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399,175 | 1,391,795 | 119,468 | 7 | KISS ME . | Based upon James Patterson's best-seller . A smooth , egomaniacal serial killer who fancies himself a connoisseur of extraordinary women holds his victims captive in an underground lair , and only murders them when they break his rules . However , he makes two crucial mistakes : first , when he nabs the violin-playing ... |
399,873 | 1,391,795 | 94,631 | 7 | Your mother mates out of season | Three years ago , a race of humanoid aliens genetically designed to function as slave labor came to Earth , where they were allowed to stay and make their new home . Despite the arms-wide-open welcome of Earth's leaders , this leads to a new form of bigotry : many humans secretly hate the " Newcomers " ( as they come t... |
398,694 | 1,391,795 | 278,435 | 7 | Better Than I Expected . | All-too-familiar plot that has been recycled many times before : working-class waitress Slim ( J-Lo ) marries customer Mitch ( Billy Campbell ) thinking he's a nice guy . Well , after years of marriage and the birth of a cute daughter , Slim eventually finds out what kind of man Mitch REALLY is . Everything that follow... |
399,372 | 1,391,795 | 284,929 | 7 | Not bad , but could have been better . | A dramatization of the life of serial killer Ted Bundy , the very man , apparently , for whom the term " serial killer " was created . Bundy also helped to change the face of this sort of person and made us realize that they didn't necessarily have to look like the human equivalent of a boogeyman , that they can be att... |
399,547 | 1,391,795 | 84,556 | 7 | Worth seeing mainly for Michael Moriarty's performance . | Tongue-in-cheek , character-driven little Larry Cohen film , made in the veteran maverick director's inimitable style . It's ostensibly about a monster , Quetzlcoatl , an enormous flying bird / serpent / god that was supposedly brought back into existence by the performance of gory , ritual killings . However , as anyo... |
399,650 | 1,391,795 | 111,686 | 7 | 9 , 10 , he's back again . . . | Genuinely interesting - if not completely scary - movie blends fiction and reality as several people associated with the " Nightmare " franchise play themselves , in a story in which actress Heather Langenkamp is being plagued by nightmares about the Freddy Krueger character . She gradually learns that the " Freddy Kru... |
398,564 | 1,391,795 | 183,790 | 7 | Not Bad . | A medieval tale that closes with AC / DC's " You Shook Me All Night Long ? " Surely you jest ! Peasant squire William Thatcher ( Heath Ledger ) pretends to be of noble birth so he can compete in jousting and sword-fighting tournaments . He makes an enemy in the vain Count Adhemar ( Rufus Sewell ) , and falls in love wi... |
398,843 | 1,391,795 | 500,140 | 7 | Funny stuff . That's the bottom line . | Comedian / former sitcom star Jerry Seinfeld's filmed farewell performance of the material that he had been using for years in his act , touching on such subjects as old people , supermarkets , men and women , airplane travel , etcetera . This HBO special opens with a comedy bit , a funeral , featuring several of Seinf... |
399,649 | 1,391,795 | 82,495 | 7 | Run For Your Life ! | Sequel to the enormous horror hit " Halloween " picks up right - I mean RIGHT - where the original ended ; Michael Myers has survived being shot six times by Dr . Loomis ( Donald Pleasence ) - our first clue that he's something other than human - and he tracks Laurie Strode ( Jamie Lee Curtis ) down to the hospital whe... |
399,349 | 1,391,795 | 104,139 | 7 | Laugh ? I thought I'd die . | Dr . Giggles is an engaging , tongue-in-cheek slasher that derives great dark humor out of unauthorized surgery . Evan Rendell ( Larry Drake ) , yearning to be a doctor just like his old man , escapes from a mental hospital and sets up his macabre clinic in the old family home in Moorehigh . As he performs his lethal... |
399,941 | 1,391,795 | 81,186 | 7 | Twisted backwoods horror with a great climax . | This early directing credit for Charles Kaufman , the brother of Troma boss Lloyd Kaufman , has three young ladies getting together for their annual dose of female bonding . This time , they're going camping , but they get abducted and brutalized by two demented hillbilly sickies and their loving mama . But that sure a... |
399,940 | 1,391,795 | 60,415 | 7 | He's a racing son-of-a-gun . . . | Frankie Avalon plays self-confident young racer Dave Owens who takes on egomaniacal reigning champion Leander Fox ( Fabian ) in this fairly engaging change of pace for the " Beach Party " cast and crew . Dave is tricked into running moonshine for garage owner Charlie Bigg ( Harvey Lembeck ) and the very enticing young ... |
399,361 | 1,391,795 | 141,897 | 7 | Enjoyable , intense horror film . | A British horror film producer , James ( John Nolan ) insists that a long-ago witches ' curse is part of his familys ' history . After the production of his latest project finishes , people associated with him and the film start to be either terrorized or brutally murdered . Comparisons to Dario Argentos ' " Suspiria "... |
