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404,907 | 2,020,269 | 90,327 | 6 | Modest 80's horror classic | Well-scripted and fairly original 80's horror with quite a lot of suspense and excitement and only a forgivable amount of clichés and flaws . Writer / director Kevin S . Tenney obviously saw a lot of horror movies about exorcism and spiritual possession in his own youth and he now came up with a similar film-idea , mai... |
406,615 | 2,020,269 | 71,519 | 6 | Hammer's most gruesome production ? | The last entry in Hammer's legendary Frankenstein cycle by far isn't the best one , but it probably is the most appealing chapter to enthusiast horror buffs due to the excessive use of blood and ugly make-up effects . " Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell " is the direct successor of " Frankenstein must be destroyed... |
406,388 | 2,020,269 | 106,218 | 6 | Belgian beer , sex . . . and drama ! | Ad Fundum ( roughly translated : bottoms up ! ) is one of the last good Belgian movies and successfully presents human drama and emotions in an accurate setting . The film handles about the rites and ' games ' first-year university students undergo in order to become part of the exclusive group of adults ? at least tha... |
405,581 | 2,020,269 | 178,868 | 6 | Japanese Jewelery | I honestly have to say that I wasn't very much impressed by Ringu and that I expected more . . . but I have to blame myself for that . I saw the American remake first , and I have to say they did a good job by that for once . You're more involved in the Gore Verbinski version and there's a lot more feeling with the cha... |
405,600 | 2,020,269 | 71,424 | 6 | Big wheel keep on turning . . . dirty Mary keeps on burning ! | Oh yes , here's another cheerful B-road movie with wit & plastic characters and fast cars . Small time crooks Larry ( a wannabe racecar driver ) and Deke ( his mechanic ) rob a supermarket and flee with their loot . They're accompanied by Larry's intrusive one-night-stand and chased by tons of incompetent macho coppers... |
404,395 | 2,020,269 | 148,615 | 6 | Death Bed & Sex-Breakfast | Eat your heart out , Norman Bates ! Your uncanny motel only has a dead mother in the basement whereas , at Play Motel , there's kinky sex , severe blackmail and sadistic killing going on . This movie is a strange little outcast in the wonderful Italian sub genre of gialli . It honestly has a murder-story to tell , but ... |
405,845 | 2,020,269 | 71,465 | 6 | Gypsies , tramps and ? DEMON WITCH CHILDREN ! ! | Amando de Ossorio will probably always be my Spanish horror-hero because he made the utterly amazing " Blind Dead " - quadrology and also the even more amazing ( but sadly obscure ) " Lorelei's Grasp " . His horror films , even the less good ones , are hugely atmospheric and often manage to come across as genuinely cre... |
405,936 | 2,020,269 | 74,875 | 6 | NOT the typical and silly kind of high-school slasher you expect to see ! | Without having seen this movie , a righteous first impression would be that this is a vile and ordinary 80's slasher . . . only made in the mid-70's . Well , you'll be pleased to learn that this assumption is wrong ! Even though the vicious-sounding title and the short summary on the back of the VHS imply the opposite ... |
405,777 | 2,020,269 | 87,015 | 6 | Poorly made but fun 80's trash ! | The coolest abbreviation in horror cinema stands for Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers ( as well as something else ) and refers to hideous monsters with fluorescent eyes that live in the sewers of Soho . Their existence is the result of years of dumping radioactive toxic waste down there and now these monster... |
405,986 | 2,020,269 | 280,609 | 6 | Brave new horror ! | I must admit that I didn't really care for " Dog Soldiers " when I first got around watching it back in 2002 , right after its release . I thought the concept of a lost patrol fighting a troop of werewolves was overly hectic and the monsters themselves didn't look half as frightening as the elderly ones from " American... |
406,106 | 2,020,269 | 71,617 | 6 | A must see 70's gem ! | A moody old song sets the right tone for what actually is a vastly underrated and extremely fun horror gem . " Homebodies " handles about a group of old folks banned from their houses and forced to abandon their familiar neighborhood in order to make way for new building projects . The drama this type of events causes ... |
405,833 | 2,020,269 | 82,495 | 6 | . . . later that night , in Haddonfield . | Halloween II does something rather unique . I haven't seen that many times before . It actually continues immediately after the original . Dr . Loomis ( the almighty Donald Pleasance ) just shot Michael Myers but he stood up and walked away . . . into Haddonfield city . Laurie is taken to the hospital and Dr . Loomis a... |
