Trailer Park Tuesdays: Special Edition: 12 Days of Alternative Christmas Movies Watch List

Merry Christmas, folks.  Instead of watching A Christmas Story or It's a Wonderful Life or (god forbid) Elf again this year, why not take a look at this list of alternative holiday viewing options that I've compiled here.

I have trouble with counting and with numbers, so I'm pretty sure I have more than 12 films and things here.  It's a lot, sure, but I think you'll enjoy it.  If not, keep the receipt and return it after the holidays.
Thanks and you're welcome.

1.  Die Hard, the quintessential alternative-Christmas film.

Die Hard (1988) is a lot of things.  It's an action classic, one of the iconic movies of the 1980s, and is something of a pop-culture touchstone.  I probably don't need to sell you on it.  It's great and you know it.  Ho-Ho-Ho, here's the trailer:

2.  Tired of Die Hard every year (gasp!)?  Here's some other Christmas action films.

The Silent Partner (1978), from our friends up in Canada, is a great little thriller starring Elliot Gould and Christopher Plummer.  It's a great cat and mouse crime story with some humor and violence; I wrote a full review of it HERE.  I highly recommend it (my review and the movie).

In addition to that, nobody loves Christmas more than Shane Black, apparently, as no less than four of the movies he's written take place during the holidays: the Gibson/Glover classic Lethal Weapon (1987), The Last Boy Scout (1991), which stars Damon Wayans and Mr. Die Hard himself, Bruce Willis, The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) with Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson, and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), which Black also directed.  Also, it seems that Iron Man Three (2013) takes place during Christmas, so it's official: Shane Black is totally into Christmas.
Mr. Joshua. . . not so much...

3.  Gremlins, a personal tradition.

Every year for the last dozen years or so I've watched Gremlins (1984) either on or near Christmas Day.  It's a seasonal holiday tradition, which is funny as when I first saw the film at the age of 5, it scared the bejeezus out of me.  There's so many great things in the movie, from Darlene Love's "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" over the opening credits to Phoebe Cates's infamous "why I hate Christmas" speech to Mrs. Deagle's flight!, but my favorite is the "mom vs. gremlins" scene in the house, which is one of the best scenes in any movie ever, inmyopinion.  I can't find a clip of the whole thing, so here's the teaser trailer for the film's re-release:

4.  A Very Tim Burton Christmas.

Despite it's bizarre aesthetic, I think The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) is a perfect holiday film, playing well anytime between October and December.  I always make it a Christmas film.  This year we watched it while assembling and decorating our tree.  The music in the film is wonderful and near composer Danny Elfman's very best.  I mean, seriously, how great is "What's This?"??

For Advanced Studies in Tim Burton and the Holiday Season, check out his charming Edward Scissorhands (1990) or his second Batman movie, Batman Returns (1992), which is holiday themed and has it's own bizarre aesthetic.

5.  A Muppet Family Christmas:  Watch out for the icy patch!

One of my favorite things growing up was the Muppet Family Christmas TV special from 1987.  Thanks to a VHS dub, I used to watch it all the time and it was a big part of my childhood.  Seeing all the Muppets, the Sesame Street gang, and the Fraggles all come together to celebrate Christmas at Fozzie's mother's house is just wonderful stuff.  I still dig it.  Big thanks to YouTube for providing a clip of the full, unedited show:

While on the subject of the Muppets, you can't go wrong with The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) either.  It's some good, family friendly material, with plenty of good jokes and the requisite big freaky Ghost of Christmas Yet-to-Come.

6.  Christmas comedies.  Ho-Ho-Ha.

In addition to the Muppets version, my favorite telling of Charles Dicken's holiday classic A Christmas Carol is the 1988 Bill Murray movie Scrooged.  It's sort of a mean Christmas movie, but I think it has a great heart at the center of its story, perfectly mixing the sweet with the bitter.  It straddles that line of alternate and regular Christmas movie (for me at least).  Also, it's really funny and there's some killer special effects, especially the terrifying Ghost of Christmas Future.

For an additional Christmas comedy recommendation, I'd say check out Trading Places (1983) with Dan Akroyd and Eddie Murphy.  It's waaaay funnier than Elf.

