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404,590 | 2,020,269 | 78,295 | 5 | Where's Michael Myers when you need him ? | Someone's Watching Me is practically always described as a " Hitchcockian " thriller . This is of course a quite superficial and even remotely hypocrite way to label a film . Whenever an acclaimed director revolves a thriller on themes that were largely introduced by Alfred Hitchcock , the critics are tempted to mild... |
406,346 | 2,020,269 | 70,603 | 5 | And a Happy " Night of Walpurgis " to Y'all ! | Paul Naschy ? the living and already legendary icon of Spanish exploitation cinema ? once again suffers from overabundant body hair growth in this entertaining and very gory episode of the " Hombre-Lobo " cycle . These fun movies don't exactly follow each other , but they all star Naschy as Count Waldemar Daninsky ; a ... |
406,546 | 2,020,269 | 73,882 | 5 | Oddball low-budget 70's . . . " thing " | Warlock Moon is a very strange and unique movie . Certainly not David Lynch strange or Alexandro Jodorowsky unique , mind you , but the plot enfolds itself so extremely unusual ! Yet for some reason you unconsciously accept what's going on , even though it makes little sense , because you're somewhat curious and intr... |
404,734 | 2,020,269 | 70,593 | 5 | The Naschy with the Severed Head | I remember stumbling upon this film a couple of years ago on a cheap looking DVD edition under the appealing title " The Man with the Severed Head " , but without any type of additional info like cast members , year of release or plot synopsis . Since I couldn't trace the film around here on this website , or any other... |
405,191 | 2,020,269 | 21,815 | 5 | I Vant To Suk Your . . . SANGRE ! | The most interesting thing about the Spanish version of Dracula is the modest & informative introduction of main actress Lupita Tovar . I don't know when exactly this brief interview with her was shot , but it can't be too long ago judging by the picture quality , which makes it all the more impressive that she still l... |
405,745 | 2,020,269 | 65,217 | 5 | The DARK swamps of witchcraft | I am definitely giving this movie another chance , IF it ever receives a proper DVD release complete with restored sound and polished up picture quality . I couldn't really enjoy my viewing of " The Witchmaker " , but most likely that was due to the questionable quality of the VHS-rip rather than the actual movie . I f... |
404,988 | 2,020,269 | 70,634 | 5 | Christopher Lee in a cloak . . . . part 7 | The last film in Hammer's Dracula-cycle certainly isn't the best in the series but it remains fascinating to see how the legendary horror studios continue to bring variation to the old theme . After all , Dracula once started out as a subversive myth and in this film he's used like a metaphor to generalize " new " form... |
404,400 | 2,020,269 | 70,654 | 5 | All those years in the mental asylum surely paid off . . . NOT ! | This is another one of those horror movies in which the psychopath character already spent several long years ( nearly a decade , in this case ) in a mental asylum , but upon his release immediately goes on a killing spree that is ever more insane and sadistic than the crimes he got committed for in the first place . W... |
404,780 | 2,020,269 | 285,742 | 5 | Wow ! Could they put any MORE drama in ONE movie ? | I've seldom seen a film that impressed and fascinated me so much while watching it , but actually turned out a major disappointment after analyzing it afterwards . Throughout its entire playtime , Monster's Ball FEELS like a brilliant film but it leaves a gigantic empty feeling in your stomach when you come to think th... |
404,687 | 2,020,269 | 87,796 | 5 | Beware of yellow-blooded , toxic redneck-zombies ! | As long as you don't mind watching a horror-story that literally features every cliché and stereotype in the book , you might find this " Mutant " an entertaining and fairly suspenseful flick . The plot pretty much writes itself : two big city brothers travel through a little Southern town and a bunch of inhospitable l... |
406,091 | 2,020,269 | 74,080 | 5 | How many Cajun hillbillies does it take to change a light bulb ? | The answer to that riddle would be at least more than five , as the male lead characters are clearly too retarded to accomplish anything . . . Ah , 70's exploitation of the trashiest kind ; you hate to love it and ' Gator Bait is unquestionably one of the most rancid , gratuitous and shameless examples available on fil... |
404,442 | 2,020,269 | 285,823 | 5 | More or less what you expect . . . | If you start watching " Once upon a time . . . " with limited expectations , you won't be disappointed . I for one only searched for a little bit of adrenaline filled action and lovely performances of an all-star cast . Frankly , that's all there is to it because the screenplay is a complete mess and Rodriguez lacks th... |
