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Both films 1) star Carroll Baker, 2) were directed by Umberto Lenzi, 3) were shot in and around 1969, 4) contain some of the same music on the soundtrack, and 5) share the same title "Paranoia" except on opposite sides of the world.
At 89 minutes, this TV-movie (with the usual fade-ins and outs for commercials) seems made out of several different sagas cobbled together, as Dracula, essentially a good guy here, faces different enemies (from the usual vampire hunters to his own son turned God's agent, to Satanists, to Satan himself, to a new King of the Vampires...) without much character development whatsoever, and through plot holes so big they could contain a whole graveyard each.
This review does not contain a spoiler.
It's boring beyond words and doesn't contain any worthwhile moments of bloodshed, neither.
Actually, he or she should take note: the filmmaker notes that adult toys might contain carcinogens.
Although the movie does not contain their most memorable routines, it nevertheless has a few like 'better dress, no don't dress!' and 'Here's one for me, one for you, two for me, One, TWO for you.'
This movie is so clearly a christmas classic that i can barely contain myself!
If you know your Italian low-budget cinema during the seventies, you should have a pretty good idea of what this movie, WAR OF THE ROBOTS, should contain.
And yet, despite Cargill’s heavy reliance on stevia in its promotional material, EverSweet does not contain a single leaf of the plant.
These benefits, I believe, can be sustained only by deliberate and persistent efforts to correct and contain the system’s deficiencies.
We need to establish certain standards of behavior to contain corruption, enforce fair labor practices, and protect human rights.
Saudi Arabia invokes US military power to contain its regional rival, Iran.
Can power politics contain the rise of China and neutralize its commitment to pan-regional integration and globalization?
Some of these counterfeit products contain toxic ingredients.
Consider catastrophe bonds (or “cat bonds”), which contain clauses that stipulate that the issuer of the bond (the borrower) does not have to repay the money if a specified catastrophe occurs.
The UK authorities have decided to prioritize fiscal consolidation while running a loose monetary policy to contain risks to the recovery from higher taxes and lower government spending.
But those who recognize that humanity won’t succeed in stopping war seek, instead, to contain and “humanize” it.
When agreements fail, it is usually not because of what they contain, but because of what is missing, or because of what the signatories do despite what they have agreed.
And in countries with a recent history of excessive monetary finance – for example, Brazil, which is still struggling to contain inflation amid political pressures for large deficit finance – that argument could be compelling.
Other Sunni Gulf monarchies and Egypt are also cooperating with Israel to contain Islamist terrorism and Iran’s regional rise.
That long list of blue links to pages that may or may not contain what they want looks pretty old.
Emerging markets that approach the IMF early on for pre-crisis financing will find shelter from the winds of global deleveraging, which in turn will help contain the spread of the crisis.
Of course, America still wants to contain China and prevent it from becoming a major regional and world power.
And when he meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week, he could find a way to bridge the divide between the EU’s eastern and western flanks, which want, respectively, to contain and engage Russia.
In Europe, Germany can be confident that the US would help to contain an aggressive Russia, while Russia knows that Germany will remain tied to, and thus restrained by, the US.
Even the most distorted myths contain a kernel of truth.
If not, no wall will be able to contain Palestinian rage.
But small countries’ economic growth is often more volatile – a tendency that younger states must learn to contain if they are to prosper in the long term.
Of course, some criticisms of technocratic remedies may be populist posturing, but sometimes they contain insights that ivory-towered (and usually US-trained) technocrats miss.
But paradoxically, it may also contain an element of forgetfulness, because it tends to conceal the fact that liberation required a military defeat.
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