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399,845 | 1,391,795 | 84,739 | 6 | Would you go swimming in that pond ? ! ? | All through history a run-down country home has taken its fair share of human lives ; together a young priest ( James Houghton ) and a cynical , grumpy detective ( Albert Salmi ) try to put an end to things in the present day . Passable genre fare with performances that are basically tolerable ( however , although thos... |
399,373 | 1,391,795 | 64,369 | 6 | My first Andy Milligan experience . | In this supposed period piece , three sisters and their husbands return to an island home for the reading of a will . It doesn't take long for bodies to start dropping , as a maniac in a cloak and hood marks them and bloodily dispatches them . While I didn't have as much fun watching this as I was hoping to , it's stil... |
398,608 | 1,391,795 | 129,332 | 6 | Not anything great , but I like it well enough . | In the time of the Mexican / American war , soldier John Boyd ( Guy Pearce ) is sent to a remote California fort in a snowy wilderness where he and his men rescue a Scotsman named Colqhoun ( Robert Carlyle ) who tells a spooky story of cannibalism . However , the story is not over yet . . . Obviously a very ambitious m... |
398,780 | 1,391,795 | 106,375 | 6 | Second verse , same as the first . . . | Large , slobbering , lovable St . Bernard Beethoven finds himself a girlfriend and they make four adorable puppies . George Newton's ( Charles Grodin ) children find out about the puppies and raise them in their basement without their dad's knowledge . Adding to the complications is that Beethoven's new mate is being w... |
398,642 | 1,391,795 | 57,985 | 6 | Not bad , considering my expectations weren't that high . | After the death of a much-hated / feared patriarch named Rufus Sinclair , his venal surviving relatives are marked for revenge after they have gone against the wishes of his will . One at a time , they are dispatched in the manner that they fear most . This was on my list of curiosities to see , given that it's the fir... |
399,053 | 1,391,795 | 758,730 | 6 | Entertaining to a degree . | AVPR picks up where its predecessor left off , and in short order a spacecraft carrying the new deadly menace of the " predalien " and a multitude of facehuggers has crash landed on Earth , outside a small Colorado town which is quickly infested . A sole Predator comes to clean house , while a small group of human surv... |
398,726 | 1,391,795 | 69,530 | 6 | Another vision of an untenable future . | In this certainly interesting , thoughtful , and sensitively handled sci-fi tale , the Earth has become way too overcrowded . So the edict is handed down that from now on conceiving a child will be a crime punishable by death . Carol McNeil ( Geraldine Chaplin ) ends up giving birth anyway , and she and husband Russ ( ... |
399,204 | 1,391,795 | 79,027 | 6 | Gray ? Our mangler's a zombie ! | Well , not really . The killer in this low budget genre effort was supposed to be a zombie originally , but ultimately was turned into an alien instead . After an opening crawl / narration that really doesn't make sense when you think about it , our movie begins , as a creature ( which , curiously , seems to be dressed... |
399,042 | 1,391,795 | 80,931 | 6 | So-so horror movie with some good moments and scenes . | From director Umberto Lenzi comes this mildly enjoyable variation on the standard zombie movie . Human beings get exposed to radiation and slowly rot into putrid killers that slaughter uninfected folks with a wanton aggression . TV journalist Dean Miller ( Hugo Stiglitz ) and his wife Anna ( Laura Trotter ) , a doctor ... |
399,546 | 1,391,795 | 71,408 | 6 | Worth checking out . | Deranged is a little , low-budget B-picture of the 1970's and another of the handful of thrillers to be inspired by the real-life exploits of Ed Gein . Other titles include , of course , the more well-known ones : " Psycho " , " The Texas Chain Saw Massacre " , and " The Silence of the Lambs " . Retired character act... |
399,638 | 1,391,795 | 86,610 | 6 | If you see something weird by the side of the road , for God's sake do not get out of the car . | Sam ( the late Philip Sayer ) is playing with son Tony ( Simon Nash ) at their cottage when everything gets dark and windy and Sam is abducted by aliens in an admittedly decent opening . Three years later , Sam returns , leaving a trail of mutilated corpses in his wake . It just goes to show you that Brits can be every... |
398,815 | 1,391,795 | 96,426 | 6 | It can give a horror fan a fair number of chuckles . | A bunch of dumb teenagers ( including " Gremlins " lead Zach Galligan , Deborah Foreman , Michelle Johnson , and Dana Ashbrook ) attend the midnight showing of a waxwork exhibit - seemingly just for something to do . These displays have the ability to trap each viewer in another time and place where , once they become ... |