405,567 | 2,020,269 | 325,534 | 5 | Surf to : www . killyourbaby . com | A handful of pregnant ladies die on exactly the fifteenth day after they all visited the website of an uncanny abortion-clinic . Doesn't that concept sound familiar ? Sure , it involved watching old-fashioned videotapes and dying in only seven days , but the basic idea of " Ringu " is shamelessly imitated here in this ... |
404,785 | 2,020,269 | 105,428 | 5 | Look Charles . . . mommy brought you a virgin ! | Okay , put aside the vampires , werewolves , Godzillas and masked serial killers for a while ? . What we have here is an entirely new breed of horror species . The Sleepwalkers , as based on Stephen King's unpublished story , are reptile-like creatures that feed on the vitality of young virgins . Charles Brady and his ... |
405,548 | 2,020,269 | 70,294 | 5 | Classic Haunting Story ! | The Legend of Hell House is a feast for everyone who enjoys classic horror . Aged movies that don't need bloody or gory special effects to be exceptional . This is story driven horror that messes with your mind and makes you feel uncomfortable . It contains a solid plot , amazingly good performances and - above all - a... |
404,512 | 2,020,269 | 365,513 | 5 | Gore comedy , hung together by absurdity . . . Good or bad depends on your own personal mood . | Monster Man is a small and modest production , made by a bunch of people who're obvious genre-lovers and ambitious fantasts . I really can't be too harsh on it as the goodwill and enthusiasm of both cast and crew can count on my sympathy a lot more than the uninspired and plot and messy script . Unoriginal is one thing... |
405,152 | 2,020,269 | 47,966 | 5 | She'll Slither Her Way To Your Heart ? | What's the first behavior rule when you're visiting a faraway continent ? particularly Asia , Africa or South America ? that culturally speaking differs a lot from your own ? Duh , don't interfere with local religious movements and / or voodoo cults , because they WILL come after you and they WILL find you , even when ... |
404,293 | 2,020,269 | 47,976 | 5 | Remarkable little mind-explosion ! | Where to begin with this occult little gem ? To be very honest , I haven't quite figured out what it is yet . Dementia stands as a strange experiment and worth analyzing , that's for sure . I'm probably giving it too much honor now , but I risk to say it's a dared and surrealist highlight of expressionism and no-budget... |
405,927 | 2,020,269 | 180,093 | 5 | Drugs are bad , mmmkay ? | Requiem for a Dream must be one of the most unnecessarily overhyped films of the last few decades . By no means it's a bad film but ? is it really worth all the praising it gets and the commotion it caused ? After all , Darren Aranofski's film based on the novel by Herbert Selby is only stating the obvious ? Drugs are ... |
404,429 | 2,020,269 | 365,478 | 5 | Bruce's Bulgarian Rhapsody | When you're an avid fan of horror and cult cinema , you're inevitably also an avid fan of Bruce Campbell . That almost goes without saying . He's one of the few actors for which the name alone is enough reason to see a film , regardless of how bad or derivative it may be or regardless of how small his part is . Suffice... |
405,142 | 2,020,269 | 61,140 | 5 | Herschell Gordon-Lewis , is that you ? | Did you ever think when a hearse drives by , that some day you are going to die ? This is the first sentence in the lyrics of the theme song for this film . Subtle , isn't it ? Hell no , it's not , and subtlety is probably the very last thing you should expect to see in this grotesquely absurd and downright demented ... |
406,149 | 2,020,269 | 109,552 | 5 | There's a Darkman two now ? | Only very recently I found out there's a second - and even a third - Darkman movie available on the rental market . Another member of the horror forum on this website reviewed all three of them a couple of months ago , and it was through his thread and directions I found my way to " The Return of Durant " ( part two ) ... |
406,627 | 2,020,269 | 256,858 | 5 | Less fancy talk & pretension ? more killing , please . | Okay , I'm pretty sure that during the production of " Killers " director Mike Mendez and writer Dave Larsen heavily dreamed of becoming the next David Lynch . . . or maybe even the next Quentin Tarantino , but in order to achieve this , they should have put a little more thought in their extremely weird and dumb scree... |
406,427 | 2,020,269 | 858,437 | 5 | Ed Gein : America's favorite and inexhaustible source for horror ! | Did we really need another movie-version of the life and crimes of Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein ? No , of course we didn't , but clever producers realize there's always room for one more , especially because all horror movie fans agree that Ed Gein simply is one of the most ? perhaps THE most ? fascinating sick indi... |
406,642 | 2,020,269 | 91,902 | 5 | A truckload of sleaze , gore and nudity | This Italian film with once again more alternative titles than actual dialogue is a mid-80's exploitation attempt by enthusiast director Mario Gariazzo , who obviously was deeply impressed by the work of his fellow Italian filmmakers Rugero Deodato and Umberto Lenzi . It's a supposedly true story ( yeah ? sure ) about ... |
