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421,659 | 2,248,099 | 90,788 | 6 | Derivative but just about worthwhile slasher | I'm not the biggest fan of slasher movies , but this one was a point of interest for me due to its director , and the fact that I'm a big fan of Italian cinema . Body count is clearly very derivative of successful American slashers such as Friday the 13th , as it takes place in a backwater location and features a seemi... |
422,950 | 2,248,099 | 125,720 | 6 | Decent TV horror fare | There were a lot of horror flicks made for TV in the seventies , a lot of them are fairly decent . This is another not brilliant one ; but it's not bad either . The film was apparently made as a part of a TV series named ' Thriller ' , which I've never heard of . The plot is fairly well strung together , and focuses on... |
423,350 | 2,248,099 | 79,737 | 6 | Decent enough sleaze , but could have been better . | I have to say I'm more than a little bit disappointed with this film . It's not that The Pleasure Shop on 7th Avenue is particularly bad for what it is , or that I was expecting it to be brilliant . . . but somehow , this just feels a bit too empty to be a film from the often proclaimed ' king of sleaze ' , Joe D'Amato... |
423,063 | 2,248,099 | 75,342 | 6 | Good on the atmosphere , but lacking in action | Supposedly based on actual events that took place in Texarkana shortly after the end of the First World War . The film takes on a documentary style , which is shown through the rather corny voice-over and is mixed with footage of a man in a hood bumping various youngsters off . Given that the film is based on a true st... |
423,545 | 2,248,099 | 365,757 | 6 | The sinful Mundae sisters up to no good . . . | I saw the nymphet Misty Mundae for the first time in the best episode of the patchy Masters of Horror series ; Lucky McKee's " Sick Girl " , and have been hoping to catch one of her soft porn flicks for a while since . Sin Sisters , therefore , is my first Misty Mundae porno , and while it's difficult to be over-impres... |
422,134 | 2,248,099 | 63,715 | 6 | Not the sort of Poe I'm used to | Spirits of the Dead is an anthology based on the writing of the great Edgar Allen Poe ; but anyone going into this expecting something as entertaining as Roger Corman's Poe films is liable to be sorely disappointed as entertainment was clearly not high on the filmmakers ' list of priorities . The film is split into thr... |
422,802 | 2,248,099 | 330,793 | 6 | Not great , but fun enough | You just don't go into The Punisher expecting to see anything like a great film , and it's a good thing because a great film this ain't . However , you can go in expecting some brainless fun ; and , living up to expectations again , the film definitely delivers on that front . Pretty much every Marvel comic book had be... |
423,875 | 2,248,099 | 79,788 | 6 | Gory Italian Zombi flick ! | Zombi 2 saw Lucio Fulci deliver a film that took huge influence from George Romero's zombie masterpiece Dawn of the Dead ( even though the great horror director claims to have been influenced by Jacques Tourneur ) , and Zombi Holocaust in turn takes influence from Fulci's Zombi 2 . Zombi Holocaust is more than just a s... |
422,446 | 2,248,099 | 71,120 | 6 | Decent seventies made for TV movie | All the Kind Strangers is basically just your average made for TV seventies movie - in that it features an interesting base plot , and lets that fill the entire runtime without even attempting to do anything else with it . The result is adequate ; though underwhelming . The film begins with a man driving through the wo... |
422,833 | 2,248,099 | 63,688 | 6 | Style over story | This film begins with a split-screen title sequence that features the catchy ' Windmills of Your Mind ' . We then move fairly swiftly into a bank heist , that is both thrilling and inventive . . . but unfortunately , the film never betters this opening twenty minutes . After those have elapsed , the film moves into a d... |
422,083 | 2,248,099 | 48,254 | 6 | Interesting early Kubrick | Stanley Kubrick's career really took off in 1956 , upon the release of his first masterpiece ; " The Killing " , after which he would go on to make many much loved cinema classics such as " Dr Strangelove " , " The Shining " and " A Clockwork Orange " , to name a few . This movie is , however , no masterpiece ; but tha... |
423,075 | 2,248,099 | 94,997 | 6 | Nuns return for vengeance , gory deaths ensue ! | The great Lucio Fulci made some great films in his career - Don't Torture a Duckling and Zombie Flesh Eaters to name but two ; but in his twilight years , his career took a bit of a downfall with the likes of The Door to Silence and Voices from Beyond ; but he did at least manage one decent effort towards the end of hi... |
423,293 | 2,248,099 | 308,383 | 6 | Human drama with a lot of promise | The Human Stain is a comment on society . An incitement of the system of stupidity and illogical ideas , commonly known as ' political correctness ' . The film starts out with a great sequence in which Coleman Silk ( Anthony Hopkins ) is forced to quit his job , which later leads to the death of his wife , for using th... |
