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404,768 | 2,020,269 | 71,395 | 7 | But They Do Scare The Hell Out Of The Living ! | The Dead Don't Die is a genuinely creepy and inventive 70's made-for-TV gem that regretfully ended up in total oblivion , and this in spite of the involvement of several really highly acclaimed names in the horror industry , like writer Robert Bloch ( " Psycho " , " Torture Garden " ) , director Curtis Harrington ( "... |
405,732 | 2,020,269 | 71,396 | 7 | Dead People are CREEPY ! | Messiah of Evil ( or " Dead People " , which is a much more appropriate a . k . a title ) is a solid 70's horror gem , surprisingly atmospheric and quite gory despite the obviously low budget production values . It's basically a zombie-movie , but surely NOT the type that George A . Romero popularized half a decade e... |
405,517 | 2,020,269 | 1,179,891 | 7 | My Super-Bloody-De-Luxe Slasher Remake | Boy , did this movie ever have to stand up against a whole lot of prejudices before it even properly got released into theaters ! First of all it's a remake of an 80's slasher movie and , generally speaking these don't receive a very warm welcome from the horror-loving community . With good reason , by the way , if you... |
406,359 | 2,020,269 | 140,174 | 7 | To Hell with all the negative reviews ! | Wow , talk about a pleasant surprise ! I was expecting to see a terrible , bottom-of-the-barrel exploitation fodder from the seventies , but I ended up seeing a spirited cult gem that really makes the most of its minimal budget . The story introduces Howard Martin ; an introvert and rather nerdy young man who lives alo... |
405,784 | 2,020,269 | 48,977 | 7 | Bad Girls Go To Hell ? | Purely by coincidence , I watched two movies in one day ( presumably the only two ever made ) that are attempting to link criminal tendencies with genetics . Both " The Bad Seed " and " Twisted Nerve " ( the other one ) controversially suggest there's a direct connection between the protagonists ' deviant murders and t... |
404,735 | 2,020,269 | 871,197 | 7 | To euthanasia or not to euthanasia ? | I'm not entirely sure Rob Schmidt qualifies as a " Master " in the genre of horror , since he previously just directed one horror film called " Wrong Turn " and that one was actually just was slightly above mediocre , but fact is that he made with " Right to Die " one of the best and creepiest episodes of the entire se... |
404,686 | 2,020,269 | 86,640 | 7 | Average Hong Kong smut , but with a fantastic finale ! | Perhaps the extreme cinema of the Far East simply isn't my cup of tea , but I can't possibly be as praising about " Seeding of a Ghost " as most of my fellow reviewers around here . Moreover , if it hadn't been for the excellent last half hour and the downright brilliant end-sequences , I probably would have rated the ... |
406,634 | 2,020,269 | 95,179 | 7 | Jason never looked so good ! ! ( small spoilers ) | Finally , Kane Hodder takes over the part he was born to play . Hodder is a huge and impressive stuntman who really makes Jason look like the horror icon he deserves to be : filthy , soulless and extreme . Either way , The New Blood is a very decent entry in the Friday series ! You can reproach the writers of the serie... |
404,965 | 2,020,269 | 95,215 | 7 | Lawman ! ! ! | Perhaps " Ghost Town " isn't one of the best horror movies of the 80's , but at least you'll have to admit the concept is refreshing , courageous , original and semi-successful . This one of the very few horror / western hybrids ever made and particularly the accomplished atmosphere is praiseworthy . " Ghost Town " mai... |
405,818 | 2,020,269 | 75,290 | 7 | Real human misery meets Mexican exploitation | Almost 20 years before Frank Marshall brought tears to your eyes with his mesmerizing epic " Alive " , there already was the legendary Mexican exploitation director René Cardona who used the same drama as an outline for his ambitious film " Supervivientes de los Andes " . The unforgettable fatal flight of Fairchild 571... |
404,343 | 2,020,269 | 1,418,824 | 7 | Ambitious Italian thriller with obvious Giallo echoes | The era of illustriousness for the Italian Gialli movies is long over and gone ? more than twenty years already , in fact ? but ambitious Italian filmmakers occasionally still breeze in to deliver new movies with plenty of echoes to this wondrous sub genre of European horror / thriller cinema . Some fine recent example... |
405,627 | 2,020,269 | 105,690 | 7 | Bad Guys Galore ! | I remember , mostly back when it got released but even still now , dull critics and sour people in general simply categorized " Under Siege " as a lousy and uninspired version of " Die Hard " on a battleship instead of atop a skyscraper . Okay , this may very well be the most apt description imaginable , but that doesn... |
406,412 | 2,020,269 | 430,676 | 7 | Don't we LOVE Argento ? ! | One thing concerning this film should be made clear immediately , otherwise several Dario Argento fans will risk being disappointed : " Do you like Hitchcock " is a TV-movie and therefore not as outrageous and / or shocking as we expect Argento films to be ! Don't prepare yourself to see another " Opera " or " Tenebre ... |
