Sunday, August 17th, 2008
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Perfesser Deviant
Menarche, for those of you who do not know, is the name of the time when women first begin menstruation. Since any topic even vaguely related to sex is considered embarrassing for many American parents to discuss with their children (though not too embarrassing to do to get children in the first place), public schools have stepped in to educate children on these important facts. Since many teachers are just as squeamish, industrial filmmakers put together films that teachers could easily show to a class and then answer questions (or refer questions to provided booklets), leaving all the awkward heavy-lifting to the film.
Plus these films cut down on weird loner telekinetic teenagers destroying the entire senior class after being doused in pig’s blood.
Films Discussed (all with links for online viewing): The Story of Menstruation / Molly Grows Up / It’s Wonderful Being a Girl / Naturally… a Girl / All Women Have Periods
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Documentary, Reviews Tags: Documentary
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
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Vomitron
Director: Geoff Murphy
Writer: Bill Baer (…)
Release year: 1985
Every now and then New Zealand manages to surprise the rest of the world with excellent genre movies. Geoff Murphy’s THE QUIET EARTH is definitely one for the books. Despite scoring on so many various levels (from script, dialogues & character drawings to the actual directing & acting), it is undoubtedly the memorable ending that is etched in the memories of all who ever saw it.
(Spoilers!)
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Shock Endings Tags: Last Man On Earth, Science Fiction
Saturday, August 9th, 2008
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Vomitron
Director: Geoff Murphy
Writers: Bill Baer, Bruno Lawrence & Sam Pillsbury (based on a novel by Graig Harrison)
Release year: 1985
Condemned to live
Zac Hobson wakes up to what could have been a normal day. But it’s not. His life will never be the same as he finds out he’s the only person left on this earth. What happened and where have all the people gone?
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Drama, Reviews, Science Fiction Tags: Last Man On Earth, Mystery, Post-Apocalyptic
Saturday, July 26th, 2008
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Carlos Lohan
Director: Narciso Ibañez Serrador
Writers: Juan Tebar & Narciso Ibañez Serrador
Release Year: 1969
English title: The House That Screamed
The horror of all-girl schools: Spanish style!
This little known Spanish shocker tells the story of a naive teenage girl who arrives at a boarding school with a very dark (and dangerous) secret, all told in the most spooky and stylish way possible.
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Drama, Horror, Reviews Tags: Euro Horror, Giallo, Gothic
Friday, July 4th, 2008
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Hieronymos Grost
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Writers: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Sergio Citti
Release Year: 1976
Italian title: Salò O Le 120 Giornate Di Sodoma
A manifesto for perversion and evil
As Allied forces began their final push to control Italy, a group of Fascist leaders in Salo, Northern Italy, (the last bastion of Nazism left in Italy) who knowing their time is limited, decide to bow out with a bang. Their plan is to kidnap local boys and girls, the sons and daughters of so called Communists in the community in order to subject them to the utmost degradation while at the same time satiating their own evil vices.
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Drama, Horror, Reviews Tags: Disturbing Drama, Nazis, Women In Prison
