Articles by Scott A. Gray

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  The Quiet Earth

  Geoff Murphy

  PUBLISHED Dec 18, 2012

  This Kiwi apocalypse story from 1985 preys on the conflicting fear and appeal of loneliness in a slow burning science fiction mystery inspi...

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  Zardoz

  John Boorman

  PUBLISHED Dec 17, 2012

  Try to look past that ridiculous image of Sean Connery clad in a skimpy red banana hammock. Being known for such an absurd image of an icon...

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  Phantasm

  Don Coscarelli

  PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2012

  Don Coscarelli had low aspirations and even lower funding when he shot and directed Phantasm from his own script in the late 70's. But he a...

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  Logan's Run

  Michael Anderson

  PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2012

  The 70's were an interesting time for science fiction cinema. Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke had already changed the game with 2001:...

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  Silent Night Deadly Night: Double Feature

  Charles E. Sellier Jr. and Lee Harry

  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2012

  A great deal of the controversy surrounding Silent Night Deadly Night rears its hydra heads as outrage over anything with the gall to taint...

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  Silent Night [Blu-Ray]

  Steven C. Miller

  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2012

  Of all the pointless remakes of awful horror films, Silent Night takes the viscera-coated cake. With a concept as gimmicky as a killer Sant...

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  Ted [Blu-Ray]

  Seth MacFarlane

  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2012

  Nobody knows how to mix mocking irreverence, toilet humour and sentimentality for public consumption like Seth MacFarlane. The fact that Te...

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  V/H/S

  Radio Silence, David Bruckner, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg & Ti West

  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2012

  What a vile collection of immature, often misogynistic and mostly boring found-footage experiments. Conceived and curated by Brad Miska (Bl...