404,320 | 2,020,269 | 82,084 | 7 | Kids do the darndest things ! | I can't believe I rarely ever see this title mentioned by all you eighties horror freaks and I definitely won't be joining all my fellow reviewers here in saying that ' Bloody Birthday ' is awful viewing . On the contrary , I enjoyed it very much and I was pleasantly surprised by the ingeniousness and surprise twists i... |
404,828 | 2,020,269 | 59,764 | 7 | Sherlock Holmes VS . Jack the Ripper ? An elementary concept . . . | Sherlock Holmes , the brightest and most eloquent of all fictional detectives ever , on the trail of Jack The Ripper , the beastly London serial killer whose crimes mainly became notorious because they never got solved . It seems like such an obvious concept to process into a Victorian horror screenplay , and yet only ... |
406,437 | 2,020,269 | 66,578 | 7 | HEADS off to see the wizard . . . the nauseating Wizard of Gore ! | Another sensationally over-the-top splatter party directed by everyone's favorite horror lunatic ; THE Hershell Gordon Lewis ! " The Wizard of Gore " might not be his ' best ' film , but it's definitely a fun experience and actually one of Lewis ' most ambitiously plotted films , since he toys with subjects like hypnot... |
404,959 | 2,020,269 | 75,375 | 7 | Unorthodox-Copper Holocaust ! | You just know you're in for one hell of a thrill-ride when the movie you're watching opens with a 10-minutes-long chase sequence on motorcycles ; through the crowd-infested streets of Rome and ending with a shocking execution that truly goes against all the rules of ethically correct police work . " Live like a Cop , D... |
404,926 | 2,020,269 | 63,522 | 7 | Although the film itself looks dated , the screenplay is still one of horror's best and most unsettling ! | Assuming that pretty much everyone knows about the plot of this film by now , I won't pen down another synopsis . . . Personally , I always thought that Roman Polanski's " Rosemary's Baby " is much more of an intelligently scripted conspiracy-drama , rather than a diabolical horror story . The most captivating element ... |
405,730 | 2,020,269 | 120,907 | 7 | Invasion of the VIRTUAL Body Snatchers ! | I suppose a lot of difficult and pseudo-intelligent terms can be used to review David Cronenberg's " eXistenZ " but let's keep it simple , shall we ? Anyone remember how the 1956 Sci-Fi milestone " Invasion of the Body Snatchers " revolved on Pod People and how they transformed into identical versions of themselves tha... |
405,947 | 2,020,269 | 79,714 | 7 | Bizarre horror highlight | Phantasm and its sequels is a popular horror-series , but not as big as the obvious franchises such as Nightmare on Elm street , Halloween or Friday the 13th . And that's a good thing because you can't really compare this ingenious muddle with mainstream slashers . Phantasm is a complete one-man Don Coscarelli project ... |
406,573 | 2,020,269 | 460,898 | 7 | Hooray for Boobies ! | King Russ Meyer is dead ? Long live King Meyer ! That must have been one of the mottoes director Jonathan Yudis treasured whilst shooting this indescribably demented but surprisingly successful tribute to rancid 70's exploitation , and more particularly to the fabulous repertoire of the Fellini of the Sex Industry ; mi... |
404,548 | 2,020,269 | 71,150 | 7 | God is not available at the moment . . . but Lucifer will gladly possess you ! | After one failing attempt approximately a year ago , I really wanted to give this movie another chance , if it were only to struggle beyond those confusing and headache-inducing opening five minutes this time . If you consider watching " The Antichrist " , bear in mind that the intro is extremely hectic and unappealing... |
405,426 | 2,020,269 | 455,760 | 7 | Ghost Story with Panache ! | I anticipated watching this movie ever since I found out about its existence , and you know what happens in such a case , right ? Oh yes , all kind of secondary factors prevented me from seeing it right away . For some reason , " Dead Silence " didn't get a theatrical release in my country , it took much longer than us... |
406,379 | 2,020,269 | 114,194 | 7 | The Army of Angels is all here . . . But where's God when you need him ? | The Prophecy is one of the better and undoubtedly one of the most ambitiously plotted horror movies of the 1990's . In a decade where most horror movies were mere uninspired imitations and / or sequels in franchises that already outstayed their welcome , writer / director Gregory Widen ( co-creator of the original " ... |
404,946 | 2,020,269 | 90,728 | 7 | Irresistibly silly B-movie Magic | Big Trouble in Little China is a bit of an outsider in John Carpenter's overall versatile repertoire , but it may simultaneously also be his most accessible and amusingly grotesque achievement . Basically and with a slight bit of imagination , this could simply be described as a cash-in on the Indiana Jones success f... |
