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  The Beach Girls and the Monster 1965

  ★★★ Watched by Ashley Wells 15 Aug 2022

  The first time they showed the creature I was like AWWWW at its lil rubbery frowny face! This has some of the most geriatric teenagers I've ever seen in a movie, and some of the worst dancing, and of course the plot never gets as crazy as I wanted it to. But there's a scene where a girl and a puppet sing a song about monsters around the campfire that reminded me a lot of the ventriloquist dummy scene from…

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  Stalker 1979

  ★★★ Watched by Ashley Wells 14 Aug 2022

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Two thirds of the way through this I wrote in my notes "I might have known this wasn't the kind of movie where either of the dudes would just walk up to the Room and be like 'OK great let's go in,'" which I know is an incredibly facile thing to say but the sheer talkiness of this movie had really worn me down by that point and I was really desperate to watch something happen. Even though this gives…

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  The Cabbage-Patch Fairy 1896

  ★★★½ Rewatched by Ashley Wells 12 Feb 2018

  I love that this is what someone wanted to do when they got their hands on filmmaking technology.

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  Prey 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched by Ashley Wells 10 Aug 2022 3

  I'm not going to dignify the edgelords' terrible takes on this by linking to them, but it's VERY FUNNY to me that anyone watched this and concluded it has a measurably different "agenda" than the original!!! It's the EXACT SAME STORY: squad of highly trained warriors try and fail to subdue the Predator via traditional means, so the one remaining fighter defeats it by thinking outside the box and not relying on brute strength!! And look, I was going to…