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Looks a lot like the original film but with digital effects to me. But then again, the original film was (to me) just a good popcorn film. Hopefully they've cooked up something similarly iconic, but I imagine if they'd shown a flying cow everyone would be like "OMG how unimaginative, they're just retreading the first film right down to the ****ing flying cow...". Can't really win whatever they do. Or maybe I'm just cynical about humanity.

Sorry to hear that Raithe, my condolences on your loss.

David Dastmalchian is an actor I've liked in anything I've seen him in. Also a horror fan, so I have hugh hopes for this one.

I'm guessing a few of the oldsters are hitting 20 on here today...

I saw Tetsuo: The Iron Man in 1992 when it got its US release and went through the independent film circuit. There's nothing really like it; I seem to recall the sequel Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (which I saw a few years later, not 100% what year) having more a plot rather than sort of the fever dream / nightmare quality of the original but wasn't quite as good.

My phone is logged out again (I just logged back in on it Tuesday) but my computer is still logged in.

While I have sold stuff (almost all of my VHSes, for example), I've kept an extensive library of other physical media. I've had to resort to breaking them down though, they're too much otherwise, so I get why some would declutter. That said, my comic collection still overshadows it from a sheer how much space it takes up. >.< Unfortunately, I don't really trust streaming to provide something when I want it, and even though physical media has its perils (disc rot, etc) I'd rather risk that than playing hunt the show on through the streaming channels. And the more obscure stuff, they won't have anyhow.

Ad Populum innit? "Appeal to the Public" - implying that something that is popular is right/good/best.

Ditto for me on getting the Our Services message occasionally.

Dofus is based on a french video game series (including the games Dofus and Wakfu). There's also a tv animated series Dofus: Aux trésors de Kerubim and Wakfu and some Wakfu OAVs. The movie Dofus, livre 1: Julith I think suffered in France based on its release date if newspapers at the time are to be believed. The lack of box-office success caused them to drop the 2 planned sequel Dofus films and a Wakfu film Anakma (the game, publishing and animation company) have made some other movies since this, though. They were part of a co-production for Netflix' Mutafukaz aka MFKZ and did a film called Princesse Dragon. Also did some other animated and live action series/shorts.

old thread - https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/132558-random-video-game-news-games-are-the-most-elevated-form-of-investigation/

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What did you think of the original film?

I know I've seen The Cat from Outer Space, but can't remember if I saw it at a drive-in or not.

Wrestling promos? Ok - THE NUMBERS DON'T LIE! And who can forget Rowdy Roddy Piper and Buzz Sawyer training to fight...?

David Soul

We're probably just going to get motion smoothing. I spelunk around B to Z grade films all the time, and stinkers as stinky as "Blood Mummy" are rare, but I also have a high tolerance for a lot of the things that would utterly break a film for you.

Old thread - Lol. Eh, B movies are broader than just being untalented - often times you have talented people working with minimal budgets and the actors they can get locally. In those cases, the ideas will shine through and make a movie fun, for me at least. This had none of that, it was exploitation filmmaking without any redeeming features really. Unless you want to see a guy playing a mummy stick his face and nose into the camera to simulate mental contnrol before assaulting naked women. The ending is risible as well and the mythology is inconsistent - not just with Egyptian myth and history, that's common for mummy films but with itself. The movie presents certain reasons the mummy is doing what he's doing and then literally violates that explanation in the next scene. There was no interest in this film from the filmmakers beyond the explotational elements. Was a real drag.

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