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- Why DRAGONSLAYER (1981) Slays ALL CG Hollywood Dragons!
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Peter Jackson claims there’s a new film lurking in the same universe as 1992’s DEAD ALIVE aka BRAIN DEAD! Yeah, the big time Hollywood & former iconic cult film director’s apparently gonna get gory again it seems-BUT can he deliver the splatter like he did when he was a young buck or will he just…
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Today talk all things about dragons and just why Dragonslayer’s Vermithrax is the BEST dragon ever put to film! I checked it out on blu-ray after decades and it HOLDS up. So much so that it makes a mockery of all the CGI dragons Hollywood has churned out over the years! This classic fantasy film…
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Today I’m talkin’ all things HE-MAN and the Masters of the Universe! As a LEGIT 80’s kid who was obsessed with the toys and the TV show I’m giving you the “no BS” talk about the franchise and where it’s at today! Can this new film top the 80’s version?! Does 2026 HE-MAN need steroids?!…
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Today I’m covering the barely ever talked about totally bonkers horror of DANGEROUS SEDUCTRESS from 1992! A film so sexy, so sultry and so scary that macho men from all over the world will think twice before harassing or even hitting on a woman again! One of the wildest horror films all the way from…
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Today we talk about dvd hunting at thrift store in the Northwoods of Wisconsin and watching weird-O films found there with your mom! Yes a random “in the wild find” PRIMAL FORCE from 1999 is a forgotten monster movie starring resident bad ass Ron Perlman in an oddly similar Hellboy style role battling mutant baboons…
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Ok with ALL this Gremlins talk here I had to end this trilogy of videos by paying homage to the “little monster” films of the 1980s and 90s! Some call them Gremlins “RIP-OFFS” but I just can’t get enuff of little monster MAYHEM! What’s your favorite and what movies did I miss here?! Let’s talk…
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We’re talkin’ little monsters again today, covering the news of the 1983 “assembly cut” 160 minute version of GREMLINS that was just recently unearthed on VHS by Joe Dante! …And the underrated 1985 little monster Gremlins rival cult classic GHOULIES! Is it a blatant rip-off or a true iconic horror gem?! Let’s talk about it!
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More 80’s legacy sequels on the way, this time it’s ‘GREMLINS 3’! As a big fan of the original we’re gonna talk today about the 5 ways Hollywood is gonna screw this up. I’m convinced Hollywood is incapable of making films the way they used to even if they promise they’re going to back to…
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Insane monkeys were all the rage (sorta) way back in the 1980s and now in the first rad horror film of 2026: PRIMATE & they’re more bananas than EVER! This practical fx extravaganza mops the bloody floor with CGI chimpanzees and brings some true bite back to the mini-maniac monkey genre of the golden age…
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Here’s a recommendation for all you goons out there looking for something stupid to watch this year on Christmas that’s sure to displease the merry masses: 2003’s ‘A LIGHT IN THE FOREST’ this utterly forgotten weird-o Christmas flick from the FX mastermind John Carl Buechler isn’t remembered for a reason-if you love bizarre yuletide films…
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