422,602 | 2,248,099 | 249,218 | 6 | Trashy eighties horror with Joe Spinell | The Undertaker is not very well known to say the least ; and I really can't say I'm surprised about that as the film is rather silly and lacklustre . In fact , if it wasn't for the fact that this is one of the last films of cult star Joe Spinell , I highly doubt that anyone would remember it at all . As you would expec... |
422,198 | 2,248,099 | 94,929 | 6 | Could have been a lot better , but a fun watch in spite of the many problems | Back when I was a boy , my dad used to go to the ' video shop ' to rent a film for the family to watch . My dad had a talent for choosing the worst films in the shop , but when he came home with ' The Bite ' one night ; I seem to remember thoroughly enjoying it . I've revisited a number of favourites from my childhood ... |
422,412 | 2,248,099 | 421,239 | 6 | Nice tension , but far too simplistically done | After a string of rubbish films , Wes Craven has taken his craft back to the bare bones , and the result is this exciting , but underdone little thriller - Red Eye . Having your films met by a negative critical reaction can't be much of a confidence builder , especially not when it's happened several times in a row ; a... |
423,657 | 2,248,099 | 82,346 | 6 | Clint Howard : Lord of the Pigs ! | Evilspeak is a somewhat ludicrous cross between a demonic horror movie and trashy eighties teenager flick . This film is one of the more surprising entries on the Video Nasty list as , while somewhat gory , it's all so silly that I can't believe anyone could take it seriously . The film takes obvious influence from Ste... |
423,076 | 2,248,099 | 51,731 | 6 | Faust meets The Wolf Man in arty Mexican horror | Rafael Baledón's The Curse of the Crying Woman was practically unknown until it received a DVD release from the now defunct Casa Negra ; and ever since has been considered something of a classic by the majority of horror fans that have seen it ; myself included . I didn't go into his earlier film " The Man and the Mons... |
422,415 | 2,248,099 | 94,962 | 6 | Poorly made and shabby , but fun , low budget zombie rubbish | If you don't like zombie movies , you'd be best off making sure that you never see The Dead Next Door . . . but if you do like zombie flicks , this might provide some amusement . While the film is never exceptional ( even in the low budget zombie sub-genre ) , it does have some positive aspects , which pull it out of t... |
421,719 | 2,248,099 | 70,707 | 6 | Not one of Allen's better films | Sleeper is most certainly not among Woody Allen's best work . The film was made during Allen's pre-Annie Hall period , dubbed his ' funny period ' . This is my first pre-Annie Hall Allen film , so I can't comment on the period as a whole ; but if this film is anything to go by , then someone has got their dubbing mixed... |
422,893 | 2,248,099 | 94,860 | 6 | Dull Italian Horror | Michele Soavi , understudy of horror maestro ; Dario Argento , has began to make a name for himself in the horror genre . His films aren't usually as good as the majority of Argento's repertoire ( with the exception of the phenomenal " Dellamorte Dellamore " ) , but they're usually good examples of modern Italian horro... |
423,617 | 2,248,099 | 359,013 | 6 | Decent third showing for Blade , but nothing brilliant | I was never a big fan of the original ' Blade ' , but I liked the sequel a lot . Doing away with the story building of the first one , Blade II captured a nice balance between plot and action and it was an entertaining ride throughout . For this third instalment , however that perfect balance has been interrupted , and... |
423,585 | 2,248,099 | 256,380 | 7 | Decent enough comedy from the Farrelly brothers | For a film that only really has one joke - Shallow Hal isn't bad . However , it's not the laugh a minute comedy that was the likes of Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary and the reason for that is that the Farrelly brothers have seen fit to make it the message that's more important this time round , and th... |
422,058 | 2,248,099 | 73,806 | 7 | Weird and perverse . . err . . . film | Generally I don't like to just regurgitate what everyone else is saying about any given film ; but you can't write a review for Thundercrack without stating that the film is weird . The closest movie I've seen to this one in terms of style is probably the Greek oddity Singapore Sling in that both films combine a classi... |
422,702 | 2,248,099 | 365,125 | 7 | All in good humour . . . or not | I can't say I've seen many of John Waters ' films , but I've seen enough to get an idea of what he's about ; and A Dirty Shame would appear to be a typical John Waters film . All of the jokes in the film come from sexual perversions , and it's not hard to see why a number of people don't like it - as if you thought Ser... |