405,549 | 2,020,269 | 79,788 | 7 | A really brutal horror experience . . . but fans will LOVE it ! | Zombi Holocaust is one of the biggest pleasant surprises I purchased in a long time . And that's a really positive thing to say because you probably know this kind of horror films . . . Fully made and produced in Italy in the early 80's , these movies have like a dozen alternate titles and versions . Tons of similar mo... |
404,941 | 2,020,269 | 82,000 | 7 | Fell in love with an Alien-rip off ! | Good , gooey , undemanding entertainment , directed by Luigi Cozzi ( " The Killer Must Kill Again " ) and more than obviously inspired by the huge success of Ridley Scott's blockbuster " Alien " . The most memorable sequence in that particular Sci-Fi classic involved one of the spaceship crew-member's chest exploding o... |
405,260 | 2,020,269 | 222,812 | 7 | Dr . West still rocks after 13 years . | Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator based on a story by H . P Lovecraft was one of the best and most entertaining horror movies of the 80's . I became a huge fan after only seeing it once and I'm sure many people with me . I now watch it regularly and it's one of the favorite DVD's in my collection . Even the sequel , Bride of... |
406,614 | 2,020,269 | 36,653 | 7 | Beware of malevolent puppeteer ! | John Carradine repeatedly claimed that Bluebeard was his favorite role to play ( out of a repertoire of over 250 films , that has got to mean something ! ) and I can only confirm that his ghoulish performance is the film's biggest strength . The Bluebeard-myth is one of the most intriguing premises in horror cinema eve... |
404,405 | 2,020,269 | 139,426 | 7 | A light at the end of the horror-tunnel | With all this garbage they call horror coming out these days , you almost automatically become skeptic and negative-minded towards smaller productions before you've even seen them ! My expectations on " Lighthouse " were very low ( actually , I had none ) but it turned out a pleasant surprise and it's really not that b... |
404,484 | 2,020,269 | 71,095 | 7 | Abby Doesn't Live Here Anymore ! | Man , those big shots over at Warner Bros . have absolutely no sense of humor and / or brotherly spirit ! Of course this Blaxploitation gem , as well as the Italian efforts " Beyond the Door " and " Lisa and the Devil " , is an obvious rip-off of their smash hit " The Exorcist " . . . Even the smallest child can see th... |
404,232 | 2,020,269 | 417,745 | 7 | Checkmate ! | Before I even properly read what exactly the story of " Headspace " was about , I already knew damn sure that I wanted to see it , simply because it assembles one of the most impressive B-movie casts of the last 15 years ! Even though they all just appear in supportive roles , " Headspace " managed to snare legendary n... |
406,706 | 2,020,269 | 462,499 | 8 | The Fantastic Ode to Senseless & Gratuitous Violence ; by Sly Stallone . | Now that he has reached the respectable ( at least , for an action hero ) ago of 61 , it seems as if Mr . Stallone can do whatever the hell he pleases ! At several times during watching the brand new and almost indescribably violent " Rambo " , it's almost like you hear Sly thinking : " Screw everybody , I'm doing this... |
404,461 | 2,020,269 | 73,747 | 8 | Desperately Domestic Housewives | Regardless of their final opinions , I agree wholeheartedly with every reviewer around here who stated that potential viewers of " The Stepford Wives " should completely avoid reading anything about it . Most of the reviews and even plot synopsizes blatantly reveal the events occurring during the last fifteen minutes o... |
406,070 | 2,020,269 | 56,368 | 8 | Terrific Gothic horror ! Actually phobia-evoking ! ! | Being a huge admirer of the legendary Vincent Price , I ( and I'm sure many Price fans with me ) constantly had to suppress prejudices on Ray Milland's acting performance . Not that he's a bad actor or anything ; it's just that Vincent portrayed the protagonist in the other 6 entries of Corman's Poe cycle and you can't... |
404,314 | 2,020,269 | 281,686 | 8 | Elvis has NOT left the building just yet ! | The Evil Dead series already made it pretty clear and ? after Bubba Ho Tep ? there's nobody who should question this statement ever again : Bruce Campbell is one major cool dude ! Campbell stars as Elvis . Old , fat and supposedly out of his mind , he's a resident in an East-Texas rest home . An ancient Egyptian mummy ... |
404,228 | 2,020,269 | 264,323 | 8 | There's always room for one more . . . MANIAC ! | The almighty Hershell Gordon-Lewis already promised us through a very catchy song that the South was going to rise again . . . and it did ! Slightly more than forty years after the Godfather of Gore's terrific splatter-classic , energetic director Tim Sullivan gathered quite an impressive cast and updated Lewis ' scree... |
