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423,806 | 2,248,099 | 60,701 | 9 | Absolutely stunning cult Euro sleaze flick ! | It has to be said that The Diabolical Dr Z is a lot like Jess Franco's most famous film , The Awful Dr Orlof ( in fact , said doctor even gets a mention here ) ; but if you ask me , the superior film is this one . This time , rather than deal with facial reconstruction as Orlof did ; sleaze master Franco deals with min... |
422,684 | 2,248,099 | 69,947 | 9 | Brilliant classic thriller ! | What we have here is a top quality thriller from Fred Zinnemann ! The film is based on the book by Frederick Forsyth and follows a story surrounding the assassination of French president , Charles de Gaulle . The film is , apparently , historically accurate - personally , I can't say whether it is or not , since I don'... |
421,725 | 2,248,099 | 303,361 | 9 | Brilliant mix of horror and drama ! | Anyone that thinks good horror movies aren't still being made obviously isn't looking hard enough . Already this decade we've had several lovely horror movies , and this delightfully sick twist on the classic Frankenstein tale is most certainly one of them . In fact , this film isn't a pure horror movie , but rather th... |
422,999 | 2,248,099 | 69,995 | 9 | Mysterious , brooding and bone chilling at the climax ! | Don't Look Now is a strange horror film in that it doesn't rely on the usual horror genre staples in order to be successful . Rather than be gratuitous on the gore , atmosphere and shocks front , Don't Look Now simply presents it's story and the horror almost seems like an afterthought . Usually , films like this annoy... |
421,676 | 2,248,099 | 100,814 | 9 | Giant underground worms , a barrel of laughs and some very nifty special effects - monster movie masterclass ! | Tremors was one of my all time favourite movies as a kid , but since then ; only my nostalgia for the film has remained . Upon seeing the film for the first time as an adult , it immediately hit me that I had great taste even as a child . Despite being an overblown and silly monster movie at heart - Tremors is a damn g... |
422,566 | 2,248,099 | 74,287 | 9 | Nightmarish and original - a Giallo masterpiece ! | I'm a massive fan of Giallo , but it has to be said that a lot of Giallo's are rather similar to one another and while there are a few exceptions , there isn't a massive amount of diversity in the genre ; especially not when it comes to the lesser films . The House With the Windows That Laugh features the trademark wac... |
422,246 | 2,248,099 | 91,860 | 9 | Excellent drama with a commentary on modern society | River's Edge is an excellent film and it's a shame that it hasn't made more of a mark for itself in cinematic history . There were a number of gritty films based around school kids made in the eighties , but of all the ones I've seen ; this is certainly the most nihilistic and disturbing . The film takes a storyline th... |
423,056 | 2,248,099 | 56,869 | 9 | Seaside gulls go mental in Hitchcock's macabre masterpiece ! | Despite spending most of his career within the realms of the thriller genre , Alfred Hitchcock hasn't restricted himself where variation is concerned . Most of his best work represents a different type of thriller , and The Birds is no different . It is often said that Psycho is Hitchcock's first foray into the horror ... |
423,915 | 2,248,099 | 100,623 | 9 | Kind of like a classic film noir , with sadomasochism and incestuous lesbians | Well . . . it doesn't get much more bizarre than this ! To sum it up simply , Singapore Sling is a work of extreme cinema ; featuring all manner of things from sadomasochism to incest . . . but it's shot in a style reminiscent of the classic film noirs from the golden age of cinema . The two styles offset each other co... |
421,664 | 2,248,099 | 65,677 | 9 | Supremely sexy Giallo mystery ! | The Forbidden Photos of a Lady above Suspicion is a Giallo that is different to what most fans will be used to , as the graphic , over the top murder scenes have been scrapped in favour of a sexually charged plot line . I was worried that this might not work out , as murders are a key element of this sort of film for m... |
421,699 | 2,248,099 | 57,078 | 9 | Christopher Lee raises hell in Bava's baroque horror romance ! | Mario Bava is often hailed as one of the true gods of horror cinema , and for good reason . His influence extends his filmography , and many Mario Bava films have gone on to have a big effect on the horror genre on the whole . Films such as Bay of Blood and Black Sunday are well known and have been seen by many serious... |
423,398 | 2,248,099 | 60,893 | 9 | Excellent little Hammer yarn ! | The Reptile is famous for the fact that it utilises the same sets as the brilliant ' Plague of the Zombies ' , and as such ; you would expect the rest of the film not to be up to Hammer's usual standards . This couldn't be further from the truth ! While this may not be Hammer's best work , all the things that us fans h... |
