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399,572 | 1,391,795 | 904,120 | 8 | Fun to watch and informative . | This entertaining documentary on the making of " The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2 " covers all the bases . It's divided into six parts , detailing 1 ) the development of the script , 2 ) the look of the film , 3 ) the casting , 4 ) the makeup effects , 5 ) a tribute to series creator Tobe Hooper , and 6 ) final thoughts ... |
398,664 | 1,391,795 | 86,984 | 8 | Another solid thriller from Brian De Palma . | Craig Wasson plays Jake Scully , a hapless struggling actor needing a place to stay . New acquaintance Sam Bouchard ( Gregg Henry ) sets him up with an amazing house-sitting gig , the primary attraction of which is the ability to peep on a sexy neighbor , Gloria Revelle ( Deborah Shelton ) , who performs a nightly rout... |
399,851 | 1,391,795 | 71,431 | 8 | A fine film of its kind . | Reluctant traveling companions George ( Ray Lovelock ) and Edna ( Christine Galbo ) get caught up in a proliferation of recently deceased folks rising to stalk the living . It would seem that a revolutionary new agricultural machine using radiation to eliminate insect pests is responsible . The local police inspector (... |
398,987 | 1,391,795 | 209,163 | 8 | A sequel that I actually enjoyed more than the original . | Ten years after the events of the first movie , Rick ( Brendan Fraser ) , his wife Evie ( Rachel Weisz ) , and their son , Alex ( Freddie Boath ) are busy busting into old tombs , and risking life and limb . . . you know , the usual . Unbeknownst to them , Im-Ho-Tep ( Arnold Vosloo , also returning ) has been resurrect... |
399,530 | 1,391,795 | 71,424 | 8 | Fun , breezy , landmark 1970's action film . | This quintessential drive-in classic from 1974 has a hotshot racer ( Peter Fonda ) and his trusted mechanic / sidekick ( Adam Roarke ) stage a daring supermarket robbery . Almost from the outset they acquire an unwanted companion in a one night stand of Fonda's ( Susan George ) who isn't about to be just blown off and ... |
399,008 | 1,391,795 | 117,608 | 8 | I thought that this film was pretty funny . | 90's film version of a classic sitcom that went through a couple of name changes : " You'll Never Get Rich , " then " The Phil Silvers Show " , then , for syndication , " Sgt . Bilko . " The premise is that Master Sergeant Ernie Bilko ( Steve Martin ) is a master con artist and professional goof-off who runs his Army p... |
398,689 | 1,391,795 | 73,600 | 8 | Fun , exciting artifact from the 1970's drive-in era . | Combination of paranoia-fueled horror movie and pumped-up car chase action film in which two vacationing couples end up being pursued by Satan worshiping witches after witnessing a sacrifice . The engaging team of Peter Fonda and Warren Oates - re-united after two previous projects together , " The Hired Hand " and " 9... |
398,665 | 1,391,795 | 94,642 | 8 | Don't you want to be a member of the clean plate club ? | Wacky , creepy backwoods horror in which Cynthia ( Sarah Torgov ) is released from a mental hospital after losing her baby has caused her to have a breakdown . Husband Jeff ( Mark Ericksen ) decides to take her and four of their friends on an island trip by plane . However , plane troubles force them to land at the wro... |
399,000 | 1,391,795 | 265,459 | 8 | One Hour Photo is a very good film ! | Seymour " Sy " Parrish ( Robin Williams ) is a pathetically lonely guy , a photo shop employee at a Sav Mart whose job seems to be his basic reason for living . He obsesses over one set of customers , the Yorkin family ( Connie Nielsen , Michael Vartan , Dylan Smith ) whom he thinks of as a perfect family and he even i... |
399,737 | 1,391,795 | 88,944 | 8 | Tons of one-liners in near-perfect " brainless entertainment " . | AH-NULD plays a former soldier of fortune named John Matrix who now lives an idyllic life in a California forest with young daughter Jenny ( Alyssa Milano ) . Soon after the movie begins , Jenny is kidnapped by thugs representing a dictator ( Dan Hedaya ) ; the dictator wants Matrix to assassinate a politician and will... |
398,849 | 1,391,795 | 51,554 | 8 | I like it ! Cushing and Lee at their finest . | Jonathan Harker ( John Van Eyssen ) goes to Count Dracula's ( Christopher Lee ) castle under the guise of being his librarian , but is really there to destroy the Count . When he becomes a victim , his smooth and efficient colleague Dr . Van Helsing ( Peter Cushing ) arrives on the scene and proceeds to go after the bl... |
399,743 | 1,391,795 | 163,651 | 8 | It's not what it looks like , Dad ! | Some folks might consider this " Porky's " for the nineties : four teen-aged guys , who seem to think about little else besides sex , make a pact to lose their virginity on prom night . While the main drawing card of this movie seems to be the assortment of raunchy gags ( and I'll admit they do make me laugh ) what rea... |
