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Post by Sir Woodrow on Apr 26, 2010 17:35:49 GMT -5
ABC in Australia (kind of like our BBC) has stepped up in my opinion this past week with it's late night movies, Starting on Sunday they had funnily enough Dementia 13, Last night they had Roger Corman's Bucket of Blood and later in the week Night of the Living Dead.
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Post by Rorschach on Apr 26, 2010 19:18:23 GMT -5
ABC in Australia (kind of like our BBC) has stepped up in my opinion this past week with it's late night movies, Starting on Sunday they had funnily enough Dementia 13, Last night they had Roger Corman's Bucket of Blood and later in the week Night of the Living Dead. They probably bought the same calendar I did. ;D I'm going to throw this out there, just for general purposes: How well do all of you horror fans think that this current generation of horror films is going to hold up, 30 years down the road? I mean, thirty years ago today, we were getting ORIGINAL ideas, ideas which took root and became horror icons and classics in their own rights. The closest thing we have to something like that today is, well...SAW. Outside of that, and a few small independant gems over the years... it's all remakes and ripoffs and shoddy, DTV SYFY channel crap, it seems.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Apr 26, 2010 22:41:20 GMT -5
For those with region free players or our UK horror fans... On the 7th of June of 2010, Arrow Films will release a special edition Dvd of the George Romero classic. 2-DISC EDITION CONTAINS: • 4 sleeve art options • Double-sided fold-out poster • Exclusive Collector’s Booklet • Set of 6 original poster art postcards THIS DVD SET CONTAINS : • Theatrical Cut in 5.1 and Stereo sound plus choice of 4:3 and 16:9 presentations SPECIAL FEATURES : • Original Theatrical trailer • Wampyr: The Italian Cut with English Subs featuring legendary Goblin Score • The audio recollections of Romero, Savini, Gornick and Rubinstein • ‘Making Martin: A recounting documentary • Original TV and Radio Spots • Martin Photo Album *drool*
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Apr 26, 2010 23:03:04 GMT -5
For those with region free players or our UK horror fans... On the 7th of June of 2010, Arrow Films will release a special edition Dvd of the George Romero classic. 2-DISC EDITION CONTAINS: • 4 sleeve art options • Double-sided fold-out poster • Exclusive Collector’s Booklet • Set of 6 original poster art postcards THIS DVD SET CONTAINS : • Theatrical Cut in 5.1 and Stereo sound plus choice of 4:3 and 16:9 presentations SPECIAL FEATURES : • Original Theatrical trailer • Wampyr: The Italian Cut with English Subs featuring legendary Goblin Score • The audio recollections of Romero, Savini, Gornick and Rubinstein • ‘Making Martin: A recounting documentary • Original TV and Radio Spots • Martin Photo Album *drool* I'm region free (both for Blu-ray and DVD, actually), so I'll bite.
