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399,641 | 1,391,795 | 220,506 | 2 | Give it a rest , Moustapha Akkad ! | After FINALLY , FINALLY dispatching his feisty sister Laurie Strode ( Jamie Lee Curtis , in an obligatory cameo role ) , Michael Myers ( Brad Loree ) hacks and slashes his way through the idiots who have won an opportunity to spend the night in his childhood home . Their whole experience - and eventual slaughter - is b... |
398,637 | 1,391,795 | 110,189 | 2 | Unless you're a fan of these guys , DON'T WATCH . | Real-life comics Johnny Brennan and Kamal ( Ahmed ) , basically playing themselves , are two worthless , lazy chums who seemingly spend all their time making crank phone calls . They get in trouble when they get mixed up with mobsters Lazzaro ( Alan Arkin ) , Tony ( Vincent " Big Py " Pastore ) , and their crew . This ... |
399,540 | 1,391,795 | 295,289 | 3 | Tiresome and predictable . | Oh-so-familiar comedy story about low-key nice-guy Paul ( Jason Lee ) , who after the night of his bachelor party , wakes up in bed with Becky ( Julia Stiles ) , an attractive blonde he met just the night before . After lying about it to his fiancée Karen ( Selma Blair ) , he's forced to tell more and more lies to cove... |
399,542 | 1,391,795 | 91,344 | 3 | King Kong lives . . . and the audience dies of boredom . | Incredibly , foolishly silly sequel to the 1976 version of " King Kong " in which the colossal gorilla is being kept barely alive after plummeting from the World Trade Center in the previous movie . It's determined that Kong needs a transfusion , and wouldn't you know it , wise-guy adventurer / opportunist Hank Mitchel... |
399,009 | 1,391,795 | 116,671 | 3 | I only axed you for a smoke ! | Jack Frost ( Scott MacDonald ) is a prolific serial killer being transported to the electric chair on a snowy night when he comes into contact with a specially designed acid and has his DNA fused into a fall of snow . . . so he dies but comes back as an ugly killer snowman . Confusing this movie with the 1998 Michael K... |
399,608 | 1,391,795 | 338,325 | 3 | The cameos are amusing , but there's not much to recommend here . | Supposed " nice " guy Bo Laramie ( Cole Hauser , in his first star turn ) is the hot new action star of the moment ; as his first big film vehicle is opening , he is hounded by repellent , monstrous celebrity photographers led by Tom Sizemore ( in an admittedly great " bad guy " performance ) who endanger the lives of ... |
399,318 | 1,391,795 | 77,834 | 3 | Not worth a second viewing ! | Billy Duncan ( Kim Milford ) finds an alien ray gun in the desert and becomes addicted to using it - and the more he uses it , the more he mutates into a minor version of the Hulk , and he lays waste to virtually an entire town . Silly silly SILLY ! This goofy " cult classic " has no point to it at all ; it has lots of... |
399,206 | 1,391,795 | 353,625 | 3 | Another B movie that's safe to pass over . . . | Routine , predictable , you-know-what's-gonna-happen " nature strikes back " schlock with C . Thomas Howell ( ya gotta feel bad for him , being reduced to participating in this kind of thing ) playing a rural sheriff being forced to contend with an enormous swarm of deadly killer bees . Well , I guess we get what we ex... |
398,640 | 1,391,795 | 171,363 | 3 | These people have some nerve thinking they made a scary film ! | Second film version of Shirley Jackson's memorable nail-biter novel in which researcher Dr . David Marrow ( Liam Neeson ) lures a trio of insomniacs to an enormous and opulent mansion under false pretenses in order to study their reactions to their environment . Before long , all matter of " scary " occurrences are hap... |
398,603 | 1,391,795 | 200,469 | 3 | Not really worth your time . | Hordes of genetically enhanced killer bats lay siege to a rural Texas area . Bat lover / scientist Sheila Casper ( Dina Meyer of " Starship Troopers " ) and local sheriff Emmett Kimsey ( Lou Diamond Phillips ) , with the help of her assistant Jimmy ( Leon ) work to save the day . That's all that this movie has in the w... |
398,875 | 1,391,795 | 192,731 | 3 | I've Forgotten It Already . | Yet another gratuitous horror sequel ; this one is set at a film school with various students engaging in cutthroat competition for the Hitchcock award . Is the mad slasher chopping up various victims out to win this award ? Could be . . . This movie does not deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as the name Hitch... |
399,489 | 1,391,795 | 83,033 | 3 | Not as much fun as I would have liked . | A lame , witless , utterly flat horror movie parody in which a silly family move into an inherited house that has been cursed for ages ; the son picks up an old book , " The Book of Evil " , and , not knowing any better , opens it and thereby unleashes an assortment of monsters on the house ; two ' Addams Family ' / ' ... |
399,598 | 1,391,795 | 284,490 | 3 | Three Out Of Ten . | Robert De Niro plays a well-worn cliche : a loose-cannon , reckless cop who ( surprise ! ) gets punished by his superior ( for shooting at a TV camera ) and ordered to appear on a new reality-based TV cop series . The main thorn in his side is the beat cop ( and wannabe actor ) , played by Eddie Murphy , who is selecte... |
