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406,497 | 2,020,269 | 79,642 | 5 | They're coming to screw you , Barbara ! | In case you always wondered ( or worried ) whether or not you would get aroused by the sight of zombies having sexual intercourse . . . you still won't find out by watching this weirdo-flick . In spite of what the title suggests , " Erotic Nights of the Living Dead " does not feature copulating undead or strip-dancing ... |
404,763 | 2,020,269 | 95,126 | 5 | Poppa Loves Mamba , Momma Doesn't Love Mamba ? | Fair Game or " Mamba " , which is the less imaginative but apparently official title for this film , actually is the simplified and much more straightforward version of the British early 80's thriller " Venom " starring Oliver Reed and Klaus Kinski . That movie revolves on petty criminals facing the threat of a venom... |
404,557 | 2,020,269 | 75,334 | 5 | To The Hammer Fans . . . . A Disappointment ! | Before having seen " To The Devil A Daughter " , it'll definitely remind you of Hammer's 1968 classic " The Devil Rides Out " . Christopher Lee is present again ( no surprises here , though ) but it's also the legendary horror studios ' second attempt to a black magic occult thriller ( both were based on Dennis Wheatle... |
406,523 | 2,020,269 | 105,569 | 5 | Tetsuo is back ! ! . . . . And I'm still not impressed ! | Don't really know why everybody hates this movie and calls it so poor compared to the almighty 1988 original . Is it because this sequel is more coherent and easier to understand , maybe ? People tend to refer to a movie as a ' masterpiece ' much quicker when they don't understand one iota of it , of course . As far as... |
405,980 | 2,020,269 | 36,715 | 5 | The Karloff of the Opera ? | Even though the legendary Boris Karloff gave image to hundreds of cinematic monsters , psychopaths and mad scientists , he never played the titular character in Gaston Leroux ' acclaimed masterwork " The Phantom of the Opera " . Other contemporary horror stars did , like Lon Chaney and Claude Rains . Perhaps this produ... |
404,426 | 2,020,269 | 153,458 | 5 | Timmaaaaay ! | Zebedy Colt really ought to have named his film " The Candy Bar Killer " , instead . " Unwilling Lovers " is a good title , but it sounds too poetic and pseudo-intellectual for something that is basically just a no-budget 70's porn movie . Besides , the title isn't even that accurate . The ' lovers ' are either dead ( ... |
405,746 | 2,020,269 | 90,735 | 5 | Grand Theft Auto , the 80's edition . | Black Moon Rising is a formulaic and predictable but nevertheless entertaining and fast-paced thriller based on a story originally written by no less than John Carpenter . Apparently he wrote it in the 70's already , but the content was admirably processed and adapted in order for the events to take place in a typica... |
405,164 | 2,020,269 | 94,997 | 5 | Nuns , but no Nuns | Demonia is one of the master horror director Lucio Fulci's final achievements and , though not exactly one of his finest ones , it remains a truly interesting film for his many avid fans to track down and enjoy . The first half hour is tame and slow and , generally speaking , the entire film isn't nearly as gory as F... |
404,532 | 2,020,269 | 24,593 | 5 | Who's your daddy ? | Exploitative cinema seemly is of all times ? Even in the classic and respectable 30's , whenever a slick producer saw the chance of making extra money of a certain success-formula , he took it . And righteously so ! Who could possibly blame director Ernest B . Schoedsack and his film crew for trying to gain some more d... |
404,925 | 2,020,269 | 95,018 | 5 | Remotely entertaining Bava-quickie . | The basic plot-idea of this modest , made-for-TV horror comedy is fairly ingenious and involves a 4000-year-old vampire who's tired of his immortal life as a bloodsucker and wishes to eternally lay his soul to rest . Pretending to hold auditions for a new horror movie , he entices four young actors to his mansion but t... |
406,645 | 2,020,269 | 90,655 | 5 | Junk . . . but very amusing junk : ) | A group of adolescents goes to spend the weekend on a remote island . One by one , they're getting slashed by an unknown killer ? . Yes , everybody is pretty familiar with this plot-synopsis but don't categorize ' April Fool's Day ' in the dull , pointless 80's horror section just yet ! For some unexplainable reason th... |
404,326 | 2,020,269 | 256,380 | 6 | The Farrelly brothers lost that one thing that made them unique . . . | I'm not saying this film is a complete failure but it's terribly average and uninteresting . The Farrelly brothers made their name in the field by writing and directing brainless comedy without any form of moral or message . . . and that's what made them so unique in the 90's , which overall was a decade with very few ... |
406,562 | 2,020,269 | 105,121 | 6 | S & M Nightmare in the Last House on Ghetto Street . | Although a pretty long way from being perfect , " The People Under the Stairs " is definitely one of Wes Craven's best accomplishments , mainly thanks to a couple of really inventive ideas and original gimmicks . Craven's concept oddly works as some kind of adult fairy-tale in which a heroic youngster from a poor ghett... |
