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TV Round-Up
The latest episode of Groland
is covered in Defoe's
section below.
More important by far are
the following captures from
an upcoming HBO series, True
Detective.
These
are the magnificent
large breasts of
Alexandra Daddario.
While we are at it,
there are rear views
with her legs somewhat
parted. An early
frontrunner for the best
nude scene of 2014. No
clips yet, but they
can't be far behind.
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* Yellow
asterisk:
funny (maybe).
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White
asterisk:
expanded
format.
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* Blue
asterisk: not
mine.
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No
asterisk: it
probably
sucks.
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OTHER
CRAP:
Catch
the deluxe
version of
Other Crap in
real time,
with all the
bells and
whistles, here.
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The
Howling 3: The
Marsupials
(1987)
Back to
the Australian Classics.
The
Marsupials: The Howling 3
is a 1987 comedy horror
sequel in name only which
follows Jerboa Jerboa
(Imogen Annesley) who
escapes from her cult-like
family after the leader
Thylo (Max Fairchild)
makes a play for her and
decides to head to the big
city. In Sydney, she meets
Donny (Leigh Biolos), who
is working on a cheesy
horror movie about
shapeshifters directed by
Jack Citron (Frank
Thring). They fall for
each other, but there is
something a little
different about Jerboa.
Well, there's the
hairyness and the pouch.
After being exposed to
strobe light at a party,
she wakes up at the
hospital with the doctors
flummoxed by her. Oh and
Jerboa is pregnant.
Meanwhile, Professor Harry
Beckmeyer (Barry Otto) is
on the search for a
mysterious creature that
he is convinced exists and
comes across Jerboa, but
she escapes before he can
find out more about her.
Meanwhile, ballerina Olga
(Dasha Blahova) is exposed
as a werewolf during a
rehearsal and runs away to
the cult-like family.
Jerboa also heads back
there where she gives
birth to well, something
not quite human. With the
government on the tail of
these creatures, the
professor falls for Olga
and they settle together
while Donny finds Jerboa
and after escaping the
government's clutches,
they decide to start a new
life in America with
child.
The Howling 3 is well,
impossible to sum up in a
sentence. It's a bizarre,
off-beat movie that unlike
it's predecessors, is not
really a horror movie at
all. It's been summed up
as camp, but it really
isn't that camp even with
the presence of Frank
Thring and Barry Humphries
(as Dame Edna). The second
half of the movie is
surprisingly earnest and
bafflingly apes the ending
of Bliss (another Barry
Otto movie where he goes
back to nature). It is
also a pro-werewolf movie,
even to the point where
werewolves are eventually
accepted as the same as
humans. Well, they aren't
really werewolves, but
derivative of the possibly
extinct thylacine aka
Tasmanian tiger (which was
also the fascination of
the recent movies Dying
Breed and The Hunter).
This is the first time
I've watched this movie in
full and I didn't think it
would leave me baffled
like it did. The Howling 3
is not a great movie, it's
very cheesy at times, but
it's definitely a fun and
highly watchable movie.
Oh,
and Imogen Annesley is
just so pretty, this was
only her second movie
after Playing Beatie Bow.
Shame her career never
took off like others of
the time did. One of these
days, that mini-series
Flair will turn up where
Imogen had her best
nudity. How about a late
night screening on one of
your multi-channels,
Channel 7?
Bizarrely,
The Howling 3 has turned
up on Bluray in the US
(along with Howling 5
& 6; where's 4?), but
it's possibly the
shittiest Bluray I've ever
seen and have spent far
too long trying to fix the
video. Also, it's in
fullscreen when the DVD is
in widescreen and has a
director's commentary from
the always enjoyable
Philippe Mora (Mad Dog
Morgan, The Return of
Captain Invincible and the
Howling 2).
Annesley
Imogen
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