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504,240 | 2,911,571 | 83,660 | 5 | fair slasher flick with Frankie Avalon as the killer . . . ! | Yes , 50's & 60's singer & beach movie star , Frankie Avalon , is a crazed escaped mental patient in this early 80's slasher offering . He does provide music of a sort , only it's " Lullabye & Goodnight " over and over on his little wooden flute . Eek ! Now , supposedly a young girl , Marion ( Donna Wilkes ) has been i... |
504,323 | 2,911,571 | 66,144 | 5 | Leopard / vampire / sorcerer Euro / Afro-trash | This is a rather strange offering from Armando De Ossario in which a small group of people supposedly doing zoological research in Africa stumble across an area where mysterious things happened many years ago . Seems that there were sorcerers that come back when the moon is full to do their thing , which seems to be pl... |
504,620 | 2,911,571 | 179,920 | 5 | Passable time-passer | Did you know that " Killer Likes Candy " is now on DVD ? Hard to say why , but it's really not terrible and is a fun Saturday afternoon film when the weather is bad , but nothing much more . The story is that of a hired assassin that is out to kill the king of a prosperous oil-producing country , and he likes candy , o... |
504,704 | 2,911,571 | 854,548 | 5 | Virginia is for Cannibals | I haven't seen many " Masters of Horror " shows , because I don't have cable & therefore I have to see these on DVD . I have been pretty disappointed with what I've seen from the 2nd season so far and frankly , The Washingtonians kind of stunk . Oh , it's a good idea , the execution left a lot to be desired . A family ... |
504,527 | 2,911,571 | 65,168 | 5 | shadows of things to come but not a great early film for Rollin | There are things in " The Nude Vampire " that are somewhat of a hint of what was to come from Rollin in some of his later films , but this is a rather odd film that I found hard to get into , maybe because of the confused " plot " or maybe because of the way this is filmed . First off , it does not look like a " film "... |
504,129 | 2,911,571 | 78,295 | 5 | Early John Carpenter flick is OK , but nothing special | Lauren Hutton plays a young woman who has just moved into a big L . A . high-rise , and she then begins getting strange phone calls & mail & even deliveries of " presents " . All of these are coming from a sort of travel agency , it appears , but don't you believe it . Of course , there's someone watching her , and it ... |
504,877 | 2,911,571 | 78,288 | 5 | The Drool-stained viewer | This is one of the more slow-moving giallos that I've ever seen . It's OK , it's better than a lot of newer stuff these days but still , it was a bit hard to make it all the way through and not wake up with drool all down my chest . Many years ago a young woman was strangled and now , years later , more murders are cro... |
504,222 | 2,911,571 | 411,805 | 5 | Zombie sleepwalk | 13 years after the last " Return of the Living Dead " comes the very least of the series , minus any of the humor or excitement of the previous three . Mind you , the third one USED to be the least of the series , now it's looking pretty good in comparison . An Evil Corporation ( yawn ) is doing experiments to create a... |
504,761 | 2,911,571 | 325,597 | 5 | Sick stuff but not entirely terrible | First off , I'd say that if you want to watch a woman get revenge on people that have wronged her , try " I Spit on Your Grave " instead . Having said that though , if you still want to watch this , the production values are pretty low , the acting is not very good , and there's some stomach-turning scenes that won't b... |
505,627 | 2,911,571 | 264,675 | 5 | Scream If You Know This Is Another " Scream " Clone | Hey now , a buddy of mine said this was really good , so when I found a used copy , I picked it up . I guess " really good " depends on your perspective , because this has its moments but overall is just another " Scream " variation , as far as I'm concerned . It's from the folks at Dead Alive , which I thought was now... |
505,340 | 2,911,571 | 780,485 | 5 | Has its moments , but overall , it's not all that funny | Archie is a kindergarten teacher who is trying to invent an engine that runs on wheat grass . With gas at $32 a gallon , no one drives anymore . One day he accidentally cuts himself & when the blood gets into the wheat grass the engine starts and runs . Now all Archie , a vegan , has to do to test his engine , is kill ... |
505,407 | 2,911,571 | 342,172 | 5 | Letting the Friedman's go . . . . . | If you like films about nice ( or possibly not so nice ) Jewish families from Great Neck , NY , arguing incessantly and resolving nothing because certain parties are not coming out with things that need to be said , then this is for you . I watched this for perhaps most of the run time and just had to stop it . If I wa... |