399,274 | 1,391,795 | 249,478 | 6 | I thought that this one was pretty good . | Frank Morrison ( John Travolta ) is a hard-working boat builder and devoted dad who is naturally wary of the new man ( Vince Vaughn ) in his ex-wife's ( Teri Polo ) life . His wariness turns into outright distrust when his son ( Matt O'Leary ) says that he saw this guy commit a murder . The problem is , nobody will bel... |
398,721 | 1,391,795 | 82,812 | 6 | This might be too low in the sex and violence departments for some viewers . | Police detective Judd Austin ( Leonard Mann ) has an interesting case on his hands . A motorcycle-riding savage who wields an awesome looking knife - and whose head is always concealed by a helmet - is butchering several lovely young ladies by chopping off their heads , and has a recurring modus operandi of leaving the... |
399,295 | 1,391,795 | 47,041 | 6 | Don't let the title steer you away . . . | . . . this is a fun curio from the 1950's , an amusing murder mystery set in a carnival , with the star attraction , Goliath the gorilla , part of the plot . Nice guy employee / law student Joey ( Cameron Mitchell ) tries to figure out what's going on , as suspicion shifts from one character to another . Originally fil... |
399,183 | 1,391,795 | 53,593 | 6 | It has its moments . | Joey Faust ( Douglas Kennedy ) is an underworld figure and expert safe-cracker sprung out of the joint by nefarious Major Krenner ( James Griffith ) . Krenner , a spy , wants to turn the criminal invisible so he can steal radium ; however , this is just one step on the road to Krenners ' plans to take over the world wi... |
399,541 | 1,391,795 | 75,263 | 6 | Cops ! JS ! Screw ! | The delivery of these three words by Dana Elcar gave me a big laugh , and probably more entertainment than the balance of the film ! That's not to say that it's a bad film . While the plethora of twists and turns require one to pay close attention , it's a slick and quick-paced mystery / thriller that provides Charles ... |
398,968 | 1,391,795 | 73,820 | 7 | An okay time filler , but finally comes to life in the last dozen minutes or so . | Here's a memorable TV anthology made in the days when the ' movie of the week ' was the big thing , back in the 1970's . It's based on a trio of Richard Matheson stories , with the first two scripted by William F . Nolan , and the third - the most effective - by Matheson himself . If nothing else , it serves as an exem... |
399,868 | 1,391,795 | 120,524 | 7 | This should deliver the goods for some horror fans . | The Djinn ( Andrew Divoff ) , or genie if you want to call him that , escapes from his imprisonment inside a gem , and stalks L . A . looking for Alex ( Tammy Lauren ) , the one who inadvertently set him free . Since he wants a quota of souls , he grants wishes to all those in his path , but puts a horrible spin on eac... |
398,685 | 1,391,795 | 68,284 | 7 | Blaxploitation meets the horror genre in a hip early 70's vampire flick . | Lively and amusing hybrid of blaxploitation and low-budget horror in which African Prince Mamuwalde ( a very dapper William Marshall ) goes to visit Count Dracula ( Charles Macaulay ) , seeking his support in ending the slave trade . However , the twisted Count decides to curse Mamuwalde with the trait of vampirism . A... |
399,773 | 1,391,795 | 97,579 | 7 | Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before . . . | Tom Selleck plays Jimmie Rainwood , an airplane mechanic . He loves his pretty wife and his decent , ordinary life ; however , two nastily corrupt detectives ( David Rasche , Richard Young ) burst into his house one night thinking he's a drug contact ( they got the wrong address ) . He comes out of his bathroom wieldin... |
398,851 | 1,391,795 | 52,564 | 7 | Pretty enjoyable . | After a spacecraft that had landed on Mars returns to Earth , a crew member is brought back with a rather hideous infection . In order to know what they're dealing with , doctors insist that the other survivor tell their doomed story , which makes up the balance of this picture . " The Angry Red Planet " has a slow and... |
399,877 | 1,391,795 | 75,989 | 7 | Has anybody got any Raid ? | H . G . Wells adaptation in which normal-sized ants become aggressive giants after being exposed to a leaking barrel of toxic waste . This takes place on an island where veteran ice queen Joan Collins ( whose performance here is pure camp ) is showing a bunch of losers some supposedly prime island property . . . a bunc... |
398,777 | 1,391,795 | 109,040 | 7 | Still pretty funny to me ten years later . | Jim Carrey , in his first film starring role after achieving genuine stardom being the " token white guy " on TV's ' In Living Colour ' , plays the title character , who is hired by employees of the Miami Dolphins football team to locate and retrieve Snowflake the dolphin , the beloved mascot of the team . I really lau... |
398,865 | 1,391,795 | 106,873 | 7 | You speak Yiddish ? " No . . . I read subtitles . " | Slapstick-filled parody of older film noir titles and more contemporary sex-oriented thrillers . The references to the more recent ones - " Fatal Attraction " , " Basic Instinct " , " Sleeping with the Enemy " , and " Cape Fear " ( 1991 ) are more likely to be recognized , but films like " Double Indemnity " and " Body... |
