The way the Leprechaun's bite made John Gatins a better actor, then into a Hollywood screenwriter for COACH CARTER
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Black Tight Killers 1966
A stylized crime caper taking cues from Bava's BLOOD AND BLACK LACE, tinted rear-projection footage in driving scenes shifting from yellow to blue, and makeshift urban ninjitsu moves from a wig-wearing synchronized girl gang on the search for gold. What about this would ever keep people away?
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Penda's Fen 1974
HOOPTOBER 8.0
DAY 7
24 DAYS REMAINThis is such an engrossing examination of identity in a world where children are pressured to settle where they lie in their society before a natural identity can even be formed. It's like pushing a half-baked mass into a mold and cutting the bits that don't exactly fit, or twisting them grotesquely underneath so that it looks the part from the top down, the unsightly developmental warts and tendrils smushed below an agreed-upon…
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Gamera, the Giant Monster 1965
HOOPTOBER 8.0
DAY 22
9 DAYS REMAINNot just a knockoff. GAMERA throws everything that the Showa era GODZILLA flicks try out picture by picture in it and at a cool 75 minutes even. This one gets weirdly mean-spirited when it comes to the little kid, putting him in danger in nearly every sequence and even starting a scene with him nearly getting hit by a car. Recommended!