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Not up to " Seven " , but not too bad .
A combination of surreal horror and " psychological drama " in which Claire Cooper ( Annette Bening ) quickly unravels as she becomes linked to a truly insane sicko ( Robert Downey , Jr . ) through her dreams , in which she can see events that will take place in the future . " In Dreams " starts off very strongly with ...
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The boat can leave now . . . tell the crew .
After an unmanned sailboat arrives in New York Harbor with a zombie on board , a young woman ( Tisa Farrow ) and an investigative journalist ( Ian McCulloch ) travel to an obscure Caribbean island where the dead are returning to life due to possible acts of voodoo . My first introduction to foreign horror is a simple ,...
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Lots of derision here , but I actually rather liked it .
Yet another " The Most Dangerous Game " rip-off as wholesome and attractive young folk ( among them future ' Brady Bunch ' dad Robert Reed ) who are pleasure boating decide to tour an island they've just discovered . Living in seclusion on this island is Dr . Albert Balleau ( Wilton Graff ) , who hunts people for sport...
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Interesting , ambitious , if not altogether successful .
This early effort from acclaimed film-maker Michael Mann ( " Manhunter " , ' Miami Vice ' , " Heat " , and so on ) is an adaptation of the F . Paul Wilson novel about Nazi soldiers ordered to defend a mountain pass in the Romanian Alps . To do so , they set up their base of operations in an ancient fortress . The villa...
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Good sequel .
The offspring of deceased scientist Seth Brundle is growing up at an accelerated rate , and after reaching the human age of five but looking much older , starts the inevitable metamorphosis into an upright walking fly creature that seeks revenge on the two-faced , rotten scientists who pretended to be his friends . The...
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A very silly and somewhat amusing horror flick .
200 years ago , one incredibly ugly witch is executed by Transylvanian townsfolk despite warnings that she needs to be exorcised instead . Then along come British couple Veronica ( horror icon Barbara Steele ) and Philip ( Ian Ogilvy ) who have a car accident that plunges them into the same lake where the witch was kil...
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A fairly decent film - it has its flaws as well as assets .
Big city couple George ( Jake Weber ) and Kim ( Patricia Clarkson ) , with young son Miles ( Erik Per Sullivan ) in tow , travel to the snowy wilderness to stay at a friends ' place for the weekend . Their collision with a deer , and subsequent confrontation with some boorish local hunters , become the catalysts for th...
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It's not as funny the second time around , but it still entertains .
Mitch ( ' Saturday Night Live ' alumni Norm Macdonald ) has trouble holding down regular jobs , so when inspiration strikes , he runs with it : since he's so good at concocting clever revenge ploys , he figures he will make it his line of work . " Dirty Work " is a short and not-exactly - " sweet " comedy that revels i...
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Fun if forgettable .
Six members of the Air Force are on leave in Asia , during WWII , during which time one of them gets the bright idea to sneak into a ritual performed by local snake worshipers . As you can expect , they get found out , and a curse is placed upon them . When they finish their tour of duty and return to the States , they...
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Hickory , dickory , dock , Cain has picked his lock . . .
The incredible work by star John Lithgow is the anchor of this psychological thriller from writer / director Brian De Palma . Lithgow plays multiple roles in this story about brothers who perform nefarious deeds for their demented father , and the wife ( Lolita Davidovich ) , who discovers the plot while simultaneously...
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Nothing special , but decent B-level cop vs . killer fare .
Veteran character / supporting actor Charles Napier made a credible starring debut in this thriller about a hard-drinking , sullen detective on the trail of a killer who seeks to make himself immortal through the ritualistic killings of prostitutes . I wasn't expecting much going in . The story and characters are so tr...
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The years of Hammer horror started with this picture . . .
. . . another of their loose adaptations of classic horror novels , in which Baron Victor Frankenstein ( the inimitable Peter Cushing ) becomes obsessed with his scientific experiments , and creates large , lumbering being ( Christopher Lee ) that causes chaos and terror . Lee is buried under what must have been pretty...
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The first of Roger Corman's " Mama " films .
One of the last Roger Corman directorial efforts before an almost twenty-year hiatus , " Bloody Mama " stars Shelley Winters as Kate " Ma " Barker , notorious outlaw of the Great Depression . Ma dominates her four grown sons as they embark on a crime spree climaxing in their kidnapping of rich businessman Sam Pendlebur...