423,225 | 2,248,099 | 65,738 | 9 | Excellent variation on the classic story | Frankenstein must be Destroyed is one of the best of the hammer horror series ; and that is saying something , as the studio has produced a lot of horror highlights . Peter Cushing stars as Baron Frankenstein , the mad doctor whom everyone and their dog will recognise instantly from the classic novel . This film is an ... |
423,447 | 2,248,099 | 39,536 | 9 | A fabulously dark and brooding noir ! | Film noir is one of my favourite types of cinema , and Kiss of Death is easily one of the best that I've seen . The film benefits from all the familiar noir elements ; such as a dark and brooding atmosphere , a conflicted lead character and a very dastardly villain . The plot is the film's key element , as it manages t... |
422,229 | 2,248,099 | 70,111 | 9 | Italy's version of the classic romantic comedies from the thirties ! | Italy didn't exactly hold back when it came to ripping off films back in the seventies - everything from Dirty Harry to Jaws got the Italian treatment , but I must say I never expected to see an Italian sex comedy version of the classic romantic comedies of thirties USA ! Even more surprising than the premise of this f... |
423,337 | 2,248,099 | 29,870 | 9 | An absolute classic | Michael Curtiz has made some great films , yet the only one that tends to be well received among film fans is his contender for the best movie ever made - obviously Casablanca ( and Robin Hood , to a lesser extent ) . However , the man has a wealth of other influential classics under his belt that don't tend to get the... |
422,319 | 2,248,099 | 52,811 | 9 | Macabre story of coffins and corpses . . . this is great stuff ! | The Flesh and the Fiends is similar , in a lot of ways , to the Val Lewton produced Robert Wise film , The Body Snatcher , but for some reason ; this one has flown further under the radar . It's odd , because despite the greatness of the other film ; The Flesh and the Fiends is a lot better , and has the added malevole... |
422,169 | 2,248,099 | 78,344 | 9 | Emanuelle meets nunsploitation ! | There is a lot of variety in the Emanuelle series , and as such ; a lot of strange and rather silly ideas ; but having Laura Gemser dressed up as a nun and living in a convent is surely one of the silliest ! I'd even go as far as to say that this plot could be considered blasphemous ! Clearly , this film is just an att... |
423,316 | 2,248,099 | 100,581 | 9 | Another excellent exhibition of horror from Italy ! | You can always count on an inventive and intriguing movie when it comes to anything that Argento has touched , and this Argento-scripted film is just that ! The great director has left the directorial duties up to his protégé ; Michele Soavi for this movie , and that is somewhat ironic because The Sect easily tops anyt... |
423,256 | 2,248,099 | 57,128 | 9 | Absolutely wonderful | Roger Corman's ' Poe ' series is one of the all time highlights of cinema . With low budgets , great stories and Vincent Price ; Corman has created a legacy that is hard to react to with anything but admiration , and it's certainly a style of film-making that will never be utilised again . This film is , actually , not... |
422,191 | 2,248,099 | 95,971 | 9 | A brain fluid fountain of youth ! | Wow ! I honestly can't believe that I'd never heard of this excellent little eighties horror film ! How The Rejuvenator has managed to stay undiscovered all these years is anyone's guess , as this entertaining mix of splatter and Sunset Blvd does what it says on the tin , and then some ! Science and the human body give... |
422,211 | 2,248,099 | 57,295 | 9 | Mushrooms that are more than just magic ! | As a big fan of bizarre cult cinema , there's no way I could resist a film with a title like ' Attack of the Mushroom People ' and resisting this film is definitely not recommended to my fellow cult film fans as this is a highly original and fascinating slice of cinema ! The film obviously takes influence from the mons... |
423,116 | 2,248,099 | 43,132 | 9 | Expertly done film noir classic ! | I'm a big fan of fan of film noir , and this film by Otto Preminger easily stands as one of the best that I've seen ! Preminger has reunited two of his stars from the hit ' Laura ' - Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews , for an entirely different sort of crime film . Laura was based around love , and this film is based aroun... |
423,335 | 2,248,099 | 439,784 | 9 | Another hit for Gervais | After massive success with the hit TV show ' The Office ' , Ricky Gervais decided to turn his hand to stand-up comedy , again to massive success with the hilarious show ' Animals ' . Now , Ricky is back ! This time tackling the world of politics , and once again ; to great success . Although sometimes Ricky goes off th... |
422,584 | 2,248,099 | 133,093 | 9 | Overrated , but still excellent entertainment | I remember , back in 1999 ( or it could have been the start of 2000 ) , when I first saw The Matrix . It was big , bold , loud , exciting . . . it had guns , bullet time , Rage Against the Machine , plenty of action , a hot woman in a lead role . . . . I remember thinking " I should like this " . But I didn't . Like Ki... |