7.  Mystery Science Theater 3000: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.

MST3k is one of my favorite television shows ever and it's not Christmas until I've heard "A Patrick Swayze Christmas," an original song featured within the 3rd season episode Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, which is a great bad movie, perfect for riffing by Joel and the Bots.  It's a classic, inmyopinion.  Here it is:

The other holiday MST episode, season five's Santa Claus, is also pretty good, with a delightfully daffy Mexican movie featuring Santa vs. a devil named Pitch.  It's weird stuff.

For advanced holiday movie riffing fun times, might I wholeheartedly suggest the slice of cinematic madness that is Santa Claus and the Ice Cream Bunny from the guys at Rifftrax (former members of team MST3k).  It is beyond bizarre and the only thing that is guaranteed to keep you from going insane while watching it is the funny commentary and jokes from the Rifftrax guys.  Here's a best-of:

8.  Let's take a Hip Hop Break!

Run DMC kicking it old school!

Keep it running with Run The Jewels!  Maybe not a Christmas song per se, but these two are near the top of the game and dig those bells!

And why not, here's DMX!  What?!

9.  Christmas Horrors:  Silent Night, Deadly Night.

One of the most controversial holiday horror films of all time is without a doubt Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), a crude slasher film that is both incredibly fun and incredibly rough around the edges.  The film was condemned by PTAs across the country and screenings were picketed by protesters, leading to the film getting yanked from theaters after a brief theatrical run.  Later, due to home video, it would become a cult classic.  If you're a horror fan and you somehow haven't seen it, consider yourself "naughty!"

Of course the film produced sequels (4 in total), the second one which is infamous for both padding out over half its running time by recycling footage from Part 1 and also for GARBAGE DAY!

10-11.  Further Studies in Christmas Horrors.

Black Christmas (1974) is one of the first holiday horror films and was also a forebear of the slasher films of the '80s, which might make it the granddaddy of Silent Night, Deadly Night.  Comparably it's a much better film, with a tighter story, better actors, and stronger filmmaking from director Bob Clark, who would go on to do another Christmas classic, A Christmas Story (1983).  I think he got it right with his first stab at the holidays.

A little more obscure, but nonetheless wholeheartedly recommended is Don't Open Till Christmas (1984), a sleazy British slasher featuring a psycho who kills people dressed as Santa.  It's a much meaner and nastier film than Silent Night, Deadly Night and very much worth checking out if you like that sort of (naughty) thing.

Also, no holiday horror film festival would be complete without Tales from the Crypt (1972), specifically the first segment "...And All Through the House" with Joan Collins and a killer Santa.  It's great:

12.  It's Christmas, kinda.

And finally, here's two great movies that take place during the holiday season but aren't necessarily Christmas movies at all.

Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985) is a Orwellian nightmare of bureaucracy and a tale of the desperate need to break out of the norm to find love and yourself.  It's a great, great movie, one of my favorites, but even I forget that it takes place during the holiday season (gift giving is a recurring theme in the film), but somehow it's perfect, as the commercialism of Christmas makes for good backdrop.

Also, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which has to do with the disintegration of a marriage between Tom Cruise and Nichole Kidman and, also, orgies, is not a movie I remember for its Christmas time setting.  I mostly remember the orgies.  But hey, it's a great (underrated) movie, and if you're looking for an American art film to screen at your holiday orgy, well, I think you've found a winner here:


Yup.  I end on an orgy joke.

Well, there you go.  That's the list.  Hope you liked it.
Happy Holidays and all that stuff.

Trailer Park Tuesdays - The Babadook

Welcome to Trailer Park Tuesdays, where I like to share a movie trailer for a new and upcoming release, usually something that is flying low on the radar.


This week, we got The Babadook!

Have you heard about The Babadook?  It's been making the festival rounds and has been released in limited markets and, seemingly, everywhere it goes it has been garnering really positive reviews and great word of mouth.  William Friedkin called the film "an intense experience" and that he "has never seen a more terrifying film."  High praise from the guy who made The Exorcist!

So what is The Babadook?  From the official website:

"The film tells of a single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, who battles her son's night time fear of a shadowy monster.  But soon, she discovers a sinister presence is lurking in the house."

I'm sold.  The premise is solid, and from what I've read, the cast is fantastic, especially Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman as the mother-son duo, with their fractured relationship making up the backbone of the picture.  Here, check out the official trailer and see what you think:

I love that the monster has its roots in a children's pop-up book, a book that you can now buy a copy of!

