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399,667 | 1,391,795 | 83,767 | 7 | Just tell it to call you Billie ! | Horror anthology collaboration between horror genre experts Stephen King and George A . Romero , in which they pay tribute to the E . C . horror comic books of the 1950's . Five King-scripted stories are told . 1 . " Father's Day " - - A murdered man ( who was apparently a real monster in life as well ) returns from th... |
398,986 | 1,391,795 | 120,616 | 7 | NO ! YOU MUST NOT READ FROM THE BOOK ! | Brendan Fraser plays Rick O'Connell , a legionnaire-turned-adventurer who leads librarian Evie Carnahan ( the beautiful Rachel Weisz ) and her moron brother Jonathan ( John Hannah ) to the supposedly " lost " city of Hamunaptra , where Imhotep ( Arnold Vosloo ) , a priest who was condemned to a torturous death thousand... |
398,866 | 1,391,795 | 87,597 | 7 | Entertaining , family-friendly sci-fi . | Teenager Alex Rogan ( Lance Guest ) is despondent over the fact that he can't seem to escape from his mundane trailer park existence . Little does he know that the arcade game that he has mastered is actually a recruiting tool to find individuals who can help an alien civilization defend themselves from interstellar vi... |
399,046 | 1,391,795 | 264,508 | 7 | Good fun . | Paul Marsh ( Ezra Godden ) is thrust into a nightmare in a coastal Spanish village named Imboca , when a horrible storm does severe damage to a friends ' boat , anchored offshore . When he makes it to the village , he finds that the locals are a very off-putting sort , and of no help whatsoever . As the rain continues ... |
399,147 | 1,391,795 | 124,014 | 7 | The kills in this one are what really sell it . | Not bad independently made slasher in which a child named Ed is cleaning his fathers ' firearms as a birthday surprise for the old man and accidentally shoots the wife / mother . Ed Sr . appears to lose it at that point . Several years later , Ed is a high school student played by the likable Matt Mitler . ( The box sa... |
399,153 | 1,391,795 | 67,727 | 7 | A pretty effective woman-in-peril thriller . | Sarah ( Mia Farrow ) is staying with relatives in Britain , and while she is out with an old flame named Steve ( Norman Eshley ) , her aunt ( Dorothy Alison ) and her family are murdered by a mysterious sicko , whom we in the audience can only identify by his boots . Now , of course , the killer is after poor Sarah , n... |
398,623 | 1,391,795 | 96,152 | 7 | What ever happened to the dog ? ? ? | Nice little horror / mystery in which L . A . lawyer Jeff Mills ( Timothy Daly ) rescues sexy stranger Miranda Reed ( Kelly Preston ) from her creepy boyfriend , Aldys ( Anthony Crivello ) , who warns Jeff that he " doesn't know what he's getting into " . Jeff should have listened . Miranda ultimately has to reveal to ... |
398,972 | 1,391,795 | 83,146 | 7 | Fairly good slasher flick . | This rural slasher centers around Melissa ( Aleisa Shirley ) , a supposed 15-year-old beauty who figures prominently in a rash of killings ; the victims are young guys with the fatal tendency to lust after her . The local good ol ' boy sheriff ( Bo Hopkins , in the kind of role that he was seemingly born to play ) not ... |
399,575 | 1,391,795 | 58,753 | 7 | Beware the lady in gray . | A nice mixture of the contemporary and the Gothic , this occult tale features two feuding families , the Whitlocks and the Laniers . In modern times , the Laniers , in the name of progress , are bulldozing their way through a cemetery , and desecrate the tomb of a Whitlock from the 16th century - a witch , killed by be... |
398,605 | 1,391,795 | 93,748 | 7 | You're messing with the wrong guy ! | Sentimental and farcical comedy from writer / producer / director John Hughes , who previously had had success with his teen-oriented growing pains movies , about uptight marketing executive Neal Page ( Steve Martin ) who is trying to get home for Thanksgiving and runs into one aggravating problem after another - espec... |
398,924 | 1,391,795 | 69,951 | 7 | A very visceral and intense vengeance-driven Western . | Richard Harris is Sean Kilpatrick , the unlikely sheriff of a small Texas town who always tries to avoid violence . However , he undergoes a major change of heart once Frank Brand ( an excellent Rod Taylor ) , a cold-blooded outlaw , and his nasty gang , cause a ruckus in his town , and lead to the deaths of Kilpatrick... |
399,344 | 1,391,795 | 67,757 | 7 | An enjoyably odd early 70's exploitation picture . | The always fun Andrew Prine memorably plays the title character , Simon Sinestrari . He's a warlock who lives in a storm drain , of all places . The plot is set into motion when he makes the acquaintance of Turk ( George Paulsin ) in prison . Turk brings him to a party presided over by mover-and-shaker " Hercules " ( G... |
399,286 | 1,391,795 | 80,881 | 7 | Fun and likable ode to mid-60's culture . | A very cool assemblage of up-and-coming actors form an amusing ensemble in director Floyd Mutrux's follow-up to " American Hot Wax " . A few stories are told amid a stream of cheerfully lowbrow comedic highlights as a gang of young punks set out to have a great time on Halloween night 1965 . Their favorite hang-out , T... |
