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423,928 | 2,248,099 | 82,966 | 6 | Fulci's Haunted House | The plot of House by the Cemetery follows the story of a young family that move into an old house that used to be occupied by a mad doctor , Dr Freudstein . The only trouble is , that Freudstein hasn't moved out , and he's currently hiding in the basement in the house and committing grisly murders on whomever dares to ... |
423,695 | 2,248,099 | 60,866 | 6 | Decent thriller , but lacking | First of all , I have to say that my copy of this film is poor in the extreme and so I might not have got ' the full effect ' . But even so , Freddie Francis ' The Psychopath is a rather mundane thriller that takes most of its influence from superior works such as those of Alfred Hitchcock , and doesn't particularly do... |
422,506 | 2,248,099 | 202,136 | 6 | Third time unlucky for female samurai | Okatsu the Fugitive is the third film in the " Ohyaku / Okatsu " series , which sees a female sword master getting revenge on people . Like the second entry in the series , this one is basically just the same idea as the first film with a different storyline . It doesn't follow on from the other two films in any way an... |
423,917 | 2,248,099 | 373,450 | 6 | The truth is , this film isn't everything it wanted to be | I was hoping this film would live up to the high standard set by the first two Atom Egoyan films I'd seen , The Sweet Hereafter and Felicia's Journey ; but unfortunately , Where the Truth Lies is a film with bags of style , but almost nothing in terms of substance and despite a focus on characters ; the film feels very... |
423,426 | 2,248,099 | 74,403 | 6 | Bizarre fantasy porn flick . | The Devil Inside Her mixes fantasy with porn , and the results are somewhat mixed . On the one hand , the film is completely bizarre and the sex is fairly hardcore - which is definitely to it's credit , but on the other hand , the plot sometimes gets a bit too silly , and this kind of makes the sex less easy to get on ... |
422,910 | 2,248,099 | 83,000 | 6 | Decent enough road thriller | Many films - from classics such as Dual and The Hitcher , to lesser known gems like Hitch-Hike and modern thrillers such as Roadkill - have shown cinema audiences that the road can be a great setting for a movie , but while Roadgames certainly has it's moments ; it has to be said that isn't as good as some of those tha... |
423,437 | 2,248,099 | 126,916 | 6 | Sentimental love story misses all three strikes | Sam Raimi has made something of a name for himself in modern cinema for his comic book styled movies . The Evil Dead Trilogy was , of course , his first masterpiece ; but other good comic book styled movies in his oeuvre include Darkman , The Quick and the Dead and more recently , the Spider-Man films . For some reason... |
422,388 | 2,248,099 | 56,993 | 6 | Not up to Price's usually high standard | I'm a big fan of Vincent Price and all of his films are a must see for me . Normally , this endeavour leads me to see some of the finest horror films of the fifties , sixties and seventies ; but every now and again , it will turn up a lesser entry in the great man's filmography , and unfortunately - this is the case he... |
422,546 | 2,248,099 | 64,802 | 6 | Not very perverse , but still a half decent Giallo | This film is yet another example of the annoying alternative title trend that plagued Italian cinema in the sixties and seventies - the film goes by the name ' Perversion Story ' , which is also an alternate title for Lucio Fulci's masterpiece ' One on Top of the Other ' , as well as Fulci's period drama ' Beatrice Cen... |
421,774 | 2,248,099 | 265,208 | 6 | Pornography - still the saviour of high school kids | Being a big horror fan , I spend a lot of my time watching what you might call ' wayward cinema ' but , believe it or not , even the very worst of those films pale in comparison to this little teen flick when it comes to misplaced morality . Here , we have a film that not only shows high school kids in the middle of th... |
422,144 | 2,248,099 | 35,489 | 6 | The Hound of the Basker . . . err . . . The Undying Monster | The Undying Monster was apparently a second feature ; and that's not really surprising as there's nothing particularly great about it and the running time is also very short . The film takes more than obvious influence from the classic Arthur Conan Doyle novel ' The Hound of the Baskervilles ' in that it focuses on a f... |
422,516 | 2,248,099 | 481,369 | 6 | 23 , what a villainous number ! | A thriller doesn't necessarily need a great plot in order to be thrilling ; the execution tends to be more important , but when your lead villain is a two digit number , the film in question is likely to have some big problems on its hands . Rated purely on its structure and thriller elements , The Number 23 is actuall... |
