so it makes sense for so many different horror genres to collide in one movie.
Reminiscent of the B-movies of the 60s-80’s that now hold “Iconic Cult Status” & that’s what you get from this film.

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The Rocky Horror Show

9.3 (6 Ratings) Rate It

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The Rocky Horror Show is a musical with music, lyrics and book by Richard O'Brien. A humorous...

The Nook Book: An Unofficial Guide: Everything You Need to Know About the Nook HD, Nook HD+ and Nook SimpleTouch

Patrick Kanouse

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Make the Most of Any B&N NOOK--Including NOOK HD, NOOK HD+, NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight, or...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Godzilla (1954) in Movies

Mar 24, 2018 (Updated Mar 24, 2018)

Godzilla (1954)

1954 | Sci-Fi

8.1

(16 Ratings)

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The very first Godzilla movie is essentially an unlicensed remake of Eugene Lourie's The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, with a prehistoric monster roused by atomic testing and going on the rampage - but being a bit worried about atom bombs is clearly not the same thing as actually having them used on your country, for this movie has a dark, traumatised quality to it completely absent from American monster movies.

The sequences with the human characters have that slightly melodramatic, soap-opera-ish feel to them common to many B-movies, but the actual monster attacks are astonishingly bleak and explicit about the massive body-count left in Godzilla's wake. You get a strong sense of a country left reeling, struggling to come to terms with why this catastrophe has been visited on them (the movie reflects the widespread Japanese belief that the country was a victim of the second world war, not an aggressor).

It's quite hard to compare this to most of the subsequent films, for this is obviously a much more serious parable. Some of the melodramatic plotting lets it down a bit, and the climax is rather disappointing given the strength of the earlier set pieces. But it's clear why people are still making movies about Godzilla nearly sixty-five years later.