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0465 – The Handmaiden / Ah-ga-ssi (2016)

spacetime coordinates:  1930s South Korea / Japan

The Handmaiden (Hangul아가씨RRAgassilit. ”Lady”) is a 2016 South Korean erotic psychological thriller film directed by Park Chan-wook and starring Kim Min-heeKim Tae-riHa Jung-woo and Cho Jin-woong.  It is inspired from the novel Fingersmith by Welsh writer Sarah Waters, with the setting changed from Victorian era Britain to Korea under Japanese colonial rule.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4016934/

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403 – Crimson Peak (2015)

spacetime coordinates: 1901 New York (state) // Cumbria

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Crimson Peak is a 2015 American gothic romance film directed, co-produced and co-written by Guillermo del Toro, co-produced by Callum Greene, Jon Jashni and Thomas Tull and co-written by Matthew Robbins. It stars Mia WasikowskaTom HiddlestonJessica ChastainCharlie Hunnam and Jim Beaver.

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2554274/

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0398 – office horror

Mayhem (2017)

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Mayhem is a 2017 American action horror comedy film directed by Joe Lynch.  Rotten Tomatoes‘s critical consensus reads, “Mayhem delivers stylish violence by the bloody bucketful — and grounds all the titular chaos in sharp humor and surprisingly effective real-world economic angst”

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Melanie Cross: My mother used to say that no one raindrop ever thought it caused the flood. I now know what she meant by that.


Office Uprising (2018)

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An employee at a weapons factory discovers that an energy drink turns his co-workers into zombies

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Bloodsucking Bastards (2015)

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Bloodsucking Bastards is a 2015 American comedy horror film directed by Brian James O’Connell, written by Ryan Mitts and Dr. God, O’Connell’s comedy group.

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387 – I Served the King of England (2006)

spacetime coordinates: Czechoslovakia, 1963 >> 1930’s – 1940’s  Prague

I Served the King of England (Czech: Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále) is a 2006 comedy film written and directed by Czech New Wave master Jiří Menzel, based on the novel I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal. It is Menzel’s sixth adaptation of the works of Hrabal for film.

“A look at the glamorous life at an old-world Prague hotel.”

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284363/

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0385 – Aachi & Ssipak (2006)

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Aachi & Ssipak is a 2006 animated South Korean film directed by Jo Beom-jin and featuring the voices of Ryoo Seung-bumIm Chang-jung, and Hyun Young.

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Sometime in the future, mankind has depleted all energy and fuel sources, however they have somehow engineered a way to use human excrement as fuel. To reward production, the government hands out extremely addictive, popsicle-like “Juicybars” to citizens,which in turn also makes them constipated. Aachi and Ssipak are street hoodlums who struggle to survive by trading black market Juicybars. Through a chain of events involving their porn-director acquaintance Jimmy the Freak, they meet a porn star named Beautiful, who gets a pink ring inside her butt which makes her defecations are rewarded by exceptional quantities of Juicybars. For that reason, Beautiful is also wanted by the violent blue mutants known as the Diaper Gang (led by the Diaper King), the police (most notably the cyborg police officer Geko), and others.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0972542/