399,186 | 1,391,795 | 82,479 | 7 | Not bad slasher opus with memorable bad-taste gags . | A group of friends make a new acquaintance in Julie ( Tisa Farrow ) while vacationing in Greece ; as they travel by boat , she convinces them to make a stopover on an island where she's supposed to meet some friends . But when they get there , the local town is deserted , and there are no real clues as to what happened... |
398,995 | 1,391,795 | 82,449 | 7 | The most dreadful thing that ever happened to me was . . . | Film adaptation of Peter Straub novel in which four elderly New England gentlemen ( Fred Astaire , Melvyn Douglas , Douglas Fairbanks Jr . , and John Houseman ) are haunted by memories of a tragic event in their long-ago past that may have something to do with the strange and eerie things happening in the present day .... |
398,925 | 1,391,795 | 73,586 | 7 | Entertaining B flick . | Jim Hutton stars as Arnold Masters , wrongly convicted of murder and confined to a mental institution . While he's there , his mother , who means everything to him , dies due to neglect . Thanks to a fellow patient , he gets wind of a way to strike back at those who've done him wrong , which involves having out-of-body... |
398,731 | 1,391,795 | 426,459 | 7 | An entertaining , incredibly lively creature feature . | One of the films to result from the ' Project Greenlight ' TV series , this frenetic movie tells us the slim but entertaining story of a siege laid by some truly hideous creatures to the patrons and employees of a middle-of-nowhere Southern bar . Although the action set pieces are edited so choppily as to make them inc... |
399,593 | 1,391,795 | 218,967 | 7 | Well-Intentioned Holiday Movie . | Nicolas Cage plays Jack , a Wall Street whiz , who makes the acquaintance of a mysterious stranger " Cash " ( Don Cheadle ) . Cash ends up showing Jack what his life would have been like if he'd made different choices in life . In this alternate reality , Jack is a family man and tire salesman , and he reacts with horr... |
398,740 | 1,391,795 | 71,675 | 7 | Interesting , effective and thoughtful thriller . | Frank Davis ( John P . Ryan ) and wife Lenore ( Sharon Farrell ) are happily expecting their second child , but the delivery turns into a massacre ; a mutated , fanged , shrieking infant is responsible , and it goes on the expected rampage . As the cops track it down , Frank has to contend with an increasingly unstable... |
398,615 | 1,391,795 | 53,344 | 7 | Better than expected . | This is a fine , moody and stark little horror movie basically taking its plot from " Island of Lost Souls " . Shipwreck survivor William Fitzgerald ( likable enough Richard Derr ) is rescued and brought to the home of island-dwelling scientist Charles Girard ( the effective Francis Lederer ) . Fitzgerald meets Charles... |
398,973 | 1,391,795 | 58,155 | 7 | Good if not great Hammer horror . | In Europe around the turn of the century , a mysterious murderer is on the loose , one that turns its victims to stone . It's Megaera , one of the three Gorgons of Greek mythology , that has managed to live on through the ages . Having lost both his father and brother to the creature , Paul Heitz ( Richard Pasco ) dete... |
399,136 | 1,391,795 | 53,363 | 7 | My first William Castle experience . | The always delightful Vincent Price stars as Warren Chapin , a surgeon / scientist who makes an incredible discovery . It turns out that fear causes a creature slightly resembling a lobster to grow on human spines . The only thing that defeats it is screaming . Legendary master showman Castle was absolutely great at co... |
399,176 | 1,391,795 | 164,334 | 7 | The book is not closed . . . | Follow-up to " Kiss the Girls " , based on another Alex Cross story by James Patterson . Depraved criminal Gary Soneji ( Michael Wincott ) is determined to surpass the Lindbergh kidnapping of 1932 and have people everywhere marveling at his cleverness , so he abducts young Megan Rose ( Mika Boorem ) , a senator's daugh... |
398,789 | 1,391,795 | 115,571 | 7 | A pretty good small-scale sci-fi thriller . | Charlie Sheen , in a fine dramatic performance , is Zane Zaminsky ( you've gotta love that name ) , a radio astronomer who receives a signal from space . Instead of getting any sort of kudos from boss Phil Gordian ( Ron Silver ) , he gets fired instead . This is just the beginning of Zane's quest , as he tracks the sou... |
399,440 | 1,391,795 | 64,177 | 7 | Good of its type . | Cold War era science-fiction / political paranoia thriller about computerized intelligence ( the titular " Colossus " ) designed to defend the U . S . However , no-one , including system creator Charles Forbin ( soap opera mainstay Eric Braeden ) could have foreseen just how intelligent this system would become , when ... |