405,668 | 2,020,269 | 82,479 | 6 | For the fans of truly sick stuff . . . . | This is a pretty cool movie , although I do reckon that you need to be a little sick in the head in order to truly enjoy Joe D'Amato's wicked imagination . " Antropophagus " ( LOVE the title ! ! ) is a notorious video-nasty because it contains shock-sequences that . . . well . . . aren't exactly for the squeamish ! The... |
404,817 | 2,020,269 | 109,836 | 6 | It's Alive ? but not lively ! | During the early 90's , generally not the greatest period for horror cinema , there was a short but nevertheless noticeable revival of the genre's most classic & legendary stories . Apart from Kenneth Brannagh's modern update of the Frankenstein novella , there also was Francis Ford Coppola's interpretation of " Dracul... |
405,522 | 2,020,269 | 829,251 | 6 | Routine ghost-story with a few inventive aspects | It looks as if Spain ambitions to become the new Japan when it comes to unleashing atmospheric & convoluted ghost stories upon us horror-loving audiences . After the hugely successful " The Orphanage " last year ( as well as " The Others " , " The Devil's Backbone " and a couple of more earlier this decade ) , " The Be... |
404,796 | 2,020,269 | 417,243 | 6 | Re-VITAL-ize your dead girlfriend ! | Not being the biggest fan of Shinya Tsukamoto's acclaimed cult favorites " Tetsuo " & " Tetsuo II " , I was rather careful with my anticipations towards " Vital " ; of which the DVD-box announces it as the director's latest masterpiece . Well it ain't no masterpiece , but it's definitely a compelling and suspense-packe... |
404,468 | 2,020,269 | 51,682 | 6 | Horse Power ! | Horror and Westerns generally don't form a great cinematic match , but Fernando Mendez ' " The Living Coffin " has a fairly good story and contains a handful of admirable ideas . The plot combines typical western bar fights and heroic cowboy characters with favorite Gothic horror subjects like the legend of the crying ... |
404,950 | 2,020,269 | 90,148 | 6 | Die from mysterious hemorrhages and place a few bets in the futuristic casino / hospital of doom ! | Quite a strange but intriguing find , this obscure and virtually unknown little 80's hospital thriller / horror movie . The plot doesn't always make perfect sense and the screenplay contains more holes than the average pair of fishnet-stockings , but the film definitely benefices from an oddly menacing atmosphere and a... |
405,269 | 2,020,269 | 82,511 | 6 | Talking in terms of 80's slashers . . . this is a good film ! | Linda Blair , everybody's favorite head-tolling girl , stars as an extremely cute college girl named Marti . Together with 3 other students , she's locked overnight in a haunted mansion as some sort of fraternity initiation rite . The house used to be inhabited by a family of weirdoes ( figures ? ) and the deformed son... |
404,610 | 2,020,269 | 106,452 | 6 | Aliens take control of everything . . . even your body and soul ! | Normally , I try never to watch any remakes before I had the chance to see the originals . . . So , watching this movie really was an exception for me since I never saw Don Siegel's version from 1956 and neither did I had the chance so far to catch the Philip Kaufman remake from 1978 starring Donald Sutherland . But th... |
406,339 | 2,020,269 | 179,183 | 6 | Christopher in Space SPOILERS | Several years after he managed to escape the Fortress , John Brennick and his family are still hunted by the Men-Tel corporation . When they find him in a cabin in the woods , John's wife and son can escape . John is , together with 2 old fighting buddies , brought in a high tech prison . Escape is the fist thing on hi... |
405,131 | 2,020,269 | 78,880 | 6 | Forgotten misogynist slasher . | The synopsis on the back of the ancient VHS cover box describes the plot of " Bloodrage " as reminiscent to " Taxi Driver " and " Death Wish " and the director's styles and methods for creating tension as " Hitchcockian " . You can unquestionably guess without even seeing the movie for yourself that these generous comp... |
405,071 | 2,020,269 | 78,871 | 6 | The Goddess of Absurd Z-Grade Trash ! | Who else than the terrific people working over at Mondo Macabro DVD could have picked up this deranged flick from oblivion and unleash it upon madness-loving cinema fanatics all over the globe ? " The Queen of Black Magic " is an Indonesian film ( a country of which most people don't even know they produce movies ) tha... |
404,691 | 2,020,269 | 67,367 | 6 | Horny for Hammer ! | With just a few minor changes here and there , " Lust for a Vampire " easily could have been a progressive and even groundbreaking porno-movie ! The title is already a-okay , don't you agree ? Well so are the settings , locations and female casting choices ! The film is largely set in a private school for girls in thei... |
404,318 | 2,020,269 | 109,761 | 6 | Overall satisfying hospital chiller | I instantly got hooked on this film when I first saw it . It came on late-night TV and I watched it even though I wasn't really allowed . The combination of seeing a forbidden film and being impressed by everything that is bloody , I really liked it . Now , years and literally tons of movies later , I notice that it is... |