404,766 | 2,020,269 | 69,992 | 5 | Shrivelled potato-headed midgets running amok . | Judging by the extremely generous IMDb rating of no less than 7 . and the copious amount of praising reviews ; it seems as if quite a lot of people suffer from a phobia for midgets with shriveled heads living walled up behind fireplaces in old family mansions . How else would you explain the popularity of " Don't Be Af... |
406,701 | 2,020,269 | 360,232 | 5 | Singing , Dancing , Imitating and Bloodsucking all over the World ! | This is exactly the type of stuff you expect the good people over at Mondo Macabro to release under their formidable DVD-label : Obscure , horror-themed curiosities from all over the globe ! These movies aren't necessarily good , but definitely unique in some way and they at least always feature aspects that appeal to ... |
405,877 | 2,020,269 | 65,643 | 5 | Can you feel it coming on the air tonight ? | Here in my country , this film got released on a DVD-label that usually specializes in violent but nevertheless sleazy 70's horror films ( kind of like the Dutch equivalent of Something Weird Video ) , but " horror " and " violent " are the absolute last terms you could us to describe " The Dirty Mind of Young Sally " ... |
404,617 | 2,020,269 | 74,473 | 5 | All you need is lo . . . SLEAZE ! | Every installment in Joe D'Amato's " Black Emanuelle " - series stands for super-sleaze of the 70's , but " Emanuelle in America " triumphs when it comes to ultimate perversion and rancid sex-images . In this film , that almost qualifies as disgusting , our ambitious female reporter goes through four little adventures ... |
406,671 | 2,020,269 | 74,478 | 5 | 90 minutes of Laura Gemser and nothing else ? ? Works for me ! | This is the first , and most likely the only Joe D'Amato film ever to hit Belgian television screens . Quite logical , since the titles on his repertoire go from nauseating horror films ( " Anthropophagous " , " Beyond the Darkness " ) to hardcore porno flicks ( " Tarzan X " ) and sometimes even a combination of both (... |
405,202 | 2,020,269 | 109,415 | 5 | Never stand between a freaky Amish kid and his beloved corn ! | At the time of writing this review , " Children of the Corn III " is listed in IMDb's bottom 100 movies . Only at spot 97 , true , but still chosen by many voters on this website as one of the hundred WORST movies out there in movie-land . Well okay , it's unquestionably a bad film , but it's very well endurable and ac... |
404,792 | 2,020,269 | 65,669 | 5 | Cheapness kills this one . Too bad , because ' The Dunwich Horror ' could have been a modest classic . | Ah , the Necronomicon . . . an alternate evil dimension . . . the virgin-sacrifice ! Maybe I'm a bit biased but when a horror film features these elements , I already think it's semi-successful . I liked ' The Dunwich Horror ' and I really wish I could call it a lovely American equivalent for the delightfully grim Hamm... |
404,537 | 2,020,269 | 113,253 | 5 | They'll never get rid of ol ' Mickey ! ! | In case anyone's still bothering to count : here we have the SIXTH episode in the wacky adventures of mass murderer Michael Myers and the good people of Haddonfield ; Illinois apparently STILL don't realize that the white-masked dude can't possibly be killed . The biggest trump of this mid-90's installment , however , ... |
406,723 | 2,020,269 | 757,186 | 5 | Stay focused , Dex ! | Only the second entry in the " Dexter " TV-show and the concept already slightly begins to weaken . There's less blood & excitement in episode two then there was in the pilot , but also the story lines start to revert to clichéd situations and the characters already start to develop towards typical cop stereotypes . Th... |
406,571 | 2,020,269 | 74,408 | 5 | Jess the Rip-off artist . | Like the case with many of his films , it's not very clear to me what exactly Jess Franco intended to accomplish with his very personal interpretation of the notorious tale of London serial killer Jack The Ripper . This film is probably the least accurate re-telling of the facts and also the narrative style is rather u... |
404,302 | 2,020,269 | 60,893 | 5 | Not Hammer's best . . . but overall more than satisfying ! | The trivia aspects in Reptile are a lot more interesting to Hammer horror fans than the actual film itself . The film is shot back-to-back with Plague of the Zombies ! The Reptile uses the same sets and filming locations as Plague and that's more than obvious . If you've seen both , the little village will look familia... |
404,803 | 2,020,269 | 64,729 | 5 | Welcome to the Museum of Whacky Wax Works | Certainly not a bad purchase for only £1 . 97 , especially not when you're , like me , a fan of minimally budgeted and legendary BAD horror cinema of the older days . Genre regular Cameron Mitchell ( " Blood and Black Lace " , " The Toolbox Murders " ) gives another tremendously grotesque performance , this time as the... |
