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Survival Is a Mental Outlook | Southern Comfort (1981) Vinegar Syndrome 4K Ultra HD

Southern Comfort (1981) - Powers Booth & Keith Carradine

By the time Southern Comfort, his fifth feature as director, left theaters as both a critical and box office failure in 1981, Walter Hill had made more flops than hits. He wouldn’t break out as an A-List Hollywood filmmaker until the blockbuster 48 Hrs. the following year. However, like many of Hill’s early movies, this… Read More Survival Is a Mental Outlook | Southern Comfort (1981) Vinegar Syndrome 4K Ultra HD

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This Place Has Its Strong Points | The Keep (1983) Vinegar Syndrome 4K Ultra HD

The Keep (1983)

I doubt even the biggest fans of The Keep would defend it too strenuously as a good movie. The film is a total mess by just about all objective criteria, with an incoherent story, erratic production values, and sometimes bizarre performances from actors capable of better. A huge bomb during its brief release in 1983,… Read More This Place Has Its Strong Points | The Keep (1983) Vinegar Syndrome 4K Ultra HD

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I Thought You’d Be Bigger | Road House (1989) Vinegar Syndrome 4K Ultra HD

Road House (1989) - Patrick Swayze & Sam Elliott

For a cult film with such an exalted reputation, Road House winds up being surprisingly modest in scope or ambition when you watch it play out. As a young boy who hit his teenage years in the late 1980s, I’d of course seen the movie before, and more than once, but my last viewing was… Read More I Thought You’d Be Bigger | Road House (1989) Vinegar Syndrome 4K Ultra HD

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Death to Realism | eXistenZ (1999) Vinegar Syndrome 4K Ultra HD

eXistenz (1999)

After more than a decade exploring other subjects and genres that interested him, filmmaker David Cronenberg returned to the so-called “body horror” cycle of his early career with the 1999 thriller eXistenZ. While the director himself has argued that this particular movie was more science-fiction than horror, the connective tissue (in multiple senses) with his… Read More Death to Realism | eXistenZ (1999) Vinegar Syndrome 4K Ultra HD

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Ain’t You Got No Shame? | Showgirls (1995) Vinegar Syndrome 4K Ultra HD

Showgirls (1995)

An infamous box office bomb and target of critical ridicule, winner of both Worst Picture at the 1996 Razzie Awards and later Worst Picture of the Decade in 2000, Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls was, for many years, a movie that few people liked, and fewer still would actually admit to liking. Over the ensuing decades, the… Read More Ain’t You Got No Shame? | Showgirls (1995) Vinegar Syndrome 4K Ultra HD

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