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406,137 | 2,020,269 | 268,579 | 4 | Jack The Rip-Off Vs . The College Co-eds | This is one of the worst things you can encounter on the lowest horror-shelves of your local video store ; a pretentious teen-slasher ! " Ripper " basically is just another routine and mediocre stalk ' n slash film , but it stupidly also pretends to be a deeply intellectual and psychological thriller investigating the ... |
404,981 | 2,020,269 | 91,223 | 4 | Well , this isn't good at all ! | I picked up this film after I got a lot of recommendations on it . Not just here on this wonderful website but also from magazines , friends etc . I was told this is one the typical 80's horror films . Creepy and funny at the same time . Well , the 80's was an excellent decade for the genre , but this film sure doesn't... |
405,160 | 2,020,269 | 95,611 | 4 | Slashing through the unmemorable valley of Darkness . . . | Forgettable , by-the-numbers 80's slasher in the woods , which is saved from total mediocrity by an unusually high body count and a fair amount of tongue-in-cheek humor during the first hour . The beautiful forest region of Memorial Valley is being turned into a fancy camping site by a rich business man . Various campe... |
405,942 | 2,020,269 | 156,182 | 4 | I suppose a script was too much to wish for ? | Surprise , surprise ! The super-hideous Djinn is resurrected once more to butcher a whole lot of people and ? more importantly ? to further exploit the successful franchise that started with " Wishmaster " two years earlier . The Djinn is awakened and let out of his funky red emerald during a clumsy art-heist by two yo... |
406,268 | 2,020,269 | 56,480 | 4 | Elementary inferior , my dear Watson ? | It was always obvious , even before watching it , that this Sherlock Holmes movie wouldn't be as terrific and compelling as " The Hound of the Baskervillers " ( the other Holmes movie directed by Terence Fisher and starring Christopher Lee ? although not in the titular role ) , but I honestly didn't expect it to be thi... |
406,264 | 2,020,269 | 147,582 | 4 | Adequately made but passable . | It's probably a bit unfair to compare this version of the Sweeney Todd story ? as well as any other film version ever made before ? with Tim Burton's film which came out in 2007 , but at the same time also inevitable . Burton's movie is like the ultimate adaptation of the Sweeney Todd story , with the perfect cast ( Jo... |
406,663 | 2,020,269 | 70,655 | 4 | Hey , where has the house gone ? ? | Ah , the house that vanished ? This oddball ( alternate ) title alone was more than enough reason for me to purchase a copy of this obscure and relatively unknown horror flick . But unfortunately , and as the case with too many 70's horror efforts , the title is by far the most exciting aspect about the entire producti... |
405,057 | 2,020,269 | 61,398 | 4 | What a Circus ! | Sigh ? Sometimes the outcome of a movie viewing goes beyond being a mere " disappointment " or just " something you expected more from " . Sometimes it actually HURTS to acknowledge that a certain title wasn't as great as you initially thought or hoped . For me , this was definitely the case with " Berserk ! " . I'm a ... |
405,867 | 2,020,269 | 330,691 | 4 | New-age giallo without surprises . Where's the blood and gore , Dario ? ? ? | I think even the most fanatic Argento fans will agree that the 90's was a rather disappointing decade for the Italian horror maestro . Both ' Trauma ' and ' The Stendal Syndrome ' were below his normal standards and ' Phantom of the Opera ' was simply bad . But the new millennium seemed to bring back Dario's inspiratio... |
405,647 | 2,020,269 | 256,009 | 4 | Very stylish film , but it could have used a little more panache . . . | As much as I'd like to agree with the rest of you cinema-experts around here , I really can't bring myself to call this film a masterpiece and even the genius-reputation of director Guillermo Del Toro is a bit undeserved , if you ask me . His horror movies for large audiences ( " Mimic " , " Hellboy " ) are truly medio... |
405,316 | 2,020,269 | 160,399 | 4 | In 2079 , the Dome is Home ! | Boy , am I glad I'll be long dead and rotten by the time it's 2079 , because these adaptations of Philip K . Dick stories really don't make it seem like it will be a pleasant era to be alive ! In the year 2079 , the people of earth live in a dome ( like in " The Simpsons Movie " only much larger ) and there's the const... |
405,367 | 2,020,269 | 420,728 | 4 | You saw " Predator " one too many times , Bruno ? | This user-comment stands as my last personal homage to director Bruno Mattei , who sadly passed away just a few weeks ago . Even though certainly wasn't the world's best horror director ( he's often even referred to as the Italian Ed Wood ) , but his movies never failed to entertain me , and you could always tell he ha... |