504,549 | 2,911,571 | 95,483 | 5 | even though this was made in Indonesia , it screams " 80's " | I'm giving this a 5 based on its rich content of unintentional entertainment value , some of which can be attributed to " big hair " and " bad music " . Oh , and one mullet , that's important . The story . . . well , it starts out like some kind of legend of a South Seas woman who managed to kill of her lovers with a e... |
505,693 | 2,911,571 | 100,881 | 5 | sadly , this is mediocre Fulci | A man dies horribly from hemorrhaging , then he's buried & the will is read . Seems his daughter inherits all , leaving the rest of the family & hangers-on rather upset . But there was something not normal about the way this man died ( spewing blood ? yeah , that's not normal ) . And it's up to the daughter , who hears... |
503,882 | 2,911,571 | 126,846 | 5 | what the heck ? | This is one of those independent and ( perhaps deservedly ) obscure movies that I picked up cheap at the flea market in the wilds of Kentucky ( Simpsonville ) . I guess it's not a straight horror film but a spoof , and it better well be , as the killer wears a little girl's crinoline skirt over his head ? Now that's a ... |
505,535 | 2,911,571 | 276,744 | 5 | OK , but tries a bit too hard to be " quirky " | No doubt about it that this is one weird movie , but there's something about the overall feel of it that didn't work for me . A young boy is left by his mom with his bail-bondsman dad while dad is working , enabling them to interact with all manner of weirdos , like Bananas the Clown ( Buscemi ) who is fresh from an en... |
504,268 | 2,911,571 | 74,434 | 5 | mostly enjoyable trash , nothing more | There's murders taking place at a Southern California drive in , and the cops are investigating , but who is responsible ? Is it Germy , a former carnival geek who now does the cleaning up around there ? He is pretty spun , and his former friends were chickens from the carnival he worked at , so he's a likely candidate... |
505,374 | 2,911,571 | 435,653 | 5 | Not bad , but effects towards the end kind of killed it for me | This is my third of the " 8 Films to Die For " series , and if I did not also have " Reincarnation " to watch , I'd probably be done after this one . Unless , of course , someone were to give me the rest for free . Gravedancers isn't bad , up to a point , but there's some ghostly apparition effects near the end that re... |
505,342 | 2,911,571 | 810,823 | 5 | starts out great but once you know what's going on it's all downhill | At the beginning of this film , Ian Stone is at a hockey game , after which he takes a lady friend home after an embarrassing finish . After he's dropped her off he finds a body in the road in a rainstorm & something strange happens . . . . after which he is sitting in an office , and then he's a cab driver , and then ... |
504,381 | 2,911,571 | 82,951 | 5 | OK , so it's not just me | I've read reviews on this in my movie books that say this is a pretty darn good slasher film but as I recall when I saw it on VHS a few years back it was nothing to write home about . Well , I happened to find it on DVD for cheap so picked it up and watched it last night and found that my reaction was pretty much the s... |
504,518 | 2,911,571 | 74,389 | 5 | Hell-ariously bad | You know this is a quality film when a girl in her nightie rises up from her bed and goes for a drive in her purple AMC Gremlin in the first few minutes . The " lead " character , Laval , looks like Ted Nugent . One of the " would be " satanists looks like the class geek ( and we're also treated to him dancing " the bu... |
504,942 | 2,911,571 | 320,708 | 5 | not much terror but still enjoyable in a low-budget cheesy way | A Mexican family inherits a house from an aunt , and they go there to fix things up and enjoy a summer vacation . Unfortunately , there was witch-burning and other such delights in that area back in the old days , and of course , the speculation that the house is " haunted " by a niece is not far from the truth . The s... |
505,574 | 2,911,571 | 126,527 | 5 | A must for all fans of REALLY bad cinema | I have never seen a Doris Wishman film before . I may never see a Doris Wishman film again , but I do have to say this was interesting in sort of a " wow , I wonder what she was on " kind of way . Supposedly this was shot in 1979 and then a lot of the film was lost or destroyed by a processing lab so they were forced t... |
504,700 | 2,911,571 | 481,280 | 5 | Why is there a hose and a drain in the middle of the floor ? | For those of you that didn't quite get enough gore from " Hostel " or " Saw " , here's " Live Feed " . A group of young American tourists in some unnamed Asian city are wandering about , seeing butchers slaughter dogs for food and other fun things , when they get the brilliant idea to go hang out in a porno theater . H... |
504,360 | 2,911,571 | 87,221 | 5 | strange Canadian slasher flick | I just got this on DVD ( Substance ) and the quality is not bad , and this is the only " official " release that I'm aware of . A woman , who is unhappy with her waitress job ( and apparently life in general ) , is coaxed by a hooker friend to go with her on a " call " and make some easy money . The customer is an olde... |