423,463 | 2,248,099 | 105,112 | 7 | Tight and entertaining little thriller | Well , I have to say that I don't have much interest in Tom Clancy , as the only film I'd seen based on his work prior to seeing this one was the 2002 film ' The Sum of All Fears ' , and all I can remember about it was that I found it really boring . Patriot Games is , apparently , the follow up to the 1990 film ' The ... |
422,464 | 2,248,099 | 65,073 | 7 | Camp Dracula returns ! | Hammer studio's Dracula series comes second to it's far better Frankenstein series - that's obvious - and the reason for that is that the films tend to be very similar to one another . Of course , the same thing could be said about the Frankenstein series ; but at least the latter obviously tries to make each instalmen... |
423,778 | 2,248,099 | 105,121 | 7 | A nice little thriller that should have been a lot better | Wes Craven's take on the largely lackluster haunted house sub-genre is both an enticing and original piece of cinema . The plot follows a neighbourhood family that are about to be thrown out of their home by the nasty and uncaring landlords that own the property . However , there is a rumour going around about some gol... |
422,123 | 2,248,099 | 446,719 | 7 | Very well made modern horror flick ! | In a time when remakes , sequels and sequels to remakes are just about all the horror genre is getting , it's refreshing to a see a film that isn't merely a copy of another . This film isn't completely original , however , as it has shades of classics such as Alien and The Thing , but the base of the plot is compelling... |
422,119 | 2,248,099 | 52,602 | 7 | Entertaining Vincent Price ' haunted house ' movie | This film is a lot better than you might expect . It follows the story of a wayward million dollars that is believed to be hidden within the walls of an old house . The inhabitants of the house are a female writer and her crew of servants . . . . oh , and a prowler known as ' the bat ' , who evidently wants the fortune... |
423,573 | 2,248,099 | 83,659 | 7 | Well made and worthwhile psychological thriller | Blood Link is a German and Italian co-production ; although it was clearly made for an American audience . The film has got itself in with the ' Giallo ' style that had it's heyday in Italy during the seventies ; although the reason for that is probably merely down to the fact that it's directed by Alberto De Martino ;... |
422,927 | 2,248,099 | 734,660 | 7 | What if the sun turned on the Earth ? | The Midnight Sun isn't one of the best episodes of The Twilight Zone for me , but even lesser entries in Rod Serling's excellent Sci-Fi mystery series show great invention and imagination , and this is no exception to that rule . The plot follows the nightmarish idea of the Earth gravitating so far towards the sun that... |
423,828 | 2,248,099 | 152,018 | 7 | Maverick Merli busts organised crime | Convoy Busters may not be the best Polizi movie ever to come out of Italy , but it's certainly an above average crime romp with a great cast and more action packed stunt sequences than you can shake a stick at ! The film is set up a little differently to most of the Polizi movies that I've seen , as it's a movie of two... |
423,241 | 2,248,099 | 112,818 | 7 | Good performances in a mostly successful drama | I don't usually bother with Oscar winning films like this as they tend to annoy rather than impress ; but I've got to give plaudits to Tim Robbins ' heartfelt drama , as the characters are strong and the film does a great job of separating the sin from the sinner , while putting it's audience in the precarious position... |
422,919 | 2,248,099 | 95,728 | 7 | Surreal and nightmarish Italian horror film ! | This largely unknown Italian horror movie encapsulates the best of Italian horror . We've got Giallo elements , supernatural elements , surreal ambiance and a dark , sinister plot . Despite a lovely murder scene that takes place in the middle of a load of bed sheets , the first half of the film is largely rather uninsp... |
423,210 | 2,248,099 | 95,740 | 7 | Trashy but hugely enjoyable teen slasher flick ! | Nightmare Beach may not be a very good film in the classic sense , but in terms of entertainment value ; the film certainly has a lot going for it . Nightmare Beach is known as a Giallo in some circles , but I think it's quite clear that the main inspiration has come from the overpopulated slasher genre . I'm not a big... |
423,571 | 2,248,099 | 83,629 | 7 | Cheap and nasty eighties B-movie | The Beast Within is a delightfully trashy eighties B-movie based on a book by Edward Levy and taking obvious influence from the werewolf genre . The film has been sadly forgotten over the years ; partly the reason for that might be down to the fact that it is rather cheap and forgettable , but it's also possible that i... |
423,642 | 2,248,099 | 439,815 | 7 | Lovely little tribute to old-school horror ! | Even though Slither isn't completely successful in achieving everything it set out to , it's an enjoyable ride and certainly one of the better horror films of the last couple of years . Prior to seeing the film , I'd heard it was a rip-off of the eighties cult classic ' Night of the Creeps ' , and while I can certainly... |