405,821 | 2,020,269 | 52,602 | 6 | The Adventures of EVIL Batman ! | I already encountered quite a few opinions and reviews that labeled " the Bat " as one of Price's LEAST entertaining movies . Okay , either I'm too biased about this magnificent actor's work or either I just know crap about horror cinema but I thought it was a GREAT movie ! ! Granted , the screenplay is a little too am... |
405,044 | 2,020,269 | 186,458 | 6 | Very odd and creepy ? | The fourth and final episode in the Italian cult TV-series " Door into Darkness " is literally a world of difference compared to the three previous segments . The other ones are straightforward and dealing with complex murder investigations , whereas " The Doll " is a hugely ambitious and psychological tale of terror f... |
406,211 | 2,020,269 | 66,160 | 6 | Certainly NOT a eurohorror-highlight ! | I just love these a . k . a titles ? ' The Werewolf vs . the Vampire Women ' . Ta-da , there you one of the sleaziest and fun sounding titles in all eurohorror / exploitation history . Unfortunately , the film itself is a bit of a letdown . It's cheap and silly of course ? but that's not a boundary to me . The fact tha... |
405,931 | 2,020,269 | 95,719 | 6 | Not nearly as bad as you might fear . . . or as it might look | Mutant-insects ? isolated little town ? gory make-up effects ? Yup , ' The Nest ' looks like a prototype of cheap and redundant 80's horror . But I'm sure that , if you decide to give it a chance after all , you won't regret it . ! The obvious aspect to-love about it is the gore , naturally , but the screenplay actuall... |
404,477 | 2,020,269 | 112,817 | 6 | Good story . . . but it didn't fascinate me like it should have | There's no doubt what so ever that Jim Jarmush is a very talented writer and filmmaker . There's also no one in the world who doubts about the fact that Johnny Depp is one of the greatest actors alive and thé best actor of his generation . No one should even doubt about the fact this whole cast is awesome . Lance Henri... |
405,283 | 2,020,269 | 95,742 | 6 | Freddy " Big Business " Krueger . . . | Only a small year after " Dream Warriors " got released episode 4 pops up . A small difference in time but a major difference to the image of the series . Freddy is at the top of his popularity in this movie and that's well stressed . The audience wanted to see much more of Freddy and that's what they've got . Freddy l... |
406,329 | 2,020,269 | 95,740 | 6 | Prototypic " guilty pleasure " slasher | Here in his attempt to shamelessly imitate the success of American teen slasher-movies , veteran Italian director Umberto Lenzi bids you welcome to a lot more than just Spring Break ! Welcome to clichéd situations and ridiculous stereotypes ! Welcome to cheesy gore and gratuitous nudity ! Welcome to zero tension and ma... |
406,146 | 2,020,269 | 66,132 | 6 | Castle of the Bloody Flashbacks | Some people really suck at negotiating business deals . " In the Grip of the Spider " revolves on a guy who accepts a bet to spend the night in a secluded and reputedly haunted castle and if he survives the ordeal , he receives the astonishing , stupendous and exhilarating reward of ? 10 pounds ! Ten pounds ? ! ? Even ... |
406,447 | 2,020,269 | 854,548 | 6 | Who's Afraid of George W . ? | The value of Peter Medak's master degree in horror is debatable , since he only just directed one terrific classic in the genre ( " The Changeling " ) and one inferior but fun & gory sequel ( " Species II " ) , but he nevertheless delivered a worthwhile addition to the series ' second season . " The Washingtonians " ha... |
404,702 | 2,020,269 | 365,265 | 6 | A tale of two werewolf-sisters ! | The fresh and ingenious " Ginger Snaps " - trilogy comes to an end with this prequel that takes Ginger and her sister Brigitte back to early 19th century Canada . Although a remarkably stylish and well-made horror film , this final entry is the weakest of three . This is merely due to the rather " ordinary " werewolf-s... |
406,243 | 2,020,269 | 70,565 | 6 | Sadly , it's not ALL about style & beauty ? | I'll be the last person on this earth to deny that " The Perfume of the Lady in Black " isn't a breathtakingly beautiful and stylish viewing experience . Quite the contrary , I agree that Francesco Barilli's film is a masterwork of subtly built up suspense and it's also one of the best films ever forcing you to empathi... |
404,502 | 2,020,269 | 87,909 | 6 | The Dario Argento phenomenon ! | Phenomena is Dario Argento's eighth horror success in a row , this time set in a Swiss ( pardon me : Swiss Transylvanian ) boarding school where the girls are frightened to death . A maniacal killer is loose in the area since quite a while and the local police forces have no idea how to stop him . The cute Jennifer i... |
