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Entries Tagged as 'James Franciscus'

The Cat o’ Nine Tails (1971, Dario Argento)

November 6th, 2007 No Comments

I had all sorts of plans on how to start off this post, but the idiotic ending has hindered them. I mean, the whole film suffers from being incredibly stupid (Argento’s characters are the most unbelievable I can remember seeing in recent memory), but the ending actually goes for a kind–not an aspiration for high […]

Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970, Ted Post)

July 14th, 2006 No Comments

On rare occasion, I watch (and on even rarer occasion, finish watching) an utter dreg of a film. A film so bad I misuse the word dregs, which apparently–since it refers to a liquid form–must be used as a plural. Beneath the Planet of the Apes is just such a film. Immediately, with its use […]