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Scotland overthe n'ext lortnlght. For i even though his brain has rotted away.
programme times see individual 0n the same level, the military
cinema listings. personnel are seen as boorish, stupid, U - Universal, suitable for all ages. sexist gunireaks and the scientists as, PG - Parental Guidance suggested as by and large, devoid at any scrupies in
some scenes may be unsuitable tor the pursuit oi their work. Only the
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18 - No-one under the age at 18 escape the iinai (literally) admitted. gut-wrenching assault bythe zombies.
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O A.K. (15) (Chris Marker. France. 1985) 74 mins. Chris Marker‘s film on Akira Kurosawa shooting Run is both a discovery of the Japanese master‘s obsessions and a treasury of perceptive comments on the film-making process itself. Edinburgh; EUFS
o Ake and His World (Allan Edwall. Sweden. 1984) Martin Lindstrom.
Loa Falkman. 99 mins. ldyllic v ' V. , . _ .4,» _. ._ unbelievable scenes at entrail ripping recreation of a Swedish childhood v Day at the Dead (18) (George A. 3 about the zombie apocalypse in the 3'" “my '0 b? w't"95§ed' .
and family life. Part of the Nordic Romero, US, 1985) Lori Cardllle, Terry i lirst place, until the huge steel doors orehounqs V"! be "mng me" season. Edinburgh; Filmhouse Alexander, Joseph Pilato. 100 mins. In ? separating them irom the undead depraved "me “93' . h R
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is cajoled into joining a marine zombies assailing a huge shopping i two distinct aspects oi the director's 30:38 t:tutwou dn t eoa he to splo a YCSCUC miSSion ‘0 the Planct U3 436~ mall; and "0W "'8 third in the trilogy E personality: he is at once an ultrabiack a 83 re on America. "H gm": ear mm“ for the original alicn' A lakes "3 "Merllfound t0 3 Florida ! social commentator and satirist, and at age’ " they mund one '" the"
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: nerve-shattering sequel that not only bunker where the last people truly alive the same time a gleefully black matches its PFCdCCCSSOF: but Canni'y “Old out against the "Vlng dead Who humorist much inlluenced by the sort oi SUI P115565 i’ Glasgow: ClnCm'd- Sakm- outnumberihem by at least 400,000 to horror comics which American parents
i Edinburgh; Domionion. Lothian; one. A representative group at the once tried to have banned and which , . , Regal. Strathclyde; Kelburne. despotic military, deranged scientist, termed the backdmp to, his earlier, 1'07”:'ffhzeggra'aéemz'e"'“And RIaIIO, ‘ . and benumbed neutrals spend much at lacklustre Stephen King compendium “" is": M , no" ' mt°u1§e)'
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