422,714 | 2,248,099 | 87,100 | 9 | Brilliant sleazy trash flick from Ken Russell ! | What a great slice of sleaze this is ! Ken Russell certainly has a style of his own and it's on overdrive in Crimes of Passion , as the movie is as much about the bizarre way that Russell tells his story as it is about the story itself . Crimes of Passion is unlikely to appeal to all tastes , but for everyone who likes... |
422,857 | 2,248,099 | 52,905 | 9 | A well done mystery thriller from Hammer studios | After their success with The Horror of Dracula , Terence Fisher , Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee would come together again to great success with this fine entry into the Hammer series . I have to confess to never having read the original novel or ever seeing another Hound of the Baskervilles film , so this tale of m... |
422,092 | 2,248,099 | 424,136 | 9 | Gritty and traumatic ; one of the best films in years ! | Hard Candy takes an idea that has become the subject of a million warnings since the introduction of the internet , and turns it on its head . The film is extremely brave in the way that the subject matter is handled , and it constantly tackles unpleasant themes head on . I really don't associate this type of film with... |
423,142 | 2,248,099 | 69,840 | 9 | A true seventies exploitation classic ! | Seventies exploitation is one of my favourite genres as despite generally poor production values and story lines , they're just so damn entertaining ! The Candy Snatchers is clearly one of the best examples of the genre - as despite featuring the common poor production values , the entertaining plot line is nicely fles... |
422,700 | 2,248,099 | 66,040 | 9 | The evil that young Catholic girls do ! | It's quite unbelievable that this film doesn't have a better reputation , as Joël Séria's Don't Deliver Us From Evil is an intricately worked little shocker that is sure to appeal to fans of European cinema . It's clear that the film was made in France , as the plotting , style and atmosphere of the movie is very Frenc... |
421,801 | 2,248,099 | 171,804 | 9 | Compelling and thought-provoking drama - a must see ! | I've had ample opportunities to see Boys Don't Cry over my film viewing career , but have always neglected to do so because of the themes of it's story . Simply put , the idea behind this film doesn't interest me much and that is the reason for me not bothering to finally see the film . However , now that I have seen i... |
422,898 | 2,248,099 | 60,268 | 9 | Excellent black comedy thriller | This film is incredible . Polanski's best film behind Knife in the Water and Rosemary's Baby . The plot revolves around a gangster ( Lionel Stander ) and his partner that seek refuge in a castle on a small island in England . The couple that inhabit the castle are played by the sublime Donald Pleasance and the beautifu... |
423,830 | 2,248,099 | 40,160 | 9 | Excellent film noir ! | If you're looking for an interesting plot , complex characters and a bona fide thrill ride ; you really need to look no further than film noir . The best of these films have everything you could want from a thriller , and when you hit upon a good one ; you're guaranteed a fantastic movie viewing experience . The Big Cl... |
422,114 | 2,248,099 | 381,681 | 9 | A magnificent follow up to a beautiful picture | This follow-up to the cult hit ' Before Sunrise ' takes place nine years after the original masterpiece . The wisdom of making a sequel nine years later to a film that doesn't really need a sequel is questionable . Or at least it would be , if this film was anything less than brilliant . While the first film depicted a... |
423,502 | 2,248,099 | 74,806 | 9 | Intriguing , macabre and brilliantly acted - a must see film ! | Wow , where has this little flick been ? The Little Girl who Lives Down the Lane is an intriguing mystery , an intense character portrait and a dark , brooding thriller all rolled into one rather odd little package - and on a personal note , I liked it a lot ! The film has gained some notoriety ( although not as much a... |
423,051 | 2,248,099 | 55,304 | 9 | Magnificent Gothic horror masterpiece ! | From horror's premier team of Roger Corman , Vincent Price and , of course , Edgar Allen Poe comes this menacing , macabre and suspenseful tale of insanity , death and betrayal . This film is certainly one of , but maybe even ' the ' finest Corman-Poe film . It's Poe at his most devilishly malicious as it deals with th... |
422,628 | 2,248,099 | 64,106 | 9 | Slow burning French classic | Le Boucher is a lesson in suspense from French director Claude Chabrol . There is very little in the way of action in this film ; but it doesn't matter , because the director knows how to handle suspense , and so despite the fact that there isn't much going on ; the film is always interesting . In fact , many modern di... |
