 BAD TASTE
1987 / d. Peter Jackson
  
Before Mr. Jackson was directing ring-toting hobbits on perilous quests to Mount Doom, he was making insanely entertaining, low-budget gore flicks. BAD TASTE oozes, excretes, gurgles, vomits, and sprays blood, guts, and a multitudinous amount of sickening fluids for a satisfying ninety minutes of comedic genius. If you can handle brain munching, head exploding, arm amputating, and other grim spectacles, this film is right up your alley. Recommended for fans of EVIL DEAD 2, RE-ANIMATOR, and RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD.
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 BEETLEJUICE
1988 / d. Tim Burton
Don’t say the bio-exorcist’s name three times! Michael Keaton leads an all-star cast in this humorous tale about a country couple turned ghosts trying to rid their house of a snotty New York family. Winona Ryder is creepy as the goth daughter Lydia, and all of director Tim Burton’s odd touches have their moments-from Juno’ smoke coming out her slit throat to Delia’s infamous ‘Dayo!’ dance party. Multiple viewings are in order here. (KB)
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 THE BEYOND
1981 / d. Lucio Fulci
A.K.A. SEVEN DOORS OF DEATH. Yet another addition to the bloody and viscera-filled resume of Godfather of Gore Lucio Fulci himself. In this one, the restoration of an old hotel in the steamy depths of Louisiana unearth one of the legendary seven gates into Hell. Not only that, but the opening of it allows a legion of shambling zombies to wreak havoc on all innocents involved. Truly a masterpiece of the splatter genre, THE BEYOND is infused with enough unnatural carnage to please the most demented of viewers. There’s Fulci’s prerequisite eye gouging, a woman who is unfortunately caught at the wrong end of a jar of burning acid, a man whose face is chewed away by rubber tarantulas, and the greatest (and perhaps only) scene of a cute little zombie girl getting an iceberg-sized hole blown right through her kisser! If that isn’t a selling point to see this movie immediately if you haven’t already done so, then I don’t know what love is. A must watch. Other films of interest include THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY, ZOMBIE 2, and THE CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD. (JC)
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