405,972 | 2,020,269 | 191,397 | 6 | The ideal " sit back and relax " - comedy | I think it's pretty obvious you don't have to choose The Replacements if you're interested in seeing a unique and / or innovating cinema experience . The Replacements perfectly delivers what you expect . . . A good hour and a half of pure fun and laughs . It's a delightful little comedy with decent acting performances ... |
404,531 | 2,020,269 | 70,636 | 6 | Forgive me Father , for I have sinned . . . BIGTIME ! | Ah yes , trashy-looking movies revolving on wicked and sexually depraved nuns ? you got to love ' em ! " Nunsploitation " is the most absurd and pointless sub genre of horror cinema ( closely followed by Nazi-exploitation and Dwarfsploitation ) but also strangely fascinating and , if you've seen one , you develop an un... |
405,475 | 2,020,269 | 52,646 | 6 | Not THAT bad , really | Meh , people tend to exaggerate ! I purchased this film especially because it carries the reputation of being an absolutely awful 60's production , almost unbearable to sit through . Either my interpretation of " awful " is completely different from the public opinion or this reputation is unjustified , because I what ... |
405,944 | 2,020,269 | 77,945 | 6 | National Geographic Channel meets Italian Sleaze | Sergio Martino's ' Mountain etc ' is somewhat an outcast in the notorious Italian field of cannibalism ? This film has a bit more style , depth and ? compared to such films as ' Cannibal Holocaust ' or ' Cannibal Ferox ' ? you don't necessarily feel the need to take a shower after seeing it . It's actually better to co... |
405,368 | 2,020,269 | 83,959 | 6 | Hey there sexy humanoid ? Wanna co-exist ? | Yet another cheap ' n cheesy early 80's " Alien " rip-off produced by Roger " King of the B's " Corman ! This given alone is more than enough reason to proceed with caution and keep your expectations to a minimum . Then , during the opening credits sequence , your first impressions are most likely to seep to an even de... |
404,489 | 2,020,269 | 87,799 | 6 | It's , like , the end of the world and I don't have anything to wear ! | Night of the Comet is a truly fun and engaging little genre effort of the 80's , but surely some of its hardcore fans are slightly overestimating the value and significance of this film . I've encountered reviews stating that " Night of the Comet " is a quintessential gem of 80's horror and that it's easily one of th... |
405,500 | 2,020,269 | 237,534 | 6 | Beasts , witchery , martial arts and cleavage . . . . oh my ! | Hard to label this versatile piece of French art as it blends elements of a scary monster movie with ethical and religious drama aspects as well as simplistic swashbuckling and martial arts action . This film is stuffed with a tremendous amount of ingeniousness and imaginative camera techniques . Brotherhood of the Wol... |
406,734 | 2,020,269 | 221,633 | 6 | Enjoyable Creature-Feature | Not a very original horror film , of course , but fairly entertaining and with a good tempo , this ' They Nest ' easily belongs to the better efforts in the recent revival of the horror sub-genre of creature features . It is stuffed with clichés and stereotypes but try not to let this ruin the fun too much . All the in... |
405,003 | 2,020,269 | 91,560 | 6 | The Night Evelyn Filled Some Graves . | Why this little movie receives such a low rating and such harshly negative reviews is a bit beyond me . Well , actually no , it's not . . . " Mountaintop Motel Massacre " IS a pretty bad and poorly made textbook 80's slasher , but that doesn't mean it can't be fun for hardcore fans ! Apart from the fantastic DVD-cover ... |
405,410 | 2,020,269 | 91,575 | 6 | Charlie's going through a bit of a rough period lately . . . | Murphy's Law superficially looks like the umpteenth and routine Charles Bronson action vehicle , but pay a little more attention to the details and you'll reckon that the film is actually an atypical accomplishment in its kind . It's not special enough to qualify as a genuine classic of 80's action cinema , but it's ... |
405,535 | 2,020,269 | 52,320 | 6 | I am the eye in the cloudy sky , crawling at you ? | One of the lesser-known entries in the massive offer of alien-invasion Sci-Fi / horror movies of the 50's decade , " The Trollenberg Terror " benefices from a neat and continuously gripping atmosphere , decent acting performances and a supremely cool type of extraterrestrial opponents , shaped ? as the a . k . a title ... |
405,594 | 2,020,269 | 77,889 | 6 | Up next : Young Hannibal Lector and his deadly dummy ! | Richard Attenborough , known for his classy ( but especially long and tedious ) epical films , directs a tense thriller with horror undertones ? ? Sounds like a Disney film brought to you by Quentin Tarantino ! But surprisingly enough , Attenborough knows damn well how to bring the unsettling and eerie tale of a ventri... |
406,263 | 2,020,269 | 964,539 | 6 | Cadavers aplenty in the Body Shop ! | I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised and got hooked on " Pathology " right from the very first minute , even though it was for a very stupid and even completely wrong reason . The opening sequence , still before the credits appear on screen , depicts a handful of medical students disrespectfully toying around wit... |
