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"The Flying Man" superhero horror film hybrid

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"The Flying Man" superhero horror film hybrid 'The Flying Man' by Marcus Alqueres Superheroes in society have been deconstructed since the 80's with Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's iconic, The Watchmen.  Troubling questions pop up when a creature with fantastic power has a loose or murky moral center is dispensing 'justice' in society.  Taken away from the moralistic eras of the past, a superhero in modern times could be considered a horror element to contemporary audiences. What if an alien with fantastic powers showed up and silently dispensed justice with no remorse?  The moral murkiness of 'might makes right' which is now a part of the contemporary super hero tale in comic books.  It was only a matter of time that the this moral murkiness could lead into a superhero/horror which is the subject of the short film by special effects artist Marcus Alqueres called 'The Flying Man' Boasting cool sp

Monster a go go

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Monster a go go Monster a-go go Monster a go go is a strange film with a strange history.  Pioneer indie filmmaker and gore guru, Herschell Gordon Lewis acquired a partially finished film from Bill Rebane and finished it so he could have a double bill film to show theaters.  In that era of film distribution, you increased your chance of actually getting paid by theater owners if both films were under your name.  The film concerns an astronaut struck by mysterious radiation.  Since Lewis was filming scenes years after the partially finished film, one actor played his previous character's 'brother' as well as the iconic droning narration(in our era of high end sound equipment and EFX would not be a problem, but in the earlier era of indies, you could cover huge gaps in sound by music and/or narration). 10 foot tall monster astronaut from a tiny cardboard capsule!   The film is very disjointed in structure, and the ending is somewhat off kilter.  The radioac