404,833 | 2,020,269 | 65,148 | 8 | I Love Lucio ! | One on top of the Other predates the biggest successes of Lucio Fulci as a director and definitely his still on-going reputation as The Godfather of Gore . Yet , this is one best films he ever made and it unquestionably ranks among the most solidly plotted gialli ever ! From the first minute to the very last , " One ... |
406,011 | 2,020,269 | 73,768 | 8 | ' SUPER ' is the only word to use here ! | Russ Meyer is a God who succeeds in creating his own utopist universe over and over again . This film is just brilliant , even though the entire prudish and easily offended world will never admit it . Yes , it's a sexfilm ? So what if it is ? And besides , apart from that it also is a truly ingenious comedy and a cruel... |
405,467 | 2,020,269 | 87,998 | 8 | Vintage 80's gore ! | I only have one complaint regarding this incredibly fun and deliciously cheesy gem of early 80's monster-gore . . . It's way too SHORT ! Plain and simple : " The Deadly Spawn " rocks ! It's a fast-paced series of gooey make-up effects , exceptionally cool monster designs and likable teen characters . Writer / director ... |
405,425 | 2,020,269 | 91,166 | 8 | 100 % Testosterone-driven exploitation | THIS is a totally awesome , adrenalin rushing , down and dirty in-your-face 80's Italian exploitation effort , but of course you have to be cautious who you may recommend it to ! If you're , for example , attending a convention for people with an enormous IQ and you got a couple of hours to kill , you probably shouldn'... |
405,626 | 2,020,269 | 70,552 | 8 | High Crime deserves its High Rating ! | In case you're looking for action cinema without restraints , boundaries , fake sentiment or political correctness , you have to aim your senses towards the so-called Italian " Poliziottesco " movies . That is a commonly known fact , or at least I always assumed so , but still this is a vastly underrated sub genre even... |
406,325 | 2,020,269 | 83,557 | 8 | A Paranoid Android's Gotta Do What a Paranoid Android's Gotta do ! | The least you can say about Aaron Lipstadt's " Android " is that it is a bit of a maverick and rarity in the universe of early 80's cinema . In an era when people automatically associated the Science-Fiction genre with either hideous invincible creatures ( " Alien " ) or adventurous fantasy ( the " Star Wars " - trilog... |
405,103 | 2,020,269 | 814,685 | 8 | French Kiss . . . . The Extreme Kind ! | The French seemingly can't be beat when it comes to visceral , savage and in-your-face sadistic survival / torture porn flicks lately . Since " High Tension " skyrocketed the popularity of the horror genre in 2003 , this nation already delivered a couple of ultimately brutal movies that ? without the slightest form of ... |
405,630 | 2,020,269 | 780,622 | 8 | Watch out boy , she'll chew you up . . . | Writer / director Mitchell Lichtenstein at least deserves some sort of symbolic award for coming up with one of the most original and refreshing new horror concepts of the last 10-15 years . In a time and era where the horror genre is dominated by remakes of older classics and vile torture-porn movies , Lichtenstein th... |
406,467 | 2,020,269 | 765,430 | 8 | They're here . They're dead . . . Get used to it ! | American Zombie is probably the biggest pleasant surprise I encountered in quite a few years and I urge every fan of cinema ? whether horror or films in general ? to check it out as soon as the opportunity occurs . The film is an odd and unconventional mixture between a zombie film ( duh ! ) and the so-called " mocku... |
404,473 | 2,020,269 | 21,814 | 8 | Bela Lugosi . . . do I need to say more ? | Normally , I'm not a big fan of vampire movies . In the great genre that is horror , I think vampires are the least interesting characters . But of course there are exceptions . Like the very original vampires in Near Dark and Fright Night and the Dracula legend ! ! I liked Gary Oldman in the role of the bloodsucking c... |
406,681 | 2,020,269 | 295,297 | 8 | Child-friendly but definitely not childish ! | Nearly 8 years and 6 films later , this was only my very first acquaintance with the Harry Potter franchise . I obnoxiously considered myself not to be a part of the target audience ( too old and anti-computer generated effects ) , even though the copious fantasy & horror ingredients always somewhat triggered my curios... |
404,749 | 2,020,269 | 112,643 | 8 | Castle of terror and screams . . . | During the early 90's , the greatest horror films made a change in location . Southern European countries like Italy and Spain became the home of the best horror . Sure they already made a lot of brilliant horror ( with Mario Bava , Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci ) in the earlier decades but back then the American horro... |
404,480 | 2,020,269 | 95,583 | 8 | Underrated but creepy and original thriller | Maniac Cop was written by a genius in the field of horror . Larry Cohen , who also brought us the undeniable cult classics " It's Alive " , " God Told me To " and " The Stuff " . The script of this late 80's thriller really makes the hair on your neck rise . One of my favorite thrillers for a bunch of reasons . Two of ... |
