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The Last Match 1990
The cast in this film all must've lost bets to be in this thing. Let's see...
Ernest Borgnine, Charles Napier, Henry Silva, Martin Balsam... I mean, what the fuck?When the daughter of a famous football player is arrested at a Caribbean airport after a sleazy dude slips some drugs into her bag, her dad tries everything to get her out. Eventually, Borgnine shows up with his teammates, they put on their football uniforms, and organized an armed assault against…
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Malum 2023
With MALUM, director Anthony DiBlasi got a higher budget and basically remade one of his previous films called LAST SHIFT. I have not seen LAST SHIFT but I now want to, just to see the similarities.
MALUM is a bit of a mixed bag. It has an interesting story, but the acting and editing sort of took me out of the whole thing. It's basically a demonic ghost story, set in a creepy old police station during the night shift,…
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Death Sentence 2007
Sorry for being so blunt, but this movie is fucking amazing. It's brutal, horrifying, nauseating, unrelenting and will make your blood boil, as it was meant to. It's gratuitous violence may turn off the easily shaken, but... Wow... This is one hell of a revenge thriller based on Brian Garfield's novel. The unrated version is the one to watch.
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Thundercrack! 1975
I think I've seen this film, maybe, 70 times in the past few years since working on the restoration. I have grown to appreciate the brilliance of it all, especially after getting the proper subtitle translations from the director's sister, Melinda McDowell. The film has always been notoriously difficult to hear in a theatrical environment (a by-product of the low budget nature of the sound mix and editing), and the multi-generation bootlegs sure didn't help... and with the new audio…