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505,304 | 2,911,571 | 218,088 | 8 | Decent 80's Mexican horror | A bunch of young folks go to party at an abandoned mansion & get the idea to steal a corpse to go with this cool book of incantations they just found . Lucky them , they just chose the corpse of some psycho occult guy that the book belongs to and he's more than happy to come back from the dead . Also along ( unwittingl... |
505,085 | 2,911,571 | 264,323 | 8 | purty garsh-darn good | Remakes and " re-imaginings " of old films are pretty standard these days , and most that I've seen , with very few exceptions , pretty much stunk , but this , now , 2001 Maniacs , well , this is great ! Very impressive and very well done as far as the humor and the horror all tossed in together . Very strange too that... |
504,273 | 2,911,571 | 342,492 | 8 | strange and creepy black comedy | Not sure I've ever seen a black comedy from Denamark before but this is quite good actually . The humor is suitably low-key and deadpan to go with some of the gruesome activity . Svend and Bjarne are fed up with working for their boss , because he's always putting them down ( in fact he mentions that they weren't brigh... |
504,041 | 2,911,571 | 439,815 | 8 | Cool horror comedy is pretty entertaining | Slither is a cool little movie , with lots of deadpan and understated humor and plenty of gore and ickiness , for those who prefer it . A meteorite with a parasitic alien hitch hiker crashes into the woods near a small town smack dab in the middle of Redneck Land right at the start of Deer Season , and things just aren... |
505,001 | 2,911,571 | 290,329 | 8 | Nasty & Ugly , but great | Takashi Miike has got to be one of my favorite film makers these days , I'm out searching for his stuff left and right . Visitor Q is probably the weirdest of his weird movies that I've seen yet , maybe more so because it's missing any of the supernatural elements present in most of his other films . I guess the closes... |
505,228 | 2,911,571 | 83,609 | 8 | Interesting slice of Japan with crazed music and visuals | Back in the olden days I was a big fan of punk rock and grabbed it from anyplace I could find it from , but mostly it was from Europe and the US , Australia , etc . , not much available from Japan . Now here's this interesting little document called " Burst City " on DVD and it gives the viewer a little taste of perhap... |
504,737 | 2,911,571 | 66,141 | 8 | chilling ( in more ways than one ) and eerie thriller is great . . . | I watched this on a very cold day & I was already bundled up to keep warm , so it didn't help to see Max Von Sydow as Salem running through the snow in his boots , t-shirt and boxers . Brrrr . Salem is an inmate at an asylum , so why is he out and about ? Well , revenge , it seems . But how does he get out ? Ah , that ... |
505,077 | 2,911,571 | 87,998 | 8 | great 80's low-budget indie horror | Here's a fun low-budget indie horror film from the early 80's that seems to stand the test of time . When a meteorite crashes in a rural New Jersey area , it brings with it lots of little wormy hitch-hikers , which take refuge in a nearby wet basement and begin to grow , into big toothy horrors . Of course , for the re... |
504,805 | 2,911,571 | 130,216 | 8 | Pretty weird for its time | Hey now , this is one weird flick for when it was made , about 1977 from what the ending credits said . I'd say it was pretty much " experimental " , because it has some artsy-fartsy moments that are just out of left field . Some people get invited to their high school reunion and upon arriving there are only 6 of them... |
505,476 | 2,911,571 | 167,284 | 8 | overlooked & underrated horror flick | Milo is an overlooked & underrated horror flick from the late 90's but the feel and atmosphere is more that of an 80's horror flick . Seems a bunch of little girls are taken to " see things " at the office of Milo's father , a gynecologist , and as a reward for getting to see what's there in jars ( yes , a gynecologist... |
505,094 | 2,911,571 | 470,132 | 8 | feudal Japanese werewolves and Yokai , oh my ! | A cool little Japanese flick taking place in maybe the 1800's , in which a lone wanderer ( Kibakichi ) takes on thugs and then takes shelter in a small village of Yokai , which are monsters in human form that are trying to hide away from men . But Kibakichi seems to fit in pretty well here , being that he's not exactly... |
505,059 | 2,911,571 | 409,459 | 8 | Interesting , dark , complex sort of " superhero " film | I knew nothing about Watchmen going in to see it , except what I'd heard briefly , about it being by the same guy that wrote the comic ( illustrated novel ? ) " V For Vendetta " , so since I liked that , I thought I might like this , and I did , quite a bit . The film begins with a rather dazzling sort of " alternative... |