504,960 | 2,911,571 | 95,801 | 5 | I was very disappointed | I have heard a lot about this film for years & I'm always up for a quirky oddball little " slice of life " film , but while this had its moments I was very disappointed with it overall . Marianne Sagebrecht plays a woman whose drunken husband left her in the middle of the desert and she happens across this little café ... |
505,215 | 2,911,571 | 454,970 | 5 | not as GOOD as people make it out to be | I did actually like Hostel , and this purports ( according to the front of the box ) to be BETTER than Hostel , but alas , it's not , although it does have a rather strong start . However , as it goes on , it falls back on some of the tiredest clichés there are , including my favorite , scenes filmed in almost total da... |
505,554 | 2,911,571 | 875,630 | 5 | low budget horror comedy sort of , I reckon | This is about a girl that's getting married that has some kind of ugly family secret . When her wedding day comes around she gets worried because her ugly family has tracked her down and this , she knows , because the minister that was to perform the wedding had one of his eyes plucked out and was gutted . Oops , and n... |
505,597 | 2,911,571 | 466,006 | 5 | Anesthesia | This is a very long and slow moving Japanese film about 2 hours long but seemingly about 6 . A man who is afflicted with a syndrome called Synethesia is caught up in a web of mystery involving a young girl who seems to be rather unlucky with adoptive parents . The all die . Someone in this mix of murder and mayhem is a... |
504,879 | 2,911,571 | 60,666 | 5 | for fans of really bad horror . . . . . . . | I don't quite know what to say about this . I've seen the original version and I've seen the MST3K version , and this is quite possibly the most inept and meandering film I've ever seen . A man , his wife , and his daughter ( and their poodle ) are going on vacation at some resort , or so they think , and they stumble ... |
504,025 | 2,911,571 | 290,230 | 5 | OK , but see the original 1980 version instead | I first saw " Lathe of Heaven " on PBS in the early 80's , the version with Bruce Davision as George Orr , and I hesitated to watch this version , because I like the other one so much . I did finally find it very cheap though , so picked it up , and while it has its good points , I was still disappointed . First off , ... |
505,378 | 2,911,571 | 64,088 | 5 | a very strange film , but not a very good film | I'm not one to get pushed out of shape seeing a faded actress ( or actor ) playing in a cheesy movie for a few bucks , once they're past their prime , but apparently plenty of other people are . The actress in question here is Lana Turner , who starred in plenty of older films but I couldn't tell you what one of them w... |
505,166 | 2,911,571 | 86,967 | 5 | cheesy and sleazy fun , sort of | This is nothing much more than a cheesy " Alien " rip-off that would have been better played for laughs , and it is , sort of , not that the makers probably knew it at the time but perhaps they did . How can you be scared of a space critter that kind of looks like a rabid version of " Marvin the Martian " ? The small s... |
505,483 | 2,911,571 | 71,471 | 5 | Sort of interesting but very hard to follow | This seems less like a movie and more like a collection of unconnected events , featuring more or less the same people , strung together in random order . Peter is a rich guy , that has lots of orgies at his house , apparently , but he's also rather troubled and may also be a killer . He has nightmares & they normally ... |
505,225 | 2,911,571 | 377,707 | 5 | an amazing film , in many ways , but a good film . . . ? | I've read lots of things about this marvelous piece of work but now I've finally seen it , and boy oh boy . . . . what a film . I guess the whole gist of the thing is that some giant storm hits Thailand and in some way uproots this giant crocodile , although later in the film , some mention is made of this being a muta... |
504,869 | 2,911,571 | 403,990 | 5 | Frightening ? Not even close . . . . . | This is an OK film but in the tradition of falsehoods on box-art it says " The Most Frightening film since . . . . . " and this isn't the least bit scary . The concept of the doppelganger , or the exact double , is explored briefly in one person , then in the main character , and apart from that it's almost not even an... |
504,321 | 2,911,571 | 71,629 | 5 | Cheesy 70's flick is too tame to be scary | House on Skull Mountain . . . we begin with an elderly woman being given last rites by a priest and the woman asks the priest to mail 4 envelopes for her , and each of these goes to a person who must show up at the house to collect an inheritance . Now this old woman was into voodoo , and so is at least one of her ho... |