398,742 | 1,391,795 | 84,684 | 7 | A Chuck Norris movie with a difference . | A dangerous , disturbed hulk of a man named John Kirby ( Brian Libby ) snaps one morning and kills two people ; sheriff Dan Stevens ( Norris ) arrives to apprehend him but Kirby just won't go down easily . He's pumped full of bullets and the team of doctors attempting to save him later decide to use him as a guinea pig... |
398,991 | 1,391,795 | 75,005 | 7 | Decent religious horror thriller . | Robert Thorn ( screen legend Gregory Peck ) is the US Ambassador to England and on the night that his wife Katherine ( Lee Remick ) loses their baby , he is convinced to " adopt " an infant on the spot . By the time the child has reached the age of five , those closest to the kid realize there is something wrong with h... |
399,362 | 1,391,795 | 55,516 | 7 | An agreeable Hammer outing . | In 1910 Hong Kong , a criminal organization named The Tongs is making life miserable for both the citizens and the local , largely ineffective police force . A ship captain named Jackson Sale ( a solid Geoffrey Toone ) ends up doggedly attempting to bring the organization down after they cold-bloodedly murder his teen ... |
399,768 | 1,391,795 | 324,216 | 7 | I'll bet your suicide victim is in there . | Five intelligence-impaired , conveniently attractive sex-driven kids are on their way to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert in 1973 . They pick up a distraught hitch-hiking girl who blows her brains out inside their van . They drive to the nearest town where they are instructed to drive to a certain spot to meet the Sheriff ( R ... |
398,652 | 1,391,795 | 49,516 | 7 | An entertaining diversion . | While it may not be as classic as other sci-fi from the 1950's , this fanciful bit of sci-fi schlock does just fine for a nights ' viewing . A group of archaeologists find themselves descending deep into the earth where they discover not only a lost civilization of light-sensitive albinos , but the title creatures , us... |
399,620 | 1,391,795 | 62,006 | 7 | Good cast overcome so-so film . | One of the few mummy-themed movies to come from Britains ' legendary Hammer Studios , the scenario here is pretty standard , as the archaeological expedition that enter the tomb of an Egyptian child and would-be prince subsequently are cursed . The child's ' protector , found in mummified form , is resurrected through ... |
398,743 | 1,391,795 | 84,796 | 7 | A fun B movie . | A highly unusual mummy is found inside the tomb of King Tut and brought back to an American university where , after receiving a high dose of X-rays , it awakens from its 3 , 000 year slumber and goes on a rampage . Personally , I thought that this was pretty amusing . It's a decent premise , and the movie is never les... |
398,562 | 1,391,795 | 298,130 | 7 | Websites that kill , videos that kill . . . what next ? | Americanized remake of the 1998 Japanese movie " Ringu " . Intrepid reporter Rachel Keller ( Naomi Watts ) investigates the story of a videocassette with some sort of unholy power : anybody who watches it dies a week later . Decent but over-hyped movie has a compelling story ( all through the film , it's disturbing to ... |
398,569 | 1,391,795 | 129,387 | 7 | Want Another Helping Of Frank And Beans ? | Ted ( Ben Stiller ) is still crazily in love with Mary ( Cameron Diaz ) , the beautiful girl he almost got to take to the prom 13 years earlier . He is persuaded to hire private detective Healy ( Matt Dillon ) to find her , only to find out that Healy and others are also obsessed with Mary as well . This comedy runs ki... |
398,679 | 1,391,795 | 33,879 | 7 | Another likable Lon Chaney Jr . performance in a decent sci-fi / horror thriller . | Dan McCormick ( Lon Chaney Jr . ) survives a bus accident in which all of the other riders and the driver die of electrocution . It turns out that he has a novelty act ( mostly fake ) where he plays with electricity . He comes into the care of Dr . John Lawrence ( Samuel S . Hinds ) , where Dans ' seeming immunity to e... |
399,672 | 1,391,795 | 84,777 | 7 | Stylish and violent giallo with some stand-out moments . | Peter Neal ( Anthony Franciosa ) , an author of mystery novels , comes to Rome to promote his latest work . An avid reader of his stories starts to commit a series of brutal murders , while sending him messages . Concerned , Neal does his own sleuthing when not being interrogated by the detectives assigned to the case ... |
398,658 | 1,391,795 | 58,050 | 7 | Short and sweet and effective little sci-fi effort . | Throughout Britian , people are dying suddenly . Before long , there are very few people left . A handful of survivors hole up in an old inn and formulate their plan for survival , and eventual escape . Although this likable British B picture runs barely over an hour , it packs enough tension and creepiness into its ru... |
398,922 | 1,391,795 | 465,602 | 7 | A marvelously frenetic action flick . | The enjoyably laconic Clive Owen is mystery man Mr . Smith , minding his own business when he witnesses crazed assassins trying to take out a pregnant lady . Jumping into the fray , he manages to deliver the baby and kill himself a whole bunch of bad guys . In so doing , he incurs the wrath of maniacal thug Hertz ( Pau... |
