Original Cinemaniac

Monthly Archive: July 2018

Music To My Fears

In searching relentlessly through the trash can of film history, I tracked down three music-related films that were so cracked I needed to write about them:   Young Toscanini is a 1988 film by Franco Zeffirelli starring C. Thomas Howell…
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Love Me Deadly

What can you say about a 1972 film concerning a pretty, blonde L.A. socialite (who’s secretly a necrophiliac) which also co-stars Lyle Waggoner (of The Carol Burnett Show fame)? Well that’s what you get, and more, in the gloriously deranged…
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Bad Acid Cinema

I recently re-watched the Blu-rays of Psych-Out and The Trip and was instantly plunged back into the era of free love, bell bottoms, sandals, love beads and frugging in a disco under a strobe light. It also made me realize…
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