404,825 | 2,020,269 | 70,222 | 6 | Death by Bee-Sexual Intercourse ! | Okay , here's another strong contender for winning the award of sleaziest and absolute most insane B-movie of the 1970's ! The human race , and particularly the male species , is threatened with extinction because of ? ordinary women turned into life-sized bee monsters ! How it is possible for anyone to think of such a... |
405,950 | 2,020,269 | 122,685 | 6 | Beauty . . . sleaze . . . and a lot of confusion ! | This long-lost exploitation treasure surely lists among the weirdest films I ever saw . To be quite sure , I'm still don't know how to give a rating to it ? the plot is full of nonsense and illogicalness and impossible to summarize . In fact , I would have turned off this movie much earlier if it wasn't for all the bea... |
404,463 | 2,020,269 | 95,454 | 6 | When auntie F . comes to town , there will surely be blood ! | The Kiss is actually just a rudimentary & simplistic witchcraft story about supernatural powers getting passed through the female members of the same bloodline , but director Densham neatly polishes up the concept with impressively explicit make-up effects ( courtesy of Chris Walas ' company ) , adequate supportive c... |
405,909 | 2,020,269 | 105,242 | 6 | Welcome to the 1990's , Mr . Lovecraft . | I'm not entirely sure if H . P . Lovecraft would have liked this decade very much . I once read in a biography article that he was a terribly depressed human being and incredibly difficult ( impossible , even ) to please , so it's probably a good thing he never got to see any of the cinematic efforts that were based on... |
406,697 | 2,020,269 | 210,070 | 6 | The next generation of werewolves | Werewolves have always been my favorite kind of horror creatures ( along with zombies ) So I was rather optimistic when I heard 2 new movies about them were coming out . Dog Soldiers and this one . Also , I heard and read good comments on the both of them here on the board and elsewhere . I've seen both now and my feel... |
405,002 | 2,020,269 | 378,417 | 6 | Immensely entertaining ! | A German horror comedy that successfully spoofs all possible clichés of zombie films without ever paying any disrespect to the real genre classics or ending up as a retarded 90 minutes joke itself ? ? ? It's almost impossible to accept such a thing exists and yet here's Mathias Dinter's " Night of the Living Dorks " ! ... |
404,605 | 2,020,269 | 78,067 | 6 | Creepy and intense . . . a very effective thriller ! ! | Patrick is a very underappreciated and often overlooked thriller from " Down Under " . Yet , it's very intense and solid and - above all - pretty well made . I think it's one of those examples that proves you don't necessarily have to dispose of a huge budget to make an interesting movie . Just a solid plot idea and a ... |
405,463 | 2,020,269 | 83,801 | 6 | Silly rodents & sappy romance . | The plot of " Deadly Eyes " centers on a hunky high school teacher and the romantic adventures he experiences in the big city . Paul Harris ( Sam Groom ) has to resist the temptation of sleeping with one of his most gorgeous students ? not just a student but the head-cheerleader , mind you ? and then finds true love wh... |
406,348 | 2,020,269 | 100,881 | 6 | You're dead , so ? . STOP TALKING ! | Voices from Beyond is an overall solid Italian thriller , padded with typical Fulciesque gore scenes . I say padded because you'll quickly notice that , albeit very cool and delightfully gruesome , the gory bits are absolutely irrelevant to the story and they just seem to be included because the fans expect no less f... |
404,761 | 2,020,269 | 74,226 | 6 | Walking , Tripping , Balding and Going Mental on Sunshine ! | Jeff Lieberman is unquestionably one of the most fascinating filmmakers active in the field of horror and peculiar cult . The movies he accomplished are versatile and difficult to categorize , and the man himself is a rather unusual persona as well . I read a couple of interviews in which Lieberman claims not to be a f... |
405,110 | 2,020,269 | 823,599 | 6 | Up to your neck in Trash ! | There are various ways to interpret " On Evil Grounds " , the mental state of seriousness definitely NOT being one of them . This incredibly low-budgeted and amateur produced " new-age Grindhouse " movie is completely shameless , vulgar , tasteless , nonsensical , offensive and demented . At the festival where I attend... |
404,711 | 2,020,269 | 95,319 | 6 | Delightful Dutch junk | Honneponnetje is a completely meaningless , but very entertaining 80's comedy from the Netherlands . It's a light-hearted waste of time , made with a lot of enthusiasm and goodwill from both cast and crew . The unusual title refers to the star girl's name in the film . She's a sixteen-year-old cutie , stuck behind the ... |