505,624 | 2,911,571 | 187,696 | 5 | Yawn , Lola , Yawn | I was encouraged that Franka Potente was in this , being that she was fairly amazing in Run Lola Run , but I found this to be pretty much by-the-numbers horror , even if it is German . Slick and well produced , but it lacks any real excitement or scares . There are some creepy moments and unpleasant visuals , but it's ... |
504,754 | 2,911,571 | 79,027 | 5 | inept giant space alien thriller | This has a fairly big-name cast but that doesn't do much to change the fact that this is a rather inept film that features a giant alien creature with burning red eyes that rips people's heads off . Why ? Because that's what it does , I guess . Where did it come from or why is it doing what it's doing ? Never explained... |
505,099 | 2,911,571 | 25,465 | 5 | very weird for 1934 but is it GOOD ? | This is a very strange movie , which , for me , is never a reason to not watch something , but this is stranger than most . Now , what's interesting that I didn't know about this is that writing credits go to one Edgar Allen Poe ? That must be why someone was getting walled up in the basement with a black cat . Anyway ... |
504,115 | 2,911,571 | 71,413 | 5 | not a fine example of 70's horror | A bunch of rich folks and hangers-on are at a resort in the snowy mountains when a bunch of little kids , recently turned loose on the world via a van accident , show up . These don't seem like very normal little kids to begin with but when the driver , who they thought was dead , follows them they kill him and you see... |
504,290 | 2,911,571 | 71,318 | 5 | An OK thriller with a sort of " Movie of the Week " feel to it | This is part of a double release that came out on ( with Earth Dies Screaming ) and I'd never seen , nor heard of this film before . It's about a bunch of people who are ostensibly chosen to be protected from a " nuclear exchange " in an underground bunker so that they can re-populate the earth when this war is over . ... |
504,588 | 2,911,571 | 366,555 | 5 | horror comedy fluff | Can a horror comedy be called fluff ? Well , I'm calling this one fluff . The cover suckered me in , a young lady in a skimpy outfit with a chainsaw , and while she is the nicest thing to look at in the movie , well , let's just say I need to start bringing my glasses and actually READING the boxes before I buy movies ... |
504,412 | 2,911,571 | 249,506 | 5 | Christmas Eve in Sutterville , population 0 and rising | A family is heading out for Christmas at relatives & are going to stop by the ghost town of Sutterville on their way there , just to look . However , as it turns out , Sutterville was the site of a massacre on Christmas Eve , 40 years ago , & grandpa , who is along for the ride , had something to do with that . And so ... |
504,491 | 2,911,571 | 63,608 | 5 | Like , wow . . . | Sinthia , the Devil's Doll , is the work of Ray Dennis Steckler , despite the name he chose to hide behind as director . And why did he choose to hide behind another name , I wonder ? If he didn't hide behind another name on his older films then why bother with THIS one ? Well , I do love Steckler's older films , like ... |
505,698 | 2,911,571 | 95,177 | 5 | not terrible , but not very interesting either | A nut-case cruises the freeways of LA . Nothing new there . But this particular nut is on a mission and he's killing people . Seems that a while back he killed the husband of this young woman who has been conducting her own investigation , since she's not satisfied with what the police have been doing . Now , this part... |
504,943 | 2,911,571 | 63,559 | 5 | strange little study in abnormal psychiatry , or SOMETHING . . . . | Two guys get their kicks from kidnapping women & making them think that they'll either be sacrificed , or have to make love with a horribly deformed guy , etc . That's really about it . It's somewhat interesting , it's ultra low-budget , and it's just plain weird . The first kidnapped woman is made to think that she mu... |
504,490 | 2,911,571 | 63,550 | 5 | mildly interesting documentary | I wasn't sure what to expect of this going into it , except that I knew Anton LaVey was the head of the Church of Satan , or something like that . Well , this is a documentary , with lots of interviews with La Vey's neighbors and neighbors to the actual church , and members of the church , and stuff like that , some of... |
504,586 | 2,911,571 | 59,464 | 5 | A-go-go where ? | I will be the first to admit that I enjoy trashy , cheesy 60's horror / monster / science fiction flicks . This is definitely trashy & cheesy but not quite what I expected . With a title like this I expected more 60's music and beautiful babes in skimpy bikinis doing their thing , but this is more following around some... |
504,399 | 2,911,571 | 244,684 | 5 | I'm going to need to start bringing my glasses when I go DVD shopping | I read something about this movie in one of my movie books and it sounded interesting , then I found a used DVD of it and picked it up cheap , good thing because when I watched it ( and yes , I watched the whole thing ) it was pretty much unlike anything I really wanted to see . I didn't realize that the hero of this m... |
