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Hal Astell
I'm a transplant from the rain and beauty of northern England to the sun and desolation of Phoenix, AZ. I'm also a traveller through the world of film, exploring the medium from many different starting points. Whatever else I am is your opinion.
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I'm climbing the stairway to Cinematic Heaven in 2010 to post five reviews a week of films from the IMDb Top 250 List, supposedly the greatest motion pictures of all time. Are they really? Find out here.



I'm also driving the highway to Cinematic Hell for the awesome folks at Cinema Head Cheese to post a review a week of the very worst films of all time. These are so bad that they make Uwe Boll look good.



My favourite No Festival Required screening of the year is always the selection of short films shown at the Phoenix Art Museum. Here's Selection 2010.

Wednesday, 24 May 2000

Cinematic Hell

Not all movies are created equal. Welcome to Cinematic Hell.

During 2010 I'm working through the greatest movies of all time, two hundred and fifty of them. Each week of the year I'll be posting reviews of five movies from the IMDb Top 250 List, but that creates something of an imbalance on a blog where I review the good, the bad and the ugly.

If the IMDb Top 250 movies are the good and there's plenty on here already to count as the bad, that leaves the ugly. That's what this page is for.

Each week I'll also be writing a review of one of the worst movies of all time for the awesome folks at Cinema Head Cheese and then indexing them here too as premiere examples of Cinematic Hell. I'm grateful to Kevin, Jeff and David for the privilege. Please check out their site and the many, many other wonderful things they do. Go buy a copy of Blown for starters.

Here are my reviews, along with ratings from my wife and I and links to each film's page at IMDb. Read these reviews at your peril! You have been warned!

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

This Week's Review (Week 9: 10 Mar 2010)
Title Year H D Director(s) IMDb
Eegah 1962 1 1 Nicholas Meriwether IMDB

All Cinematic Hell Reviews
Title Year H D Director(s) IMDb
The Beast of Yucca Flats 1961 1 1 Coleman Francis IMDb
Child Bride 1938 2 2 Harry J Revier IMDB
The Crippled Masters 1979 3 3 Kei Law IMDB
Eegah 1962 1 1 Nicholas Meriwether IMDB
Manos: The Hands of Fate 1966 1 1 Harold P Warren IMDB
Plan 9 from Outer Space 1959 1 1 Edward D Wood Jr IMDB
Reefer Madness 1936 3 3 Louis J Gasnier IMDB
The Terror of Tiny Town 1938 3 3 Sam Newfield IMDB
They Saved Hitler's Brain 1976 1 1 David Bradley IMDB

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