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The Bride (2026)

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  Maggie Gyllenh aal's "The Bride" is a unique film that tries to tie female rage against the Patriarchy along with Mary Shelly's spirit who is angry & rage filled.  It is the films framing piece that I have trouble with.  By making Mary Shelly a vengeful sprit who is angry at the whole patriarch and who possesses the Bride and makes her lash out at the world seems to do a disservice to Mary Shelly's memory and her works that she accomplished.   Such poems like: "To love in Solitude & mystery", "Absence", and "Ode to Ignorance" seem to have been combined with her book "Frankenstein". That is the way it feels to me, and one who is unfamiliar with her work could surmise that this is how Shelly felt and so her possessing the Bride would be of unrequited love and anger towards men, and truly that's the filmmaker's prerogative, but I'd prefer my B movies less heady and just plain simple.  Frankenstein is lonel...

They Call Her Death (2025)

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They Call her Death is directed by Austin Snell & stars Sheri Rippel , Jeff Boyer , Devan R. Carcia , Dane Shobe , Shawn Nyberg & Jason Puff .  The film "They call her Death" is a throwback to the spaghetti Westerns that were produced in the 1960's in Europe.  Using probably less then a quarter of what original producers spent on such films Austin Snell & his gang pull off a very impressive and loving film to the genre.  The film is shot on 16mm film, with 1960's type camera, but the effects that we don't see are what makes this movie a gem.   Adam Jeffers is the VFX coordinator & producer of this film.  In the making of the film he is interviewed and we see with our own eyes what he needed to do.  The western town that he shot in was a tourists attraction where he had to take out signs, railings, and people wondering into frame.  Talk about a Herculean task somehow Mr. Jeffers did it flawlessly job and to me I saw no mistakes t...