423,336 | 2,248,099 | 36,342 | 9 | Dark and brooding thriller from the master of suspense | It is well known that this film is Alfred Hitchcock's favourite of his own oeuvre , and it's a big favourite of mine also . It is also well documented that for this film , Hitchcock stated that he " wants to bring violence back into the home , where it belongs " and he has certainly succeeded at doing that . Hitchcock ... |
423,940 | 2,248,099 | 362,270 | 9 | Another stylish treat from Wes Anderson ! | I'm a big fan of Rushmore , but The Royal Tennenbaums was terrible and I was afraid that Wes Anderson's latest film , The Life Aquatic , would go down the road of the latter . I'm pleased to say that it didn't , however , and just like he did with Rushmore ; Anderson has taken his quirky visual style and wound it aroun... |
423,815 | 2,248,099 | 67,134 | 9 | A Giallo to see once you've seen the classics of the genre | The Giallo sub-genre has produced some really great films ; films such The House With the Laughing Windows , What Have They Done To Solange , and just about everything Dario Argento made ; and with that in mind , The Fifth Cord isn't that good a film . However , as lesser-known Giallo's go ; The Fifth Cord will no doub... |
421,869 | 2,248,099 | 71,431 | 9 | Now THIS is a zombie movie ! | I've been a fan of zombie films for pretty much the same amount of time that I've been a fan of films , and I thought I'd seen just about all there is to see from the horror sub-genre . So you can imagine my surprise then when I came across this hidden gem ! Let Sleeping Corpses Lie does everything that you would want ... |
423,961 | 2,248,099 | 94,651 | 9 | Aquatic serial killer in one of Europe's finest cities ! | Dutch director Dick Maas clearly has a flair for entertainment . This serial killer film is lifted above the norm by a series of fantastic sequences ; from creepy murder scenes to a hilariously over the top speed boat chase through the canals of Amsterdam , Amsterdamned is a delight to watch from start to finish . It g... |
421,779 | 2,248,099 | 36,244 | 9 | Brilliant and timeless ensemble drama | The Ox-Bow Incident isn't a very well known cinema classic , and therefore it's fan base is comprised mostly of cinema buffs that are willing to go that extra mile to see great films . It's a shame that this film hasn't managed to cement itself better in cinema history since it's release in 1943 , but on the other hand... |
421,749 | 2,248,099 | 74,860 | 9 | One of the best thrillers ever made | Marathon Man starts off rather slowly , and for the first hour at least , it feels as if you're watching a human drama rather than a thriller . However , unlike a lot of thrillers ; Marathon Man uses this time to create characters and establish the situation , which ultimately pays off later on in the film when the mov... |
422,601 | 2,248,099 | 1,020,530 | 9 | Grisly and upsetting - fantastic modern horror ! | I don't think I'm the only one that has been less than impressed with the bulk of the horror films released in 2008 ; most of what's on offer could be categorised as either a useless Hostel / Saw clone or yet another remake , and it's disappointing considering the excellent releases earlier in the decade . Eden Lake ma... |
422,186 | 2,248,099 | 324,133 | 9 | Anything but dull | Swimming Pool is a first rate film from French genius François Ozon . This thriller makes best use of everything that makes cinema great , and it is therefore a delight to view . Swimming Pool follows Sarah Morton , a British author that travels to her publisher's dream home in France in order to have a rest while she ... |
422,994 | 2,248,099 | 44,829 | 9 | Brilliant Ealing Comedy | Ealing studios are famous for making very dry and witty comedies ; they're probably most famous for the excellent ' Kind Hearts and Coronets ' and darkly comic ' The Ladykillers ' , but The Lavender Hill Mob , although not as good as the other two , is definitely worth a mention . The Lavender Hill Mob is about a bank ... |
424,016 | 2,248,099 | 36,104 | 9 | Another huge success from that genius Val Lewton ! | After their success in 1942 with the fabulous ' Cat People ' , the star team of producer Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur would team up twice the year later . First for the compelling and brilliant ' I Walked With a Zombie ' , and second for this film ; The Leopard Man . For the movie , the two filmmakers re-ca... |
423,634 | 2,248,099 | 86,868 | 9 | Joe D'Amato on top of his game ! | The Alcove pairs Joe D'Amato with Laura Gemser and sees both of these cult icons at their sordid and sleazy best ! Joe D'Amato made a hell of a lot of sleaze films ; and while I do consider myself a fan of his , it has to be said that a large proportion of his output is rather rubbish . . . but not so with this film . ... |
423,477 | 2,248,099 | 74,954 | 9 | Fantastic seventies flick ! | Nashville Girl falls somewhere between an exploitation flick and a drama , but I'm not surprised that this is often considered an exploitation classic ; as there are more than enough exploitative elements and the drama itself is interesting also . The film takes place in the Deep South and primarily focuses on the coun... |
