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The Stone Killer 1973
“You’ve got five minutes, Christians.”
The platonic ideal of a Charles Bronson film, and practically his own DIRTY HARRY spin-off (call it “Maximum Force”). The premise is classic drive-in fodder - what if a mafia boss began recruiting/training frazzled ‘Nam vets in order to wage war and take revenge on his rivals? - while Bronson’s hardened, racist cop sees only one path to victory against this braindead army: through sheer, wanton brutality, shooting enemies and innocents (if such a thing…
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Cuckoo 2024
Tilman Singer continues the hazy Eurohorror obsession he began with LUZ, trading in pseudo-Fulci for something closer to Argento, existing in a fugue state of gorgeous remote resorts, lost little girls, desperate self-appointed detectives, possibly alien sinister forces, and Dan Stevens hamming it up in a mad doctor role Donald Pleasence would’ve devoured during the height of the ‘80s Italian paycheck gig portion of his career. Sadly, even as the set pieces sing (there’s an extended sequence involving a bike…
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Prey 2022
Cleans the franchise up after the over busy clunkiness of Shane Black’s entry by reducing the logline (and, in turn, the iconic alien beast) to its pro wrestler essence. “Predator vs. Commando” transformed into “Predator vs. Lethal Weapon” before “Predator Battle Royale”. Now, it’s “Predator vs. Native Warrior”, stripping all pretension away and barely leaving room for anything beyond one properly choreographed and thrillingly gnarly set piece after another, arrows and tomahawks flying and drawing green blood as the ultimate…
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