Jon Muggleton
Jon Muggleton

Jon Muggleton

  • East Haven, CT, USA
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  • Creatures from the Abyss 1994

    ★★ Watched 22 May, 2013

    Gloriously terrible low-budget Italian horror film in which 5 stupid "teenagers" get lost at sea and end up in on a "yacht" which is actually an oceanographic lab. None of the crew is on the ship, just a lot of weird science experiments. The least stupid of the five "teens" figures out that the scientists discovered prehistoric fish deep in the ocean, and were using radioactivity to mutate them. Sure enough, something is stalking them, and wants to use them…

  • All This and World War II` 1976

    ★★½ Watched 21 May, 2013

    Basically a mixtape blown up, given a high-budget soundtrack and released to theaters, this is a Cliff's Notes history of World War II with newsreel footage and old movie clips set to Beatles covers. Some of them are good, some of them are bad, and Frankie Laine's straight reading of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" is definitely a WTF moment. The songs are linked to the images, some very well (Leo Sayer doing "The Long And Winding Road" over a montage of…

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  • Endgame 1983

    ★★★★ Watched 30 Apr, 2013

    *Note - this is not the film pictured at left*

    Highly entertaining Italian post-apocalypse junk from Joe D'Amato. Al Cliver is Ron Shannon, champion of Endgame, a Running Man-style diversion in a post-apocalyptic future. While playing the game one night, he encounters Laura Gemser (billed as Moira Chen for some reason), a mutant telepath who saves him from his mortal enemy (George Eastman, gnawing the scenery for all its worth). Gemser recruits Cliver to escort her and several other mutants…

  • Midnight Movie 2008

    ★★★½ Watched 20 Oct, 2012 1

    This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.