406,740 | 2,020,269 | 95,271 | 4 | The night he came home . . . again and again and again | After episode 3 without Michael Myers ( Season of the Witch , which turned out a marketing-mistake and a giant flop ) the Halloween franchise urgently needed his charismatic knife-wielder Michael back in order to make more cash . So here we see how Myers all of a sudden wakes up from his coma during a transport from a ... |
405,533 | 2,020,269 | 485,774 | 4 | Give a little bit of Heart and Soul . . . | Heartstopper , directed by the always-reliable special effects wizard Bob Keen ( he worked on the effects for no less than " Hellraiser " , " Candyman " and " Hardware " ) , is a sadly forgettable effort that combines the plot of a typical late 80's cheesy flick with the outrageous gore and brutality of nowadays ' To... |
406,442 | 2,020,269 | 83,767 | 4 | Saved only ( and barely ) by stories 3 , 5 and Tom Savini's make-up . | I'm aware of the fact this film has a very loyal and devoted horror movie fan base , but you can count me out . Perhaps because I never actively experienced the glorious high point years of Bill Gaines ' E . C . comics , but I just don't think it's a brilliant idea to shoot an entire film with the deliberate intention ... |
405,384 | 2,020,269 | 221,905 | 4 | Did a cruise ship ever dance with a giant octopus by the pale moonlight ? | A really BIG fishy creature , born from spilled toxic nuclear waste during the Cuba-crisis , is consecutively devouring the crew of an American submarine and the passengers of a fancy cruise ship . Well actually , that's just a sub plot as the main storyline involves a super-nervous rookie CIA-agent trying to escort a ... |
406,315 | 2,020,269 | 827,782 | 4 | Like a video game . . . | Almost everything in this redundant but nevertheless slightly amusing straight-to-video sequel to " House on Haunted Hill " looks like it is part of a video game . The title sounds like a typical video game title , none of the characters ( not even the good ones ) are amiable and / or given any backgrounds and there's ... |
405,640 | 2,020,269 | 91,799 | 4 | Norman , are you being a good boy ? | If Alfred Hitchcock would only know how influential he remained long after his death . . . Especially his film " Psycho " continues to stay the most imitated classic and , with the popularity of slasher-films in the 80's , this cinematic milestone got ' rewarded ' with two totally unnecessary yet entertaining and blood... |
406,055 | 2,020,269 | 87,479 | 4 | Crazy and inept , but somewhat fun . | Forget about the nonsensical other title " The Astral Factor " ? In just two words , " Invisible Strangler " perfectly summarizes what this low-keyed 70's Sci-Fi horror movie is all about ! There's a strangler on the loose and he happens to be invisible , which makes it all the more easier to practice his macabre hobby... |
404,530 | 2,020,269 | 126,820 | 4 | B-movie film school ? | This amateurish but nonetheless spirited gory mess was produced by sleazebag J . R . Bookwalter's company " Tempe " , which offers young ambitious directors like Matthew Jason Walsh the chance to share their enthusiastic horror ideas with a modest but loyal group of B-movie fans . The budget was really really low , res... |
404,806 | 2,020,269 | 87,472 | 4 | Deadbeat coeds , chopping malls and giant penis-costumes . Yep , we're in the 80's all right ! | Gorgeous sorority girls hunted down by a maniacal killer during their pledge night . Now there's a new and totally original idea for an early 80's slasher movie . . . NOT ! Well , that's also what the creators of " The Initiation " must have thought , and thus they added some other , much more ambitious story lines as ... |
405,327 | 2,020,269 | 74,258 | 4 | House of 0 , 0001 Corpses . . . | I suppose " Burnt Offerings " holds some kind of nostalgic value among many fans of 70's horror , otherwise I haven't got the slightest idea why this film should be regarded as a genre " classic " . Admittedly , this haunted house thriller by Dan Curtis ( whom , I've learned thanks to this wonderful website , passed aw... |
404,226 | 2,020,269 | 91,847 | 4 | France of the Dead ! | The French and movies about the living dead don't really seem to match together very well , do they ? Remember " Zombie Lake " ? Well , " Revenge of the Living Dead Girls " is almost as awful as that one , only it wasn't so fortunate to hoard a gigantic cult status and became pretty much forgotten over the years . Neve... |
405,213 | 2,020,269 | 100,637 | 4 | Your little jokes aren't funny , Jason . . . | The Sleeping Car is a pretty insignificant and worthless horror film that is made endurable by a couple of nice special effects and a neat supporting role by Kevin McCarthy . The plot revolves on an over-aged journalism student Jason ( David McNaughton from " American Werewolf in London ) who rents an old , refurnish... |
406,085 | 2,020,269 | 197,857 | 4 | Incest ? No no , we call it LOVE ! | Schoolgirls in Chains , with its grotesquely provocative yet inaccurate title , may perhaps thrive on a series of ultimately controversial , shocking and politically incorrect themes , but the low-budget elaboration and lack of talent involved ( fortunately ? ) prevented the film from becoming the nasty exploitation ... |