399,249 | 1,391,795 | 113,858 | 8 | Pretty good as B movies go . | The crashing of an alien spaceship in a forest results in enormous mosquitoes after the tiny blood suckers feast on the alien corpses . After the deadly creatures lay waste to a multitude of locals , a disparate group of survivors hooks up , realizing that they will have to take care of the problem themselves . Directo... |
399,076 | 1,391,795 | 18,528 | 8 | Not only my first silent film , but my first Lon Chaney experience as well . | The legendary performer plays Alonzo , whose act in a gypsy circus involves throwing knives - no mean feat , since he happens to be armless . He longs to be with his gorgeous young colleague , Nanon ( a very young Joan Crawford ) , and because she is turned off by the thought of male hands on her body , he poses no pro... |
398,669 | 1,391,795 | 280,609 | 8 | Bloody brilliant werewolf horror . | A platoon of soldiers on a training exercise in the Scottish highlands are in for the fight of their lives when a pack of bloodthirsty werewolves stalk and attack them . They end up trapped inside a remote farmhouse ( making this an amusing variation on " Night of the Living Dead " , only with werewolves instead of zom... |
399,678 | 1,391,795 | 1,194,650 | 8 | Wonderful compilation of vintage exploitation trailers . | The fine folks at the DVD company Synapse do an impressive job with this collection of almost 50 theatrical trailers . They are grouped by category , an aspect that I myself enjoyed . I liked the idea of getting a sampling of several features from each respective category . They range from martial arts epics to horror ... |
399,463 | 1,391,795 | 69,279 | 8 | I really liked this one . | Football great Jim Brown makes for an entertaining tough guy hero in this blaxploitation entry from director Jack Starrett . Slaughter ( Brown ) goes about seeking revenge after a car bomb kills his parents ; however , his actions lead to the botching of a federal sting . Federal agent A . W . Price ( Cameron Mitchell ... |
399,836 | 1,391,795 | 62,138 | 8 | Ideal vehicle for the late , great Lee Marvin . | Lee Marvin is the cold-as-ice Walker , living only for one thing : to get back his fair share of a heist pulled years earlier . Receiving assistance from a stranger named Yost ( Keenan Wynn ) , he takes on the Organization that his traitorous " friend " Mal Reese ( John Vernon ) has joined . " Point Blank " , based on ... |
399,122 | 1,391,795 | 69,278 | 8 | A good entry in the " disaster movie " genre . | The ever authoritative Charlton Heston is Henry O'Hara , pilot of a commercial airliner , who receives an unwelcome surprise on his latest flight . One of the passengers is demanding that their destination be rerouted from Minneapolis-St . Paul to Anchorage . It turns out to be Vietnam vet Jerome Weber ( James Brolin )... |
398,984 | 1,391,795 | 117,571 | 8 | Movies Don't Create Psychos . . . They Just Make Them More Creative . | Successful lampooning of formula-based slasher movies stars Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott , a traumatized teenager whose mother was slaughtered one year ago . Then , almost one year to the day after , her classmates are systematically ( and brutally ) murdered by a costumed lunatic who likes to taunt his victims ove... |
399,248 | 1,391,795 | 49,646 | 8 | Good fun . | The introduction of Nigel Kneales ' Prof . Quatermass character to the screen results in this well done sci-fi / horror entry in which a spaceship returns to Earth with only one survivor out of three astronauts . Victor Carroon ( Richard Wordsworth ) , the only one left , is clearly not all right , however . Infested b... |
399,442 | 1,391,795 | 90,192 | 8 | I like " Trancers " ! | Jack Deth ( Tim Thomerson ) is a cop - referred to as a " trooper " - in the 23rd century who goes back in time ( to 1985 Los Angeles ) to inhabit the body of his ancestor in order to stop a power-hungry maniac , who's ALSO gone back in time in order to wipe out the ancestors of the 23rd century leaders . Short ( only ... |
399,045 | 1,391,795 | 458,480 | 8 | Simon says " Hope you enjoy this good blast of dumb , gory fun " . | We're back in traditional slasher territory for this one , folks : a group of attractive and obnoxious kids go for a camping trip , only to be victimized by Simon ( Crispin Glover , a true hammy delight ) . Writer / director William Dear ( the man behind such movies as " Harry and the Hendersons " ! ) makes this a very... |
399,619 | 1,391,795 | 84,658 | 8 | A great early 80's shocker . | An obviously distraught young man ( Zeljko Ivanek , in the role that " introduced " him ) attempts suicide and is subsequently taken to a state mental hospital . There , a sympathetic psychiatrist , Gail Farmer ( Kathryn Harrold ) tries to get through to him , and discovers that they are now linked telepathically . And... |
399,194 | 1,391,795 | 81,184 | 8 | MMM . . . That's good eating ! | Aged farmer Vincent ( Rory Calhoun ) and his plump , younger sister Ida ( Nancy Parsons ) operate both a hotel ( it's actually the " Motel Hello " , but the last " o " on the neon sign burnt out ) and a farm in the back of the beyond and they make the best smoked meat for miles around . What's their secret ingredient ?... |