Check out these reviews HERE HERE and HERE in case you're not quite sold or if you want to know more.

The Babadook is playing in NY and LA right now and will be spreading out into other markets during December.  Want to see it in a theater?  Head over the their Facebook page and see if it's playing in your town (it plays in my town, Portland, OR, at the Living Room Theaters starting Dec 19!).  Otherwise I think it might be available on VOD and things like that, so check it out.

The Babadook.  Silly name, scary movie.

Howling V: The Rebirth

Howling V: The Rebirth (1989) is the fifth film in the Howling series and that makes it the fifth film in my all-important Howling Series Retrospective Review.
You can read the previous installments here:
The Howling
Howling II: ...Your Sister is a Werewolf
The Marsupials: Howling III
Howling IV: The Original Nightmare

So right off the bat, let me say that Howling V is not a very good movie, and while it isn't quite as bad as Howling IV, it also doesn't have anything quite as interestingly weird as the final 15 minutes of part IV (or the entirety of parts II or III). What Howling V does have is a big gothic castle setting and a cast that is, at the very least, competent in their roles. That doesn't sound like much, and maybe it isn't, but for a Howling sequel, it will have to do.

Howling V: The Rebirth opens on an image of a wooden baby crib rocking gently as the credits roll.  We are in 1489 Budapest (even though Budapest didn't exist then) at a large castle where a massacre has taken place.  The Lord of the castle then kills his lady (I think that's who they were) before killing himself.  Offscreen the cries of a baby can be heard and the Lord, lying there dying, bemoans, "we died in vain!"

Flashforward 500 years to 1989 and modern day Budapest where the mysterious Count Istvan (Philip Davis) has decided to reopen the castle (for the first time in those 500 years) and has invited a disparate group of people to the event.  When I say "disparate" I mean "these people couldn't be more of a motley crew."

Included in the group are photographer David (Ben Cole), a guy who simply goes by "professor" (Nigel Tiffitt), the unpleasant and prickly Dr. Catherine Peake (Victoria Catlin), Scandinavian actress Anna (Mary Stavin), bubbleheaded actress Marylou (Elizabeth Shé), down on her luck singer Gail (Stephanie Faulkner), playboy dickhead Richard (William Shockley), tennis player Jonathan (Mark Sivertsen), and ponytailed Australian former rockstar Ray Price (Clive Turner).  They're joined by creepy butler and maid combo Peter and Susan (played by a pair of Romanian actors) because any movie set in a gothic castle needs a creepy butler and maid.

This is David.  I don't have much to say about him, other than he becomes the de facto hero of the movie, which is unfortunate.

So, why would The Count invite such a weird group of people to such a place?  Turns out, as revealed later in the film, that everyone present is an orphan and has a similar triangle birthmark on their arm, which means that they are all descendants of the child that survived the massacre 500 years ago, a massacre that was meant to stop a cursed bloodline.  The Count believes, rightly so, that one of them is a werewolf, and he plans on killing that person.

Basically this all plays out like a low-budget werewolf version of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" combined with Amicus' The Beast Must Die! (1974).  There's also a dash of inspiration from 80s American slasher films, as characters continuously wander off alone down the dark halls of the castle and into secret passages to be killed off, one by one, by the werewolf.

Oh yeah, the werewolf.  You don't really see it a whole lot, it's used sparingly, and the most you see are a couple close-up face shots and some claws and paws that come into the screen and maul the characters.  There's also one silhouette shot, which is maybe the best (?) look at the werewolf you get:

Yup.  There it is.  Apparently this is the same werewolf suit that was built for Howling IV and it was just reused.  Not a bad idea, very cost effective (especially for a film released just 6 months after the previous one), but I'm not sure why they didn't show it more or at least more of it, as it was a pretty decent looking and more than suitable werewolf costume.

The filmmakers were definitely more concerned with mystery and atmosphere than they were with werewolf scares or action.  In a strange way, this makes the movie unique among Howling sequels, but also a bit unsatisfying in terms of all the weird werewolf action that is associated with all the previous Howling movies.

Howling V: The Rebirth is (maybe) the Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1983) of the Howling franchise, although now that I read that sentence it sounds like high praise, so let's forget that and move on.