505,702 | 2,911,571 | 1,029,234 | 8 | extreme & nasty with a very odd , but unique , premise | Martyrs starts out sort of in the torture-porn vein , but as it goes along , and the reasons for what you're seeing become a bit clearer , it becomes quite an original , if extreme & nasty , film . A young girl , held captive in an abandoned warehouse / factory ( something ) , manages to escape & elude her captors , to... |
504,088 | 2,911,571 | 83,542 | 8 | decent early 80's horror | This has always been one of my favorites , despite the fact that it's not a work of cinematic genius . Jack Palance and Martin Landau are great psychos , and Erland van Lidth isn't bad either but he's not particularly a standout except that he weighs 400 lbs . and is a child molester . Dr . Dan Potter is new at " The H... |
503,950 | 2,911,571 | 118,736 | 8 | Wow . . . . | Here we have a post-apocalyptic retro-futuristic surfabilly samurai Mad Max type flick . I'd say that's about the best I can describe it without sounding like it's not a good movie , because it is . It also would probably take the cake on weirdness , but I guess my only complaint is that it wasn't quite weird ENOUGH . ... |
505,398 | 2,911,571 | 814,685 | 8 | Bizarre & nasty " French Twist " on TCM , etc . . . | In the wake of post-election riots , a group of young punks flee Paris with a bag full of money . One of them has been shot & Yasmine ( who is pregnant ) has gone to the hospital with him but he dies and she's forced to flee . One pair , Farid & Tom , have gone ahead with the bag of money and have found a hostel to hol... |
503,963 | 2,911,571 | 21,814 | 8 | fairly intense for its time | I will admit to never having seen all of Dracula , the original 1931 version , and now I have , and I have to say that while I don't necessarily care all that much for older films , this must be considered a horror classic . Bela Lugosi is properly odd and creepy as the count , Dwight Frye is unnerving as the creepy Re... |
505,528 | 2,911,571 | 1,087,853 | 8 | Bowling-themed slasher flick is WAY nasty & great fun | Gutterballs is definitely a throwback to the slasher & exploitation flicks of the 70's & 80's , and yet it's FAR more nasty than most of those films , that is , the uncut version certainly is . I wonder how long the uncut version is , perhaps , 30 minutes ? Can't imagine why anyone would WATCH an uncut version of this ... |
504,264 | 2,911,571 | 78,269 | 8 | Nifty little Canadian 70's thriller | Elliot Gould works in a bank at a mall , and has noticed someone seeming to case the joint . Someone in a Santa Claus costume . And Santa even seems to have accidentally left a deposit slip behind with a " stick-em-up " note on it . Apparently , this bothers Gould because HE'S been planning on appropriating some money ... |
503,902 | 2,911,571 | 78,259 | 8 | Interesting and bizarre film of magic and mystery | I've wanted to see this for a long time and now that I have I'd like to watch it again . This is a very strange tale of a drifter , a man who has learned Aboriginal magic while in Australia and now is in England and has become the " guest " of eccentric musician John Hurt and his wife , Susannah York . The man ( Crossl... |
504,206 | 2,911,571 | 122,515 | 8 | three twisted tales of scuzzy Scots | Here's 3 twisted tales by the guy that wrote " Trainspotting " and it comes complete with subtitles because thanks to the thick accents you can barely make out what the actors are saying , although technically it IS English . In the first tale a young man who is rather a worthless sort is turned into a fly by God ( who... |
505,557 | 2,911,571 | 52,655 | 8 | enjoyable beatnik horror / comedy / trash | Dick Miller plays Walter Paisley , an ordinary schmuck who works as a busboy at the Yellow Door coffee house , a beatnik hangout where folks are just too cool . Except Walter , of course . He decides that he's going to be an artist and when he accidentally kills his landlady's cat , he covers it will clay and calls it ... |
505,421 | 2,911,571 | 883,995 | 8 | money money money money | Pusit is a salesman for a musical instrument company , that has lost his job due to poor sales & is deeply in debt , and sinking into despair . He gets a call on his cell phone from a mysterious party , telling him he can win money if he swats a fly on the wall and kills it with the first strike . So he does . He immed... |
504,507 | 2,911,571 | 303,648 | 8 | Incredibly good indie flick with great twists | Given the volume of independent releases out there , and how bad some of them are , it's easy to understand how a couple gems just kind of fall through the cracks every once in a while . This is definitely a gem , and it's well worth seeking out . A man with a room to rent finds a man , Chris , at his door , when he wa... |
504,384 | 2,911,571 | 56,687 | 8 | An old favorite | Bette Davis as " Baby " Jane Hudson is one of her creepiest roles ever , in my opinion . She and her sister Blanche live in a big mansion in LA , and Blanche is crippled and stays in her room all the time , while Jane is not too well herself , having quite a collection of empty liquor bottles going on and still wearing... |