399,549 | 1,391,795 | 98,090 | 7 | Decent entertainment . | 1980's style treatment of endlessly enduring story of disfigured composer , worshiping an aspiring young opera star from afar , who kills assorted people in order to further her career . This time , the titular , tragic menace is named Eric Destler , and is played by Freddy Krueger himself , a . k . a . Robert Englund ... |
399,631 | 1,391,795 | 98,622 | 7 | What , a guy from the seventeenth century is telling me how to drive ? | Decent horror genre entertainment in which a smiling disciple of Satan , known simply as " The Warlock " ( blond-haired , handsome genre veteran Julian Sands ) , escapes into the 20th century before he can be executed , and sets out to obtain the discarded pieces of The Grand Grimoire , otherwise known as Satan's versi... |
399,639 | 1,391,795 | 454,841 | 7 | Praise God , pass the ammunition . | Unrelentingly graphic , right-in-your-face modern remake of Wes Craven's rural horror thriller of 1977 , in which mutated survivors of atomic testing in the American southwest become deranged cannibals who prey on " normals " stupid enough to get lost down there . The Carter family are on their vacation , and after dec... |
398,574 | 1,391,795 | 120,004 | 7 | Now there's an exhibit you don't see every day ! | Basically a creature feature set in a museum , the film deals with the attempts of a biologist / researcher ( Penelope Ann Miller ) and a police lieutenant ( Tom Sizemore ) to find and kill a monster that was created from a fungus that causes living things to evolve in a new , beastly way . . . and crave the hypothalam... |
398,864 | 1,391,795 | 360,717 | 7 | Once again , we return to Skull Island . . . | In 1930's era NYC , renegade film-maker Carl Denham ( Jack Black ) shanghais playwright Jack Driscoll ( Adrien Brody ) , latches on to desperate former vaudevillian Ann Darrow ( Naomi Watts ) , and takes off in a ship for an obscure island where he intends to shoot his latest picture - and where they will meet towering... |
398,718 | 1,391,795 | 98,627 | 7 | The corpse is the " life " of the party ! | Two young insurance company employees , Larry ( Andrew McCarthy ) and Richard ( Jonathan Silverman ) discover an instance of fraud and report it to their boss Bernie ( Terry Kiser ) . Unfortunately for them , Bernie is the one behind the fraud , and he asks his mobster associate to take them out . Unfortunately for Ber... |
399,363 | 1,391,795 | 228,156 | 7 | Fairly effective grind-house thriller . | No-count hippies Ray ( Jason Williams ) and Alex ( Bill Osco ) are in the process of completing a drug deal , when they are confronted by border patrol officers and mangy psychotic Ray blows most of them away . Now on the lam , they still find opportunities to commit more crimes . Soon they're involved in kidnapping , ... |
399,264 | 1,391,795 | 69,994 | 7 | A memorably twisted low-budgeter . | The impossibly sexy Rosie Holotik plays Charlotte Beale , a new nurse at one of those movie-type asylums where the doctor in charge has his own , unorthodox ways of treating the inmates . Reluctantly bringing her on board is the officious Dr . Masters ( Anne MacAdams , a . k . a . Annabelle Weenick ) . The inmates don'... |
399,613 | 1,391,795 | 53,041 | 7 | Decent Hammer production . | Anton Diffring plays Dr . Georges Bonnet , an esteemed doctor in 19th century Paris who dabbles in sculpting . He's also a man with a secret : as one can guess from the title , he's managing to put off his demise and extend his life , but he often resorts to very nefarious methods to do so . Morally upright surgeon Pie... |
399,692 | 1,391,795 | 76,478 | 7 | My first Al Adamson flick . | Reanhauer ( Bill Roy ) is the leader of a desert-dwelling cult who tries to resurrect one of his people , only to have a heart attack himself ! He ends up dying on an operating table , and for the sake of revenge , his spirit takes over the body of the title character ( Jill Jacobson ) , who then proceeds to go about h... |
398,856 | 1,391,795 | 80,771 | 7 | Hard to dislike . | In the 31st century , the crew - macho Thor ( Stephen Macht ) , affable Buzz ( James David Hinton ) , bumbling Captain Butt ( Avery Schreiber ) , volatile Maurice ( Lionel Mark Smith ) , mellow Sam Wo ( Tad Horino ) , and the lifelike feminine robot of the title ( Dorothy Stratten ) - of a spaceship named The Infinity ... |
399,820 | 1,391,795 | 134,847 | 7 | Are you afraid of the dark ? | In the future , a disparate group of people asleep aboard a commercial spaceship is forced to improvise their survival when the spaceship crash-lands on a remote , barren planet . They already have one problem in that one of the passengers is intense criminal Richard Riddick ( Vin Diesel , in his first top-billed role ... |