There's a little bit of the red stuff, some slashed throats and the like, but easily the most impressive special effect in the movie is a decapitation that happens (and happens suddenly) late in the movie.  Watch out, Susan!

Howling V was directed by Neal Sundström, who also co-directed Space Mutiny and was first assistant director on Outlaw of Gor (both 1988 and both featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000).  There isn't much flashy or interesting about the visual style of the film, and it is often saved by merely being set inside a large European castle, one that vaguely resembles an under-decorated (and under-lit) set from Game of Thrones.


Some of the fault for that might lie with production designer Nigel Tiffitt, who also played the professor in the movie, and who had no experience in either professions.  It seems he did both as a favor to his friend and fellow Australian, Clive Turner.

Clive Turner, who not only played the hard drinking Ray "ponytail" Price, also co-wrote the screenplay and co-produced part V, something he also did for Howling IV.  Turner would skip involvement with the next installment but comes back with a vengeance for the utterly inept part VII.  As for his screenplay for part V, it's not award winning stuff and there's not much here, werewolf movie or otherwise, that hasn't been seen before.  There's some attempts at wry humor throughout which is appreciated, because most of it is either bitchy or a little weird or a bit of both.  For example:


"I'm Jonathan Lane. . . .the tennis player!"
"Ah, it's nice to have a hobby.  I'm Marylou Summers."
"No, that's what I do for work."
"Oh I'm sorry you don't have a real job."
"Ha, no, I play tennis!"
"It's important to have an interest when you're out of work."
"So now that we're making headway, what do you do for a living?"
"I'm an actress."
"Yeah, what restaurant do you work at?"
"How did you know I worked at a restaurant?  Are you psychic?"
"As a matter of fact. . ."
"But no one ever takes me seriously, so I'm always cast as a bimbo."
"Oh I woulda thought it'd take a lot of talent to play a bimbo."
"It does!  It's not easy pretending to be stupid."


Bravo.



Should also note that author Gary Brandner and his 3 "Howling" novels get a based-on screen credit, even though it seems as if the screenplay has very little to do with any of them.  Brandner must of had a good lawyer.

The music for the film is done by an outfit called The Factory.  I do not believe they are of the C+C Music variety.  It sounds like your typical late 80s atmospheric keyboard rock, the kind of thing you'd expect to find in a DTV horror film. They do this one weird thing where every time somebody is killed in the movie, they use the same creepy vocal chorus audio cue to punctuate the scene.  It sounds like "Santos!"  It's weird and generic but I found its repetition to be enjoyable.  You can listen to it in the movie trailer posted down below.

Let's do a notable cast rundown:



Philip Davis was in The Who's Quadrophenia (1979) as Chalky and also had roles in Alien 3 (1992), Vera Drake (2004), and Notes on a Scandal (2006).  As Count Istvan in Howling V he lends a certain aristocratic aloofness and vaguely threatening Europeaness to the role.  He's a very cold character, which comes across greatly in his plan to suss out the werewolf, which basically just involves him waiting it out as the beast picks off the other guests one by one.  It's not a very proactive plan, but I guess it's better than, say, just killing everybody on the bus ride over to the castle, not that the end results are much less different...

William Shockley's first screen credit is Creep in Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop (1987).  Specifically, he's the rapist-creep who gets shot in the crotch by RoboCop.  Shockley would also play rapist Andrew Carver in Verhoeven's Showgirls (1995).  He doesn't give off a rapist vibe in Howling V, but he is definitely a dickhead.

Shockley's character, Richard, is having an affair with Victoria Catlin's Dr. Peake.  She has a bit of this silky-steely quality about her, she's sultry but also tough.  Some of her best bits are when she's getting catty with Ray Price, who seems to rile her just by his mere Australianness.

Victoria Catlin also starred in a couple other horror films, Ghoulies (1984) and Maniac Cop (1988), but she is most recognizable for her role as Blackie O'Reilly on cult favorite Twin Peaks, another role in which she brings some of that silky-steely quality.

Mary Stävin was also on Twin Peaks (as Heba, one of the Icelandic businesspeople) and appeared in a couple James Bond movies (Octopussy [1983], A View to a Kill [1985]) and in Steve Miner's House (1986) as the lovely Tanya.  Her character of Anna is supposed to be this famous Oscar nominated actress, but she doesn't give off that vibe.  Maybe an Emmy, but definitely not an Oscar...