504,967 | 2,911,571 | 412,019 | 8 | a stalker in a Taurus | I had my doubts about this because I don't care much for Bill Murray , but I figured , well , it IS Jim Jarmusch , so how bad can it be ? And frankly , it's not bad at all , in fact it was rather good & yes , almost touching . Bill Murray plays Don Johnston , confirmed bachelor and alone again now that his latest lady-... |
505,441 | 2,911,571 | 290,673 | 8 | backward structured nightmare | A movie that begins at the end and ends at the beginning , not to mention enough wonky camera work to cause seizures in some viewers , or at the very least , motion sickness , and it's French with subtitles . Still with me ? OK , this is one hard-to-watch film , but if you can stick with it it's also fascinating , in t... |
505,047 | 2,911,571 | 70,155 | 8 | finally I've see this ! | I've had the soundtrack to this movie for years but the VHS itself was priced higher than I was willing to pay , but the DVD came cheap . This is a very low budget movie & considering where & when it was made that's very understandable . It has subtitles too , and the people in the movie are speaking English , but give... |
505,325 | 2,911,571 | 373,040 | 8 | Troma-like production also has Llloyd Kaufman ? | This horror / comedy is like a Troma Production but not released by Troma , but it does have Lloyd Kaufman as an unfortunate bum who gets his arms ripped off after he gets mouthy . Lionel is a Janitor that lives in the janitor closet at Generico with Mr . Growbo . He ( and Mr . Growbo ) get no respect from the folks th... |
505,055 | 2,911,571 | 87,798 | 8 | Everything but the kitchen sink | To begin , I'll say I like this movie , and I like it a lot , but I doubt for any reason intended . There are actually a couple famous people in this but I think it's mostly spliced together stuff from failed projects , made into one BIG failed project that still provides oodles of unintentional entertainment . We have... |
504,598 | 2,911,571 | 60,955 | 8 | far ahead of its time | In watching " Seconds " the thing that struck me was how far ahead of its time it was , for the mentality of the film is not that of the 60's at all . A man with a solid , yet unhappy life , is contacted by an old friend , supposedly dead , who offers him something , but what , exactly , he isn't sure . Turns out it's ... |
504,788 | 2,911,571 | 60,959 | 8 | fun , strange , and one-of-a-kind | I know that " Daisies " had some political implications when it was made , and that there was trouble getting it past the " censors " or the Communist Party when it was made , because of the waste of food and some of the other ideas , but if you can set all that aside and watch , it's still an interesting film for many... |
504,771 | 2,911,571 | 77,889 | 8 | great overlooked horror-thriller | Anthony Hopkins ( with hair ) plays Corky , an earnest but failed magician who spices up his act with a ventriloquist dummy called Fats , after which he rises to almost fame . . . . . and when his manager asks that he have a medical exam before a big network TV thing he refuses on principle . He also takes Fats and dis... |
504,712 | 2,911,571 | 294,929 | 8 | More a drama than a horror movie or ghost story | I have to wonder why Tartan puts out this ' Extreme ' series and includes in it everything from Asia , ' extreme ' or not . For this is not really a horror movie & not really a ghost story , but it's more a long and slow but compelling drama about the occupants of a run-down apartment building , and their interactions ... |
505,589 | 2,911,571 | 83,844 | 8 | lives up to its almost " legendary " reputation | I caught most of the " made-for-TV " horror films back in the 70's but I guess I must have been busier in the 80's because I missed this one and just now had the opportunity to see it . This is a film that is highly sought after by those who remember it , I guess , and it does live up to its reputation too , because fo... |
505,237 | 2,911,571 | 373,074 | 8 | Well-done and HILARIOUS | I'm no fan of martial arts movies , and when a friend handed me this DVD to watch I set it aside to get to sometime , but threw it on yesterday and was extremely surprised at how funny and well done it was . There is a gang of extortionists ( The Axe Gang ) that is muscling in on the quiet backwater of Pig Sty Alley , ... |
504,643 | 2,911,571 | 70,300 | 8 | Better than what movie books would have one believe | Hey now , I picked this up on DVD , a film that I'd been lusting after for some time but had never been able to find it , and now , well , I've seen it and I have to say it's far better than what my movie books say . A young girl ( the daughter of a gangster ) is living at a church and singing in the choir , proof that... |
505,027 | 2,911,571 | 78,077 | 8 | Interesting French Twist on the zombie thing | Two young women are on their way to their respective vacation spots on a train when they blunder into an area where people have been driven mad by something , and the people are also not looking too well , being that their skin is rupturing and pus is flowing , all bad signs . One young lady is killed when a man who is... |
