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504,796 | 2,911,571 | 360,486 | 8 | I was pleasantly surprised | I went to see this movie with a friend yesterday who suggested it , and after the last movie I saw in the theater ( Hide & Seek ) I was fully prepared to be disappointed , but this turned out to be an pretty awesome wild ride of a movie . For once I've now seen a movie where CGI was used to its credit and not its detri... |
505,276 | 2,911,571 | 57,295 | 8 | A moldy oldie brought to new life | Yay to Media Blasters for releasing this classic Japanese horror movie from the early 60's , but boo for the $19 . 99 price tag . At any rate I have had an old bootleg VHS copy of this for years & it's nice to see it as it was probably meant to be seen with all the colors not washed out and in Japanese with subtitles ,... |
504,019 | 2,911,571 | 906,665 | 8 | Eastern Western is plenty of odd fun | Sukiyaki Western Django is pretty much what you would expect from a Western by Takashi Miike . . . it's violent , it's funny , and it's just plain weird at times . It looks kind of like the old west , except the buildings are distinctly Japanese . It feels kind of like the old west , except some characters are in cow... |
504,732 | 2,911,571 | 303,243 | 8 | Very touching comedy / drama from China | How far would you go to make someone happy ? Old Zhao , who is a bachelor , seems to have found the woman of his dreams . She's big and bountiful & will keep him warm . She has two kids , though , one is her son who is fat & lazy and rude , and the other is her blind stepdaughter , Wu , who was left with her when her f... |
505,664 | 2,911,571 | 60,560 | 8 | Hard to believe this was made in 1966 | Watching this I find that it's kind of hard to believe it was made in 1966 , and I can't imagine exactly how it was received back then , but seen today this is still an amazing film and while I enjoyed it a lot I think I'd have to watch it again to see if I can pick up a bit more . Mr . Ogata is the main character , an... |
505,575 | 2,911,571 | 95,756 | 8 | fun , trashy , and definitely an 80's film through and through | This is the only version of " Not of This Earth " that I've seen but I would probably be hard pressed to like either of the other two versions more . I mean , after all , they don't feature Traci Lords . And I do realize that this was made about 18 years ago . No matter . The basic storyline is that a sort of alien vam... |
504,694 | 2,911,571 | 22,100 | 8 | Still creepy after all these years . | Fritz Lang made some amazing films for his time , and this is only one of them . Peter Lorre plays a child-murderer in Berlin , and he's playing a cat-and-mouse game with the police . Seems he's a former mental patient too , go figure . The opening scene as small children play in the courtyard of this apartment buildin... |
505,075 | 2,911,571 | 74,739 | 8 | a fun kids-eye view of suburban life in the 70's | Hard to believe that a couple years after this , Don Coscarelli would move on to Phantasm , which is one of my all-time favorites . But out of curiosity , I got this ( Kenny & Co . ) on DVD , because it was cheap , & I was curious to see what other stuff Coscarelli had done . Wow . This is a highly-entertaining view of... |
504,738 | 2,911,571 | 884,328 | 8 | From a novella by Stephen King , a decent adaptation ! | I'm glad I didn't buy the paperback of " The Mist " that I've seen around lately , because I didn't realize until it was a little way into the film that I knew this story because I'd read it , years ago . This is probably one of the best adaptations of any of Stephen King's stories to ever hit the screen . The story is... |
504,105 | 2,911,571 | 312,843 | 8 | Mail Me | My my my , the Japanese don't mess around when it comes to the portrayal of nasty things , and this movie is no exception . From the opening scene of 54 school girls taking a dive onto railroad tracks and the resulting blood bath , this film almost never lets up with the nasty imagery and icky things . A wave of suicid... |
504,818 | 2,911,571 | 420,251 | 8 | pretty disturbing stuff | Three . . . . Extremes has some pretty disturbing stuff in it for your viewing . . . pleasure . " Dumplings " is the nastiest , with a woman that seeks to regain her beauty by eating dumplings made with a special ingredient . Box , by Takashi Miike , is probably the weirdest ( big surprise , eh ? ) and the offering fro... |