399,524 | 1,391,795 | 76,820 | 8 | The most fun I've had watching movies this week . | Off the wall drive in picture from the 1970's pairing a likable and animated David Carradine with spunky , sexy Kate Jackson of ' Charlie's Angels ' fame . After various assorted tangles with the henchmen working for her no-account father ( Roger C . Carmel ) , Carradine learns that her dear old dad has callously sent ... |
399,018 | 1,391,795 | 48,696 | 8 | One of the great " giant bug " movies of the 1950's . | Scientist Gerald Deemer ( Leo G . Carroll ) has developed a formula that he hopes will solve the problem of a growing world population with not enough food to feed them all . The formula causes animals to grow at an accelerated rate , and wouldn't you know it , a giant tarantula escapes and scours the Southwestern dese... |
399,241 | 1,391,795 | 22,913 | 8 | I think that one aspect of this film is true . . . | No matter what you think of it , you don't forget it . This then quite daring project from director Tod Browning , who'd recently had a horror hit with the Universal production of " Dracula " , is unique for the way it depicts sideshow performers on film . They are treated with dignity and respect . Browning , a former... |
398,611 | 1,391,795 | 73,582 | 8 | I can see why Argento fans hold this in such high regard . | Well thought out but not too complex mystery from the masterful Italian film-maker about Marcus Daly ( David Hemmings ) , a jazz pianist and instructor who gets caught up in a succession of murders . At a conference on parapsychology , psychically gifted Helga Ulman ( Macha Meril ) picks up on the evil thoughts of an a... |
398,628 | 1,391,795 | 107,953 | 8 | More sad than funny this time around . . . | Curt Reynolds ( J . Trevor Edmond ) defies his father , Colonel John Reynolds ( Kent McCord ) , and takes to the road with girlfriend Julie ( Melinda Clarke ) . However , fate dictates that a tragic motorcycle accident will take Julie's life . Curt takes her body back to the lab where he has already witnessed some horr... |
398,621 | 1,391,795 | 469,093 | 8 | Death has come to your little town , sheriff . | Made with real devotion by genuine fans of this ongoing horror movie series , " Halloween : 25 Years of Terror " arose out of the real-life 25th anniversary convention held in South Pasadena , and it's impressive to see such an assemblage of series participants , celebrity admirers ( running the gamut from Clive Barker... |
399,934 | 1,391,795 | 36,104 | 8 | I really enjoyed this one . | Jerry Manning ( Dennis O'Keefe ) is the manager for a nightclub performer named Kiki Walker ( Jean Brooks ) and he gets the bright idea to have her bring in a leopard one night . The leopard gets spooked and runs off , only to maul a poor girl later that night . When more young victims are claimed , Jerry begins to dou... |
399,623 | 1,391,795 | 89,034 | 8 | An excellent throwback to the Gothic horror movies of decades past . | Dr . Thomas Rock ( Timothy Dalton ) needs cadavers for medical study , and he prefers not to worry too much about morals and ethics ; whatever the locals can obtain for him , he accepts . ( The deciding factor is that the " fresher " the bodies , the better . ) Scurrilous , creepy barflies Fallon ( Jonathan Pryce ) and... |
399,143 | 1,391,795 | 74,954 | 8 | Exploitation with heart . | Sweet-as-could-be Southern girl Jamie Barker ( lovely and adorable Monica Gayle ) wants very much to be a country and western star . Of course , anything would be preferable to being physically reprimanded by her father for listening to country music in church , or being the object of lust for horny young males . Unfor... |
399,479 | 1,391,795 | 86,873 | 8 | One of Steve Martin's best comedic performances EVER . | The original " wild and crazy guy " plays Roger Cobb , an idealistic lawyer at 38 who is the victim of a truly insane predicament . Icy cold rich lady Edwina Cutwater ( Lily Tomlin ) has devised a way to cheat death by transferring her mind and soul into the body of a younger woman ( Victoria Tennant , once Martin's re... |
399,685 | 1,391,795 | 55,505 | 8 | A solid B & W Hammer effort . | Penny Appleby ( Susan Strasberg ) , rendered a paraplegic after a horse riding accident , comes home to her fathers ' mansion in France after living in Italy for ten years . Experiencing a number of disconcerting visions ( she keeps seeing her father as a corpse ) , she struggles to hold on to her sanity , while becomi... |
399,022 | 1,391,795 | 67,229 | 8 | An entertainingly nasty , go-for-broke early 70's exploitationer . | A Satan-worshiping , Manson-style hippie cult led by charismatic kook Horace ( Indian dancer Bhaskar , in a sometimes hysterical lead performance ) comes to a small , small town in rural America . Their subsequent humiliation of elderly local veterinarian Dr . Banner results in his grandson Petes ' ( Riley Mills ) outl... |