504,875 | 2,911,571 | 210,070 | 8 | Wes Craven , take note . . . . | OK , I saw this a couple years ago but just got it on DVD and watched it last night and what a great movie ! Here this is a little Canadian movie and it's a far better werewolf movie than Wes Craven's stinky big budget " Cursed " . Two sisters , who have an obsession with death , find themselves hiding a little secret ... |
505,040 | 2,911,571 | 56,801 | 8 | eye candy and nothing more ? | A director takes a cure and tries to pull together resources to make a film at the same time . Apparently what is going into the film is from his personal experiences in life , and I guess a lot of this is from Fellini's personal life too , and since I don't know much about that it was lost on me . But there's plenty t... |
504,695 | 2,911,571 | 66,482 | 8 | as you're busy squirming , keep in mind this is an underground movie | This is a nasty ugly movie , complete with junkies shooting up , female impersonators pleasuring themselves with beer bottles , and the on-screen presence of Joe Dallesandro's penis in many scenes , so as you're squirming away if you dare to even watch this , keep in mind it's an underground movie . Joe is a junkie , w... |
503,876 | 2,911,571 | 47,976 | 8 | Pretty strange for the early 50's | Dementia , in its original form , does not have the narration by Ed McMahon , it has no dialog at all and the only human voices you can hear are laughter . But it's not exactly wholesome happy laughter . A woman , known only as the Gamin , wakes up in a hotel room , puts on her blazer and grabs her switchblade as she p... |
504,373 | 2,911,571 | 308,152 | 8 | Good creepy horror / suspense flick | Hey now , I bought this one based on word-of-mouth on the internet , it sounded good , so I was prepared to be let down , but pleasantly surprised at how good this was . A family is going to the wife's mother's home for Christmas eve , a family tradition , and then dad decides to take a short cut . What happens from th... |
504,345 | 2,911,571 | 202,434 | 8 | another wicked stepmother story , Japanese style | Imagine the surprise of a man and his wife when his " mistress " shows up with her 3 kids and asks for support money . Imagine their greater surprise when the " mistress " disappears and leaves the kids with them . Now the wife of the man who had the kept woman is not happy at all with this situation and doesn't treat ... |
505,440 | 2,911,571 | 427,157 | 8 | Pretty good for a " made for TV " flick | This is a pretty good made for TV flick of the ' what if ' variety . As in , what if terrorists exploded a ' dirty bomb ' in a big city , in this case , London . Lots of poking at folks that say ' we're all set in the event of an emergency ' that then reveal that they're not exactly telling the full story . And is anyo... |
504,786 | 2,911,571 | 382,810 | 8 | what a tangled web we weave | Despite the fact that this is not exactly an uplifting film , I liked it a lot , and believe me , a film doesn't have to be uplifting for me to like it . But some may find it a downer . Cate Blanchett plays a young woman who has kicked the heroin habit and works at a video store in an Asian part of Sydney . The temptat... |
503,935 | 2,911,571 | 260,494 | 8 | The hairy beasts are back | Veerana has just been released on DVD in the US , and I just watched it last night and have to say that it was enjoyable , but not quite as good as anticipated . The tale is that of a witch , hanged for her crimes many years ago but given new life by a black magician . A man taking his daughter back to school in the ci... |
504,272 | 2,911,571 | 405,296 | 8 | Pretty dark stuff for Linklater but an awesome film . . . | Given some of the films I've seen by Linklater this seems rather dark and ominous , but it still is a very good film and well worth seeing . It's also done with the " roto-scoping " technique ( used in Waking Life , which I thought was rather boring ) but to me , while it's fascinating at times it's also a bit hard on ... |
505,299 | 2,911,571 | 217,679 | 8 | an intelligent movie while still having a high squirm factor | The nerdy son of a doctor has come up with a serum that's supposed to increase endorphins to block pain and generate happiness . He calls it myson ( MY SON ) in honor of the father he never met . When his mother is conducting test experiments on three young ladies with a new contraceptive , he manages to slip some of h... |
503,949 | 2,911,571 | 65,553 | 8 | Style over substance | Hey now , I don't mind style over subject so much when it comes to certain movies , and not minding that is almost a necessity when it comes to Italian thrillers & horror movies , anyway . This is not an exception in that area . The colors are vivid , it has groovy jazzy Italian pop muzak , it has beautiful ( by 1970 s... |