399,033 | 1,391,795 | 93,777 | 7 | One of John Carpenter's more ambitious and provocative films . | Prince of Darkness is the second film in what Carpenter calls his " Apocalypse Trilogy " . It began with " The Thing " , and concluded with " In the Mouth of Madness " . We basically deal with the possible end of the world here . A cannister of green liquid is discovered in the basement of a run-down church . It's su... |
398,883 | 1,391,795 | 181,012 | 7 | Not bad little horror film . | Denise Watson ( Anita Skinner ) is a TV producer who survives an airplane crash . But it would seem that she can't avoid being surrounded by death . She's being stalked by specters , and can't tell if Death is sending these specters after her or if guilt is merely causing her to hallucinate . As the debut picture for d... |
399,950 | 1,391,795 | 47,209 | 7 | Not bad take on the Jack the Ripper story . | During the infamous killers ' murder spree , odd pathologist Mr . Slade ( Jack Palance , boosted to star status after his chilling turn as the villain in " Shane " and his Academy Award-nominated performance in " Sudden Fear " ) takes a room with the Harleys ( Frances ' Aunt Bea ' Bavier of ' The Andy Griffith Show ' a... |
398,667 | 1,391,795 | 197,857 | 7 | I enjoyed this film . | In this serving of 1970's era sleaze , two brothers are dominated by their shrewish mother , who decries young women as being " evil " . Frank ( Gary Kent ) has a Jekyll and Hyde type personality and can switch from being approachable to being hostile . Johnny ( John Stoglin ) is enthusiastic and has the mind of a chil... |
399,781 | 1,391,795 | 80,754 | 7 | Decent mystery / thriller with exemplary cast as its primary draw . | Detective Barney Caine ( George C . Scott ) gets involved in an increasingly twist-laden plot that begins when an old friend of his is found murdered . As it progresses , he travels to Germany , speaks to a variety of characters , and hooks up with a grieving young woman ( Marthe Keller ) . The story actually began bac... |
398,697 | 1,391,795 | 109,402 | 7 | Wild Ride ! | Jack Hammond ( Charlie Sheen ) is a fugitive on the run who ends up kidnapping Natalie Voss ( Kristy Swanson ) , who turns out to be the daughter of snobbish billionaire Dalton Voss ( Ray Wise ) . Most of the film takes place in Natalie's car as Jack attempts to outrace the police on his tail . I like the movie ; I thi... |
399,630 | 1,391,795 | 57,082 | 7 | Once again , hell hath no fury like a woman scorned . | Not-bad Spanish-made thriller from the folks at A . I . P . , it tells the story ( kind of old hat now , but not so much when this was made ) of a successful man , this case engineer Vance Pearson ( a very solid Barry Sullivan ) , a married man , who has an affair with Laura ( an absolutely stunning Martha Hyer ) . Fee... |
399,149 | 1,391,795 | 89,562 | 7 | This trash is worth a look before taking it out to the curb . . . | Hunky paleontologist Kevin Hall ( Michael Sopkiw ) hitches a ride with another expedition to a locale deep in the Amazon jungle . Their plane crashes , killing some of the folk on board . Among the assorted troubles that the others will endure are leeches , piranha , a fierce local tribe that pray to a dinosaur god , a... |
399,482 | 1,391,795 | 74,455 | 7 | Look out , Norman Bates . . . you've got competition ! | In this freakish , outlandish follow-up to his memorable debut , " The Texas Chain Saw Massacre " , Tobe Hooper gives us this silly - yet still shocking and highly amusing - horror film that if nothing else gives us a good dose of cinematic insanity . Neville Brand plays Judd , a decrepit old fool who operates the Star... |
399,866 | 1,391,795 | 91,671 | 7 | Worthy 1980's horror anthology . | Julian White ( the legendary , inimitable Vincent Price ) is the librarian / historian for the small Tennessee town of Oldfield . Visited by reporter Bess Chandler ( the equally unique Susan Tyrrell ) after the execution of Julian's murderous niece ( cult actress Martine Beswicke ) , he spins a quartet of macabre stori... |
398,745 | 1,391,795 | 83,040 | 7 | Not bad action / revenge saga . | One of the first action movies to explore the lingering after-effects of the Vietnam War , this decent , competently made B picture benefits from good lead performances by Perry King and Don Stroud as former G . I . ' s . The other members of their unit have already been murdered by a former South Vietnamese political ... |
399,379 | 1,391,795 | 85,124 | 7 | A fun bit of escapism . | In this low-budget Italian picture , the Bronx has become a decrepit " no man's land " where gangs are left to their own devices . The man in charge of it all is ultra-smooth Ogre ( Fred Williamson ) . The story kicks off when Ann ( Stefania Girolami ) , the daughter of the boss of an arms-dealing corporation , runs aw... |
399,409 | 1,391,795 | 85,121 | 7 | Bronson once again does a great job of ridding the world of human scum . | Charles Bronson plays no-nonsense detective Leo Kessler , up against a cunning adversary . Warren Stacey ( Gene Davis ) is a good-looking guy who has one major thing working against him : he's a depraved creep . Whenever young women spurn his sleazy advances , he goes out and kills them ( in the nude , no less ! ) . Ho... |