399,160 | 1,391,795 | 69,124 | 8 | An interesting combo of the sleazy and the sordid . | The late cult favorite Paul Bartel , whose subsequent directorial efforts included " Death Race 2000 " , " Cannonball ! " , and " Eating Raoul " , made his directing debut with this creepy and offbeat little thriller . Sexy young Cheryl Stratton ( Ayn Ruymen ) is a not-so-innocent teen who's run away from her home and ... |
399,719 | 1,391,795 | 81,230 | 8 | Lurid , exciting NYC thriller . | Aggrieved psycho Gus Soltic ( Cliff Gorman ) intends to kidnap a poor little rich girl for ransom . The only problem is , he nabs the wrong girl , the daughter of ex-cop turned trucker Sean Boyd ( James Brolin ) . Boyd then tears the City from top to bottom in the quest to get his daughter back . For one thing , this e... |
399,574 | 1,391,795 | 82,497 | 8 | The sound of one hand strangling . . . | Very interesting and pretty effective psychological horror stars the always wonderful Michael Caine as the creator of a fantasy-based comic strip who is having some pretty strained relations with wife Anne ( Andrea Marcovicci ) . Well , his life takes a horrific turn when , in a bizarre traffic accident , his drawing h... |
399,203 | 1,391,795 | 785,532 | 8 | A solid second season entry . | Abortion clinic employees Alex and Kim ( Mark Feuerstein , Emmanuelle Vaugier ) nearly run into panicked teenager Angelique Burcell ( Caitlin Wachs ) , and after seeing that she is pregnant , attempt to help her in any way that they can . However , chasing after the girl is her militant pro-life father Dwayne ( Ron Per... |
399,424 | 1,391,795 | 259,182 | 8 | Very effective documentary of the horror genre . | Director Adam Simon , whose resume includes directing such fictional movies as " Brain Dead " and " Carnosaur " for Roger Corman , is the man behind this incredibly sobering and thoughtful dissection of horror . A variety of big names in the genre - George A . Romero , Tom Savini , Tobe Hooper , Wes Craven , John Landi... |
399,040 | 1,391,795 | 78,908 | 8 | A typically intense and provocative early Cronenberg chiller . | Frank Carveth ( Art Hindle ) has a real problem on his hands . His unstable wife Nola ( Samantha Eggar ) is in the care of Dr . Hal Raglan ( Oliver Reed ) , who operates an institution named Somafree . Raglan's own form of therapy is known as " Psychoplasmics " , in which his patients relieve their pent-up emotions . W... |
399,016 | 1,391,795 | 46,876 | 8 | Entertaining and worthwhile . | Classic , influential creature feature about the dangerous Gill-Man , discovered on an expedition in the Amazon , who proceeds to terrorize / kill the team members . The pompous Mark Williams ( Richard Denning ) , acting more like a big game hunter than a scientist , wants to bring back the creature as " proof " , but ... |
399,157 | 1,391,795 | 51,221 | 8 | Above all else , don't eat the fish . | After the pilots and many of the passengers on a cross-Canada flight fall victim to food poisoning , the fate of them all depends on one man : passenger Ted Stryker ( Dana Andrews ) , who flew during the war , and is attempting to reconcile with fed-up wife Ellen ( Linda Darnell ) . The only problem is that Ted can't g... |
398,575 | 1,391,795 | 40,416 | 8 | Well Done . | 40's version of Shakespeare's classic has Laurence Olivier as the " melancholy Dane " , the prince of Denmark whose father has recently died and whose mother has re-married . . . to his father's brother , a man whom Hamlet cannot stand . Eventually the truth behind his father's death emerges , and Hamlet pretends to ha... |
398,671 | 1,391,795 | 53,677 | 8 | Very entertaining entry in Hammers ' Dracula series . | On her way to a teaching job , Marianne Danielle ( Yvonne Monlaur ) is persuaded to spend the night at the mansion of Baroness Meinster ( Martita Hunt ) . There she finds that the Baroness's son ( David Peel ) is kept chained up . She takes pity on him , and frees him . Little does she know what a mistake she is making... |
398,974 | 1,391,795 | 96,379 | 8 | Enjoyable B comedy . | Police Academy inspired movie that kick started a series ( six in total ) ; a mostly female class of vice squad hopefuls go through training . The three leads are ever delightful Linnea Quigley , sexy Karen Russell , and affable Ken Abraham as pals who need to fill a quota of arrests before graduation . Before the mo... |
398,613 | 1,391,795 | 71,295 | 8 | Required viewing for those who adore 70's trash . | In one of his flamboyant leading roles in 70's exploitation films , the marvelous , under-rated character star Andrew Prine gets a bad guy part to relish . Sporting an unkempt mop of hair , eyeglasses , and priceless Buster Brown shoes , he's indignant moralizer and sadistic nut job Clement Dunne . He's killing all of ... |
398,754 | 1,391,795 | 82,817 | 8 | One of Stallone's best . | Nighthawks is a thoroughly decent action thriller about street cop Deke DaSilva ( Sylvester Stallone ) who , along with his partner Matthew Fox ( Billy Dee Williams ) , is assigned to a special counter-terrorism unit that's after terrorist-for-hire Wulfgar ( Rutger Hauer , in his first American film ) , who comes to ... |