404,960 | 2,020,269 | 350,774 | 6 | Rednecks are dumb and funny . Okay , we get it now ! | If there's one stereotype the horror genre exploited beyond comparison , it unquestionably are the inhabitants of little and isolated rural villages ; more commonly known as either the rednecks , the hicks or the hillbillies . Ever since a movie called " Deliverance " featured footage of an inbred kid playing the banjo... |
406,095 | 2,020,269 | 78,925 | 6 | Shark Hunters of the Caribbean : Diving for Lost Treasures | Guardians of the Deep could more or less be described as a rip-off of Peter Benchley's " The Deep " , only ? this version is a whole lot better and numberless times more entertaining ! It's a very silly and immensely grotesque adventure movie , with highly implausible stunts and unrealistic characters , but the whole... |
405,023 | 2,020,269 | 187,696 | 6 | German suspense beats American slashers ! | ( minor plot-spoilers coming up ) " Anatomie " is the kind of film that actually proofs how low the nowadays American horror industry has sunk . This German thriller / horror film is nowhere near perfect ( or even ' great ' ) , yet it's a lot more refreshing , original and imaginative than what we've seen from Hollywoo... |
404,445 | 2,020,269 | 25,465 | 6 | Very bad . . . but still light-years ahead of its time ! | This film is , in one word , DEMENTED ! No matter how you try to look at it ? either an early underdeveloped educative docu or an ambitious exploitation pioneer , you can only come to the conclusion that this is a masterpiece of awfulness ! How else would you describe a movie that features images of fighting women in a... |
405,034 | 2,020,269 | 82,748 | 6 | Unnecessary , gratuitous violence . . . . HOORAY ! | Juan Piquer Simon is my favorite " bad " director of all time ! The man gave us " Slugs " , " Monster Island " and ? especially ? " Supersonic Man " . He always delivers very entertaining films and I can't bring myself to bash his work no matter how amateurish and cheap it looks . This " Pieces " is Simon's attempt to ... |
405,685 | 2,020,269 | 67,525 | 6 | We Are The Family . . . I got all my Albino-Brothers with me ! | Now that I've finally seen all three major film versions of Richard Matheson's famous novel " I Am Legend " ( I have no idea why it took me until now to check out this version ) , I have to say the most splendid adaptation is NOT the big-budgeted new blockbuster starring Will Smith and it is NOT this early 70's cult cl... |
406,371 | 2,020,269 | 60,127 | 6 | I Warned You Not To Work The Streets Tonight ! | The " title " of this user comment is obviously a reference / tribute towards the tagline of the legendary infamous early 80's exploitation classic " Maniac " . Like another reviewer already righteously pointed out , this slick and surprisingly grim mid-60's grindhouse feature could be considered as a predecessor and d... |
405,038 | 2,020,269 | 82,696 | 6 | Cool summer-camp slasher ! | This early 80's horror junk is exactly what you expect it to be : completely unoriginal and it probably never would have existed if it weren't for the unexpected success of Sean S . Cunningham's " Friday the 13th " . Writer / director Joe Giannone wanted to cash in on this " classic " horror film's earnings and quickly... |
404,336 | 2,020,269 | 29,309 | 6 | Burglary with Boris ! | The almighty Boris Karloff is primarily an icon of horror cinema so it's a bit peculiar that this film , which is in no way horror-related , got included in the fancy and recently released Karloff DVD-collection ( cover image displayed here on the main page ) . Personally , I'm glad it's there , as " Night Key " was co... |
405,488 | 2,020,269 | 335,438 | 6 | Ah , the glorious 70's ! | Rather many people claim that this is a pointless , dreadful film . Why ? ! ? This is the perfect type of light-headed entertainment . It's a remake of a nostalgic TV-series and a spoof towards the hilarious disco-decade ? how bad can that possibly be ? The film is set in the seventies , people ! That's automatically f... |
406,709 | 2,020,269 | 82,812 | 6 | Schools Out For ? EVER ! | Like sadly too often the case with early 80's slasher-movies , this one honestly isn't as bad as the rating & reputation suggest and it obviously all depends on the viewers ' prior expectations . If you're set to see a mindless and undemanding stalk ' n slash effort , you get just that , but with a tidbit of goodwill ,... |
406,069 | 2,020,269 | 94,225 | 6 | Until death do us part . . . . violently ! | Inconspicuous but nevertheless stylish Lamberto Bava thriller with a couple of remotely suspenseful sequences and an attractive Italian cast . The plot sounds very familiar but , although Bava doesn't really pretend to be original , he still manages to make his film look innovating and compelling at times . The beautif... |