405,928 | 2,020,269 | 269,095 | 5 | It's all about acting . . . | Robert De Niro stars in yet another cop-movie , following the disappointing ' 15 minutes ' , ' Showtime ' and ' Meet the Parents ' ( sort of ? ) . The first is a dreadful thriller ; the other two are lame comedies . City by the Sea is more like a drama and outshines all the others , but that isn't saying much . Bobby s... |
405,837 | 2,020,269 | 87,298 | 5 | Certainly not Jason's worst episode . | This fourth installment in the incredibly popular slasher series Friday the 13th was widely announced as the final chapter . Well , I think every person with a bit of logical intellect soon knew that this wouldn't be the end of Jason Vorhees . He shall return and maybe even soon than most people thought . . . At the ti... |
404,607 | 2,020,269 | 190,865 | 5 | And then some people wonder why I have a fear of heights ? ! ? | I watch a lot of scary and violent stuff but I've never felt uncomfortable with that . THIS is the only movie so far that terrified me ! ! I suffer from a really bad form of " vertigo " and around the time this movie got released in the theaters , I even felt sick when I was looking at the poster . It felt like a combi... |
406,107 | 2,020,269 | 78,405 | 5 | Repulsive massacres and nothing else . Screw political correctness ! ! | This film once made the notorious list of Britain's forbidden movies and since I'm personally intrigued by that kind of garbage , I had to watch it sooner or later . It's easy to see why this sickie got so infamous ? after only 15 minutes of playtime you're already treated to 3 repulsive massacres and gratuitous nudity... |
406,480 | 2,020,269 | 268,995 | 5 | Smarmy tearjerker ? but professionally made , of course . | I'm one of those very few people who are actually convinced that there's a brilliant actor hidden behind the rubber face of Jim Carrey , so I was rather looking forward to finally see The Majestic . I prepared myself to witness a lot of sappy dialogues and dramatic sequences which are inevitable in Darabont's movies bu... |
404,953 | 2,020,269 | 74,575 | 5 | God is a Spaghetti-Cowboy ! | The indescribably poor DVD-quality almost ruined the entire movie for me . " God's Gun " is part of a Three-Pack DVD of Lee Van Cleef spaghetti western films , the other two being " Kid Vengeance " and " Death Rides a Horse " . The box looks nice and it's a great initiative to release more of Van Cleef's work on DVD , ... |
406,704 | 2,020,269 | 52,805 | 5 | In Space No One Can Hear You ? . Transform into a hideously gooey one-eyed monster ! | I'll admit that " First Man into Space " is a pretty bad film , mainly because the creators made the huge mistake of trying to give a hideous monster a voice and emotions , but still I can't help appreciating this British low budget late 50's Sci-Fi horror effort . The reasons for this are almost exclusively linked to ... |
406,229 | 2,020,269 | 87,243 | 5 | You've won the cheese medal | Low-keyed 80's slasher with one tiny little difference compared to the rest of them . The irritating victims all go to a school for sport athletes instead to an ordinary high school . Hardly original , is it ? Whilst the girls and boys preparing for the Olympics and the doctors pump them full of steroids , some demente... |
405,261 | 2,020,269 | 65,851 | 5 | I never thought a Hammer Frankenstein would let me down . . . | This movie turned out to be a milestone for me as well , but not a very positive one . I've seen 5 Hammer productions so far concerning the topic of baron Frankenstein ( this one not included ) and they were all much better . In fact , some of them belong to my ALLTIME favorite horror movies . This version , directed b... |
404,772 | 2,020,269 | 87,222 | 5 | The Bronson Does What He Has To Do . . . And Does Best ! | The Charles Bronson portraying an ageing hit man convinced to come out of retirement to complete one last assignment that only he is capable of pulling off . Hmm , admittedly , this doesn't really sound as the most innovative action-movie synopsis ever and exactly how many times did Bronson depict the same old unconque... |
406,654 | 2,020,269 | 69,745 | 5 | mmmmm . . . . vampirism ! | Cultmaster Jess Franco delivers with this " Female Vampire " the jolliest and sleaziest bunch of sleaze you'll ever behold , and that's a guarantee ! This in fact is the closest you can get to renting porn while still able to claim it's essential and rare cult , haha ! ! The star in this film is Franco's favorite toy-g... |
404,781 | 2,020,269 | 95,990 | 5 | The weakest in the series , but still entertaining 80's horror . | Rapidly written and quickly paced sequel to the unexpected comedy-horror hit by Dan O'Bannon . Return of the Living Dead was a sweet film that at the same time spoofed and paid tribute to the classic George A . Romero movies , while this second entry is a lot less ambitious . Wiederhorn clearly didn't put too much thou... |
405,717 | 2,020,269 | 69,715 | 5 | Disappointing , redundant horror made by a crew that should know better | Horror company Amicus ? for once , not presenting a horror anthology but a long feature film ? clearly delivered one of their weakest films with this ' And now the screaming starts ' . Maybe it would have been better if they kept to their successful omnibus formula , yet it's unquestionable that the team who made this ... |