399,294 | 1,391,795 | 67,419 | 7 | A spooky and sinister story . | Music journalist Myles Clarkson ( ever likable Alan Alda ) meets renowned concert pianist Duncan Ely ( Curt Jurgens ) , who happens to be dying . After he passes on , Myles's personality undergoes a drastic change . Myles's wife ( ever gorgeous Jacqueline Bisset ) suspects something awfully creepy is going on , especia... |
399,334 | 1,391,795 | 374,102 | 7 | A gripping little movie about the will to survive . | Busy young couple Susan ( Blanchard Ryan ) and Daniel ( Daniel Travis ) take time for a vacation in a tropical paradise , but when they go on a deep sea dive and get separated from the main group , they find themselves alone in the open ocean , for hours on end . Well , not quite alone . . . before too long they start ... |
399,402 | 1,391,795 | 84,745 | 7 | A spirited comic book adaptation . | Dedicated scientist Alec Holland ( Ray Wise ) is working on a revolutionary formula when sexy government agent Alice Cable ( Adrienne Barbeau ) is sent to watch over him . When arrogant megalomaniac Arcane ( Louis Jourdan ) and his bevy of henchmen step in , poor Alec is doused with his own formula , set on fire , and ... |
399,121 | 1,391,795 | 78,975 | 7 | Even when there's no wind , the sand sings . | Jeff Cooper is Cord , an impetuous fighter who is determined to embark on a journey that will see him face various trials as he seeks out a book full of wisdom guarded by a character named Zetan . A combination of a quest , a martial arts film , and a celebration of Zen philosophy , " Circle of Iron " was the brainchil... |
399,028 | 1,391,795 | 62,358 | 7 | A dark , moody and enjoyable little chiller . | In Paris , a theater troupe known as " Theatre du Mort " - i . e . , " Theatre of Death " - stages Grand Guignol inspired sketches . Browbeating , tyrannical boss Philippe Darvas ( Christopher Lee , the star attraction of this film and the main reason to watch it ) is particularly attached to rising star Nicole ( Jenny... |
399,404 | 1,391,795 | 49,370 | 7 | Very watchable early sci-fi from Roger Corman . | Reasonably entertaining Roger Corman cheapie about dedicated scientist Tom Anderson ( Lee Van Cleef ) , who establishes contact with a monster from Venus and helps it every step of the way . Tom is convinced the monster's arrival can only mean good for the human race , but he couldn't be more wrong . It sends out bat-l... |
398,802 | 1,391,795 | 96,256 | 7 | The golden rule : he who has the gold makes the rules . | One of director John Carpenter's more interesting pictures overall has a loner ( the always charismatic wrestling star Roddy Piper ) arriving in L . A . to find a depressed job market and a community known as " Justiceville " where he is able to crash . Soon after his arrival he becomes wise to the actual situation : a... |
399,798 | 1,391,795 | 119,791 | 7 | Seven Out Of Ten . | This horror thriller was scripted by Ole Bornedal and Steven Soderbergh , based on Bornedal's own 1995 Danish movie " Nattevagten . " Martin Bells ( Ewan McGregor , playing an American reasonably well ) is a law student who takes a job as a night watchman at a spooky morgue . While his outgoing friend James ( Josh Brol... |
398,699 | 1,391,795 | 99,864 | 7 | Could be better , could be worse . | Based on Stephen King's epic-length bestseller of 1986 ( and my favorite King novel , by the way ) . Seven outcast preteens in the small town of Derry , Maine , gradually realize that a demonic creature is residing underneath their city - and that this thing has been responsible for a rash of child-killings in the city... |
399,838 | 1,391,795 | 78,924 | 7 | Sweet , amiably goofy comedy for the family . | Wesley Eure is young inventor Brian Foster , who's invented a new crime busting security device in the form of a robot dog , the titular " C . H . O . M . P . S . " ( It stands for Canine HOMe Protection System ) . C . H . O . M . P . S . , who's been modeled after Brian's real dog Rascal , can do just about anything ;... |
398,895 | 1,391,795 | 758,746 | 7 | Not all that bad as remakes go . | Latest entry in this ongoing series pretty much condenses the plots of the first few entries in the series . The legend of Jason and his vengeance-crazed mother is related as briefly as possible ( she gets barely any screen time ) in order to get to this film's plot , such as it is . After our beloved goalie-masked ico... |
398,939 | 1,391,795 | 129,280 | 7 | Only In New York ! | Remake of 1970 Neil Simon-scripted movie about an older couple ( Steve Martin , Goldie Hawn ) whose children have moved out . They travel to New York City so he can go to a job interview - and they endure practically every sort of misfortune imaginable . I definitely liked this one because I actually laughed a fair bit... |