Gail is the first one in the group to get suspicious of The Count and start snooping around.  The movie sets it up like she might be the main character, but then she totally gets killed (mostly offscreen), which is a move I appreciate.  Good job there, movie.  Stephanie Faulkner can also be seen in blaxploitation-horror film J.D.'s Revenge (1976).  Howling V was the last film she was in.

Elizabeth Shé is maybe the worst actress in the movie, but she's playing a bubblehead type, so maybe that's intentional?  I guess I'll get to find out, as she has only two more screen credits to her name, both of them in the next two Howling films, playing characters named Marylou, so I guess I'll see if that is a continuation of the same character or what it is...  It IS interesting to note that, at the end of the film (SPOILER SPOILER) it seems as if Marylou is revealed to be the one who is the werewolf (it's left sort of vague), although we don't see her transform or do anything really, just smile slyly at the camera as the credits roll.

The Howling V: The Rebirth was the second Howling film to be released direct-to-video.  Like I said up top, it is not a very good movie and, even though it's not godawful, I would say that it is totally skippable.  I personally prefer the weird weirdness in the previous Howling sequels, and while I would say there isn't much to recommend about Howling V, I guess if you're a completist or a werewolf nut or whatever, you could do worse than this one.
There are after all . . . . . three more Howling movies in the series...

Ponytail

PONYTAIL!

Trailer Park Tuesdays - Cub

Happy Halloween from the Trailer Park.  Razorblades in apples are the least of your worries around here...






Being the week of Halloween, let's look at an upcoming horror film, specifically a new one out of Belgium, a country known less for its horror movies (even though it has produced its share of fright flicks over the years) and more for its main cinematic export, Jean-Claude Van Damme. That however might change, if this upcoming film is as good as it might seem.

Cub is the film in question and it involves a group of Flemish boy scouts and their scout leaders, off in the woods on a camping trip, being stalked by a psycho killer.  Sounds and looks like something right up my alley.
I was a boy scout growing up so the mere concept of this one hits me just right.  I'm totally intrigued.  Then I read some early reviews (mostly good) and saw this trailer and I knew I had to see this one.  Check it out:

That tagline, "Be Prepared," just hooks me.  It's SO perfect!

Here's the official synopsis from the website:

"CUB is a horror adventure in which a young imaginative twelve-year-old boy named Sam heads off to camp with his Cub Scouts pack, leaders Peter and Chris and quartermaster Yasmin. Once they enter the woods, Sam quickly feels something is not quite right. He soon stumbles upon a mysterious tree house and meets a shifty, masked feral-looking child. When Sam tries to warn his leaders, they ignore him: the boy often tells tall tales and Sam’s mysterious past which he refuses to talk about makes his leader Peter mistrust him. As Sam gets more and more isolated from the other scouts, he becomes convinced a terrible fate awaits them: the Feral Child, it turns out, is the helper of the Poacher, an evil psychopath, who has riddled the forest with ingenious traps and is intent on slaughtering the scouts… one by one…"

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Cub (originally titled Welp) was partially funded through crowd sourcing, which is something that usually gives me pause, but I'm into the concept, and the trailer looks good, so I'm going to give it a shot when it finally secures an American release.

Cub sees release in its native Belgium tomorrow, on October 29th.  After that, keep an eye out for it, probably next year, here in The States.

Trailer Park Tuesdays - The Town That Dreaded Sundown

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This week at TPT we got the trailer for the remake of the 1976 true-story horror flick The Town That Dreaded Sundown.  The original film (I reviewed it HERE) has some effective scare sequences (and a great looking villain), but it suffers from wild tonal swings and some bad comedy.  So a remake is not something I am opposed to.  From the looks of this first trailer, it is even something I am going to be supportive of.

From some early reviews, it seems this new version is going in an interesting direction, more of a slasher-type thing, maybe?  Also, very stylish.  And the trombone kill is in there!  YAY!  But there's no Andrew Prine.  Booo!  Guess you can't have everything.

The film is being released by Blumhouse Productions though the long-dormant MGM subsidiary Orion Pictures, and I won't lie, seeing that Orion logo made me smile and put me on this movie's side early.