406,574 | 2,020,269 | 75,255 | 6 | Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep on Smiling ! | Once again , I've been fooled . I anticipated watching the first " Sex with a Smile " movie , but apparently the ex-rental tape was a copy of the sequel in the VHS box of the original . This shouldn't necessarily be bad news , because the sequel is even more obscure and harder to find than the first film , but unfortun... |
406,468 | 2,020,269 | 465,430 | 6 | Lock , Stock , One Smokin ' Hot Chick and some Barrels of Gore ? | Even though my opinion and sentiments after watching " The Cottage " are overall positive , I can't help but admit it was a wildly uneven and even somewhat falsely promoted film . The trailer , which I watched repeatedly because it was so awesome , gave the impression this would be a full-blooded horror movie and ? mor... |
405,243 | 2,020,269 | 165,963 | 6 | Belgo-exploitation ! | Quite a difficult movie to come across , this " State of Mind " , but it sure looks like a worthy purchase in case you're an avid cult-collector ? at least , on the surface it looks like that . The DVD-cover proudly lists the names of famous horror stars like Fred Williamson , Jill Shoelen and ? above all ? Paul Naschy... |
405,022 | 2,020,269 | 67,487 | 6 | Beware of greedy , imaginary unfaithful , worm-congested red-haired corpse brides . . . | Completely UNlike expected , I didn't like this creatively titled movie as much as I thought I would . " The Night Evelyn Came out of the Gave " features all the basic ingredients that make Italian horror fanatics ' mouths water , and it is in fact pretty good , yet it doesn't leave you with that fantastic feeling of t... |
405,866 | 2,020,269 | 75,261 | 6 | Eco-horror at its finest | Liebermann's debut may looks ridiculous on paper ( a plague of lethal worms ? ! ? ) but it's much more interesting and better than you'd suspect . Apart from the outstanding shlock - effects , the best aspect about the film is the genuine location of a typical American small-town . Liebermann chose for a nasty looking ... |
405,052 | 2,020,269 | 75,324 | 6 | The Mirror has two Faces and one giant Pe ? | This psychedelic 70's porn movie is stylish and oddly compelling , but still I can't bring myself to be as enthusiast as my fellow reviewers around here . Maybe I just anticipated a little more horror-elements or maybe I got a too upset because director Jonas Middleton presents a beautiful package but can't really hide... |
405,200 | 2,020,269 | 44,423 | 6 | Compelling Gothic horror / drama | It's strange that I keep on discovering movies in which Boris Karloff actually plays the GOOD guy ! The man will always be an icon of horror-cinema , of course , but I used to think he exclusively portrayed monsters , mad scientists and psychopaths . Here in this forgotten 50's Goth epic , Karloff stars as the noble an... |
406,025 | 2,020,269 | 482,571 | 6 | LOVED the trick with the canary ! | Performing magic shows is literally a ' tricky ' business . Unquestionably these magicians are good artists , as they have to disguise a presumably very simple and logical trick and build a whole show around it , but at the same time the whole concept quickly tends to get boring . Just because you automatically presume... |
404,947 | 2,020,269 | 448,134 | 6 | They Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Us . | Danny Boyle's " Sunshine " has a powerful & compelling plot , breathtakingly stunning visual effects , masterful scenery and a constantly high level of suspense ? yet ; it nevertheless remains an " ordinary " and " prototypic " Sci-Fi movie . Boyle almost single-handedly recreated the extinct zombie genre with his prev... |
404,240 | 2,020,269 | 90,837 | 6 | Exterminating all Mallrats ! | In this insignificant but nevertheless fun 80's low-budgeter , the sex-hungry teenagers for once aren't chased around by a killer wearing a ridiculous mask but by a troop of malfunctioning and heavily armed security robots ! Four couples that work in various stores at the Park Plaza shopping mall secretly throw an afte... |
405,697 | 2,020,269 | 949,731 | 6 | Shyamalan's best in a while , but movie-miracles still ain't happening ? | Please note the reviews also contains slight spoilers for " The Sixth Sense " and " Unbreakable " . Pretty much like the rest of our cinema-loving universe , I anticipated the release of " The Happening " with quite an unhealthy dose of skepticism . I never even bothered to watch " Lady in the Water " , but I severely ... |
405,689 | 2,020,269 | 482,606 | 6 | A Stranger is a Friend you haven't met yet ? Hmm , not quite . . . | It isn't a secret that the horror industry suffers from a severe lack of originality lately . Albeit still immensely popular , the genre nowadays only brings forward remakes of older successful classics or recycled versions of one and the same concept . " The Strangers " isn't a remake , but it's pretty much identical ... |
405,439 | 2,020,269 | 86,508 | 6 | Vietnam after-party . . . | SPOILERS AHOY ! ! ! Uncommon Valor is a decent - you might even say good - war movie that in fact was one of the first films that portraits the pain and depression after Vietnam . The movie mostly sets in the same year as it was shot - 1983 - a good 10 years after the last troops returned from Vietnam . At the time of ... |