505,258 | 2,911,571 | 182,996 | 8 | cheesy but rather fun favorite of mine , now on DV | Despite what doesn't show on IMDb , " Don't Go In The Woods " ( Alone ) has just been released on DVD . This has been a favorite of mine for years and oddly enough the DVD box notes say that it was intended as a comedy ? Hmm , well , I guess you'd have to be in the right frame of mind ( as in , wasted ? ) to think that... |
504,845 | 2,911,571 | 87,100 | 8 | Weird , whacked-out and wonderful | Ken Russell's " Crimes of Passion " . . . I may have known that this film existed but until I found a used copy sitting in front of me I'd never considered watching it . . . the lure of Kathleen Turner AND Anthony Perkins in the same film was too much for me to pass up . Turner plays a sports clothing designer by day ,... |
504,362 | 2,911,571 | 492,784 | 8 | Now , which is the dream ? A very disturbing and twisted film from Sion Sono , the director of Suicide Club " . Either you're seeing the visualization of a novel that's being written , or you're seeing flashbacks to something that really did happen . . . you're never really sure . Perhaps it's about a young girl name... | null |
504,158 | 2,911,571 | 299,910 | 8 | The Six Million Dollar Man with attitude | This is not one of the best Takashi Miike films that I've seen , but it is one of his earlier ones so I'll take that into consideration . He was just getting revved up back then , I guess . The tale is that of a young wanna-be Yakuza who is weak and incapable of being threatening enough to even collect money ( as he's ... |
504,204 | 2,911,571 | 424,136 | 8 | great yet disturbing film ( maybe a spoiler or two ) | A 14 year old girl turns the tables on a suspected pedophile by meeting him at a coffee bar and coming back to his place . Of course , she's already pegged him from the internet and has tied him to at least one disappearance of a young girl in the area . And she has something planned for him that doesn't at all fit in ... |
503,873 | 2,911,571 | 69,840 | 8 | Good little film with some great twists ( maybe a minor spoiler or 2 ) | Candy is 16 and on her way home from school when 3 people in a van sweep her off her feet and put her in a hole in the ground . With oxygen , of course . Seems like Candy has been targeted as " most likely to yield diamonds " to the 3 kidnappers , who have been staking her out and her father , who works at a jewelry st... |
503,971 | 2,911,571 | 104,782 | 8 | at times beautiful and at times very disturbing | This is a film about a French Canadian boy named Leo who dreams . He dreams he's Italian because his mother was impregnated by a tomato imported from Italy , and you'll have to watch the film to see how this logic works because I don't think I can say it here . Leo lives with his family in a run-down tenement house & i... |
504,091 | 2,911,571 | 159,797 | 8 | If the gang from " Airplane " tackled a sci-fi alien invasion movie . . . . | This movie ( AKA , " Invasion ! " ) is to me , what a sci-fi alien invasion movie would be like if it were handled by the folks that did " Airplane " . The small town of Exceptional Vista , virtually a ghost town since the Nut Factory closed down , is target for an invasion of some kind of slimy aliens that want to far... |
505,337 | 2,911,571 | 66,040 | 8 | good but not as shocking as it probably was in 1970 | This is a strange little flick about two young girls , both from well-to-do families , who make a pact with Satan and vow to do evil . They both attend a school away from home and both are in their early teens . Now , their pact is just something they made up , and it's mostly just a game , so it seems , until they end... |
505,082 | 2,911,571 | 94,701 | 8 | not bad 80's horror flick | A young girl is part of a cult in some time period where they play the Chambers Brothers and Electric Prunes , and that would mean the 60's , right ? I think so . The cult is run by a Jim Jones wannabe named Harris and his loyal brainwashed followers allow him to douse them with gas and they all go off to their next li... |
504,722 | 2,911,571 | 369,994 | 8 | Maybe best enjoyed by those who didn't follow the TV show ? | Back in the olden days when I had cable , I watched this show a few times and while it was kind of interesting , I never followed it faithfully so I guess I didn't really get what was going on . However , for some reason I was drawn to this movie and I wasn't disappointed . Jerri Blank ( Amy Sedaris ) is your basic los... |
