Car fanatics are losers, but I do like the Landmaster / Paperboy 2000. I did a blog post about it, and a reader informed me that it was parked  outdoors, in plain sight, in a lot in North Hollywood for several years.

It would make a great double bill with "The Humanoid".

The best Jenny Agutter fantasy material is to be found in "American Werewolf", but she looks her best in "Logan's Run". And she's PG-naked.

Not underrated among AVclub commentors, though.

Damnation Alley came out the same year as Star Wars. It had a 17 million dollar budget, most of which went to special effects. Star Wars had an 11 million dollar budget. It's not enough to throw money at a movie's effects department, it requires vision and innovation as well.

You'll dig it. Like Fulci, it out-Romero's Romero in the graphic gore department. Badly done, but still pretty outrageous.

Vincent Price. Even when he was selling tile cleaner, he did it with conviction.

A lot of Italian exploitation films of the era had that philosophy, didn't they? Didn't "Cannibal Holocaust" come out around the same time? No zombies, but same theme.

If they're doing White Zombie then I assume they'd move onto I Walked with a Zombie next.

Yeah… see, I'm generally a big fan of Tarantino's, and I consider this to be his least successful film.  "Planet Terror" at least manages to be audacious and fun, even though it's admittedly not very clever. I agree that Tarantino tried a little harder to make a good movie, though.

That's true, one plays it straight and the other goes for camp, but I believe one fails at what it tries to do, and the other succeeds.

I saw it at the Drive-In during its opening weekend. I think it was March, so we were all sitting outside in lawn chairs wearing hats and parkas.

I much preferred the slimmed-down "Death Proof" as well, and for the same reason.

Man, I love Phenomena. Argento called that his personal favorite of all his movies. The last 15 or so minutes are insane.

I think City of the Living Dead is his best, followed closely by The Beyond and Zombie. But wouldn't fault anyone for disliking the amateurish quality of his filmmaking, or the often disturbing scenes of people getting messed up.

The papier mache priest is the only thing I like about this movie. It's really, really funny. It belongs in a Monty Python film.

Cat In The Brain, fuck yeah. That is super-sized Fulci supreme. But I wouldn't call it a giallo.

I LOVE "Schock". The whole movie builds up to those last ten or so minutes, and it's scary as hell. It's brilliant.

"Conquest" is unwatchable, as with most of Fulci's movies. But the rare times when he crosses that line from shitty filmmaking to mind-bending surrealism ("City of the Living Dead", "The Beyond"), he's excellent.

Inferno
City of the Living Dead
Torso
Schock
Burial Ground