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014) is getting a limited release on October 16th, probably nowhere near where you live, so you'll have to seek it out on VOD.  Do it, or The Phantom Killer will get you.

Trailer Park Tuesdays: YEAR ONE

A little over a year ago I started my semi-regular column Trailer Park Tuesdays, where I share new movie trailers for upcoming releases, usually stuff that is flying low on the general public's radar.  I started doing it because A) I wanted more content on the site and B) because I'm a sucker for a good movie trailer.

But were the movies themselves any good?


I've shared 26 movie trailers over the past year; out of those, I've seen 12 of the movies.  That's almost 50%!  Were the trailers being honest?  Were the movies good?  Let's see how things turned out:

-(click the titles for links to the trailers):

Escape from Tomorrow - 

This was okay-ish.  I appreciate what they did, the clandestine shooting at DisneyWorld/Land, some of it comes off spectacularly, but it does fail to come together as a satisfying whole.  Still, worth a look if you like experimental, low budget fantasy narratives.

Cheap Thrills - 

I liked this a lot, it's fun stuff.  Brutal, though.  Parts might make you squirm.  Both Ethan Embry and Pat Healy are great.  The escalation of events is nice, the payoff in the end is good too.

A Field in England -

Whoa shit, was this trippy.  I loved it.  The stunning black-and-white photography.  The theatricality of the drama.  It's artful and badass, a great combo.  Ben Wheatley is one of the best and most underrated filmmakers working today.

Almost Human - 

This Carpenter-homage-heavy film is just-above-average stuff.  It's enjoyable, despite being predictable (and featuring some so-so acting).  The special effects are the highlight.

Zero Charisma -

Eh.  I won't talk shit about this, but it really didn't light me on fire.  If someone told me they loved it, I'd say "good for you, I totally know why, but it didn't connect with me in that way."  Maybe if I played more D&D. . .

Here Comes the Devil - 

This was a true stinker.  Not good at all, boring and dumb in equal measures, there were a couple noteworthy scenes, but overall not worth anyone's time.  Watch THIS CLIP instead.

Man of Tai Chi* - 

Very solid.  Keanu's directorial debut rips it up; one of my fave movie from last year!  *I double trailered this with the Keanu-starring 47 Ronin, which looked like it might be stupid fun, but from what I've since read, it is just stupid.  So I might end up skipping that one, forever.

The Raid 2 - 

Aw, yeah!  Man, this film is epic in both plot dynamics (honestly, I got lost a little bit) and in action scenarios.  The prison yard rumble!  Prakoso's subplot!  Baseball Bat Man!  Hammer Girl!!  I need to see this again.  Oh, yeah.

Godzilla - 

Ok, so while I did like a lot of the elements within this film, I did not really like it overall.  The human characters were no good and boring.  The pace of the movie felt off too, probably due to the boring humans.  Not the worst Godzilla movie, not by a long shot, but I feel they could and can do better.  I'm not sold on Gareth Edwards as a director.

Blue Ruin - 

Loved it.  One of my favorites of the year so far.  This revenge thriller hits all my buttons.  It's tense, bleak, and brutal, but finds time for quiet moments.  Very much RECOMMENDED! SEE IT!

Under the Skin -

I liked this very much, although I can totally understand why somebody would not.  It is narratively sparse and visually rich.  I've seen it twice now and find it to be mesmerizing, and not just when Scarlett Johansson is nude.

Coherence -

I liked this low budget, sci-fi head trip.  General unease and tension ramps up during the film's brisk running time and the cast is totally game. Not essential viewing or a masterpiece or anything, but a satisfactory watch for me.  I dug it.


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As for those I've yet to see:
-Detective Downs and Kid's Police have yet to find US distribution.
-Witching and Bitching comes out on home video in October; The Strange Colour of Your Tears in December.
-Whiplash and Automatá hit theaters soon.  Mad Max roars into theaters next May.
-I haven't seen The Zero Theorem or The Guest yet (can't wait!).
-Nor have I seen Borgman, The Final Member, The Dance of Reality, or New Year's Evil.

-As mentioned above, 47 Ronin is something I will most likely not watch.

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So there you have it.  Trailer Park Tuesdays: YEAR ONE.
Here's to another great year.
See ya at the trailers.