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An amusingly tawdry and trashy flick .
Victoria Waterman ( Maria De Aragon ) is a sexy , trampy schemer living with her invalid dad Ridgeley ( Eric Allison ) . She's involved with Dr . Craig Cooper ( Peter Carpenter ) , and since Cooper desperately needs money to pay off a blackmailer , she decides to bump off her old man for his money , only to find out th...
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Overall , not bad .
Giant-scale disaster film in which an asteroid the size of Texas is headed straight for earth . If it hits , it will wipe out all life on earth . NASA ultimately comes up with a plan to land a team on the asteroid which will drill into its core and plant a nuclear bomb there . For this mission they enlist the best dril...
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Another gratuitous sequel is more like it .
Five years after the events of " 48 HRS . " , police detective Jack Cates ( Nick Nolte ) is in deep you-know-what after repeatedly failing to prove that a criminal mastermind known as " The Iceman " exists . When he learns that " The Iceman " happens to want his old ' pal ' Reggie Hammond ( Eddie Murphy ) dead , he for...
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Notice how sometimes , in movies , electric chairs just aren't enough ?
The barbaric , extravagant serial killers that get fried in them find a way to return , as does Max Jenke ( an entertainingly hammy Brion James ) here . Captured by dedicated detective Lucas McCarthy ( a typically solid Lance Henriksen ) , Jenke is the sort of bad guy who loves to taunt the hero . And boy , does he tau...
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Reasonably entertaining , but fraught with problems .
Science-oriented teenage genius Paul Stephens ( Christopher Collet ) finds out that the new man in his mom's life , Dr . Mathewson ( John Lithgow ) is in the business of nuclear weaponry . In an elaborate and elongated sequence , he actually manages to steal plutonium from the lab that has been set up in his neck of th...
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Not as much fun as other A . I . P . quickies , but still fairly enjoyable .
Nancy Perkins ( Sandra Harrison ) , a fiery teenager , is dispatched by her dad and stepmom ( she's angry with the old man for re-marrying six weeks after the death of her mom ) to a girls ' school . While there , she is considered a prime candidate for an experiment by science teacher , Miss Branding ( Louise Lewis ) ...
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Enjoyably silly cheesefest for those of us that like ' em .
One time Playboy bunny Bobbie Bresee - a buxom blonde beauty - has her first substantial film role in this low budget horror flick . She plays Susan , wife to Oliver ( an ever likable - and lucky , needless to say - Marjoe Gortner ) and the latest victim to her family curse . This causes her to submit to demonic posses...
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Not bad rural gorefest .
Five young adults are celebrating the end of their college years by renting a cabin in the backwoods . Their celebration is cut short by the arrival of a local hermit who's contracted a hideous disease . Even after running him off , they realize that their problems are really just beginning after one of their own comes...
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Uninspired , but reasonably entertaining all the same .
An alien invasion story , based on a landmark Robert A . Heinlein novel , in which diminutive little monsters that look like manta rays attach themselves to human beings and manipulate them like puppets , getting scores of human victims to do their bidding . Government agent Andrew Nivens ( Donald Sutherland ) is on to...
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I'm sure some guys will really enjoy this one . . .
Film adaptation of the story " Carmilla " by J . Sheridan LeFanu about sexy , wanton vampire ( the voluptuous Polish beauty Ingrid Pitt ) with a decided taste for young FEMALE victims . Entertaining horror drama - a co-production between Hammer Studios and American International Pictures - moves a little too slow but t...
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It has its moments .
When a farmer unearths a big stone from a field , this allows a long dormant beast - the titular character - to arise and wreak havoc among the local populace . Howard Hallenbeck ( David Dukes ) , an American writer of Irish descent , comes to the area to do research and ends up in the thick of things ; it gets very pe...
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I'm too tired to scream from the pain you've just caused me . - Tom Hanks ' first words on film
He Knows You're Alone is a slasher movie style thriller from 1980 about a silent & deadly serial killer ( Tom Rolfing ) whose choice of victims is brides-to-be , presumably because he was once dumped by a girlfriend who went on to marry somebody else , and apparently it scarred him for life . Pursuing the killer ( wh...
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At least it moves along pretty well .
