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1969

★★½ Rewatched 02 Jun 2025

Super rich guy adopts a homeless guy and goes around sowing chaos by being rich. It's a rather berserk, plotless, gratuitously shocking, surrealistic, anti-establishment satire that probably could only have happened in 1969. There are definitely moments that read subversive at the time that now look icky. Partly, it depends on whether you see Guy Grand as selfish and indulgent, or rebellious and anarchic. I'm in the latter camp.

I've seen this a few times, and it's one of those…

1989

★★★½ Watched 01 Jun 2025

Super weird I've never heard of this before. Overnight workers in a soon-to-close grocery store confront a slasher killer. Sam and Ted Raimi, Lawrence Bender, and Scott Spiegel are involved.

It's essential a parade of really clever shot choices, and memorable kills. Set up takes a while, the characters are a bit thin, and the mean-spirited, thematically problematic ending really sat wrong with me. But the inventiveness of the shots and use of the single space were enough to keep me engaged. Worth a look if you're into slashers.

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1976

★★★½ Watched 17 Feb 2024

I went to B-Fest, buckle up.

Actually a very good film, a slice of life drama about a few days in an inner city black neighborhood. Imagine Car Wash, but with con men. Not plot driven, but charming and entertaining nevertheless. It's a shame black characters just being real people still feels radical.

I kind of wonder why this was a B-Fest selection, I know it was shown there before. Because it was from AIP? Because it involves black characters and crime? It's not something I would call blaxploitation at all. It deserves a look.

1980

★★★½ Liked Rewatched 17 Feb 2024

I went to B-Fest, buckle up.

I've seen this six or seven times now. That's the kind of crowd I hang out with folks. You'll either love it or hate it. I've gone from gobsmacked horror at this thing to loving it's over the top melodramatic insanity. Berserk lunatic ideas treated with absolute sincerity and conviction can make for compelling cinema.

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