399,931 | 1,391,795 | 111,248 | 7 | An amiable bit of sex-oriented nonsense . | Likable enough Keith Colouris plays Harry Spencer , instructor at the title place of " learning " where people are basically taught how to have fun in the sun . Keith is visited by his highly animated younger brother Billy ( Corey Feldman ) in time for their uncle Gene ( Al Lewis ) , a shameless horndog and gambler to ... |
399,102 | 1,391,795 | 58,694 | 7 | A fun movie . | Six Yankee folk happen upon an isolated Southern town where the locals are gleefully celebrating their centennial . Exactly what they're celebrating they never make clear , although it becomes clear enough later on that this dose of Southern hospitality isn't to be taken at face value . Herschell Gordon Lewis masterpie... |
399,073 | 1,391,795 | 58,700 | 7 | A good apocalyptic tale . | Robert Morgan ( Vincent Price ) is the title character , left all alone after a germ turns all other people into shambling creatures exhibiting both vampire and zombie traits . Eking out a precarious day-to-day existence , he spends his time either searching for these creatures and destroying them , or searching for ot... |
399,099 | 1,391,795 | 33,728 | 7 | Not exactly what I'd call " horror " , but likable , silly , and fun . | Shameless Bill Martin ( an incredibly engaging Dick Foran ) has in the past failed at his get-rich-quick schemes , then hits upon inspiration . Upon the arrival of the gregarious Tobias ( Leo Carrillo ) , who is in possession of a treasure map , Bill and hapless sidekick " Stuff " ( Fuzzy Knight ) concoct an " island a... |
399,716 | 1,391,795 | 96,119 | 7 | It's time for more bloody hijinks with everybody's favorite transsexual slasher . | You just can't keep a good psycho down : homicidally puritanical killer Angela Baker has , this time , assumed another schmuck victims ' identity and enrolled as a camper at the same camp where she was a counselor in the last sequel . Fed up with her annoying fellow campers , it goes without saying that she'll teach th... |
399,633 | 1,391,795 | 96,118 | 7 | Low-budget campy horror , hilariously stuck in the 1980's . | After the high creep factor of the offbeat 1983 slasher picture " Sleepaway Camp " , the makers of this belated sequel went in a new direction , playing everything for laughs in an enjoyably silly fashion . Original murderer Angela Baker is now Angela Johnson ( Pamela Springsteen ) , who's now an actual female thanks t... |
398,953 | 1,391,795 | 47,590 | 7 | An amiable boy-and-his-robot tale . | Scientists Ralph Harrison ( Charles Drake ) and Arnold Nordstrom ( Taylor Holmes ) both consider space travel tests on human subjects to be too dangerous . Their solution is to create the title robot ( Lew Smith ) , who will be sent on the first space flight . They've programmed Tobor with the ability to both feel and ... |
398,749 | 1,391,795 | 67,991 | 7 | A man and his rats . | Interesting combination of make-you-squirm-in-your-seat genre fare and affecting character study has gone on to become a classic of sorts . Bruce Davison memorably portrays the title character , a wimpy and downtrodden loser dominated by his mother Henrietta , played by none other than the Bride of Frankenstein herself... |
399,573 | 1,391,795 | 92,076 | 7 | I was too hard on this the first time around . | A dozen years belated sequel to his most infamous film , Tobe Hoopers ' " The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 " follows a new pair of characters as they interact with the cannibalistic Sawyer clan : " Lefty " Enright ( a well cast Dennis Hopper ) , a certifiably flaky ex-Texas Ranger out for revenge , and " Stretch " Block (... |
399,579 | 1,391,795 | 57,160 | 7 | A likable enough minor 1960's horror film . | Architect Scott Campbell ( Ronald Foster ) and wife Nancy ( the winsome Merry Anders ) are sent on an architectural survey job by lawyer friend Joe Schiller ( Richard Crane ) . This involves settling into an old castle-like mansion with an expectedly dubious history . And , wouldn't you know it , they experience one st... |
399,829 | 1,391,795 | 80,603 | 7 | Not bad " haunted vessel " horror flick . | In this 1980 movie that may well have inspired the 2002 movie " Ghost Ship " ( right down to the poster design ) , a luxury liner captained by unfriendly Ashland ( George Kennedy ) collides with a mysterious freighter . The handful of survivors ends up boarding the freighter , not realizing that their ordeal is ongoing... |
399,162 | 1,391,795 | 93,996 | 7 | Hot babes , lotsa gore , tons of laughs . . . what's not to love ? | Courtney , the youngest survivor of the original " Slumber Party Massacre " , is now played by Crystal Bernard of ' Wings ' fame . She's a member of an aspiring rock band also consisting of hottie friends Amy ( Kimberly McArthur ) , Sheila ( Juliette Cummins ) , and Sally ( Heidi Kozak ) . Courtney regularly has nightm... |