504,907 | 2,911,571 | 278,487 | 8 | weird , creepy , unintelligible , incoherent , & I loved it | I suppose I'm in the minority with this film , but I don't really care what others think of this film , it doesn't change my opinion of it . This is pretty weird stuff , to say the least . The gist of the story is that a film crew has taken up residence in an old hotel in Venice , Italy , to film a version of " The Duc... |
503,874 | 2,911,571 | 71,508 | 8 | If only it were in 3D for home viewing | I originally saw this in 3D back in the early 80's when the 3D " Craze " had a brief resurgence . In watching this one can certainly tell it was made for 3D as innards are thrust at the screen on poles and dangle enticingly through grates . Ugh . Having said that though , it is , to me , quite a decent movie & definite... |
504,669 | 2,911,571 | 71,523 | 8 | The little animals come to see me sometimes . . . . . | I found a VHS copy of this movie in the late 80's and did not know who either Pete Walker or Sheila Keith were at the time , but the film was creepy and disturbing , and I loved it . Now many years later & have this on DVD and this is still one of my favorite Pete Walker movies . It begins with something bad happening ... |
505,316 | 2,911,571 | 106,215 | 8 | goofy , disgusting , and fun science fiction | This is my 2nd Alex de la Iglesias film , the other being Day of the Beast , and this is a highly underrated director . This is about a group of crippled and disfigured individuals who are part of a activist group that lashes out at the " beautiful people " of the world . Now they've decided to kidnap the daughter of a... |
504,447 | 2,911,571 | 74,806 | 8 | Good Old Fashioned Thriller , 70's style | This has long been a high-ticket item on various internet sites , and now you can own it on DVD for a normal price , isn't that wonderful ? You bet it is , because this is well worth having . Jodie Foster plays Rynn , a mysterious young girl who ostensibly lives with her father in a rented house somewhere near the ocea... |
504,673 | 2,911,571 | 79,135 | 8 | be careful who you take refuge with | A man who has made off with some gold is pursued by his would-be partners and takes refuge in a huge house , where he finds two women that are supposedly the " advance party " for the servants & owners who are to come later . Being that he's a thief & has a gun , and they're attractive , he takes advantage of them , bu... |
505,422 | 2,911,571 | 64,106 | 8 | Similar in style to Hitchcock , only nastier | Le Boucher ( The Butcher ) is a story of a young headmistress , Helene , at a school in a small village , who strikes up a relationship with the local butcher , Popaul , who seems to be quite a nice man . Helene has had a bad relationship in the past & is somewhat standoffish , and that makes for somewhat of an awkwa... |
505,108 | 2,911,571 | 71,431 | 8 | early 70's Euro-zombie horror shock | Let Sleeping Corpses Lie , AKA The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue , is an underrated zombie movie that's actually quite good . The introduction on the DVD by director Jorge Grau is actually pretty amusing too . A young man on holiday , who is taking some items to a buyer in a town in the country , runs into probl... |
504,896 | 2,911,571 | 60,174 | 8 | A bit schizo but still an interesting film | This film was made of pieces of another film done by Roger Corman & Francis Ford Coppola and filmed in Yugoslavia , and additional footage was filmed later , so you get this odd combo of Gothic architecture and beautiful beaches and palm trees . But still , this is an atmospheric film with lots of strange and creepy im... |
504,563 | 2,911,571 | 71,487 | 8 | Bizarre , surreal , and was there a message here ? | Depending on what kind of film I'm watching , it doesn't always have to make a point , but one wonders if there was supposed to be a message here or if this is just a free-form flow of strangeness . A little girl is slipped postcards by some " nice man in the park " and her parents are incensed when they see them , and... |
504,627 | 2,911,571 | 1,020,530 | 8 | they're only children | Imagine the kids from Alan Clarke's " Scum " , only not in prison where they belong . Throw in a dash of " Deliverance " , " Straw Dogs " , and perhaps a dash of Larry Clark's " Bully " , and that might give you an idea of the perpetrators in " Eden Lake " . Steve & Jenny have gone on holiday to Eden Lake , and Steve p... |