Standard B action movie pitting a tough NYC cop , Joe Dylanne ( James Remar ) against a sadistic bunch of drug-dealing psychos that have laid claim to a remote forest location in the Northwest . Joe is called home by old flame Katy ( Daphne Ashbrook ) after her brother and his wife are wiped out by the villains . Joe g...
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The Middle Film Of The Trilogy Is The Weakest .
Prequel to " Raiders of the Lost Ark " takes place in 1935 . This time around , Indiana Jones ( Harrison Ford ) escapes from an encounter in Shanghai , accompanied by a bratty stage performer ( Kate Capshaw , who would become director Steven Spielberg's wife ) and a diminutive young sidekick ( Jonathan Ke Quan , billed...
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Flawed , dated , but somewhat appealing little drama .
College students Robert ( Peter Hooten ) and Jenny ( Kathrine Baumann ) travel to the Northern California wilderness to find old friend Michael ( Robert Englund ) , who's dropped out of sight . They arrive at his remote cabin , and while waiting an awfully long time for him to actually make an appearance , Jenny is rap...
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Not bad - has its flaws , but a decent cult film .
One of a few movies to draw inspiration from the same real-life event , " Cannonball " tells the story of the Trans-American Grand Prix , where participants race all manner of four-wheeled land-based vehicles from Los Angeles to New York City . Coy " Cannonball " Buckman ( David Carradine ) is the anti-hero , Cade Redm...
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Reasonably amusing .
The always entertaining veteran actor Christopher Lloyd plays the Quicksilver of the title . Aaron Quicksilver , to be precise . He's a flamboyant , quirky individual ( check out his man-in-black wardrobe , dog collar and red wig ) who likes to tell bizarre yet cautionary tales to the unaware , in this television movie...
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Not bad - has some decent laughs .
Obnoxious , irresponsible George Kuffs ( Christian Slater ) leaves girlfriend Maya ( Milla Jovovich ) after learning she is pregnant . In need of money , he hits up brother Brad ( Bruce Boxleitner ) for a loan but ends up taking over his brother's privately owned police precinct in San Francisco after Brad is coldly gu...
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Passable vampire flick .
Elwyn Clayton ( George Zucco ) and Dr . Lloyd Clayton ( Zucco again ) are as different as night and day - an appropriate phrase , since one can exist in the daylight and one can't . The evil Elwyn was an occultist who arises from the dead as a vampire , putting the bite on the local lovely young ladies , including Lloy...
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Born on the bayou . . .
A variation on " Deliverance " in which the protagonists are a macho unit of the Louisiana National Guard , and the antagonists are nasty Cajuns who take exception when the Guardsmen borrow their canoes ( of course , it doesn't help that one of the Guardsmen fires his blanks at the swamp dudes ) . What results is a fig...
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Sometimes it really is better to take the long way . Shortcuts = bad idea .
Surprisingly entertaining - if rather derivative - supernatural tale - of federal agents Jack ( Lou Diamond Phillips ) and Stephanie ( Lori Petty ) who snatch back federal witness " Rabbit " ( Steven Williams , who is the main reason to watch this movie ) after he'd previously bolted from his supposed " protection " . ...
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It is what it is .
Routine , forgettable , if fairly competent killer insect feature about the creation of hungry cockroaches as part of a dastardly conspiracy . Sexy heroic detective Gina O'Bannon ( Tamara Davies ) teams up with handsome Ted Gage ( Daniel Cosgrove ) , who lost his brother in a suspicious " accident " , to probe the case...
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Yee-HA ! There's Gold in Them Thar Hills !
Hey , everybody , let's do the Walter Huston dance ! But seriously , this is a silly but entertaining sequel to " City Slickers " that reunites Billy Crystal and Daniel Stern as friends Mitch Robbins and Phil Berquist . One year after the events of the first movie , Mitch finds a treasure map that was sewn inside Curly...
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A little better than expected .
Low-budget B horror with a no-name cast about a gang of criminals who pull off a heist and abduct a father and daughter who they force to fly them to freedom . One of the group gets the bright idea to make off with the money by himself , forcing the others to land in a desolate rural area to pursue him . They are then ...
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Everybody , say it with me . . . KI-KI-KI-MA-MA-MA !