422,395 | 2,248,099 | 55,505 | 9 | A major highlight for Hammer studios ! | Whenever I think of Hammer Horror , I think of bright colourful camp films ; but Hammer also made a handful of black and white mysteries , and many of these stand up as some of their best films . Hysteria , Nightmare and Paranoiac are all very good films ; but Seth Holt's Taste of Fear tops the lot ! This suspenseful m... |
423,428 | 2,248,099 | 67,229 | 9 | Absolutely GREAT seventies trash flick ! | I Drink Your Blood is top quality exploitation garbage ! The film brings together a range of trash flick elements , including devil worship , zombies , drugs and violence and moulds them all into one very fun slice of movie viewing ! The film is poorly put together and extremely trashy , but that only adds to its charm... |
422,849 | 2,248,099 | 75,005 | 9 | A horror masterclass | Following on from The Exorcist , The Omen is a horror film that gained itself instant notoriety for it's dissection of Christian theology to create a horror movie . However , despite it's many macabre incidents and dark mythology , The Omen is actually a family drama . The focus is always kept on the family at the cent... |
423,156 | 2,248,099 | 67,434 | 9 | Not brilliant , but still a decent Giallo | The Italian mystery , or ' Giallo ' sub genre is great . You can almost always count on an entertaining ride while watching a Giallo and while ' My Dear Killer ' isn't one of the top examples of the sub genre , it definitely does deliver a good time and fans of the style of films will not be disappointed by it . Some G... |
423,680 | 2,248,099 | 51,201 | 9 | Another triumph for cinematic genius Billy Wilder ! | Billy Wilder is a director with an understanding of cinema that is almost unmatched throughout the medium's entire history - that's why his films are always so good . Witness for the Prosecution is yet another highlight in the great director's history , and it proves that courtroom dramas can be both riveting and a gre... |
422,036 | 2,248,099 | 16,847 | 9 | A magnificent spectacle ; one of cinema's finest | F . W . Murnau's telling of the classic German legend , ' Faust ' is a masterpiece to behold . From both the technical and story standpoint , the film excels and despite being nearly eighty years old , Faust still stands tall as one of the greatest cinematic achievements of all time . F . W . Murnau has become best kno... |
423,520 | 2,248,099 | 36,027 | 9 | Jacques Tourneur's moody masterpiece | Jacques Tourneur is an under appreciated legend of film-making . His films are consistently overlooked and underexposed , and it's a huge shame because Tourneur is one of the directors that helped shape the film industry as it is today . It can be said that Tourneur's best work is within the horror genre , and that is ... |
423,609 | 2,248,099 | 78,935 | 9 | These savages ain't no vegetarians . . . | Cannibal Holocaust follows a film crew as they delve into the Amazonian jungle and end up discovering the true meaning of horror . This plot line sounds remarkably similar to the 1999 travesty ' The Blair Witch Project ' , but I'm pleased to say that's where the similarities end ; as the crew in The Worst Film Ever Mad... |
421,934 | 2,248,099 | 78,916 | 9 | Better than your average sleaze film ! | Beyond the Darkness is a top quality slice of sleaze from the master Joe D'Amato . Everything about this movie is morbid ; from the brutal killings , to the twisted central relationships , all the way down to the macabre fate of the central character's girlfriend . The film starts off rather slowly , and keeps this rel... |
422,362 | 2,248,099 | 109,579 | 9 | Brilliant dark character study | When it comes to dark and morbid thrillers , there's no one around that can handle them like Roman Polanski does . It is with that in mind , therefore , that I say Polanski is the best man for the job of adapting Ariel Dorfman's stage play ; ' Death and the Maiden ' . He proves this with the resulting movie , which is ... |
422,858 | 2,248,099 | 86,543 | 9 | Stylish , challenging and intriguing | Paul Verhoeven's predecessor to his breakout hit ' Basic Instinct ' is a stylish and shocking neo-noir thriller . Verhoeven has become known for making somewhat sleazy trash films , both in his native Holland and in America and this film is one of the reasons why . The Fourth Man follows the strange story of Gerard Rev... |
422,842 | 2,248,099 | 121,766 | 9 | The only prequel worthy of the name ' Star Wars ' | Let's face it , whatever George Lucas did with the final instalment of his epic trilogy , there would be complainers . Of course , the man himself is to blame ; The Phantom Menace is a horrible film , and while Attack of the Clones is a lot better than it's predecessor , it still leaves a lot to be desired when compare... |
423,461 | 2,248,099 | 71,330 | 9 | A BRILLIANT Italian crime flick ! | I'm really starting to develop a love for these Italian cop flicks - and Street Law is hands down one of the best that I've seen ! This entire genre owes itself to Don Siegel's classic Dirty Harry , but Street Law apparently takes most of it's influence from Michael Winner's " classic " Death Wish ( I say apparently be... |