504,149 | 2,911,571 | 401,320 | 8 | Great , but why is it called . . . . . . . . ? | This is a mostly fun Czech zombie comedy , but why is it called Choking Hazard ? Not sure about that part . But , no matter , what we have here is a bunch of students of philosophy at an isolated inn to do philosophical type things and discover the meaning of life , and suddenly they're overrun by Zombie Woodsman . Woo... |
505,385 | 2,911,571 | 64,546 | 8 | Live at the Witch Trials ! | This is a 1969 Czech film that shares similar themes with " Conqueror Worm " and " Mark of the Devil " ( less the gratuitous gore of the latter ) . An old woman is caught taking a consecrated host from a church in order to cure a sick cow , and the witch hunt is on . It matters not if one is innocent or not , for each ... |
505,132 | 2,911,571 | 60,701 | 8 | very odd | Filmed in gorgeous and , at times , creepy black and white , this is one of Franco's better films , being that it was made in the mid-60's so whatever sort of problems he has that led to films like " Tender Flesh " are not yet evident . Tha basic story is of your garden variety mad doctor , complete with shades & wheel... |
505,416 | 2,911,571 | 276,919 | 8 | A hellish fable | I knew nothing about this film going into it but was very surprised to see that the town of Dogville consisted of mostly chalk outlines of houses and bushes and yes , even a dog , with bits and pieces of furniture here and there . So it has very much the feel of a play , and it is in 9 acts . Nicole Kidman plays Grace ... |
504,841 | 2,911,571 | 65,595 | 8 | pretty creepy thriller with great atmosphere | Michael Gough plays a rather sadistic and nasty , overbearing father to Jane & an even less pleasant husband to Edith , and after Jane is beaten for supposedly stealing money , mother and daughter decide once and for all to dispose of dear old dad . The opportunity comes when brother Rupert is away on business and Walt... |
504,202 | 2,911,571 | 64,519 | 8 | excellent science fiction flick from the creators of Thunderbirds , etc . | Journey to the Far Side of the Sun is about the discovery of a planet on the other side of the sun which shares the same orbit as earth and therefore has been undiscovered until a space probe on the far side of the sun photographs it . Of course two astronauts ( Roy Thinnes & Ian Hendry ) are sent to explore it but due... |
504,301 | 2,911,571 | 757,061 | 8 | banned from CABLE ? | I own many of Takashi Miike's films so I was rather excited that this was out , and then couldn't find it at Wal Mart . . . . so had to pick it up elsewhere . When I did find it I noticed the " banned from cable broadcast " notice on the box , and wondered why , since I don't HAVE cable and therefore did not know it wa... |
503,922 | 2,911,571 | 454,841 | 8 | takes the original and kicks it up a few notches | I reviewed this a few months ago after having seen the film in the theater , but now having viewed it on DVD ( the unrated version ) I decided to give it another shot . This takes Wes Craven's original , which is now almost 30 years old , and makes it look like a walk in the park . The gore and unpleasantness are kicke... |
504,219 | 2,911,571 | 53,084 | 8 | Decent earlier Sellers | The Mouse That Roared is the tale of The Duchy of Grand Fenwick , which , after one of their famous wines was copied by an unscrupulous US wine-maker and outsold theirs , found themselves in bankruptcy . They did send a few complaints to the US but they were ignored , so they saw no other option but to declare war on t... |
504,717 | 2,911,571 | 360,717 | 8 | good , but ; did it need to be over 3 hours long ? | I went into this dreading having to sit for three hours , but I was hoping that the movie would be so fascinating that the time would pass without me knowing it . Well , it is , to a point , and the time did pass , to a point , but I guess now that Peter Jackson has a blank check to make movies that he has decided to p... |
505,283 | 2,911,571 | 140,384 | 8 | A rather bold film for 1969 , must have raised a few eyebrows | In seeing some older Japanese films , especially those from the 60's , I have to say that they were FAR ahead of their time . Moju ( Blind Beast ) is definitely one of those , and for 1969 it's actually fairly shocking . Maybe even for now . Michio is a blind sculptor who has kidnapped ( with the help of his mother ) a... |
503,960 | 2,911,571 | 492,912 | 8 | Interesting and well-done take on Frankenstein | Sujbect Two is about an unwitting med student who suffers from headaches that responds to an email from someone he'd been corresponding with that invites him to an isolated cabin in the Rockies to participate in an experiment . What he didn't realize was that he'd be killed in his first few minutes there and then resur... |
