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Premonition 1972
Writer/director Alan Rudolph helmed a pair of since-disowned horror movies in the early 1970s before a professional association with Robert Altman allowed him to permanently break away from genre filmmaking with his third film, WELCOME TO L.A. His more widely known sophomore effort, TERROR CIRCUS (also known as NIGHTMARE CIRCUS and the wonderfully lurid BARN OF THE NAKED DEAD), with its deranged killer and young women in peril, stays safely within horror movie conventions. But PREMONTION, Rudolph's idiosyncratic debut, while…
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Alice, Sweet Alice 1976
I was recently invited to appear on Patrick Ripoll's terrific podcast Track Of The Damned. We provide an audio commentary for Alfred Sole's ALICE, SWEET ALICE (aka COMMUNION and HOLY TERROR). This episode also includes a 21 minute phone interview I conducted with director/co-writer Sole, where we talk about various Paterson, NJ locations, the current rights situation with the film, and (too briefly, I know) Sole's lost second feature, AMERICAN SOAP. Note: our audio commentary syncs up with the 106 minute U.S. DVD version, but not the 88 Films UK release, or any of the versions streaming on Youtube or Amazon Prime.
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The Hateful Eight 2015
Still gathering my thoughts on THE HATEFUL EIGHT from last night. I found it to be a mean, difficult film, which I don't think it necessarily a bad thing...but, as with every post-JACKIE BROWN Tarantino movie, I understand where many of the mixed/negative reactions are coming from. I found the protracted unpleasantness an interesting choice, but I didn't wake up any of the audience members around me for their take on whether any of it was offensive.
For me, there…