399,503 | 1,391,795 | 78,767 | 3 | The best thing that I can say about it is that it's a nice house . | Based on a book by Jay Anson , itself inspired by a supposedly true story - and I for one would like to stress the word supposedly . Thirty-something couple with three children ( hers from a previous union ) move into a Long Island riverside house where horrific shotgun murders took place . It doesn't take long for biz... |
399,511 | 1,391,795 | 78,384 | 3 | I think this one goes in bargain bins for a reason . | One of veteran comedy actor Tim Conway's vehicles of the late seventies and early eighties , which pairs him with corpulent character actor Chuck McCann . They play two hopeless bozos - cops , no less - who perform an undercover operation for the governor by posing as new prisoners at a Southern institution so that the... |
399,385 | 1,391,795 | 309,530 | 3 | It was a hard film for me to easily enjoy . . . | Parody of and tribute to Rock Hudson / Doris Day romantic / sex comedies from the 1960's ; this movie tells the story of a celebrated feminist author ( Renee Zellweger ) and the womanizing , superstar columnist ( Ewan McGregor ) who is determined to prove that she is a phony . Well , it's a triumph of 1960's-style prod... |
399,319 | 1,391,795 | 89,274 | 3 | One of the characters , upon seeing a " Welcum " sign : " Why don't I feel welcome ? " | A gaggle of kids - standard slasher movie characters , all of them - who are associates of one of the first film's survivors , go to the desert to race their bikes and test their experimental fuel - and are menaced by the surviving mutant ( Michael Berryman ) from the first film , as well as a new ugly thug , " The Rea... |
399,658 | 1,391,795 | 106,449 | 3 | Even worse than " Prince of Darkness " , this is the worst thing Carpenter's ever done . | Fatally dull horror anthology with " Tales From the Crypt " aspirations in which film-maker John Carpenter , playing a Crypt Keeper-type coroner host , tells three stories . 1 . " The Gas Station " : Alex Datcher plays a young woman who has an eventful , spooky first night at her new job as a graveyard shift gas statio... |
398,695 | 1,391,795 | 106,453 | 3 | Pretty Bad , Folks . | Rebecca Carlson ( Madonna ) is picked up by the cops and prosecuted for murdering her wealthy lover in order to get a portion of his money . The gimmick in this case is that she used her own body to kill him - their sex was so kinky that it put too great a strain on his already weak heart . Frank Dulaney ( Willem Dafoe... |
399,441 | 1,391,795 | 107,665 | 3 | You're disgusting , Dan . I like that in a person . | This movie is based on a Stephen King novel in which mysterious new shopkeeper Leland Gaunt ( Max Von Sydow ) offers each citizen of Castle Rock the item he or she most desires - but there is a heavy price to be paid for these transactions . Local sheriff Alan Pangborn ( Ed Harris ) is soon forced to deal with a variet... |
398,961 | 1,391,795 | 82,806 | 3 | At least you get to see a victim yanked into a dumpster . | A killer goes on a spree during New Year's Eve celebrations , claiming a victim each time the clock strikes midnight in each time zone , directing all of his rage at a popular DJ hosting a night-long concert in L . A . Uninspired slasher movie , made with little to no talent or imagination , with zero scares , awful mu... |
399,013 | 1,391,795 | 82,763 | 3 | This film has some highlights , but overall I think it's a misfire . | Chevy Chase plays Max Fiedler , an air traffic controller with an unenviable existence who develops telekinetic powers after being doused with nuclear waste . He sets about using his powers for purely selfish gain , namely winning back his ex-girlfriend Patti D'Arbanville . It might be of interest an an early 1980's Ch... |
399,180 | 1,391,795 | 99,697 | 3 | Best Be Punchin ' Out Your Timecard . . . | Based on a short story by Stephen King . Routine , unmemorable horror entry in which the workers at a cotton mill in rural Maine are selected to clean out the mill's lower levels . The main problem is that the mill has an enormous rat problem . . . and an even uglier menace living deep underneath the earth . For starte... |
399,387 | 1,391,795 | 95,626 | 4 | Another film from the Charles Bronson-J . Lee Thompson-Cannon Group assembly line . | Charles Bronson plays Denver newspaper reporter Garret Smith , who covers the story of the mind-boggling , evil murder of a whole Mormon family in the Colorado mountains . As the events unfold , Garret learns that the story involves two feuding brothers ( Jeff Corey , John Ireland ) AND a powerful water company . Watch... |
399,905 | 1,391,795 | 156,413 | 4 | All my life I've lived in Winnipeg ; never been inside this theater . . . | A stereotypically disparate group of high school students - all fitting into standardized roles ( the nerd , the jock , the bh , the best friend , etc . ) take their drama class to an old run-down theater ( the mother of one of the girls was an opera star who was murdered in one of that same theater's dressing rooms ) ... |