504,350 | 2,911,571 | 183,817 | 5 | and this is all connected how ? | Our film begins with the execution of a serial killer in 1969 in the gas chamber in the good old US of A . Fast forward 19 years to ' Europe ' ( although this is a South African movie ) and this serial killer has relocated for reasons that are never revealed . But wait , you say , didn't you just mention that he was ex... |
505,002 | 2,911,571 | 59,440 | 5 | Had I started here first . . . . . . . | Had I started with the first Coffin Joe film ( this one ) I may not have been interested in the others , but I watched This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse first , which apparently had a higher budget and was more bizarre and to my liking . This one is just OK for a first film , I guess , fake skulls , a fake owl , kind... |
505,685 | 2,911,571 | 94,886 | 5 | I like the clowns but the movie falls mostly flat | OK , I guess this is the film that got Victor Salva in trouble , with young boys in their undies and even a brief buttocks view . So what . If you like that kind of stuff then it may excite you , but it's thankfully brief ( no pun intended ) and probably more creepy than the rest of the film . The story is , that 3 bro... |
504,489 | 2,911,571 | 86,058 | 5 | complicated revenge story | I was not sure what to expect from this when I watched it , but what I felt after seeing it was not that I'd just seen a great film . This was Sam Peckinpah's last , and while I'm not any fan of his I know he had done far better . John Hurt plays a CIA operative ( I guess ) and his wife is killed by order of the head h... |
503,959 | 2,911,571 | 456,055 | 5 | a good look at times , tried hard , failed anyway | Dead Life is filmed in 16 mm , and at times it does have the look of a 70's film , and at times the way it's filmed is quite inspired . However , the story is nothing anyone's never seen , the acting is pretty amateur and as with most low budget films the sound level is so inconsistent at times you can't hear what's go... |
503,888 | 2,911,571 | 355,295 | 5 | A very sad effort from Terry Gilliam ( perhaps a minor spoiler ) | I had been looking forward to seeing this for some time now and when I saw a few reviews I wondered what it really would be like , since nothing I read was positive . I have to say that having seen it now that I understand why nothing I read was positive . And I usually don't take reviews to heart , especially out of t... |
504,162 | 2,911,571 | 279,688 | 5 | Well within the boundaries of sleep | First off , I guess if I were William Sanderson I would NOT be flattered at being the " go-to guy " for inbred hillbilly roles . He is a good actor and while he does fit his part here he's rather wasted . And whoever thinks that this is an adaptation of Lovecraft ( like the director , etc ) must have been wasted too . ... |
504,374 | 2,911,571 | 63,145 | 5 | A Magnificent Creature | Hey now , I saw this about a million years ago on Theatre X in Orlando , Florida , the Saturday afternoon monster / sci-fi movie show that made me what I am today ( warped ) . Somehow seeing it again on DVD isn't the same , because I'm a bit older now and it's pretty tame stuff , including the Magnificent Creature , Th... |
504,325 | 2,911,571 | 59,364 | 5 | Bargain basement Euro-spy flick is entertaining , but . . . | The DVD Box for Kommissar X proclaims that this is a " German James Bond " but it's not even in that league , really . Tony Kendall plays Joe Walker , whose true purpose is somewhat vague , and he's teamed with police captain Tom Rowland , and these two appear to be Americans somewhere on the Adriatic Sea chasing bad g... |
504,370 | 2,911,571 | 301,184 | 5 | Kind of creepy but fails to satisfy | This is kind of a creepy flick but it doesn't quite come together , unfortunately . The creator is one of the guys that was part of the team on The Last Broadcast , which I like a lot , so I had high hopes & while it wasn't a total disappointment it came close . A young couple move to the Hollywood Hills and find that ... |
504,238 | 2,911,571 | 250,416 | 5 | Baby got back | I'm not really sure what to say about this film , nor what to think of it . Firstly , it's obviously not commercially available ( at least not in the US nor anywhere else I can find ) but a friend in the UK sent me a copy and I watched it today . Without subtitles . So it's in Urdu , I guess . Perhaps the dialog isn't ... |
505,233 | 2,911,571 | 93,407 | 5 | Not exactly a " feel good " flick | I read the book by Brett Easton Ellis back in the 80's and I had never seen this movie , well , being that it was in the dump bin at the infamous local Wal Mart I got it cheap and finally saw it , and while it wasn't entirely bad it left me feeling rather depressed , to say the least . Seeing overpriveleged people cele... |