399,690 | 1,391,795 | 83,660 | 7 | Good cast in a watchable enough slasher . | In a prologue , a man comes home , finds his wife in bed with a lover , and blows them both away , then turns the gun on himself . This quite effectively destroys the sanity of his son , who grows up to be a flute-playing , ax-murdering nut job played by none other than Frankie Avalon . Then the movie introduces us to ... |
399,246 | 1,391,795 | 52,602 | 7 | Fine murder mystery . | Successful mystery writer Cornelia van Gorder ( feisty Agnes Moorehead ) temporarily moves to a mansion in the country known as " The Oaks " . Meanwhile , a million dollars ' worth of securities has been embezzled from a bank , and hidden in that mansion . The stealthy , villainous title character , outfitted with a ma... |
399,860 | 1,391,795 | 95,719 | 7 | Decent enough B-movie . | This production from Roger Cormans ' Concorde films is an overall routine yet reasonably entertaining shocker about Elias Johnson ( Robert Lansing ) , the mayor of an island community , who , out of the best of intentions , has allowed a Dr . Morgan Hubbard ( Terri Treas ) to come to the island and conduct experiments ... |
399,305 | 1,391,795 | 118,583 | 7 | I thought you were dead . " Yeah . . . I get that a lot . " | Buffy the Vampire Slayer and ' Firefly ' creator Joss Whedon took this stab at extending this long-running sci-fi / horror / action series by setting this sequel 200 years after Alien 3 . Ripley ( Sigourney Weaver ) has been cloned through a blood sample but the misguided morons responsible did it basically because t... |
399,808 | 1,391,795 | 54,462 | 7 | Perfectly acceptable low , low-budget schlock . | Not-bad Roger Corman quickie about cosmetics magnate Janice Starlin ( Susan Cabot ) , who , in order to remain competitive in her business , is intent on fighting the aging process . She realizes she's found an answer of sorts in mad scientist Eric Zinthrop ( Michael Mark ) , who proves to her that the royal jelly that... |
398,997 | 1,391,795 | 83,624 | 7 | Sick sick SICK ! ! ! | This memorably bloody cult horror movie from the early 1980's is about rural New Yorker Duane Bradley ( Kevin Van Hentenryck ) who arrives in Times Square and checks into the seedy " Hotel Broslin " , carrying his deformed telepathic mutant Siamese twin brother Belial ( whew ! ) in a basket . Their mission is to get re... |
399,351 | 1,391,795 | 118,570 | 7 | Cute . . . to put it simply . | Josh Framm ( Kevin Zegers ) is a solemn , shy new kid in town who befriends a stray golden retriever whom he names ' Buddy ' . Before long , Josh has learned that his new companion can actually shoot hoops , and ' Buddy ' becomes a fixture on the court when Josh lands a spot on his school's basketball team . Harmless ,... |
398,900 | 1,391,795 | 50,622 | 7 | Provides a reasonable amount of fun . | Lost World type plot of an expedition to a section of the Antarctic where there's a body of warm water . The team members run into inclement weather - not to mention a flying menace - that forces them to land . Where they land is a few thousand feet below sea level where time is stuck back in the Mesozoic era . Dinos... |
399,140 | 1,391,795 | 734,692 | 7 | A good way to start . | This pilot episode for the now legendary series tells the story of Mike ( Earl Holliman ) , who has no memories of his past life and happens upon a small town where there isn't a soul in sight . As night falls , Mike sees one indication after another that there should be people around - yet he still sees nobody . As ni... |
399,043 | 1,391,795 | 68,290 | 7 | Good , stylish mummy horror . | The powerfully attractive Valerie Leon is Margaret Fuchs , daughter of Prof . Julian Fuchs ( the always solid Andrew Keir ) . Fuchs and his team of archaeologists live to regret breaking into the tomb of diabolical and alluring Queen Tera ( also played by Leon ) . The evil Queen has been perfectly preserved and is now ... |
399,888 | 1,391,795 | 87,998 | 7 | A nice independent little splatter fest . | A meteorite crashes to earth , unleashing a quick-to-reproduce toothy monster that , after gobbling up some dumb schmuck campers , comes to rest in the cellar of a suburban home . Here it multiplies like crazy and feasts on everybody it can . It looks to me like the balance of the budget went toward the effects . This ... |
399,774 | 1,391,795 | 149,691 | 7 | Good enough . | Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman play Adele and Ann August , a single mother who's the working definition of the word " dreamer " and her solemn , pragmatic daughter . Adele , wanting to make a fresh start in a big city , moves them from Wisconsin to California . Decent , if not exceptional or particularly memorable ... |
399,918 | 1,391,795 | 73,941 | 7 | Very likable lovers-on-the-lam drama . | Bobby ( Paul Le Mat ) is a mechanic , and Rose ( Dianne Hull ) , a single mom . Neither of them has much in the way of prospects , and when they find each other , it's love almost at first sight . Their first date goes well until a bad joke turns deadly , and , convinced that no-one will believe their story , Bobby con... |