504,672 | 2,911,571 | 90,197 | 8 | a good film , but to be approached with plenty of caution | In A Glass Cage is a good film , and well done , but the subject matter is a bit extreme . It will not be for everyone . First caution : There's a little blurb on the front cover from John Waters ( yes , Baltimore's very own " Prince of Puke " ) . " In A Glass Cage is a great film , but I'm scared to show it to my frie... |
505,255 | 2,911,571 | 82,479 | 8 | the original release is VASTLY different from the US cut | For anyone that's ever seen this in its heavily edited US version , the original version is quite different , with lots of extra footage ( some which is merely there , some which was cut for OBVIOUS reasons ) . The music is also quite different and more menacing and appropriate for a horror movie than the jazzy 80's-st... |
504,856 | 2,911,571 | 373,981 | 8 | Cool and weird subway flick from Hungary | Ever seen Luc Besson's " Subway " ? Well , forget about it , it was terrible , because this is the ultimate film about subways , from Hungary , no less . Bulscu and his rag-tag gang of ticket checkers are always in trouble and always competing with rival ticket checkers , most notably the group headed up by Gonzo . Bul... |
505,051 | 2,911,571 | 324,133 | 8 | more of a mystery to me that maybe it should have been | Charlotte Rampling plays an author , who writes one " Dorwell " mystery after another , and who seems to be stuck in a rut in her life . Sure , the mysteries are successful to a point , but she's apparently tired of them . Her publisher sends her to his house in France to get a " fresh start " on something new , and sh... |
505,307 | 2,911,571 | 48,696 | 8 | get it while you can ( on DVD ) | I accidentally stumbled across this on DVD ( with 4 other Universal Sci-Fi classics ) the other day & raced out and got a copy , it's available at Best Buy Only ( for some reason , bleah , but it's worth getting ) . This is a movie I saw as a kid and it's still got some power to it , there's some suspense & tension goi... |
504,100 | 2,911,571 | 109,858 | 8 | Inspired Weirdness | Hey now , this is one weird film . A rock star wins a house in a poker game from Christopher Lee & when he moves in with wife & kid , he finds that there's another occupant of the house . " Part Jester , Part Demon " says the box , and that's about right . We have the rock star's brother who is bringing him his furnitu... |
504,341 | 2,911,571 | 366,292 | 8 | Japanese giallo ? ( perhaps minor spoilers ) | After many fiercely original weird films , one wonders why Takashi Miike seems to wander into Ringu / Ju-On territory , but this is still a good film . This almost plays out like a giallo , to me , anyway . This has more punch to it than Ringu or Ju-on but it doesn't seem to have Miike's trademark weirdness , or at lea... |
504,622 | 2,911,571 | 963,194 | 8 | Fun , gory , weird , but could it really be the next " Rocky Horror " ? | I got this film a couple days ago & watched it right away , and I have to say it was fun , weird , gory , and at times kind of sick , but I enjoyed it very much . But could it possibly ever become the new " Rocky Horror Picture Show " ? I'm not sure , but I think comparisons between the two seem to be mostly surface st... |
504,451 | 2,911,571 | 417,243 | 8 | I wouldn't call it vital but it's well worth seeing . | From Shinya Tsukamoto comes a rather toned-down story ( for him , I guess ) of a young man who's been in a car accident in which his girlfriend was killed and his memory was damaged . The young man was in medical school and he enrolls again and becomes a model student , and in dissection class he's busy dissecting his ... |
504,118 | 2,911,571 | 346,800 | 8 | always expect the unexpected with Maddin | This is autobiographical ? Not in a million years , or at least I hope not . I don't know much about Guy Maddin's personal life but I'm at least relatively sure he wasn't a murderous hairdressing hockey player with blue hands . Maddin's films are always full of surprises , and this is by far his most , uh , daring , as... |