399,245 | 1,391,795 | 80,596 | 7 | An entertaining little B sci-fi flick . | Bizarre , trippy , forget - about - a - story - and - full - steam - ahead low budget sci-fi about the Williams family , living in the California desert . They become witness to a series of events that escalate in their level of strangeness ; apparently , they've been caught in a time-space warp , where past , present ... |
399,595 | 1,391,795 | 24,184 | 7 | He could be right next to me , now , as I type . | Mad scientist Jack Griffin ( Claude Rains ) has discovered how to make himself invisible . Problem is , a drug included in the formula has also driven him mad , and soon he is terrorizing the English countryside . One of the all-time great Universal chillers , huh ? Well , I am reasonably impressed , even if I didn't f... |
399,301 | 1,391,795 | 98,354 | 7 | Sit back and enjoy the thrill of the shunt . | Offbeat screenplay by Woody Keith and Rick Fry is partly psychological , and part mind-blowing - I mean really mind-blowing fantasy style horror . Hunky teenage jock Bill Whitney ( TV mainstay Billy Warlock ) is starting to become suspicious of his parents and sister , believing that they are up to some very odd things... |
399,281 | 1,391,795 | 87,262 | 7 | The similarity to " Carrie " is indeed undeniable . | Based on the Stephen King novel , " Firestarter " tells the story of Charlie McGee ( Drew Barrymore ) , more than just the offspring of parents Andy ( David Keith ) and Vicky ( Heather Locklear ) but the product of the drug experiment they took part in during their college days . They took something named " Lot Six " ,... |
399,695 | 1,391,795 | 98,350 | 7 | Somewhat interesting sci-fi fare . | In a typically desolate vision of Earths ' future , there are intimidating winds that now dominate the planet - known as the " slipstream " . Affable , hard-luck dreamer Matt ( Bill Paxton , highly animated as always ) runs into thuggish cop Tasker ( Mark Hamill , clearly relishing the opportunity to be the baddie afte... |
399,525 | 1,391,795 | 47,577 | 7 | Not as bad as its MST3K treatment might lead you to believe . | Dr . Cal Meacham ( Rex Reason ) is recruited , along with other assorted Earth scientists , to work on a project put together by a mysterious and odd-looking man named Exeter ( Jeff Morrow ) . It turns out that these scientists are really being forced to help an alien race save their war-ravaged planet . While some of ... |
399,291 | 1,391,795 | 65,854 | 7 | A fun collection of horror stars and macabre stories . | From the mind of Robert Bloch , of " Psycho " fame , come four tales of twisty terror in this Amicus anthology film , which , while not quite as much fun , or scary , as I would have liked , still provides for some decent genre entertainment . It's linked by the wrap-around story of a highly skeptical Scotland Yard det... |
399,861 | 1,391,795 | 107,076 | 7 | How does it feel to be hunted ? " You tell me ! " | The first American film to utilize the skills of Hong Kong action specialist John Woo , " Hard Target " is another variation on the theme of " The Most Dangerous Game " , in which humans decide to hunt and kill other humans for sport . The victims this time are combat veterans who are now homeless and thus easy prey fo... |
399,883 | 1,391,795 | 74,540 | 7 | Entertaining horror junk . | An adaptation of a " portion " of the H . G . Wells novel , giant-thing-on-a-rampage specialist Bert I . Gordon gives us this nature-strikes-back movie about a mysterious substance that causes massive growth in worms , chickens , wasps , and especially rats . Football hero Morgan ( the hilariously cast Marjoe Gortner )... |
399,304 | 1,391,795 | 95,963 | 7 | Routine 1980's era buddy-cop movie enlivened by good cast . | The Governator plays Captain Ivan Danko , a humorless and utterly stiff Russian cop who tracks ultra-sleazy / nasty Georgian drug dealer Viktor Rosta ( Ed O'Ross ) to Chicago , where local detective Art Ridzik ( James Belushi ) , a crass , wisecracking jerk is stuck with the job of playing babysitter to Danko while he ... |
399,769 | 1,391,795 | 83,336 | 7 | Thus concludes the threesome of " Wolf " movies of 1981 . | In addition to " The Howling " and " An American Werewolf in London " , this picture came out , based on the novel by Whitley Streiber . Surly NYC police detective Dewey Wilson ( Albert Finney ) investigates savage murders that look like animal attacks , teaming with his coroner friend Whittington ( Gregory Hines ) and... |
398,627 | 1,391,795 | 76,704 | 7 | Good for a night's viewing . | Shock Waves is a decent enough B-level horror thriller from the 1970's , marking the film-making debut of Ken Wiederhorn ( " Eyes of a Stranger " , " Return of the Living Dead Part II " ) . Two couples go on a boating vacation , and along with the boat's crew , end up stranded on a remote island where they are preyed... |