398,994 | 1,391,795 | 288,477 | 4 | I was not too impressed with " Ghost Ship " . | Modern-day salvage / tugboat crew finds European ocean liner that has been adrift for four decades and when they get on board they are bombarded with a myriad of visions tied to the tragedy that befell the boat in 1962 . Below-average " horror " film is uninteresting and boringly handled . These film-makers seem to hav... |
398,753 | 1,391,795 | 106,753 | 4 | What a mess ! | Drew Barrymore plays young Holly Gooding , who moves in with aspiring hack screenwriter Patrick Highsmith ( George Newbern ) and completely disrupts his life by claiming that her " doppelganger " , or evil twin , is out to kill her and her family . This silly horror film is kind of hard to take seriously , even if the ... |
399,086 | 1,391,795 | 99,165 | 4 | I can't say I like it but I don't exactly despise it either . | Regarded by many critics as one of the biggest stinkers of all time ( certainly the biggest stinker of director Brian De Palma's career ) . Sherman McCoy ( Tom Hanks ) is a smug rich boy whose life goes to pieces when he and his lover Maria Ruskin ( Melanie Griffith ) are involved in a hit-and-run . His story is chroni... |
399,217 | 1,391,795 | 97,781 | 4 | Your time could be better spent than watching this . | Legendary B producer and director Roger Corman has always been one to capitalize on mainstream successes . For " Jaws " , he had " Piranha " , and for " Jurassic Park " , he had " Carnosaur " . In 1989 , when underwater monster movies were a recurring idea ( there was also " The Abyss " , " Leviathan " , and " DeepStar... |
399,761 | 1,391,795 | 160,484 | 4 | This time , Satan claims his victims by boring them to death . . . | Maya Larkin ( Winona Ryder ) , a survivor of a childhood exorcism , become convinced , along with her associates Deacon Townsend ( Elias Koteas ) and Father Lareaux ( John Hurt , who is too good for the likes of this stuff ) , that non-religious true crime author Peter Kelson ( Ben Chaplin , doing a good American accen... |
399,384 | 1,391,795 | 91,575 | 4 | LeBrun's Law says don't watch . . . | Run-of-the-mill , less than energetic cop vs . psycho movie in which Jack Murphy ( Charles Bronson ) is a grumpy , alcoholic police detective who is framed for the murder of a few people , including his stripper ex-wife . The culprit is Joan Freeman ( Carrie Snodgress ) , a disturbed creep who is motivated by that old ... |
398,941 | 1,391,795 | 105,466 | 4 | New To Our Fall Schedule : " No Survivors . " | TV veteran John Ritter plays Roy Knable , a pathetic couch potato who is easily duped into buying an extravagant new system by the mysterious Mr . Spike ( Jeffrey Jones ) . The catch is that Roy and wife Helen ( Pam Dawber ) are sucked into this system and made to participate in the shows . They have 24 hours to get ba... |
399,538 | 1,391,795 | 120,741 | 4 | I Can Refuse It . . . And I Will . | In the tradition of the " Hot Shots ! " and the " Airplane ! " movies , this is a spoof of mobster movies , " The Godfather " and " Casino " in particular ; Anthony Cortino ( Jay Mohr ) is selected by his clumsy father Vincenzo ( Lloyd Bridges ) to take over the family business . I'm very sorry to say that I was disapp... |
399,420 | 1,391,795 | 89,652 | 4 | When you're cool , the sun shines on you 24 hours a day . | Mike Harlan ( John Stockwell , in his first top-billed role ) is a laid-back car junkie who doesn't seem to care about anything else BUT cars . He is handed down an ultimatum by his science teacher , Bob Roberts ( Dennis Hopper ) : hand in a science project or get flunked . Mike takes what he thinks will be the easy wa... |
399,894 | 1,391,795 | 86,014 | 4 | Might have been " too intense " for TV , but not for this viewer . | Disappointing horror anthology which was originally supposed to be shown on television but got sent to theaters instead . The writing ( parts one to three were written by Christopher Crowe , part four by Jeffrey Bloom ) is largely uninspired . Director Joseph Sargent , a capable veteran of both film and TV ( a recent c... |
399,777 | 1,391,795 | 120,610 | 4 | Isn't That Central Concept Rather Corny ? | Jack Crews ( Patrick Swayze ) is forbidden to drive a truck after serving two years in prison for vehicular manslaughter . His boss ( Graham Beckel ) is conveniently willing to overlook this so he can have Jack drive a rig full of ill-gotten automatic weapons ; Jack doesn't want to get involved but when he's threatened... |
399,495 | 1,391,795 | 116,225 | 4 | Not Good Enough . | Set 16 years after the events of " Escape From New York " , this sequel finds war hero turned outlaw " Snake " Plissken ( Kurt Russell ) in the same situation as the original : cops offer to expunge his record ( obviously he went right back to his criminal ways after his New York mission ) if he will undertake a danger... |
