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- Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
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award-winning creator of the web series Abnormal Fixation (2024), the audio drama Enter the House Between (2023) and author of 35 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).
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Heh. Fun film!
ReplyDeleteIf I might be so bold to suggest, you could also have gone with "Swift rain is little rain", the philosophical "No life ends until all the lives that it has touched are ended; until all the good that it has done is gone.", or perhaps my personal favorite : "That's what we call 'meat' back home."