406,184 | 2,020,269 | 217,331 | 5 | Unholy , sacrilegious fun ! | The Convent is a very UNoriginal but fun splatter-horror flick with the usual formula of dumb teenagers awakening an ancient type of evil they can't possibly deal with . The very cool and mood-setting opening sequence shows a young girl gunning down a bunch of nuns and a priest before setting fire to the convent / bo... |
406,364 | 2,020,269 | 175,142 | 5 | Shameless , brainless , tasteless . . . and very entertaining ! | Scary Movie looks like a rapidly fixed comedy to mock the success of Scream and all its clones . In the tradition of films like Airplane and Hot Shots , the audience is being attacked by a never-ending series of brutal gags . Not one joke in Scary Movie has a little depth or range and they merely focus on ? dirty ' sex... |
405,248 | 2,020,269 | 52,969 | 5 | No taming of the shrew here ! | The Killer Shrews is another very poor and overly silly creature-feature from the 50's , and yet you can never bring yourself to hate this kind of movies entirely , simply because they have so much charm and spontaneity . Sure , every possible aspect looks incompetent as hell but simultaneously it's so damn entertain... |
404,345 | 2,020,269 | 1,188,993 | 5 | Not a typical sequel , but more of the same nonetheless . | Even though I only watched the original " Dead in 3 days " less than two years ago , I already have few to no recollection anymore on what that movie was about . I remember a mundane and extremely rudimentary teen-slasher flick , and the only thing that made it remotely special was the fact that it was the very first A... |
404,561 | 2,020,269 | 155,975 | 5 | All right Hitchcock fans . . . start your boo-ing ! | Gus Van Sant's shot-for-shot remake of " Psycho " most likely is the most hated movie ever . Fine , I can live with that statement . But simultaneously , it's frequently named as one of the worst movies ever made , and I don't really agree on that level . Seriously , how bad can a movie be when there are so many talent... |
405,120 | 2,020,269 | 74,670 | 5 | The blouse-bursting bitch returns ! ! | Dianne Thorne returns as the ( not so ) desirable Ilsa , this time making the wealthy Arabian world to her playground . Ilsa is in control of Sheik El Sharif's harem and she arranges the kidnappings of new sex-slaves . The most remarkable difference with the previous ' She Wolf of the SS ' is the more lightheaded chara... |
404,765 | 2,020,269 | 60,616 | 5 | Passable early Giallo | Murder Clinic is one of them obscure and early ( mid-60's ) Gialli that you'll probably never see , unless you're willing to purchase a prehistoric VHS copy or ? even worse - a bootleg DVD ripped from the aforementioned prehistoric tape . You know those things that are practically unwatchable because the original col... |
406,611 | 2,020,269 | 60,664 | 5 | Glad someone laughed . . . | To my own personal regret , I haven't yet seen the 1928 classic on which this French / Italian version is based . The basic premise is truly intriguing and you can derive from this film that the original has got to be a fantastic film . The pivot character is a young man called Angelo ( Jean Sorel from Lucio Fulci's " ... |
405,046 | 2,020,269 | 69,851 | 5 | Freaks , geeks and sexual deviants ! | Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks is rancid 70's euro-exploitation at its absolute finest ! Not a single line in the screenplay makes any sense , the females look hot & willing , the males are all sick perverts and the supposedly horrific make-up effects are so cheesy they cause you to laugh instead of to cringe . The ... |
405,396 | 2,020,269 | 492,754 | 5 | GroundHORROR day | I can't bring myself to write unnecessarily harsh and negative things about this film , but it's definitely a little too ambitious for its own good . With a title like " Gruesome " ( at least , in Europe that's what it's called ) and a plot summary that mentions a sadistic serial killer , the absolute last thing you ex... |
404,509 | 2,020,269 | 95,863 | 5 | The Tall corpse-snatcher returns . . . Gory good fun ! ! | Morbidity is all around in this ultra-violent , belated sequel ( almost 10 years ) to Phantasm . The film almost takes entirely place in graveyards , mortuaries , abandoned ghost-towns and filthy vaults ? something that'll certainly attract gore-lovers and other sick puppies like myself ? ; ) To my regret , I must say ... |
406,374 | 2,020,269 | 452,592 | 5 | Nasty little Shock-feature | Borderland belongs in the category of the nowadays indescribably popular " torture-porn " movies , along with titles such as " Hostel " , " Saw " , " Live Feed " , " Blood Trails " , etc ? This basically means they are excessively gross but nonsensical and forgettable films without a plot or amiable characters . But ... |
