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		<title>Sleepless (2001) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 16:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Sleepless” was originally released in 2001 and saw legendary horror director Dario Argento returning to the Giallo form in an attempt to reverse what had seemed for many years to be the irreversible decline of his once glorious career. Perhaps inevitably receiving mixed reactions from critics and fans expecting, or at least hoping for another “Deep Red”, the film is now an interesting candidate for re-evaluation. Arrow Video are offering UK viewers a chance to do just that with this new release, which is part of their Masters of Giallo series, and which comes with new specially commissioned artwork, a short documentary film on the modern Italian Giallo, a featurette on the making of the film, plus the usual trailers and press materials. 
The film has Argento working with veteran actor Max Von Sydow (best known to most genre fans as “The Exorcist” himself), who stars as an insomniac detective called Moretti investigating a brutal string of murders in Turin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The House by the Cemetery (Uncut, 1981) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 15:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UK gore and horror fans have real reason to rejoice as Lucio Fulci’s 1981 gut muncher “The House by the Cemetery” has at last been passed uncut by the dreaded BBFC. The film now returns to DVD in all its gruesome glory via Arrow Video as part of their Masters of Giallo series, and comes complete with trailers, a deleted scene and a pleasant, if not exactly earth shattering short feature on the legendary Italian director’s career. A fair amount of work has also gone into the packaging, with the original artwork being accompanied by some specially commissioned lurid art that nicely capture the spirit of the film. 
The film is set in New England, as the unfortunate Dr Boyle (Paolo Malco, also in Fulci’s notorious “New York Ripper”), his wife Lucy (Catriona MacColl, another Fulci and Italian horror veteran, also in “The Beyond” and “City of the Living Dead”) and their odd looking son Bob (Giovanni Frezza, “Manhattan Baby”) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Final Inquiry (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, an admission right up front, this review contains spoilers for the film The Final Inquiry.  Here it comes&#8230; Ready?  Jesus dies.  If that doesn&#8217;t shock or surprise you then absolutely nothing else about this movie will.  It is, very nearly, the most mediocre film, ever.  It&#8217;s not good, it&#8217;s not bad, it&#8217;s just barely okay.  It tries to be something fresh and engaging and ends up doing nothing more than getting your hopes up only to dash them on the jagged rocks of predictability, barely adequate production values and a thinly disguised Sunday morning sermon.
Just looking at the DVD sleeve will have you believing that having phenomenal actors like Max von Sydow and F Murray Abraham immediately improve the chances that the relatively unknown principles have a lot to live up to.  Instead you get leading roles played by pretty foreign film stars that suffer through banal dialogue, almost laughable voice overs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cannibal Holocaust (1980) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2004 03:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the recent hype and furor surrounding Asian gore films such as &#8220;Ichi the Killer&#8221; and more extreme fare like the &#8220;Guinea Pig&#8221; series, it&#8217;s sometimes easy to forget the wave of splatter that surged forth from Europe in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Whilst some of these films, such as Lucio Fulci&#8217;s &#8220;Zombie&#8221; or Joe D&#8217;Amato&#8217;s &#8220;Anthropophagus&#8221;, have lost most of their impact and now serve mainly as slices of somewhat camp nostalgia, a handful have retained every ounce of their power to shock and revolt. 
&#8220;Cannibal Holocaust&#8221; is chief amongst these, an infamous test for the stomach and sensibilities of any viewer. It remains so not only because of its extreme content, but also the fact that it is a skillfully made film utilizing a semi-documentary approach that really allows it to get under the skin, walking a fine line between social commentary and being an almost archetypal piece of exploitation cinema. Although I doubt its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demons (1985) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2003 00:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surprisingly, I had a lot of hope for &#8220;Demons&#8221;, and was anticipating its first reveal of the demons that would terrorize our characters with bated breath. And then the demons were revealed, and all the hope and expectation I had for Lamberto Bava&#8217;s 1985 horror film, &#8220;Demons&#8221;, sank like the intelligence of teen characters in a &#8220;Friday the 13th&#8221; film. 
Sporting the name Dario Argento prominently, &#8220;Demons&#8221; was co-written by Argento, who has made a name for himself as a master of horror and suspense here in the States. This 1985 effort is not Argento&#8217;s best work, if he indeed added some ideas to the screenplay as the movie boasts. (Frankly, I&#8217;m prone to believe that Argento&#8217;s involvement is akin to Wes Craven&#8217;s involvement in movies sporting titles like, &#8220;Wes Craven Presents&#8230;Another Crappy Horror Film&#8221;.)
Starring a bunch of unknowns and dubbed in English, this unrated version of &#8220;Demons&#8221; finds a large group of would-be victims being given free passes to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beyond (1981) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2002 01:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who plans on watching Lucio Fulci&#8217;s The Beyond is advised not to eat beforehand or plan on eating right after the viewing. The Beyond is a Zombies Attack film made by the same man who gave us Zombie, one of the more spectacular Zombies Attack pictures I&#8217;ve seen in recent memory. And like Zombie, the gore and blood flows quite freely here, so you&#8217;ve been warned.
The Beyond opens in 1920s Louisiana, at a hotel in the outskirts of town that is currently being overrun by angry villagers carrying (what else?) torches and weapons. The lynch mob&#8217;s intended target is a painter name Schweick (Antoine Saint-John) who is staying at the hotel doing some weird paintings. The mob quickly kills Schweick in a most horrible way and buries him in the hotel&#8217;s basement. Fast-forward to 1981 (the year of the movie&#8217;s release), where we find Liza (Catriona MacColl), a New York sophisticate who has just inherited the hotel from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zombie (1979) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2002 21:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a revolving policy when it comes to movie reviews. Depending on the movie in question, I will adjust my review parameters appropriately. Why do I do this? Because I wouldn&#8217;t dream of looking at a subgenre film (such as a Zombies Attack movie) the same way as I would a normal, mainstream film. The two are different beasts, and to judge both with the same criteria is foolish and a mistake. Which brings us to Zombie, a movie in the subgenre of Zombies Attack films The director of Zombie is an Italian director name Lucio Fulci, who I have heard a lot about, but whose movies I have never had the pleasure of watching. In a way, I guess you could call Fulci the Italian George Romero (he of Night of the Living Dead and other Zombies Attack movies fame), in that both men really came into international attention as the director of Zombies Attack films, but eventually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malena (2000) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Malena takes place in the 1940s, as Italy gears up for war with the Allied nations, confident in its superiority and in its righteousness. The film stars the beautiful Italian actress Monica Belluci (Brotherhood of the Wolf) as the titular character, a young wife who was brought to this new town by her new husband, who has since gone to war leaving his wife to care for his deaf father. For the simple reason that she is gloriously beautiful and the object of desire for the town&#8217;s men (and boys), Malena becomes the target of hateful rumors and petty acts of jealousy by the women: They don&#8217;t sell her fresh food and would rather spit on her rather than say &#8220;Hi&#8221;.  
When news arrives that her husband has been killed in action, Malena&#8217;s new &#8220;availability&#8221; status becomes the source of lustful actions by the town&#8217;s men. This, of course, also makes the town women despise her even more. All [...]]]></description>
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