405,383 | 2,020,269 | 43,360 | 4 | Lon Chaney dances a mediocre jungle-boogie ! | Certainly not a bad little low budget film , this " Bride of the Gorilla " , but nothing special , neither , and not memorable enough to be ranked among the meaningful Sci-Fi efforts of its time . Director Curt Siodmak was an eminent scriptwriter during the 1930's and 1940's and delivered stories for some true genre cl... |
405,184 | 2,020,269 | 122,070 | 4 | Running towards Nothing . . . Again and again and again and again and . . . | The title of this obscure and ( almost righteously ) forgotten 80's slasher inevitably reminds me of The Cure's mega-smash-monster hit song with the same title , hence a piece of the lyrics in the title-section of this user comment . Also , I didn't have anything else to say that was useful , anyway . But hey , " The F... |
406,209 | 2,020,269 | 96,071 | 4 | Love the scenery ? and the make-up ! | Bill Pullman plays a Harvard anthropologist who's sent to Haiti in order to investigate the process of ' zombification ' . Haitian voodoo-priests and sorcerers have developed a method to bring the dead back to live again and have control over their souls . The ' civilized ' medicine world is interested in this method t... |
405,939 | 2,020,269 | 78,767 | 4 | Amityville a classic ? ? Didn't think so ? | For some incomprehensible reason , " The Amityville Horror " enjoys the modest status of being a classic horror film and , moreover , some big shots in Hollywood even considered it profitable enough to remake it in 2005 . Well , maybe I just don't know anything about good horror , but this just a very average movie wit... |
404,528 | 2,020,269 | 83,000 | 4 | Rear Windshield | I don't really understand why everybody is so loud in praise about this mediocre Aussie thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock's biggest fan-boy ( oh yeah , much bigger than Brian DePalma ) ; Richard Franklin . All I saw was a tedious thriller with an unforgivably low body count and only a couple of ingenious surprises ... |
404,692 | 2,020,269 | 74,390 | 4 | What the HELL ? ! ? | Percival Rubens ' " The Demon " is one of them late 70's low-budget horror oddities of which you can't help wondering why the hell it was ever made . What director , in his right state of mind , comes up with a completely illogical story about a malicious killer with unexplained motives and a heroic copper who gets kil... |
404,487 | 2,020,269 | 64,726 | 4 | Bloody Horror , my @ $$ ! | I could think of approximately a dozen other and more appropriate titles to name this film , but " Night of the Bloody Horror " certainly isn't one of them . Okay , I realize the creators just picked out of bunch of appealing key words that are likely to raise an interest among horror fans , but any movie title should ... |
406,131 | 2,020,269 | 109,327 | 4 | Game over , already . . . Igor is the winner ! | Dumb , dumb . . . dumb horror movie ONLY enjoyable IF you manage to totally ignore the whole concept that is . . . . well . . . rather dumb ! " Brainscan " is the name of a hi-tech video game that places the player inside the mind of a serial killer . Bound to a time-limit , Michael Bower ( Edward Furlong ) has to comm... |
406,242 | 2,020,269 | 226,038 | 4 | Based on a popular Belgian Comic book | Looks like I'm the first person to tell something about this title . No surprises here seeing that this film is based on a comic book that only comes out in my petite country Belgium . " Kiekeboe " is a popular and well written comic series by Merho . It handles about an average family getting involved in all kind of s... |
405,841 | 2,020,269 | 92,076 | 4 | Same director , same title but a totally different style . . . | Sequels to absolute horror-milestones . . . That's usually a very bad idea ( anyone remembers the stupidity of The Exorcist II and the Howling II ? ) . And the original from 1974 WAS an absolute milestone in the genre . Its cruel and scary style changed the horror industry forever . So keeping that in mind , my expecta... |
404,963 | 2,020,269 | 95,900 | 4 | These Monks Hunger for pure virgin blood ! | Okay , so we've got Roberta Findlay ( " Tenement : Game of Survival " , " Snuff " ) directing a cheesy 80's horror movie revolving on a brotherhood of devilish monks sacrificing young women to Satan himself and drinking their blood in order to remain immortal . How bad could this possibly be ? Correction ; it's unquest... |
406,431 | 2,020,269 | 330,181 | 4 | Killer Klown from Outer ? Illinois | It was a very temporary yet popular trend some years ago to overflow the horror market with truthful portraits of real-life serial killers . The most notorious American serial killers of the 20th century all received biographies and ? to keep it simple ? these films usually got named after the killers themselves . We g... |