422,632 | 2,248,099 | 78,087 | 7 | People eat fish , fish don't eat people | Yes , in most cases ; fish don't eat people , people eat fish ; but the auteur of that quote clearly forgot about man eating fish , such as piranha ; and that reflects even worse on his brain power when you consider that , at the time of speaking , he was actually in a film called " Piranha " , which also happens to be... |
422,419 | 2,248,099 | 35,318 | 7 | Let down by a few things , but still well worth seeing . | All of Universal's Sherlock Holmes movies are well worth watching , and even though The Voice of Terror is a lesser entry in the series , it still captures a lot of what makes the rest of the series so brilliant . As usual , the performances are right on cue ; with the quintessential Sherlock Holmes , Basil Rathbone , ... |
422,691 | 2,248,099 | 73,772 | 7 | Interesting and well made TV movie | Sweet Hostage is another excellent example of a seventies made for TV movie . There were a lot of great TV movies made during what is probably the richest decade for great movies , although this one stands out a little from many as it is both feature length and feels every bit like a ' proper ' movie , not a made for T... |
421,655 | 2,248,099 | 13,257 | 7 | Interesting commentary on witchcraft | It really has to be said that Benjamin Christensen's witchcraft documentary is an amazing achievement , especially considering the time in which it was made . The film follows a documentary structure , but the Swedish director implements lots of different ways of telling his story , which ensures that the film never be... |
422,522 | 2,248,099 | 493,464 | 7 | Over the top and stupid , but still an entertaining action flick | If you go into Wanted expecting life-affirming brilliance , you will be disappointed ; but if you go in expecting an adrenaline-fuelled thrill ride , you should come out at least fairly contented . The film is apparently based on some comic book and is directed by Timur Bekmambetov , a name some may recognise as the di... |
422,599 | 2,248,099 | 95,497 | 7 | Flawed , interesting and controversial account of the life of Jesus Christ | It's well documented how Martin Scorsese toiled to get this film made . I'm sure that before , and during the filming of The Last Temptation of Christ ; the highly acclaimed director thought that this was going to be his masterpiece , but , of course , it hasn't gone down as such . The film does suffer from several fla... |
423,706 | 2,248,099 | 83,542 | 7 | Derivative but well made slasher with some good ideas | The slasher flick was in full swing by 1982 and the release of this film , and so it was starting to near the time when the idea would have to be played with if the sub-genre was to survive . First time writer-director Jack Sholder , therefore , came up with the idea for this film ; which follows most of the traditions... |
423,390 | 2,248,099 | 95,488 | 7 | A giant white worm and Hugh Grant . Jolly good fun ! | I'm a big fan of campy B-horror movies - especially one's hailing from the 1980's ( chief among decades of campy horror ) , and if it's so-bad-it's-good movies that you want ; The Lair of the White Worm shouldn't disappoint ! Don't get me wrong , there's no doubt that this is a bad movie , but it's so odd that it's har... |
423,386 | 2,248,099 | 78,295 | 7 | Someone's been watching Rear Window ! | I've heard some really good things about this film , so it didn't surprise me that it didn't quite live up to expectations . Someone's Watching Me is an early TV movie from so-so director John Carpenter and it was released in the same year that his biggest hit - slasher flick Halloween - was released , so I'm guessing ... |
423,741 | 2,248,099 | 70,603 | 7 | Certainly one of the better Naschy werewolf flicks ! | Paul Naschy made a hell of a lot of horror films and , unfortunately , many of them are somewhat less than brilliant . His " Hombre-Lobo " cycle is a set of films that sometimes gets some attention and this film is a part of that series . I've seen two previously - Werewolf Shadow and ' The Werewolf and the Yeti ' , wh... |
423,788 | 2,248,099 | 21,815 | 7 | An excellent companion piece to the more famous 1931 Dracula film | Shot on the same sets at the same time as the more popular Bela Lugosi film of the title , this film ; often referred to as ' Spanish Dracula ' , makes an excellent companion piece to the famous Tod Browning horror classic . I'm not sure why Universal didn't simply dub the American version of the film for the European ... |
422,884 | 2,248,099 | 65,233 | 7 | Surreal and bleak | As other reviewers have mentioned , it's difficult to know what to make of this film - and I suffered from the same problem ! Go Go Second Time Virgin is as surreal and strange as its title suggests it is . The basis behind the plot is relatively simple , but I have no idea what the film is trying to say and that's wha... |
