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Blind Date 1984
What a weird little film - a slow and sometimes boring giallo inspired thriller, with a wholly odd plot about a cure for blindness for our not terribly likeable hero (hobbies include just hanging out watching women with binoculars and wearing bizarre t shirts demonstrating his love of dental hygiene) that feels like it was taken from another film to save this one. The weird, primitive digital visions of his blindness cure are the real joys here - strange and…
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The Beast of the Yellow Night 1971
This is for the Rifftrax version - The riffs are funny but the film is so bad they do seem to struggle doing much with it. Weirdly the screenplay seems to want to do more than the filmmakers can ever manage, especially the subplot with the blind man. It’s almost as if they wrote a slightly somber, ornate script but then just made it as schlock. It’s a weird effect but not an entirely terrible one
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Gregory's Girl 1980
there are reasons why this is my favourite film of all time. it has all the strange, unalloyed creative joy of "that sinking feeling" but this time it's all been pulled together to create, as far as i'm concerned, the single best cinematic tale of growing up as a teenager ever: in literature, in television, in cinema. all of it. it's all here, which is kind of my definition of a masterpiece - it sets out to say everything possible…
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