The Burning Clem

Brennan Klein, 21, CSULB Film Major. I run a movie review blog called Popcorn Culture. I watch way too much horror, but I love pretty much anything. Especially terrible movies. It's the only blog you'll ever see where Les Misérables and Friday the 13th...

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Census Bloodbath: The Lunatic Is In The Hall

Year: 1982 Director: Jack Sholder Cast: Jack Palance, Donald Pleasence, Martin Landau Run Time: 1 hour 32 minutes MPAA Rating: ...

REVIEW LINK: New Line's first attempt at crafting a slasher - 1982's ALONE IN THE DARK!

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Reviewing Jane: It's Such A Happiness When Good People Get Together

In which we review (almost) every film adapted from or inspired by the works of Jane Austen . Year: 2020 Director: Autumn de Wilde ...

REVIEW LINK: The new EMMA is super lit, friends. Watch it and live deliciously.

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Reviewing Jane: I Will Be Mistress Of Myself

In which we review (almost) every film adapted from or inspired by the works of Jane Austen . Year: 1995 Director: Ang Lee Cast: Em...

REVIEW LINK: 1995's SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, y'all. It was about time.

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Census Bloodbath: Etruscan Raiders

Year: 1982 Director: Sergio Martino Cast: Elvire Audray, Paolo Malco, Claudio Cassinelli Run Time: 1 hour 34 minutes The Italian gia...

REVIEW LINK: The 1982 slashing continues with the Sergio Martino post-giallo THE SCORPION WITH TWO TAILS. It's not very good, but there's an antigravity diamond!

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Census Bloodbath: Sex And The Single Monster

Year: 1982 Director: John Hough Cast: John Cassavetes, John Ireland, Kerrie Keane Run Time: 1 hour 33 minutes MPAA Rating: R ...

REVIEW LINK: The 1982 slasher THE INCUBUS sadly fails to live up to this metal as hell poster...

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2019 Flashback: Movies

Jump to the TV/MUSIC section ----> Happy New Year's Eve to one and all! It's time for my annual, incredibly exhaustive list of th...

Happy New Year's Eve!! It's time for my annual exhaustive breakdown of the best in movies, music, and TV! Let me know what you agree/disagree with! And I'm sure you'll disagree with a lot!

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Reviewing Jane: It Was A Foolish Precipitation Last Christmas

In which we review every film adapted from or inspired by the works of Jane Austen : Christmas edition! Year: 2019 Director: David ...

REVIEW LINK: It's a very merry Jane Austen Christmas with SENSE, SENSIBILITY, AND SNOWMEN! This one is also about, you guessed it, party planning! And it's even more Pride and Prejudice-y than the Pride and Prejudice ones. Also Luke MacFarlane wears hats.

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Reviewing Jane: I Sincerely Hope Your Christmas May Abound In The Gaieties Which The Season Generally Brings…

In which we review every film adapted from or inspired by the works of Jane Austen : Christmas edition! Year: 2018 Director: Don M...

REVIEW LINK: Round 2 of Jane Austen Christmas hits us with PRIDE, PREJUDICE, AND MISTLETOE, which is also... mostly about party planning. But featuring one of the best, Karen-est mother characters on television!

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Reviewing Jane: We Have Had A Very Dull Christmas

In which we review every film adapted from or inspired by the works of Jane Austen : Christmas Edition! Year: 2018 Director: Colin ...

REVIEW LINK: The Jane Austen marathon collides with the holiday season in CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY MANOR! It's adapted from Pride and Prejudice but it's mostly about party planning. And a little bit about Santa.

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Census Bloodbath: Keep It

Year: 1982 Director: Jim Makichuk Cast: Riva Spier, Murray Ord, Sheri McFadden Run Time: 1 hour 29 minutes MPAA Rating: R Holiday-...

REVIEW LINK: More 1982 mayhem with GHOSTKEEPER, a snowy Canadian slasher that wants to be about a windigo, but it ran out of money so it's just about hallways.

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Year: 1982 Director: Karen Yang Cast: Hsiao-Fen Lu, Alan Tam, Fu-Mei Chang Run Time: 1 hour 36 minutes It's always fun when w...

REVIEW [link]: The 1982 slasher marathon travels overseas to the Taiwanese psycho stalker drama EXPOSED TO DANGER. A female director, spring rolls full of glass, and fifteen minutes ripped directly from Friday the 13th await you in this seaside thriller!

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Census Bloodbath: Cry For Help

Year: 1982 Director: David Nelson Cast: Susan Kiger, Martin Tucker, William T. Hicks Run Time: 1 hour 28 minutes MPAA Rating: ...

REVIEW: the 1982 slasher DEATH SCREAMS! It's mostly about people just hanging out at a town fair, but sometimes they die.

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Census Bloodbath: You're It

Year: 1982 Director: Nick Castle Cast: Robert Carradine, Linda Hamilton, Bruce Abbott Run Time: 1 hour 30 minutes MPAA Rating: P...

REVIEW: This 1982 slasher is a doozy... It's TAG: THE ASSASSINATION GAME, about a game of dart gun tag that turns deadly on a college campus, starring Linda Hamilton!

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Census Bloodbath: Stalker, Texas Ranger

Year: 1982 Director: Michael Miller Cast: Chuck Norris, Ron Silver, Steven Keats Run Time: 1 hour 43 minutes MPAA Rating: R ...

Today's 1982 review is SILENT RAGE. Yes, it's the Chuck Norris slasher movie. This movie basically invented the 80's!

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Year: 1982 Director: William Wiard Cast: Suzanne Pleshette, Barry Newman, Robert Vaughn Run Time: 1 hour 28 minutes There are ...

Today's 1982 slasher review is FANTASIES/THE STUDIO MURDERS, a TV thriller about the cast of a soap opera being murdered and the female showrunner (!) who needs to solve the mystery!

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Census Bloodbath: Blame It On Rio

Year: 1982 Director: Jair Correia Cast: Jurandir Abreu, Cláudia Alencar, Elias Andreato Run Time: 1 hour 14 minutes MPAA Rating...

A new slasher review, hot and fresh from the oven! It's the 1982 Brazilian flick SHOCK: EVIL ENTERTAINMENT - You've never heard of it and you should probably keep it that way!

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Cardboard Science: I Wouldn't, But Ed Would

Year: 1959 Director: Ed Wood Cast: Gregory Walcott, Tom Keene, Mona McKinnon Run Time: 1 hour 19 minutes Our final entry in o...

My final 50's sci-fi crossover review of the month is a doozy: Ed Wood's classic PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE! Happy Halloween, ghoulfriend!