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In the early '80s, I had a really astonishing assignment when I was asked by my professor at Harvard if I was interested in going down to Haiti, infiltrating the secret societies which were the foundation of Duvalier's strength and Tonton Macoutes, and securing the poison used to make zombies.
But there's nevertheless a clear distinction between food and poison.
It says right on the back here, "In case of overdose, contact your poison control center immediately," and it gives an 800 number.
And then in Kenya, what we did was addressing the issue of ethnicity, which is a poison in a lot of places in Africa.
Well, unfortunately, writer-director Victor Salva (of "Jeepers Creepers" and "Powder" fame) doesn't have enough ideas to keep the movie going, the scenario arouses no tension or suspense (poison for what is supposedly a 'thriller'), and the inclusion of an underlying homo-erotic tone seems out-of-place.
What if Zep killed the wife and kid, how does Jigsaw get him the antidote for the poison if he's lying in the middle of the bathroom?
A mini budget film made in 1983 called GOING DOWN got this topic right and is an excellent antidote to this poison.
Since this was made to bring in more fans to the juggernaut that was the WWE in Hogans hey day one has to wonder if there weren't more fans like me who turned to other past times that did not poison ones mind like this offense to celluloid did, such as huffing gas or Russian Roulette.
You can't watch a film like Peter Watkins' "Privilege," a story of the exploitation of a pop music performer by big business, the state, and even organized religion, without thinking of creatively degenerate commodities like Michael Jackson or Britney Spears, who hawk corporate giants like Pepsi or some other poison for money.
At least they'll find redemption from Dugan's poison.
This film is about a deadly poison that is contained in small glass globes that is used to kill.
Milland disguises himself as a gypsy in order to hide from the Germans, but he remains committed to his mission, to do with locating the scientist who knows the formula for a new poison gas but who also isn't a committed Nazi.
The film straddles the line between being a serious story about the poison gas and the urgent search to get the formula, and a colorful though not too convincing love story between Milland and Dietrich.
Clouzot followed Le Corbeau, where no one knew who was penning the poison thus everyone was suspected, with another masterpiece, Quai des Orfevres four years later in which we know from the outset (or think we do) whodunnit.
Stone and Bogosian fill every frame with interest and every line of dialog with sweet poison and cutting ambiguity.
And "No. 2 Son" Jimmy (Victor Sen Yung) is somewhat of a help when he first identifies the poison that results in some murders early on, though, of course, he blunders a little later.
When Marlene Dietrich was labeled box office poison in 1938 one of a handful of actresses so named by the trades papers, it was films like The Garden Of Allah.
He's hired to play a birthday party in a gloomy mansion, the kind where poison darts imported from Africa are framed and hung on the wall.
Otherwise to me he is box office poison and Jeroen Krabbé is worse than that.
The poor man's box office poison....really that is not being fair to the economically disenfranchised.
Also, you have to wonder about any halfway house for murderers having a big drawer full of sharp knives in the kitchen and rat poison under the kitchen sink.
Thus, I managed to poison all my memories of the original movie with this sorry excuse for a movie.
She will fund him if he helps her poison the husband so she can take his money and carry on with a gigolo (who I think is married).
This movie was so horrible, i didn't even take it back to the store, i wouldn't want anyone else to be subjected to this human poison, i just threw it in the trash, never mind the money, it was worth the price to be able to throw it away.
Whereas that movie was honest and sympathetic, "Whipped" is hostile, cynical, misanthropic cinematic poison.
Traci Lords convincingly acts out the female half of an evil business-couple intending to poison the world with antrax.
So she resolves to poison him when she realizes he does not want to divorce her, so that she can move on.
She proceeds to poison her husband, and dispatches him very neatly and satisfactorily, so that everything is going well.
He is condemned to death for murder, because the husband's death by poison came to light unexpectedly.
Here, he plays a specialist in hazardous waste clean-ups with a tragic past tracking down a perennial loser on the run --played by former pretty-boy Weller-- who has been contaminated with a deadly poison.
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