406,191 | 2,020,269 | 24,727 | 6 | Vampires are at large , I tell you ! VAMPIRES ! ! | The Vampire Bat starts out fabulously , with eerie images of large bats fluttering through the dark night and a very atmospheric portrayal of a petrified little town with its superstitious inhabitants under the spell of a serial killer who seemly drains all the blood out of his / her victims ' bodies . The opening se... |
404,267 | 2,020,269 | 82,118 | 6 | Severe butchering ! | This is not even a rip-off from " Friday the 13th " ; it's almost an exact clone ! Most 80's slashers at least try to bring some change in setting , the killer's background or continuity , but Maylem's film doesn't . Period ! The plot features the exact same group of teenagers during summer camp . Just as it was the ca... |
406,559 | 2,020,269 | 400,274 | 6 | Grace Anatomy | Released and promoted in some countries as " Cannibal Holocaust 2 : The Beginning " , this really isn't a sequel ( or prequel ) to Ruggero Deodato's legendary exploitation-classic , but more like a shameless and unscrupulous imitation with absolutely no new ideas or innovating concepts to add to the original . The scre... |
405,494 | 2,020,269 | 365,748 | 6 | Partly successful attempt to blend styles that are hard to blend . | Okay , even though I surely don't regret having watched this film , I won't be joining the other reviewers around here who all claim it's a hilarious movie and / or the best horror comedy in decades . The intentions of cast and crew are good , there are plenty of good gags and the characters are likable but overall it ... |
406,439 | 2,020,269 | 63,715 | 6 | Extraordinary like Poe intended it ? | I suppose this is the best you get when three acclaimed and prominent European directors interpret the oeuvre of Edgar Allan Poe in their own typical and over-praised filming styles ? The Gothic ambiance as well as the poetic darkness of Poe's writings entirely vanish and have to make room for artsy gimmicks and person... |
405,284 | 2,020,269 | 114,193 | 6 | I defend this neat Werewolf film | Werewolves . . . Kim Delaney . . . and Kane Hodder as the creature . How bad could this possibly be , I wondered . The signs weren't good though . Bashed all over the net , released straight to video and hard to find on VHS . Well , I certainly didn't regret watching it . For me it was filled with pleasant surprises an... |
406,454 | 2,020,269 | 71,167 | 6 | The Murder-Show Must Go On ! | Despite suffering from many flaws and shortcomings , " The Killer Reserved Nine Seats " is still warmly recommended to fans of the Italian giallo ( and we know their number increases every day ! ) . The absolute greatest and most inventive titles of this wonderful Italian horror sub genre pretty much all received fancy... |
404,955 | 2,020,269 | 382,621 | 7 | Intense & Confronting drama-thriller . | Crónicas is more than just another lame and wannabe provocative satire that wants to prove how the media and charismatic reporters are capable of influencing people's opinions and emotions . In fact , it does handle about that , but it's definitely not a dumb satire . It's a harsh and harrowing social drama , set in an... |
404,485 | 2,020,269 | 73,820 | 7 | Overload ! Karen Black overload ! | Trilogy of Terror is only a made-for-TV movie AND it got released in the middle of the 1970's , when the horror industry already more or less suffered from super-saturation , yet it managed to build up a rather solid cult reputation and a large fan-base . And it's even quite easy to see why , really , considering the... |
404,249 | 2,020,269 | 372,784 | 7 | Very good . . . but something's missing . | I don't like to comment on giant blockbusters because their humongous fan base usually doesn't appreciate criticism of any kind . Oh well , my rant here contains more ' remarks ' than actual criticism , so I'm going to spill my guts anyway . Although a very good film ( and definitely a vast improvement over those dread... |
405,010 | 2,020,269 | 70,423 | 7 | Occasionally FREAK-y ! | This grotesquely mad and slightly sick-spirited early 70's horror film couldn't count on too much praise from either the critics or the audiences , and there are a couple of ( justified ) reasons for this . First and foremost , director Jack Cardiff never really makes clear what his intentions are . Does he want " The ... |
404,794 | 2,020,269 | 462,482 | 7 | 436 Mini-Maniacs ! | I enjoyed " Population 436 " , I have to admit ! Sure it was very predictable and a little too tame for my usual liking ? they could have used a bucket or two of fake blood ? but director Michelle Maxwell Maclaren maintains a nicely uncanny atmosphere and everyone involved in this production showed a lot spirit . " Pop... |
405,276 | 2,020,269 | 91,264 | 7 | Don't Feed the Monkey ! | Some of the reviews I encountered on " In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro " complain that baboons aren't convincing and not nearly menacing enough to pass for murderous animals . Well , this is a false impression in general . During a recent trip to South Africa I made a couple of excursions and the first thing the tour guid... |
