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Ruby Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

Malay Mandal

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Solve your Ruby programming problems that occur during your day-to-day scripting work. This book...

The IEEE Guide to Writing in the Engineering and Technical Fields

David Kmiec, Bernadette Longo and Julia Williams

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The goal of this book is to introduce students and practicing engineers to all the components of...

Production-Ready Microservices: Building Standardized Systems Across an Engineering Organization

Susan J. Fowler

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One of the biggest challenges for organizations that have adopted microservice architecture is the...

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Oct 27, 2020

Tales That Witness Madness (1973)

1973 | Classics, Comedy, Horror

6.7

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Enjoyably (and appropriately) bonkers portmanteau horror movie based around the experiences of asylum patients. An imaginary friend turns out to be real, an antique bike turns out to be cursed, man falls in love with a tree stump, etc, etc. Kim Novak came out of retirement to play a slightly vacant literary agent who ends up eating her own daughter's flesh at a cannibal luau.

Not up to the standard of any of the Amicus portmanteaus, mainly because of a sub-par script - the twists to the various tales are either screamingly obvious, completely baffling or non-existent - but it's sort of campy fun anyway, with an interesting cast and reasonably good direction. Not remotely scary, though. The fact that much of it is totally ridiculous (the so-called Hawaiians look eastern European, and that's before we even get to the stuffed tiger or Michael Jayston going to bed wth a log) somehow doesn't detract from the entertainment value. Would have been nice to see more of Donald Pleasance, but you can't have everything.