406,308 | 2,020,269 | 83,155 | 6 | A violent crusade of purification | Slow , terrifically build up shock-tale that easily passes as one of Franco's finest achievements , almost on the same level as " The awful Dr . Orloff " or " Miss Muerte " . The acting is weak but the film is well-scripted and versatile enough to appeal to wide cult-audiences ? Throw in some rancid sleaze and eerie Pa... |
405,573 | 2,020,269 | 83,156 | 6 | Killing beauty queens . . . Jess Franco Style ! ! | Die Säge des Todes - probably best known under the title BLOODY MOON - is Jess Franco's response and share to the popular trend of teen slasher films . This subgenre was merely founded by John Carpenter when he released Halloween and it reached his top in 1980 , when Friday the 13th came out . Jess Franco is , apart fr... |
406,398 | 2,020,269 | 91,836 | 6 | Miaow Miaow . . . Catfight in the dorm tonight ! | Myself and a mate promptly decided to watch " Reform School Girls " upon seeing the trailer that advised all intellectual viewers ? and I quote ? to keep their criticism for themselves . . . or else we'll nail your tongues to the floor . Subsequently the trailer showed a lot of footage of attractive girls showering and... |
406,323 | 2,020,269 | 963,794 | 6 | Think twice before becoming a Vegetarian ! | Initially I didn't have the slightest interest in watching " The Ruins " , and this only because I vaguely read half of the plot summary's first sentence , which said : " Four young and attractive American tourists on holiday in Mexico befriend a German guy and together they embark on a journey to visit a hidden Mayan ... |
404,804 | 2,020,269 | 74,342 | 6 | A Violent Day at the Races | Just in case you didn't know it yet , Yul Brynner isn't the type of guy you want to mess with ! This charismatic tough bastard starred in a whole lot of western & war movie classics and wasted the lives of approximately a thousand bad guys on screen . Being a big fan of his macho style , I loved to see him star in a ty... |
406,396 | 2,020,269 | 83,146 | 6 | Our little girl is becoming a ( dangerous ) woman . . . | This movie opens with a totally gratuitous scene of a young girl showering , and if director Jim Sotos really wants us to believe that she's 16 years old , than that's pretty darn disturbing ! In fact , people continuously mention her young age , yet the camera takes every opportunity to zoom in on her perky breasts an... |
405,355 | 2,020,269 | 65,580 | 6 | Virgin Blood : for all your party events ! Now with new and improved formula ! | This is a Hammer film production and the name Dracula is mentioned in the title , yet shouldn't raise any hopes to see Christoper Lee dressed up in women's clothing , as this is not another entry in the long-running Dracula-series ! The screenplay of this movie is based on the life of Countess Elisabeth Bathory , who l... |
404,373 | 2,020,269 | 83,073 | 6 | Pioneer of Punk ! | This extremely hectic and nearly headache-inducing short by the Japanese punk demigod Sogo Ishii is definitely one of the craziest and most experimental art-house movies I ever had the pleasure of seeing on a big screen ( during a special revolving on the director ) . After the two hugely different but already influent... |
406,410 | 2,020,269 | 118,025 | 6 | BUTCHERED on the Fourth of July ! | The 1990's were a truly weak decade for insane and bloody slashers , unless of course if you think " Scream " and all its uninspired clones qualify as good horror films . Luckily enough , there still was the companionship between William Lustig and Larry Cohen , who finished their " Maniac Cop " - trilogy and even plea... |
406,386 | 2,020,269 | 69,956 | 6 | Dances With Wolves . . . with a cannibal-twist ! | Deep River Savages represents Umberto Lenzi's first steps in the notorious field of cannibalism and jungle adventure movies . This infamous director will gross out entire audiences during the early 80's , with vicious cult flicks like ' Cannibal Ferox ' ; ' Eaten Alive by the Cannibals ' and ' Nightmare City ' . This f... |
404,374 | 2,020,269 | 276,935 | 6 | Dragon Ball Ishii ! | With " Electric Dragon 80 . 000V " , director Sogo Ishii brings homage to . . . himself , really ! Who else could he pay tribute to , because HE is the one man who single-handedly started the wild and anarchist Japanese punk-cinema and , even though other directors may have had a lot more success with it ( for example ... |
406,583 | 2,020,269 | 56,875 | 6 | Walk , Talk and MUTILATE like an Egyptian ! | Blood Feast is the first gore film by the notorious director Hershell Gordon Lewis and by God does it ever live up to its gigantic cult reputation ! This may perhaps be one of the worst and dumbest movies ever scripted down , but it'll always remain hugely entertaining to watch and the influence it had on the horror ... |
406,527 | 2,020,269 | 96,251 | 6 | This film must be what pure hell feels and look like ! | Okay , I can't possibly reward " Tetsuo " with a rating higher than , simply because the story was overly surreal and confusing ( in all honesty , I didn't understand one iota of it . . . ) . But ? and this is surely worth something too ? it does get the credit for being one of the most disturbing film experiences I ev... |