One of the vanguard movies of the slasher sub-genre of horror pictures , this simplistic guilty pleasure has become enduringly popular , spawning a whole slew of sequels and earning legions of fans . Although I can watch it now and not be a bit scared , there's no denying the soft spot I have in my heart for films like...
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Silly , outrageous escapism .
Chevy Chase plays financial publisher Chris Thorne , who does new acquaintance / neighbor Diane Lightson ( Demi Moore ) a favor by driving her from NYC to Atlantic City . Tagging along are Chris's annoying clients the Squiriniszus ( Taylor Negron and Bertila Damas ) . What happens to these hapless schmucks is they get ...
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I thought that this thriller was decent enough .
Veteran police detective Edward X . Delaney ( Frank Sinatra , in his last starring role ) hunts down elusive psycho killer Daniel Blank ( David Dukes ) while his fragile wife ( Faye Dunaway ) lies in a hospital bed with a serious illness . Delaney is so distraught over his wife's condition that he starts bending and br...
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A rather amusing obscure slasher item .
The Forest features two grown-up couples : Steve ( Dean Russell ) & Sharon ( Tomi Barrett ) and Charlie ( John Batis ) & Teddi ( Ann Wilkinson ) . Steve & Charlie decide that for some R & R they'll go on a camping trip and make the mistake of suggesting to Sharon & Teddi that they wouldn't be able to hack it on such ...
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Good for a number of laughs .
As part of his " thumb " series of humorous takeoffs , comedy writer / director / actor Steve Oedekerk did this frequently funny spoof of the indie horror sensation " The Blair Witch Project " . An aggressive , ambitious female thumb hooks up with a surfer dude thumb cameraman and a wimpy thumb sound man and hightails ...
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You gotta see this one to believe it !
A man named Barnstable ( Christopher Brooks ) who represents big mining interests comes to a small town looking to buy up land . But the devious Mayor Silverdale ( Stuart Lancaster ) isn't interested . The unfortunate Barnstable ends up framed for a crime and almost gets lynched . While this is going on , a mutated she...
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I'm gonna keep coming back until someone remembers seeing Richie !
Not-bad Steven Seagal vehicle in which he plays a maverick narcotics detective named Gino Felino , who seeks to avenge the death of his partner , which was perpetrated by sleazy barbarian Richie Madano ( an over-acting , but enjoyable , William Forsythe ) . Naturally , Gino will beat the stuffing out of , or kill if ne...
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More like " Dracula Has Risen from the Grave AGAIN " .
The famed cinematic blood sucker ( Christopher Lee ) is revived and because a monsignor ( Rupert Davies ) has seen to it that he can't get back inside his castle , he's mad enough to go about seeking revenge as well as doing what he does best . Pretty standard Hammer horror . " Dracula Has Risen from the Grave " is mad...
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Pretty routine made-for-TV horror , but watchable enough .
Two easygoing chaps played by Howard Hesseman and Tom Atkins purchase some coffee beans in Ecuador which they hope will make them lots of money back in the States . They unexpectedly get a little more in the bargain - some banana spiders ( not true tarantulas , as the later exposition will point out ) hitch a ride , an...
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Axel's Looking For A Killer . . . What Else Is New ?
Axel Foley ( Eddie Murphy ) is supervising a bust in Detroit that goes horribly wrong when his longtime superior ( Gil Hill ) is gunned down . His search for the killer leads him back - once again - to Beverly Hills . It seems that the security at a Disneyland-like theme park are creating counterfeit money right in the...
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Not bad .
Everybody , take note . Electricity is evil and it's out to get us . That seems to be the main theme of this little known 1980's thriller about appliances going haywire in the home of Bill Rockland ( Cliff De Young ) and his new wife Ellen ( Roxanne Hart ) , just as Bill's son David ( Joey Lawrence ) from his first mar...
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Any film featuring Jackie Chiles and Lloyd Braun has to bear some looking into . . .
That's right , the actors playing those roles on ' Seinfeld ' - Phil Morris and Matt McCoy - are in this hokey , predictable , and ultimately routine B-level monster movie ( originally a Sci-Fi channel entry ) . McCoy plays Preston Rogers , rendered a paraplegic after a fatal climbing accident that took the life of his...
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I Didn't Feel Grumpy Watching This . . .