423,067 | 2,248,099 | 52,820 | 6 | Short and sweet , but underwhelming and unambitious | What we have here is a film that could have been a fascinating slice of classic B-movie cinema , but unfortunately relegates itself to the mundane thanks to some extremely uninspired handling . The film features the usually fascinating themes of voodoo and ancient curses , and it's given an extra dimension of intrigue ... |
421,737 | 2,248,099 | 65,851 | 6 | A lesser entry in the Frankenstein saga | The Horror of Frankenstein shouldn't be considered as an official part of Hammer Horror's excellent Frankenstein series as it doesn't star the series ' stand out actor - Peter Cushing and by all accounts is really just a re-run of the classic Mary Shelly , which Hammer already did with The Curse of Frankenstein some th... |
423,314 | 2,248,099 | 69,745 | 6 | 95 % porn , 5 % horror | My only experience with sleaze master Jess Franco's lesbian-vampire films before this one was the brilliantly titled ' Vampyros Lesbos ' ( which I happened to see just before I saw this ) . While I liked the movie for it's sleaze and sex scenes , I found it disappointing on the whole because the story was incredibly we... |
422,062 | 2,248,099 | 439,569 | 6 | Better than some of the direct to video crap released recently | From the moment it starts , Twisted Sisters has ' direct to video ' written all over it . The performances are wretched ; a feat which is matched by the phoney British accents and inane dialogue , the plot is ridiculous and the film puts a focus on gore to attempt to mask these unfortunate truths . The film actually re... |
423,177 | 2,248,099 | 130,905 | 6 | Too gory for Aussie TV | My knowledge of Australian horror cinema isn't exactly encyclopaedic , but apparently , this is the first Oz horror film . Night of Fear was originally intended to be the first episode in a twelve part Australian TV horror series , but because Australian censors deemed it ' too gory ' , it never saw the light of day ; ... |
423,884 | 2,248,099 | 95,941 | 6 | Absurd sick comedy | Lucio Fulci is one of the leading names in gore-soaked horror cinema , and Touch of Death certainly does that reputation proud ! Fulci's films started to get worse as his career progressed ( with the exception of the hilarious Cat in the Brain in 1990 ) , and as this film was released in 1988 ; you can count on it not ... |
423,438 | 2,248,099 | 69,715 | 6 | And it's a shame that this isn't very good ! | This period horror movie has all the right ingredients to be a success . It's got atmosphere , nice sets , Peter Cushing , an experienced horror director , a severed hand with a mind of it's own . . . but despite all this , it just doesn't work as it should . The principle reason for this is the plotting . It's slow , ... |
422,722 | 2,248,099 | 78,398 | 6 | Ilsa , with tigers in Siberia | The Ilsa series apparently has something of a cult following , which is unsurprising as sleazy stuff like this is often well liked . I can't say I'm a part of that following and in fact have only seen one Ilsa film ( Jess Franco's Ilsa , The Wicked Warden ) and dint like it much . I can't profess to be a big fan of thi... |
423,182 | 2,248,099 | 217,331 | 6 | Night of the Dem . . . errr . . . nuns | The horror genre is undoubtedly more diverse than any of cinema's other genres , and while that does mean that there's a lot of different and original horrors ; it also means that any good idea liable to be done more than once . This has become a big problem for the modern genre with the recent wave of remakes . The Co... |
423,628 | 2,248,099 | 92,112 | 6 | Stupid but fun eighties trash | It's silly , not very original and about as far away from ' high quality ' as you can get , but all that stuff aside ; Trick or Treat is at least an entertaining piece of crap , and I wouldn't have asked for more going into it . The film seems to take influence from ' outsider getting their own back ' films such as Ste... |
422,366 | 2,248,099 | 109,156 | 6 | A routine made for TV thriller | Larry Cohen has made some good films over the course his career . The films are mostly within the realms of the low budget horror sub-genre , but his films tend to be a cut above the norm . The likes of It's Alive and Maniac Cop stand up as the best films he's made to date . As his career moved on , however , it's evid... |
423,112 | 2,248,099 | 74,746 | 6 | Keach goes mental in decent psychological thriller | This obscure expose of insanity stars Stacy Keach as a small town sheriff with a penchant for murder . Rather than being a film about an insane madman , The Killer Inside Me focuses more on the psychological elements of insanity , and thereby provides a murderous movie with a hint of some brains behind it . The film is... |
422,213 | 2,248,099 | 57,318 | 6 | The first of the ' mondo ' films | As a big fan of cult cinema , there's usually at least one film I like in each of the main genres ( with the exception of Nazisploitation ) , and although this is only the second ' Mondo ' film that I've seen ; I doubt I'll ever have a favourite in this one . Surprisingly , there was actually quite a few of these films... |