423,932 | 2,248,099 | 112,641 | 7 | Entertaining , but it lacks bite and emotion | Martin Scorsese's Casino has all the ingredients for a great crime film . It's got hits , bad language , Robert DeNiro , gambling , lots of Italian Americans - it's all there . Furthermore , it's got a great soundtrack , the Las Vegas setting makes for a great location and the acting is largely very good . . . but some... |
422,799 | 2,248,099 | 66,249 | 7 | Fun , but doesn't work as a satire | I'm a big fan of Sherlock Holmes , especially the classic films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce - and I'm also a big fan of Billy Wilder , having rated all ten of his films that I saw prior to this one in the very top tier of rankings . However , I just could not click with this film ; I can see why others like... |
423,279 | 2,248,099 | 78,235 | 7 | The Last House Left ! | Well , Wes Craven's Last House on the Left sure was an influential film , as there's been a barrage of rip-offs released since 1972 , and this is one of them . The Last House on the Beach tends to get put down , and certainly isn't one of the better rip-offs to be released since Craven's masterpiece ; but still , I've ... |
423,253 | 2,248,099 | 167,190 | 7 | Entertaining comic book fare | Following on from the recent trend of turning comic books into movies is this offering - Hellboy . I've never read , or even heard of , the ' Hellboy ' comic before seeing this movie but it doesn't matter as the film pretty much explains itself anyway . Hellboy tells the story of a demon that was brought into this worl... |
422,140 | 2,248,099 | 52,667 | 7 | Interesting and inventive fifties monster movie | I'm not a big fan of fifties monster movies in general , but this one is pretty decent . The film was directed by Riccardo Freda , although he was going under the pseudonym ' Robert Hamton ' in order to fool audiences into thinking that the film was an American picture . The film does take obvious influence from the Am... |
422,313 | 2,248,099 | 334,541 | 7 | The best of the Tremors sequels | Strangely , many third sequels turn out to be prequels . Psycho did it , Hellraiser did it , Phantasm did it ; and now Tremors has done it too . Often , these fourth films tend to be worse than all three of their predecessors ; but believe it or not , Tremors 4 is actually a good film - and miles better than the two th... |
423,887 | 2,248,099 | 77,945 | 7 | Good early example of the cannibal flick | The Mountain of the Cannibal God predates the most famous cannibal film of all time , Cannibal Holocaust , by two years ; and , along with Deodato's earlier ' Jungle Holocaust ' , is a clear influence on that film , as well as the Italian cannibal sub-genre on the whole . This isn't your run of the mill cannibal flick ... |
421,912 | 2,248,099 | 83,944 | 7 | Overblown entertainment almost at it's best | Titled ' First Blood ' , but more commonly known as ' Rambo ' , this film tells the story of ex-Vietnam Greet Beret , John Rambo who starts his own personal war with a local sheriff after being picked up for vagrancy . The Rambo series has a reputation for being big , bold and stupid ; and there is a good reason for th... |
423,792 | 2,248,099 | 167,147 | 7 | Relentlessly gory Japanese splatter | After seeing The Evil Dead Trap , I'm not surprised at all that it has a rather strong cult following ; as despite the fact that the plot is rather ludicrous and the film isn't particularly well thought out , it makes up for these problems with a plethora of special effects and a bucket of gore ; and the result is a br... |
423,178 | 2,248,099 | 87,759 | 7 | Flashdancing Death | Lucio Fulci's Murder Rock is often lambasted by both Fulci and Giallo fans ; and although I can certainly see why , I've got to say that this film satisfied me personally and I won't hesitate to label it a successful attempt at blending the tacky eighties styling's of dance phenomenon's the likes of ' Flashdance ' with... |
423,565 | 2,248,099 | 74,085 | 7 | Excellent telling of a true story | Steven Spielberg made a version of this true story in 2005 in an attempt to win the Best Picture award ; yet in spite of his big budget and top quality actors , he couldn't top this little TV movie from 1976 ! 21 Hours at Munich may not be a great film , but it's an interesting and successful telling of the events of t... |
421,962 | 2,248,099 | 95,379 | 7 | Well done eighties slasher | The eighties was a breeding ground for films like this - namely , overly simplistic slashers - and I am thankful for that ! These films are often rubbish , but worth seeing if only for the fun factor . This film has lots of the aforementioned factor , mostly due its buckets of gore and impressively high body count ! Th... |
423,987 | 2,248,099 | 66,315 | 7 | Bava's comedy western | The great Mario Bava will always be best known for his Gothic horror and Giallo films , but he was a very versatile director ( like most Italian directors around the time ) that made many films in genres outside of horror , and Roy Colt and Winchester Jack is his attempt at making a film within Italy's popular Spaghett... |
