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Ordinary People 1980
I’d never seen this film, so I pulled it up tonight and watched it. Holy smokes, it’s so incredibly powerful. Everyone is so good. Robert Redford is one of the most sensitive directors I’ve ever seen (see Rachel, Rachel). But boy, this movie is brown on parade. A brown bonanza. Fluorescent brown.
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Night of the Living Dead 1968
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besthorrorscenes.com/night-of-the-living-deadI first saw Night of the Living Dead when I was around 9-years-old, but it wasn’t the full film. A comedy troupe called The L.A. Connection had a short-lived television show called Mad Movies [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Movies_with_the_L.A._Connection] (which predated Mystery Science Theater 3000 by a few years) where they would take beloved classic films, edit them down to 20 minutes, and re-dub all new dialogue, always turning the original story completely on its head. For example,…
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The Woman in Black 1989
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besthorrorscenes.com/the-woman-in-blackAn undeniable classic. This film languished for years in a legal battle between the three crew members (!) that owned the rights, which may have inadvertently helped the film reach cult status. For some time the only way to see The Woman In Black was to seek it out on Usenet and download it illegally, and even then the only copies available were low-quality rips pulled from old VHS tapes (which may have added…