406,670 | 2,020,269 | 73,806 | 7 | Nah Na Na Na Na Na Nah ! Thun-Der ! You've been ? . Thundercrack'd ! | Referring to " Thundercrack ! " as simply being a weird cult flick would be a serious understatement and actually a direct insult , since certain people around this website already tend to call mainstream movies like " Memento " or " Pulp Fiction " weird and confusing . Weird ? Not quite ? A term to summarize " Thunder... |
406,592 | 2,020,269 | 65,072 | 7 | Little known but exciting thriller | Despite the fact that director Don Sharp has a few minor classics on his name ( " Kiss of the Vampire " , " Rasputin : The Mad Monk " , " The Face of Fu Manchu " ) , the coolest of his films are still regretfully neglected ! " Psychomania " , about a gang of zombie-bikers and " Dark Places " , set in a mental asylum , ... |
406,737 | 2,020,269 | 65,073 | 7 | Worthwhile entry in the Hammer Dracula franchise | The fifth episode in the legendary Dracula franchise is far from the best ( the original is , of course ) but it does prove that the Hammer studios never stopped being creative in their ideas . This is yet another entirely new variant on the classic tale of the blood sucking Count , in the same delicious Victorian sett... |
405,623 | 2,020,269 | 411,743 | 7 | Kids , say NO to Redheads ! | Oh my God , Eric Cartman was right ! I remember seeing an episode of " South Park " in which Cartman single-handedly wanted to perform some sort of genocide against red-haired kids because he proclaims them to be pure evil . With just a slight bit of lunatic imagination this low-budgeted but nonetheless artistic Canadi... |
405,166 | 2,020,269 | 70,446 | 7 | Have yourself a good old-fashioned , traditional and nightmarish Cajun wedding night ! | I liked this gritty and harsh exploitation / revenge feature , and don't quite understand why it's so unknown and forgotten ( and the people who do know it don't even seem to like it ) . True , the script somewhat moves too slow and quite a few sequences easily could have been cut , but the main premise is fascinating ... |
404,815 | 2,020,269 | 95,626 | 7 | Charlie and the Mormons-Massacre . | Try and beat THIS for an opening sequence ! Images of women amiably chatting and young children peacefully playing in the morning sun get barbarically interrupted when suddenly a shady figure holding a shotgun comes driving up to the house . Without speaking one word , the man unhesitatingly butchers the women ( one pr... |
405,259 | 2,020,269 | 83,624 | 7 | It's amazing what you can do with no budget but lots of inspiration . . . | The following review will most certainly contain SPOILERS ! ! ! Now here's a guy who deserves a decent comeback . . . Director Frank Hennenlotter ! It's very remarkable what this guy pulled of with almost no budget . He's the living proof that you only need a dose of healthy creativity and a good basic idea to make an ... |
406,241 | 2,020,269 | 91,343 | 7 | Meet your brother , John . . . . | Dr . John Hollins is called to the hospital bed of his mother . She advises him to finish the science projects she started involving something what seems to be a long lost brother of Johns . When she dies , John and a few of his colleagues and friends drive up to her old house to clean up the place and to find out more... |
404,775 | 2,020,269 | 83,629 | 7 | The real beastie-boy ! | Woo-hoo ! This freaky puppy needs to go on a leash ! The Beast Within is highly entertaining 80's pulp that regretfully got ignored over the years , along with so many other B-movie goodies from that decade like " Dead & Buried " , " Basket Case " or " From Beyond " . I hope that too many people won't be biased about t... |
405,888 | 2,020,269 | 439,815 | 7 | They don't make ' em like this anymore . Oh wait , . . . they DO ! | In case you're a loyal fan of horror movies , I'm pretty sure you've already heard ( and probably even USED ) the cliché saying in this comment's subject line . We sometimes get the impression that the only horror films Hollywood serves us nowadays are uninspired slashers and colorless remakes , all staring untalented ... |
406,028 | 2,020,269 | 493,452 | 7 | Now , THIS is good Nether-Horror ! | It's remarkable what one inventive idea and a little less pretension ( and , of course , about half a million Euros more budget ) and accomplish ! " Dood Eind " and this " Sl8N8 " got unleashed more or less simultaneously in The Netherlands ? which is quite a big event for a nation with almost no cinematic horror reput... |
405,619 | 2,020,269 | 70,531 | 7 | Ants in the Pants ! . . . For Real ! ! | Phase IV is unquestionably one of the ( perhaps THE ) most intelligent and ambitious ecological horror efforts of the entire 70's decade . With its unusual but compelling narrative structure , it almost feels like you're watching a documentary on the National Geographic channel , only it's a truly horrific and distur... |