398,639 | 1,391,795 | 98,084 | 4 | Sometimes dead is better . | Stephen King adaptation ( scripted by King himself ) in which a young family , newcomers to rural Maine , find out about the pet cemetery close to their home . The father ( Dale Midkiff ) then finds out about the Micmac burial ground beyond the pet cemetery that has powers of resurrection - only of course anything buri... |
398,942 | 1,391,795 | 83,133 | 4 | I'd like to kill the kid with the gum ! | In the early 80's slasher movies had already become so popular that comedic film-makers were making fun of them . This one , about a heavy-breathing sicko running amok at a high school , was written and directed by Mickey Rose , whose credits include a few Woody Allen movies and a few TV series . It starts out pretty f... |
399,642 | 1,391,795 | 113,253 | 4 | Here we go again . . . | Obviously set years after " Halloween 5 " , Michael Myers ( George P . Wilbur ) pursues his now-teenaged niece Jamie ( J . C . Brandy ) , who has escaped from something that looks like a dungeon with her new baby boy . Soon enough , he's started yet another killing spree . . . Honestly , the " Friday the 13th " sequels... |
399,484 | 1,391,795 | 87,336 | 4 | I didn't really care for this one too much . . . | Less-than-thrilling , routine slasher entry about demented sadist who butchers the mascot of a college basketball team and uses the costume as a disguise while reducing the amount of student bodies on campus with home made " claws " , while a night-long scavenger hunt takes place . A warning to the unfamiliar : you hav... |
399,224 | 1,391,795 | 89,173 | 4 | Lowest Point in the Series . | Tommy Jarvis , the preteen hero of the previous entry , is now a mentally disturbed teenager who ends up transferred to a halfway house located deep in the woods . Shortly after he arrives , one patient savagely attacks another , and soon after that , a new killing spree officially begins . Formulaic and routine slashe... |
399,383 | 1,391,795 | 89,114 | 4 | Not as good as Joe Dante's other films . | Explorers tells the story of young science-fiction buff Ben ( Ethan Hawke ) who has a vision in his dream that he imparts to his whiz-kid friend Wolfgang ( River Phoenix ) . Wolfgang uses his own technical wizardry to bring this vision to life and together with a third friend Darren ( Jason Presson ) they design a cr... |
399,358 | 1,391,795 | 120,179 | 4 | Die Hard On The " Titanic " - Oh , Please ! | I mean , seriously , what that how this silly sequel to the 1994 action hit " Speed " was pitched to Twentieth Century Fox ? Annie Porter ( Sandra Bullock ) and Alex Shaw ( Jason Patric ) go on a Caribbean cruise and have to contend with madman Geiger ( Willem Dafoe ) , who's disgruntled and bitter and has taken contro... |
399,307 | 1,391,795 | 89,308 | 4 | A curiosity but no more than that . | In this silly sequel to one of the great modern werewolf films , Ben White ( Reb Brown ) is the brother of Karen White , Dee Wallace's ill-fated character from the original film . He hooks up with Jenny Templeton ( Annie McEnroe ) , an associate of Karen's , as well as " occult investigator " Stefan Crosscoe ( a slummi... |
398,601 | 1,391,795 | 90,327 | 4 | Disappointing . | Some young adults are having a party and one of them , played by soap veteran Stephen Nichols , announces that he uses a Ouija board on a regular basis , communicating with the spirit of a boy who died at 10 thirty years ago . After this , Nichols ' ex-girlfriend Tawny Kitaen , who's now involved with house builder Tod... |
398,725 | 1,391,795 | 82,580 | 4 | Uninspired combination of creature feature and religious horror . | Below average horror movie in which a variety of snakes descend on a small town , inflicting fatal bites on various hapless citizens , just in time for the opening of a dog track . Irreverent Father Tom Farrow ( the always delightful Fritz Weaver ) comes to believe that the king cobra mobilizing all of these creatures ... |
399,891 | 1,391,795 | 73,697 | 4 | Not a complete waste of time , but doesn't measure up to Pam's classics . | Below average blaxpoitation action / melodrama in which the lovely Ms . Grier plays a private eye who comes to the aid of her father ( Rudy Challenger ) and his partner ( Austin Stoker of the original " Assault on Precinct 13 " ) whose loan business is being threatened . I'll be frank - I agree with the few other user ... |
399,878 | 1,391,795 | 76,809 | 4 | You're better off re-watching the giant squid attack in " 20 , 000 Leagues Under the Sea " . | Tentacles is a very silly and cheesy monster movie about an enormous octopus that claims an assortment of dumb victims for approximately 100 minutes of screen time . Marine expert Bill Gleeson ( Bo Hopkins ) and his associate Mike ( Alan Boyd ) take it upon themselves to try to destroy the monster after it has wreake... |
399,328 | 1,391,795 | 82,537 | 4 | If you could only see what's going on in this film half the time , it might have worked out . | The setup and plot for this routine Canadian made horror artifact from the early 1980's are pure cliché : a troupe of not-too-bright kids go for a boating trip , and thanks to the monumental foolishness of the real prick of the bunch , they are stranded on an island lake where they get violently murdered one at a time ... |