505,392 | 2,911,571 | 1,090,360 | 5 | Blair Witch Project meets Cannibal Holocaust " lite " | I don't think this was a terrible film but it does boast a group of actors that will get on your last nerve . After a while , you're hoping to see them die , and soon , please . The premise is that these young drifter types meet up in Fiji and decide to find out if they can find Michael Rockefeller , who disappeared in... |
504,235 | 2,911,571 | 790,662 | 5 | had potential but plot holes kind of sink it | Fingerprints isn't terrible , and it does have some genuinely spooky moments , but it also has plot holes big enough to drive a train though ( or a bus , perhaps ) . The premise is that 40 years ago , a bus full of school kids were hit by a train , due to a malfunctioning crossing signal , and all died . Now , in the... |
505,152 | 2,911,571 | 138,304 | 5 | good ideas , poorly done movie | This is a movie with some good ideas but they don't seem to get put across very well . While on a space mission two astronauts who are outside the space shuttle end up being taken over by some alien force . Upon their return to earth one eventually dies of a stroke but the other ( Johnny Depp ) survives to impregnate h... |
505,417 | 2,911,571 | 58,955 | 5 | just another silly excuse for topless square dancing | This is a 60's " monster nudie " in which there are plenty of topless gals and guys mostly still wearing bathing suits at a Florida nudist camp . A gorilla is on the loose and by my calculations it only killed one woman . Of course it's just someone in a gorilla suit , oops , is that a spoiler ? It begins with some guy... |
505,194 | 2,911,571 | 365,125 | 6 | Nasty , but not up to the Waters of old . . . | The last couple John Water's films ( Cecil B . Demented & this ) have seemed rather forced . This is not without its moments but doesn't really hold a candle to the John Waters of old , like Pink Flamingos , Desperate Living , etc . In fact , even though it's a different sort of film , Hairspray is even better than thi... |
504,277 | 2,911,571 | 73,801 | 6 | Is there a story here ? Maybe , if you can stop laughing at the clothes . . . . | This is a film about young women being kidnapped from Manila in order to satisfy the blood-drinking requirements of some cult out in the jungle that must drink blood to stay young . Now , that's about the whole story line but most of my time was spent wondering about the clothes and sets . The clothes are rather amazin... |
504,463 | 2,911,571 | 61,191 | 6 | Astounding | If I were a psychiatrist I might like to do some time travel and chat with Jerry Warren ( and perhaps Bill Rebane ) about what motivated them to make the movies they made . Because these were some strange folks . I got the version of this put out by Mystery Science Theater 3000 , and watched the version without the sni... |
504,525 | 2,911,571 | 493,354 | 6 | Odd mix of horror and comedy from India | Being a westerner , I was introduced to Indian films by way of " Ghost World " and that led me to " Gumnaam " , which led me to start exploring more of the films that India had to offer , in the " horror / suspense " genre . I've now seen quite a few but none have left me quite as perplexed as to how to take them as " ... |
504,285 | 2,911,571 | 382,625 | 6 | convoluted and VERY long | When this movie started I felt like I was missing something and that perhaps I needed to know more than I did ( which was nothing ) to understand what was going on . Tom Hanks plays a professor of ancient languages ( I guess ) and is thrust into a mystery that has been guarded for centuries . Seems that what's in the b... |
505,087 | 2,911,571 | 95,719 | 6 | another killer bug flick | I guess , with the exception of " Mimic " , I haven't found a really good killer bug flick that I really like . The Nest is about a small town in , I dunno , Maine ? It's at the shore , it has a lighthouse , it may as well be Maine , I don't think anyone says & it doesn't matter , really . Some sinister corporation is ... |
504,662 | 2,911,571 | 73,778 | 6 | girl-gang flick is good dumb fun | Picture this : A girl-gang that looks like the prototype for The Runaways , an evil entity named Crabs that dresses like a cross between a Bay City Roller & Slade , and a vicious gang war with enough hardware to possibly conquer a small country . Sound good to you ? Well look no further . Lace is the leader of the Dagg... |
505,438 | 2,911,571 | 466,909 | 6 | technically not bad but why did they bother ? | This remake of the 1976 Omen is technically not bad but really adds little to the original story , except maybe to use a few recent disasters as proof that prophecies are coming true , i . e . World Trade Center , space shuttle crashing , etc . Liev Schreiber makes a rather dull Ambassador Thorn , and his wife isn't mu... |
505,066 | 2,911,571 | 70,508 | 6 | Swamp of the . . . . WHAT kind of birds ? | Swamp of the Ravens is a rather strange film that appears to have been made in Ecuador , although in the opening credits it references Madrid , so maybe it's a Spanish film made in Ecuador . The question as to what kind of birds we have here is that there don't seem to BE any ravens , the featured birds are buzzards or... |