404,466 | 2,020,269 | 70,556 | 7 | Ain't no party like a hillbilly wedding party , Yee-Haaa ! | A friend and I watched " Poor Pretty Eddie " on the big screen , during a film night special appropriately entitled Rednecksploitation . Let me tell you , along with the ramshackle cinema hangar & the poor quality of the original film spool , the story & atmosphere of this movie catapulted us straight back to the glori... |
405,541 | 2,020,269 | 83,542 | 7 | Lunatics-de-Luxe ! | Undoubtedly any horror fan will agree that " Alone in the Dark " is worth seeing if only just for the names in the cast and the type of characters they depict . The almighty Jack Palance and Martin Landau as dangerous & bloodthirsty mental patients on the loose ? Yes please , because they're both usually cast as sophis... |
404,970 | 2,020,269 | 780,607 | 7 | Too Much TV Can Kill You ! | The Signal is one of the most pleasant surprises I've encountered in a long while and I sincerely hope it'll find its way towards the DVD-players of many avid fans of horror / Sci-Fi cinema and grow out to become a modest cult classic . The film , co-written and directed by no less than three people , successfully co... |
405,779 | 2,020,269 | 91,209 | 7 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to SICKO - Galaxy ! | Now we FINALLY know who was driving the freaky old truck in Steven Spielberg's classic " Duel " ! It was Rutger Hauer's character John Ryder and he's still prowling the deserted American highways ? only without the truck . Young Jim Halsey picks him up to avoid falling asleep behind the wheel , but Ryder soon makes cle... |
406,134 | 2,020,269 | 780,583 | 7 | You'll wish it were just snakes on a plane ! | This demented and adorably over-the-top gory zombie flick was presented and introduced here at the Belgian Horror & Fantasy Festival by its writer / creator Scott Thomas . He claims that , in spite of all the obvious plot-similarities with " Snakes on a Plane " , his film is definitely NOT a quick cash-in on the huge s... |
404,968 | 2,020,269 | 70,622 | 7 | Snake-Face ! | Like most people of my generation , I only know Dirk Benedict as the Faceman in the cool 80's series " The A-Team " , where he used his womanizing skills and good looks ( hence the alias ) to seduce a new gal in every episode . It's quite interesting to see a much younger Benedict star here as an insecure and heavily b... |
405,584 | 2,020,269 | 39,017 | 7 | Strangers , Suspects and Super-detectives on a train ! | Rather short ( 60min . ) and fast-paced last but one Sherlock Holmes adventure , entirely set on an express train and once again revolving on the theft of a very valuable diamond . Holmes and Dr . Watson are hired to keep an eye on the " Star of Rhodesia " ; a most precious jewel that travels from London to Edinburgh ,... |
406,682 | 2,020,269 | 91,203 | 7 | Yes , who DOES want to live forever ? | Highlander undoubtedly has one of the simplest and most basic concepts in the history of cinema , and yet it grew out to become a very hugely successful and impossible-not-to like Sci-Fi classic of the 80's decade . It doesn't get any more rudimentary than this : Scottish born clansman Connor MacLeod is born immortal... |
405,329 | 2,020,269 | 122,514 | 7 | Stylish short by Harry Kümel . | Bizarrely structured yet compelling short film based on the writings of Franz Kafka and directed by the Belgian filmmaker Harry Kümel . It's especially interesting to see Kümel's smaller TV-work before he went on directing some of our country's ONLY great horror films like " Malpertuis " and " Daughters of Darkness " i... |
405,941 | 2,020,269 | 52,655 | 7 | Horror comedy of different clay ! | Not including almost every entry in the terrific Edgar Allen Poe cycle he did , " A Bucket of Blood " unquestionable is Roger Corman's best and most entertaining film . And ? coincidentally or not ? this movie also contains many references towards Poe ( a walled-up cat ! ! ) , so maybe Corman simply needs the legendary... |
404,313 | 2,020,269 | 167,190 | 7 | Red alert | Hellboy joins the recent trend of popular comic book adaptations ( X-Men , Spiderman ) and unfortunately also the dire trend of movies that drown in computer engineered effects ( like Underworld or Van Helsing ) . The good news is that it was directed and co-written by Guillermo Del Toro , who has a terrific sense of p... |
404,460 | 2,020,269 | 52,667 | 7 | Monstrous blubber pudding à L'Italiano | With Mario Bava being my favorite filmmaker of ALL time , I couldn't afford myself to miss out on " Caltiki " as this film ? along with the equally impressive " I , Vampire " - marks his debut as a director and then still the poor man didn't receive the proper credit he deserved for it . Riccardo Freda , the official d... |
404,414 | 2,020,269 | 195,209 | 7 | School for drinking , raping & murdering . . . scoundrels . | Fernando Di Leo was undoubtedly the emperor of Italian crime-cinema during the late 60's and the 70's . The work he did on other genres wasn't exactly impressive ( anyone remember " Asylum Erotica " ? ) , but in the area of rough ' n tough exploitation thrillers he was absolutely unequaled . Di Leo has some of the sub ... |