398,708 | 1,391,795 | 278,295 | 4 | Let's see , where do I begin . . . | Below average action comedy ; Ice Cube ( who also co-wrote ) plays Bucum , a bounty hunter who hates his job and hopes to start a business as a private detective . He makes it his personal mission to deliver small-time criminal Reggie ( Mike Epps ) back to prison , and while this is going on , there are plot threads in... |
399,812 | 1,391,795 | 106,455 | 4 | So-so crime thriller is not memorable at all . | Based on the novel " Money Men " by Gerald Petievich , this movie tells the story of Treasury agent Jimmy Mercer ( Wesley Snipes ) who is determined to find the criminals who murdered a fellow agent in a sting gone bad . The mastermind is " Red " Diamond ( Dennis Hopper ) , a pathetic , aging con artist , with a trigge... |
399,462 | 1,391,795 | 77,238 | 4 | Disappointing effort from a proved comedy talent . | Ever lovable Tim Conway plays Vernon Praiseworthy , a perpetual screw-up who can't seem to hold on to a job . Then he receives news that floors him : he's the last living relative ( a nephew ) of a former hobo turned billionaire , Mr . Trayne ( a delightful Will Geer ) . Trayne is ready to leave his fortune and busines... |
399,562 | 1,391,795 | 82,910 | 4 | Yeah , sure , when piranha fly . . . | In a plot almost identical to the first " Piranha " film of 1978 , this sequel tells the story of a similar , misguided plot to create a new monster fish ( piranha mated with grunions ) , which can actually fly as well as swim . Their presence is discovered , and the maverick heroes ( diving instructor Tricia O'Neil , ... |
399,680 | 1,391,795 | 71,212 | 4 | Disappointing . | Juliet Mills is happy housewife Jessica , married to a record company executive and mother to two ( very annoying ) children . However , her third pregnancy comes with a hitch : Satan has laid claim to this child , and instructed one of his worshipers , Dimitri ( Richard Johnson ) , also an old flame of Jessica's , tha... |
398,716 | 1,391,795 | 107,659 | 4 | Falls below expectations . | National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 is a " Naked Gun " / " Hot Shots ! " style spoof of buddy-cop / action movies with lots of verbal and visual jokes . Veteran detective Wes Luger ( Samuel L . Jackson ) , a stable family man , is partnered with off-the-wall , crazed colleague Jack Colt ( Emilio Estevez ) and they inv... |
399,881 | 1,391,795 | 48,991 | 4 | Not what I expected , or was hoping for . | Cheap 1950's sci-fi about malevolent alien entity that takes root in the desert and manipulates the minds of animals and humans in an attempt at domination . A small farming family is all that stands between it and its goal . The poster makes this look like a different kind of film , like a goofy monster ( albeit a nea... |
399,502 | 1,391,795 | 101,917 | 4 | Every town has an Elm Street . . . HA HA HA HA ! | Sixth escapade for Freddy Krueger in which he has finally managed to kill off virtually every youth in Springwood ; now he wants to broaden his horizons and ( SPOILER ) needs a family member in order to do it . A failure as a horror movie because it simply ain't scary at all . Works better as a dark , macabre black com... |
399,092 | 1,391,795 | 79,626 | 4 | Uninspired man vs . beast tale . | Macho jack of all trades Axel McGregor ( Donald Pleasence ) whose past gigs have included test pilot , race car driver , and writer , hunts a lethal black leopard in the jungles of Thailand . When the beast gets the drop on him , he becomes despondent over his fear , so when it actually gets captured , he lets it go ju... |
399,250 | 1,391,795 | 61,217 | 5 | As unintentionally funny as they come . | Demented dork scientist Keith Ritchie ( Anthony Houston ) starts communicating with Venusian monster Zontar and facilitates Zontars ' arrival on Earth . Zontar , a hilariously unconvincing batlike creature , hides out in a cave and sends out " funny little birds " to implant control devices on hapless humans , all as p... |
398,858 | 1,391,795 | 85,603 | 5 | I wouldn't call it a " debacle " , but it's hardly Candys ' finest hour . | John Bourgignon ( John Candy ) is a limousine service owner ( with his friend Chick ( Joe Flaherty ) ) and driver who's a drummer in his off time . He's engaged to Nancy ( future ' Wonder Years ' hottie mom Alley Mills ) , the daughter of uptight congressman Ed Reese ( Pat Hingle ) . Reese is currently having it out wi... |
398,948 | 1,391,795 | 264,395 | 5 | This Is Basically Confusing . | Drama / action / mystery in which ace interrogator John Travolta is called in by Tim Daly , commander of a base in Panama , to speak to the survivors of a training mission gone wrong . Trouble is , nothing is clear about the whole sordid mess . . . While this slick movie has an endless supply of story twists , I was mo... |