399,590 | 1,391,795 | 92,627 | 7 | Fairly decent thriller . | After a tryst , sexy boss's wife Sylvia Wentworth ( French beauty Isabelle Huppert ) witnesses an assault on Denise Connelly ( Elizabeth McGovern ) by creepy predator Carl Henderson ( Brad Greenquist ) . Since she would be revealing the tryst by coming forward with the information , she lets lover Terry Lambert ( Steve... |
399,075 | 1,391,795 | 38,387 | 7 | Decent B picture with good work by Rondo Hatton . | The distinctively featured character star Rondo Hatton - his face disfigured by the disease acromegaly - gets a starring role as a revenge-crazed murderer dubbed " The Creeper " by the press . Once a handsome if hot-tempered football star by the name of Hal Moffat , a lab accident happened to mar his appearance . Now h... |
399,110 | 1,391,795 | 80,934 | 7 | You never know what the sea will cough up . | Indeed . Intriguing tale of modern-day pirates living on a Caribbean island who take journalist Blair Maynard ( Michael Caine ) prisoner - along with his son Justin ( Jeffrey Frank ) , whom they successfully manage to turn against him . These blokes are true leftovers from centuries past , are true primitives , and spe... |
399,938 | 1,391,795 | 82,744 | 7 | Enjoyably bleak and sinister back-of-the-beyond horror . | Scripted by director John Russo from his novel , " Midnight " recounts the sordid tale of teenager Nancy ( Melanie Verliin ) . She just can't catch a break . Her stepfather Bert ( screen legend Lawrence Tierney ) , a cop , is a lustful creep who tries to force himself on her . She hightails it away from home , hitching... |
398,795 | 1,391,795 | 75,164 | 7 | Mildly enjoyable . | 19-year-old Catherine ( the very fetching Candace Glendenning ) travels with her dad and mom to visit a distant relative , Uncle Alexander ( Michael Gough ) . Dad has an accident while driving and the car ends up catching fire . A traumatized Catherine spends the next few days growing attached to Alexanders ' son Steph... |
399,890 | 1,391,795 | 51,380 | 7 | Great poster , endearingly silly movie . | Cheesy sci-fi schlock from the drive-in era , this goofy bit of fun has an unstable rich woman , Nancy Archer ( Allison Hayes ) have a close encounter in the desert , with a giant bald alien . Somehow this eventually causes her to grow to gigantic proportions , and she embarks on a rampage , looking for her philanderin... |
399,324 | 1,391,795 | 80,904 | 7 | 80 minutes of 100 % pure trash ! | Humanoids from the Deep ( 1980 ) is a memorably and deliriously sleazy , outrageous , gory , and lively B-level monster movie from none other than B-movie legend Roger Corman . Scientist Susan Drake ( Ann Turkel ) , in the employ of a cannery , has supervised an experiment to " improve " local fish life - but as you ... |
399,101 | 1,391,795 | 67,525 | 7 | A provocative and compelling post-apocalypse tale . | The second film version of Richard Mathesons ' novel , after " The Last Man on Earth " in 1964 with Vincent Price , stars Charlton Heston during his sci-fi phase as Robert Neville , supposedly the last normal man alive after the apocalypse . Out to get him are " The Family " , a group of people that have been mutated b... |
399,356 | 1,391,795 | 163,978 | 7 | I'd Like To See This Place Myself ! | Leonardo DiCaprio plays Richard , a young American adventurer who is given a map to a secret island paradise off the coast of Thailand . He and a young French couple ( Virginie Ledoyen , Guillaume Canet ) travel there and discover a society of pleasure-seekers who treasure their secrecy . Compelling and interesting mat... |
399,919 | 1,391,795 | 82,696 | 7 | Better-than-average slasher . | This slasher picture begins as a rural legend told around a campfire about a demented farmer who supposedly butchered his whole family and survived a lynching so that he could return to stalk and kill anyone foolish enough to enter his domain and utter his name above a whisper . " Madman " may have slipped under my own... |
399,214 | 1,391,795 | 82,700 | 7 | Not bad , but I've basically seen it before . | This gory horror movie - which advertisements continue to claim is banned in 31 countries - shares some definite similarities to another gore classic , " Cannibal Holocaust " . It deals with five characters - two lowlife criminal types and three students ( one of whom is actually out to disprove the notion of cannibali... |
399,558 | 1,391,795 | 80,923 | 7 | An interesting , weird , flavorful horror film from one of the masters of Italian horror . | Poetess Rose Elliott ( Irene Miracle ) has a healthy interest in old volumes ; reading a book titled " The Three Mothers " , she lets her curiosity get the better of her . After some surreal experiences , she places a call to brother Mark ( Leigh McCloskey ) , who rushes home in time to witness some strange phenomena h... |
398,959 | 1,391,795 | 71,396 | 7 | From the creators of . . . " Howard the Duck " ! | Right around the time they co-wrote " American Graffiti " with George Lucas , director Willard Huyck and producer Gloria Katz concocted this low , low budget oddity . A young woman named Arletty ( gorgeous Mariana Hill ) seeks out her father and comes across his empty home which has been stocked full of his rather stri... |
