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The Fall of the House of Usher (1979)

The Fall of the House of Usher (1979)
Rating: ★
Aug 21, 2012Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation
Maybe the worst Edgar Allan Poe adaptation ever, a version made for tv that fails utterly to project any of Poe's gloom and despair, while a badly overacting Martin Landau is disastrously miscast as Roderick Usher
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Meteor (1979)

Meteor (1979)
Rating: ★★
Jan 2, 2013Meteor Collision/Disaster Movie
An effort from the heyday of the 1970s disaster movie that was a big flop when it came out. Widely ridiculed for its bad special effects, it is a film I am partially prepared to defend, it setting aside the usual soap opera dramatics of these films to make an interesting parable about Cold War tensions. It also prefigures Armageddon with its plot of trying to divert a meteor on a collision course with Earth
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Without Warning (1980)

Without Warning (1980)
Rating: ★★
Oct 28, 2015Alien Sportsman Hunts Human Game
One of the first copies of Alien, this essentially acts as a slasher movie but with an alien instead of a hockey-masked killer. It also manages to predict the essentials of Predator in many ways. A B-movie but the cast list makes for eye-opening reading today
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The X Files (1998)

The X Files (1998)
Rating: ★★
Mar 29, 1999The X Files Film Spinoff/Alien Invasion Conspiracy
Film spinoff from tv's hit ultra-paranoid alien conspiracy drama. The film is caught in the unenviable position of trying to give fans what they want and reiterate the basics of the series for new audiences, while giving away no plot details in advance, and as a result ended up pleasing nobody
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Frankenweenie (2012)

Frankenweenie (2012)
Rating: ★★
Nov 28, 2012Universal Frankenstein Homage/Boy Resurrects Dog/Stop-Motion Animation
Tim Burton's stop-motion animated expansion of his 1982 short film has a winning concept – a parody of the Universal Frankenstein films with a teenage boy resurrecting his dog
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