405,707 | 2,020,269 | 300,051 | 5 | It's sure ain't no ' Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back ' | I went to see ' Jersey Girl ' because I'm a Kevin Smith fan . Other than that , I had no particular reason to check it out since romantic comedy / drama isn't really my thing . And yet , I enjoyed watching ' Jersey Girl ' ? because it had heart and a lot of subtle self-regulating humor . Pure talking comedy , it's Smit... |
405,912 | 2,020,269 | 71,537 | 5 | Hey There Little Red Eye-Stabbing Hood ? | Eyeball isn't the best film to use as an example to state that the Giallo is the greatest sub genre in horror , and it's neither the ideal effort to claim Umberto Lenzi was one of the greatest European directors of the 20th century . " Eyeball " is , in fact , a rather mediocre Giallo and definitely one of Lenzi's le... |
404,718 | 2,020,269 | 469,228 | 5 | Jason Voorhees has Dutch relatives ? | The basic premise of this ultra-low budgeted slasher is completely unoriginal , the gore-effects are cheesier than you can even imagine , the dialogs are laughably inept , the acting performances are pathetic , the script is hopelessly incoherent and yet . . . . this is a horror effort from The Netherlands , so please ... |
404,238 | 2,020,269 | 82,677 | 5 | If lookers could kill ? ( instead of getting killed ) | Michael Crichton's " Looker " certainly isn't a hopelessly bad film , but it is pretty forgettable and way too ambitious for an early 80's thriller that superficially looks like a brainless horror effort . The VHS cover art as well as the super-cheesy title song make " Looker " wrongfully appear like an ordinary , by t... |
405,185 | 2,020,269 | 94,627 | 5 | Hack ' em up GOOD ! | Routine and by-the-numbers 80's slasher , but nonetheless a very entertaining one albeit a bit slow in places . " Edge of the Axe " is remotely gorier and creepier than most of the contemporary slasher efforts , because the killer wears an uncanny plaster mask and uses ( like the title makes pretty clear ) a sharp ' n ... |
406,582 | 2,020,269 | 94,642 | 5 | Horror for the whole demented family ! | Not exactly a highly original 80's horror movie , this ' American Gothic ' , but a mildly entertaining one that is stuffed with unsubtle satire towards the hypocritically religious Americans and their unhealthy conceptions of family values . The main problem is that this has all been done before , much better too , and... |
405,510 | 2,020,269 | 102,293 | 5 | Everybody was Kung Fu splattering ? HO ! | A righteous first impression after seeing this movie would be : ' WHAT THE HELL ? ! ? ' Lai Wong most likely is different than all the movies you ever saw before . But all in good fun , that is . The Story of Ricki ( the more popular a . k . a title ) is an outsider in an already eccentric sub-genre of Asian horror . E... |
405,285 | 2,020,269 | 94,620 | 5 | a bucket of gore , anyone ? ? ? | I found this film , hidden deep in my closet of horror . Without having any clue what so ever I began watching it . After the first 10 minutes , the face of 4 people were already ripped off . I'm always up for a bit of gore so I left it on . Afterwards , when I looked it up here , It seemed to be a part of the Zombi-se... |
404,659 | 2,020,269 | 90,190 | 5 | How much Troma-Trash can you handle ? | Purely talking in terms & standards of Troma Film Productions , " The Toxic Avenger " is almost like a true masterpiece ! It's a fast-paced and immensely entertaining smutfest , stuffed with grotesquely gooey make-up effects , politically incorrect situations and ridiculously absurd toilet-humor that somehow puts a gia... |
404,261 | 2,020,269 | 82,451 | 5 | Mediocre Poliziottesco , but Franco Nero is 2 Kool 4 Skool ! | The glory years of the Italian Poliziottesco ( cop / crime thriller ) were actually already over in 1980 , but we gladly make an exception in case director Enzo G . Castellari and actor Franco Nero team up for another cult effort together . The luscious as always Sybil Danning addresses to Franco's character as Humphre... |
405,395 | 2,020,269 | 491,005 | 5 | Kaw-Abunga , birdies ! | Alfred Hitchcock doesn't need to rollover in his grave just yet , but at some points during this average and largely uninspired imitation of " The Birds " , we definitely came too damn close ! Sheldon Wilson , who recently scored a modest hit with " Shallow Ground " , adds very few elements to the original idea of aggr... |
406,731 | 2,020,269 | 48,682 | 5 | Hooray for feminism ! | This ' Swamp Women ' was one of the very first films Roger Corman directed ( he was still in his 20's around the time it got released ) but it immediately becomes clear how he built up of the reputation of being the ' King of the B's ' . Swamp Women is short , only 67 minutes , and it looks like the whole thing only co... |
404,790 | 2,020,269 | 218,922 | 5 | Take a good guess why this BAD film is recommended after all ? | Antonio Banderas ( recently a promoter of potato chips in lame TV commercials ) stars as a rich loser who mail orders himself an American bride . He's expecting an ugly broad but what he gets is the stunningly beautiful Angelina Jolie ! He desperately falls in love with her ( who wouldn't ) and gives her access to all ... |