398,804 | 1,391,795 | 84,867 | 7 | Pretty good as revenge tales go . | Eddie Marino ( Robert Forster ) is a blue-collar guy who learns that his friends and co - workers have turned vigilante to punish criminal scum . Eddie's always believed in the system , but when his son is murdered and his wife assaulted , and the vermin responsible are inadequately punished , his mind is changed . " V... |
398,897 | 1,391,795 | 88,757 | 7 | Disappointing sequel to " Angel " . | Molly Stewart , played this time around by the very sexy Betsy Russell , is now studying to be a lawyer , having left her street-walking days far behind . Unfortunately , her guardian , Lt . Andrews ( Robert F . Lyons , taking over the role from Cliff Gorman ) , is killed in the line of duty . As one might guess from t... |
399,421 | 1,391,795 | 80,997 | 7 | A reasonably tense and enjoyable political thriller . | U . S . president Adam Scott ( Hal Holbrook , solid as always ) makes a trip to Toronto where he is promptly kidnapped by terrorist Roberto Assanti ( an effectively smug and creepy Miguel Fernandez ) and confined to a van that's rigged to explode . But Secret Service agent Jerry O'Connor ( a fine William Shatner ) is o... |
399,682 | 1,391,795 | 51,422 | 7 | Good fun for genre fans . | Dr . John Pierre ( Vincent Ball ) gets sent to a particular prison after being falsely accused of medical heresy . The man in charge of the prison , Dr . Callistratus ( Sir Donald Wolfit , made up to resemble Bela Lugosi ) , believes that as a fellow man of medicine , John will be able to help with his blood experiment... |
399,707 | 1,391,795 | 53,611 | 7 | Fun and engaging low , low-budget schlock . | In a Florida swamp , the locals are starting to disappear . What could be the culprit ? It's all right there in the title . Stoic , hunky game warden hero Steve Benton ( Ken Clark ) , with the assistance of girlfriend Nan Greyson ( Jan Shepard ) and her father ( Tyler McVey ) sets out to investigate what we in the audi... |
399,145 | 1,391,795 | 75,235 | 7 | Decent ' 70's drive-in fare . | The plot here is standard enough stuff : small town football hero " Poke " Jackson ( an amiable Timothy Bottoms ) arrives back in his home town after a five year stint in prison . The crooked sheriff Duke ( Bo Hopkins , in a standard type of role , but doing a solid job ) may have had something to do with that . He's a... |
399,936 | 1,391,795 | 99,994 | 7 | Not everything it could have been , but a fairly decent entry in the series . | Gorgeous Kate Hodge and likable William Butler play Michelle and Ryan , traveling through Texas who get waylaid by the ever-changing family of deranged chainsaw-wielding cannibals . They do have one thing on their side : almost literally running into survivalist Benny ( Ken Foree , oozing bad ass cool as always ) , he ... |
399,742 | 1,391,795 | 122,933 | 7 | Guess who's got issues ? | New York mobster Paul Vitti ( Robert De Niro ) is suffering panic attacks and decides he needs to see a psychiatrist . This , of course , poses a major problem for Dr . Ben Sobel ( Billy Crystal ) , who is scared at the thought of counseling a mobster . The fact that the doctor is getting married at the time also happe... |
399,922 | 1,391,795 | 84,945 | 7 | Impossible to resist . | In this comic twist on " Carrie " , low-key , nice-guy science whiz Barney Springboro ( Scott Baio ) has an accident in his lab one day , endowing him with powers of telekinesis which affable , scheming best pal Peyton ( Willie Aames ) is most anxious to exploit . Barney finds himself falling for pretty student reporte... |
399,257 | 1,391,795 | 259,446 | 7 | I like it and I'm not just saying that as a Winnipegger ! | Toula ( Nia Vardalos ) is a thirty year old " seating hostess " at her father's Greek restaurant who decides to break against family tradition for once in her life - she gets a college education , gives herself a makeover , and goes to work at her aunt's travel bureau . She also chances to meet Ian ( John Corbett ) a g... |
399,469 | 1,391,795 | 82,782 | 7 | Gets enough things right to qualify as a decent slasher . | The depressed mining town of Valentine Bluffs is celebrating its first Valentines ' Day dance in 20 years . Once upon a time , a mine disaster that happened during a dance resulted in a vengeance-crazed murderer named Harry Warden that threatened to strike again if another dance were ever held . And , indeed , young ad... |
399,141 | 1,391,795 | 79,631 | 7 | An intelligent and socially conscious picture undeserving of such critical venom . | In this adaptation of the Martin Cruz Smith novel ( co-scripted by Smith himself ) , Nick Mancuso plays Youngman Duran , a policeman with the Maskai tribe in New Mexico , who has more than one problem to contend with . Not only does he have to butt heads with Walker Chee ( Stephen Macht ) , who represents progress and ... |