422,504 | 2,248,099 | 39,317 | 7 | Has it's problems , but still a very well worked and entertaining thriller ! | The Devil Thumbs a Ride is basically just your classic 40's B-movie ; it's cheap and there are a lot of things wrong with it , but it's also fast moving and very entertaining , which makes it very easy to forgive all the flaws and just sit back and enjoy the film . It soon becomes clear that the film was made with litt... |
421,832 | 2,248,099 | 95,483 | 7 | Hilariously bad - and hugely entertaining - rip off of The Terminator | As the title suggests , Lady Terminator takes influence from the eighties classic ' The Terminator ' . Successful American films often get cheap rip off versions made , but what is surprising about this one is just how much it shamelessly steals from James Cameron's famous film . It's not just the central premise - the... |
421,766 | 2,248,099 | 285,789 | 7 | Sleazy rape comedy | Flesh Target : Rape is another hardcore Japanese Pinku movie . I have to admit that I've not seen a great deal of films like this ; to be honest , films about rape aren't really my cup of tea and thus I don't generally seek them out . However , I ended up with a copy of this and decided to watch it . . . and actually ,... |
421,799 | 2,248,099 | 83,844 | 7 | Good made for TV horror | What we have here is a made for TV horror movie from the eighties . There was some pretty good stuff made for the box during the 1970's , and it would seem that tradition was carried on , at least until the early part of the eighties , as Don't Go to Sleep is one of the best made for television horror films that I've s... |
422,587 | 2,248,099 | 70,297 | 7 | Vampires , Orient style ! | This lovely Hammer Horror blending of the traditional vampire tale with martial arts stars Peter Cushing as Professor Van Helsing . The plot follows Van Helsing , who is drawn into a plot involving a legendary seven golden vampires , the prince of darkness ; Dracula himself , the undead and a load of martial artists . ... |
423,856 | 2,248,099 | 365,513 | 7 | A monstrous mess ! But still amazingly entertaining . . . | Well , it has to be said that Monster Man is a huge mess of a film , but somehow multiple different genres and a clichéd plot come together to make one of the most enjoyable modern horror films I've seen in ages ! The two biggest styles that the film mixes are a ' Road Trip ' style teenage comedy and a ' Texas Chainsaw... |
423,466 | 2,248,099 | 61,074 | 7 | Another massacre from Fulci - this time in the wild west ! | Lucio Fulci was obviously best known for his horror films , but like most Italian directors in the sixties , seventies and eighties ; he could turn his hand to other genres too , and this is one of the films that Fulci made before he started being worshipped by anyone who knows their horror ! The obvious film to draw p... |
423,410 | 2,248,099 | 160,339 | 7 | Very nice little Grindhouse-style movie | I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by this little flick . Naturally I went in expecting it to be along the same lines as the classic ' girl power ' flick , I Spit on Your Grave ( ? . ) , and while the two share some common themes ; this film is certainly different enough for it not to be considered a rip-off... |
422,391 | 2,248,099 | 70,312 | 7 | Decent Spanish Giallo | A Dragonfly for Each Corpse is a Spanish take on the popular Italian thriller known as the Giallo , and stars prolific Spanish horror star Paul Naschy . The Giallo was well established by 1974 , and it's clear that director León Klimovsky knew this ; as his film continually attempts to imitate the Italian films . . . b... |
423,716 | 2,248,099 | 386,064 | 7 | Brothers . At War . In Korea . | I have become so dismayed at the recent crop of Asian films that I have taken to going into them expecting to be disappointed . You can imagine my surprise , then , when this film ; Brotherhood , actually turned out to be quite good ! Despite an opening that massively rips off Saving Private Ryan , and more than it's f... |
422,219 | 2,248,099 | 65,481 | 7 | Entertaining enough , but lacking . | Bonnie and Clyde was a big hit in 1967 , and I don't doubt that Hollywood's great money-spinner , Roger Corman , had that on his mind when he decided to direct a film based on another of America's great crime legends . The story of " Machine Gun Totting Ma Barker " is a well known one ; I won't profess to know the ins ... |
422,914 | 2,248,099 | 70,393 | 7 | Another success from Sergio Martino ! | Many of the best Giallo directors tried their hand at the Dirty Harry-inspired Polizi sub-genre at some point , and The Violent Professionals is Sergio Martino's classy effort . The film isn't as good as Martino's Giallo efforts ( few films are ) , but it still stands up as one of the better Polizi films . Martino pack... |