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Post by andrew8798 on Apr 26, 2010 23:06:03 GMT -5
Williamson talks a little bit about Scream 4 and beyond:
And some more news on the Alien Series
Looks like there will be two prequels, not just one:
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Post by Rorschach on Apr 27, 2010 0:05:03 GMT -5
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Post by Welfare Willis on Apr 27, 2010 0:26:55 GMT -5
For those with region free players or our UK horror fans... On the 7th of June of 2010, Arrow Films will release a special edition Dvd of the George Romero classic. 2-DISC EDITION CONTAINS: • 4 sleeve art options • Double-sided fold-out poster • Exclusive Collector’s Booklet • Set of 6 original poster art postcards THIS DVD SET CONTAINS : • Theatrical Cut in 5.1 and Stereo sound plus choice of 4:3 and 16:9 presentations SPECIAL FEATURES : • Original Theatrical trailer • Wampyr: The Italian Cut with English Subs featuring legendary Goblin Score • The audio recollections of Romero, Savini, Gornick and Rubinstein • ‘Making Martin: A recounting documentary • Original TV and Radio Spots • Martin Photo Album *drool* I'm region free (both for Blu-ray and DVD, actually), so I'll bite. Wow, I'm just region free for my dvd (PS3 is the blu-ray player). It's nice to see this coming out so close to my birthday as I LOVE Martin. Makes a nice birthday present to myself you know? Speaking of Arrow Films, they also have a City of the Living Dead release coming out... The good folks at Arrow Uk will release City Of The Living Dead fully restored and uncut on 2 disc DVD and/or a single disc Blu-ray on 24th May 2010. Both the Dvd And The Blu-Ray will be REGION FREE Here's a list of all the extras that you will find on this release: Introduction to the film by star Carlo De Mejo, Audio commentary with actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Audio commentary with actress Catriona MacCall, "Carlo Of The Living Dead" (17 minutes), featurette in which De Mejo reflects upon his time working with the Italian master of splatter, "Penning Some Paura" (18 minutes), screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti shares his recollections of writing an Italian horror classic, "The Many Lives And Deaths Of Giovanni Lombaro Radice" (50 minutes), documentary about the legendary screen victim, who guides viewers through the making of his most famous gut-crunching classics including ‘House On The Edge Of The Park’, ‘Cannibal Apocalypse’, ‘Cannibal Ferox’ and, of course, ‘City of the Living Dead’, "Dame Of The Dead" (25 minutes), actress Catriona MacCall recalls playing the role of Mary in the film and reflects upon it 30 years on, Q&A session with Catriona MacCall and Giovanni Lombardo Radice (20 minutes), a retrospective filmed live at the Glasgow Film Theatre following a recent special screening of the film, "Profondo Luigi: A Colleague’s Memories Of Lucio Fulci" (17 minutes), filmed in the Profondo Rosso shop in Rome, focuses on director Luigi Cozzi (Contamination; Starcrash; The Killer Must Kill Again) who talks about his own memories of Lucio Fulci and the Italian boom in zombie horror, "Fulci’s Daughter: Memories of the Italian Gore Maestro" (27 minutes), Antonella Fulci, the daughter of the legendary filmmaker, reflects upon ‘City Of The Living Dead’, the experience of visiting her father’s sets and about his enduring legacy. Both the DVD and the Blu-ray releases of ‘City Of The Living Dead’ also come with four sleeve artwork options, double-sided poster, six postcards and a newly commissioned booklet, ‘Fulci Of The Living Dead’, written by Calum Waddell and featuring exclusive new interviews with Sergio Stivaletti (Wax Mask), Carlo De Mejo, Antonella Fulci and Ian McCulloch (Zombie Flesh Eaters) among others, providing an in depth career retrospective on the Grand Old Man of Italian Gore. Blue Underground is releasing this in the states on May 25 so it's kind of a moot point. Also if your friggin' love your Fulci, then my friends this set is for you... "] * At 500 pieces Limited Remastered Collectors Edition including figure * Exclusive Collector Figure (20cm high) made of heavy resin, made by hand and elaborately painted (weight: about 1.60 kg) * 20-page booklet with the process of developing the figure and the collector * Solid and very sturdy collector box with 3 windows and fully-plan interior * DVD with silver print * Original Trailer * Radio spots * Slideshow * Italian leader shop.dtm.at/product_info.php?products_id=40494