504,337 | 2,911,571 | 876,294 | 6 | very bleak and grim | I was not too sure about this film , going into it , but while it was not terrible , it was rather bleak & grim . There's some mysterious disease spreading , but people in England have not yet been affected . But signs that this disease is arriving on their shores are starting to crop up just as a reporter & film crew ... |
505,471 | 2,911,571 | 405,061 | 6 | If you've seen The Eye , just leave well enough alone | Unless you're a fanatical " completist " , if you've seen the original " Eye " then you can easily pass on this drab sequel . Not only is it confusing , but it's got parts that are WAY more far-fetched than someone seeing ghosts everywhere , like a woman who has a history of suicide attempts being allowed to wander abo... |
504,591 | 2,911,571 | 61,329 | 6 | stupid fun with Styrofoam | This film begins rather inventively as several different people are shown going about their jobs as time ticks off on the clock , and then it's quitting time and this bunch of people all converge on this building that seems to be some kind of garage , for they all come out dressed differently and on motorcycles and the... |
505,562 | 2,911,571 | 73,882 | 6 | OK Low Budget early 70's flick | I love 70's horror movies , especially the early 70's , so when I found this and had never seen it I was greatly looking forward to seeing it . Unfortunately , I was a bit disappointed but it's still not all that bad . Filmed in and around Livermore , CA , an area that I'm vaguely familiar with from passing by but neve... |
504,310 | 2,911,571 | 304,120 | 6 | Extreme . . . . | Tartan Asia " Extreme " doesn't really put out many " extreme " films , they seem to get the dregs and market them as such though . This one is not really all that bad but it's not exactly exciting . A serial killer in jail is thought to be in some way responsible for a continuing series of murders in the style that he... |
504,037 | 2,911,571 | 91,209 | 6 | 21 years later I've just now seen this for the first time . . . . | For some reason The Hitcher never had my interest when it came out in the mid-80's , and I rarely missed any kind of horror film that came out back in those days . So last night I remembered that I've had the DVD sitting on my shelf for about TWO years now , and dragged it out , and watched it , and I have to say that ... |
504,364 | 2,911,571 | 780,583 | 6 | watchable & better than expected | I know it's not exactly a ringing endorsement to say " something wasn't as bad as I thought it would be " , but I had pretty low expectations for this and was surprised that it was actually watchable and better than expected . Of course , it's a bit far-fetched in many ways , zombies being one of them , and once the zo... |
505,687 | 2,911,571 | 1,087,850 | 6 | so-so Shyam Ramsay horror effort | Catherine is a rich but rather drunken woman , who holds the purse-strings in the family . In a quarrel with her husband Ravi , she falls through a glass table top and is presumed dead . Ravi enlists the help of a friend to bury her body at a disused cemetery , only to find that she's still alive , but they , of course... |
504,495 | 2,911,571 | 56,491 | 6 | How to spice up that dreary suburban existence | This is not your typical Something Weird " nudie-cutie " . In fact , it's more of a commentary on society than some of these type of films that came out in the early to mid-60's time period , it seems . And I'm basing that on what I've seen , not that I'm any film expert . Lots of suburban housewives left at loose ends... |
504,744 | 2,911,571 | 91,213 | 6 | OK , but no high point for Penelope Spheeris | This could almost be a made for TV movie , to a point , and looks as though it was kind of quickly put together . Various members of the Hollywood Vice Squad , under occasional direction from Captain Ronnie Cox , bust hookers , drag queens , bookies , pimps , etc . Also a few johns here and there . One storyline involv... |
504,257 | 2,911,571 | 202,627 | 6 | ghosts and vengeance | I guess this is the last of the " Yokai Monsters " series , and dang , if I didn't watch them out of order , oh well . This is probably the lesser of the trio , and involves a young girl seeking her father after her grandfather , with whom she lived , was murdered by thugs . The little girl must make a journey to anoth... |
504,969 | 2,911,571 | 78,235 | 6 | The Seventh Woman | Just for the record , the Italian title of this film is " The Seventh Woman " . Three bank robbers on the run in their aging Citroen come across a remote beach house & find that as a perfect place to hide out . Trouble is , though , the house is occupied , by a few Catholic school girls and their teacher , who is also ... |
504,020 | 2,911,571 | 70,655 | 6 | The House that Vanished , along with my interest | I didn't even know this was available in the US on DVD , but found it sort of by accident , under the title " Scream and Die " which was apparently the original release title . So I was , of course , very excited , as this has been on my list of " things to get " . Unfortunately , this didn't quite live up to my expect... |
