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8-ka de shinda kaijû no 12-nichi no monogatari [The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8] (2020)

Wikizilla described this one as the first black and white Kaiju film since the original Gamera in 1965. Well…I guess. Maybe. You might call it that. If you absolutely had to. Now the reality is that this is instead a strange found footage film made during the height of the pandemic which just happens to […]

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Abigail (2019)

There are moments when the movie you are watching seems to eerily predict future events. Consider Abigail: here we have a Russian film released in 2019, set in an alternate, locked-in world, where everyone goes in terror of a mysterious disease which shows no symptoms in the infected. Not in its earliest stage, at least. […]

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Virus Shark (2021)

I find myself thinking of a classic scene in Wall-E: as he sorts through the treasures he’s found in the mountains of trash that day, he is suddenly confused.  He has a cup of spoons and one of forks. So which one does he toss the spork into? And that’s what I find myself asking […]

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Blue Monkey (1987)

(aka, Insect; Invasion of the Bodysuckers) It is a really bad sign, when the army shows up to put you under quarantine, and the guy in charge hands your official notice to a soldier in a HazMat suit to deliver to you. This is one of those sadly neglected SF/horror films  from the Eighties, which came […]

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