405,490 | 2,020,269 | 334,541 | 7 | Yet another treat for the " Graboid " - fans ! | Man , I love the Tremors-franchise like Winnie the Pooh loves his honey ! After four films and a TV-series ( which regretfully didn't got aired in my country ) , I still think these giant underground worms are the total definition of coolness ! And therefore , I really feel like this entry is made for me and homogeneou... |
406,330 | 2,020,269 | 56,675 | 7 | Behind Enemy Lines ? And loving it ! | This ultra low-budgeted and virtually unknown war / drama movie is probably the most interesting from an " acting " point-of-view . " War Hunt " remarkably ? but I suppose coincidentally as well ? features the big screen debuts of no less than three names that are nowadays considered hugely famous and acclaimed . Direc... |
406,521 | 2,020,269 | 225,481 | 7 | Over-enthusiast fan boy stuff ! But it's lots and lots of fun ! ! | Maybe it's because I've seen too many overrated and disappointing wannabe-artistic horror titles lately , but I hugely enjoyed this low-budgeted zombie-splatter flick . " The Dead hate the Living " is unpretentious and enthusiast horror entertainment ; obviously scripted and directed by a guy who's obsessed with gory g... |
406,575 | 2,020,269 | 91,539 | 7 | God is not watching us . . . | Whenever you finish watching a film , any film , it is extremely important to sit back and contemplate for a moment about what you've learned from this particular viewing experience . " Convent of Sinners " taught me quite a few things , actually . For example , nuns don't wear any underwear but some kind of easily rem... |
406,667 | 2,020,269 | 91,553 | 7 | Creative with Kitchenware ! | Even though the truly golden years for the Italian giallo had passed since quite a while already , the decade of the 1980's still brought forward a handful of decent & memorable efforts . Two directors in particular kept this magnificent sub genre alive , namely Dario Argento ( with his " Tenebrae " and " Opera " ) and... |
404,409 | 2,020,269 | 70,190 | 7 | Deliciously grotesque 70's horror flick ! | Elderly horror films starring Michael Gough as a dangerously insane butcher are always great fun , since the gore is so over-the-top and the story lines are so hilariously inept . Just look at " Horrors of the Black Museum " or " Satan's Slave " , for example ! It simply seems that casting Michael Gough inevitably resu... |
405,663 | 2,020,269 | 95,444 | 7 | Seriously deranged cult-stuff ! | Yes , this movie really does handle about evil aliens , shaped like clowns , that strand near a remote American village . Their circus tent mysteriously appears in the woods after a meteorite crash and the klowns ( yes , with a " k " ) go on a rampage in the village to turn people into cotton-candy with their funky arm... |
406,000 | 2,020,269 | 65,398 | 7 | Bienvenue en France . . . You might not ever leave ! | And Soon the Darkness ? which takes entirely place during the daytime ? is a fairly creepy but sadly neglected 70's Brit-chiller directed by Robert Fuest , who would later focus on horror movies that have slightly more extravagant story lines , like " The Abominable Dr . Phibes " and " The Devil's Rain " . This movie... |
404,251 | 2,020,269 | 83,869 | 7 | Gives you the munchies ! | Paul Bartel's ultra-low budgeted quickie is still one of the best black comedies ever made , even though I found it less funny than when I first saw it , approximately ten years ago now . Then again , it was my very first " politically incorrect " comedy and I've seen many others since ? This is a very charming film an... |
406,183 | 2,020,269 | 294,594 | 7 | Voyeurism through the ages . . . | The story-idea of " The Gathering " is one of the most original and unsettling horror premises in a very long time . This is a religious and supernatural thriller that focuses on mystery and ominous atmosphere , instead of grossing you out with nasty killings and / or horrible monsters . Although heavily flawed and qui... |
406,613 | 2,020,269 | 87,622 | 7 | Obscure Holland-horror ! | It seems that Dick Maas ' De Lift has become a true horror gem over the years and I even picked up that it's most wanted among cult-collectors . Well , here in the home countries ( The Netherlands and Belgium ) you can still easily find an old copy in videostores or even on flee-markets , so all you avid fanatics shoul... |
404,330 | 2,020,269 | 83,791 | 7 | Who says you're too old to watch fairy-tales ? ? | ( SPOILERS coming up ) Like most fans , I fell in love with the Dark Crystal at very young age . I think I was a 6 or 7 years old brat when I saw it for the first time and I was completely astonished . I just stared at it with my eyes and mouth wide open and it was the coolest , most terrific thing I ever saw . I haven... |
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