504,388 | 2,911,571 | 87,472 | 8 | Above-average early 80's slasher | While there's nothing that particularly makes this film stand out , it's one of the better early 80's slasher flicks around , and it also has Clu Gulager and Vera Miles to add some class to it ( ? ) . The plot isn't really anything new , a bunch of sorority pledges get locked into a shopping complex to steal the securi... |
505,134 | 2,911,571 | 74,287 | 8 | Creepy as all get out | This is a great little Itaian horror flick and it brings to mind Argento , only in that it's rather stylish and creepy , not necessarily that it adopts ( or steals ) his style . A man has been asked to restore a painting that is rather uh , controversial ? Yeah , it is , it's of a man being killed gruesomely and it's o... |
504,504 | 2,911,571 | 269,217 | 8 | a love story , a splatter-western , a color overdose , and well worth seeing | Tears of the Black Tiger may be like any other film you've seen . It's a love story , it's a western , at least a Thai western , and it's got incredibly violent bloodshed at times that's almost cartoon-like in its excessiveness . " Dum " is a young peasant boy who has fallen in love with a rich girl from the city nam... |
505,403 | 2,911,571 | 299,556 | 8 | Comic book horror heroine ? ( maybe minor spoiler ) | I have to wonder if Bloody Mallory is based on some kind of comic or , excuse me , graphic novel , because that's how it plays out , and it's actually much better than I expected . Seems Mallory made a poor choice in a husband at one time in her life and after dispatching that demon back to hell she vowed to fight evil... |
505,601 | 2,911,571 | 295,700 | 8 | Not Sponsored by the West Virginia Tourism Board | Yep , you can bet that West Virginia didn't get an unexpected increase in tourism because of this movie . And a lovely movie it is , as young folks are stranded on an isolated road in an isolated area and fall victim to folks who apparently have a rather interesting family tree . Inbred , you might say . This is kind o... |
504,608 | 2,911,571 | 360,232 | 8 | Michievous frolicking and vampires too . . . | OK , this is not a great film , but it is quite interesting , really , being the first ever horror film made and released in Pakistan . The DVD of this has special features that have interviews with the cast and crew that give some background on this . At any rate , what we have is a mad scientist discovering the secre... |
504,857 | 2,911,571 | 820,087 | 8 | Incredibly strange and compelling | HalluCinoGeNnN is the name given to a series of movies ( I guess ) by this particular director . And this one , Nails , is the first I've seen and I want MORE . Imagine if David Lynch , Shinya Tsukamoto ( Tetsuo ) and Jan Svankmajer all got together on a bad acid trip and made a movie and that will only give you a tiny... |
504,806 | 2,911,571 | 74,486 | 8 | journey into the dark regions with David Lynch | I was absolutely thrilled to finally find an original copy of this weird flick at some new store that just opened here for $5 . I've had a cheesy copy ( from a Japanese laser disc ) for years and it's OK but the Japanese subtitles had to go . So eagerly I popped this into the old VCR last night and took the dark journe... |
504,603 | 2,911,571 | 424,345 | 8 | An apt follow-up to Clerks | 12 years after the original " Clerks " came out , we have Dante showing up for work at the Quik Stop only to find it's on fire . And the fire department shows up and does their thing and Randall shows up shortly afterward and wanders inside without noticing . Fast forward to some time later and we have both Dante and R... |
504,707 | 2,911,571 | 70,078 | 8 | I hope you enjoy snuffing it | From Beyond the Grave is finally out on DVD in the US and I have to say that I actually enjoyed this more than " Tales from The Crpyt " and " Vault of Horror " . The stories are taken from the writings of R . Chetwynd-Hayes ( who was also responsible for the writing behind " The Monster Club " ) and not from E . C . ... |
504,082 | 2,911,571 | 65,669 | 8 | Lovecraft drops acid | First off , I love the opening credits of this film , with the stylized animation and the music . As for the rest of this , well , it is beautifully filmed , for the most part , with wonderful sets and yes , somewhat of a creepy story , tempered by Dean Stockwell's somewhat hammy performance as Wilbur Whately . Some " ... |
505,086 | 2,911,571 | 443,205 | 8 | not like Oldboy , not like Fight Club | For some lame reason the box art on this proclaims it to be like Oldboy & Fight Club , and I have to wonder if whoever wrote that watched either of those movies or this , because that's a breath-takingly bad comparison . I saw no similarities to either film in this , and it stands quite well on its own merit . A young ... |
504,785 | 2,911,571 | 96,046 | 8 | this one will give you the creeps . . . | Thieves who steal the payroll from an army base also hijack a " getaway " plane , and end up bailing out over a rural area and find themselves in what seems to be a farm , surrounded by corn and lots of extremely gruesome-looking scarecrows . There's a small house in the midst of all this where they gather , and it see... |