John Gustafson ( Jack Lemmon ) and Max Goldman ( Walter Matthau ) are lifelong neighbors and acquaintances who have been at each other's throats for a couple of decades . Their feud escalates when both show interest in the attractive , free-spirited widow ( Ann-Margret ) who has moved into the neighborhood . Not exactl...
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Entertaining but not as much fun as it probably should have been .
Vietnam veteran Frank Murphy ( Roy Scheider ) is now a police helicopter pilot who is chosen to test an experimental aircraft better suited to air assaults than simple surveillance . He butts heads with Colonel F . E . Cochrane ( Malcolm McDowell ) , the film's obligatory villain , a snide and pompous jerk , while brea...
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I kind of liked it .
Brad Dourif plays Sam , who is suffering the lingering effects of the atomic testing that his parents subjected themselves to in the 1950's . He is constantly emanating fire and electricity , especially when he's REALLY mad at someone , and the more it happens , the more of a toll that it takes on his body . Mediocre h...
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Mac isn't torturing stupid adult criminals this time . . . he's taken it a step further .
Admittedly unpleasant by nature , this film has " Home Alone " star Macaulay Culkin as Henry , a pre-teen sociopath untroubled by conscience . His cousin Mark ( Elijah Wood ) , already an emotional wreck over the premature death of his mother , has come to stay with Henry's family while his father is away on business ....
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I enjoyed it somewhat .
The scenario here is very familiar to any horror fan . Brutal murders plague a college campus , and the aged local sheriff is under pressure to find the perpetrator since election time is coming up . The killer always removes different body parts ( shades of " Blood Feast " ) and leaves a little talisman behind that do...
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I wonder what would happen if you played the movie backward ?
Hip , clever horror movie that exploits the concept of satanic messages contained on rock recordings . Here , put-upon nerd / heavy metal enthusiast Eddie Weinbauer ( Marc Price , a . k . a . Skippy from ' Family Ties ' ) plays the unreleased final album from recently deceased rock star Sammi Curr ( the late Tony Field...
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Decent murder mystery .
After his niece dies in the hospital , devoted Uncle Cam ( Joseph Cotten ) comes to learn that she was a victim of strychnine poisoning . The one person with the most motive and opportunity is the girls ' stepmother , Lynne ( Jean Peters ) , but proving her to be the guilty party is an arduous process to say the least ...
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Easy money . . . yeah right !
Likable working-class slob Monty Capuletti ( Rodney Dangerfield , in his first starring role ) has many bad habits . However , when his stiff and humorless mother-in-law leaves him an inheritance that depends on his kicking his bad habits for a year , he decides he will do his best to change . Nothing great , but a dec...
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Acceptable fare , I think , for fans of Charles Bronson .
Charles Bronson vehicle in which he once again plays a standard issue Bronson character - this time , he's the boss of a Border Patrol station who's looking for a thug with an itchy trigger finger ( Ed Harris , in his first major film role ) who's killed both a comrade of Bronson's and an innocent kid . The movie itsel...
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Not entirely successful , but an interesting effort overall .
An offbeat horror film that I would describe as a supernatural slasher , we see at the outset two young children witnessing their mother having kinky sex . The brutish lover then proceeds with what seems to be his habit - tying the son to his bed , in a really disturbing touch for the film . The sister uses a good and ...
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Okay for what it is .
Jim Wynorski directed this remake of a 1957 Roger Corman flick in which a " Mr . Johnson " ( Arthur Roberts ) , really an alien being with killer eyes , arrives on Earth to collect blood for the dying population of his war-torn home planet . He recruits an affable human slimeball named Jeremy ( Lenny Juliano ) as a per...
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So-So .
Romantic comedy that combines a bunch of jokes about the process of promoting a movie , and a conventional romantic plot . Lee ( Billy Crystal ) is hired to persuade broken-up couple ( John Cusack and Catherine Zeta-Jones ) to appear together in order to generate audience goodwill . It seems the last film they did toge...
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Yet another fatal trek into the woods . . .
1970's era , Canadian-made horror / suspense yarn , in the tradition of " Deliverance " , in which five doctors go on a wilderness vacation and are stalked by a backwoods maniac . Shot in Ontario , the movie does have good shots of the Canadian countryside . For me , it never generated any real fear , just some moderat...