422,564 | 2,248,099 | 91,921 | 6 | Much better than expected | I have to say I'm surprised . After all I'd heard , I was expecting Evil Senses to be a truly diabolical Giallo effort , but as it happens ; the film is not too bad . Evil Senses was included in the excellent Giallo reference book ' Blood and Black Lace ' , but personally I wouldn't call this a Giallo at all . It's mor... |
423,330 | 2,248,099 | 100,404 | 6 | A routine thriller . Nothing more | Presumed Innocent isn't the most original film ever made , and that's putting it lightly . Thrillers of this ilk have been made countless times , the best of which is probably Fritz Lang's excellent ' Beyond a Reasonable Doubt ' . Like said film , this one follows a man being convicted for a crime that he didn't commit... |
422,521 | 2,248,099 | 83,215 | 6 | Decent enough for what it is | Well , it's blatantly obvious that this film has absolutely nothing to do with the Black Emanuelle series and is just a cash in on the name since it stars the great Laura Gemser . However , that should not be held against the film too much as Gemser is cast in a slightly different role as the all-powerful ' Divine One ... |
423,472 | 2,248,099 | 74,687 | 6 | Naschy hunts down witches in a lacking Spanish horror movie | Inquisición was written by , directed and stars Paul Naschy . I would imagine that he was starting to get tired of starring in the often less than brilliant Spanish horror films that he made a lot of prior to 1976 and decided to make something a bit more serious ; probably taking influence from Vincent Price in the exc... |
423,768 | 2,248,099 | 60,616 | 6 | As the title suggests , it's murders at a clinic ! | Murder Clinic is one of the lesser known Giallo's that has yet to be brought into the spotlight like many of the better examples of the genre have been already . In my opinion , this is a film that will never get the shiny DVD release ; and the reason for that is simply that it's not all that good . That's not to say t... |
423,537 | 2,248,099 | 69,850 | 6 | Humphrey Bogart and a load of dead prostitutes . . . you've got to love Giallo ! | Despite the fact that this Giallo is often lambasted , I actually had rather high hopes for it ; just due to the sheer number of cult names on the cast list and the fact that the more convoluted Giallo's are often the best . However , while this film does have a vast array of ideas on display , director Ferdinando Meri... |
423,003 | 2,248,099 | 386,588 | 6 | Aims high and hits low . . . . but Will Smith entertains | This isn't really my kind of flick , but for a silly , savvy date movie - Hitch isn't all that bad . It's obvious that if it wasn't for Will Smith , this movie would never have been made - but he is clearly cut out for roles like this , and even while sleepwalking ; Smith proves that he can still entertain . The film t... |
423,026 | 2,248,099 | 373,751 | 6 | Good intentions , but poorly handled . | The first attempt since the millennium to resurrect the Giallo was Dario Argento's hugely successful Sleepless , which not only goes down as a successful attempt to resurrect the genre but also as one of the best genre films period . This attempt by director Pierfrancesco Campanella came a couple of years later and , d... |
421,692 | 2,248,099 | 87,050 | 6 | Another so-so film based on one of Stephen King's books | Stephen King is often cited to be the father of modern horror , and this view isn't wholly unfounded . King's stories have had a large impact upon the horror genre , and many of them are very good stories in their own right also . However , when it comes to translating King's words onto the screen ; many filmmakers hav... |
423,509 | 2,248,099 | 71,507 | 6 | Something of a history lesson , via nunsploitation | Flavia the Heretic has been put in with the ' nunsploitation ' sub-genre , although personally I'd say it fits in closer with the historical period epic genre . Most of the time when these films say that they're " based on actual events " , you have trouble believing it ; but that's not the case here , as although I do... |
423,506 | 2,248,099 | 82,592 | 6 | Very mundane . . . . not a hidden gem - simply more of the same | I love horror movies , and low budget eighties ones are especially well liked by me . I'm not a massive fan of slashers , however - but nevertheless ; I went into this film with high expectations . Suffice to say , the film didn't meet them - and despite a nice , shiny new DVD presentation ; Just Before Dawn is merely ... |
423,843 | 2,248,099 | 125,308 | 6 | Seventies-style eighties trash classic ! | Trapped was actually released in the late eighties , although it's every bit the seventies exploitation classic ! While not as great as some of the more popular films of the genre - stuff like The Last House on the Left and House on the Edge of the Park , Trapped is still an enjoyable slice of violent entertainment fro... |