505,319 | 2,911,571 | 70,030 | 8 | Railroad Rage | Emperor of the North ( Pole ) takes place during The Great Depression back in the 1930's , in the northwest somewhere . There's a subculture of people that have been reduced to riding the rails ( for free ) to get somewhere , and Lee Marvin plays A Number 1 , a tough man who has been doing this for years . Along comes ... |
505,145 | 2,911,571 | 70,040 | 8 | haunting , beautiful , and quite strange | Ana and Isabel are two little girls that live " somewhere on the Castillian plain " in 1940 , and become obsessed with finding a Frankenstein monster somewhere out there after a traveling movie show comes to their little village and shows the movie . Isabel claims that the spirit lives in an old abandoned building with... |
505,339 | 2,911,571 | 820,037 | 8 | If the Texas Chain Saw Massacre was filmed by John Waters . . . . . . . . | After seeing " I'll Bury You Tomorrow " I had great hopes for " The Blood Shed " , but I didn't watch it for a few days after I got it , because for some reason I was afraid it would be disappointing . But , I threw it on last night and lo and behold , I loved it . The Bullion family live in the woods near a suburban N... |
504,881 | 2,911,571 | 113,276 | 8 | oddball little film sucks you right in | This is nowhere as lurid as the title would have you believe , but it is an interesting little oddball film and well worth seeing . A man goes into a bar ( sorry , but that sounds like the beginning of a joke ) and sits at the bar and has a few beers , and in the bar there are only a few people , and as the man sits at... |
504,978 | 2,911,571 | 373,469 | 8 | My friend Flicka . . . | Robert Downey Jr , plays Harry , a thief who is masquerading as a private eye / actor , who stumbles across a girl who looks very much like one he was smitten with years ago in Indiana , mainly because it IS her . Val Kilmer plays a gay private eye named Perry , who has been on a video surveillance of a particular plac... |
504,554 | 2,911,571 | 286,669 | 8 | nasty and scary stuff | Rooms for Tourists is about 5 young ladies , all bound for Trinidad ( Argentina , apparently , not the island ) and they all share a common bond . They're all stuck in some small village called San Ramon because the train to Trinidad supposedly came early , at least that's what they're told upon arriving at the stati... |
505,334 | 2,911,571 | 118,150 | 8 | interesting , funny , well done | Fresh from their first effort ( a 3-hour documentary on how NYC gets its water . . . ? ! ! ) two young documentary film makers pick one Joe Boone , private detective , as their next subject , and follow him around with a camera on his daily duties . Some of Joe's cases are rather interesting , like the man who keeps ge... |
505,167 | 2,911,571 | 78,763 | 8 | oddly touching and quite good | A man spends two months salary to buy a Russian movie camera to take pictures of his new baby daughter but finds himself far more interested in filming other things as time goes by . He even begins a club at work and ends up being tasked to film a company celebration , after which he achieves a certain small fame . Thi... |
505,096 | 2,911,571 | 317,042 | 8 | weird , creepy , dark , and disturbing | This has been described as " Kafka-esque " but for me to judge that I'd have to be familiar with the works of Kafka , I guess . But I can say this is a pretty dark and creepy flick , with Jeremy Sisto as a computer programmer holed up in his apartment working on code and receiving lots of empty packages and drinking lo... |
504,093 | 2,911,571 | 109,324 | 8 | Creepy & disturbing | First off , why must something always be an answer to something else , instead of being allowed to stand on its own merit ? Like , for instance , the box art on " Dead and Breakfast " proclaimed that it was the " US Answer to Shaun of the Dead " . It's not , and it's no more the answer to Shaun of the Dead than " Boy M... |
505,559 | 2,911,571 | 342,882 | 8 | beautiful , creepy , strange , and very hard to digest in one viewing | I rather liked this movie , although I felt like I was watching something that was out of my league or something , at times . It begins with an opera star dropping dead on stage , it seems , and then we have a piano tuner , Felisberto , showing up at a remote location to find out he has no pianos to tune , merely autom... |
505,571 | 2,911,571 | 210,909 | 8 | Disgusting Spanish Zombie Gore Comedy | This is s truly disgusting zombie comedy from Argentina , chock full of gore and splatter and way over the top . By " disgusting " , I don't mean I was appalled , I rather liked it , actually . It seems that this small town is the subject of some experiment with aliens where they were allowed to test some earth folks w... |
504,768 | 2,911,571 | 408,777 | 8 | Some people never change | Jan & Peter are part of the " activist " scene and their thing is to break into the homes of the wealthy , re-arrange the furniture and such , and leave notes ( your days of plenty are numbered , you have too much money , etc . ) . Enter Jule , a young woman who is being evicted from her apartment and who needs a place... |