399,287 | 1,391,795 | 73,801 | 5 | Entertaining as long as you're partial to cheaply made genre junk . | Laura ( Jennifer Billingsley ) , Claire ( Judith McConnell ) , Ann ( Fredricka Meyers ) , and Bonnie ( Chiqui da Rosa ) are four lovely young ladies abducted from Manila ; theirs and other disappearances are attributed to what is believed to be a white slavery ring , but the truth is great schlocky horror film material... |
399,443 | 1,391,795 | 250,613 | 5 | I think the world of cinema has seen enough giant snakes . . . | In the Antarctic , a heavily fortified maximum security prison has been built that extends deep below the ice . When the team building the prison deliberately drills through a hollow rock formation , they manage to unleash a million-year-old , 100-foot long snake - which then sets out to do what every giant reptile in ... |
398,845 | 1,391,795 | 56,368 | 5 | Less than stellar Corman / Poe movie . | Guy Carrell ( Ray Milland ) is a painter obsessed with prevention of being buried alive . Try as he might , he can't get it out of his mind , no matter how his wife Emily ( Hazel Court ) or friend Miles ( Richard Ney ) try to help him . This Edgar Allan Poe-based Roger Corman picture , scripted by Charles Beaumont and ... |
399,792 | 1,391,795 | 177,769 | 5 | I Think It's A Mixed Bag . | Henry Thomas plays Nick Parker , a struggling painter and drawing instructor who lives in a dank , dark apartment building . On the night that mystery man Will ( David O'Hara ) moves into the apartment above him , Nick's landlord is found savagely murdered . Nick spends the rest of the movie going through weird experie... |
398,809 | 1,391,795 | 466,909 | 5 | At the least , it's not quite the embarrassment that was the " Psycho " remake . | Mostly faithful remake of a memorable 1976 horror movie in which the future American Ambassador to England , Robert Thorn ( Liev Schrieber ) substitutes an orphan for his own stillborn son . This orphan will grow up to be Damien Thorn ( Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick ) , who Robert will discover is the son of none other than... |
398,717 | 1,391,795 | 93,300 | 5 | This time . . . it's routine . | Third " Jaws " sequel in which the now widowed Ellen Brody ( Lorraine Gary ) receives news of the worst sort : her son Sean ( Mitchell Anderson ) , now the deputy police chief of Amity , has been gobbled up by yet another hungry shark . Ellen becomes convinced that it is the fate of the Brody family to be forever pursu... |
398,890 | 1,391,795 | 75,888 | 5 | Lovably inept monster mayhem from Crown International . | In this goofy combination of low-budget sci-fi horror schlock and hicksploitation , a meteor crashes into a lake and incubates a long dormant dinosaur ( in this case a plesiosaur ) egg which hatches months later . The enormous menace proceeds to terrorize the locals until they figure out what they're up against and set... |
399,381 | 1,391,795 | 75,783 | 5 | Like watching the ' Dukes of Hazzard ' but with martial arts fights . | Billy Dawes ( Michael Augenstein ) is an annoying young trucker who is incarcerated and otherwise treated like st by stereotypically ignorant and moronic redneck cops in a dirtwater California town presided over by cheerfully corrupt Judge Trimmings ( George Murdock of ' Barney Miller ' ) . Billy's older brother is fel... |
399,811 | 1,391,795 | 91,223 | 5 | Don't ever house-sit for Roger Cobb . . . | Roger Cobb ( William Katt ) is an emotionally distraught Vietnam veteran turned horror novelist whose life has been turned upside down after his son mysteriously disappears . His soap opera actress wife Sandy ( Kay Lenz ) divorces him and to top it all off his loony Aunt Elizabeth ( Susan French ) has committed suicide... |
399,368 | 1,391,795 | 180,590 | 5 | Quite a silly movie . | Ridiculous but somewhat amusing B horror about anthropology professor Vincent Van Patten , who takes four sorority girls , including squeeze Betsy Russell , into the mountains to look for ancient artifacts . What they find are 1 ) a dopey motorcycle gang and 2 ) a towering , heavily made up druid ( played by seven foot... |
398,676 | 1,391,795 | 50,432 | 5 | Could have been better ; as it is , it's basically good for laughs . | Civilians and the military alike have to work together when an enormous extraterrestrial bird comes flying down to earth and picks off people and planes at a rapid clip . Electronics engineer Mitchell McAfee ( Jeff Morrow ) , mathematician Sally Caldwell ( Mara Corday ) , scientist Karol Noymann ( Edgar Barrier ) and g... |
399,646 | 1,391,795 | 85,636 | 5 | Many of you will probably say I need my head examined , but . . . | . . . I actually don't mind this movie . I think that it's a weird , silly hybrid of horror , science-fiction , thriller , and comedy , and that its casual depiction of over-the-top cruelty really works against it . It's definitely minor genre fare , but it's creepy enough to stand on its own . Many people seem to desp... |
399,759 | 1,391,795 | 52,646 | 5 | Agreeably silly early 60's horror schlock . | Dr . Bill Cortner ( Jason Evers ) is a surgeon with big ideas and big plans . Basically , he's your standard-issue mad scientist , and his theme is transplants . When he races to the family-owned country home where he performs his experiments , he causes a horrible car crash in which girlfriend Jan ( Virginia Leith ) i... |