399,396 | 1,391,795 | 71,275 | 8 | Bava turns his attention to a new genre and does a creditable job . | Mario Bava , the late , great master of artfully done horror films , tackled a completely different genre - the crime thriller - in this incredibly gripping film . A trio of no-count hoodlums : cool , calm and collected " Doctor " ( Maurice Poli ) , and the mangy duo of Bisturi ( Aldo Capone ) and " Thirty-Two " ( Luig... |
398,584 | 1,391,795 | 71,276 | 8 | A richly rewarding late Hammer entry . | German actor Horst Janson plays our title character , a dashing man who brandishes a mean sword and has vowed to destroy vampires everywhere . His loyal assistant is the steadfast Prof . Hieronymous Grost ( John Cater ) , who just happens to be hunchbacked . As they come to a remote village to attend to a local vampire... |
398,582 | 1,391,795 | 71,266 | 8 | My first women-in-prison flick . | Wilson ( Erica Gavin ) is nabbed by the cops and sent to prison in this slick and amusing example of prime 70's exploitation , marking the directing debut of Jonathan Demme . After writing and producing a few of mentor Roger Cormans ' New World films , Demme was afforded the opportunity to direct for the first time , a... |
399,270 | 1,391,795 | 84,854 | 8 | Very entertaining thriller with top-notch cast . | A hostage situation in a London townhouse is made all the worse by an unexpected element : a deadly Black Mamba , a snake with particularly lethal venom . The snake was sent to the wrong customer , wouldn't you know it , and now it has the run of the place . Brought in to replace original director Tobe Hooper ( suppose... |
399,916 | 1,391,795 | 77,270 | 8 | It was nice to see this finally get a DVD release . | A quintet of young men go through basic training as Marines before serving in Vietnam . Eventually , in an amusing twist , their futures lie in the outcome of a soccer game . Private Alvin Foster ( James Canning ) , determined to write about combat experiences , keeps a journal of their progress . This good , solid Vie... |
399,772 | 1,391,795 | 114,168 | 8 | Neat Trick With The Spoons . | Jeremy " Powder " Reed ( Sean Patrick Flanery ) is a hairless albino who's been sheltered from the outside world by his grandparents . Once they are both dead , he's forced to venture into the outside world - and deal with ignorance , bigotry and fear for the first time . He is also discovered to possess an abnormal am... |
399,025 | 1,391,795 | 84,861 | 8 | A choice exploitation action flick ! | Basically decent " outlaw " prostitute named " Princess " ( Season Hubley ) , who answers to no-one but herself , agrees to help the cops nab a particularly lethal and monumentally slimy pimp named " Ramrod " ( the incredible Wings Hauser , who ultimately walks away with the movie ) after he molests , mutilates and mur... |
399,416 | 1,391,795 | 263,488 | 8 | Something of a rarity these days : a genuinely creepy horror film . | Trish ( Gina Philips ) and Darry ( Justin Long ) Jenner are brother and sister driving a desolate stretch of rural highway on their way home from college for spring break . They are preyed upon by a mysterious figure who drives an ancient yet fortified truck and can be seen doing ominous things like dropping bloody bun... |
399,331 | 1,391,795 | 67,341 | 8 | A different offering for horror fans . | Jessica ( Zohra Lampert ) has been " away " for a while and as the movie opens is trying to get on with her life . As she moves with husband Duncan ( Barton Heyman ) and their good friend Woody ( Kevin O'Connor ) into a nice farmhouse near a cove , she has experiences that threaten to destabilize her , starting with th... |
399,247 | 1,391,795 | 53,719 | 8 | Very enjoyable . | College student Nan Barlow ( Venetia Stevenson ) is taking a course in witchcraft taught by Prof . Driscoll ( Christopher Lee , doing a decent American accent ) and she's fascinated by the subject . So much so that she follows his advice and travels to a remote New England town named Whitewood . Back in 1692 , a witch ... |
398,787 | 1,391,795 | 71,222 | 8 | Agnes , it's me , Scott , here's my review . . . | To this day , a memorable and frequently lauded horror thriller , believed by many people to be the true , pre - " Halloween " instigator of future scary movie trends , " Black Christmas " remains a fan favorite . As a sorority house in a college town quickly empties on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day , a mysterious fi... |
398,581 | 1,391,795 | 119,784 | 8 | Never believe what you publish , never publish what you believe . | Richard Dees ( expertly portrayed by Miguel Ferrer ) , the star reporter for the tabloid magazine " Inside View " , is hot on the trail of a mysterious killer with a highly unconventional modus operandi . He flies a Cessna Skymaster painted black , lands it at out-of-the-way airfields , slaughters the locals , and disa... |
