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Forgotten Action Heroes From the Golden Age of VHS

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Marvelous Videos presents a selection of underappreciated action heroes from the golden age of VHS… There’s a reason everyone misses the 80s- it was a golden age for cinema. No seriously, not only did you have a sci-fi revolution with the likes of Terminator, Aliens, and Back to the Future, but you also had a rebirth in the […]

Brutal R-Rated Anime From the 80s and 90s

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Marvelous Videos with some brutal R-rated anime recommendations… Japanese animation or anime has been a popular genre worldwide for some a while now, but there was a time when it wasn’t so accepted by western audiences. In the 90s and especially the 80s, studios weren’t quite sure if there was a market worth localizing these […]

Awesome Foreign Superhero Movies You Have To See

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Marvelous Videos presents eight foreign superhero movies worth checking out… Superheroes are best associated with western audiences: after all, the vast majority of the great comic book companies emerged in countries like the United States, United Kingdom, and France. However, though names like Marvel, DC, and 2000 AD are recognizable among the general populace, they […]

Extreme Cinema – We Are the Flesh

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We Are the Flesh, 2016. Directed by Emiliano Rocha Minter. Starring Noé Hernández, María Evoli, Diego Gamaliel, Gabino Rodríguez, and María Cid. SYNOPSIS: A pair of homeless siblings takes shelter in an old building where a strange hermit forces them into a world of depravity. “This is not your average party” says Mariano, one of […]

Forgotten B-Horror Movies That Are Fun To Watch!

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Marvel Videos serves up some B-movie horror recommendations…. Contrary to popular belief, B-movies are not always intentional. Sometimes a filmmaker starts off with a vision in mind and is ultimately unable to bring it to fruition due to budget cuts, studio interference, or general shenanigans that happen on set. The results are mixed, with the […]

Marvelous Sci-Fi B-Movie Gems That Deserve More Love

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Marvelous Videos with a selection of sci-fi b-movie gems…. There’s not much we can say here that hasn’t already been said. Sci-fi has lent itself well to the underground B-movie scene due to the fact that almost any zany premise can technically be classified as scientific fiction of some sort. Whether it’s mad scientists, experiments […]

A Cult Cinematic Oddity – Tetsuo: The Iron Man

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Tom Jolliffe takes a look at the bizarre Japanese body horror Tetsuo: The Iron Man… Cinema is full of the bizarre. From rockets being launched into the eye of the man on the moon, to Arnold Schwarzenegger getting pregnant, the beauty of film is that it can offer up a doorway, of almost limitless imagination. […]

Insanely Scary and Disturbing Thai Horror Movies

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Marvelous Videos presents a scary selection of Thai horror films… Horror is an industry dominated by American, Korean, Japanese, and even German entries. All four contribute yearly to the increasing number of terrorizing flicks produced and distributed to the masses. But they aren’t the only ones doing it. Cue Thailand. Yes, the Thai film industry […]

Back in the Day: The Video Games We Were Playing in July 1991

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Andrew Newton on the video games we were playing back in the day… July 1991, can you believe it was 30 years ago eh? The 16 bit era was well and truly in in the UK, there were still fans of the old 8 bit computers (myself included) but more and more people were upgrading […]