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  Versus (2000) RELEASED October 23, 2000 RUNTIME 119 mins DIRECTOR Ryûhei Kitamura WRITERS Ryûhei Kitamura (screenplay), Yudai Yamaguchi (screenplay) STARS  Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki, Chieko Misaka COUNTRY United States LANGUAGE Japanese  STUDIOS KSS, napalm FiLMS, Suplex Inc., WEVCO Produce Company  GENRES Action, Horror, Fantasy, Thriller Streaming on: archive.org The plot:  Witness a battle no one has ever seen Set in the present where a group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman, and an escaped convict have met, unwittingly, in The Forest of Resurrection, the 444th portal to the other side. Their troubles start when those once killed and buried in the forest come back from the dead, with the assistance of the evil Sprit that has also come back, come back from ages past, to claim his prize. The final standoff between Light and Dark has never been so cunning, so brutal and so deadly. This is where old Japanese Samurai mysticism meets the new world of the gangster and the gun. G

  They Live (1988) RELEASED November 23, 1988 RUNTIME 94 mins  DIRECTOR  John Carpenter   WRITERS John Carpenter (screenplay),  Ray Nelson (novel) STARS  Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster COUNTRY United States LANGUAGE English STUDIOS Universal Pictures,  Alive Films, Larry Franco Productions GENRES Science Fiction, Action Streaming on: Peacock The plot: You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they're people just like you. You're wrong. Dead wrong. Nada, a wanderer without meaning in his life, discovers a pair of sunglasses capable of showing the world the way it truly is. As he walks the streets of Los Angeles, Nada notices that both the media and the government are comprised of subliminal messages meant to keep the population subdued and that most of the social elite are skull-faced aliens bent on world domination. With this shocking discovery, Nada fights to free humanity from the mind-controlling aliens. Random o

  Bingo Hell (2021) RELEASED October 1, 2021 RUNTIME 85 mins DIRECTOR Gigi Saúl Guerrero WRITERS Perry Blackshear (screenplay), Shane McKenzie (screenplay), Gigi Saúl Guerrero (screenplay) STARS  Richard Brake, L. Scott Caldwell, Bertila Damas COUNTRY United States LANGUAGE English STUDIOS Amazon Studios, Blumhouse Television GENRES Thriller Streaming on: Amazon Prime The plot: Are you feeling lucky? In the Barrio of Oak Springs live a strong and stubborn group of elderly friends who refuse to be gentrified. Their leader, Lupita, keeps them together as a community, a family. But little did they know, their beloved Bingo hall is about to be sold to a much more powerful force than money itself. Random observations:  L. Scott Caldwell is an amazing actress and if this film were any genre other than horror, she would probably be up for a crap-ton of acting awards because she kills it. Mr. Big looks like he has some manner of Carradine DNA. I looked him up and he's actually Welsh and hi