405,102 | 2,020,269 | 167,752 | 6 | Freaks and lunatics have taken over the apartment ! | Although rather insignificant and anonymous , " the 4th floor " is an entertaining and well-made thriller , capable of providing you with a few modest scares and maybe even a single " jump " - moment . The premise is far from original , though . It doesn't require a lot of experience in the horror genre to see where wr... |
406,665 | 2,020,269 | 47,209 | 6 | Is Jack Palance Jack the Ripper ? ? | Fairly stylish and suspenseful 50's remake of " The Lodger " , a story set during Jack the Ripper's reign of terror in London near the end of the 19th century . In one of his earliest film roles , the tall and handsome Jack Palance portrays a quiet and introvert pathologist on the lookout for a room in the center of Lo... |
406,193 | 2,020,269 | 435,670 | 6 | I See Dead People ? Myself ! ! | This Americanized re-telling of the Swedish chiller-hit " Den Osynlige " certainly isn't a bad film , but it sadly is just a tad bit too sentimental and unmemorable . The film describes itself perfectly as " Ghost " meets " The O . C . " The plot deals with supernatural themes and sincere human emotions , while the cha... |
405,946 | 2,020,269 | 74,455 | 6 | Tobe Hooper's 70's films still stand as his best ones ! Golden horror ! ! | ' The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ' ( of course ) and ' Death Trap ' ( less obvious already ) are the only two films Tobe Hooper should be really remembered for as a horror director . They both are raw and chilling explorations of the angry rural America . The location of this film looks like a giant swampy area , homed by... |
406,297 | 2,020,269 | 486,051 | 6 | It's going to be a Cold & Creepy Christmas . . . | Director Gregory Jacobs is an acolyte of Steven Soderbergh and , obviously , there are far worse references to have if you want to make it in Hollywood . Jacobs is the first assistant director of practically all of Soderbergh's movies and , presumably to return a favor , the director of such mainstream box office hits ... |
404,991 | 2,020,269 | 70,047 | 6 | Good film . . . but no masterpiece | I've seen the Exorcist quite a few times by now ( including the director's cut or the so-called " version you've never seen " ) but not once did I feel like I was watching a true masterpiece . It's a solid film with intriguing characters and groundbreaking premise but it depends too much on only a few powerful and mesm... |
405,372 | 2,020,269 | 70,039 | 6 | Dead Head's Chest | Jacinto Molina , more commonly known as Paul Nasty ( err ? I mean , Naschy ) strikes again with this ultra-bizarre and ultra-deranged Spanish exploitation effort . The script of " Horror Rises from the Tomb " is incoherent as hell , there isn't a single interesting or well-written dialog to be heard , acting & directin... |
404,581 | 2,020,269 | 144,814 | 6 | Carrie's baby-sister is just as fiery as she was ! | It's usually not a very good idea to make a belated sequel to a horror film , especially not when the original is generally considered a genre masterpiece and from the hands of writer Stephen King and director Brian DePalma . Yet , the makers of " Carrie 2 : The Rage " didn't make complete fools out of themselves , as ... |
404,397 | 2,020,269 | 60,877 | 6 | In Space No One Can Hear The Green Queen Scream ! | The year is 1990 and some institute for extraterrestrial research ( they're like NASA , only smarter ) awaits the very first arrival of intelligent alien life forms on earth . Instead of visitors , they receive an S . O . S informing them that the expected alien ship crash-landed somewhere on the moons surrounding the ... |
405,146 | 2,020,269 | 810,823 | 6 | Interesting , but too aspiring . | Supposedly one of the better efforts to be shown during last year's edition of the " After Dark Horrorfest " , but personally I'm not sure if you can call that much of a praiseworthy accomplishment when the competition exists of tepid junk like " Lake Dead " and " Nightmare Man " . It is true that " The Deaths of Ian S... |
406,080 | 2,020,269 | 60,865 | 6 | Flawed but interesting horror / detective thriller . | Circus of Fear is a a rare and hard to come across 60's shocker , directed by the same man who made the terrific goth-horror classic " The City of the Dead " . This latter happens to be one of my all time favorite suspense films and even though " Circus of Horror " isn't as unsettling or astonishing , it still defini... |
406,326 | 2,020,269 | 74,419 | 6 | Hey , who let the dogs out ? | I have a giant weakness for those typical " animals-on-a-rampage movies " , especially if they were released in the 70's and even more so when the title simply exists of the animal species , like " Grizzly " , " The Bees " , " Shark ! " or ? like in this case - " Dogs " . That's like saying : this is the type of animal... |