421,798 | 2,248,099 | 71,535 | 6 | Not as good Blind Dead , but a decent slice of Eurocult | Amando de Ossorio is definitely more famous for his excellent ' Blind Dead ' series , and while this film is nowhere as good as that series ( overall ) , The Lorelei's Grasp certainly has its moments and the film is mostly fun to watch , although it has to be said that it's a rather long way away from brilliant . The f... |
423,158 | 2,248,099 | 71,523 | 6 | 70's exploitation movie . . . could have been better . . . | There were some great exploitation flicks made in the seventies ; but unfortunately , Frightmare isn't one of them . That's not to say it's terrible , or even really bad ; as the film definitely does have it's moments , but it's also very talky and the plotting is far too slow , which isn't what you want when you're wa... |
421,650 | 2,248,099 | 354,356 | 6 | An exploration of the modern relationship . . . ? | I'm a big fan of French director François Ozon , and every film he releases automatically becomes a must see for me . 5x2 is the story of a relationship told backwards in five stages , from the divorce proceedings to the initial meeting between a couple . Given the way that this story plays out , it's clear that 5x2 is... |
423,126 | 2,248,099 | 473,514 | 6 | The street that Jack built | After having seen a few low budget zombie movies a while back , my love for the genre faded and nowadays knowing that a film is both low budget and a zombie movie is liable to put me off seeing it ; the reason being that while these films often show great enthusiasm , they can be seriously lacking in creativity . Well ... |
422,509 | 2,248,099 | 64,096 | 6 | Could have been interesting , but lacks focus | Death Knocks Twice is a somewhat interesting thriller that is often considered a part of the Giallo genre , despite putting much of its focus on other areas of the plot ; which shows in a nutshell just how meandering this film is considering that a murder plot makes up the backbone of it . The film was made in 1969 ; j... |
423,738 | 2,248,099 | 79,207 | 6 | Grisly and sleazy - but not all that good | Anyone that knows anything about this film knows that it's grisly and sleazy - but to be honest , up until about the hour mark ; I feared that I may be in the wrong film . Don't get me wrong , I love a good slice of disgusting sleaze ; but not when the resulting film is boring . The first two thirds of the film focus m... |
423,396 | 2,248,099 | 366,174 | 6 | Just does what you expect | I cant remember much about the original ' Anaconda ' , save for the fact that I didn't like it much ; but even so , I knew going into this silly jungle adventure that I was going to enjoy myself . The Anaconda sequel goes the same way as Aliens , in that it adds an ' s ' to the end of the original title instead of havi... |
423,824 | 2,248,099 | 447,710 | 6 | Short and sweet tale of rape and revenge | Torched doesn't reach feature length at only 44 minutes , but it's 44 minutes well spent if you like this kind of thing as director Ryan Nicholson starts the film off nasty , and manages to carry this on throughout . Right at the start , we witness a nurse being raped and from there she decides it's time for revenge , ... |
421,998 | 2,248,099 | 71,465 | 6 | As Exorcist rip-offs go , this one isn't bad | Spanish horror director Amando de Ossorio will always be best known for his Blind Dead series and rightly so because they're good films , and also because most of the rest of the stuff that he directed isn't up to much . Italian and Spanish filmmakers would often make their own versions of popular American films , and ... |
422,173 | 2,248,099 | 71,487 | 6 | Sometimes inventive , always uneven | I haven't seen a great many of surrealistic director Luis Bunuel's films , but what I have seen I don't really like - and I don't like this film much for the same reason I'm not keen on the others - it lacks backbone , and while some of the visuals are nice and stick in your mind ; the film feels like it's been put tog... |
423,100 | 2,248,099 | 417,148 | 6 | Samuel L . Jackson and CGI snakes on a cliché-ridden plane | Well , you can't go into a film called ' Snakes on a Plane ' expecting anything other than a fast paced fun romp , and while the film isn't quite as exciting as I'd have liked it to be , it has to be said that it pretty much delivers on it's promise . The film harks back to the B-movie features that were so popular bac... |
422,441 | 2,248,099 | 71,479 | 6 | More stylish confusion from Jose Mojica Marins | I can't really say I'm a fan of José Mojica Marins and his Coffin Joe character - I did like his first two films , but the two I've seen since then ( The Strange World of Coffin Joe and The Awakening of the Beast ) were torrid viewings that I didn't enjoy much . To his credit , however , at least the actor / director w... |
423,006 | 2,248,099 | 82,495 | 6 | More Halloween . . . | I don't rate the original Halloween very highly , so quite why I keep seeing the sequels is anyone's guess . This sequel , however , is definitely the best of the bunch and I would even go as far as to say that I like part 2 slightly more than the original film . The original bored me because a lot of the running time ... |