504,839 | 2,911,571 | 64,177 | 8 | fairly chilling science fiction | Colossus is a super-computer created by Dr . Charles Forbin and his team , designed to protect the United States . Colossus one day announces that it has found another system called Guardian , a super-computer created by the U . S . S . R . for the same purpose . Colossus and Guardian link up and after much communicati... |
505,683 | 2,911,571 | 55,505 | 8 | Excellent Hammer film , now on DVD ! | Taste ( or Scream ) of Fear is an excellent thriller starring Susan Strasberg as Penny , a woman confined to a wheelchair after a horse-riding accident years earlier . She's gone to visit her father and her new step-mother , and she hasn't seen her father in years . Prior to her arrival though , her father is supposedl... |
505,626 | 2,911,571 | 67,229 | 8 | Rabies Are Not Healthy For Hippies And Other Living Things | I just received the DVD of this in the mail yesterday and watched it last night , and I could say this is an absolutely gorgeous remastering / restoration that is super clear & all that typical sort of stuff people rave about with DVD's , but then again , this is " I Drink Your Blood " , degenerate drive-in 70's trash ... |
504,735 | 2,911,571 | 878,695 | 8 | Goofy , gory , kind of fun in a weird way | This is the story of a " Joe Average " type , a kind of nerdy guy , Chris , who finds an invitation on Halloween to a " Murder Party " and is stupid enough to make a costume ( and some pumpkin bread to take along ) and go . And , it really IS a party of that sort , and this poor schmuck is the guest of honor . A roomfu... |
504,459 | 2,911,571 | 408,253 | 8 | tales of Eastern mysticism gone too far | This is a trio of tales , " Shakti " , " Devi " , and " Kali " , about an experimental commune ( or some such thing ) called the Taylor-Eriksson group , which took people on journeys inside themselves and into the realm of the unknown , and left a bit of damage here and there , I'd say . Many years later some of that d... |
505,695 | 2,911,571 | 244,167 | 8 | Rollin appears to have not lost his touch over the years | I love Rollin's strange films from the 60's & 70's ( minus the porno stuff ) and this is sort of a return to that style of film . A professor and his young assistant have been spying on a graveyard at night because there's something very strange going on there . To be honest , there's something very strange going on th... |
504,442 | 2,911,571 | 71,233 | 8 | A sad and pathetic little Dracula , but a great movie , sort of | Udo Kier plays a very pitiful Count Dracula in this Paul Morrissey interpretation of the vampire legend . Dracula is in need of virgin blood so he and his little assistant Antone pack up the car ( coffin included ) and head for Italy , where people are religious and there's plenty of virgins , still . Of course this is... |
504,336 | 2,911,571 | 824,747 | 8 | excellent up to a point , but about half an hour too long | I can't fault the look and feel of Changeling a bit , it's a wonderful re-creation of 1920's LA , and it's all well done & quite convincing . The story is that of a woman ( Jolie ) whose son has disappeared , mysteriously , who ends up in a battle with the corrupt LAPD after they claim to have found her son & returned ... |
505,309 | 2,911,571 | 362,004 | 8 | Another journey through the mind of Tod Solondz | I've now seen the 4 films that Tod Solondz has put out and nothing will top " Happiness " for controversial , uncomfortable material , but this might come in second . Aviva is a 13 year old girl ( who is played by about 7 different actresses of varying ages and races ) . She wants to have a baby because they're cute bu... |
504,895 | 2,911,571 | 71,275 | 8 | Lost Bava film is great ! ( if you like Bava ) | Rabid Dogs is about a robbery of the payroll at a pharmaceutical company , in which one of the robbers is killed and the remaining 3 make somewhat of a get-away , although they run out of gas & end up taking a hostage and then ditch THAT car to force their way into a car driven by a middle aged man with a sick child in... |
504,380 | 2,911,571 | 304,676 | 8 | Whoa . . . . . . ! | I had a coupon for Borders yesterday so I went exploring and found THIS , and I had heard a friend rave about it so picked it up . I only wonder if Borders knew the content of this if they would have carried it in their store , but they probably would have , they have all kinds of weird and controversial stuff . I wasn... |