405,095 | 2,020,269 | 113,762 | 5 | Total piece of crap . . . . and yet I enjoyed it ! | Terrible acting , dialogues so poor they'll make your stomach turn , weak directing by the once-eminent Tobe Hooper and a premise so ridiculous that you can't possibly believe it's from the pen of Stephen King . More than enough reasons to label " The Mangler " as one of the worst horror movies of the nineties . The pl... |
406,572 | 2,020,269 | 121,556 | 5 | Derivative , but mildly entertaining slasher | This abnormally obscure early 90's slasher ( it's nearly impossible to find ) attempts to blend different styles and sub genres , like desert horror , textbook teen-slasher and psychological thriller . The story's main influence obviously comes from the stalking - vehicles - without - a - driver classics , namely " The... |
404,972 | 2,020,269 | 430,239 | 5 | Reasonably decent Creature-Feature | You have to give the writers and producers at least some credit for daring to release a horror movie that is called " It Waits " . That's like openly claiming : our movie will be boring and don't pretend we didn't warn you in the title . The good news , however , is that " IT " ( which is this time a mythological India... |
406,100 | 2,020,269 | 67,243 | 5 | British ' Giallo-Lite ' | During the 60's and 70's ? when Hammer Studios ruled the industry ? the vast majority of genre movies that got released in the United Kingdom were either Gothic tales ( practically all Hammer films ) , horror omnibuses ( Amicus ) or provocative exploitation films ( courtesy of Pete Walker & Norman J . Warren ) . At the... |
405,993 | 2,020,269 | 86,872 | 5 | Alien in dresses , battle-ax lesbians and celebrating dead foxes . | A quick peek at the IMDb trivia section teaches us that " Prey " was shot in only ten days and that most of the script actually had to be improvised during shooting . These usually aren't very good signs , especially not when the director already holds the reputation of delivering movies with a low level of quality . N... |
406,565 | 2,020,269 | 435,184 | 5 | Everybody agrees ! Bava = Genius ! ! | I must admit this isn't the world's most interesting documentary and it's mainly intended for audiences that already know Mario Bava was a genius filmmaker , so they can simply nod their head whenever his great influence on horror cinema is mentioned . However , it is interesting to see how many great nowadays director... |
405,583 | 2,020,269 | 82,498 | 5 | 18 bloodstained candles ! | In the year 1981 the horror market was already pretty congested with an overload of dull and uninspired teen-slashers , but this " Happy Birthday To Me " was one of the first movies that at least attempted to bring a little more depth and content . This shouldn't come as a big surprise , since the man in the director's... |
406,020 | 2,020,269 | 106,450 | 5 | The Incredible Melting Aussies ! | Icky throat-tentacles , a murderous placenta at large , exploding penises ? " Body Melt " features quite a lot of splatter-images that you don't see every day , and I'll leave it up to you whether that is a good thing or not . Still , despite being remarkably better than its fellow contemporary melt-movies ( " Street T... |
405,830 | 2,020,269 | 187,738 | 5 | Don't Fear The Reaper ( s ) | Part two unquestionably is the best entry in the rather dreadful " Blade " series , simply because the director's chair was occupied by a gifted filmmaker for a change . Guillermo Del Toro might be a little overrated ( " Cronos " and " The Devil's Backbone " really aren't that good . . . ) , from a routine and dull vam... |
406,098 | 2,020,269 | 443,527 | 5 | The Family that Slays Together . . . . Well , you know the rest . | You never really know what to expect from the debut horror movie brought on by a directors-duo that refer to themselves as " The Butcher Brothers " . They very well could be a pair of ambitious young filmmakers with inventive new ideas and an aversion towards political correctness , OR ? they could also be a couple of ... |
405,416 | 2,020,269 | 71,229 | 5 | Slow-paced , not-so-tense 70's thriller . | This early 70's British thriller is presented by a famous director ( Don Siegel of " Invasion of the Body Snatchers " and " Dirty Harry " ) and stars a couple of very prominent and contemporary popular male names like Michael Caine , Donald Pleasence and John Vernon . Yet it somehow ended up in total oblivion and it ha... |
404,646 | 2,020,269 | 71,227 | 5 | The Magnificent Seven ( Minus One ) | Akira Kurosawa engaged SEVEN mighty samurai for his cinematic landmark and Yul Brunner led a bunch of SEVEN notorious gunslingers , but when you're dealing with tough black guys on motorcycles , I guess you can afford yourself to go with one less . " The Black Six " suffers under the incredibly low rating of barely 2 .... |