504,151 | 2,911,571 | 122,710 | 6 | Less than I expected but OK | As usual the write-up on the box is far better than the actual content , but that should come as no surprise , I suppose . I didn't realize this was an American film , thought it was out of Hong Kong or something but no , the locale is southern CA . This is an odd little movie , about several different characters that ... |
504,428 | 2,911,571 | 60,980 | 6 | OK spy spoof could have used a bit less crooning | The Sliencers is the first " Matt Helm " film , with Helm , of course , being played by Dean Martin , the last person in the world you'd probably choose for a " super-spy " role . This is a spoof , of course , so that part doesn't exactly matter except it's rather ridiculous to imagine Martin playing the role of someon... |
504,338 | 2,911,571 | 1,219,820 | 6 | very strange & creepy , but the ending . . . ? | I picked this up because it looked interesting , and before I watched it I had read some very negative things about it , so I was rather reluctant to watch it then , but bravely popped it into the DVD player last night and wow . . . . what a strange and creepy film . It's definitely pretty original , and really the onl... |
504,136 | 2,911,571 | 126,004 | 6 | Interesting but somewhat disappointing | I have been trying to get my hands on every Jean Rollin film I can find since my introduction to his works via " Night of the Hunted " a few years ago , so I was kind of excited to see something newly released that I hadn't even heard of before . Hmm , well , maybe I haven't heard of it because it's not one of his bett... |
504,234 | 2,911,571 | 415,855 | 6 | another creepy venture into David Lynch territory | Irene takes a job at a remote Austrian hotel , and it's rather an odd hotel . It seems like the previous woman to hold her job mysteriously disappeared , and it's possible she " ran off with a boyfriend " . . . she was like that , you know . But the longer Irene stays at the hotel , with its strange staff , the more sh... |
504,365 | 2,911,571 | 489,532 | 6 | I'm a fing nun , for chrissakes | Offensive Behaviour is , unfortunately , too low-budget to pull off the same sort of films that Peter Jackson managed so well on his low budgets in his early days , although it is compared to him . We have a nun and son hit-person team , out to get some money from a guy that owes , but due to some pesky little kids s... |
505,023 | 2,911,571 | 390,564 | 6 | weird but not completely awful | Strange little flick from New Zealand is about a young woman who has apparently been chosen to some kind of special honor , whatever that may be , and she's being stalked by some guy in a gas mask that is killing off all her friends to get her alone . Once that's been accomplished she finds herself at some sort of rath... |
505,147 | 2,911,571 | 77,848 | 6 | creepy and sleazy sex-ed film from Doris Wishman | I wasn't sure about this going into it , or coming out of it for that matter , but this is watchable and is also rather creepy . A legitimate sex change doctor , Leo Wollman , is our host and there's plenty of dialog and demonstrations and yes , even a bit of a real operation for your viewing unease , as a man becomes ... |
505,375 | 2,911,571 | 95,454 | 6 | Kind of messy but not too bad overall | Our film begins in the Belgian Congo in 1963 , when a young girl is sent on a train with her mom , who then does something weird to her daughter that involves some kind of fetish doll , and then when the train reaches the station the mom is found looking rather worse for wear . Fast forward 25 years to Albany , NY , an... |
504,456 | 2,911,571 | 78,067 | 6 | the viewer may also struggle to avoid a comatose state | Patrick is a young man who has been in a coma for several years and is apparently a ward of the state , or something to that effect . He lies completely still and yet there's something going on with him that's not quite right . It seems that his current state is something to do with killing his mother and her lover in ... |
504,322 | 2,911,571 | 47,966 | 6 | Not exactly Sci-fi , but now available on " Classic Sci-Fi volume 2 " | It's interesting that I've recently seen two Indian films that deal with snakes that can turn into humans ( and vice-versa ) and not long after I happen to watch THIS film , which was made at least 20 years before either film I saw but deals with more or less the same premise . But the premise is actually an Indian myt... |
504,372 | 2,911,571 | 61,094 | 6 | Nostaligic junk | I used to watch Thunderbirds on TV when I was a kid , and when I found the VHS of this on the " sell " table of my local video store , I snagged it . Mostly my interest in this was having just seen " Team America , World Police " but I was a little surprised that the puppets in Thunderbirds did't have visible strings ,... |
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