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Hubrisween 2017 :: A is for Adam and Eve vs. the Cannibals (1983)
Today’s scripture lesson is taken from the Book of Cheapjack Italian Exploitation Movies, Chapter Mondo, verse Nudie. Thus and lo, our totally bonkers and slightly blasphemous tale begins at the very...
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Hubrisween 2017 :: B is for The Beast with a 1,000,000 Eyes (1955)
As an opening prologue bombastically and basically gives the whole movie away, top-loading the whole shebang with a truncated montage of what few action sequences there are to come, while a morose...
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Hubrisween 2017 :: C is for Curse of the Undead (1959)
As dawn breaks on a quiet dusty street in an old western town, Dr. John Carter (Hoyt) and his daughter, Dolores (Crowley), push the horses pulling their buckboard to pick up the pace. Seems the local...
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Hubrisween 2017 :: D is for Dead Heat (1988)
As a daring daylight robbery of a Melrose Avenue jewelry store is perpetrated by two brutish masked thugs, a silent alarm alerts the LAPD, who converge on the scene, including a couple of oil and water...
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Hubrisween 2017 :: E is for Equinox (1970)
Our grainy little ditty of devils, demons and dubious audio-dubbing begins with the credits already rolling over the gears and mechanisms of a clock about to strike midnight, giving one the impression...
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Hubrisween 2017 :: F is for Fair Game (1986)
In what appears to be an inhospitable hellscape -- later to be revealed as the Australian outback in the light of day, a tripped out ‘77 Ford pick-up rumbles around in the dark of night, red headlights...
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Hubrisween 2017 :: G is for Gorilla Interrupted (2003)
On a not so quiet street in suburban Chicago, Ray Grawboski (Evans) storms over to his neighbor's house to complain about the unholy racket coming from within. Inside, in the offending house’s...
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Hubrisween 2017 :: H is for Half Human (1955)
As a steady rain falls, a reporter named Kodama (Tsutsumi), seeking out the members of a returning expedition from the mountains around Mt. Fuji, enters a train station. Seeking a scoop on the...
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Hubrisween 2017 :: I is for The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped...
We open at The Pike: an amusement park located on the pier in Long Beach, California. We then cut to a midway that I believe we’re supposed to think is part of the same seaside attraction despite it...
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Hubrisween 2017 :: J is for Just Before Dawn (1981)
Deep in the woods somewhere up in the mountains, two intoxicated deer hunters stumble upon an abandoned church and head inside to explore. And while the elder Ty (Kellin) takes to the pulpit, Vachel...
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Hubrisween 2017 :: K is for Killer Legends (2014)
For those unaware, like I was, but apparently, social scientists are trying to re-brand urban legends as “contemporary legends.” Well, whatever the label, what these legends basically boil down to is...
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Hubrisween 2017 :: L is for The Last Man on Earth (1964).
This, is the city: Los Angeles, California (-- well, sorta), in the far flung future of 1968. And as the sun rises over an eerily silent and seemingly abandoned city, except for the several dozen...
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Hubrisween 2017 :: M is for Monster High (1989)
Okay, stop me if you heard this one before: a mummy, a gargoyle, a giant sentient marijuana plant, two blundering aliens, a preppie zombie, a killer computer monitor, and an anthropomorphic doomsday...
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Hubrisween 2017 :: N is for Night Skies -- a Film that Wasn't But Probably...
On the night of Sunday, August 21, 1955, in a small isolated farmhouse located about eight miles north of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, a relatively quiet night took a strange turn when the family dog...
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Hubrisween 2017 :: O is for Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
As a recent widow struggles to pay the bills as a spiritual medium in 1967 Los Angeles, we get the full gist of her standard operating procedures as the latest reading for a father and his highly...
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Hubrisween 2017 :: P is for Poltergeist (1982)
Somewhere in the sun-drenched acres of Orange County, California, it’s a big day for the Freeling family, who live a quiet, normal life on a quiet suburban street in the planned community of Cuesta...
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Hubrisween 2017 :: Q is for Queen of Blood (1966)
In the far-flung future of 1990, The International Institute of Space Technology has been monitoring some strange signals originating from deep space. And as the resident communications expert,...
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Hubrisween 2017 :: R is for R.O.T.O.R. (1987)
Dr. J. Barrett Coldyron is a futurist. Unfortunately, the future he envisions isn’t very pleasant. Predicting that society will completely collapse into total lawlessness within the next twenty-five...
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Hubrisween 2017 :: S is for Satan's Triangle (1975)
The poop has already hit the propeller as our latest feature opens with a ship at stormy sea obviously under duress, punctuated by the emergency beacon that has just been activated. Cut to the shore...
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Hubrisween 2017 :: T is for Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law...
Greeted with a girl’s terrified screams, the mood is now pretty much set for the next ninety minutes and change as we open on said girl, still screaming, bound spread eagle in what looks like a high...
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