422,486 | 2,248,099 | 289,438 | 6 | Does more than the usual slasher fare | Spain has produced a number of good horror films over the last two decades , with directors such as Alejandro Amenabar , Álex de la Iglesia and Jaume Balagueró making some truly standout films . School Killer stars one of the main players of seventies / eighties Spanish horror films in the form of the great Paul Naschy... |
422,042 | 2,248,099 | 71,654 | 6 | Dull trash thriller | Well , most people would probably go into this film with low expectations ; but I was actually hoping for something decent from Impulse , not because of anything suggesting it would be good ; but simply because I often enjoy stories of murderers and savvy children ; with the likes of The Stepfather , Julie Darling and ... |
422,569 | 2,248,099 | 426,459 | 6 | Should have been great , but unfortunately just a disappointment | Feast has achieved a lot of acclaim among horror fans , so I don't think it is unreasonable that I went into it with very high hopes . The fact that the film dashed these high hopes is very unreasonable , however , as while Feast is not essentially a ' bad ' film , it's not the fun filled gore fest that I was expecting... |
421,673 | 2,248,099 | 113,690 | 6 | Has nothing on Hellraiser , and not even as good as Nightbreed . | Clive Barker may well be one of the best horror writers that modern literature has to offer - but his feature debut aside , he really should stop adapting his books to the screen . Hellraiser is a brilliant horror film ; forsaking all that makes most horror successful , Hellraiser is an endearing masterpiece , and one ... |
423,358 | 2,248,099 | 430,334 | 6 | Makes malaria look like a common cold ! | You don't have to watch Mosquito Man to know that it takes heavy influence from David Cronenberg's classic film ' The Fly ' , but I liked said film a lot and so decided that I would be happy if this film merely offered a fun retelling of it . I'm pleased to say that while Mosquito Man is silly and redundant , it is at ... |
423,405 | 2,248,099 | 404,032 | 6 | Intriguing horror drama | Based on a true story , The Exorcism of Emily Rose is quite a different breed of horror film from what modern film fans are used to . Rather than concentrating on shocks and scares , the film puts the focus squarely on the mystery surrounding the plot ; and it does so by setting the majority of the action in a courtroo... |
423,004 | 2,248,099 | 257,516 | 6 | Not quite as bad as you've heard | A good werewolf movie is a rare thing . In fact , there have only been a handful of good werewolf movies , ever , and unfortunately ; Wes Craven's effort doesn't do anything to change that . This film has been universally lambasted on all fronts , and while it's clear why it has been greeted by the reaction it's got ; ... |
422,708 | 2,248,099 | 67,243 | 6 | Interesting British attempt at making a Giallo | Assault is apparently a British attempt at emulating the popular Italian Giallo sub-genre . If that is indeed what the filmmakers were aiming for , it has to be said that they've done a rather good job , as Assault incorporates many of the common Giallo trademarks . We've got a killer on the loose , a number of victims... |
423,988 | 2,248,099 | 64,160 | 6 | An uncharacteristic disappointment from Russ Meyer | Russ Meyer's career got raunchier as it went on and his ' more serious ' early films as well as his comical later efforts both have their plus points . Cherry , Harry & Raquel comes almost in-between the two sides of Meyer's career and almost feels like a dress rehearsal for the likes of Up and Supervixens , as we get ... |
423,413 | 2,248,099 | 60,307 | 6 | Not one of Hammer's finer hours | The Witches is really not the sort of film that I have come to expect from Hammer . The studio is best known for its colourful and fun and usually inventive horror films , and while this isn't a bad one ; it doesn't deliver what I hoped it would . The Witches is something more of a ' serious ' horror film , and it's al... |
422,130 | 2,248,099 | 86,896 | 6 | Had the potential to be much better | I went into this really expecting to see something special . The plot description sounded like it would lend itself brilliantly to a classic of trash cinema . . . although unfortunately , the only kind of trash that this film is , is the kind that you'd want to throw out . The film features a few different characters a... |
423,900 | 2,248,099 | 82,511 | 6 | A slight cut above most eighties slasher trash | This film is everything most slashers are - i . e . redundant , pointless , silly and all the rest of it . However , unlike the majority of the sub-genre ; this one isn't all that bad . The plot is hardly original in it's fusion of the haunted house tradition and eighties slasher trash , but at least it gives the film ... |
422,624 | 2,248,099 | 478,988 | 6 | Nice gimmick , but it can't completely carry the film | This isn't the first movie to be made recently despite the fact that it utilises classic silent movie methods . Dracula : Pages From a Virgin's Diary is the only other one I've seen , but I'm sure there's more besides . This adaptation of H . P . Lovecraft's classic story , The Call of Cthulhu is more faithful to the o... |