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Apr 27, 2010 0:46:09 GMT -5
I'm region free (both for Blu-ray and DVD, actually), so I'll bite. Wow, I'm just region free for my dvd (PS3 is the blu-ray player). It's nice to see this coming out so close to my birthday as I LOVE Martin. Makes a nice birthday present to myself you know? Speaking of Arrow Films, they also have a City of the Living Dead release coming out... The good folks at Arrow Uk will release City Of The Living Dead fully restored and uncut on 2 disc DVD and/or a single disc Blu-ray on 24th May 2010. Both the Dvd And The Blu-Ray will be REGION FREE Here's a list of all the extras that you will find on this release: Introduction to the film by star Carlo De Mejo, Audio commentary with actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Audio commentary with actress Catriona MacCall, "Carlo Of The Living Dead" (17 minutes), featurette in which De Mejo reflects upon his time working with the Italian master of splatter, "Penning Some Paura" (18 minutes), screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti shares his recollections of writing an Italian horror classic, "The Many Lives And Deaths Of Giovanni Lombaro Radice" (50 minutes), documentary about the legendary screen victim, who guides viewers through the making of his most famous gut-crunching classics including ‘House On The Edge Of The Park’, ‘Cannibal Apocalypse’, ‘Cannibal Ferox’ and, of course, ‘City of the Living Dead’, "Dame Of The Dead" (25 minutes), actress Catriona MacCall recalls playing the role of Mary in the film and reflects upon it 30 years on, Q&A session with Catriona MacCall and Giovanni Lombardo Radice (20 minutes), a retrospective filmed live at the Glasgow Film Theatre following a recent special screening of the film, "Profondo Luigi: A Colleague’s Memories Of Lucio Fulci" (17 minutes), filmed in the Profondo Rosso shop in Rome, focuses on director Luigi Cozzi (Contamination; Starcrash; The Killer Must Kill Again) who talks about his own memories of Lucio Fulci and the Italian boom in zombie horror, "Fulci’s Daughter: Memories of the Italian Gore Maestro" (27 minutes), Antonella Fulci, the daughter of the legendary filmmaker, reflects upon ‘City Of The Living Dead’, the experience of visiting her father’s sets and about his enduring legacy. Both the DVD and the Blu-ray releases of ‘City Of The Living Dead’ also come with four sleeve artwork options, double-sided poster, six postcards and a newly commissioned booklet, ‘Fulci Of The Living Dead’, written by Calum Waddell and featuring exclusive new interviews with Sergio Stivaletti (Wax Mask), Carlo De Mejo, Antonella Fulci and Ian McCulloch (Zombie Flesh Eaters) among others, providing an in depth career retrospective on the Grand Old Man of Italian Gore. Blue Underground is releasing this in the states on May 25 so it's kind of a moot point. Also if your friggin' love your Fulci, then my friends this set is for you... "] * At 500 pieces Limited Remastered Collectors Edition including figure * Exclusive Collector Figure (20cm high) made of heavy resin, made by hand and elaborately painted (weight: about 1.60 kg) * 20-page booklet with the process of developing the figure and the collector * Solid and very sturdy collector box with 3 windows and fully-plan interior * DVD with silver print * Original Trailer * Radio spots * Slideshow * Italian leader shop.dtm.at/product_info.php?products_id=40494I already pre-ordered and paid for the COTLD Blu-ray months ago, so I'm looking forward to that. And that's an awesome Fulci set is awesome, but 129 Euros? Pass
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Post by DSR on Apr 27, 2010 0:55:29 GMT -5