422,009 | 2,248,099 | 365,478 | 7 | Cult icon Bruce Campbell delivers a very fun cult flick ! | It's taken years for cult icon Bruce Campbell to get this project off the ground - but he finally has , it's here - and what a great piece of schlock entertainment it is ! Looking at the plot ; it sounds like two things . A great base for a very silly B-movie , and a shameless excuse for Bruce Campbell to what he does ... |
423,304 | 2,248,099 | 95,311 | 7 | Familiar territory for William Lustig , but he treads it well | William Lustig certainly knows how to direct a gritty city based thriller ; he succeeded admirably with the fantastically entertaining Maniac Cop series , and while Hit List isn't quite as memorable - it's still more than entertaining enough , and I'm sure any fan of Lustig's work won't regret tracking it down . It's s... |
422,461 | 2,248,099 | 69,920 | 7 | Not brilliant , but worthwhile textbook example of the Giallo | If you want to see an absolute prime example of the Italian thriller , known as Giallo , you really need to go for one of Argento's offerings , preferably Bird With the Crystal Plumage or Deep Red , or perhaps Fulci's Don't Torture a Duckling . Hell , there's even Mario Bava's Blood and Black Lace or the fabulous House... |
423,791 | 2,248,099 | 96,144 | 7 | Excellent late-eighties Giallo ! | By the late eighties , the Giallo genre had almost completely dried up with only the great Dario Argento's releases , along with a handful of other films , being anywhere near seeing . One film that is certainly a part of the worthwhile non-Argento efforts is this one ; as while it's a ling way from being perfect , wha... |
422,449 | 2,248,099 | 963,794 | 7 | Feels like more could have been made out if it , but still a very interesting modern horror flick | On the face of it ; The Ruins seems like it might be just another teen horror flick to throw on the pile with the rest of the plodding slashers and brainless gore-fests ; but it appears that some actual thought was put into this one and while it's true that certain opportunities were missed and the film is not quite a ... |
422,218 | 2,248,099 | 64,546 | 7 | Arty film on the persecution of witches | The persecution of witches is a rather popular cinematic topic ; the best film on the topic undoubtedly being 1968's Witchfinder General . This Czech effort follows a similar plot line to the earlier film , though the result is much artier and less graphic and while I preferred the older film - this one has its merits ... |
423,598 | 2,248,099 | 83,146 | 7 | Surprisingly good eighties slasher ! | On the surface , this would appear to be just another dreary slasher flick , but what separates this film from a lot of the crowd is the that director Jim Sotos ( who also directed the rarer of the two ' Forced Entry ' films ) creates a real gritty atmosphere that makes the film feel a lot like a seventies exploitation... |
423,850 | 2,248,099 | 65,594 | 7 | Sinister little tale of witchcraft | There was some good stuff made for television during the seventies , and while Crowhaven Farm doesn't stand tall as one of the best horror films ever made , it's a very decent one that is certainly worth seeing . The plot doesn't really offer anything new , and simply follows the idea of a coven of witches , centred ar... |
422,575 | 2,248,099 | 65,597 | 7 | Price is burning witches again ! | I'd seen two films from director Gordon Hessler prior to seeing this one , and they're both wildly different . One was the excellent Gothic horror The Oblong Box , while the other was the uneven and mostly terrible waste of a great of a cast , Scream and Scream Again . This film falls somewhere in the middle in terms o... |
422,977 | 2,248,099 | 65,568 | 7 | Largelly successful Agatha Christie spoof Giallo | Weekend Murders is one of the more hard to find Giallo films , and I find that rather surprising as the English countryside setting as well as the mystery plot that spoofs Agatha Christie stories means that it's actually one of the more accessible films of the genre . Despite the fact that Weekend Murders is an Italian... |
421,817 | 2,248,099 | 757,061 | 7 | Disturbing enough , but not as much as it's reputation suggests | I have to say that I didn't have much in the way of expectations for this instalment of the Masters of Horror series as my previous experiences with director Takashi Miike haven't exactly been good . I didn't think much to the highly rated ' Audition ' , and positively hated Visitor Q - but I'm pleased to say that ' Im... |
423,655 | 2,248,099 | 65,580 | 7 | The price of vanity . . . | The story of Elizabeth Bathory is easily one of the most important for the horror genre , and there's no studio more qualified to tackle said story than the legendary Hammer studios . . . but unfortunately , the resulting film is not as great as it could have been . Hammer had their golden period from the late fifties ... |
423,804 | 2,248,099 | 382,205 | 7 | The best non-Argento Giallo in over two decades ! | Eyes of Crystal is certainly a very welcome film . Good Giallo's are few and far between these days , and this is easily the best that I've seen since 2001's Sleepless , which in turn is the best since Argento made the fantastic ' Opera ' back in 1987 . The film isn't a lot like the Giallo's of the seventies ( the gold... |
