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  Irma Vep 1996

  ★★★★ Watched by Cliff 20 Jun 2022

  Down-on-his-derrière film director René is remaking the silent serial Les Vampires (which is about a criminal gang of that name, rather than actual vampires), and he's flown Maggie Cheung over from Hong Kong to star as the anagrammatic Irma Vep, having liked her in The Heroic Trio. But various issues behind the scenes - René's state of mind, bitchiness between costume designer Zoé and the assistant director, and cynicism from several men on set about whether it's even worth making…

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  Mad God 2021

  ★½ Watched by Cliff 18 Jun 2022 3

  33 years in the making, but to what end? Animator Phil Tippett (of RoboCop and Jurassic Park fame) has put together some sort of sprawling, nightmarish version of creationism, in which - from what I can make out - the world sprung out (in its fully formed 20th/21st century incarnation) from a chaotic mess of monsters, cyberpunk technology, gory surgery and a lot of defecation. On the surface, it's an impressively mounted production, which begins promisingly with some sort of…

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  Sleepaway Camp 1983

  ★★★½ Added by Cliff 2

  The most disturbing image in this movie isn't that final shot, it's the fact that Meg seems genuinely into the idea of shagging that rancid old camp owner.

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  City of the Living Dead 1980

  ★★★★ Added by Cliff 8

  Extract from HAMLET by William Shakespeare:

  FIRST GRAVEDIGGER
  Is she to be buried in Christian burial that
  wilfully seeks her own salvation?

  SECOND GRAVEDIGGER
  I tell thee she is: and therefore make her grave
  straight: the crowner hath sat on her, and finds it
  Christian burial.

  FIRST GRAVEDIGGER
  How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her
  own defence?

  SECOND GRAVEDIGGER
  It must be "se offendendo"; it cannot be else. For
  here lies the point: if I drown myself…