406,628 | 2,020,269 | 122,037 | 6 | The Dead Pitiable ? | The Dead Pit offers a grim & chilling atmosphere , sublime settings and some of the most exhilarating gore effects I've ever seen , and yet . . . it's all ruined by truly amateurish production values and incompetent acting performances . What a crying shame , as Brett Leonard's ( " Feed " , " Hideaway " ) debut easil... |
406,547 | 2,020,269 | 96,119 | 6 | Oh I'm a happy camper , I'll camp until I . . . DIE ! | Sleepaway Camp 3 is the type of horror movie that makes you regret the 1980's are done and gone forever . It's a typical product of the flamboyantly glorious decade , with a minimum of plotting and suspense , but a maximum of absurd killing sequences , stereotypical teenage characters and gratuitous nudity . Director... |
405,181 | 2,020,269 | 96,118 | 6 | Happy Slashing ! | 100 % female and waving around the certificate of goody-goody Girl Scout , Angela signs in as a counselor at Rolling Hills summer camp . She's determined to make it a fun summer for everyone , singing Kumbaya-songs around the fire and all , but she keeps on having conflicts with rebellious and sex-hungry teenagers . In... |
406,086 | 2,020,269 | 74,593 | 6 | Get your claws off me , you damn dirty ? Bear ! | Okay , don't pay too much attention to all the harsh comments downgrading " Grizzly " to be a worthless and not-worth-bothering-for " Jaws " imitation . Undoubtedly the story lines , plot-structure , camera-work and even musical score are strangely reminiscent ( read : identical ) to Spielberg's classic creature-featur... |
406,647 | 2,020,269 | 117,826 | 6 | Kitsch from the Crypt presents : . . . | The hugely successful series ' Tales from the Crypt ' always was average . For every great episode , there were two inferior ones and this trend seems to continue in their long feature movies . Demon Knight was fresh and surprisingly entertaining while this successor ' Bordello of Blood ' is merely kitschy trash . Whic... |
404,481 | 2,020,269 | 104,870 | 6 | Young talent should be stimulated . . . | This early 90's chiller is about a 5 ( ! ) year old serial killer . Well , that's disturbing . He murders people without a visible change in his facial expressions . I'd say he's gifted . Only Michael Myers was able to pull that off so far . Although the basic subject is original , the whole movie is rather average . I... |
406,739 | 2,020,269 | 282,418 | 6 | Remarkably better than the usual made-for-TV junk | It's amazing what you can achieve if you dispose over a bit of professionalism . Even the most routine straight-to-cable production can be worth watching if the acting and directing is a little decent . It was the Fox Network that hired John Lafia ( Man's Best Friend ) to do the directing and the still yummy Mädchen Am... |
406,397 | 2,020,269 | 356,159 | 6 | Nice collection of gay scalps there , you sick homophobe ! | Quite a lot of people around here are referring to " HellBent " as being a genuine throwback to the 80's horror sub genre of slashers , but it isn't one , really . Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't the whole point of slasher-movies the guessing along for the killer's identity and the search for a link between him / he... |
404,827 | 2,020,269 | 95,942 | 6 | Sleazier , uglier and much more virulent than Batman . Presenting . . . RATMAN ! | So bad it's literally BRILLIANT , this ultra-low budgeted Italian trash-production spawns one of the most unlikely and absurd monsters in the history of horror-cinema ever ! Dr . Olben's creation Ratman is a genetic crossover between a rat and a monkey and somehow it's able to produce a deadly venom for which there exi... |
405,188 | 2,020,269 | 455,115 | 6 | Clean towels ! We need clean towels , room 6 . | With all the promising reviews warning about the morbidity & intense shock-value of this film , and especially with knowing what formed basic inspiration for the story , I can't help admitting I was a little disappointed after my viewing of " H6 : Diary of a Serial Killer " . Sure this Spanish effort is remotely grueso... |
404,620 | 2,020,269 | 65,905 | 6 | Average goth-horror . . . | The handsome Baron Janos Dalmar is believed to be a homicidal maniac who rapes the girls he lures to his castle before feeding the bodies to his monstrous dogs . Still , these are just rumors nobody can prove . Dalmar then recruits the beautiful and intelligent female chemist Ivanna and , through her dreams , she disco... |
405,101 | 2,020,269 | 360,486 | 6 | From pitch black class to pure camp ! | I'm always up for a story about that handles about demons and darkness , so I was pretty enthusiast in anticipating this " Constantine " . It's the third comic book adaptation in row that centers on a anti-hero ( after " Hellboy " and " The Punisher " ) , men that are really not too keen on the supernatural powers they... |
406,724 | 2,020,269 | 785,280 | 6 | A Very Neat Monster | The first episode of Showtime's " Dexter " surely displays great potential , ingenuity and the involvement of many talented persons both in front and behind the camera , but it's arguably also a bit flawed and slightly too implausible for its own good . The main concept of the show of course raises an ancient and all-t... |