399,668 | 1,391,795 | 95,990 | 7 | Pretty funny . . . | In this comedic sequel to the 1985 film " The Return of the Living Dead " , curiosity kills the cat : some kids find a cannister of zombie gas ( also containing a zombie corpse , naturally ) and the gas leaks everywhere and re-animates hundreds of dead bodies , leading to the expected rampage . This movie never pretend... |
399,447 | 1,391,795 | 309,698 | 7 | More to it than meets the eye . . . | A group of ten complete strangers are all brought by circumstance ( or is it something more ? . . . ) to a rundown desert motel in the middle of nowhere . Then their number starts being reduced as someone is running around killing them one by one . Unfairly dissed as being a sick , nonsensical slasher movie with a big-... |
399,651 | 1,391,795 | 305,396 | 7 | CRIKEY ! | The Crocodile Hunter ( Steve Irwin ) and his wife ( Terri Irwin ) work to relocate an angry croc after it has incurred the wrath of a trigger-happy rancher ( Magda Szubanski ) ; what they don't know is that the croc has swallowed a part of a spy satellite that fell to Earth . Two rival teams of CIA agents are out to re... |
398,775 | 1,391,795 | 146,675 | 7 | It's AH-NULD VS . SATAN in the match of the century . | On the eve of the millennium , Satan arrives in NYC , takes over the body of an unidentified New Yorker ( Gabriel Byrne ) and sets out to find the young woman ( Robin Tunney ) who's destined to be the poor sap whom he must impregnate in order to bring about the destruction of Earth . However , AH-NULD is in his way , a... |
398,590 | 1,391,795 | 58,622 | 7 | A decent little thriller with a fine performance by Victor Buono . | Inspired by the real-life Boston Strangler slayings , this film stars the late , great character star Victor Buono as a lab technician named Leo Kroll . Krolls ' life is dominated by his nagging , bedridden mother ( Ellen Corby of ' The Waltons ' fame ) ; he symbolically strikes out against her by strangling assorted f... |
398,646 | 1,391,795 | 76,683 | 7 | Worth watching for the cast alone . | NYC model Alison Parker ( Cristina Raines ) rents a room in an old brownstone where she meets a few bizarre neighbors and experiences some creepy hallucinations . As lawyer boyfriend Michael Lerman ( Chris Sarandon ) goes about making inquiries on her behalf , she struggles to maintain her sanity ( not to mention her w... |
399,431 | 1,391,795 | 107,009 | 7 | When serial killers go on-line . | Extremely far-fetched , outrageous but somewhat fun escapism with thoroughly vile serial killer Karl Hochman ( Ted Marcoux ) sucked into a computer mainframe when his body is being scanned at a hospital during a thunderstorm . In his new form he proceeds to terrorize Terry Munroe ( Karen Allen ) , the single mother who... |
399,196 | 1,391,795 | 74,751 | 7 | TWAS BEAUTY KILLED THE BEAST . . . AGAIN . | Remake of classic 1933 monster movie , in which a monstrous ape living on a remote island falls in love with a girl - and goes on a rampage when brought overseas to NYC . Unlike others who have openly condemned this movie , I think this version can stand on its own : it's reasonably entertaining although I would have t... |
398,963 | 1,391,795 | 85,450 | 7 | It can send a viewer out with a smile on their face ! | In this amiable , outrageous 1980's vehicle , star Dan Aykroyd plays Clifford Skridlow , a meek and mild type college professor who is roped into the prostitution business by a cowardly pimp ( Howard Hesseman ) who has contrived a new partner that Skridlow is ultimately obliged to bring to life - the titular character ... |
399,168 | 1,391,795 | 89,338 | 7 | My first dose of Ruggero Deodato . | Best known for the 1980 shocker " Cannibal Holocaust " , Deodato here directs a reasonably invigorating action / adventure filmed on location in the jungles of Venezuela . Reporter Fran ( the stunning Lisa Blount , whom I really wish had become a bigger star ) and her cameraman Mark ( Leonard Mann ) are covering a drug... |
399,766 | 1,391,795 | 69,792 | 7 | ' Down and Out in New York City ' | Tommy Gibbs is a ghetto teenager who resorts to doing errands for The Man . After being humiliated by a brutal , and brutally racist , corrupt cop ( Art Lund ) Tommy vows to rise to the top of the local crime scene himself - and he does so , in as violent a fashion as possible , infiltrating and then annihilating his n... |
399,365 | 1,391,795 | 60,548 | 7 | Pretty good stuff . | On a British island , scientists diligently work on a cure for cancer . However , their idea - a creation of a new life form - is no cure . These beings - looking a little like land born versions of the Martian spaceships in " War of the Worlds " - devour bones and turn their victims into " jelly " . A dedicated team o... |
398,859 | 1,391,795 | 432,024 | 7 | A decent supplement to 1974s ' " Vampyres " . | The two stars of the 1974 erotic vampire film " Vampyres " , Marianne Morris and Anulka , sit down and share their memories of working on the film in this brief ( under 14 minutes ) featurette on the DVD . The strongest attraction for me was seeing the two lovely ladies in more recent years , and they look as if they'v... |