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At the very least , the film does have a good poster .
Veteran actress Lee Grant portrays Deborah Ballin , an outspoken TV journalist who incurs the wrath of scowling , misogynistic psychopath Colt Hawker ( Michael Ironside ) . Colt tries to murder Deborah in her own home , and when he isn't able to pull it off , tracks her down to the hospital where she has been taken , a...
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An amiable little diversion .
From producer Robert E . Kent and director Edward L . Cahn , the team responsible for the sci-fi flick " It ! The Terror from Beyond Space " , comes this short , sweet , forgettable , but amusing minor sci-fi horror flick . Alien attackers come to Earth from the moon , with complete domination in mind . That's the fami...
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Clearly wants to be more than a simple monster movie .
After hearing about a ferocious , enormous crocodile in Burundi , Africa , which has claimed hundreds of lives and has been dubbed " Gustave " by the locals , a small American news crew arrives , accompanied by a croc-loving bloke who wants to capture it alive , and a guide who wants it dead . Interesting , misleading ...
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Five for the movie , an extra point for Kari Wuhrer .
Thoroughly average but basically watchable thriller about young wife Ann ( Kari Wuhrer ) , whose husband commits suicide after being passed over for a promotion that he badly needed . Ann decides to save the bulk of her wrath for the career woman , Nicole ( Barbara Crampton ) who inherited her late husband's job . She ...
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Here is " White Man From Canada " ' s review . . .
Billy Halleck ( Robert John Burke ) is a grossly overweight Maine attorney who is also a smug jerk because he's so successful . However , his life takes a turn for the worse when he runs down an elderly Romanian gypsy woman in the street . Billy's judge ( John Horton ) and cop ( Daniel Von Bargen ) friends cover up for...
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Not-bad chase thriller with good setting .
Three cross-country runners ( Ronny Cox , Art Hindle , Tim Maier ) on an epic run through the Southwestern U . S . desert run afoul of some predictably mean and nasty militia men on a training exercise . The bad guys end up taking things too far and the runners ' struggle for survival is underway . " Courage " - also k...
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Offbeat B-level vampire movie .
Good-looking young couple Lee ( Michael Blodgett ) and Susan ( Sherry Miles ) accept an invitation from brand-new acquaintance Diane ( Celeste Yarnall ) to stay at Dianes ' home in the desert . Diane reveals herself to be vampire-like in nature , although this movie plays out more like a variation on a vampire story ra...
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Six Out Of Ten .
Black comedy about three high school students ( Katie Holmes , Marisa Coughlan , and Barry Watson ) who confront their icy , miserable history teacher ( Helen Mirren ) in her house and wind up in a series of events that snowball out of control . Supposedly , debuting film-maker Kevin Williamson ( the writer of " Scream...
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I'm From L . A . . . . We Invented Gangs !
Slick , chaotic , and decently entertaining sequel picks up where the first movie left off . LAPD Detective James Carter ( Chris Tucker ) is on vacation in Hong Kong with his friend , Detective Inspector Lee ( Jackie Chan ) . Carter just wants to relax , have fun , get some " mu shu " , but Lee can't stop doing his job...
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Fairly entertaining if forgettable witch's curse story .
Standard plot of three women , accused of being witches , who are executed in various ways - eaten alive by pigs , strapped to a wheel that is then set on fire and rolled along , and then finally just burned at the stake . The last woman proceeds to place a curse on the town of Devonsville . Three hundred years later t...
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Jackie Chan goes to 1930's era Chicago .
Jerry Kwan ( Jackie Chan , in the very first role intended to introduce him to American audiences ) is a martial artist who is forced by mobster Dominici ( Jose Ferrer ) to participate in a no-holds-barred fighting tournament in Texas . Likable , energetic , and entertaining , this light on plot martial arts potboiler ...
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Not all that bad , but falls short when compared to the original .
Rob Zombies ' remake - sorry , " re-imagining " - of John Carpenters ' landmark slasher film , in which we get an extended look back at Michael Myers ' lousy home and school life , what leads him to commit his first murders , and his time spent in the asylum , before he finally breaks free and embarks on a killing spre...
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A decent effort .