404,365 | 2,020,269 | 397,065 | 6 | House of Wackos ! | Not nearly as astonishing as André de Toth's original starring the almighty Vincent Price , of course , but this loud and well-made remake of " House of Wax " does qualify as good and ? at times ? chilling entertainment . Note that I'm exclusively talking about the second half of the film , as the first half is a littl... |
406,063 | 2,020,269 | 95,775 | 6 | Not a demon in sight ? but still decent horror | For the sake of convenience and of course to reach wider audiences , this modest made-for-TV horror flick got released as a second sequel to the hugely popular " Demons " - franchise . Apart from the fact that Lamberto Bava directed them all , there's not the slightest similarity between " the Ogre " and the previous t... |
406,262 | 2,020,269 | 373,653 | 6 | We're Gonna Need a Bigger Audience ! | It's all too easy to just nonchalantly label " 12 Days of Terror " as being just another imitation of the legendary horror blockbuster " Jaws " and exclusively focus on its shortcomings . Especially when numerous and reliable sources state that Peter Benchley himself based his novel on these same facts that occurred in... |
405,556 | 2,020,269 | 416,449 | 6 | 300 against millions ? I like these odds ! | First and foremost , " 300 " sadly is one of them films for which all the highlights already featured in the trailer . All of Gerard Butler's aggressive speeches ( " Madness ? This . . . is . . . Sparta ! " or " Spartans , tonight we dine in hell ! " ) , and all the Spartans ' monstrous opponents simply aren't exciting... |
406,566 | 2,020,269 | 424,136 | 6 | Candy , Candy , Candy I can't let you go ! | Okay , pedophilia isn't a very pleasant topic but we sadly can't ignore it any longer in these sick times we live in , and personally I think it still took quite a long time before some ambitious nowadays author had the nerves to revolve a whole script on this sensitive and controversial subject . Particularly the firs... |
405,147 | 2,020,269 | 462,160 | 6 | The number you dialed has been terminated . Please hang up the phone and try again ? | I expected the absolute minimal when renting " 7eventy 5ive " and , even though the opening sequences seemed to confirm I was about to see yet another abysmal and irritating modern slasher flick , the whole thing eventually turned out to be an entertaining and moderately surprising movie . Sometimes the opening credits... |
405,771 | 2,020,269 | 420,294 | 6 | Vietnam is for pussies . . . Visit Texas ! | Not being much of a fan of the 2003 remake , I wasn't exactly standing in line to see this prequel to " The Texas Chainsaw Massacre " , but what's a horror fan to do when he's wandering around in a videostore and there's nothing else to rent ? But actually I can't complain too much , as this new flick easily surpasses ... |
406,629 | 2,020,269 | 91,969 | 6 | If Marty doesn't kill you , the clichéd plot will ! | ' Slaughter High ' is an extremely entertaining 80's slasher but , of course , you shouldn't expect to see any story lines or twists you haven't seen at least a hundred times before already . Oh yes , it's all there : the four-eyed high school nerd is tricked into a series of embarrassing pranks ; one of the pranks goe... |
405,674 | 2,020,269 | 91,990 | 6 | Who needs a plot when you already have an appealing title ? | Sorority House Massacre is a teen-slasher as eighties as they come ! Academy girls with humongous hairdos and bad dress codes , accompanied by dorky-looking boys trying to get into their panties ! All brought together in a sorority house during a lonely Fourth of July weekend while an escaped lunatic is trying to bre... |
404,812 | 2,020,269 | 90,328 | 6 | Hammer Time ! No ? Witching Hammer Time ! | The first episode of Hammer's short-running " House of Horror " series and I can't really say I'm disappointed , although it's very different in style and tone compared to all those lovely Gothic horror films the production company served us . Perhaps this is partly due to the fact that Hammer's reign of horror had pas... |
404,427 | 2,020,269 | 373,883 | 6 | Behind the mask ? EVIL in all its purity and glory . | From all I've read and heard about Rob Zombie's " Halloween " , it's not supposed to be just another senseless and redundant remake of a classic horror milestone , but the re-imagining of a groundbreaking premise and an expanded elaboration of the original concept . This may very well all be true and admirable , but it... |
406,626 | 2,020,269 | 274,175 | 6 | Evil has two faces ? and one filthy long fingernail ! | The last-but-one installment in Hammer's House of Horror saga is a very atmospheric and tense tale , but sadly lacking excitement and memorable horrific moments . It's perhaps the most mysterious episode of them all , since the plot effectively keeps you guessing about what's going on , but the climax is unsatisfying a... |
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