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01 Tara's Midnight Movies
Lynch has toiled to condense Frank Herbert's mammoth SF novel into two hours twenty: 10000 years in the future the life-and-death struggle between the Atreides and Harkonnens for the vital spice Melange, which is vital for space travel and is guarded by giant mile-long worms, takes place on a third planet - Arrakis, the desert planet, home to the Fremen, dune dwellers with vivid blue eyes. Fremen legend tells of a Messiah who will be able to drink the water of life, previous tasters having tried
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THE LOST WORLD (1925) (1925)
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The restored version of this original dinosaurs in the jungle adventure based on Arthur Conan Doyle's book. A pioneer for stop-motion animation, the loss, (all known prints and export negatives were destroyed in favour of a sound remake, which became King Kong) and subsequent rediscovery and its restoration are legend. Of historic importance.
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THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1952) (1952)
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The HG Wells novel set in 1950's California. The Martians are coming and they are not on a peace mission! Total justification for maintaining the nuclear deterrent, no Commie Martian's going to take over our town son! In its day the films special effects were state of the art. Fab!
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VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (1960)
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Based on the novel 'The Midwich Cockoos' by John Wyndham, this creepy classic sees George Sanders fighting a community of platinum-blonde children hell-bent on mind-control and total world domination.
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VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (1995)
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Update of the 1960 adaptation of the John Wyndham chiller which keeps the original's atmosphere of menace. Ten women in a sleepy hamlet unaccountably give birth all at the same time, only to be scared witless by the sinister sprogs. Can the eerily Aryan looking clones be stopped before the village is truly damned? Spooky stuff.
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WATCHMEN (THE MOVIE) (2009)
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Set in an alternative America of the 1980s, at a time when the US and the USSR seemed set for an apocalyptic war, a group of retired Masked Heroes reunite after one of their number is murdered. What they uncover seems to point toward a greater, more sinister plot.
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