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Post by Gilberto on Feb 19, 2012 21:20:02 GMT -5
 Brett Leonard is most memorable for "The Lawnmower Man", which was considered groundbreaking for its stylish use of CG FX, but later turned out disappointments like "Virtuosity" and "Hideaway" and is now more often seen making B movie crap like "Man-Thing" and "Highlander: The Source". But before all that he got his start with a little gem called "The Dead Pit". I remember seeing the box for this in the video store because the cover was presented in relief and with the hit of a button the eyes of the zombie would blink. I'd actually like to get hold of one of those if I can find one. So anyway, in the movie an evil doctor is doing Satanic experiments on his patients for no reason and to no apparent benefit until he's finally killed and trapped (not sure why that's necessary after he's dead) in the dead pit beneath the hospital where he conducts his experiments. Enter: Jane Doe, a semi-psychic amnesiac who's institutionalized with the dangerously demented because she can't remember who she is. After an earthquake that may or may not have been caused by a psychic sissy fit, suddenly the doorway to the dead pit is re-opened and all the dead people magically come back as zombies. This movie has all the fun 80's conventions, including Jane Doe's predilection for running around in her panties and occasionally getting her T-shirt hosed off. Lots of fun payoff and silliness for admirers of this era's alternative cinema. CG may have been Leonard's claim to fame later on, but it may also be what held him back. This was a really fun guts and gore flick, and I don't think he's made anything quite like it since.  |
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Post by lynn on Feb 19, 2012 21:46:46 GMT -5
Pants were optional for women in the 80s. It's a disturbing trend that I see reappearing too often in everyday society.
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Post by broox on Feb 20, 2012 9:44:57 GMT -5
Pants were optional for women in the 80s. It's a disturbing trend that I see reappearing too often in everyday society. By "too often" I assume you mean "not often enough." Must be some kind of mistranslation between Australian and real english  |
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Post by lynn on Feb 20, 2012 16:10:42 GMT -5
There's nothing worse than seeing a teenage girl walking down the street in an oversized man shirt with no pants and thinking "she's forgotten her pants! The polite thing to do would be to tell her." and if you do, you get that teenaged thing where they tell you you're stupid. The problem is that they're all so young, Ben says he just feels uncomfortable with it. The woman in the clip is clearly adult female.
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Post by Scary Gary on Feb 20, 2012 20:34:57 GMT -5
Maybe she was on her way to Raza's bottomless party.*
*See Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay for more details.
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Post by Scary Gary on Feb 20, 2012 20:38:23 GMT -5
This one is actually in my Netflix queue. Don't recall if I've ever seen it or not.
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Post by lynn on Feb 20, 2012 21:31:22 GMT -5
I've seen the bottomless party bit, they might all be on their ways to bottomless parties, maybe there's a new underground trend of aussie teens going to copycat bottomless parties, all I'm saying is PUT SOME PANTS ON YOU LOOK LIKE A FOOL!!! At least in the movies they try to make up some tenuous reason wy they don't have pants on, usually they have been sleeping in their undies or something, and that's understandable. Or you know, like ghost whisperer where the ghosts always came to her in the shower. If there's a reason, it's all good. Dont' just walk down the street with no pants on.
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Post by Scary Gary on Feb 21, 2012 18:31:02 GMT -5
trend of aussie teens going to copycat bottomless parties Sounds like yet another reason why Australia is so F-ing awesome. |
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Post by Gilberto on Feb 21, 2012 18:52:15 GMT -5
Yeah, that doesn't happen here.
I was pleased with this movie. Even in the sainted 80's they were a lot of useless movies, but this is a good cheesy treasure. Made me yearn for the video store again, where we used to rent movies like "Black Devil Doll From Hell" 5 for $5 for 5 nights. Well spent youth.
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Post by wilson on Feb 22, 2012 10:00:57 GMT -5
BLACK DEVIL DOLL FROM HELL!
SHIT YEAH!
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Post by broox on Feb 22, 2012 12:35:05 GMT -5
Maybe one day that gem will hit dvd. There must be a serviceable vhs of it somewhere in the world.
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Post by lynn on Feb 22, 2012 21:11:16 GMT -5
I'm watching this right now. I love the bit in the beginning where someone pulls a gun on the crazy doctor who just smiles and says "you can't kill me" and is then shot in the head in slow motion.
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