404,844 | 2,020,269 | 356,176 | 4 | Deep in the Northern Woods . . . | Same concept , different country ? Quite too many nowadays horror movies seem to revolve on friends or colleagues going into the woods for camping and / or team building activities but end up encountering ' something ' evil ( and mostly unseen ) that gradually thins out the group's original number . This film is the No... |
404,263 | 2,020,269 | 201,844 | 4 | Only enjoyable when you're in a certain state of mind | In case you're NOT looking for a highly intelligent , original or demanding horror movie , I can recommend Piñata Survival Island . The Hillenbrand-brothers know all the genre clichés and they're not afraid to use them ! A group of attractive young teenagers , who make up in hormones what they lack in brains , are very... |
404,396 | 2,020,269 | 64,787 | 4 | Umberto Lenzi & Carroll Baker go " Paranoia " . . . again ! | Welcome to Umberto Lenzi's early 70's giallo / crime thriller " Paranoia " starring the unearthly beautiful Carroll Baker ? Hey , wait a minute , haven't I watched and reviewed this movie a couple of days ago already ? Oh right , that was the OTHER Umberto Lenzi early 70's giallo / crime thriller " Paranoia " starring ... |
406,509 | 2,020,269 | 69,753 | 4 | Kiss Me , Kill Me . . . Annoy Me ? | Psychedelic soft-erotic exploitation movies were an inexplicably popular trend amongst European directors back in the late 60's and early 70's . This generally pointless sub genre of horror consists of movies that basically don't have any plots , but are stuffed with trendy looking women parading around naked and fetis... |
405,829 | 2,020,269 | 416,315 | 4 | Based on a True Story is such an easy excuse . . . | Not a terribly hopeless movie , this Australian " Wolf Creek " , but it sure as hell won't ever be regarded as a horror movie classic . The main problem with this nevertheless ambitious production is that it constantly looks incomplete and ? even more importantly ? takes too easily advantage of the " based on true even... |
404,719 | 2,020,269 | 95,941 | 4 | Who's Alice ? What Mirror ? Who or what is broken ? | There are certain horror directors for whom I've built up so much respect & admiration over the years , that they can't possibly disappoint me know matter what garbage to decide to put on film . Lucio Fulci is surely one of them , but damned , he's trying to disappoint me with his later efforts ! You can easily afford ... |
405,502 | 2,020,269 | 201,776 | 4 | There's no business like porn-business | This film kind of is Emilio Estevez ' comeback after a dreadfully slow decade of kiddies ' stuff and inferior TV-productions . Estevez and his brother Charlie Sheen portray the Mitchell brothers , Jim and Arnie . From the early 70's until the early 90's these boys ruled the Californian porn industry and opened their ow... |
405,658 | 2,020,269 | 92,115 | 4 | Harry Potter and the Troll in the dungeon ? | Small spoiler alert . . . Troll is an incredibly silly and cheesy movie . It's actually too dumb for words but yet I feel like I can't be too harsh on it . After all , it's just a meaningless attempt to create a morbid fairy tale and the cast and crew obviously showed a lot of enthusiasm and goodwill . It's about an un... |
406,430 | 2,020,269 | 490,076 | 4 | Dump the Broad , damned ! | I was only cautiously enthusiast when renting " All the boys love Mandy Lane " , as I instantly remembered hearing & reading a wide variety of opinions ? both positive and negative ? in the short period of time between its brief cinematic release and the distribution towards videostore shelves . Supposedly this was the... |
404,648 | 2,020,269 | 57,311 | 4 | Really ? Isolation causes mental instability ? | It took me no less than five attempts in order to watch this film straight from start to finish . This primarily has to do with my personal bad habit of always wanting to watch movies when I should be doing something else ( like ? sleeping ! ) , but it also has to do with the subject matter , which inarguably isn't the... |
404,341 | 2,020,269 | 60,558 | 4 | It's Alive ! ! ! . . . And it's crap ! | Of course you can't expect too much from something that proudly presents itself as a low-budgeted hybrid of two entirely different classic film genres and their main icons . Director William Beaudine was clearly exploring the possibilities of exploitation cinema and considered it a great idea to shoot two films back-to... |
406,292 | 2,020,269 | 69,795 | 4 | Pimp My Mary Shelley ! | Nothing's sacred in the world of exploitation cinema , not even Mary Shelley's legendary novel or the classic Universal make-up effects on Boris Karloff . And thank the heavens for that , otherwise we never would have seen this wondrously demented Blaxploitation interpretation of Frankenstein . " Blackenstein " is a de... |
404,411 | 2,020,269 | 126,604 | 4 | Bring back the John Waters of " Pink Flamingos " and " Polyester " | John Waters became a cult-cinema hero in the 70's instantly after delivering the bad-taste milestone " Pink Flamingos " and he continued pleasing his trash-horny fans ( including me ) with extraordinary and incomparable movies like " Female Trouble " , " Desperate Living " and " Polyester " . True , Waters ' movies wer... |