405,669 | 2,020,269 | 365,376 | 8 | Better than all the Ringu's , Ju-on's and Jian Gui's together ! ! | Perhaps I'm one of the only avid horror fans who thinks that the recent overload of Asian shockers is so over-hyped ! Films like " Ringu " or the " The Eye " ? which are praised all over the world ? simply didn't convince me and they looked more boring than frightening . Well , this blunt opinion doesn't go for the Sou... |
406,046 | 2,020,269 | 290,673 | 8 | Hits you in the face like a ten ton hammer ! | Holy Macaroni ! Believe the hype , folks . . . this really IS one of the most shocking , confronting and raw movies ever made ! It actually is one of those rare purchases that makes you wonder what the role of cinema is in modern society . Irréversible certainly can't be classified as ' entertainment ' , that's for sur... |
405,294 | 2,020,269 | 74,083 | 8 | Awesome , awesome , awesome ! | Blazing Magnum often gets too easily categorized as a spaghetti imitation of " Dirty Harry " , its first sequel " Magnum Force " and " The French Connection " ( groundbreaking hardcore American action movies of the early 70's ) , but this slick and unforgettable Italian exploitation product has SO much more to offer ... |
406,591 | 2,020,269 | 95,379 | 8 | Attention all shoppers , there's a huge sale on our blood & gore collection , isle 5 ! | Right at the end of the 80's , a horror decade ruled by violent slashers , comes one of the coolest independent productions ever unleashed upon us , gorehounds : Scott Spiegel's " Intruder " . It looks like the most basic and primitive slasher ever made ( the story can be summarized in one phrase , namely , a group of ... |
406,179 | 2,020,269 | 77,904 | 8 | Tumors Are a Girl's Best Friend | Demented , preposterous , gloriously grotesque ? William Girdler's " The Manitou " truly epitomizes all reasons why low-keyed rip-off's of 70's horror classics are often much more entertaining and worthwhile than the originals themselves . This is basically a variation on " The Exorcist " ( although undeniably an imagi... |
406,421 | 2,020,269 | 780,485 | 8 | This fuel will cost you even more than an arm and a leg ! | Blood Car is a witty , refreshing , inventive , daring and surprisingly self-preserved new horror comedy that turned out a hugely pleasant surprise ; especially since I set my initial expectations very low ( as I always do with new low budgeted productions that try to blend gore and laughs ) . Horror ? good horror , ... |
406,338 | 2,020,269 | 87,800 | 8 | A landmark in Horror | One of the most popular horror films ever made . After nearly 20 years it still scares the hell out of you . SPOILERS : Panic breaks out under a group of teenagers when they find out they all have the same nightmares . They all dream about an awfully mutilated man with a disturbing red ' n green sweater and knives for ... |
405,498 | 2,020,269 | 35,009 | 8 | Kitsch , a Werewolf and an utterly mad scientist ! What more could you wish for ? | This is a really cool movie and , no ? I'm not joking ! The Mad Monster is a pleasant and fairly original camp-film obviously trying to pick in on the Universal Monster successes . But who cares if it can't live up to the preciously wealthy production values of those films ? I sure don't and especially not since it fea... |
405,063 | 2,020,269 | 83,844 | 8 | TRY to fall asleep after this ending ! | Judging by the unspectacular synopsis and unremarkable VHS cover art , " Don't go to Sleep " looks like one of those random and unremarkable made-for-TV thriller / horror films of the early eighties , but it actually becomes a pleasantly surprising and rewarding experience when you finally decide to give it a viewing c... |
406,040 | 2,020,269 | 56,576 | 8 | Black Leather , Black Leather ? Smash ! Smash ! Smash ! | Of all the Hammer films I've seen so far , and they are quite numerous , " These Are The Damned " definitely ranks as their strangest and most curious effort . This legendary British production studio specialized in straightforward monster movies and gorier updates of classic horror tales , but this particular film is ... |
404,362 | 2,020,269 | 70,300 | 8 | TERRIFIC tale of the supernatural ! | The plot of this film is rather confusing and not so involving , yet this is largely made up by the incredibly tense atmosphere and the beautifully dark filming . It really is one spooky sequence after another in this film and that's a rare quality for horror films . The title character Lemora is a female vampire queen... |
404,987 | 2,020,269 | 70,297 | 8 | Pure amusement ! Sushi horror de luxe | This team-up between the almighty Hammer studios and Shaw Brothers resulted in a very imaginative and exciting movie and I'm quite sure it easily could have been regarded as a classic if only the script was a little more solid . The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires now simply is an entertaining fusion between Kung-Fu an... |