399,182 | 1,391,795 | 99,278 | 5 | Not as much fun as I would have liked . | Jack ( Ross Hagen , who also shares story credit and co-directed ) is a fashion photographer who calls to mind the title character from the 1978 thriller " Eyes of Laura Mars " . His big idea is to combine sex and violence by having his models pose with weapons and by setting them amid scenes of carnage . When he bring... |
398,680 | 1,391,795 | 59,215 | 5 | Silly and schlocky junk , but fairly entertaining . | A group of vacationers pay to visit an island paradise presided over by Baron Von Weser ( Cameron Mitchell ) . Little do they know what kind of experiments that this mad scientist is conducting in seclusion . His star attraction is his " vampire tree " creation , sucking all of the blood out of hapless victims , decima... |
398,873 | 1,391,795 | 118,661 | 5 | Some Of You Will Obviously Prefer To Skip The Film And Just Have Tea . | Umpteenth big screen version " inspired " by a vintage TV series ; here , the titular spies John Steed ( Ralph Fiennes ) and Dr . Emma Peel ( Uma Thurman ) work to thwart the maniacal plans of Sir August De Wynter ( Sean Connery ) to control the Earth's weather . I actually didn't find it to be the monumental bomb that... |
399,537 | 1,391,795 | 156,639 | 5 | Not Bad , I Guess . | Craig Ferguson , who played Mr . Wick for a couple of seasons on ' The Drew Carey Show ' co-wrote this concoction about flamboyant hairdresser Crawford Mackenzie ( Ferguson ) who is mistakenly invited to participate in an international hairdressing competition . Mistake or not , he's determined to see this dream of his... |
399,718 | 1,391,795 | 59,044 | 5 | You could have at least saved the frame . | Herschell Gordon Lewis's final entry in his sick and sleazy " blood trilogy " tells us the story of artist Adam Sorg ( Don Joseph ) , who's never happy with anything he does . Finally , he hits upon inspiration : human blood makes for great paintings ! Once he's started , he can't stop ; living only to craft his next m... |
399,509 | 1,391,795 | 89,686 | 5 | Hardly Freddy's Finest Hour . | Sequel to enormous box-office slasher hit of 1984 in which Freddy ( Robert Englund ) , the dream-haunting maniac , is tormenting a teenager named Jesse ( Mark Patton ) , who's moved into Nancy Thompson's old house . Freddy is determined to take possession of Jesse's body so he can start killing in the real world again ... |
399,880 | 1,391,795 | 83,960 | 5 | Look out , Chuck's on the warpath again . . . | Enjoyably , hilariously cruddy martial arts / action / revenge saga , ridiculously routine and predictable . Norris , who doesn't even bother TRYING to deliver an actual performance in the movie ( although his silly narration is a funny touch ) , plays a debt collector and security chief for a Hong Kong casino . The st... |
398,755 | 1,391,795 | 87,795 | 5 | Stupid and obviously proud of it . | Melvin ( Murray Langston ) is a half-wit policeman who gets demoted to night patrol , and paired with the randy and off-the-wall veteran Kent Lane ( Pat Paulsen ) . However , this is a problem for Melvin , because he moonlights as a stand up comic at night , performing with a paper bag over his head and calling himself... |
398,579 | 1,391,795 | 120,804 | 5 | So-So . | A team of elite commandoes infiltrate a place that is a great big cliche in films of this kind : a top-secret research facility that's doing creepy things with viruses and genetics , and where ( of course ) things have gone bad . . . all the employees turn into zombies , the guard dogs mutate , and the lab's computer s... |
399,020 | 1,391,795 | 384,833 | 5 | Hey , you look good for a girl covered in giant fish brains . | Ridiculous but amusing direct-to-video B-movie junk . An odd and patently dangerous new variety of fish appears in swamp country and proceeds to devour the locals . A medical examiner ( Tory Kittles ) and a biologist ( China Chow ) are probing the murder of a local and soon find out what it is that they are up against ... |
399,422 | 1,391,795 | 54,673 | 5 | A man runs , someone shoots at him . | Tor Johnson plays Joseph Javorsky , " noted scientist " as we are constantly reminded by the narration , who travels to the United States with important documents in a briefcase . Soviet agents tail him there and chase him into an atomic testing range where exposure to radiation turns him into a shambling monster that ... |
399,127 | 1,391,795 | 97,371 | 5 | Rats and cheese : a very appropriate combination here . | Who would ever have thought that Bert I . Gordon's 1976 film adaptation of the H . G . Wells story " The Food of the Gods " would spawn a sequel , especially 13 years after the fact ? This is actually an in-name-only sequel , and the only animals to grow to huge proportions here are rats . They're kept in the lab of Pr... |
399,532 | 1,391,795 | 120,645 | 5 | Don't expect anything special , with a title like that . | Paul Walker and Steve Van Wormer play Phil and Stew Deedle , two slackers / surf bums who pass themselves off as aspiring Yellowstone park rangers and work to thwart the plan of villainous former ranger Slater ( Dennis Hopper ) , who's started a prairie dog infestation that he hopes will divert Old Faithful . This is n... |