405,393 | 2,020,269 | 772,193 | 4 | Gustave welcomes you to . . . Hotel Burundi ! | Back when I was a kid in kindergarten , we always used to sing a song about a crocodile named Sophie and , according to the lyrics , her jaws were never closed because she always gossiped about the rest of the animal kingdom . Well now , the croc in " Primeval " answers to the name Gustave and his jaws are never closed... |
405,111 | 2,020,269 | 906,734 | 4 | The Børing Bødy Snøtchers | If the myth regarding broken mirrors would be accurate , everybody involved in this production would now face approximately 170 years of bad luck , because there are a lot of mirrors falling to little pieces here . If only the script was as shattering as the glass , then " The Broken " would have been a brilliant film ... |
405,070 | 2,020,269 | 92,030 | 4 | The Supernatural South Is Gonna Rise Again . . . | Sigh ? despite my many years of training in horror cinema and countless of previous bad experiences , I still get suckered into watching lousy movies because of their appealing and juicy looking VHS cover artwork ! I knew absolutely nothing about " The Supernaturals " , but purely based on that drawing of a toothless s... |
405,235 | 2,020,269 | 87,050 | 4 | Beware of Dude Who Walks Behind The Rows . . . | Horror movies based on Stephen King's writings are often very overrated and especially the ones inspired by his short stories are difficult to endure . It's pretty logical , I suppose . . . King made it a SHORT story , so a long-feature film handling about the same matter is likely to be tedious ! " Children of the Cor... |
405,201 | 2,020,269 | 87,051 | 4 | Weak little Wolverines . . . | I anticipated the episode following the masterful " Silent Scream " to be a lot weaker , but " Children of the Full Moon " is more than just weak ; it's an actual disappointment ! This short movie directed by Tom Clegg ( " McVicar " ) is senseless , incredibly predictable and far too implausible to evoke any feelings o... |
404,736 | 2,020,269 | 82,620 | 4 | Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Daddies . . . | Here's another gloriously absurd and grotesque horror movie concept that only could have sprung from the mind of delirious early 80's scriptwriters . Dig this : A father and his two psychically and telekinetic gifted children lives isolated atop of a mountain , because daddy is worried the government will come and kidn... |
406,488 | 2,020,269 | 253,556 | 4 | Certainly not a " high-flier " | Small SPOILERS . . . I can't really explain why , but I always stood rather distrustful towards this movie . Although I'm very interested in the topics it handles about ( Dragons . . . apocalypse . . . FIRE ! ) , I've waited a long time before I actually saw it . I've seen it now and it looks like I was right , Reign o... |
406,422 | 2,020,269 | 71,518 | 4 | Totally inept , but cheesy good fun | Trashy , sleazy , campy , exploitative and ? of course ? extremely pointless Italian version of the classic Frankenstein story . It's a variation on the traditional Mary Shelley tale , with some deranged additional ideas and awkward erotic undertones . The Italians tried to achieve this sort of concept before already w... |
405,699 | 2,020,269 | 222,355 | 4 | Surfers ' Smörgåsbord | I had to browse through my own user comments in order to double-check whether or not if I saw the original " Shark Attack " . I must have deliberately banished it from my memory , because apparently I have seen it and ' rewarded ' it with the lowest possible score you can give here on this site , as well as a not-so-pr... |
404,325 | 2,020,269 | 117,506 | 4 | Despicable fish sticks ! | Why anyone would want to remake a gory and filthy exploitation gem from the early 80's is a mystery to me . The original Humanoids was a nice viewing and a good change to observe , but it hasn't really got the potential to be re-told in a 90's sort of atmosphere . Yet , they did and I don't really have a problem with t... |
406,392 | 2,020,269 | 67,134 | 4 | A weaker link in the giallo-team | The brief synopsis of this film promised quite a lot of sadistic murders and and intelligent , convoluted plot twists , but it's actually one of the most boring giallo-efforts I've encountered so far . The plot is uninvolving and introduces too many superfluous characters that like to behave suspiciously even when they... |
405,139 | 2,020,269 | 74,845 | 4 | The . . . Shark Whisperer ? ? | This film proudly opens with the following announcement : " The producers wish to express their sincerest gratitude to the members of the underwater crew who risked their lives to film the shark sequences without the benefit of cages or other protective devices " . Hell yeah they should be grateful ! Especially because... |