399,554 | 1,391,795 | 71,200 | 8 | A very nice take on werewolf tales ; gimmicky and fun . | Tom Newcliffe ( the distinguished Calvin Lockhart ) is a rich man and successful hunter who wants to bag himself the ultimate game : a werewolf . He invites several guests to his isolated mansion , which has been fitted with all manner of surveillance equipment , intending to put his guests through various tests to pro... |
398,662 | 1,391,795 | 107,664 | 8 | A good deal of macabre fun . | Necronomicon is a three-part horror anthology linked by the title book , and based on stories by H . P . Lovecraft . It offers an entertaining cast , enjoyable splatter and monster creations , a fine amount of foreboding and gloom , striking imagery , and a great sense of fun . It's got stories within stories , and t... |
399,472 | 1,391,795 | 144,120 | 8 | If this story were a movie , it would take three or four sequels to do it justice . | Chucky's one-time girlfriend , Tiffany ( Jennifer Tilly ) tracks his remains down and resurrects the savage miniature psycho - only to end up the same way herself , trapped inside a doll . Together , they set out for New Jersey where Chucky's human remains were buried so that Chucky can retrieve an all-important amulet... |
399,393 | 1,391,795 | 92,610 | 8 | Tomorrow we're having you for lunch ! | This film certainly makes good on the promise of its title ! Nasty alien invaders have come to Earth , and as this film opens , have already infested a small town . Their goal is to turn people into the latest intergalactic meal . But they didn't count on the rough and ready team of government agents that are out to el... |
399,624 | 1,391,795 | 49,169 | 8 | Exciting and visually impressive 50's sci-fi . | Aliens come to Earth with the intention of taking over , trusting that humans will surrender peacefully . When they are met with the expected barrage of gunfire ( an earlier attempt at communication had been unsuccessful ) , the aliens change tactics promptly , attacking en masse . It's up to granite-jawed heroic scien... |
398,921 | 1,391,795 | 443,453 | 8 | An absolutely great comedy . | Sacha Baron Cohen keeps character comedy alive with this feature film vehicle for his irrepressible Kazakhstani reporter . Borat is sent to The U . S . and A . to examine its culture in the hopes of solving his own country's problems . He discovers actress Pamela Anderson through his first viewing of ' Baywatch ' , and... |
398,850 | 1,391,795 | 86,541 | 8 | Long live the new flesh . | James Woods plays Max Renn , a programmer of pirated cable TV that shows things ranging from soft-core porno to hard-core violence . He finds out about a bizarre piece of snuff TV called " Videodrome " that wallows in depravity by showing torture and murder non-stop . The REAL down side to this program is that it cause... |
399,797 | 1,391,795 | 127,349 | 8 | One Of The Better Pictures of 2000 . | Fielding Pierce ( Billy Crudup ) has dedicated his life to public service ; his biggest problem is the lingering memory of Sarah Williams ( Jennifer Connelly ) , the great love of his life , who died in a car bombing in the seventies . It is his memories of Sarah that cause him emotional torment that proves next to imp... |
398,650 | 1,391,795 | 395,584 | 8 | I am here to critique the devil's work . . . | Original " House of 1 , 000 Corpses " characters Otis ( Bill Moseley ) and Baby ( Sheri Moon Zombie ) manage to escape when a raid is staged on their farmhouse ; they take it on the lam with Captain Spaulding ( Sid Haig ) while being pursued by Sheriff John Wydell ( William Forsythe ) , who isn't all that different fro... |
398,888 | 1,391,795 | 71,413 | 8 | An impressive entry in the " killer kid ( s ) " sub-genre of horror . | Our film here begins with an excellently staged , catastrophic van accident that sees the five juvenile passengers walk away unharmed . They make their way to the local lodge where cranky , tyrannical " Papa Doc " ( Gene Evans ) is clearly running the show . The largely unsympathetic adults are slow to realize the true... |
399,723 | 1,391,795 | 84,887 | 8 | Pretty good post-apocalypse fare . | Set in a war-ravaged world of the future in which oil is a precious commodity , a savage villain named Col . Straker ( James Wainwright ) seeks to be in control . His daughter Corlie ( Annie McEnroe ) , who wants nothing to do with him , breaks free and hooks up with lone wolf Hunter ( Michael Beck ) . He brings her to... |
398,891 | 1,391,795 | 35,937 | 8 | Richard Dix is excellent in this Val Lewton production . | This film in the Lewton canon doesn't really qualify as horror , but it's still quite moody and atmospheric . Dix plays Will Stone , captain of a ship named the Altair . His new Third Officer is a young man named Tom Merriam ( Russell Wade ) . Stone is established as a lonely man with not much to live for but a belief ... |
399,791 | 1,391,795 | 71,402 | 8 | Memorable Viewing . | In one of his signature roles , Charles Bronson plays Paul Kersey , a liberal-minded man who has a major change of heart after his wife and daughter are savagely assaulted . His wife dies , and his daughter becomes a near-comatose basket case . He then feels motivated to stalk the streets of NYC looking for criminals t... |