422,120 | 2,248,099 | 482,571 | 9 | Mystifying modern film-making at it's very best ! | The Prestige is quality modern film-making at its very best . Christopher Nolan has proved himself to be a director to watch after his successful reinvention of the Batman series , and now this film ; different in theme and tone to Batman , and for my money , much better ! The brilliance of this film comes from many di... |
422,400 | 2,248,099 | 335,345 | 9 | Visually stunning and amazingly powerful | Whoever or wherever you are is irrelevant ; you have heard something about this film . The controversy that The Passion of the Christ has garnered is phenomenal , so much so that it has eclipsed the movie itself . However , unlike a lot of movies with heaps of controversy surrounding it's release ; The Passion of the C... |
421,712 | 2,248,099 | 65,143 | 10 | Argento's debut Giallo is a fine one indeed ! | Bird with the Crystal Plumage , the first and best of the " Animals " trilogy is an important film . First of all , it's the directorial debut of a man who is without doubt one of the finest and most important horror directors to ever pick up a camera , and secondly because this is a film that set a lot of the ground r... |
423,113 | 2,248,099 | 734,568 | 10 | THIS is what The Twilight Zone is all about ! | I've just finished watching this episode of The Twilight Zone , and am still trying to catch my breath . What I thought was going to turn out to be just a deviation on the French classic ' Eyes without a Face ' turned out to be something much , much more ! As the title suggests , this tale is based on the old saying ' ... |
423,349 | 2,248,099 | 307,987 | 10 | Bad Santa ain't bad ! | Well , Christmas isn't exactly my favourite time of the year , so I have to say that these cynical offbeat Christmas films tend to appeal to me . When looking at the plot outline for this film , I was worried that it would start out well and then float off the rails when the central characters come to the inevitable ' ... |
423,449 | 2,248,099 | 83,907 | 10 | The very pinnacle of schlock-horror ! | I've got to tell you right off - The Evil Dead is my favourite horror film of all time - so you can expect a praise-filled review here ! I have seen this film at least one hundred times since I first saw it at about the age of ten , and to this day , I can still stick the DVD in the player and guarantee myself a good t... |
421,987 | 2,248,099 | 66,412 | 10 | Superior Giallo and a must see for fans of Italian cinema | It's a damn good job that this film finally received a DVD release , because The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh is surely too good a film to be considered lost . Directed by Giallo maestro Sergio Martino , The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh is a sleazy sadistic thriller that takes as much influence from the Giallos that came bef... |
423,339 | 2,248,099 | 112,922 | 10 | A cult classic in every sense ! | When you consider all the elements that have gone into this movie , it's hard to deny that it really shouldn't have worked . Spanish director Álex de la Iglesia has put together a film that fuses ideas of the apocalypse and the antichrist with heavy metal and one of the blackest streaks of humour that I've ever seen . ... |
423,933 | 2,248,099 | 397,042 | 10 | Another fantastic gaming experience . Thank you Capcom ! | So , the long awaited sequel to Resident Evil 3 is finally upon us - and it certainly is the treat that it promised to be . I have to admit , in the build up to the release of this game , I was worried . I was hearing all sorts of rumours , from this being more like Devil May Cry than previous Resident Evil games , to ... |
422,503 | 2,248,099 | 43,338 | 10 | Unknown to many - but certainly among Wilder's greatest films | Say the name ' Billy Wilder ' to any cinema fan and they might throw back titles like ' The Apartment ' and ' Sunset Blvd ' at you ? but probably not this film . Ace in the Hole was a flop upon release in 1951 ; and has had trouble being released since , and thus it has not been seen by as many people as Wilder's other... |
422,800 | 2,248,099 | 53,125 | 10 | Entertaining thrill-ride from start to finish | Alfred Hitchcock made a lot of films , many of which are very good ; and a select group of which are out and out masterpieces . His 1959 spy thriller , North by Northwest is undoubtedly among the man's best work ; yet it stands out as something of a black sheep among the great director's other works . While the likes o... |
422,614 | 2,248,099 | 117,883 | 10 | Absolute first rate thriller ! | Tesis is a film about a film student writing an assignment on violence on film , which is appropriate because Tesis is itself , an assignment written by Alejandro Amenábar on violence and the state of the Spanish film industry . Amenábar has packed the film with nods towards the industry , and the reasons why it isn't ... |