404,940 | 2,020,269 | 74,829 | 4 | insert wolf's howl here | Very strange but occasionally elegant exploitation movie with no real story , but benefiting from its stunningly ravishing lead actress and a handful of nice , gruesome make-up effects . Daniella is a beautiful twenty-something girl , carrying with her the trauma of being raped at the age of 13 . Nightmares and halluci... |
405,250 | 2,020,269 | 117,611 | 4 | Total eclipse of the brain cells . . . | Shadow Builder doesn't only dispose of the ugliest VHS-cover in the history of cinema , it also is one of the most ineptly bizarre films I ever had the ( mis ) fortune of seeing . The film is a little bit based on a short story by Bram Stoker ( you know , the guy who gained some fame with his vampire novel ) but the ... |
406,032 | 2,020,269 | 82,467 | 4 | Herbie goes to high school ! | First and foremost I wish to aim a big & mean middle-finger towards the Troma DVD-distribution crew , who were actually stupid enough to reveal the identity of this movie's pivot killer on the back of the cover ! The synopsis just randomly mentions who's the person responsible for the massacre on graduation day , for C... |
405,295 | 2,020,269 | 324,127 | 4 | Engagement and Plausibility Below Zero | Suspect Zero is an endurable and occasionally compelling suspense-thriller , but with a far too ambitious and implausible concept , too many unprocessed sub plots and character drawings that easily rank among the least likable ones I ever saw . If this project ever had the intention of becoming the 2000's equivalent ... |
406,617 | 2,020,269 | 79,285 | 4 | Singin ' in the space-rain ! | Stanley Donen from the smarmy classic " Singin ' in the Rain " directed this sleazy space adventure ? What's next , George A . Romero remaking ' Dirty Dancing ' ? ? Less surprising than the awkward director choice , however , is how silly and redundant this movie is . . . It totally lacks the originality , creativity a... |
405,405 | 2,020,269 | 839,880 | 4 | Let's All Go to Die in the Lakes ' Lake ! | The organizing department behind the After Dark Horrorfest clearly didn't base their movie choices on plot originality ; otherwise " Lake Dead " never would have made the final selection . This is a remotely entertaining little effort , but quite possibly also the most clichéd horror movie I ever watched and it's deriv... |
404,993 | 2,020,269 | 486,614 | 4 | Lie still . . . and sleep tight ! | Well here's a movie that probably will be long forgotten before it properly hits the lowest shelves of second-class rental stores ? " Lie Still " , the debut film of Sean Hogan , simply hasn't got anything to offer that makes it memorable . Gorehounds will drop out instantly , as the film doesn't feature the slightest ... |
404,624 | 2,020,269 | 82,818 | 4 | Semi-successful maniacal portrait . . . | First and foremost : I feel they ought to make " Nightmare in a Damaged Brain " the official title of this movie . It has got such a cool ring to it , and simply calling it " Nightmare " is insignificant anyways ! That said . . . on with the review ! Scavolini's film actually is a decent film and not quite as disgustin... |
406,674 | 2,020,269 | 354,623 | 4 | So it has come to this . . . Pinhead is nothing more than an annoying internet pop-up ! | Complete horror failures such as " Fear Dot Com " and " My Little Eye " apparently haven't made it fully clear just yet : the internet is NOT scary ! ! And yet in this eighth sequel , Rick Bota ; also known as the dude who doesn't allow the Hellraiser franchise to die peacefully ; presents Hellraiser now as a popular i... |
406,245 | 2,020,269 | 244,098 | 4 | Tolerable slasher ? | Another day , another long-forgotten 80's slasher that came to my attention because it looked like it had to offer some decent murder sequences , T & A and a handful of clumsy and not-so-convincing red herrings . And yes , " Night Screams " is a more or less enjoyable horror effort , but only just as long as your expec... |
405,604 | 2,020,269 | 71,212 | 4 | The door to ? the crap-house ? ? ? | Now , " Beyond the Door " isn't a complete dud , but it does suffer from one too many imbecile situations and overly tedious sub plots that go absolutely nowhere at all . Total lack of inventiveness and shamelessly stealing ideas from previous horror-blockbusters is one thing , but why did the duo of directors insist o... |
405,570 | 2,020,269 | 595,616 | 4 | Destroy all Bunnies ! | This fourth entry in Hammer's House of Horror series is definitely the most bizarre thus far , but sadly also the least intriguing one . The whole set-up is good and there are some really creepy moments to enjoy , but it eventually all leads to an implausible and idiotic denouement . " Growing Pains " opens with a youn... |
405,134 | 2,020,269 | 479,125 | 4 | Dawson Versus The Damned . | Although the premise isn't original or innovating ( " Village of the Damned " , " Children of the Damned " , " Who Can Kill a Child " , " The Children of Ravensbeck " ? ) , I'm always enthusiast about a horror movie revolving on murderous ? and whether or not zombified ? children , but you always have to bear in mind t... |
