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Twitter Account   Wikipedia Article   Youtube trailer Decay - Actually out now Though the primary purpose of this blog is to promote "good/bad old films", a special mention must be made of 'Decay', a student film which was released at the end of November. During the day I'm a particle physicist. I met Luke Thompson, the writer and director of Decay, briefly whilst he was a Summer student at Fermilab in 2009, so I was quite interested to hear that he was making a film at CERN. Additionally, someone in my office at Lancaster University played an extra, adding to my personal amusement of picking our familiar faces. On a shoestring budget, shot with borrowed SLR cameras, and using PhD students and volunteers, a classical zombie film was produced over two years. Now, there's a few points to make clear. Part of the premise of this project was to have fun with the "bad science" portrayed in horror films and the media. So, no, it's not scientif

imdb Link Wiki Link This is my first "Amusing Terrible Film" entry. Sometimes films can be so bad in so many ways, so much so that they cannot be boring. Instead of a comedy to laugh with it becomes a movie to laugh at. Oh, dozens or hundreds of people may have sunk months of work into producing this... thing, but hey, unintentional humour is better than no humour at all, right? As a disclaimer, this film is supposed to be a comedy, but it's laughs come from it's sometimes ridiculous production. (http://docuniverse.blogspot.co.uk)" But I wanna go back to Earth gnnnaaooaaooaww" This was Arnold Schwarzenegger's first film role (he's billed as Arnold Strong in it though), a good seven or so years before the 'Pumping Iron' documentary that really catapulted his career. Until relatively recently his voice was dubbed over due to "his thick Austrian accent". After watching the undubbed version I can say that this isn't the

imdb Link   Wiki Link   TvTropes Link This is an odd one. There are a lot of animated features from the 70s and 80s which are not aired in the UK often (or ever), apart from Watership Down every Christmas. This story mixes the novel, "The Dragon and the George", with Peter Dickinson's "The Flight of Dragons". The latter is actually a speculative natural history theory about how mythical dragons could have existed and how their flight and fiery breath could work. In the animation, Dickinson is the protagonist who occasionally makes references to his theories. AARGH! Goddamnit dragon! That being said, the 'science' used in the movie is suspect. There is a prominent science vs magic argument that the plot hinges on, and the arguments made on the side of logic are... ineffective to put it nicely. The loose premise of the film is the ending of the "Age of Magic" to be replaced with the "Age of Reason" (despite the human architect

Wikipedia Link   imdb Link   TVTropes link image from mattfind.com I am a fan of the Arthurian legends and their adaptations to the large and small screen, be them in the style of a Bernard Cornwell-like post-Roman warlord Briton, or Anglo-French "Le Morte d'Arthur" fictional mix-up. This film falls firmly into the latter category, though condensing many characters and events from the epic to allow as much of the story to fit into the film as possible. I'm assuming most of you are familiar with the basics of the late medieval version of King Arthur and Guinevere's story, with Lancelot having a hard time keeping it in his pants, Merlin being a mysterious old man, and Mordred being the result of... well... you know what. As such, the plot of the film shouldn't come as a surprise. What the film lacks in (what would be superfluous and detrimental) modern day plot twists it makes up for in cinematography. You might note that many actions, costume designs, o

(image from movieblog.mtv.com) ( Wikipedia Link )( TV Tropes Link )( imdb Link ) This isn't going to be a movie review, there's enough of them out there for this film if you look. I'll be writing down some feelings about it to bring a bit more attention to this rarely shown film (in the UK). This 90s gem features Sam Neill, fully rested after running away from dinosaurs from his more well known 1993 film, Jurassic Park. Those of you familiar with the pulp horror work of H. P. Lovecraft, or who have ever played a Call of Cthulhu (CoC) RP game, will be instantly familiar with the progression of this story. A horror writer has gone missing, and it's up to Neill's character to investigate whether it's part of an insurance fraud by his publishers or not. As with all CoC adventures, the investigation doesn't lead somewhere nice. Or sane. At all. The film is directed by John Carpenter and, similar to his work on the 1982 remake of The Thing, there are som