399,617 | 1,391,795 | 70,531 | 7 | This film proves that ants need not grow to enormous size to pose a threat . | Ants become highly intelligent and become a deadly threat in this sci-fi thriller directed by legendary title creator Saul Bass ( whose credits include " Psycho " and " Alien " ) . Two scientists , played by Nigel Davenport and Michael Murphy , set up shop in an isolated Arizona installation to study the phenomenon . T... |
399,834 | 1,391,795 | 70,556 | 7 | Gave me a hankerin ' for tomatas . . . | Unrelentingly trashy hicksploitation flick with the novelty of plunking an African-American lead ( Leslie Uggams ) into redneck country . The lovely Ms . Uggams is jazz singer Liz Wetherly , who goes on vacation , only to fall victim to car trouble and get isolated in the back of the beyond . She stays at a cabin run b... |
399,757 | 1,391,795 | 24,055 | 7 | The picture quality on the MGM DVD is excellent . | Professor Morlant ( Boris Karloff ) is a dying Egyptologist who's acquired a jewel dubbed the " Eternal Light " . Believing that it will grant him immortality , he arranges to be buried with it . Someone steals it , however , and Morlant rises from his coffin in a relentless pursuit of his prized possession . The plot ... |
398,791 | 1,391,795 | 45,787 | 7 | Nicely done mad scientist tale . | This early sci-fi entry from Hammer Studios concerns lifelong friends Robin ( John Van Eyssen ) and Bill ( Stephen Murray ) . They develop a machine dubbed " the reproducer " , which creates copies of objects . They also happen to be in love with the same girl , Lena ( Barbara Payton ) . Bill is devastated when Lena ch... |
399,072 | 1,391,795 | 325,214 | 7 | Decent slasher hijinks for those who don't take their horror too seriously . | This fairly amusing bit of junky nonsense involves an undead miner , Jeremiah Stone , who long ago made a deal with the devil and placed a curse - fairly typical stuff for a horror movie villain . What he really aims to do is keep other peoples ' mitts off his precious gold - by any means necessary , of course . When a... |
399,054 | 1,391,795 | 83,550 | 7 | Actually superior to its predecessor . | An official prequel to " The Amityville Horror " , this movie is loosely based on the fate of the real-life DeFeo family who moved into the notorious Long Island home . The horrific actions of the homicidal eldest son Sonny ( Jack Magner ) are blamed here on demonic possession . Heroic priest Father Adamsky ( James Ols... |
399,932 | 1,391,795 | 154,029 | 7 | Somewhat interesting trash flick . | Michael Stearns plays Mike , a sexually frustrated individual with an interesting moral attitude towards sexuality . He has no problem ogling naked dancers but when women start having sex with men that's when he loses it . He believes that when women actually have sex that's when they lose any sense of " innocence " an... |
399,550 | 1,391,795 | 95,519 | 7 | Not just a license to drive , but a license to LIVE ! | Landmark 1980's teaming of " The Two Corey's " ( Haim and Feldman ) has Haim playing Les Anderson , who flunks his driver's test yet sneaks off with his grandfather's beloved Cadillac in order to keep a date with high school babe Mercedes ( Heather Graham , in her first significant movie role ) . " An innocent girl , a... |
399,159 | 1,391,795 | 97,670 | 7 | Stands out among Bronsons ' other Cannon Films output . | The final collaboration between star Charles Bronson and director J . Lee Thompson for Cannon Films in the 1980's , " Kinjite : Forbidden Subjects " offers us something a little different than the usual hard-edged cop movies of the decade . Bronson plays a standard-issue character : a very tough and angry veteran vice ... |
399,406 | 1,391,795 | 91,225 | 7 | Despite the large chorus of voice decrying this film as a worthless pile of excrement . . . | . . . I'll admit that I find it crazily endearing in its own thoroughly ridiculous way . Based on the comic book character created by Steve Gerber , this film works as a time capsule of over-the-top 80's cheese . The look of the characters and especially the music could only have fit into this era . Howard is a residen... |
399,123 | 1,391,795 | 52,609 | 7 | A fine film of its type . | The celebrated director Monte Hellman got his start working for Roger Corman in this low - budget creature feature produced by Corman's brother Gene . It's decidedly more moody , thoughtful , and genuinely creepy than other films of its kind , to be sure , with a strikingly original and gnarly monster . Alex ( Frank Wo... |
399,144 | 1,391,795 | 99,313 | 7 | Not bad B movie ; offers some fun . | A pleasant amalgam of ideas borrowed from earlier movies , " Crash and Burn " is a reasonably entertaining picture from veteran low-budget film-maker Charles Band . In a barely hospitable Earth of the future ( the year 2030 , to be exact ) the ozone layer has disappeared and remaining outside for any length of time is ... |