423,529 | 2,248,099 | 64,888 | 10 | Dark and eerie Eurohorror gem ! | Director Narciso Ibáñez Serrador is most famous for his under-seen cult gem , ' Who Can Kill a Child ? ' , but this Gothic horror treat is definitely well worth tracking down ! Perhaps not as original or thought provoking as Serrador's later film , The House That Screamed presents it's situation and characters well , a... |
422,547 | 2,248,099 | 64,861 | 10 | Brooding and interesting revenge movie from the great Claude Chabrol ! | Claude Chabrol made a lot of films during his career , and while I've only really scratched the surface so far - I have to say that this one is right up there with his very best ! Chabrol's films aren't thrillers in the same vein as those made by the likes of Alfred Hitchcock ( in spite of the fact that he is often kno... |
422,457 | 2,248,099 | 395,474 | 10 | Stand up comedy doesn't get any better than this | Bill Bailey's ' Part Troll ' tour is quite possibly the funniest thing ever filmed . Ever . The amazingly talented comedian completely owns the stage , and gets laughs from a number of different means - most notably his guitar , keyboard and drum and bass sequences . It's amazing just consistently hilarious this show r... |
423,481 | 2,248,099 | 71,628 | 10 | Great Euroshock classic - Pete Walker has outdone himself ! | I didn't go into this film with very high expectations because I didn't like Pete Walker's Frightmare very much ; but House of Whipcord is a vastly superior film and , to be honest , I'm shocked that this doesn't get mentioned more often ! Pete Walker's film is both a sleazy seventies exploitation classic and a strikin... |
422,619 | 2,248,099 | 90,605 | 10 | The aliens are back . . . bigger , better and more ! | It has become customary among film fans to name Ridley Scott's original ' Alien ' as the best of the series ; but that is a notion that I cannot agree with . James Cameron's sequel is bigger , more ambitious , more exciting and just generally a better time than it's predecessor . The claustrophobic suspense-driven horr... |
423,752 | 2,248,099 | 71,275 | 10 | Shocking and sadistic - Bava at his best ! | Rabid Dogs represents the only directorial teaming of the great Mario Bava and his son Lamberto , and it also represents a huge diamond in both directors ' filmography . Mario Bava is probably most famous for his work on Gothic horror masterpieces such as Black Sabbath and Black Sunday , while Lamberto Bava made his na... |
423,347 | 2,248,099 | 82,933 | 10 | Sexy , bizarre and twisted - a compelling film experience ! | Andrzej Zulawski's film is relentlessly confusing and I bet that even the man himself doesn't always know exactly what's going on ; but it's such a beautiful and unique film experience that it's difficult not to go along with it ; and while I understand how this movie has become a ' love it or hate it ' film , I am fir... |
422,610 | 2,248,099 | 109,592 | 10 | There isn't another film quite like Dellamorte Dellamore | There was a distinct lack of truly great horror in the nineties ; but this film , Dellamorte Dellamore , tops the list of what little good ones there were . It's actually quite shocking that this came out during a huge depression for horror cinema , because it's easily one of the greatest horror movies I ever saw . Del... |
423,152 | 2,248,099 | 395,584 | 10 | Devilish grindhouse nastiness from Rob Zombie ! | After his successful fusion of 70's exploitation and pumping rock music for his debut feature ' House of 1000 Corpses ' , monster rocker turned director Rob Zombie has decided to put on a different tone for the sequel . Gone is the hardcore horror of the first , and in it's place , Zombie has installed a road movie gri... |
423,439 | 2,248,099 | 48,977 | 10 | Assured portrayals of real characters in an amazingly chilling film ! | What we have here is a fantastic classic horror film , which benefits from great performances from all concerned and a plot not typical of serial killer films . The film doesn't adhere to convention and builds its story around an idea that was frightening for the time - and still is to this day . The murderer in this f... |
422,598 | 2,248,099 | 48,281 | 10 | Superb and immensely enjoyable Ealing comedy | Ealing studios are well known for creating brilliantly witty comedies , and this is surely one of the best of them ! The Ladykillers follows Alec Guinness and his band of crooks as they infiltrate an old woman's home and attempt to rob a bank in the process . Guinness ' plan is so brilliant that the old dear herself is... |
422,639 | 2,248,099 | 95,159 | 10 | Absolutely brilliant comedy | To make a comedy that can be lauded with the comment ' absolutely hilarious ' isn't an easy thing to do . It's not so difficult , however , when you are one of the funniest men on god's green earth ; and the extremely talented John Cleese has certainly managed to write a fine piece of comedy here . Teaming up with Mont... |
421,782 | 2,248,099 | 36,613 | 10 | A fiendishly good time - a masterpiece of black comedy ! | The phrase " they don't make ' em like this any more " must have been thought up with this film in mind . Arsenic and Old Lace is a comedy the likes of which could only have been made before cinema audiences became as jaded as they are now . The comedy is pitch black - but it's pitch black in a nice humour sort of a wa... |
