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Sunday, October 22, 2017

The Believers (1987)
























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After the death of his wife, police psychiatrist Cal Jamison moves to New York. There he has to help in the investigation of the murder of two youths, who seem to have been immolated during a cult ritual. Jamison believes it's been Voodoo and, ignoring the warnings of his housekeeper, enters the scenery and soon gets under their influence. They try to get him to sacrifice his own son.

Friday, October 13, 2017

Dawn of the Dead (1978)



















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Following the events of Night of the Living Dead (1968), we follow the exploits of four survivors of the expanding zombie apocalypse as they take refuge in an abandoned shopping mall following a horrific SWAT evacuation of an apartment complex. Taking stock of their surroundings, they arm themselves, lock down the mall, and destroy the zombies inside so they can eke out a living--at least for a while. Tensions begin to build as months go on, and they come to realize that they've fallen prey to consumerism. Soon afterward, they have even heavier problems to worry about, as a large gang of bikers discovers the mall and invades it, ruining the survivors' best-laid plans and forcing them to fight off both lethal bandits and flesh-eating zombies. 

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Chloe, Love Is Calling You (1934)



















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In the swamps of Florida, Mandy, an old voodoo woman, returns to her home after many years to avenge the death of her husband. Mandy’s daughter, Chloe, has doubts that she’s really black and she rejects the proposal of Jim who is traveling with them. Meanwhile, Wade, the foreman of the Colonel’s turpentine plantation, fires Moses who¹s been stealing the product. A series of strange events are set in motion as Chloe is torn between Jim, Wade, and Moses, as the Colonel attempts to get to the bottom of the disappearance of his daughter, Betty Ann, fifteen years earlier, and as Mandy attempts to extract her revenge with a voodoo ceremony.