ABC in Australia (kind of like our BBC) has stepped up in my opinion this past week with it's late night movies, Starting on Sunday they had funnily enough Dementia 13, Last night they had Roger Corman's Bucket of Blood and later in the week Night of the Living Dead. They probably bought the same calendar I did. ;D I'm going to throw this out there, just for general purposes: How well do all of you horror fans think that this current generation of horror films is going to hold up, 30 years down the road? I mean, thirty years ago today, we were getting ORIGINAL ideas, ideas which took root and became horror icons and classics in their own rights. The closest thing we have to something like that today is, well...SAW. Outside of that, and a few small independant gems over the years... it's all remakes and ripoffs and shoddy, DTV SYFY channel crap, it seems. As much as I love 80s horror, to call what was being cranked out at the time original ideas is a bit of a stretch. For every FRIDAY THE 13TH or HALLOWEEN, there were dozens of cheapjack knockoffs like MADMAN and DON'T GO IN THE WOODS...ALONE. It was pretty much a running joke that, if there was a holiday coming up on the calendar, there was a band of untalented actors and crewmen pumping out a movie about a masked killer stalking horny teenagers on that day. Again, not to praise one era or bash another, but the 80s weren't exactly a golden age of original thought. Getting back to your question, if I can borrow a line from tvtropes.org, this feels to me like the era of the "Promoted Fanboy." While I'm aware there's company people simply trying to wring as much money as they can from old franchises, I can't help but think there's at least a feeling amongst some members of the cast and production crews on the remakes that holds some reverence for the original (their output may not feel that way, but I've always said there's a difference between theory and execution). In addition, there's been a plethora of zombie movies made these past few years, including the DAWN OF THE DEAD remake, but there's SHAUN OF THE DEAD, FIDO, ZOMBIE HONEYMOON, ZOMBIELAND, and on and on and on. And yet, the last time zombies were really a cinematic trend was the late 70s-early 80s. I imagine the people largely responsible for their resurrection (sorry, couldn't help myself) were folks that were adolescents during the first wave of zombie popularity. Not necessarily zombies, but still related are films with an 80s horror vibe, like SLITHER or JACK BROOKS MONSTER SLAYER. Some of the biggest names in horror at the moment (for better or for worse) have professed they've loved the genre pretty much all their lives: Eli Roth, Rob Zombie, James Gunn (though he's obviously a more minor name). Tarantino and Rodriguez are big beyond the horror genre, but they did make GRINDHOUSE, and Tarantino helped get THE BEYOND released on DVD. Basically, I don't know how mainstream society is going to view this era of horror (maybe, as you've said, SAW and a bunch of crappy remakes). But, in my personal estimation, this era feels like a bunch of 70s and 80s kids trying to bring back the stuff they loved when they were kids, to varying degrees of success.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Apr 27, 2010 10:13:40 GMT -5
One can only hope. That aside, IMO, this is also good news. I'm a big fan of the Ringu/Ring franchise as well (except for The Ring Two...that one was pretty, um, interesting), and the news that they're going for a semi-reboot instead of the rumored prequel seems to bode well for the series. Yes, I'll be there on opening day to see Ring 3D. As for the question about this current generation of scary flicks, there's not a whole lot I can add that DSR didn't say. Of course, my favorite trend of the past decade was the wave of Japan-style thrillers we got here in the States, but since everyone else wants to beat those away with a billy club, I'll shut up.
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Post by Jiren on Apr 27, 2010 10:22:23 GMT -5
I'm region free (both for Blu-ray and DVD, actually), so I'll bite. Wow, I'm just region free for my dvd (PS3 is the blu-ray player). It's nice to see this coming out so close to my birthday as I LOVE Martin. Makes a nice birthday present to myself you know? Speaking of Arrow Films, they also have a City of the Living Dead release coming out... The good folks at Arrow Uk will release City Of The Living Dead fully restored and uncut on 2 disc DVD and/or a single disc Blu-ray on 24th May 2010. Both the Dvd And The Blu-Ray will be REGION FREE Here's a list of all the extras that you will find on this release: Introduction to the film by star Carlo De Mejo, Audio commentary with actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Audio commentary with actress Catriona MacCall, "Carlo Of The Living Dead" (17 minutes), featurette in which De Mejo reflects upon his time working with the Italian master of splatter, "Penning Some Paura" (18 minutes), screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti