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  4. What Have You Watched Recently?

    in Non-Gaming Discussion

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    The Angry Black Girl And Her Monster

     

    If you're looking for something different this Halloween, this may be it.  Vicaria is a teenage scientific genius growing up in a housing project.  After losing first her mother and then her brother to violence, she comes to the proposition that death is a disease--and it can be cured.  Using the bodies of other victims of violence, she repairs the body of her brother, then brings it to life with a massive surge of electricity.  Things get worse from there.

     

    The story may be familiar to us all, but the way it is told is quite unlike any previous telling of the tale.  (The only reference to the original is the title of Vicaria's scientific journal--The Modern Prometheus.)  The movie uses the story to address a wealth of current issues--the effects of poverty, gang violence, and drug use, the (deliberate?) inability of white people to comprehend the situation--Vicaria has plenty of reasons to be angry.

     

    The movie is available on Amazon Prime or elsewhere.  Check it out if you get the chance.

  5. Good Pulp Movies to watch

    in Pulp Hero

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    On 7/15/2014 at 12:05 PM, death tribble said:

    It occurs to me that the Fu Manchu films particularly with Christopher Lee are good ones. He plans on using a poison from seeds of the black hill poppy in one that can wipe out all life provided the temperature is below freezing and in another uses a transmitter to broadcast energy to destroy targets while kidnapping the daughters of scientists who he then blackmails into helping him set up the energy projector/transmitter.

    Lee's Fu Manchu never has a problem with his daughter Lin Tang played by Tsai Chin. She is always wearing normal clothes and nothing scanty while Fu Manchu is always wearing robes and just speaks elegance.

     

    The Mask Of Fu Manchu is especially thick with pulpy goodness.  This is Boris Karloff's only turn in the role, and he does quite well with it, as does Myrna Loy, who plays Fu's daughter Fah Lo See.  The casual racism is thick on both sides, as Fu uses every opportunity to proclaim, "Death to the white race!"  There's also a nifty scene in which Fu boils some large and exotic insects in blood to make a mind control serum.  

     

    Everything you could ask for in a pulp story is right here, even if it is black and white instead of a garishly colored magazine cover.  And it was made when it was considered modern day adventure, instead of decades in the past.

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