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Back again!
Having spent the last couple installments building up to it, the Views this week culminated in the viewing of Jake West’s exhaustive, 7+ hour examination of the Video Nasty era, watching trailers and commentary from fellow fiends about the films on the chopping block. It’s probably my favorite home video release of the year, an essential purchase for genre aficionados.
Rewarding myself for having gone the distance, I sallied out to Jon Kitley’s and kicked back a quartet of quirks from around the globe (Spain, Canada, England, Russia), then returned home to kick off summer with a revisit to a certain croc-infested Maine lake to see if the water had gotten any better on second go-round. With killer rats, sexy witches, and trash-talking Betty White on the menu, it’s hard to go too far wrong.
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Enjoy!
HORROR:
Beyond the Grave (2010) d. Pinheiro, Davi de Oliveira (Brazil) (1st viewing)
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Burn, Witch, Burn (aka Night of the Eagle) (1962) d. Hayers, Sidney (UK) (3rd viewing)
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Deadly Eyes (1982) d. Clouse, Robert (Canada) (2nd viewing)
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Lake Placid (1999) d. Miner, Steve (USA) (2nd viewing)
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Night Digger, The (1971) d. Reid, Alastair (UK) (1st viewing)
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Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide (2010) d. West, Jake (UK) (1st viewing)
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Viy (1967) d. Ershov, Konstantin / Kropachyov, Georgi (Russia) (2nd viewing)
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Wax (2014) d. Matellano, Victor (Spain) (1st viewing)
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CIVILIAN:
Restrepo (2010) d. Heatherington, Tim / Junger, Sebastian (USA) (1st viewing)
This Oscar-nominated documentary, following an Army platoon of U.S. soldiers during their tour in Afghanistan's Korangal Valley, won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, presumably for its objectivity and you-are-there immediacy. I’m sure this managed to make it palatable to both hawks and doves, with the former applauding our troops’ bravery and skill while the latter looks on in dismay, thinking, “Why are we here?” I only know that I was well and truly depressed come the closing credits, wondering yet again why we can’t all get along.
2014 Totals to date: 186 films, 107 1st time views, 112 horror, 23 cinema
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