405,740 | 2,020,269 | 79,039 | 4 | Two lousy exploitations for the price of one . | This is one of the strangest and definitely one of the most atypical titles to be found in the whole list of infamous Video Nasties . Judging by the stills on the back of the VHS-cover and based on the narrative during the first half of the film , I would unhesitatingly describe " Delirium " as a crude and misogynistic... |
404,710 | 2,020,269 | 75,164 | 4 | Lucifer be not proud . . . | I'm really puzzled about one thing ? HOW is it possible to take such an intriguing and exciting topic like Satanism and make such a BORING movie out of it ? ? ? Because that's exactly what happened with this ' Satan's Slave ' ! Bad writer-director combination , I guess . Norman J . Warren already annoyed the hell out o... |
405,423 | 2,020,269 | 369,918 | 4 | Hey kid , you got some red on you ? | This movie badly suffers from the M . Night Shyamalan syndrome , meaning that writer Sheldon Wilson desperately tries to be SO mysterious , SO ambitious and SO convoluted that , when the climax eventually approaches and the time has arrived to finally come up with some adequate explanations , the script can't possibly ... |
405,231 | 2,020,269 | 71,416 | 4 | The Devilish Narrator | Back in college I studied marketing and , even though I missed a whole lot of classes and never really paid any attention , I will always remember the main and most essential principle of marketing , namely : it's not what you sell ; it's HOW you sell it ! This principle fully applies to " The Devil's Triangle " , as i... |
404,549 | 2,020,269 | 51,418 | 4 | The interstellar pudding's night on the town ! | Never once before in my life thought I would say this , but there's actually an 80's horror remake that I enjoyed more than the original ! The 1988 update for " The Blob " , by director Chuck Russell , widely surpasses the 1958 original and that's not exclusively because it got released in a decade when visual & specia... |
406,097 | 2,020,269 | 443,496 | 4 | Falling Down . . . in the Red Light District . | Well , I expected a lot from " Edmond " , with its provocative sounding plot and brilliant cast & crew , but it turned out a mildly painful and frustrating disappointment . Judging from countless praising reviews and enthusiast forums on websites , I was anticipating a truly shocking , confronting and intense drama , b... |
405,280 | 2,020,269 | 82,804 | 4 | The Dullest Little Whorehouse in . . . Wherever ! | Who could ever have predicted that an early 80's haunted house thriller directed by one of America's most infamous porn-horror directors ( Armand Weston ; sick genius behind " The Defiance of Good " and " The Taking of Christina " ) , and actually revolving on the grim past of a secluded whorehouse , could be this ? bo... |
404,787 | 2,020,269 | 79,082 | 4 | The thin line between trash-exploitation and art-house cinema | Despite of its reputation and the repulsive sounding title , Abel Ferrara's The Driller Killer is more of a social drama about life in the big city than it is a horror shocker . Ferrara himself stars as Reno , an unbalanced painter slowly going crazy due to financial troubles , the noisy punk-band next door , demanding... |
405,001 | 2,020,269 | 120,877 | 4 | The Wild Bunch of Vampires | Twenty years after " Assault on Precinct 13 " , director John Carpenter re-states that he actually prefers making westerns over horror movies . " Vampires " looks like a giant tribute to Sam Peckinpah's " The Wild Bunch " ( even the illustration on the DVD-cover is taken from it ) and handles about a 600-year-old super... |
406,270 | 2,020,269 | 125,806 | 4 | The Indecent Girls That We Are | Okay , first and foremost , there's something very wrong with the US-title of this thing . High School ? ? Hitch-Hikers ? ? ? The two leading ladies are way too old to still be in high school and ? even more importantly ? they never at one point during the movie stick up their thumbs to fetch a ride with someone ! The ... |
405,088 | 2,020,269 | 63,595 | 4 | Feels like a Russ Meyer film but without the cleavage . . . | This angry female-biker flick was my first acquaintance with the legendary director Hershell Gordon Lewis . I'm much more looking forward to seeing some of his most controversial films like ' Two Thousand Maniacs ' , ' Blood Feast ' or ' The Gruesome Twosome ' but I consider this to be a reasonable appetizer . It's not... |
404,986 | 2,020,269 | 374,345 | 4 | Forgettable . . . | Erik van Looy's " De Zaak Alzheimer " isn't the least bit groundbreaking or exceptional but , considering it's an entirely Belgian production , it slightly outshines the middle group . The plot is standard cop-thriller material with an all-knowing assassin turning against his instructors and leaving the Antwerp police ... |
405,347 | 2,020,269 | 82,094 | 4 | Blame it on the Boogie ! | The key question that immediately raises itself when noticing a monster-movie called " The Boogens " is of course : what exactly is a Boogens and what does it look like ? Well , even after just having finished the film I'm still not entirely sure if I can give a proper definition for the titular critters . Apparently t... |