404,969 | 2,020,269 | 814,022 | 5 | Shockingly mundane & ordinary ? | Bangkok Dangerous isn't a bad film ? or at least not as bad as most of the reviews around here claim ? but it is an astonishingly ordinary film that features literally every cliché of " hired assassin " concept you can possibly think of . There's the lonely and super-skilled hit man who intents to pull of one last jo... |
404,307 | 2,020,269 | 71,200 | 5 | Nice formula ? but it ignores the ? horror ' a bit | Amicus was a neat little production company that specialized itself in creating extremely enjoyable omnibus horror films . Especially in the early seventies , they satisfied a large thrill-seeking audience with terror-anthologies like ' Asylum ' , ' The Vault of Horror ' , From Beyond the Grave ' and even the original ... |
405,060 | 2,020,269 | 805,185 | 5 | The Torturous German Mountain Bike Massacre | Blood Trails is truly a mixed bag and I honestly can't decide whether I should be harsh or mild in my user comment . On one hand , it's an admirably tense nowadays horror flick with brutal gore , lovely filming locations and identifiable main characters , but on the other hand it serves cliché after cliché as well as... |
406,735 | 2,020,269 | 75,163 | 5 | Brass ' controversial Nazi-sleazefest | Made a few years before the even more notorious ' Caligula ' , this ' Salon Kitty ' focuses on a more recent era of despicable history . Set in the earliest years of Hitler's reign and the start of WWII , it handles about power-mad Nazi officer Wallenberg who puts Madame Kitty's luxurious brothel in service of the ' Th... |
406,698 | 2,020,269 | 269,347 | 5 | A violent game of hide and seek | Everybody faces stress at work these days . Even highly trained military men snap from time to time . What do they do then ? They go out and use the skills they learned for killing people randomly . That's the plot of this , rather violent , film by William Friedkin . OK , the story is pretty déjà-vu . The best pupil o... |
406,088 | 2,020,269 | 51,381 | 5 | Welcome to Mr . BIG's Dollhouse ! | Yes , welcome to another cheerfully inept Bert I . Gordon ( B . I . G ) Sci-Fi / horror romp , in which the silliness usually triumphs over adequate scripting and where the special effects look cheaper than half a handful of pennies . " Attack of the Puppet People " is a thoroughly shameless cash-in on the success of "... |
404,448 | 2,020,269 | 82,806 | 5 | Surprisingly decent ! | I always thought the biggest " evil " you could encounter on New Year's Day was kissing your grandmother and pretending to wish her all the luck ? but this film comes up with a more appealing concept as it introduces a maniac murdering random women every hour a different US time zone steps into the New Year . Pivot key... |
404,741 | 2,020,269 | 67,513 | 5 | If Freud would write Gialli screenplays . . . | I can't but concur wholeheartedly with pretty much everything that my fellow reviewer Lazarillo already wrote in his user-comment . " Eye in the Labyrinth " is an Italian Giallo that literally thrives on Freudian psycho-sexual gibberish , and if you don't " believe " in Sigmund Freud's analytical theories , chances are... |
405,973 | 2,020,269 | 35,899 | 5 | The Odd Couple of Anti-Monsters ? | When grave robbers break into Larry Talbot's family crypt and demolish his final resting place , the Wolf Man is inexplicably resurrected and once again doomed to go on a violent killing spree whenever the moon is full . Larry realizes the horror he causes and wants to die , but there's no one who can help him . Person... |
404,612 | 2,020,269 | 67,486 | 5 | Interesting , but difficult to follow | Small spoilers . . . . I saw this movie under the title : the Road Builder . Only that title alone sounded interesting to me . I got especially interested when I learned that the screenplay was written by Roald Dahl . We all know that he wrote some remarkable stories , but most his most memorable work in the field of c... |
406,113 | 2,020,269 | 86,636 | 5 | Night of the pseudo-intellectual dead . | Unlike most other contemporary horror directors from Italy , Pupi Avati always attempted to make his films rely on more than just graphic gore and gratuitous sex . The screenplays he turns into horror movies are usually atmospheric , complex and ambitious enough to blend versatile horror styles that are extremely hard ... |
405,065 | 2,020,269 | 114,306 | 5 | Medieval Midget-Terminator | Hmm , there's beautiful big money to make with horror movies about ugly little creeps ? That's what writer / director Mark Jones must have thought after the release of " Leprechaun " in 1993 and , since other directors were already making sequels to his horror movie , he promptly started writing a script revolving on... |
404,253 | 2,020,269 | 478,265 | 5 | The Return of " Rednecksploitation " ? Not quite . . . | I'm a big fan of the so-called horror / cult sub genre of " Rednecksploitation " . This was another typically 70's cinema phenomenon , primarily popularized by the huge success of " Deliverance " and including some glorious titles like " Poor Pretty Eddie " , " The Texas Chain Saw Massacre " , " Two Thousand Maniacs ! ... |
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