Smashbomb

"I first saw this in Detroit— I was seventeen, it was 1975. We lit up our Colombian spliffs, along with everyone else in the theater, an all-smoking venue. I’d never listened to reggae before. I’d never seen a movie where the hero is last pictured in a rain of gunfire, still blasting his pistol, the immortal prince. I hid my eyes from many of the scenes of cruelty: the sadistic pastor assigned to “care” for our young Ivan, the vicious corruption of the record companies, dope kingpins and government goons—who seem to be one and the same. When Ivan punctuates his overdue revenge strokes with a knife with “Don’t. Fuck. With. Me!”—I wondered if I’d draw another breath."

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Vampire Circus (1972) in Movies

May 8, 2021

Vampire Circus (1972)

1972 | Horror

7.0

(3 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Visually striking if rather unsubtle and slightly incoherent Hammer horror movie. The usual sort of thing: humble townsfolk have enough of the local vampire and do him in, only to face a dreadful revenge years later. This time the instrument of vengeance is a circus full of (you'll never guess!) vampires.

Pretty much as extravagant as Hammer ever got, in terms of gore and nudity; the impact of the film is helped by lurid production design and cinematography. That said, the story's nothing special and most of the acting from the leads is very drab. (Extraordinary supporting cast full of culty names who don't get much to do.) The odd decent moment and sequence, not far off the average standard of early seventies Hammer. Vacuous but watchable.

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Silent Blade (Kinsmen, #1) in Books

Sep 5, 2019

I don't know if it was its shortness or the plotline just didn't pull me in but I found this a little odd.

It also seemed to happen too quick. One minute they were meeting for the first time and two days later, after not seeing each other again in between, they're having sex like crazy people and during those days they fall in love with each other only for her to leave...?

I just didn't quite get where her reasoning was in that. I understood her wanting to get a little revenge but at the same time she never talked about her plan, so I didn't understand what she was doing until she told him.

I wont be reading the second novella in this series.

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Burn for Burn (Burn for Burn, #1) in Books

Sep 6, 2019

This was a fairly quick read, the font was quite large and the line spacing was too.

It did have me intrigued after the first 70+ pages or so, when the girls finally agreed to a pact of revenge on the people who had done them wrong. I was even cheering them on, though Alex was a bit of a question mark for me. Rennie needs to be brought down a notch or ten. And Reeve...he comes across as an egotistical idiot jock but I think he's hiding something. There were several parts in the book where he stopped playing the part of the popular QB and that last bit before the end...

It has me intrigued enough to go and buy book 2.