504,466 | 2,911,571 | 64,789 | 8 | Venus in Furs = Paroxismus ? Okay . . . . . | I guess I never knew the " real " title of this , I remember seeing , back in 1969 or 1970 , a film called " Venus in Furs " advertised in the Denver , CO , newspaper , rated X , and at the tender age of about 12 I wondered what that was , now I'm not sure it was even this film . Whatever , shut up , write the review .... |
505,584 | 2,911,571 | 47,577 | 8 | Great flick for its time | This is an enjoyable science fiction film from 1955 , and has rather impressive effects for that time as well . Sort of benevolent aliens ( Well-tanned gentlemen with VERY high foreheads and televangelist hairstyles ) have rounded up a group of earth's top scientists to help them , because their planet is dying because... |
504,865 | 2,911,571 | 69,747 | 8 | fun stuff | This is a fun movie and I guess you could call it madcap , screwball , zany , whatever , it's fun . I had never heard or seen Louis De Funes prior to this ( and he's been deceased for about 23 years now ) but he seemed quite the master of the inappropriate facial expression . As in , making faces ? The gist of the stor... |
505,445 | 2,911,571 | 69,754 | 8 | a good one but tough to categorize | The Baby stars Anjanette Comer ( " The Loved One " ) as a social worker who works her way into an assignment working with a supposedly retarded young man , known only as " Baby " , who is 20 years old and still wearing diapers . This young man is a part of the Wadsworth family , headed up by Ruth Roman & her two odd ... |
505,219 | 2,911,571 | 95,941 | 8 | dark humor and gore galore from Fulci | I'd never heard of this film before I pulled out a used copy at a used movie / music / etc . store yesterday , but saw it was Fulci & the price was right so it came home with me and I watched it last night . I'd never really thought of Fulci as having much of a sense of humor , but if he did it's certainly in this one ... |
505,101 | 2,911,571 | 109,232 | 8 | Don't beg for an explanation . . . | This is out on Troma but not a typical Troma picture , according to Lloyd Kaufman it's an " art " picture and that's about as close as you can get to describing it . It's a dark horror comedy , I guess , and they don't come much darker . Someone describes it on the box as Argento meets Fellini with a dash of Kubrick , ... |
505,711 | 2,911,571 | 455,115 | 8 | Twisted Spanish serial killer flick is nasty & brutal | If one were to believe the blurb on the front of the box , this is " The Spanish Answer To Hostel " . One has to wonder if the person that wrote that has seen Hostel , for this isn't really anything like it . Antonio Frau has been to prison for many years for killing his girlfriend , and now that he's out he finds he's... |
504,095 | 2,911,571 | 122,143 | 8 | Odd & creepy | This film , made some time before Blair Witch Project , either heavily influenced that film or else they just came up with the idea independently . . . . ha . Two hosts of a cable access TV show go to the New Jersey Pine Barrens to search for the " Jersey Devil " and end up dead , along with their sound man . The only ... |
505,230 | 2,911,571 | 217,331 | 8 | Horror comedy succeeds where so many other don't | I don't necessarily like horror / comedies , because they're generally pretty lame and a waste , but this one somehow manages to succeed where most don't , and why ? I'm not really sure , but to me , it does . We begin with a young lady in a Catholic school uniform setting nuns and a priest on fire and shooting them , ... |
504,176 | 2,911,571 | 416,282 | 8 | Excellent Creepy Bollywood Horror | Vaastu Shastra is probably one of the best Indian horror films I've seen , of the modern variety , anyway . A couple move into an isolated house with their young son Rohan and the wife's college-age sister . Not long after they move in the son begins to act oddly and seems to be listening or seeing something that no on... |
505,254 | 2,911,571 | 64,855 | 8 | great satire on the advertising business and other things | Putney Swope is the story of a token black man on the board of directors of a large advertising firm who is accidentally voted Chairman of the Board when the owner of the firm keels over while trying to stutter out an idea that he was apparently quite excited about . Putney , of course , takes his new role to heart and... |
504,404 | 2,911,571 | 65,916 | 8 | If Archie Bunker was armed . . . . . . | If Archie Bunker was armed , he may well have been " Joe " . However , " All in the Family " would have had a rather short run because the censors would never have allowed it to run along the lines of THIS movie . Joe is a working class guy who is a racist and a bigot , and has a big mouth , especially when he's drunk ... |
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