398,748 | 1,391,795 | 68,414 | 5 | Fairly enjoyable horror schlock . | From director Ted V . Mikels comes this silly movie that has an entertaining premise courtesy of Joseph Cranston and Arch Hall Sr . : to cut costs , cat food company bosses Landau ( Sanford Mitchell ) and Maltby ( J . Byron Foster ) start making human bodies the primary ingredient of their product . They use cadavers s... |
399,776 | 1,391,795 | 305,711 | 5 | Speak Now , Or Forever Hold Your Peace . | Young couple Tom ( Ashton Kutcher ) and Sarah ( Brittany Murphy ) meet cute at the beach and , on an emotional high , get married soon after . The main premise of the movie is that their honeymoon turns out to be a disaster . . . There are a number of awkward and boring moments in the first half , but it gets a little ... |
399,893 | 1,391,795 | 76,109 | 5 | Okay for its type of film . | Candy ( 1970's B-movie goddess Claudia Jennings ) and Ellie-Jo ( Jocelyn Jones , daughter of character actor Henry Jones ) are two lively , sexy young women who make their way through Texas , robbing banks but using sticks of dynamite instead of the more traditional method of guns . They take the affable young Slim ( v... |
399,778 | 1,391,795 | 120,670 | 5 | Howie should stick with what he does best . | Set in the Pacific Northwest , this is the story of Jesse ( athlete turned broadcaster turned actor and commercial pitchman Howie Long ) , a " smoke jumper " whose job it is to parachute into the midst of forest fires from above when it is too dangerous for ground crews to infiltrate them . The villainous Shaye ( Willi... |
399,146 | 1,391,795 | 180,274 | 5 | Silly slasher movie ; has a somewhat creepy quality to it . | Low , low budget Oregon-filmed slasher about three attractive young girls who undertake a long road trip to attend a rock festival . A storm causes them to have an accident deep in the woods , and they end up in the mansion of the local eccentrics . The old lady living there has a passionate hatred of men , and rags on... |
398,757 | 1,391,795 | 93,624 | 5 | The party's just getting started . . . | So-so horror movie from the 1980's about a stereotypical group of brainless teenagers who decide to throw the ultimate Halloween party in the most painfully obvious of locales : a possessed mortuary . As the night progresses , more and more of the kids fall victim to demonic possession and terrorize the others . This p... |
398,778 | 1,391,795 | 120,696 | 5 | Above average cast in so-so movie . | A Midwestern town is rapidly disappearing under a raging flood ; during this crisis armored car guard Tom ( Christian Slater ) is fleeing from criminals , headed by Jim ( Morgan Freeman ) , who want the $3 million in cash that he's successfully managed to hide away . Certainly watchable enough , but not as invigorating... |
398,801 | 1,391,795 | 47,898 | 5 | Bela Lugosi is a treat to watch in this one . | Ed Wood strikes again with this silly creature feature about maniacal Dr . Vornoff ( Bela Lugosi , an absolute delight ) , who's created a " monster " , an octopus that he periodically lets loose into the local swamp . Of course , the monster snacks on a few hapless victims here and there , prompting stubborn , pushy ,... |
399,367 | 1,391,795 | 85,935 | 5 | I admit it ; I tend to enjoy movies of this type . | In this futuristic sci-fi tale , a ranger named Dogen ( Jeffrey Byron ) seeks to track down a megalomaniac named Jared-Syn ( Mike Preston ) . The bad guy controls a horde of one-eyed henchmen , with a hideout deep in the mountains . The silly plot also involves use and worship of crystals , and an imperiled , sexy youn... |
399,655 | 1,391,795 | 308,208 | 5 | It IS kind of a stupid title . | Depressed former FBI agent Jeremiah Ecks ( Antonio Banderas ) , mourning the loss of his wife , is tricked into performing another service when his former superior tells him that lethal , efficient operative Sever ( Lucy Liu ) will be able to tell where his wife is . Turns out , Sever is not the real villain of the sto... |
398,869 | 1,391,795 | 74,157 | 5 | Silly sci-fi effort is sometimes a real hoot . | Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptation in which Doug McClure ( who was in a couple of similar 1970's genre entries ) and a hilariously daffy Peter Cushing play Victorian era scientists who burrow into the inner earth in a giant mechanical " mole " and encounter a primitive civilization that is terrorized by some ridiculous lo... |
399,904 | 1,391,795 | 95,311 | 5 | You'll forget it as soon as it's over . | Prominent mobster Vic Luca ( a typically hammy Rip Torn ) sends ultra-creepy and deadly hit man Chris Caleek ( Lance Henriksen ) to take out associate Frank DeSalvo ( Leo Rossi ) , who's been nabbed by federal agents who want him to testify against Luca . The hit man ends up going to the wrong house and kidnapping the ... |
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