I just saw this film and I will say this : it IS a reasonably creative imagining of what goes on inside a person's body . Bill Murray plays a slovenly , disgusting guy who doesn't care what he puts in his mouth . When he eats an egg that has been infected with germs , he puts himself at risk , and the animated portion ...
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6
Another 1980's artifact . . .
A sleek black car - a Dodge Turbo Interceptor - and its mysterious , costume-wearing rider - materialize in the desert one night and proceed to eliminate the members of a gang . Don't bother watching this hoping for an innovative script , clever dialog or particularly good performances . Watch it for its cool cars , it...
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6
Teenagers . . . I never had them when I was a kid .
Jimmy Wallace ( Jack Nicholson , in his very first film role ) is smarting from both being dumped by girlfriend Carole ( Carolyn Mitchell ) and then being beat up by her new boyfriend Manny ( Brett Halsey ) and his gang . In the midst of a confrontation with Manny , Jimmy gets hold of a gun and starts shooting , after ...
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6
Odd , not entirely satisfying , but an interesting effort all the same .
Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Larry Roberts ( Albert Finney ) is losing his clients as of late . They're dying under mysterious circumstances , and Roberts makes it his mission to protect Cindy ( Susan Dey ) , whom he believes will be next . The nefarious plot afoot seems to have something to do with the Reston Corpora...
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6
Fairly good slasher .
A group of children are playing a morbid version of hide and seek in an old run-down building . They corner one of their own , Robin Hammond , relentlessly taunting her , until she perishes in an accident . Unwilling to face any consequences , they each agree to clam up . Six years later , they're high school seniors a...
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6
Likable enough college / romantic comedy .
Andrew ( Michael Muhney ) and Joe ( Jon Collins ) are college room-mates who get into some predictable romantic entanglements . Joe has been pining for Shayna ( Mary Kay Cook ) , a student in his chemistry class , but when he goes home for Thanksgiving break and Andrew and Shayna stay behind , a night of drinking for t...
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6
Watchable enough little-known slasher .
On Halloween night in 1963 , a maniacal priest conducts an occult ritual wherein several college students are butchered . The priest spends the next 25 years locked in the cell of an insane asylum until fate - in the form of a fraternity prank - intervenes , and he is able to escape . He then picks his way through the ...
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6
A fair reworking of " Willard " .
Chris Robinson plays Tim Ochopee , a Seminole Indian haunted by his Vietnam War experience who lives in seclusion in the Florida Everglades . Seemingly unable to get along with other people , the only things that he identifies with are snakes , especially the title rattler . Stanley often gets into confrontations with ...
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6
Once again , a film in which the government is up to no good . . .
At Biotek , a monolithic facility in Utah , biological warfare experts cook up a weapon designed to turn its victims into raging , homicidal psychos . The movie barely begins before the unthinking scientists ( accidentally ) spread their disease inside their own lab and fall prey to their own invention . Local sheriff ...
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6
REALLY silly , but enjoyable .
Goofy , corny , clichéd 1980's horror thriller about derelicts in NYC , living underground , who have mutated into monsters after being exposed to toxic waste . They come up to street level at nighttime to eat their human victims . I may not have enjoyed it right from the start , but " C . H . U . D . " did sort of gro...
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6
Teenagers ! What WILL they think of next ? Giant spiders ? ? ? HA HA HA ! ! !
Two stupid teenagers , in search of the girl's missing father , enter a cave and find an enormous bird spider that inevitably causes a ruckus that forces the local authorities and experts to pursue it and " kill " it . They put it on display in a high school gym ( waiting for some university bigwigs to take it away for...
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6
A mildly amusing serving of 80's trash .
Betsy Russell is " Tommy " , the title character who enjoys tinkering with automobiles and is quite the good mechanic . She meets Randy Starr ( Gerard Christopher ) , a hunky racing champion whom she crushes on , but to whom she is determined to prove that anything he can do , she can do just as well . " Tomboy " is a ...
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6
For standard B-grade cop vs . killer material , it's certainly tolerable enough .
Detective Sam Dietz ( series star Leo Rossi ) has had enough of chasing psychos , but as this entry opens , he's being coaxed back into action to advise the inept detectives working the case of a particularly sickening and arrogant killer ( William Forsythe , clearly born to play this sort of part ) . With all the vari...
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6
Actually a little disappointing . . .