404,456 | 2,020,269 | 805,570 | 4 | You Choo-Choo-Choose Me ? | I heard and read many praising things about " Midnight Meat Train " , which is based on a short story written by no less than Clive Barker and supposedly the best adaptation of his work since the original " Hellraiser " that he directed himself , but so far I can only express very mixed sentiments about my viewing expe... |
405,106 | 2,020,269 | 482,599 | 4 | Take a Ghost-Picture , it'll last longer ! | Unfortunately I didn't manage to catch the 2004 Thai original before this American remake premiered at the annual Belgian Horror and Fantasy Festival . I didn't bother to see it when it initially got released because there already was an overload of Asian Ghost movies at that time and I really couldn't cope enduring an... |
406,553 | 2,020,269 | 95,120 | 4 | Dude , you left the microwave oven-door open ! | This overall poor and redundant 80's slasher is more or less ' famous ' for one killing-sequence in particular , in which some guy's head is turned into bloody hodgepodge because the masked killer places him in a microwave oven and hits the start-button . Is that even possible ? Perhaps it was an older and unsafe oven ... |
405,788 | 2,020,269 | 82,116 | 4 | The Notorious B . I . G . strikes again ! | I honestly had no idea that the Notorious B . I . G . ( Bert I . Gordon the director ; not the murdered rapper ) was still active in the 80's ! I always presumed the deliciously inept " Empire of the Ants " stood as his last masterful accomplishment in the horror genre , but that was before my dirty little hands stumbl... |
404,928 | 2,020,269 | 86,491 | 4 | Fast-forward to George Miller's segment ! | I was born a few decades too late in order to experience the initial charm and impact of the original " Twilight Zone " TV-series , so I only knew the name from the many nostalgic stories told by older Sci-Fi fans . This ' tribute'-movie was my first encounter with the legendary Rod Sterling show and , although not ter... |
406,552 | 2,020,269 | 117,140 | 4 | Children Shouldn't Play Deadly Games . | I'm always tempted to reward these movies from Northern Europe with some extra points , simply because the languages they speak over there are so utterly cool ! Just look at this film's title , with the remarkable " o " , and listen to some of the monologues ! Even the most awful teen-slasher suddenly gets a whole lot ... |
404,682 | 2,020,269 | 83,673 | 5 | Starring the best Dutch-speaking comedian ever | De Boezemvriend won't ring a bell to that many people . It's a long lost and forgotten Dutch comedy , but . . . a very enjoyable one . The chosen few who'll have the change to see it one day won't regret it . But it is hard to find . I taped it off TV once in the early 90's . I still have that tape and re-watched it re... |
406,285 | 2,020,269 | 83,660 | 5 | Beware of Murderous has-been 50's Crooner ! | Yay ! Another totally obscure early 80's slasher no one has ever heard of ! I often wonder where they keep coming from . Are the 80's still going on in some kind of alternate dimension or something ? How else would you explain the never-ending upstream of long lost slashers ? Anyway , this one isn't very good , but I c... |
404,661 | 2,020,269 | 446,719 | 5 | Don't have a ( mad ) cow , man ! | A couple of years ago , when the news bulletins in Europe were stuffed with updates regarding the ' mad cow disease ' , I was actually wondering how long it would take before some clever scriptwriter would come up with the very first horror movie revolving on this disturbing illness ! As far as I'm aware , this potenti... |
406,399 | 2,020,269 | 83,659 | 5 | Two Moriarty for the price of one | I'm strangely fascinated by the acting career of Michael Moriarty . He's rather odd-looking and never seems to know what's going on , yet he was often offered important horror roles during the 1980's . Especially , by Larry Cohen who cast him in " Q ? The Winged Serpent " and " The Stuff " . Well , " Blood Link " isn't... |
404,292 | 2,020,269 | 455,362 | 5 | Who let the dogs out ? Woof , woof , woof ? woof ? | The Breed actually feels a lot like a modern cinematic update ( can't really refer to it as a remake ) of the severely underrated 70's killer-dogs-flick " The Pack " . In that film a group of tourists on a holiday island resort becomes attacked by a pack of bewildered dogs that were abandoned by their owners and deve... |
406,182 | 2,020,269 | 70,537 | 5 | This little piggy stayed at home and watched a demented drive-in feature ? | Ladies and Gentlemen , the hall of 70's exploitation obscurity proudly presents " Pigs " , a movie made by , made for and ? of course ? largely revolving on ? Pigs ! Just in case you're looking for a totally incompetent yet strangely fascinating and one of a kind drive in class-sick , I warmly recommend this movie whic... |
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