423,473 | 2,248,099 | 75,045 | 6 | A lesser outing for Maurizio Merli , and the genre . | I'm a big fan of the Italian Polizi flicks , and for me ; having made some of the most entertaining films in the genre , Maurizio Merli is much more than just a Franco Nero clone . . . but despite the title similarity to the great French-Italian co-production Fear Over the City , Fear in the City is unfortunately a les... |
422,847 | 2,248,099 | 293,416 | 6 | Not as good as Lang's , but not bad | Fritz Lang's original ' Metropolis ' is an enduring classic of cinema . The techniques used at the time that it was made were absolutely astounding and it is still astounding to consider the technical achievement that Metropolis represents even these days . This Japanese re-telling of the classic story doesn't follow t... |
423,420 | 2,248,099 | 75,083 | 6 | Disappointing Polizi from Sergio Martino | I'm a big fan of Sergio Martino , but it's quite clear that his main strength is in making Giallo's , not crime flicks . This genre is famous for high action sequences such as car chases and shootouts ; but this film doesn't deliver that , preferring a more political standpoint and the results are disappointing . There... |
422,190 | 2,248,099 | 67,367 | 6 | Left me with a lust to see a better Hammer film | Lust for a Vampire is one of Hammer's lesser known films , and that's hardly surprising as none of their A-list stars were involved in it . Even so , this film actually features one of the more interesting vampire plots that the studio had to offer , although it has to be said that it isn't executed as well as it could... |
423,057 | 2,248,099 | 67,384 | 6 | Good premise , not very well executed | This Giallo benefits from an absolutely delicious , and really rather terrifying plot . Gregory Moore has just woken up in a morgue . To the world , he is dead . But inside he is still alive . His mind is working but he cannot move ; he's trapped inside his own corpse . We follow him as he tries to remember the events ... |
422,901 | 2,248,099 | 67,349 | 6 | Merely decent seventies TV movie | A Little Game is decent enough for a TV movie , although it's a long way from being brilliant . The film takes obvious influence from the likes of The Bad Seed , in that it follows a young problem child with murder in mind . There were some really good seventies TV movies , so while this one is OK in its own right , it... |
421,983 | 2,248,099 | 71,200 | 6 | Enjoyable high camp werewolf mystery . . . . | Amicus are a studio most famous for putting out horror anthologies ; but they did a couple of feature length horror films , mostly with mixed results . The Beast Must Die could easily be described as a mixed result all by itself . On the one hand , it's based on a fun premise , which does a great job of getting the aud... |
422,761 | 2,248,099 | 94,332 | 6 | Decent fantasy horror , but not much more | The Witches of Eastwick blends a number of genres , including fantasy , horror and comedy , and somehow blends them all into a mostly coherent film about lust , sin and the age-old idea of ' be careful what you wish for ' . I have to say that the film isn't really what I expected , as the title suggests witchcraft and ... |
422,586 | 2,248,099 | 20,530 | 6 | Surrealist short | Luis Buñuel's short film , " Un Chien Andalou " is basically a series of surreal and shocking images , set to a great musical score , that don't appear to have any meaning or even any relevance to each other . The scenes themselves are shocking and at times even hard to watch . The best of these scenes , and the one th... |
422,998 | 2,248,099 | 102,004 | 6 | Decent enough entertainment | This is a variation on the Hollywood favourite ' Black cop meets white cop ' film , except this time it's hard nosed , professional cop meets annoying actor that wants to play a cop in his next movie . The underrated James Woods plays the professional cop , and really does a great job in making you believe that he'd ra... |
423,841 | 2,248,099 | 82,745 | 6 | Decent enough drama , but it lacks bite | There's definitely the potential for a decent teen based horror drama here , but unfortunately this TV movie doesn't deliver on this and by the end , feels more than a little bit flat . Made for TV horror isn't usually brilliant , but I've discovered a few decent ones recently , although I wouldn't put Midnight Offerin... |
422,770 | 2,248,099 | 117,438 | 6 | Average thriller | I can't say I've ever been a big fan of Mel Gibson , and in fact I can't think of many films he's been in that I'm a fan of ; this one included . Ransom is a remake of a 1956 thriller that I haven't seen , so I can't compare the differences between the two ; and while this film does feature an interesting story and som... |