399,036 | 1,391,795 | 1,087,853 | 7 | Fun to a point . | Two rival bowling teams made up of doltish and sex-crazed kids are all fair game for an extremely lethal killer while they have an after-hours game . I don't want to say too much more about what story this film has in order to avoid any sort of spoilers . It's fun in seeing them for oneself . Some of the revelations ar... |
399,487 | 1,391,795 | 85,694 | 7 | That pool did look pretty disgusting ! | Not bad slasher entry with a standard " prank gone wrong " plot in which an unknown witness to said prank , perpetrated by a vindictive bunch of sorority babes on their flaky , cranky house mother , makes the girls pay the ultimate price . Well , I have to give writer / director Mark Rosman credit - he takes himself ve... |
399,517 | 1,391,795 | 59,221 | 7 | As always , the most hilarious " karate " moves ever by Mr . Knotts ! | Luther Heggs ( Don Knotts ) , a typesetter for a small town newspaper , takes a shot at being an actual reporter when he is goaded into spending the night in a supposedly haunted mansion . The trouble is , no one will believe his story the next day and he is sued by the owner of the house who doesn't want his family na... |
399,793 | 1,391,795 | 106,912 | 7 | ( Supposedly ) True Story Is Reasonably Entertaining . | Travis Walton ( D . B . Sweeney ) , Mike Rogers ( Robert Patrick ) , and others spend a busy day clearing away trees in the Arizona forest . When night comes , they spot a strange red light in the sky , and after a ' close encounter ' with an object in the sky and a strange light that zaps Travis , he ends up disappear... |
398,932 | 1,391,795 | 80,130 | 7 | Don't go upstairs ! | Written by Steve Feke and director Fred Walton ; this movie is supposed to be based on an actual urban legend , isn't it ? Carol Kane plays Jill , a babysitter who receives ominous phone calls all night long from psycho ( Tony Beckley ) who repeatedly asks her if she has ' checked the children ' . This goes on until th... |
398,930 | 1,391,795 | 367,153 | 7 | Good , solid effort from Tobe Hooper . | In this re-working of a sleazy slasher favorite from 1978 , the tenants at Lusman Arms , an aged Hollywood motel that has clearly seen much better days , are being brutally slaughtered . Nell ( a likable Angela Bettis in a decent starring turn ) and husband Steven ( Brent Roam ) are new to the building . She becomes qu... |
399,435 | 1,391,795 | 89,679 | 7 | Pretty good stuff . | Sean S . Cunningham's third post - " Friday the 13th " directorial effort is a 1980's teen thriller about Abby ( Lori Loughlin ) and Loren ( Shannon Presby ) , two kids who move in with their aunt and uncle in Florida after a car crash claims their parents . They are soon menaced by bullying punk Eddie Dutra ( James Sp... |
398,576 | 1,391,795 | 219,699 | 7 | I Thought It Was OK . | Dark , southern-Gothic thriller about young widow Annie ( Cate Blanchett ) who has psychic abilities and does readings for various people . Her testimony in a murder trial puts away a repulsive wife-beater ( Keanu Reeves ) , but she soon feels that the wrong man is in jail after receiving a number of supernatural clues... |
399,093 | 1,391,795 | 85,867 | 7 | Decent entertainment . | Set at a military academy in South Carolina circa 1964 , this fairly effective drama stars David Keith as a senior cadet asked by his mentor ( Robert Prosky ) to watch out for a new cadet ( Mark Breland ) , who is making history as the first black to enroll at the academy . Keith finds out about a secretive clique of c... |
399,212 | 1,391,795 | 285,728 | 7 | Not the usual serial killer film . | An under-rated actor who should be better known , Jeremy Renner , portrays real-life serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in a very low-key but effectively unnerving story of a maladjusted loner struggling with his own demons . Much more a character study than a chronicle of Dahmers ' exploits , the movie moves back and forth ... |
398,880 | 1,391,795 | 120,812 | 7 | Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth ? | Chris Tucker plays James Carter , a high-strung , motor-mouthed LAPD detective whose captain ( Philip Baker Hall ) is tired of his antics - and , yes , we've all heard that one before . The captain selects Carter as a candidate for an embarrassing job as a " babysitter " for Hong Kong detective inspector Lee ( Jackie C... |
399,732 | 1,391,795 | 83,907 | 7 | I really like it . . . gross-out factor and all . | Five college-age kids go to a cabin in the woods and spend one eventful night as almost all of them get demonically possessed . One of the goriest movies ever made , this is surprisingly slick for a group of novice film-makers . It is a wild , freaky and mean-spirited funhouse ride that fires away at you full blast . I... |