404,602 | 2,020,269 | 65,436 | 8 | Herzog's " small " triumph | I'm almost ashamed to say it but . . . this film truly TERRIFIED me ! Usually speaking , this is like one of the best compliments a movie can ever receive , but I'm afraid that in the case of " Even Dwarfs Started Small " this feeling is very misplaced . Werner Herzog's minor masterpiece is intended as an allegoric soc... |
405,902 | 2,020,269 | 65,466 | 8 | Eccentric ? ? ? . Maybe a little | Ever since I showed interest and sympathy for the more bizarre efforts in cult cinema , people have been recommending me to check out the oeuvre by director Russ Meyer . This peculiar director and scriptwriter is often named the maestro of American Cult cinema . Unfortunately , his movies are pretty hard to find ( at l... |
405,068 | 2,020,269 | 160,339 | 8 | Killa Bunnies Are A-Coming ! ! | Long before Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez even considered the idea , other ambitious fan-boy directors already attempted to revive the Grindhouse cinema . Of course , these directors were inexperienced and unknown , so their movies never properly received the attention they deserved . Todd Morris ' " A Gun for... |
405,438 | 2,020,269 | 198,654 | 8 | A must for everyone who speaks Dutch ! ! | I never thought I would like this movie , but it turned out to be one of the biggest surprises in Belgian cinema history for me . My expectations were really low because of a few indicators . It's based on a book by the famous Belgian writer Willem Elsschot . It's thick and boring . They actually tried to force me to r... |
404,824 | 2,020,269 | 180,073 | 8 | Grade-A perversion story | Despite realized with a large budget , despite featuring eminent names both in front and behind the camera and despite scoring reasonably well at box office , " Quills " is quite a popular movie among the fans of primitive and out-of-the ordinary exploitation movies . This selected group of cinema freaks ( myself inclu... |
405,657 | 2,020,269 | 74,156 | 8 | Hard-boiled action from start to finish | You can say a lot about John Carpenter . . . . but not that his visions as a director are limited . He's responsible for milestones in two of my favorite genres of cinema . Horror ( Halloween , the Thing ) and Action ( Assault and Escape from New York ) . Carpenter was a multi-talented director around the time this mov... |
405,354 | 2,020,269 | 217,680 | 8 | Nak Nak Nakking on Heaven's Door ! | Here we have something totally unique : an Asian ghost story ! That's not unique at all , I hear you say ? Well , it is if you bear in mind that " Nang Nak " comes from Thailand and hasn't got anything to do with the overrated and rather weak stream of Japanese horror movies , such as " Ringu " , " Ju-On The Grudge " a... |
406,048 | 2,020,269 | 100,935 | 8 | Lynch on the road to hell | The most creative and controversial director in cinema is back with a road-movie ! Wild at Heart is one rough roller coaster ride and a typical Lynch-cocktail of violence , sex and of course ? bizarre characters . I challenge you to find one personality in this film that could be referred to as a ? normal human being '... |
406,712 | 2,020,269 | 83,739 | 8 | Take A Look At My Face , I Am The Future ! | Right from the opening minutes already , when the legendary Alice Coopers croons the cheesy but catchy and oh so apt punk-rock theme song " I Am The Future " , you just know this will be a genuine and unhinged classic in the field of 80's trash / exploitation cinema . The eighties were relatively more civilized & polis... |
406,732 | 2,020,269 | 166,924 | 8 | Incomprehensible elegance | Mulholland Dr . must be located somewhere on the ' lost highway ' in the wide area of ' Twin Peaks ' ? in other words ; it's a pure David Lynch product and a film that will unquestionably divide audiences . Every time this genius ( to some , at least ) delivers a film , it immediately grows out the biggest cinematic ev... |
404,257 | 2,020,269 | 65,555 | 8 | Charlie & Telly in a gritty ' n great urban western ! | There's absolutely no way that any movie can start off better than " Violent City " . Charlie Bronson on a yacht with a ravishing blond chick , then moving onto land where the couple immediately gets subjected to a wild car chase through extremely narrow streets ( and over stairs ! ) and ending with a violent shootout ... |
404,773 | 2,020,269 | 69,895 | 8 | Mass hysteria at its most intense | Just in case some stubborn people are still questioning George A . Romero's talent after his 1968 milestone " Night of the Living Dead " , we hereby present " The Crazies " ! Once again a film stuffed with subtle criticism on society and pitch black humor . " The Crazies " immediately demands your full attention with a... |
405,506 | 2,020,269 | 56,931 | 8 | The perfect contraception campaign ! | ( Small Spoilers ! ! ! ) Children of the Damned got released as a sequel to ' Village of the Damned ' , though not officially and not starring George Sanders . Yet , both films are fascinating , prominent Science Fiction efforts and still some of the most jaw-dropping films I ever saw . A study , let by the United Nati... |