423,319 | 2,248,099 | 67,526 | 6 | Nothing special , but just about worthwhile Giallo | Cross Current features all the things that usually make Giallo's successful , but somehow it just doesn't gel together well and in spite of the gory murders and twisted plot , the film always feels like it isn't really going anywhere and that unfortunately harms it . Tonino Ricci directs with flair and style and this i... |
422,172 | 2,248,099 | 35,937 | 6 | Not Lewton's best film , but a good exhibition of eerie atmosphere | The Ghost Ship was put together because RKO pictures wanted another film to be made using the existing sets from their earlier film , Pacific Liner . This shows somewhat , as the film has something of a rushed and unfinished feel to it ; but there's nobody better than Val Lewton for the task of putting together an eeri... |
423,401 | 2,248,099 | 335,438 | 6 | Enjoyable ' seventies ' cop comedy | I've never seen the TV show ' Starsky and Hutch ' ( fortunately / unfortunately ) , so I cant comment on whether or not this film does justice to it ; but I have seen a lot of seventies cop films , which means that I can say that this modern update succeeds in capturing the over the top seventies style , albeit in a ve... |
422,483 | 2,248,099 | 94,262 | 6 | Stupid and heavily flawed , but saved by the nostalgia value | Snuff movies are a proved source of interesting horror plot lines and many successful horror movies have used that basis ; The Last House on Dead-End Street and Tesis are good examples . Video Violence certainly has the capacity to be another excellent snuff movie based film ; but down to a lack of budget and a lack of... |
423,204 | 2,248,099 | 67,489 | 6 | Disappointing performances in a lacklustre thriller | Night Hair Child has all the elements to be a disturbing and dark thriller ; especially considering the sick and twisted plot line . However , despite a few interesting ideas ; this film doesn't capitalise on them , and unfortunately it's only an average film that is nowhere near as disturbing as it could have been . T... |
421,875 | 2,248,099 | 71,326 | 6 | A decent Giallo that adds nothing new | The Giallo genre was at the end of its heyday in 1973 and ended up giving way to the more action orientated Polizi films towards the middle of the seventies . There were still a few Giallo's being made after 1973 , but the genre never really reached the heights it did in the early seventies . Mario Moroni's " Clap , Yo... |
421,734 | 2,248,099 | 109,642 | 6 | No Misery , but it's not bad | Dolores Claiborne is a very solid adaptation of a book by a man who is probably the king of modern horror literature : Stephen King ( I haven't read that many books , so I can't say for sure ) . I haven't read the original source material , but judging by this film it is safe to say that it wasn't meant to be horror-pe... |
422,812 | 2,248,099 | 140,174 | 6 | Sordid , but not too shocking seventies exploitation | Hitch Hike to Hell certainly can't be considered a ' great ' slice of seventies exploitation , and while this type of film has been a lot better ; there are far worse examples to choose from also . The film's influences are wide and largely obvious , with Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and , of course , Wes Craven's The Las... |
423,698 | 2,248,099 | 82,812 | 6 | Unfortunately rubbish , but not a complete dead loss | Overall , I have to rate Terror Eyes as a shame , as it has so much going for it ; but unfortunately , most of it is lost under terrible plotting , which often reduces the film to merely a lot of death scenes strung together . Terror Eyes appears to take a lot of influence from the popular Italian Giallo sub-genre , an... |
422,733 | 2,248,099 | 60,049 | 6 | Mundane Italian horror from the sixties | Upon discovering this film , I thought I may well have come across a hidden gem , but unfortunately , despite a sombre opening that looks so promising , Massimo Pupillo's film never lifts itself too far above the ordinary , and what we are left with is a film that falls short of what could have been . The plot takes in... |
422,193 | 2,248,099 | 109,665 | 6 | Incoherent but somewhat worthwhile thriller | Dream Lover is one odd little film . On one hand , it's a Neo-Noir style mystery romantic thriller , but for some reason ; supernatural themes are constantly hinted at through the tone , title and dream sequences featured throughout the film . I have to say that it really looks like director Nicholas Kazan wasn't reall... |
422,809 | 2,248,099 | 35,899 | 6 | Fun enough , but somewhat lacking | Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man may not be the most interesting film that Universal studios made in their horror golden era , but it's worth noting for the fact that it was the first of their films to merge the studio's popular horror characters into one film . There's no Dracula here , and it's actually the least famo... |
