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Made with the help of Norman Jewison's Canadian Film Centre, Cube is a film about five characters who suddenly find themselves being held in a large cube, made up of smaller cubes that connect through steel doors in the middle of all 6 sides of the individual "cells."
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In the dimly lit corridors of the human psyche lies a fascination with the macabre, where shadows dance with whispered secrets and fear lurks in the most unexpected corners. Classic horror stories beckon us into realms where the ordinary twists into the extraordinary, where ancient evils stir and the line between reality and nightmare blurs. From the chilling depths of Edgar Allan Poe's gothic tales to the supernatural terrors of H.P. Lovecraft, classic horror literature has woven a tapestry of dread that continues to haunt our imaginations. Prepare to journey into the heart of darkness, where every creaking floorboard and ghostly whisper becomes a harbinger of terror, in the timeless realm of classic horror.
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Banned and heavily censored throughout the world, here is a film that surpasses its reputation as a shotgun blast to the senses.
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The Gore Gazette was a typed, Xeroxed and (initially) free fanzine dedicated to supporting the kinds of films overlooked by the mainstream. Twisted horror, import sleaze, drug expose, toilet humor, and of course lots of gore. All the ingredients of a life spent slithering from one 42nd Street grindhouse to the next. It was written, edited and published by Rick Sullivan out of New Jersey. He haunted the screens of New York's infamous 42nd Street (or "The Deuce") and also the seedier screens of New Jersey (most notably the infamous Fabian Theater in Paterson, NJ). When reading through this feature keep in mind that the GG was published at a time before the internet, before special edition double-disc dvds (with commentary), before soccer moms knew what the term "grindhouse" meant! Back when a film like Cannibal Holocaust played in a few theaters, for a few weeks, in a few cities and then disappeared! If you wanted to see the film in it's uncut form again the wait would be 20 years! If you missed it on "The Deuce"... it was a long wait. Zines like Gore Gazette, Sleazoid Express, Psychotronic, Slimetime, The Splatter Times and many others were in the trenches to report what was happening. So it's worth remembering some devoted publishers who didn't have the IMDB, Video Watchdog and a Blu-ray player to help out as they wrote film reviews. To paraphrase a little from Criswell in Plan 9 From Outer Space: "You are interested in the unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now for the first time we are bringing to you the full story of what happened. We are giving you all the evidence based only on the secret testimony of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, the places - we cannot keep this a secret any longer. My friend, can your heart stand the shocking facts about..."
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This is technically a sequel to Village Of The Damned, although it has little to do with the first film and stands up more than adequately on its own. It starts with the credits playing over a picture of a kid equally as scary-looking as any in the first film (more so, given his lack of odd blonde wig).
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The sealed book.
Once again the keeper of the book is ready to open the ponderous volume in which is recorded
all the secrets and mysteries of mankind through the ages.
All the strange and mystifying stories of the past, the present and the future.
Keeper of the book, what tale will you tell us this time?
What tale shall I tell you?
I have tales here of every kind.
Tales of murder, tales of madness, of dark deeds and events strange beyond all belief.
Let me see.
Yes, here's a tale for you.
The strange and terrible story of two old ladies and how they tried to escape from their
doom.
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After the death of her mother, a haunted nursery and three dolls help a young girl reconcile with her dad. With Joanne Linville.
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