The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on September 17, 2013

Introduction For an introduction to the concept of 61 Days of Halloween and a list of previously covered films go here. Asylum (1971) Last year I got into a real kick of watching as many horror anthologies as were easily accessible. The anthology film, horror or otherwise, was one I’d...   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on September 16, 2013

If you’ve been paying extra-close attention you may have noticed I’ve not adhered to my policy of updating or adding new content daily as of late. Essentially what has occurred is that I got ahead of the game for a period of time where I was away but didn’t get...   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on September 12, 2013

Introduction For an introduction to the concept behind 61 Days of Halloween and a list of films previously covered please go here. Graveyard Disturbance This is a film that was directed by Lamberto Bava, son of Mario and director of such films as Demons, for a televised horror film series...   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on September 12, 2013

Introduction Firstly, my apologies for this post being late, and to subscribers who may have seen this post come up raw, unfinished and unedited. I’ll do my best to keep that kind of thing from happening again (it’s already happened far too often). My goal in this post for this...   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on September 8, 2013

While I do watch many new films, and have annual awards and will discuss current cinematic topics. Part of my desire to create my own site was to not have an agenda forced upon me that was not my own. This allows me to discuss films from all periods of...   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on September 7, 2013

As I have been wont to do here on the site and in the Short Film Saturday theme, I love to feature the work of Georges Méliès. As it is also the time of year when the Movie Rat runs its 61 Days of Halloween theme, I figured I’d tie...   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on September 7, 2013

Introduction For an introduction to the concept of 61 Days of Halloween and a list of previously featured titles please go here. The Fog (1980) The first time I saw this film was quite a special experience. It was so not only because it was on the big screen (sure...   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on September 6, 2013

Introduction For an introduction to the concept of 61 Days of Halloween and a list of previous films covered go here. Dementia 13 (1963) This post is an exciting one for me in a few respects. First, I’ve known of this film for a very long time and I’ve always...   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on September 6, 2013

“The Fog” (1980) -Pre-H2 -Poe quote -Campfire tale beginning -A wrecked ship in the fog, when it returns so shall the men -John Houseman -Mr. Machen -Journal of Father Patrick Malone -Midnight to one belongs to the dead -Hal Holbrook -Phones ringing -Cundey anew The hitcher incident -mes   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on September 5, 2013

Introduction For an introduction to the concept of 61 Days of Halloween and a list of past titles please go here. The Asphyx (1973) As I did with the last post I would like to commend a distributor to start, I got this film also at Monster-Mania but this time...   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on September 5, 2013

-Terribly slow, mercenary start -Metamorphosis, evolution asexual reproduction-multiplying, infrared senses, biped offspring -Creatures MIA for a large portion of the beginning -Some cast not back -CG -gets better -Not funny -October ’74   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on September 4, 2013

Introduction An introduction to the concept of 61 Days of Halloween as well as past films discussed can be found here. Woman in a Lizard’s Skin (1971) Although, this was released through a Scream Factory four-pack (as Schizoid), I viewed it on a region 2 import I found at the...   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on September 3, 2013

This is a post whose idea I had a while back and never did, but now I came up with a better approach. Essentially, my plan with themes/series’ lately has been, for the most part, to split them up. My series on A.I. was virtually all consecutive. My unwillingness to...   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on September 3, 2013

Originally I didn’t want to list considerations for either Entertainer of the Year Award or Neutron Star Award and the same goes for the Lifetime Achievement Award. The reasoning behind this was that these awards being for a body of work should’ve had their winners be rather apparent. Ho   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on September 3, 2013

Here is where I will assemble the titles that will have an opportunity to make a list wherein I chronicle my favorite vintage titles that I first saw during the last calendar year. It is a concept introduced to me by Brian Saur that I have done two times prior....   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on September 3, 2013

I was, per my last update, supposed to have done this on the first of the month. Not only was that a Sunday, but it was during a holiday weekend. So a little belated here are the latest round of site updates. I will schedule accordingly and the next round...   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on September 1, 2013

While I do watch many new films, and have annual awards and will discuss current cinematic topics. Part of my desire to create my own site was to not have an agenda forced upon me that was not my own. This allows me to discuss films from all periods of...   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on August 31, 2013

Lastly, and perhaps most obviously in a string of Madonna videos with musical touches, Madonna’s “Express Yourself” not only draws its inspiration from Metropolis but also is directed by David Fincher, who started in the music video trade before transitioning to feature films.   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on August 30, 2013

Introduction Enumerating how many artistic disciplines exist is not the purview of this series. Rather the idea of this series is to briefly explore an iteration, an instance, of another artform in the world of cinema. In an upcoming series of posts I will state that I believe that cinema...   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on August 28, 2013

This is a new edition of this post, it’s a follow-up to one wherein I chronicled the films I could recall having viewed on my birthday. Some have been good to great, some have been awful. I usually try to make the selection something befitting a mood I wouldn’t mind...   read more