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269. Smolensk (-#35)

Posted on January 16, 2022 by Darren

Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT.

So this week, Antoni Krauze’s Smolensk.

After a horrific plane accident wipes out a significant portion of the Polish political class, people begin to question the official narrative. Nina is a journalist who initially sets out to confirm the official story, but who begins to spot gaps and lacunas, all of which point to something a little more sinister.

At time of recording, it was ranked 35th on the list of the worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

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Enjoy! Polish Horror Posters!

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Darren

I know it’s a day late, but we don’t want to be thinking about that other upcoming holiday yet, do we? Vulture recently published a collection of strange horror posters from Poland, and I thought they were interesting enough to share. There’s the weird, the abstract, the surreal and occasionally the wonderful on display here. Take a look below. Click to enlarge some of them.