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  Zombie Flesh Eaters 1979

  ★★★★ Watched by Ira Brooker 20 Jul 2021 2

  Man, I've been reading about the zombie vs. shark scene for years but nobody ever told me how haunting and visually poetic it was. That's in keeping with this whole endeavor, really. It's deservedly known as an extreme gore flick, but save for an infamous eyeball sequence, it never really falls into the "Hey, get a load of this fucked up shit we're pulling off" camp. This is something more melancholy and dread-filled. It really does feel like at least…

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  Extraterrestrial Visitors 1983

  ★★½ Rewatched by Ira Brooker 19 Jul 2021 5

  A group of bickersome poachers uncovers some eggs in the forest and gets attacked by a big-nosed alien. Meanwhile a band of bickersome pop stars heads for a weekend in the forest where they'll get attacked by a big-nosed alien. Meanwhile a bickersome family has a house in the forest where they unwittingly provide lodging for and eventually get attacked by a big-nosed alien.

  This is a tricky one for me to judge objectively, as it was the film that…

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  Horror Express 1972

  ★★★★ Watched by Ira Brooker 05 Jun 2014 9

  Look, obviously when a movie starts out with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing on a Trans-Siberian train battling an otherworldly shapeshifter that eats brains with its eyes, eventually you're going to get around to Telly Savalas in a deep red smoking jacket beating the hell out of a Rasputinesque monk in a crowded dining car. Fortunately, the stylish execution makes up for the same-old same-old plot.

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  Magic 1978

  ★★★½ Added by Ira Brooker 5

  Anthony Hopkins is a massively successful ventriloquist named Corky and Ann-Margaret is occasionally naked. If you need more than that, we're very different people.