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This found footage horror was shot in seven days
Evil Things (2009) is a found footage horror film shot in seven days, the debut feature of writer and director Dominic Perez.
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The Evil Dead director secretly produced this zombie film
The Dead Next Door (1990) was shot on Super 8 by a teenager. Evil Dead director Sam Raimi was executive producer under a code name.
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A 1973 gay bar fire killed 32 and went unsolved
Upstairs Inferno (2015) is a documentary on the 1973 UpStairs Lounge fire in New Orleans, which killed 32 and was never solved.
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The mansion in this dream-tax sci-fi is a rotting dollhouse
Strawberry Mansion (2022) was shot in 2019 on a tiny budget, with a rotting dollhouse as its mansion and creatures made of VHS tape.
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A documentary on Holocaust jokes took 23 years to make
The Last Laugh (2017) began as a paper a friend handed director Ferne Pearlstein in 1993 and premiered at Tribeca in 2016.
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The best Hitchcock film that Hitchcock never made
Charade (1963) is the romantic thriller critics call the best Hitchcock film he never made, starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn.
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Bruce Lee's second film broke the record his first set
Fist of Fury (1972) took about HK$4.43 million in Hong Kong, beating the record Bruce Lee set a year earlier with The Big Boss.
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This 1933 horror reused the Frankenstein set
The Vampire Bat (1933) was a Poverty Row quickie shot on Frankenstein's leftover village set, with a vampire plot and no vampire.
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Japan's first color sci-fi had starfish aliens
Warning from Space (1956) is described as Japan's first color science fiction film, with aliens by the artist behind the Tower of the Sun.
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The Area 51 UFO story began with a hidden-face TV interview
Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers (2018) revisits the hidden-face 1989 TV interview that introduced Lazar's Area 51 account.
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Movie Spotlight: Mexican Dream
Mexican Dream opens at a fertility clinic, in the present tense of wanting a child, long before you learn what its subject already lost. Laura Plancarte's hybrid documentary, co-written with its real-life subject, won Best Documentary at DocsBarcelona 2024.
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Movie Spotlight: Showdown in Secret City
An AI decides it can run a Tennessee comedy troupe better than the humans can, and Big 'N Funky director Vinnie Vineyard explains how a 2020 meme became a warning shot.