422,263 | 2,248,099 | 75,462 | 10 | Truly first rate Spanish horror ! | Who Can Kill a Child starts off with a drawn out sequence depicting real life horror against children . There's quite a difference between real life and cinematic horror , and had Chicho Ibáñez-Serrador's film been cheap and nasty along the same lines as a great number of other European horror films , it would have bee... |
422,676 | 2,248,099 | 226,872 | 10 | Fantastic Japanese Exploitation ! | I've seen a handful of women in prison films and before seeing this one , hadn't seen a really good one . It's a genre closely associated with lesbian sex , torture and general sleaze and is one of the staples of the oeuvres of Italian trash directors such as Jess Franco and Joe D'Amato . Female Convict Scorpion adhere... |
423,370 | 2,248,099 | 44,079 | 10 | A stunning thriller from the master of suspense | Alfred Hitchcock has made many brilliant thrillers , and many of them have gone on to be hailed as some of the greatest films of all time . One film that tends to get somewhat lost under the Vertigo's and the Psycho's is this film ; Strangers on a Train , the most compelling film that Hitchcock ever made . The story fo... |
422,465 | 2,248,099 | 157,044 | 10 | In a word : brilliant | François Ozon's pitch black mickey take is a biting satire on family life and a brash distraction from the shows of it's title . While many sitcom's are monotonous affairs , Ozon's take on the medium is anything but . Despite taking in many of the clichés of the sitcom - stuffy mother , raunchy maid , bored father etc ... |
463,395 | 2,467,618 | 141,109 | 1 | Letting your child watch this is akin to child abuse | Who authorized the making of this movie ? ! I assume that SOMEONE must have read the script and STILL thought the movie was worth making . But how ? The movie is a completely depressing and stupid mess . I can't think of a less appealing holiday movie except for the terrible Grinch ( 2000 ) . So here's the heart-warmin... |
459,023 | 2,467,618 | 70,248 | 1 | Reason # 253 to hate the 1970s | JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL is a film about a bird and his philosophical musings . As he flies about , he wonders if there's more to life than just eating fish heads , how high he can fly and is there some special purpose to life - - all in a live-action two-hour film ! Yes , this is # 253 of why you should hate the 19... |
464,418 | 2,467,618 | 87,182 | 1 | a complete waste of a good book and good actors | When I first saw this movie in the theaters , I was appalled . The book DUNE had been one of my favorite sci-fi novels and I had very high hopes for the movie . Instead , I was shocked to see how utterly incoherent the story was ( those who went with me needed me to explain what was happening over and over ) . I was al... |
458,944 | 2,467,618 | 69,795 | 1 | Not as good as it sounds . . . and it sounds truly awful ! | BLACKENSTEIN is a terrible movie and its title wouldn't suggest otherwise . Like ABBY ( sort of like a Black version of THE EXORCIST ) , BLACKENSTEIN has practically no budget whatsoever and the acting is just terrible . Believe it or not , the two Blacula movies aren't that bad - - BLACKENSTEIN , however , is abysmall... |
463,269 | 2,467,618 | 71,654 | 1 | A bad film that was made much worse by Shatner's ridiculous performance . | IMPULSE is the story about a psychotic sociopath that seduces women and then kills them for their money . The film begins with a flashback where you learn how this evil pattern was developed and the film ends with , thank goodness , his demise . William Grefe directed this terrible film . The fact that the film is bad ... |
462,332 | 2,467,618 | 106,471 | 1 | life's too short to pollute your mind with this film | This is the directorial debut of David Lynch's seemingly demented daughter ( wow - - who would figure David Lynch would have a weird kid ? ! ) . Reportedly , other potential directors pulled out of the film because the script was so sick and they were afraid it might give sickos ideas . Here's the nauseating script in ... |
459,561 | 2,467,618 | 1,127,866 | 1 | The film has a good point to make . . . it just does it in a poor way . | What were the people thinking who made this film ? ! I understand that they wanted to do something positive , but the end result is pretty lame and seems rather irresponsible to me - - plus the film is like propaganda - - and poor propaganda at that . Now the idea of telling dog owners to be sure that the free pet they... |
459,290 | 2,467,618 | 209,031 | 1 | How can ANYONE rate or review this movie ? ? ? ! ! ? ? ! ! ? ? | Since the movie was only shown once and the last time was about 80 years ago , how can anyone review this film or give a rating score ? ? ! ! To make this appeal to others NOT to rate or review this film , I was forced by IMDb to give a rating but how could I ? ! ? ! Unless someone who is well into their upper 90s or o... |
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