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Double Feature Showdown – Maniac (1980) vs. Maniac (2012)

October 29th, 2015 | POSTED BY Adelaide Blair

I am a big fan of director William Lustig’s movies Maniac Cop and Vigilante, and have been looking forward to watching Maniac (1980), his first feature, for a while now. I don’t think everything he directed is gold (I quite dislike Maniac Cop 2 and Uncle…

Double Feature Showdown – The Faculty vs. Cooties

October 23rd, 2015 | POSTED BY Adelaide Blair

I’m going to be honest with you; I am not a fan of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. (I kind of like the books, but I haven’t read them in about twenty years, so who knows what I think now.) The movies are…

Double Feature Showdown – Battle Royale vs. The Hunger Games

December 23rd, 2013 | POSTED BY Adelaide Blair

Last year when The Hunger Games came out, all I heard was Battle Royale this, Battle Royale that. Everybody kept talking about how similar the plots were between the two, but nobody really gave specifics, other than “kids forced to kill each other off until…

Double Feature Showdown – The Wasp Woman Vs. The Leech Woman

October 30th, 2013 | POSTED BY Adelaide Blair

It’s October, so all I want to watch is horror films. I’m down with a lot of the newer stuff, but my true passion lies in the B productions from the thirties, forties, and fifties. There’s a lot of good stuff hidden behind some bad…

Double Feature Showdown – 3D IMAX Top Gun vs. 3D IMAX Jurassic Park

April 29th, 2013 | POSTED BY Adelaide Blair

I’m not a huge fan of 3D, and I am especially not fond of the current trend to retrofit older movies with it. But when I heard that they were releasing both Top Gun and Jurassic Park in 3D IMAX, I completely bought in to…

Double Feature Showdown – Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) vs. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

March 20th, 2013 | POSTED BY Adelaide Blair

Alien invaders replace earthlings with pod people? Hell yes, sign me up to watch that movie; in fact, sign me up to watch two of them. I present to you this episode’s Double Feature Showdown challengers: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) versus Invasion of…

Double Feature Showdown – Christmas in Connecticut vs. Remember the Night

December 25th, 2012 | POSTED BY Adelaide Blair

I love Barbara Stanwyck. I also love Christmas movies. So, it should come as no surprise that I especially love Barbara Stanwyck Christmas movies. As is turns out, there are two of them: Christmas in Connecticut and Remember the Night. Each one can hold its…

Double Feature Showdown – Ginger Snaps vs. Jennifer’s Body

October 31st, 2012 | POSTED BY Adelaide Blair

The “Last Girl” is a horror movie trope so prevalent we don’t even think twice when we see it. She is the survivor of whatever atrocities the film has set up for its victims, and usually makes it to the end by keeping her clothes…