In the concluding film of writer / director George A . Romero's original zombie trilogy , a female scientist ( Lori Cardille ) and her associates hole up underground with a group of soldiers - some of the most sexist , racist , ignorant , mean , foul-mouthed jerks you're ever likely to see - while the zombie population...
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6
Not-bad Cold War era thriller .
In order to start a war between Israel and the United States , some Russian operatives steal some plutonium and plant a bomb in a Saudi Arabian oil field . It's up to super-agent Ken Wahl and his small fighting force to save the day , assisted by sexy Mossad agent Alberta Watson . A twisty , intrigue-laden hardcore act...
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Sean S . Cunningham graduates from slasher horror to suspense .
In a move that I'm sure he made to gain himself some credibility , as well as have some mainstream success , Cunningham made this failed adaptation of the Mary Higgins Clark novel ( scripted by Earl Mac Rauch ( " The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai in the Eighth Dimension " ) and " Friday the 13th " screenwriter Victor M...
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6
Amusing , trashy seasonal horror from the other side of the Atlantic .
The same year that " Silent Night , Deadly Night " caused a furor in North America , this silly horror film came out of England . In this case , the killer is not the one wearing the Santa Claus costume ; the victims are . This brutal psychopath wears various masks and utilizes different methods , and the Scotland Yard...
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6
Good action , not much else .
The third starring vehicle for former karate champion Chuck Norris from the soon-to-be defunct American Cinema company , " The Octagon " tells the story of Scott James ( Norris ) , whose adopted brother Seigura ( Tadashi Yamashita ) is running a terrorist training camp somewhere in Central America . Also involved is a ...
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6
It's passable , but forgettable .
A mild horror outing , with a generous dose of human drama , in which a humanoid creature of Native American myth is released from imprisonment in a forest cave and proceeds to terrorize and murder anyone / everyone unfortunate enough to be in the area . The primary focus of the movie is a sexy young ranger named Danie...
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6
Who wouldn't mind having Shannon Tweed for a neighbor ?
Our plot here can basically be summed up as " the boy who cried Satanist " . Handsome , affable high school senior Billy Colton ( Derek Rydall ) is known for telling stories , so when he claims that his grouchy jerk history teacher Mr . Willard ( Allen Garfield ) killed his sexy neighbor Lisa ( Shannon Tweed ) in a Sat...
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Not bad , I think . . .
Teen exploitation / sleaze drama about 15-year-old high school honor student Molly Stewart ( Donna Wilkes ) , who walks Hollywood Boulevard at night as a hooker named " Angel " . She acquires a mentor in compassionate detective Andrews ( Cliff Gorman ) while an ultra-creepy psycho killer ( John Diehl ) is killing off h...
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Not Bad For A Slasher Movie .
Virginia " Ginny " Wainwright ( Melissa Sue Anderson ) is one of the " Top Ten " , an exclusive clique of rich kids at the Canadian institution of Crawford Academy . However , what is more noteworthy is the fact that her friends have begun to get killed off - and Ginny thinks that she might be responsible . She's been ...
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This Was OK , Nothing More .
Southern California beach bum Sean Brumder ( Colin Hanks ) finds a book half-buried in the sand at the beach and it inspires him so much that he becomes determined to get accepted at Stanford University and forge a career as a writer . Unfortunately , his incredibly dysfunctional family ( including his moronic junkie b...
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Hell Night is not quite your usual " slasher " picture .
Two fraternity pledges ( Peter Barton , Vincent Van Patten ) and two sorority pledges ( Linda Blair , Suki Goodwin ) are obliged , as part of their initiation , to spend one night in Garth Manor , where a madman once murdered his family and then killed himself . However , the legend also states that one member of that ...
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Okay for what it is .
Folks venturing into the ocean by the small town of Palm Cove are being gobbled up by the title animals . This aberrant animal behavior is followed by aggressive behavior by the human locals . Biologist Mike Canfield ( Wayne David Crawford ) , testing the waters , figures that the local chemical plant may be responsibl...
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It shouldn't have been any fun , but I actually kind of liked it !
Routine , predictable " B " monster movie - this one about a giant crocodile - in which the rampaging animal devours anyone and everyone in its path after someone has been foolish to mess with the things ' nest of eggs . Everything about this is obligatory - the attractive and incompetent cast , the gore , the frequent...