Cinema Cult

Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway in Chinatown (1974)

Jack Nicholson, Roman Polanski, and Roy Jenson in Chinatown (1974)

John Huston and Jack Nicholson in Chinatown (1974)

Jack Nicholson, Bruce Glover and Joe Mantell in Chinatown (1974)

Chinatown (1974)
Directed by Roman Polanski

Karloff may get top billing, but ramping diabolical to operatic new heights Bela steals it. Hardly Poe but who cares. It's fantastically fiendish fun. 1935.
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Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) Directed by Sergio Leone Cinematography by Tonino Delli Colli.

Great British gothic exploring the origin of evil. Wonderfully moody with echoes of Lovecraft and plenty of Cushing and Lee. Intriguingly eerie. 1973.
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Took it in opening day, eh?

"How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise?"
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Harryhausens UFO's take on the world for one of the best invasions to hit the drive-in. Huge fun with thrilling effects packed with cool vintage style. 1956
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Artwork way better than the movie itself.

YouTube video by HD Retro Trailers Waterworld (1995) Original Trailer [FHD]

And contrary to the often hysterical critical reactions, it is by no means terrible. In the end, it was what it set out to be: an enjoyable, sometimes somewhat dumb Roger Corman movie. A VERY Corman movie, one that just got way out of hand.
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WATERWORLD was one of those movies it became fashionable for critics and the press to bash (the producers had alienated the press during its production). It ended its box-office run with the 10th biggest take of 1995 but it cost so much to make, it took secondary-market sales to put it in the black.

When the movie, which Corman had feared would cost over $5 million, finally limped into theaters, its budget had ballooned to $175 million--the most expensive movie ever made up until then.
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A key set--a huge artificial atoll that cost $22 million to build--was wiped out by a hurricane because in order to save money, producers hadn't researched Hawaiian weather patterns.

In the movie-rich '90s, WATERWORLD became notorious as a movie on which absolutely nothing went right. Bad weather, seasickness, cast and crew injuries, messed-up eyeballs and other difficulties plagued the production.
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WATERWORLD was basically a Roger Corman movie, and, in fact, exploitation maestro Corman wanted to make it but balked because he feared it would require a budget of over $5 million. Later, the project landed at Universal and Kevin Costner became involved.
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Inspired by the Mad Max screen dystopias of the '80s, original screenwriter Peter Rader imagined an Earth in which nearly all land had been submerged and people lived as scavengers on whatever still floats and dream of finding dry land.

Released on this day--28 July--in 1995, Kevin Reynolds WATERWORLD.
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#FrancoFriday Death Whistles The Blues (1964) Director Jesús Franco

Dracula Prisoner of Frankenstein. 1972. With a random wolfman and rubber bat action Franco's homage to the classics ramps up the weird. Delirious fun.
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Italian poster for Jesus Franco's MARQUIS DE SADE'S JUSTINE (1968)

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"This was the story of Howard Beale: the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings."

Shipwrecked spectres shrouded in fog seek gruesome revenge in Carpenter's chilling ghost story. From the second it starts it feels classic. 1980.
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A spine-chilling triumph in the power of suggestion from Robert Wise brilliantly adapted from Shirley Jackson's classic book. Paranormal perfection. 1963.
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"Let's roll!"

Poster for the movie Critters (1986)

Critters (1986)
Directed by Stephen Herek

Tremors (1990) Directed by Ron Underwood starring Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Michael Gross and Reba McEntire.

Arguably Argento's last classic. Striking visuals, killer set-pieces, abundant style and zero logic all nail the glorious grisly giallo brief nicely. 1987
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A Face in the Crowd (1957) Directed by Elia Kazan stars Andy Griffith (in his film debut), Patricia Neal and Lee Remick.

Zombies, Dinosaurs & That Definition of Insanity: Clintonite-Right “Democratic Leadership” & Its… Last Summer — on Independence Day, no less — I began a Twitter thread devoted to a critique of the Clintonite-right “leadership” in the…

The Trump crisis has thrown into sharp relief this "Democratic leadership"--feckless, ineffectual, useless Clintonite garbage. People see it and are furious. But what can one expect from a pig but a grunt out of one end and a lot of shit out of the other?
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The U.S. is presently facing the most serious internal crisis since the Civil War and part of that crisis is the fact that there is, in effect, no opposition party right now. We aren't just losing the liberal democracy; we lost it.

The progressives, who are the base of the Dem party, not just some portion of it, ARE enemies of the party's Clintonite-right "leadership." One can say Jeffries, like Pelosi before him, is more honest about this, but they're not people who need to have power.
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