399,223 | 1,391,795 | 95,179 | 7 | The Debut Of Kane Hodder As Jason | Viewers of this movie are witness to yet another Jason resurrection when an emotionally unstable teenager ( Lar Park Lincoln ) who accidentally killed her father years ago returns to Crystal Lake and inadvertently releases Jason from his watery tomb . Everybody in the cast is doomed . . . An " F13 " entry that runs hot... |
399,309 | 1,391,795 | 77,474 | 7 | Early Walter Hill film that needs a little more recognition . | Ryan O'Neal is the title character , an expert getaway driver who is relentlessly pursued by intense detective Bruce Dern . One thing you'll notice is that these characters aren't given names , a unique touch in what is actually sort of a low-key character study . It does have the obligatory chase scenes that are admit... |
398,855 | 1,391,795 | 59,727 | 7 | An excellent vehicle for Peter Cushing . | A skull purported to be that of the infamous Marquis de Sade makes its way into the possession of Christopher Maitland ( Peter Cushing ) , a writer with a healthy interest in all things macabre . Despite the grave warnings of his friend Sir Matthew Phillips ( Christopher Lee ) , Maitland finds himself obsessing over th... |
398,799 | 1,391,795 | 34,681 | 7 | Not bad B horror from 20th Century Fox . | Dr . Larry Forbes ( Shepperd Strudwick , billed as John Shepperd ) travels to France to be with his bride-to-be , Madelon ( gorgeous Lynne Roberts ) . Madelons ' uncle is the title character , an esteemed scientist played by George Zucco , who played his fair share of these types of roles in his time . J . Carrol Naish... |
398,857 | 1,391,795 | 83,976 | 7 | A fairly good little horror film . | Heather ( Lesleh Donaldson ) visits grandmother Maude ( Kay Hawtry ) , who's converted her late husbands ' funeral home into a motel . Heather helps Maude with assorted odd jobs , while falling for affable local young hunk Rick ( Dean Garbett ) . Meanwhile , some of Maudes ' guests are being murdered , there's a secret... |
398,847 | 1,391,795 | 162,661 | 8 | A hero who faints ! I love it ! | Washington Irving adaptation , given typically arresting Tim Burton touches , about NYC-based constable Ichabod Crane ( Johnny Depp ) who is sent to upstate New York to investigate a series of decapitation killings . The culprit is a spirit known as " The Headless Horseman " who comes out at night , rides a big black h... |
398,867 | 1,391,795 | 93,185 | 8 | Does all of this seem just a little bit bizarre ? | Police detective Tom Beck ( Michael Nouri ) is partnered with subtly strange FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher ( Kyle MacLachlan ) as they go after formerly placid ordinary people who are all of a sudden going on violent - and I do mean VIOLENT - crime sprees . What's really behind all of this ? The less you know going in , th... |
399,688 | 1,391,795 | 70,423 | 8 | Effectively nasty and shocking stuff . | In this fusion of ideas from " Frankenstein " and " Freaks " , Donald Pleasence plays Prof . Nolter , a typical mad scientist . Nolters ' big deal is his reverence for plant life , especially that which has predatory qualities , like the venus flytrap . His ultimate mission is to create a man-plant hybrid . Assisting h... |
399,744 | 1,391,795 | 218,043 | 8 | I'm Impressed . | This is a documentary about the sport of wrestling , the men and women who do it , and WHY they do it . Three men , in particular , are profiled : " Jake The Snake " Roberts , Mick " Mankind / Cactus Jack / Dude Love " Foley , and Terry Funk . This was particularly impressive for me because I'm not myself a wrestling f... |
399,173 | 1,391,795 | 97,576 | 8 | Excellent ! | It is now 1938 and Indiana Jones ( Harrison Ford ) sets off on a new adventure - this time , to find and rescue his professor father ( Sean Connery ) who disappeared while on a quest to locate the Holy Grail . A noticeable improvement over part two ; while not quite as good as the first movie , it's still adrenaline-pu... |
399,306 | 1,391,795 | 118,636 | 8 | Director Bryan Singer follows up " The Usual Suspects " with this creepy movie . | Based on a novella from Stephen King's 1982 collection " Different Seasons " , " Apt Pupil " is about a very bright teenager named Todd Bowden ( Brad Renfro ) who , after studying the Holocaust in school , comes to realize that an aged former Nazi war criminal is residing in his own town . He confronts the man , Kurt D... |
399,229 | 1,391,795 | 80,354 | 8 | Forget " Lake Placid " and see this movie instead . | 12 years after a pet alligator is flushed into the sewers , it becomes a ravenous giant after feeding on dead dogs that had been injected with a growth hormone . It goes on to terrorize the city of Chicago - both under the streets and at street level . Dedicated cop ( Robert Forster ) teams up with reptile expert ( Rob... |
399,137 | 1,391,795 | 462,499 | 8 | Stallones ' second triumphant return to an iconic role . | Sylvester Stallone once again plays the role of John Rambo , in which Rambo now works as a longboat operator ( as well as a snake collector ) in Thailand . Some missionaries appeal to him to transport them to war-torn Burma , where the maniacal Burmese military mercilessly slaughter the peaceful Karen tribe . When the ... |
