Name: Maximillian
Dateline: London, England
Weblog: blackholereviews.blogspot.com
Articles: 38
First Published: Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Last Published: Monday, January 22, 2007
Currently listing articles 38-1:
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DVD Review: Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater, Vol. 2: Snake Girl/The Wish (2005)— A snake-creature and a hideous puppet fail to make these horror tales any more than dark fairy tales.
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DVD Review: Tower of Evil (1972)— A 'slasher movie' made before the term existed, back when the genre had sex as well as violence.
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Movie Review: Memories of Murder (2003)— A superior police procedural set in 1980s South Korea, from the director of The Host.
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DVD Review: Infection (2004)— A Japanese horror film presents a hospital in crisis, suffering a worst case scenario - melting patients!
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DVD Review: The Man Eater (2004)— A recent horror film from Thailand depicts the story of its grisliest serial killer.
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DVD Review: The Curse of the Werewolf— Oliver Reed got his teeth into his first starring role — as a Hammer Horror wolfman.
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DVD Review: Ghost Stories (2000)— A gang of young ghostbusters tackle their haunted school building in an enjoyable and scary anime series.
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Movie Review: Joint Security Area— From the acclaimed director of Oldboy, this army thriller was set in the neutral DMZ between North and South Korea
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DVD Review: Modesty Blaise— A goofed-up '60s spy spoof that doesn't take its comic strip origins seriously enough.
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DVD Review: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)— Japanese animation expert Hiyao Miyazaki's first feature was a fast-paced adventure with a super-crook tackling a super-fortress.
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Movie Review: The Night Caller From Outer Space (1965)— Creepy classic British B-movie sci-fi/horror in the vein of the Quatermass movies.
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Movie Review: Space Amoeba— If your nightmares include being plucked off a beach by a giant squid, this could be the film for you, now available on DVD.
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DVD Review: Premonition— Japanese horror film about a family man who gets glimpses of future tragedies from his daily newspaper.
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DVD Review: 3 Extremes (2004)— Three extremely unsettling and graphic tales from three masters of Asian horror.
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DVD Review: Negadon - The Monster From Mars (2005)— A short spectacular homage to sixties Japanese sci-fi movies, completely created with meticulous computer graphics.
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DVD Review: Jaws 2 (1978)— How do we make a sequel to the Steven Spielberg classic? We're going to need a bigger shark.
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Movie Review: Testsujin 28, The Movie— Giant robot Gigantor returns in a new live-action feature film - Tokyo's landmarks are in trouble again!
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DVD Review: Kazuo Umezz's Horror Theater (2005)— Two creepy tales from the pages of Japanese horror manga maestro Kazuo Umezu.
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DVD Review: Sukeban Deka - the Anime— The delinquent schoolgirl undercover cop with the government-issue deadly yo-yo returns — except this time she's animated!
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DVD Review: Sukeban Deka - Counter-Attack of the Kazama Sisters— Second movie for these deadly teenage special detectives - this time with more schoolgirl cops, but less yoyo action.
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Movie Review: Tomie: Another Face— Japanese schoolgirl monster Tomie returns again and again...and again, in the series' second entry.
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DVD Review: Sukeban Deka - The Movie— Meet the Schoolgirl Special Agent with a deadly steel yo-yo!
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DVD Review: Tomie (1998)— Tomie is a girl who keeps losing her head - that's why her boyfriend has to carry it around for her.
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DVD Review: Initial D— Fast, furious, road-racing — drifting around corners Japanese-style — but without the swearing.
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DVD Review: The Great Yokai War (2005)— Takashi Miike's epic monster rally spectacularly updates a classic sixties Japanese fantasy film.
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DVD Review: Dragonhead— A spectacular but downbeat post-apocalyptic Japanese movie, which alternates action with drama.
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DVD Review: Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl— A first-time director unleashes a bloody, quirky, gangster shootout comedy from Japan.
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DVD Review: Samurai Fiction, Episode One— If you liked Takeshi Kitano's Zatoichi, try this charming, funky homage to old-school samurai films
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DVD Review: Taboo (1999)— A samurai version of Brokeback Mountain from the director of Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence.
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DVD review: Art of the Devil— For a film that features bucketloads of ginormous eels, this film is not as electrifying as it could be.
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Movie Review: Garuda— A new breed of monster loose in the city - a Thailand bird-god hits Bangkok!
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DVD Review: Tube (2003)— The constantly implausible action in this South Korean thriller is made watchable by a likeable cast.
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Concert Review: Mylène Farmer - Paris— French pop icon Mylène Farmer storms the Paris Bercy arena with 13 sellout shows.
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DVD Review: The Manitou (1978)— Tony Curtis and Susan Strasberg star in a tongue-in-cheek seventies disaster/horror movie.
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DVD Review: Night Creatures (1962)
— A rare film from the classic Hammer Horror studios finally gets released, hidden away in a DVD box set.
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DVD Review: Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)— Fay Wray in a color horror film before she even met King Kong
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DVD Review: Godzilla Final Wars— Godzilla's new movie celebrates his 50th anniversary. It's new on DVD, undeniably entertaining, but only for the right audience.
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DVD Review: Tetsujin 28— Volume 1 of the Hong Kong DVD set reviewed
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