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These are the posts for Wednesday, the 31st day of October in the year 2007 of the common era.

Buckaroo Banzai (1984)

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Laugh while you-a can, Monkey Boy!

Mix theoretical physics, rock’n’roll, neurosurgery, Orson Welles and Rastafarian aliens from another dimension and you get this goofily eccentric genre-bending science-fiction action comedy. This is definitely one of those “love-it-or-hate-it” movies that you recommend to friends with caution. After watching this, they will either thank you profusely or recommend you for civil commitment.

Buckaroo Banzai

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Carnival of Souls (1962)

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

I’m not taking the vows. I’m only going to play the organ.

There is low-budget, ultra-low-budget and no-budget. I don’t know what term you’d use for a movie that could have been made with the change you dug out of your seat cushions. This is the only dramatic film made by industrial documentary filmmaker Herk Harvey, and you could be forgiven if you think you’re watching a lost episode of Twilight Zone. This simple but moody tale is as long on atmosphere as it is short on production values and running time.

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