shares his recollections of writing an Italian horror classic, "The Many Lives And Deaths Of Giovanni Lombaro Radice" (50 minutes), documentary about the legendary screen victim, who guides viewers through the making of his most famous gut-crunching classics including ‘House On The Edge Of The Park’, ‘Cannibal Apocalypse’, ‘Cannibal Ferox’ and, of course, ‘City of the Living Dead’, "Dame Of The Dead" (25 minutes), actress Catriona MacCall recalls playing the role of Mary in the film and reflects upon it 30 years on, Q&A session with Catriona MacCall and Giovanni Lombardo Radice (20 minutes), a retrospective filmed live at the Glasgow Film Theatre following a recent special screening of the film, "Profondo Luigi: A Colleague’s Memories Of Lucio Fulci" (17 minutes), filmed in the Profondo Rosso shop in Rome, focuses on director Luigi Cozzi (Contamination; Starcrash; The Killer Must Kill Again) who talks about his own memories of Lucio Fulci and the Italian boom in zombie horror, "Fulci’s Daughter: Memories of the Italian Gore Maestro" (27 minutes), Antonella Fulci, the daughter of the legendary filmmaker, reflects upon ‘City Of The Living Dead’, the experience of visiting her father’s sets and about his enduring legacy. Both the DVD and the Blu-ray releases of ‘City Of The Living Dead’ also come with four sleeve artwork options, double-sided poster, six postcards and a newly commissioned booklet, ‘Fulci Of The Living Dead’, written by Calum Waddell and featuring exclusive new interviews with Sergio Stivaletti (Wax Mask), Carlo De Mejo, Antonella Fulci and Ian McCulloch (Zombie Flesh Eaters) among others, providing an in depth career retrospective on the Grand Old Man of Italian Gore. Blue Underground is releasing this in the states on May 25 so it's kind of a moot point. Also if your friggin' love your Fulci, then my friends this set is for you... "] * At 500 pieces Limited Remastered Collectors Edition including figure * Exclusive Collector Figure (20cm high) made of heavy resin, made by hand and elaborately painted (weight: about 1.60 kg) * 20-page booklet with the process of developing the figure and the collector * Solid and very sturdy collector box with 3 windows and fully-plan interior * DVD with silver print * Original Trailer * Radio spots * Slideshow * Italian leader shop.dtm.at/product_info.php?products_id=40494Me want, Me want Shame I live in England and will get ASSRAPED by customs if I go for it
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Post by Rorschach on Apr 28, 2010 2:55:34 GMT -5
One can only hope. That aside, IMO, this is also good news. I'm a big fan of the Ringu/Ring franchise as well (except for The Ring Two...that one was pretty, um, interesting), and the news that they're going for a semi-reboot instead of the rumored prequel seems to bode well for the series. Yes, I'll be there on opening day to see Ring 3D. As for the question about this current generation of scary flicks, there's not a whole lot I can add that DSR didn't say. Of course, my favorite trend of the past decade was the wave of Japan-style thrillers we got here in the States, but since everyone else wants to beat those away with a billy club, I'll shut up. Oh and by the by, TR...guess which site is STILL somehow active? www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/thegrudge/index.htmlThat cool little mini game still works, too! ;D
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 28, 2010 3:01:57 GMT -5
I'm going to throw this out there, just for general purposes: How well do all of you horror fans think that this current generation of horror films is going to hold up, 30 years down the road? I mean, thirty years ago today, we were getting ORIGINAL ideas, ideas which took root and became horror icons and classics in their own rights. The closest thing we have to something like that today is, well...SAW. Outside of that, and a few small independant gems over the years... it's all remakes and ripoffs and shoddy, DTV SYFY channel crap, it seems. It's always been that way though. There have only been two true horror booms - the 1930s/early 40s and the late 70s/early 1980s. Even that period in the 30s was almost immediately struck upon by subpar sequels (Universal), shoddy indies (PRC Productions) and the like. And while we remember the 70s/80s era for stuff like Halloween and Hellraiser, it was just as littered with sequels, rip-offs and no-budget would-bes.