422,514 | 2,248,099 | 75,255 | 6 | Nothing like as good as the first , but amusing enough . | I wouldn't hesitate to name Sergio Martino as one of my all time favourite directors . His Giallo is second only to the great Dario Argento , and he's made a few other nice films in other genres too . Sex comedies were popular in the seventies Italy , and like most Italian directors ; Martino was happy to turn his hand... |
422,541 | 2,248,099 | 64,443 | 6 | Surprisingly decent British horror flick | I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by this one ; I went in expecting nothing and actually found a more than decent horror movie . The film is directed by Michael Armstrong , a British man who would go on to direct the excellent ' Mark of the Devil ' a year later . The title is a bit misleading as it makes the fil... |
422,835 | 2,248,099 | 120,894 | 6 | A dark and brooding thriller | The Wisdom of Crocodiles is one of a new breed of vampire movies . Probably started by Abel Ferrera's " The Addiction " , vampirism has turned into a sort of curse that turns it's afflicted into brooding philosophers . Gone are the vampire bats , wooden stakes and crucifixes that once were the staples of the genre , an... |
423,476 | 2,248,099 | 129,623 | 6 | The Last House in the Snow | Winter Heat clearly takes influence from the Wes Craven classic The Last House on the Left , and is basically just another rip off ( to add to Fight for Your Life , The House on the Edge of the Park etc ) only this time hardcore sex scenes replace the moments of prolonged terror . The plot focuses on a group of crimina... |
423,478 | 2,248,099 | 75,291 | 6 | Well made but disappointing Italian chiller | A Whisper in the Dark is a very well made Italian chiller ; a million miles away from the cheap quickies that the nation is more famous for making . However , despite being a technically well made film ; A Whisper in the Dark misses out where the story is concerned . It's all of a very slow build variety and unfortunat... |
422,384 | 2,248,099 | 120,841 | 6 | Fun enough , for what it is | I've got to admit that I liked the original Species quite a lot , and even though this movie suffers from some terrible dialogue and an overall ridiculous plot ; for what it is , I've got to say that Species II is a decent sequel . Three stars from the first film return to their roles ; series pin-up Natasha Henstridge... |
423,549 | 2,248,099 | 90,837 | 6 | Enjoyable eighties trash | Chopping Mall is a generally well regarded little cult classic which delivers seventy odd minutes of fun trashy eighties style horror and not much more . It's obvious that director Jim Wynorski was happy for this to be the case , as the film has nothing in the way of characters or logic , but plenty in terms of cult va... |
422,309 | 2,248,099 | 114,367 | 6 | Even in space , you'll still be able to hear them scream . . . | Screamers takes obvious influence from a whole range of Sci-Fi films , including Aliens , The Terminator and The Thing and somehow manages to bring everything together to form a coherent and exciting movie . Futuristic action movies were in vogue in the nineties after the successful release of Terminator 2 , and this i... |
423,602 | 2,248,099 | 63,564 | 6 | Amusing sixties sex comedy | I wasn't really sure what to expect going into this one ; my experience of Peter Walker extends only to his horror movies , some of which are excellent ( House of Whipcord ) while others are terrible ( Die Screaming Marianne ) . School for Sex is an early Walker film ( actually , his first according to IMDb ) and it's ... |
421,751 | 2,248,099 | 82,083 | 6 | Crappy , but fun eighties horror flick ! | Believe it or not , Blood Beach actually surpassed my expectations . Of course , I didn't go into the film expecting a masterpiece ; but I decided if it was half as fun as the other beach related John Saxon film that I've seen ( Umberto's Lenzi's Nightmare Beach ) , then I'd be happy . Despite being a schlocky eighties... |
423,479 | 2,248,099 | 66,578 | 6 | The Wizard , from the Godfather | The title of this movie alone is a good enough reason to see it ; the fact that it features buckets of the Godfather of Gore's trademark red stuff is another one ! It has to be said that this isn't a good movie by any stretch of the imagination , but there's plenty of fun to be had with it , and anyone who digs HG Lewi... |
422,749 | 2,248,099 | 75,375 | 6 | Deodato's disappointing crime flick effort | Considering Italian directors ' penchant for ripping off popular American films , it took Ruggero Deodato an age to cash in on Dirty Harry ! But , he did eventually get round to it ; and Live Like a Cop , Die Like a Man is the result . Ruggero Deodato would become famous for his pair of violent cannibal films , Jungle ... |
423,760 | 2,248,099 | 63,526 | 6 | Lesser Chabrol effort | The more Claude Chabrol films I check out , the more I like the great French director . Prior to seeing this early Chabrol flick , I hadn't seen a bad film from him - after seeing it , I have to say that I still haven't ; but that doesn't change the fact that The Road to Corinth is a decidedly sub par offering from the... |
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