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Director: Wes Craven
Writer: Wes Craven based on a comic book by Len Wein & Bernie Wrightson
Release Year: 1982

It’s a thing, from the swamp…

Government chick Alice Cable (Adrienne Barbeau) is assigned to protect research scientist Dr. Alec Holland (Ray Wise) and his sister Dr. Linda Holland (Nannette Brown) and their plant research from the evil Dr. Anton Arcane (Louis Jourdan). Dr. Arcane – what a stupid name – want this research because … I guess … he’s evil, and evil guys need plant research. When Ferret (David Hess) and his mercenaries screw up the snatch of the research, Dr. Alec Holland gets turned into a monstrous thing of the swamp called SWAMP THING!!!!

Yeah.

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Director: Melvin Van Peebles
Writer: Melvin Van Peebles
Release Year: 1971

Who’s The Man?

Sweetback (Melvin Van Peebles), who seems to be some sort of live sex performer, one day pisses off The Man and sparks off a firestorm of police violence. The rest of this film is nothing more than an extended chase as Sweetback has to keep eluding the police as he tries to find a safe haven…

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Director: Elliot Silverstein
Writers: Michael Butler, Dennis Shryack & Lane Slate
Release Year: 1977

A town with skidmarks.

Deputy Wade (James Brolin) – father of Lynn Marie (Kim Richards) and Debbie (Kyle Richards) – is seriously dating schoolteacher Lauren (Kathleen Lloyd) and generally enjoying life. The problem is, an evil-looking car with tinted windows comes roaring into his small Utah town and starts making street pizza out of people. Actually, screw off Wade, the car is the star of this show….

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Director: Joe Law
Writer: none, apparantly
Release Year: 1979
Mandarin title: Tian Can Di Que

Limbless Kungfu

Let’s get right to the point: The Crippled Masters is a fantastic horrible movie. Hilarious and cringeworthy scenes follow one another at rapid speed, while this crippled kungfu extravaganza unfolded before our very eyes at last year’s ‘Freakshow Friday’, part of a midnight screening series at Offscreen Film Festival.

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Director: Pearry Reginald Teo
Writer: Keith Collea, based on the comic by Pearry Reginald Teo
Release year: 2007

DNA: Dare Not Alter

In a not-so-distant, seemingly goth-inspired future, messing with people’s DNA appears to be quite the hot topic. Messing with good intent is one thing, but inevitably good things will always fall into the wrong hands of bad people.

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