399,189 | 1,391,795 | 62,235 | 8 | This playfully macabre movie is a real hoot . | In this combination of old-time movie serial and Gothic horror , inspired by Poes ' " Pit and the Pendulum " , evil Count Regula ( Christopher Lee , wonderful as always ) is drawn and quartered after having murdered a dozen virgins . 35 years later , two acquaintances , Roger Mont Elise ( former Tarzan performer Lex Ba... |
398,589 | 1,391,795 | 51,418 | 8 | An endearing , classic example of low-budget sci-fi . | The late , iconic , and " cool " movie star Steve McQueen ( billed here as " Steven " for the only time in his career ) plays earnest lead Steve Andrews in this likable 1950's sci-fi favorite , in which a pulpy mass from outer space crashes to earth and immediately starts devouring any human it comes into contact with ... |
399,032 | 1,391,795 | 92,563 | 8 | Engrossing , solid mystery . | Harry Angel ( Mickey Rourke ) is a low-rent NYC private eye hired by mystery man Louis Cyphre ( Robert De Niro ) to locate " Johnny Favorite " , a pre-war crooner who's dropped out of sight . Harry's search will take him to various NYC and New Orleans locations , and involve the practice of voodoo . While I have to adm... |
399,003 | 1,391,795 | 95,631 | 9 | A great 1980's action comedy ! | Hilarious odd-couple / road movie / cop movie / action comedy packaged together very well . Robert De Niro is Jack Walsh , an ousted former Chicago cop now working as a bounty hunter , who is determined to bring in bail-jumping accountant Jonathan Mardukas ( Charles Grodin ) who embezzled millions of dollars from nasty... |
399,051 | 1,391,795 | 89,885 | 9 | Who's going to believe a talking head ? Get a job in a sideshow . | Stuart Gordon made his energetic film-making debut with this loose but wildly entertaining adaptation of the H . P . Lovecraft short story , " Herbert West : Re-Animator " . In so doing , he effectively began an impressive directing career with several more Lovecraft adaptations to come . It also marked Jeffrey Combs ,... |
398,733 | 1,391,795 | 439,815 | 9 | Tons of fun for the die-hard horror fan . | Reminiscent of the 1986 cult favorite " Night of the Creeps " , this lively genre flick gives us a story of a meteorite that crashes to earth outside the small town of Wheelsy . Almost immediately , it lets loose a gross little alien that makes a home inside local rich man Grant Grant ( Michael Rooker ) , who slowly me... |
399,360 | 1,391,795 | 118,531 | 9 | Are Some Things Inevitable ? | This was written by an actual teacher ! Dedicated NYC teacher Trevor Garfield ( Samuel L . Jackson ) is stabbed by a student and ends up relocating to LA . However , his problems are not over ; he still has too many disruptive , hostile youngsters in his class . While he attempts a relationship with fellow teacher Elle... |
398,814 | 1,391,795 | 21,884 | 9 | Rightfully regarded as a true horror masterpiece . | One of the ultimate cautionary mad scientist tales of all time , Mary Shelleys ' legendary story received this extremely memorable film adaptation in 1931 , courtesy of the highly esteemed director James Whale . Anyone familiar with this story ( and how many people are not ? ) will not need me to summarize it , but the... |
398,571 | 1,391,795 | 103,064 | 9 | He said he'd be back . | Once again , the machines of the future are determined to get rid of their nemesis , John Connor . This time , they send a killer cyborg back to 1991 L . A . , to kill the young John . As before , the resistance is able to send a protector back in time as well . . . Doesn't have quite the same impact as the first film ... |
399,789 | 1,391,795 | 80,025 | 9 | McDowell and Warner make for great adversaries . | Wonderful time travel story , beginning in London in 1893 , in which legendary author H . G . Wells ( Malcolm McDowell ) actually devises his own time machine . However , it's not long before one of his own colleagues , John Lesley Stevenson ( David Warner ) is revealed to be none other than Jack the Ripper himself , a... |
399,243 | 1,391,795 | 70,295 | 9 | A magical Southern fantasy . | This movie deals with characters who make a serious business of " defying the devil " , or standing up to evil in any form that it might take . One such person is John ( Hedges Capers ) , who picks up where his beloved grandpappy ( Denver Pyle ) left off . He embarks on an incredible journey full of offbeat and sometim... |
399,560 | 1,391,795 | 93,605 | 9 | The night has its price , alright . | A nice little vampire tale of innocent , young good ol ' boy Caleb ( Adrian Pasdar of ' Mysterious Ways ' and ' Heroes ' ) picks the wrong girl , Mae ( Jenny Wright ) , on which to get hung up . She bites him without feeding on him , thereby turning him . Caleb is then snatched by Mae's associates , most played by " Al... |
399,341 | 1,391,795 | 68,457 | 9 | Bob Clark did some fine work in the horror genre during the 70's . | Deathdream , a . k . a . " Dead of Night " , is a powerfully affecting and dramatic horror story , one of the earliest to show the effects of the Vietnam War on both the soldiers and the people back home . Charlie ( John Marley ) is a WWII veteran and he , wife Christine ( Lynn Carlin ) and daughter Cathy ( Anya Orms... |
