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Tag Archives: movies we love
Pulp Appeal: The Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte des Loups)
The Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) is a French language ahistorical fantastic retelling of the legend of the Beast of Gévaudan. It is what happens when French moviemakers (director/co-writer Christophe Gans and story creator/co-writer Stéphane Cabel) emulate Chinese wuxia, Gothic … Continue reading
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Tagged Gothic, horror, martial arts, martial arts movie, movie, movies we love, werewolf, wuxia
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Pulp Appeal: Kung Fu Hustle
Pulp Appeal: Kung-Fu Hustle KUNG FU HUSTLE, directed, produced, written and starring Stephen Chow, is perhaps the most over-the-top, troperific, batshit insane kung fu movie to not strictly be a parody. It features dancing criminal gangs, old kung fu masters … Continue reading
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Tagged kung fu hustle, kung fu movie, movie, movies we love, stephen chow, wuxia
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Pulp Consumption: Fletch
We talk a lot about movies and tv shows here, and you might think we don’t read much pulp, but we do and are. Both Matt and I recently picked up a collection of Seabury Quinn’s Jules de Grandin stories … Continue reading
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Tagged '80s movies, humor, movies we love, neo-noir, Pulp Consumption
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Pulp Appeal: Black Christmas
Bob Clark’s[1] Black Christmas is a 1974 slasher flick widely considered to be one of the inspirations for John Carpenter’s masterpiece Halloween. While it is not the first of the slasher flicks, it is early enough to have had a … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970s, classic movie, horror, John Saxon, movies we love, slasher film
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Pulp Appeal: Ghostbusters
When an ancient Lovecraftian-style evil rears its head in New York, who ya gonna call? The Ghostbusters, of course! What, you don’t consider Ghostbusters to reside under the pulp umbrella? I can only assume you skipped over nearly every piece … Continue reading
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Tagged '80s movies, 1980s, horror, humor, Lovecraft, movies we love, sci-fi
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Pulp Consumption: Magnificent Seven (1960)
What do you get when you remake a classic samurai movie by Akira Kurosawa, only give it an all-star Hollywood cast and set in the old West? THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN[1]! Starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, Charles … Continue reading