398,568 | 1,391,795 | 117,998 | 7 | I Like It . | This entry in the nature-run-amok subgenre of movie thrillers is about a divorcing couple , Jo and Bill ( Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton ) who can't seem to stop being around each other - especially since they both have a passion for chasing tornadoes and learning everything they can about them . A guilty pleasure , to be ... |
398,741 | 1,391,795 | 87,132 | 7 | A highly amusing sexploitation flick . | Three sexual deviants escape from an asylum : no-talent former comedian and impressionist Carl Clooney ( Michael Pataki ) , baseball player turned rapist Dick Peters ( Bob Minor ) , and unhinged homosexual former dress designer Bruce Wilson ( Stephen Stucker ) . After they stop off at the house of farmer Earl ( George ... |
399,553 | 1,391,795 | 74,703 | 7 | Very nice combo of blaxploitation and horror . | J . D . ' s Revenge is an Exorcist variation , set in New Orleans , in which a nice guy cab driver and law student ( affable Glynn Turman ) participates in a hypnotism session , which somehow allows the spirit of a deceased gangster , J . D . Walker ( David McKnight , oozing oily menace ) , who desires revenge on tho... |
399,380 | 1,391,795 | 884,328 | 7 | Above average Stephen King adaptation . | As something of a Stephen King fan , I'd thought for a while that this was one story that would make a fine movie . When I heard that a film project was finally underway , I was certainly intrigued . After having just seen it , I can say that while not without flaws ( I didn't care too much for the creatures and some o... |
399,551 | 1,391,795 | 85,473 | 7 | Not a bad picture to watch on a slow Wednesday . | Eddie Macon ( John Schneider , in his first film starring role since coming to prominence on ' The Dukes of Hazzard ' ) is an honest-to-God good man who ends up in jail after losing his cool with his sleazy employer . Before the film starts , he's already escaped once , and as the film opens , he escapes again ( you'd ... |
399,238 | 1,391,795 | 37,793 | 7 | I never get . . . transfusions . | All-Monster congregation in the final film in Universal's renowned cycle of classic horror stories . Count Dracula ( an intense , dapper John Carradine ) , calling himself Baron Latos , comes to Dr . Edelmann ( Onslow Stevens ) asking to be cured of his affliction . Naturally , this is just a ruse . Then , coincidental... |
399,614 | 1,391,795 | 89,304 | 7 | Amiable 1980's sex-oriented nonsense . | This " plot " , such as it is , is very familiar to many of us by now : four teenage boys can take being virgins no longer and make a pact to help each other score before their summer is over . And there you go . But the appeal lies in a lowbrow farce that does stay true to itself and doesn't aspire to be anything more... |
398,913 | 1,391,795 | 100,403 | 7 | Not as good as the first one , but still good . | Another alien killer comes to planet Earth in 1997 , this time in the urban setting of Los Angeles . In the midst of brutal and savage drug wars between Colombians and Jamaicans , it claims a steady supply of human victims . High-strung and quick-tempered Mike Harrigan ( Danny Glover ) is the human hero this time aroun... |
398,678 | 1,391,795 | 74,706 | 7 | Tommy Lee Jones steals the show . | Poor Dinah Hunter ( Yvette Mimieux ) : through no fault of her own , she ends up incarcerated while driving from Los Angeles to New York . Her first night , the guard on duty forces himself on her and she accidentally kills him in self-defense . With the assistance of modern outlaw Coley Blake ( Tommy Lee Jones ) , she... |
399,185 | 1,391,795 | 50,722 | 7 | Pretty good as the " giant bug " movies of the ' 50's go . | An earthquake in California causes long dormant prehistoric eggs to hatch under the Salton Sea ; the result is large and deadly mollusks that snatch unwary prey . The heroes include Tim Holt as the steadfast Lt . Cmdr . Twillinger and Hans Conried as the no-nonsense Dr . Rogers ; Twillinger also finds time to romance R... |
398,943 | 1,391,795 | 85,398 | 7 | Daniel is a good film by Sidney Lumet . | Politically loaded saga of Daniel Isaacson ( Timothy Hutton ) whose parents ( Mandy Patinkin and Lindsay Crouse ) end up being executed for a supposed theft of state secrets that they were implicated in . Daniel and his emotionally fragile sister ( Amanda Plummer ) deal with this legacy as best they can years later . F... |
399,872 | 1,391,795 | 102,882 | 7 | Some great character actors bring it to life . | A fanatical cult led by Grace Spivey ( Grace Zabriskie ) comes to believe that little kid Joey Scavello ( Jarrett Lennon ) is the Antichrist in disguise , and set about to wipe the poor boy off the face of the Earth . Joey and mom Christine ( an awful Belinda Bauer ) take it on the lam with heroic , nice-guy private de... |