398,955 | 1,391,795 | 95,312 | 9 | A funny and sleazy delight . | Private eye Jack Chandler ( Jay Richardson ) takes the case of a missing blonde named Samantha ( Linnea Quigley ) and runs afoul of the title characters , who prove to be just as deadly ( and campy ) as they are sexy , in this outrageously fun B gem from Fred Olen Ray . To start with , I loved the way that Ray and comp... |
399,745 | 1,391,795 | 252,866 | 9 | An even better slice of pie . | Jim , Oz , Kev , Finch , and Stifler reunite after their first year of college , and rent a lake shore home for the summer , hoping to make it a summer that they'll never forget . Predictably outrageous things happen . I definitely liked this ; one of those rare instances where I like the sequel even more than the orig... |
398,912 | 1,391,795 | 93,773 | 9 | You're one ugly . . . . . . . . . . . . | Dutch Schaefer ( Arnold Schwarzenegger ) and his elite military rescue unit undertake a dangerous mission in South America and end up being pursued by a hostile , unseen enemy that is hunting and killing them purely for the sport of it . A knockout of a movie - one of AH-NULD's best . It is both an aggressively violent... |
399,901 | 1,391,795 | 107,290 | 9 | One of the 1990's most fun pictures . | Based on Michael Crichton's best-seller , and scripted by Crichton himself and David Koepp , this movie tells the story of ultra-rich entrepreneur John Hammond ( veteran actor and director Richard Attenborough ) whose bevy of scientists discover the means to create actual dinosaurs in the modern age . Hammond contrives... |
399,701 | 1,391,795 | 104,511 | 9 | When you're undead , you're family . . . | Clever , original movie from screenwriter Michael Wolk and director John Landis in which sexy French vampire Marie ( an alluring and highly appealing Anne Parillaud of " La Femme Nikita " fame ) feeds only on the scum of society . Not only that , but she always makes sure to finish her victims off so they don't become ... |
398,821 | 1,391,795 | 57,078 | 9 | Christopher Lee and Mario Bava make for a great combination . | Genre icon Lee plays Kurt Menliff , the black sheep of the Menliff family . He's returned to their mansion after some time away , which displeases most of them , with the exception of Nevenka ( the quite sensuous Daliah Lavi ) , with whom he'd had a rather kinky relationship . She still finds herself drawn to him . Soo... |
398,588 | 1,391,795 | 486,051 | 9 | A nice return to minimalist horror films . | At Christmastime , a girl ( Emily Blunt ) is riding home from college with a guy ( Ashton Holmes ) she met through a college ride board . As they travel through the snowy wilderness , his unthinking use of a shortcut leads to horrifying repercussions : forced into a snowbank by a near-collision with another vehicle , t... |
398,902 | 1,391,795 | 113,277 | 9 | I Am Thoroughly Impressed . | Very successful cops-and-criminals tale of an efficient detective ( Al Pacino ) picking up the trail of an equally efficent criminal ( Robert De Niro ) . Film also focuses on their interactions with their colleagues as well as their troubled romantic lives . This film couldn't get much better , folks . The only - I rep... |
399,337 | 1,391,795 | 67,656 | 9 | A landmark " body count " horror movie that delivers the goods in high style . | Known by many different titles , among them " A Bay of Blood " , " Carnage " , " Twitch of the Death Nerve " , and " Last House on the Left , Part II " , this marvelously gory predecessor to slasher movies is a fine exercise in style by Italian master Mario Bava . A prime piece of bayside real estate is being coveted b... |
398,840 | 1,391,795 | 76,786 | 9 | Why isn't it on more " scariest films of all time " lists ? | Almost plot less , fairly simple mystery-horror-drama-thriller , an Italian masterpiece by one of the leading names in Italian horror - - Dario Argento . American ballet dancer Suzy Bannion ( Jessica Harper ) goes to famed German ballet school that is actually a front for a coven of witches . Within the first fifteen m... |
398,730 | 1,391,795 | 856,288 | 9 | A grueling , gruesome , and gripping horror film certain to please gore fans . | Poor Sarah ( Alysson Paradis ) : left to raise her unborn baby by herself after an ugly traffic accident claims the life of her husband , she finds herself alone in her home on Christmas Eve , where she's tormented relentlessly by an unnamed , remarkably brutal woman ( Beatrice Dalle ) who seems out to get her personal... |
399,832 | 1,391,795 | 62,885 | 9 | One of Hammer's all-time best . | The beloved horror star Christopher Lee gets a rare chance to be the heroic lead in this well - done terror tale . He plays Duc de Richleau , who with his friend Rex ( Leon Greene ) seeks out their friend Simon ( Patrick Mower ) when Simon fails to attend a reunion . When they find him , the Duc realizes that Simon has... |
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