399,528 | 1,391,795 | 77,904 | 7 | Admittedly not a " good " film , but still kind of fun . | Based on the novel by Graham Masterton , " The Manitou " gives us a story of a young woman ( Susan Strasberg ) with an enlarged tumor on her neck that is determined to be a rapidly growing fetus . Furthermore , it's the current incarnation of an Indian medicine man who has lived on for 400 years and counting . While I ... |
399,704 | 1,391,795 | 95,389 | 7 | Reasonably good , enjoyable thriller . | James Spader plays a young medical student caught up in strange events : 100 years to the day of Jack The Rippers ' legendary murders , a copycat is out and about , cutting up prostitutes in bloody fashion . To say much more , I might lessen the experience of watching this little , overlooked film from the 80's , marki... |
399,795 | 1,391,795 | 158,583 | 7 | Seven Out Of Ten . | The debut picture for critic-turned-filmmaker Rod Lurie tells the story of the acting American President ( Kevin Pollak ) who is trapped in a Colorado diner by a snowstorm . He is faced with the horrible prospect of dropping a nuclear bomb on Baghdad in order to seek some sort of compliance from Udei Hussein , who's mo... |
399,663 | 1,391,795 | 52,320 | 7 | Four Out Of Ten ? It Deserves A Little Better Than That . . . | Based on a story by Peter Key , this Jimmy Sangster-scripted science-fiction / horror shocker is about a cloud resting atop a Swiss mountain named " The Trollenberg " that happens to be hiding a monster that looks like a tentacled eye and which kills its victims by decapitation . Nothing great , but offers a genuine do... |
398,687 | 1,391,795 | 77,889 | 7 | Good job by all concerned . | Adapted by veteran writer William Goldman from his own novel , this tale would almost certainly fall under the " psychological thriller " description common to a number of todays ' films . Sir Anthony Hopkins is Corky , an awkward , timid type who tries his hand at magic but doesn't become a success until he adds a dis... |
398,882 | 1,391,795 | 70,190 | 7 | A good slice of gory and goofy horror nonsense . | Jason ( Robin Askwith ) is in need of some R & R , and , through a company dubbed " Hairy Holidays " , is sent to a country manor where much more ghoulish happenings occur . There's a hapless dwarf ( a likable and funny Skip Martin ) , henchmen clad like motorcyclists , and a wheelchair-bound madman named Storm ( the w... |
399,898 | 1,391,795 | 325,525 | 7 | Entertaining overview of a great career . | Narrated by Leonard Nimoy , this enjoyable documentary charts the evolution of legendary special effects master Ray Harryhausen . I enjoyed seeing all of his work , and hearing his own comments . All of the major films that he worked on are mentioned , including " Mighty Joe Young " , " The Beast From 20 , 000 Fathoms ... |
399,681 | 1,391,795 | 85,811 | 7 | Corny , cheesy , not particularly imaginative , but still good fun . | Riding the wave of other genre pictures from the late 70's to the early 80's , Columbia Pictures gave us this contribution . A mixture of science-fiction , fantasy , and adventure , it sees an all-powerful " Beast " landing on a planet inside a " Black Fortress " that can disappear and re-materialize on a 24 hour basis... |
399,004 | 1,391,795 | 246,464 | 7 | It made me laugh , what more can I say ? | Based on the first novel by award-winning Miami-based humorist Dave Barry , this is the story of various characters - street thugs , bomb-smuggling immigrants , high school kids , an embezzler , two hitmen , two cops , a newspaper man-turned-advertising writer , etc . whose lives come together in an eventful couple of ... |
399,456 | 1,391,795 | 52,279 | 7 | Well , I liked it . | A young pre-stardom Robert Vaughn stars in this early Roger Corman effort in which Vaughn plays a young member of a prehistoric tribe . He begins to question everything , including the rigid set of rules set down by the tribe long ago , and yearns to venture " beyond the river " to unravel the mystery of the area . Thi... |
399,755 | 1,391,795 | 76,221 | 7 | Reasonably amusing skewed vision of medieval times . | Taking inspiration from the Lewis Carroll poem , co-writer / director Terry Gilliam and actor Michael Palin came up with this story of a none-too-bright chap named Dennis ( Palin ) who wishes to marry Griselda ( Annette Badland ) but believes that he will have to come up in the world first . He journeys to a village be... |
398,593 | 1,391,795 | 76,210 | 7 | A stirring and enjoyable " don't mess with mother nature " sci-fi thriller . | It took 44 years after the initial 1933 adaptation of the H . G . Wells novel before this second official screen version hit the screen . The story is that Dr . Moreau ( an excellent Burt Lancaster ) is living in seclusion with the stunning Maria ( ever gorgeous Barbara Carrera ) and assistant Montgomery ( a solid Nige... |
399,760 | 1,391,795 | 95,454 | 7 | Entertaining horror flick . | Fairly stylish and intense horror movie with heavy erotic overtones , a fair bit of gore , an appealing teenager-in-distress nicely played by Meredith Salenger , and a part for top-billed Joanna Pacula that really plays up her exotic beauty . The story has to deal with a curse of sorts passed down to each new generatio... |