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Post by Rorschach on Apr 28, 2010 3:30:34 GMT -5
I'm going to throw this out there, just for general purposes: How well do all of you horror fans think that this current generation of horror films is going to hold up, 30 years down the road? I mean, thirty years ago today, we were getting ORIGINAL ideas, ideas which took root and became horror icons and classics in their own rights. The closest thing we have to something like that today is, well...SAW. Outside of that, and a few small independant gems over the years... it's all remakes and ripoffs and shoddy, DTV SYFY channel crap, it seems. It's always been that way though. There have only been two true horror booms - the 1930s/early 40s and the late 70s/early 1980s. Even that period in the 30s was almost immediately struck upon by subpar sequels (Universal), shoddy indies (PRC Productions) and the like. And while we remember the 70s/80s era for stuff like Halloween and Hellraiser, it was just as littered with sequels, rip-offs and no-budget would-bes. This is true, as is the statement made by DSR. Maybe it's just a case of me looking back with rose colored glasses...but it really does seem like, thirty years from NOW, people will look back and the only thing that will really have stood out about the 2000's is SAW and maybe HOSTEL. I think you're dead on about the eras of the "horror boom"....the birth of the Universal monsters and the birth of the "slasher" movie are both HUGE points in the history of the genre...and I think the birth of the "torture" flick will claim it's place in horror history as well. But for all that...it just seems like the 2000's is going to go down for being the "Era of the Remake" above and beyond anything else.
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Post by YellowJacketY2J on Apr 28, 2010 9:34:46 GMT -5
It's always been that way though. There have only been two true horror booms - the 1930s/early 40s and the late 70s/early 1980s. Even that period in the 30s was almost immediately struck upon by subpar sequels (Universal), shoddy indies (PRC Productions) and the like. And while we remember the 70s/80s era for stuff like Halloween and Hellraiser, it was just as littered with sequels, rip-offs and no-budget would-bes. This is true, as is the statement made by DSR. Maybe it's just a case of me looking back with rose colored glasses...but it really does seem like, thirty years from NOW, people will look back and the only thing that will really have stood out about the 2000's is SAW and maybe HOSTEL. I think you're dead on about the eras of the "horror boom"....the birth of the Universal monsters and the birth of the "slasher" movie are both HUGE points in the history of the genre...and I think the birth of the "torture" flick will claim it's place in horror history as well. But for all that...it just seems like the 2000's is going to go down for being the "Era of the Remake" above and beyond anything else. If not the "Era of the Remake", then at least the "Era of the Sci-Fi/SyFy Original". ;D Seriously, I do agree with Madison Carter. Only two decades or so have had a cultural impact on the horror genre. Considering they're among the cheapest to make, the horror genre will always be littered with remakes and rip-offs.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Apr 28, 2010 10:22:28 GMT -5
One night a few months back, I spent five hours playing that game. And dying repeatedly. Is there a way to WIN that thing, or is it the equivalent of the movies (namely, once Kayako sees you, you're f***ed no matter what)?
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Post by Doctor Tull-eus S. Venture on Apr 28, 2010 10:30:09 GMT -5
Anybody else like the Phantasm movies?
I had an itch to watch them again, couldn't find them on Youtube, so I ended up buying the first 2 brand new for less than $20 off of Amazon.com
I remember being scared to death of the Tall Man in the mirror at the end of the first one.
"BOOOOOYYYYYYYY!!!!!!"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2010 12:48:01 GMT -5
Never even heard of the Phantasm movies. Then I saw the infamous "silver sphere" sequence via some random YouTube montage video I saw. Yeah, f*** that.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Apr 28, 2010 12:52:52 GMT -5
Well, Happy Town premieres on ABC tonight, and if you need reasons to watch, it's a horror/suspense show on network television...starring WC horror hall of fame inductee Sam Neill.
I'm already there. ;D
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Post by DSR on Apr 28, 2010 12:55:21 GMT -5
Well, Happy Town premieres on ABC tonight, and if you need reasons to watch, it's a horror/suspense show on network television...starring WC horror hall of fame inductee Sam Neill. I'm already there. ;D What time is that on? Because a.) I have work tonight and b.) 10:30 I watch Ugly Americans.
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