405,291 | 2,020,269 | 53,085 | 8 | Hammer rules the horror world ! ! | Peter Cushing . . . Christopher Lee . . . Terence Fisher to direct . . . Hammer to produce . Voilà , this already should be enough reasons to WATCH THIS FILM ! ! ! A few years ago , the concept of a mummy became very popular thanks to the rather decent films by Stephen Sommers starring Brendan Fraser . Call me old-fash... |
405,579 | 2,020,269 | 74,285 | 8 | Our little girl is becoming a woman . . . and ONE of a kind ! | Spoilers AHOY ! ! ! Carrie - the movie - belongs to the finest adaptations of a Stephen King novel . I never read the book ( I don't read at all , actually ) but I can't imagine King would have wanted his story to be shown otherwise . Brian DePalma creates a terrific atmosphere here and the tension is always present . ... |
406,240 | 2,020,269 | 295,700 | 8 | Not your ordinary high school slasher . . . | whei ! whei ! whei ! . . . that's about all I've learnt so far by reading the reviews on Wrong Turn . Don't get me wrong , not only here at IMDb but also the external reviews from people who are supposed to be " Professional " movie critics . Give this movie a break ! It isn't nearly as awful as everyone says it is . I... |
405,687 | 2,020,269 | 470,705 | 8 | Don't let the Bed-Bugs Bite ! | Question for the real horror fans . Do you remember , if you've seen it at all , that sequence in " Hellraiser II " where the hysterical mental patient sees imaginary bugs all over his body and eating away his flesh ? Eventually he's offered a razor and we finally see his body like he does , covered with thousands of u... |
404,697 | 2,020,269 | 53,219 | 8 | Surprisingly GREAT sequel | Granted , I initially feared that this film would be disastrous and a complete waste of time . All the available indicators pointed out that it was just an attempt to cash in on the huge success of the original " The Fly " , release not even a year before : quickly scripted , re-using sets and scenery of the original a... |
405,768 | 2,020,269 | 100,623 | 8 | Um . . . Cancel the Greek food ! | How do you review of film that is too bizarre , too extreme and generally too unique for words ? Probably just by stating that you should track it down yourself and be as amazed as the rest of us were ! " Singapore Sling " is indeed one of the craziest Euro-cult movies ever released ; a totally 100 % original hybrid be... |
404,938 | 2,020,269 | 65,677 | 8 | Sexy giallo-goodness ! | This is another sublime Italian giallo with a fascinating plot that you surely haven't seen or heard about before in any other movie . Whilst waiting for her husband to come home from another business trip , lovely Minou ( Dagmar Lassander ) has a frightening encounter with an assaulter on the beach . Instead of raping... |
405,018 | 2,020,269 | 64,682 | 8 | The pioneer of nunsploitation-cinema ! | In all honesty , I have to point out right away that this user-comment starts out with an error in its title . " The Nun of Monza " is not exactly the very first nunsploitation movie ever made . There's at least one ( and perhaps some others that I totally don't know about ) movie handling about the same topic , and it... |
405,230 | 2,020,269 | 47,200 | 8 | The Vigorous Vincent ! The Phenomenal Price ! | Basically the exact same movie as " House of Wax " - Vincent Price's first genuine horror hit released the previous year - but seriously who cares , because " The Mad Magician " offers just as many sheer thrills , delightful period set-pieces , joyous 3-D effects , sublime acting performances and macabre horror gimmick... |
404,639 | 2,020,269 | 450,843 | 8 | A Christmas Carol , French redneck style ! | Dark & disturbing like something you've rarely seen before , " Sheitan " goes one major step beyond all the typical dysfunctional family and murderous countryside redneck clichés that are usually featuring in horror movies . This unexpectedly pleasant French horror surprise has a very ingenious script and it's also rem... |
404,671 | 2,020,269 | 450,827 | 8 | Yes Sir , I Can Zombie ? But I need a certain song ! | Six Films to Keep You Awake is a Spanish TV initiative created / produced by the most legendary granddaddy of Spanish horror cinema Narciso Ibañez Serrador ( " Who Can Kill A Child " , " The House that Screamed " ) and featuring episodes directed by some of the country's most prominent and world-widely respected film... |
405,205 | 2,020,269 | 82,966 | 8 | Spaghetti-gore de luxe ! | Ah , the early 80's ? Lucio Fulci's golden years in the horror business ! Within a short period of only a couple of years , Fulci created films that gave him the status of being supposedly the goriest filmmaker ever . And the true fans will agree with me that Fulci is a lot more than just gory and nauseating images ! F... |
406,510 | 2,020,269 | 91,759 | 8 | Quintessential Post-Apocalyptic Fable . | This simply has got to be , hands down , one of the top three most depressing and pessimistic movies I ever encountered in my life . Of all Sci-Fi films dealing with remnants of life after the apocalypse ? and believe me they are quite numerous ? this Soviet Union produced sleeper upraises the most nightmarishly realis... |