399,209 | 1,391,795 | 91,647 | 7 | N'y sont pas . . . sont des Inuat . | Before he became an action and thriller expert starting with " Predator " , director John McTiernan started out in film by giving us this intriguing , small-scale psychological thriller . After attaining stardom on TV thanks to ' Remington Steele ' , Pierce Brosnan here makes his starring film debut as Jean-Charles Pom... |
399,563 | 1,391,795 | 105,242 | 7 | Gotta love that final showdown . . . | According to other User Comments here , this is a noticeably faithful adaptation of the H . P . Lovecraft story " The Case of Charles Dexter Ward " , previously filmed ( although less faithfully ) in the 1960's , as " The Haunted Palace " with Vincent Price . Well-off scientist Ward ( Chris Sarandon ) has his curiosity... |
399,293 | 1,391,795 | 47,960 | 7 | Pretty good 50's horror . | Two seemingly unrelated murders have taken place ; police doctor Chet Walker ( Richard Denning ) discovers that the killers are themselves in fact dead , and are being manipulated , using radioactivity , to commit various nefarious deeds . An early variation on zombie movies , this is fun , likable stuff from the mind ... |
399,310 | 1,391,795 | 70,287 | 7 | I liked it . | Based on fact account of " Junior " Jackson ( Jeff Bridges ) , the son of a moonshiner , who in order to raise the money necessary to release his father from prison , turns to demolition derbies and ultimately to stock car racing , becoming a champion on the track . I thought that this was reasonably entertaining . All... |
399,083 | 1,391,795 | 146,984 | 7 | It's a game that can't be won , only played . | Modest but effective little drama about war veteran Rannulph Junuh ( Matt Damon ) , once an excellent golfer , who has " lost his swing " and feeling for the game after his horrific experiences in combat . Mysterious caddie Bagger Vance ( Will Smith ) gently guides him along , offering many little pearls of wisdom , as... |
398,796 | 1,391,795 | 403,407 | 7 | Interesting vampire film . | In the future , genetic experimentation has given rise to a new and advanced variation on the human species . They are known as " The Brotherhood " , and exist to serve their less advanced counterparts . Things take a turn for the worse when a Brother named Edgar ( a marvelously intense Leo Gregory ) contracts a virus ... |
398,957 | 1,391,795 | 63,240 | 7 | Silly , to be sure , but endearingly so . | Oddball fantasy-adventure from Hammer Studios begins as a sea voyage , as a Captain Lansen ( Eric Porter ) is transporting , along with assorted passengers , illegal explosives that he intends to sell to make enough money to retire on . They travel into dangerous weather and are eventually forced to abandon ship . Then... |
399,647 | 1,391,795 | 95,271 | 7 | Back to Haddonfield . . . | After the failure of " Halloween III " , the series producers brought back unkillable monster Michael Audrey Myers in this sequel set ten years after the events of the first two movies . Laurie Strode , apparently deceased now , had a daughter three years after her run-in with her brother , and now the seven-year-old g... |
398,666 | 1,391,795 | 105,219 | 7 | Good of its type . | Bruce Lee's son Brandon got his first starring vehicle with this routinely written but competently done martial arts / cop flick . Brandon clearly had the looks , physicality , and presence to have had an impressive acting career had it not been cut tragically short on the set of " The Crow " . Brandon is Jake Lo , col... |
399,024 | 1,391,795 | 76,106 | 7 | An endearing biopic anchored by Pryors ' fine performance . | Richard Pryor plays Wendell Scott , a war vet with a love and talent for driving . After initially putting this to good use as a moonshine runner , he ends up in the world of stock car racing , facing an overwhelming amount of racism as he struggled to be taken seriously and , ultimately , become a champion on the trac... |
399,488 | 1,391,795 | 76,150 | 7 | Impossible to just dismiss once you've seen it . | A very subtle , character-driven drama / thriller / murder mystery about disturbed young Alice ( Paula Sheppard ) , who comes under suspicion for the grisly murder of her doted-on sister Karen ( Brooke Shields , in her first film role ) , strangled and set afire - inside a church , no less . Noteworthy for the heavy Ca... |
399,354 | 1,391,795 | 116,311 | 7 | How Many Times Does That Snake Get Loose ? | Sam Simms ( Sinbad ) is a laid-back , easygoing Secret Service agent who would like to be protecting the President himself ( James Naughton ) but ends up being obliged to protect the President's bratty son ( Brock Pierce ) instead . The good thing is , Simms and Luke ( the kid ) do end up bonding , and Simms helps him ... |
399,713 | 1,391,795 | 68,370 | 7 | A most amusing zombie romp . | Bossy theater group leader Alan ( Alan Ormsby , in a memorably and deliciously smarmy performance ) brings his hapless troupe to an island cemetery . Here he involves them in rites intended to raise the dead . Little does he know how well this will pay off . While the accent on the ( admittedly very funny at times ) di... |
