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less-juvenile cinema and I will also always associate with that glorious period of peace and simplicity that ended with September 2001.
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whole-heartedly recommend. One other thing that I think this movie is responsible for my on-again-off-again attempts at writing. I was so infatuated with this movie that the first long-form thing I can remember ever writing myself was a short novella in middle school that was
but all do their jobs ably. The setting is a bizarre fantasy/horror/sci-fi thing thousands of years in the future that allows for an interesting blend of visual elements. In other words, the parts of pretty generic but come together to make a really fun action movie that I
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though the titular character of the film is the only one that shows any evidence of his unique artstyle. The story is very simple (a mysterious vampire hunter comes to tow nand must defeat the resident powerful vampire lord in order to save a young woman) but is told in a very
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could be) was absolutely magical. I had never seen anything like them, particularly "Vampire Hunter D" and it started what would would be a decade-long obsession with going to video stores to rent new anime movies to watch. Nowadays I don't watch nearly as much anime as I used
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out for tv the experience was reveletory. I had heard from friends at school and church about anime before and had seen various dubbed kiddie movies on VHS that came from Japan, but seeing anime finally in it's truest form (or at least as true as dubbed and edited versions
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was happening, but one of the cable stations was playing a late-night animated movie marathon made up of "Heavy Metal," "Robot Carnival," and "Vamprie Hunter D." I had never seen any of these movies. Despite the fact that most of the violence and all of the nudity was edited
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back by a long umbical hallway. During this particular trip there were no other people staying at the place and so while my parents and other brothers slept in one end of of it I decided I wanted to stay in the back half since there was a loft bedroom that I thought was cool.
Day 17 - a Film That Changed My Life
Vampire Hunter D (1985)
During the summer between 6th and 7th grades my family stayed in a beach house on the Oregon coast which belonged to longtime friends. The house was actually more of a duplex with the front portion connected to the
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