405,828 | 2,020,269 | 435,625 | 8 | Extreme sport-girls in DEEP trouble ! | With " Dog Soldiers " , director Neil Marshall clearly showed already that he was very talented and " The Descent " confirms this statement for sure ! In his second horror achievement , Marshall proves himself to be a versatile filmmaker , with ingenious new ideas and a good old-fashioned sense of grim and disturbing c... |
404,243 | 2,020,269 | 65,761 | 8 | Clever giallo with style & substance | Dario Argento's second horror film ( simultaneously the second entry in his animal-trilogy ) is quite a stylish giallo , successfully blending grisly brutality with intelligent plotting . " The Cat O ' Nine Tails " actually delivers more than you normally expect from an Argento film as it contains several flawlessly el... |
405,964 | 2,020,269 | 190,590 | 8 | The terrific odyssey of the Soggy Bottom Boys | SPOILERS ! The Coen brothers have done it again ! In a time where cinematic art and inspiration never ceases to reach new lows , they manage to deliver extremely funny and original film adventures . With their amazing sense of subtle humor and their unique talent of storytelling , the bros present us yet another triump... |
404,629 | 2,020,269 | 87,291 | 8 | Tim Burton's talent clearly shows in his early short film ! | I just love this ? A classic , immortal story enriched with personal ingeniousness ! That's exactly what Tim Burton did here ! His jolly little film introduces us to the 10-year-old Victor Frankenstein who can't bear the loss of his beloved dog . A car hit Sparky and Victor doesn't want any other dog to replace him . S... |
405,808 | 2,020,269 | 237,045 | 8 | Love is . . . Stabbing other women in the crotch for sexual kicks ! | It certainly isn't love at first sight when two restaurant employees meet each other on a rainy night . She's an arrogant waitress who yells at customers and he's a shy and introvert cook who's reluctant to drive her home after work . But when they accidentally kill a crazed hitch hiker and hide her corpse , they disco... |
404,982 | 2,020,269 | 47,573 | 8 | They don't make B-films like this anymore . | Them ! is a true classic in the genre of monster films . It actually fulfills the definition of monster films . Straight to the point ! Detecting the creatures , hunting ' em down and destroying ' em . No pointless side-stories , no melodramatic stuff . . . clean and pure entertainment . In a wide desert area , a young... |
405,039 | 2,020,269 | 286,244 | 8 | Unique and passionate film-making . | Les Triplettes de Belleville is a sublime animated film . We've seen quite many terrific animated films recently but don't expect this one to be anything like the ' Finding Nemo's ' or ' Spirited Away's ' you love so much . This movie has its very own style and message that simply can't be categorized . " Les Triplet... |
406,710 | 2,020,269 | 282,386 | 8 | We're Not Worthy ! We're Not Worthy ! | All cinematic values & qualities aside , you at least have to show respect for Herschell Gordon Lewis . The man was born in 1926 ! My grandpa was born in 1926 ! A lot of people's grandfathers were born in 1926 ! Can you imagine YOUR grandpa directing a movie that constantly features engrossing decapitations , disembowe... |
404,898 | 2,020,269 | 940,723 | 8 | Respectable Belgian horror | My beloved Belgium country hasn't got much of an impressive history when it comes to horror cinema , but at least there have always been enthusiast and visionary directors that tried to make a difference . Back in the 70's there was Harry Kümel ( whose movies " Malpertuis " and " Daughters of Darkness " are highly desi... |
404,962 | 2,020,269 | 69,754 | 8 | Just . . . too demented for words , really ! | What arguments do you use to recommend " The Baby " to any fan of peculiar cult & horror cinema who's convinced that she / he has already seen everything before ? Well , let's try this : " The Baby " is horrific without reverting to gory massacres or nauseating make-up effects , it's extremely disturbing even though th... |
405,701 | 2,020,269 | 95,774 | 8 | Goodnight Saigon . . . Farewell Moral Values | Never heard about " Off Limits " before when it aired on late Friday night television here in my country , but everything about it instantly appealed to me big time . There's the obscurity status for starters ( I'm particularly intrigued by films I never heard about before ) , the prominent cast ( Willem Dafoe , Gregor... |
405,513 | 2,020,269 | 1,220,213 | 8 | Not Without My Bloodthirsty Daughter ? | Grace , the long feature debut of writer / director Paul Solet , is an oddly unsettling but refreshingly inventive horror-drama hybrid that can't possibly be categorized into one single genre . This film is deeply disturbing , emotionally moving , darkly comical and intellectually engaging all at the same time and th... |
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