399,815 | 1,391,795 | 305,224 | 7 | Watching it didn't make ME angry . . . | Dave Buznik ( Adam Sandler ) is a personal assistant who is arrested after an incident on an airplane . Ordered by a judge to undergo anger management training , he ends up getting the most unorthodox and wildest instructor in NYC , Dr . Buddy Rydell ( Jack Nicholson ) . Sometimes flat , but mostly funny and entertaini... |
399,725 | 1,391,795 | 78,474 | 7 | An entertaining adventure . | Greg Collinson ( Doug McClure ) has devised an experimental diving craft and , along with British scientist Charles Aitken ( Peter Gilmore ) , uses it to explore the depths . They end up in the underwater city of Atlantis , whose citizens intend to have Aitken join them , hoping to exploit his superior intellect . In a... |
399,592 | 1,391,795 | 35,423 | 7 | Good enough . | Leopold ( Hugh Jackman ) is a nineteenth century nobleman and inventor who ends up in the twenty-first century , courting the very modernized Kate ( Meg Ryan ) , thanks to the interference of Kate's flaky ex-boyfriend Stuart ( Liev Schreiber ) . The kind of film I could best describe as " cute . " That's it in a nutshe... |
399,289 | 1,391,795 | 91,969 | 7 | An agreeable tongue-in-cheek slasher . | Two years after their own twisted take on the Yuletide season with " Don't Open Till Christmas " , producers Steve Minasian and Dick Randall came up with more slasher hijinks with " Slaughter High " . The story has a put-upon loser named Marty ( Simon Scuddamore ) who undergoes a pretty elaborate humiliation mastermind... |
398,768 | 1,391,795 | 94,701 | 7 | Worth seeing for the cast , in any event . | In 1975 , a girl named Cynthia managed to survive a suicide pact engineered by charismatic / creepy cult leader Clayton Harris ( Richard Lynch ) . In 1988 , Cynthia emerges as a young adult ( Jennifer Rubin ) from a coma and is placed under the care of kindly psychiatrist Alex Karmen ( Bruce Abbott ) . Soon enough , al... |
399,835 | 1,391,795 | 74,768 | 7 | Reasonably enjoyable . | Not bad Nazisploitation trash about experiments intended to create a superior race of Nazi soldiers . Young enemy women are brought in to copulate with the studliest young members of the Nazi ranks . It delivers some foul and repellent highlights , with a dedicated cast sinking their teeth into their depraved roles . I... |
399,329 | 1,391,795 | 71,517 | 7 | Superbad ! | Originally conceived as a sequel to his previous hit " Coffy " , writer - director Jack Hill concocted this follow-up vehicle for Pam Grier , the undisputed queen of the unfairly dubbed " blaxploitation " genre . Grier plays the title character , a saucy and tough woman with an unspecified occupation who is dealing wit... |
399,027 | 1,391,795 | 62,168 | 7 | Nicely done sci-fi from Hammer Studios . | In modern-day London , a tunnel excavation intended to add extensions to the existing subway system unearths some strange finds . First , a series of skulls and skeletons neither ape nor man , but something in between , possibly dating as far back as five million years ( ! ) . Next , a strange object , possibly a space... |
398,841 | 1,391,795 | 106,220 | 7 | Isn't he the ladykiller ? " Acquitted . " | Decent sequel to the 1991 movie " The Addams Family " in which most of the principal actors reprise their roles . Scheming , psychotic black-widow type nanny Debbie Jellinsky ( a very entertaining Joan Cusack ) insinuates herself into the Addams household ( after the arrival of new Addams baby Pubert ) ; her plan is to... |
398,846 | 1,391,795 | 58,333 | 7 | The first Poe adaptation that I've ever seen . | Adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe story in which evil and decadent Prince Prospero ( Vincent Price , obviously enjoying himself tremendously ) presides over a court of equally decadent revelers . Not only that , but he and his female companion ( Hazel Court ) are Satan worshippers as well . In contrast to other Roger Corma... |
399,221 | 1,391,795 | 211,443 | 7 | Jason Voorhees Hacks And Slashes His Way Through The 25th Century . | Just like " Jason Goes To Hell " before it , there is nothing connecting this film to the previous series entry . NOTHING . In the early 21st Century , Jason is being studied in a research lab located in Crystal Lake ( no explanation how he got there ) and inevitably escapes . He is about to slaughter sexy scientist Ro... |
399,698 | 1,391,795 | 73,705 | 7 | A creditable debut for Cronenberg . | This film takes place at Starliner Towers , a high rise apartment complex isolated on an island and which is very self-sufficient . A biological experiment gone awry has led to the creation of slug-like parasites that , once inside a human body , turn people into ravenous sexual deviants . The buildings ' in-house doct... |
398,960 | 1,391,795 | 115,610 | 7 | Not bad as werewolf movies go . | Country dwelling lawyer Janet ( Mariel Hemingway ) is thrilled when her globe-trotting brother Ted ( Michael Pare ) arrives stateside . However , good old Ted isn't telling her everything that she should know - what we in the audience already know thanks to the prologue . Only Thor ( Primo ) , the family dog , senses s... |
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