398,609 | 1,391,795 | 97,557 | 8 | Something to check out if you're tired of slasher films . | Bookstore employee Virginia ( Jenny Wright ) reads a sick if oddly poetic horror story by an author named Malcolm Brand and in so doing resurrects the demented creep , who kills off real people in the same fashion as those in his book . Virginia has a tough time convincing anybody , starting with her detective boyfrien... |
399,139 | 1,391,795 | 68,230 | 8 | Typically fine anthology work from Amicus . | Amicus serves up another of their deliciously , ghoulishly fun horror anthologies in this four-story chiller from " Psycho " author Robert Bloch . They each have their own twists , serving as enjoyable punctuation on these nifty little exercises in the macabre . The wraparound story ( which eventually turns into the fo... |
398,918 | 1,391,795 | 80,339 | 8 | You have clearance , Clarence . " Roger , Roger . What's our vector , Victor ? " | When the flight crew of a commercial airliner fall victim to food poisoning , the only one on the plane who can save everybody from disaster is former war pilot Ted Stryker ( Robert Hays ) , who's a neurotic mess , in this spoof of the 1970's " Airport " series from Universal , but which actually takes its biggest insp... |
398,816 | 1,391,795 | 76,023 | 8 | Riveting from start to finish . | A gut-wrenching revenge thriller in which three criminals - unrepentant racist white guy Jessie Lee ( William Sanderson , in a scenery-chewing early role ) , Hispanic Chino ( Daniel Faraldo ) and Oriental Ling ( Peter Yoshida ) escape from a prison transport and end up inside the house of a black family headed by Ted T... |
399,342 | 1,391,795 | 73,835 | 8 | William Smith won't be good for your eyes here . . . | He just might gouge them out for you . The veteran movie tough guy plays nasty thug " Carrot " , leader of a group of trouble makers in NYC in the year 2012 . It's a post-apocalypse year , and much of the city is deserted , forlorn , run-down , and covered in cobwebs . Trying to avoid confrontation with Carrot's men ar... |
399,833 | 1,391,795 | 70,458 | 8 | More good 70's era horror from ever-reliable Dan Curtis . | Dan Curtis , one of the great names in the horror genre in the 70's , gave us such memorable titles as ' The Night Stalker ' , ' Dark Shadows ' , ' Trilogy of Terror ' , and " Burnt Offerings " . Here he once again delivers an effective shocker that was supposed to be the pilot for a series that unfortunately never cam... |
399,887 | 1,391,795 | 89,880 | 8 | A must for the action fan . | Rambo ( Sylvester Stallone ) is sprung from a prison work detail to undertake a daring mission : to infiltrate the P . O . W . camp that he escaped from back in the days of ' Nam , and confirm that prisoners of war are still being held there . Little does he know just how little he can trust the bureaucrat ( Charles Na... |
398,598 | 1,391,795 | 75,913 | 8 | Great fun ; nature strikes back with a real fury in this one . | A disparate group of hikers led by rugged mountain guide Steve Buckner ( the always solid Christopher George ) is trapped in the wilderness by an onslaught of animals which are all being driven into a frenzy by a depleted ozone layer ( according to this movie , it's the fluorocarbons released into the air that are resp... |
399,802 | 1,391,795 | 99,180 | 8 | Here comes the bride . . . | Eight months after the " Miskatonic Massacre " , Drs . Herbert West ( Jeffrey Combs ) and Dan Cain ( Bruce Abbott ) are at it again . This time , West isn't content to re-animate the dead . He wants to take their wacky experiments a step further , and the aim is now to create life . Assembling a collage of body parts ,... |
398,835 | 1,391,795 | 281,686 | 8 | Fabulous and original ; inspired lunacy . | After trading places with an Elvis impersonator 20 years ago , the King himself ( Bruce Campbell ) is a bitter and lonely old man living out his life in a rural East Texas nursing home . His confidante is an elderly African-American ( Ossie Davis ) who genuinely believes himself to be JFK . Together they learn that one... |
398,885 | 1,391,795 | 72,662 | 8 | Very entertaining . | Giorgio Mainardi ( George Hilton ) is an unfaithful husband who witnesses an unnamed murderer ( creepy faced Michel Antoine , a . k . a . Antoine Saint-John ) in the act of disposing of a body . He uses this to his advantage : he blackmails the man into performing a service for him : namely , murdering his wife Norma (... |
399,150 | 1,391,795 | 63,170 | 8 | My first dose of J-horror . | During the latter part of the 19th century , when some parts of Japan were being Westernized , some parts were still deeply rooted in the past . The story here has a cruel land-owning family seizing the property of a deeply-in-debt farmer . In an ongoing series of tragedies , the farmer dies , his wife and daughter are... |
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