422,736 | 2,248,099 | 454,848 | 7 | Would have been better if it wasn't so ' clever ' . . . | It's all too obvious that Inside Man is meant to be a lot more clever than it actually is ; director Spike Lee peppers his film with a light sprinkling of comments on race and society , but not many of them hold any weight and by the time the film ends , it's difficult to work out just what Lee is actually trying to sa... |
423,956 | 2,248,099 | 69,992 | 7 | Creepy little TV movie ! | Despite the fact that it's only a TV movie , Don't be Afraid of the Dark is a creepy little film that takes it's modest plot and does really well with it . The themes in the film aren't very original , and it's always clear that the movie was made for TV as elements such as the acting performances and locations used ar... |
422,280 | 2,248,099 | 74,296 | 7 | Worth seeing for Edwige Fenech | I saw this under the title ' Who Mislaid My Wife ? ' , but the Italian title " Bad Thoughts " makes more sense as the plot revolves around the central character's nightmare fantasies regarding his wife's infidelity . The film could be described as a sex comedy as certain parts of it are clearly played for laughs ; but ... |
422,567 | 2,248,099 | 70,012 | 7 | Earlier TV version of Breakdown | It seems that the seventies was a good period for made for TV horror films , and this film helps to prove it . Dying Room Only will be familiar to anyone who has seen the excellent 1997 Kurt Russell thriller ' Breakdown ' as it's obvious that this film was it's inspiration . The plot focuses on bickering couple Jean an... |
423,514 | 2,248,099 | 65,693 | 7 | Over the top and ridiculous Italian trash classic ! | Adrian Luther Smith , writer of the ' Giallo Bible ' Blood and Black Lace describes this film as a " trash masterpiece " - and I pretty much agree with him ! The film is sometimes labelled as a Giallo , although for me it fits more into the exploitation genre as although there is some murder mystery , it's clear that d... |
422,137 | 2,248,099 | 64,695 | 7 | Entertaining and different take on the western theme | More Dead Than Alive might not do much for a lot of western fans , and the reason for that is that it's so different from the rest of the genre . The western hero is meant to be big , strong , uncaring and a real sharp shooter ; and in this film , that is everything that our central character used to be , and now he's ... |
423,387 | 2,248,099 | 53,219 | 7 | The fly returns , this time on a budget | Obviously , this sequel is nowhere near as good as the original 1958 film ' The Fly ' , but despite obviously being a cheap follow-up and working from a story that basically just rips off the first film , there are some good ideas here and the film is definitely worth watching . The only actor to return from the origin... |
422,194 | 2,248,099 | 104,511 | 7 | An Italian Vampire Mob Boss in America ! | John Landis will always be best remembered for his comedy horror hit American Werewolf in London , and Innocent Blood does nothing to change that . While Landis plays around with the ' rules ' in a similar way to what he did with American Werewolf , Innocent Blood just doesn't do for the vampire genre what the earlier ... |
421,841 | 2,248,099 | 47,209 | 7 | Decent Jack the Ripper yarn | There is no shortage of films based on London's most notorious serial killer , Jack the Ripper , but in spite of this fact : Man in the Attic is a welcome addition to the list of films concerning The Ripper . It can't be said that Man in the Attic is a great film , but it's certainly a good one and did everything I had... |
422,542 | 2,248,099 | 64,682 | 7 | Excellent story-driven early nunsploitation flick | Nunsploitation is certainly one of the more bizarre cult cinema genres , and The Nun of Monza may well be the first film to be made of this kind . I wont profess to be a huge fan of this genre , although there are several good examples ; Images in a Convent and School of the Holy Beast being the best that I've seen . T... |
423,901 | 2,248,099 | 65,724 | 7 | Classic Jack Nicholson flick | Like most of the films that Jack Nicholson has been in , it's his performance that you will remember most about Five Easy Pieces . I love Nicholson's seventies movies because the great actor was still raw and going into one of his films , a performance with gusto comes as standard . Not to say that his latter day perfo... |
423,456 | 2,248,099 | 91,671 | 7 | Definitely one of the best horror omnibus films | Horror omnibuses have been around in one way or another pretty much since the great Mario Bava rejuvenated them in 1963 with the awesome Black Sabbath . They often vary in quality , and many are brought down by weak links ; this one , however , doesn't suffer from any weak stories . Obviously , some are better than oth... |
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