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ALL ARTICLES BY Troy Riser
It's AliveDVD Review - Nov 8, 2009
It's Alive... Because It's In The Script

Masters of Horror: Joe Dante - HomecomingDVD Review - Jul 13, 2006
Dead soldiers come back to protest an unjust war. Hilarity ensues.

Bruce Campbell: On Making Love, Books, and MoviesInterview - Nov 28, 2005
It's easy to be a Bruce Campbell fan. One gets the sense that he is what he appears to be: capable, hardworking, smart, with a keen sense of his strengths and limitations.

Make Love The Bruce Campbell Way: The Audio VersionBook Review - Nov 28, 2005
"You read the book, now hear the movie!"

Vincenzo Natali: Turtles All The Way DownInterview - Oct 21, 2005
Director Vincenzo Natali talks about the forthcoming DVD release of his film, "Nothing"

NothingDVD Review - Sep 22, 2005
Ordinarily, one can’t watch a Canadian film without entering the land of self-referential metafiction at some point, but usually that point is somewhere after the opening credits and before the end.

Sleepaway CampDVD Review - Aug 16, 2005
I came of age in the late Seventies and early Eighties, so I was looking for something evocative of the time: bad hair, bad fashion, rampant dope smoking, non-lethal casual sex, cheap gasoline, and the death of disco.

 
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