399,165 | 1,391,795 | 422,401 | 7 | Doesn't live up to the hype , but it will undeniably please some hardcore horror fans . | A deformed , monstrous , bayou-dwelling psychopath who survived a hatchet to the face as a child lives on to terrorize the really stupid chump victims taking a tour of his domain in the present day . While I wouldn't consider this the second coming of the genre , director Adam Green does show a bit of flair . Made as a... |
399,428 | 1,391,795 | 770,739 | 7 | Amiable zombie hijinks from the Sci-Fi Channel . | Dean Cain portrays Bobby Quinn , a lieutenant with the Special Forces whose platoon is sent on a recon mission in Cambodia to investigate the fate of a covert scientific outpost . They get caught off guard when what they encounter turns out to be a bunch of ravenous zombies . Back Stateside , Bobby wakes up in time to ... |
399,643 | 1,391,795 | 120,694 | 7 | It was better than expected , but still fell a little short . | Sixth sequel to the money-making " Halloween " franchise is actually better than the past two entries . Basically , it ignores everything that happened in parts four to six and takes place twenty years after the events of " Halloween " one and two . Laurie Strode ( Jamie Lee Curtis ) has faked her death and is now the ... |
399,190 | 1,391,795 | 50,294 | 7 | Good for fans of the giant monster movies of the 50's . | An enormous prehistoric preying mantis is unearthed in the Arctic and proceeds to go on the expected rampage until our heroes find out what they're up against and try to stop it . Said heroes include a paleontologist , Dr . Jackson ( William Hopper ) , his associate , Marge Blaine ( Alix Talton ) , and stoic Col . Park... |
399,607 | 1,391,795 | 76,141 | 7 | I got it . . . I got it . . . I got it . . . I ain't got it . | Pretty funny Mel Brooks tribute to and spoof of many of Alfred Hitchcock's classics . Brooks himself plays Dr . Richard Harpo Thorndyke , the new head of an insane asylum , who realizes that he is caught in a conspiracy engineered by the staff . Unfortunately , I haven't seen enough of The Master's classic works to ide... |
399,133 | 1,391,795 | 74,228 | 7 | Decent drive-in fare . | The ever-ravishing Lynda Carter of ' Wonder Woman ' fame stars with Marjoe Gortner in this bouncy exploitation flick . She plays Bobbie Jo , a carhop with fantasies of being a country-western star . She hooks up with Lyle Wheeler ( a very likable and charismatic Gortner ) , a footloose quick-draw expert who uses Billy ... |
399,464 | 1,391,795 | 1,276,405 | 7 | Some knowing laughs for slasher fans . | A teenage girl left home alone by her mother is terrorized by a hockey mask wearing psychopath who's naturally escaped from a mental hospital . And that's the whole plot of this amusing horror short . What is most impressive is all the trouble director Dakota Thomas goes to to evoke the 80's , when slashers were at the... |
399,284 | 1,391,795 | 388,230 | 7 | A commendably straight-faced and eerie picture . | Malevolence is a nasty , bleak picture every step of the way . With very few characters that could legitimately be considered " innocent " , it sets up a disturbing back story involving a child's abduction and what that child is forced to witness . Several years later , a no-count quartet of criminals ( including a h... |
398,692 | 1,391,795 | 206,314 | 7 | Candy Cane ? Are You There ? | Nice-guy college student Lewis ( Paul Walker ) is going to his would-be girlfriend Venna's ( Leelee Sobieski ) college to drive her home and stops to bail his slacker brother Fuller ( Steve Zahn ) out of jail . Fuller soon coerces Lewis into playing a prank on a deep-voiced trucker using Lewis's CB radio . ( I didn't k... |
399,652 | 1,391,795 | 116,260 | 7 | Flawed but entertaining . | Karen McCann ( Sally Field ) , a working mom , has her world utterly shattered when Robert Doob ( Kiefer Sutherland ) , a delivery man , savagely rapes and murders her teenage daughter and then manages to avoid justice . Karen becomes obsessed with making him pay for what he did . Enjoyable but relentlessly manipulativ... |
398,668 | 1,391,795 | 68,459 | 7 | Hippies and a vampire make for an interesting combination here . | The late , great Robert Quarry is once again a vampire in an A . I . P . picture . The difference here is that he's not a dapper Bulgarian blood sucker but an enigmatic stranger with mustache , beard , and wig , who mysteriously appears one day and entrances a group of hippies . The philosophical musings that he utters... |
398,624 | 1,391,795 | 68,458 | 7 | Everybody , say it with me . . . " Mind the doors ! " | In 19th century London , tunnel workers were buried in a cave in , but managed to survive for many years , and in 1970's era London , the last living descendant of these underground dwellers is about to make his presence known to the outside world . This isn't really your standard issue horror movie . It's quiet , slow... |
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