505,181 | 2,911,571 | 67,361 | 8 | Strange and stylish Giallo | It's rather odd to go back after all these years of seeing Fulci's later films and see his earlier ones , which were light years apart from what he did later in his life . This particular film was done around the time of his only other earlier film that I've seen ( Don't Torture a Duckling ) and is in the " thriller-my... |
504,326 | 2,911,571 | 71,186 | 8 | Bad is good | I grew up watching ABC TV " Movie of the Week " and I especially loved the ones that were scary , like Gargoyles & things like that , so how I missed this one at the time , I'll never know . Ronald is a boy who lives with his divorced mother , who is a bit eccentric ( played by Kim Hunter ) , and Ronald is a good son &... |
504,085 | 2,911,571 | 67,384 | 8 | Great to watch but what does it all mean ? | This is a vastly entertaining " giallo " but I would definitely be at a loss to explain it . An American reporter stationed in Prague , Czechoslavakia , is found one morning by a street sweeper , lying in the bushes . He appears dead but his mind is still working and folks at the morgue are rather puzzled that his body... |
505,078 | 2,911,571 | 36,027 | 8 | eerie , moody , dark and creepy | I'm not much for older horror films , necessarily , but I was rather pleased to finally see this classic , which was far better than I anticipated . A woman ( Frances Dee ) goes to a West Indies island , to live with the owner of a sugar plantation , Wesley Rand , and care for his invalid wife . Also on the island is t... |
504,027 | 2,911,571 | 71,222 | 8 | The ultimate holiday horror film | If you have had the misfortune , like I have , to have seem the horrible remake of this that came out a couple years ago , well , I'm sorry . I'm sorry I saw it too . But , being that I hadn't seen this in a few years I pulled it out and watched it last night , being that it's almost Christmas , and it's definitely one... |
504,966 | 2,911,571 | 354,668 | 8 | a real genre bender | According to IMDb this is horror / comedy / drama / sci-fi and yes , it's all of the above but it all mostly works together quite well . A very creative mind ( or set of minds ) was behind this . Oh , and by the way , this is Korean with English subtitles . Most of the movie is wondering if you're merely watching a man... |
504,811 | 2,911,571 | 94,336 | 8 | great British comedy from Handmade films | This is about two unemployed and substance-addled " actors ' who are tired of their squalid living conditions and inability to find work . Or , perhaps , their inability to have money without working for it . One has a rich uncle who has a house in the country so he ends up with the key and they both take off for the c... |
505,491 | 2,911,571 | 78,913 | 8 | cold cuts ? | According to the subtitles " Buffet Froid " means " Cold Cuts " . Huh ? But OK , if you can ignore that and enjoy the movie you'll be just fine . Because if you like surreal black comedies then this will be right up your alley . Gerard Depardieu is an unemployed man living in a high rise with his wife and they're happy... |
504,340 | 2,911,571 | 82,744 | 8 | A missing link | I believe Midnight to be one of the lesser-known horror films which Rob Zombie included in his tribute to the horror films of the 70's , House of 1000 Corpses . Granted this was made in 1980 but if you watch HO1000C you'll see bits of it there . A band of devil worshiping loonies live in the boonies in PA , and are alw... |
504,535 | 2,911,571 | 443,455 | 8 | haunting , ethereal , and as usual , just plain weird | I eagerly looked forward to getting the latest Guy Maddin film and watched it last night . It's quite different in its style , from past efforts , at least I thought so . This is the tale of " grown-up " Guy returning to his childhood home , after receiving a note from his mother who would like a couple of coats of pai... |
505,605 | 2,911,571 | 395,584 | 8 | A good 70's feel to it . . . . . . . | I saw this yesterday and thought that it was a tad on the slow side in parts but overall a good sequel to House of 1000 Corpses . This is more a 70's-type " road picture " with lots of violence and depravity though , than a horror picture like its predecessor . It opens with a raid on the Firefly clan by the brother of... |
503,928 | 2,911,571 | 358,529 | 8 | these folks ain't right | When I started watching this I cringed , because it's shot on video and I don't like the look of films like that , they just look so cheesy . However , once the story got rolling I was so sucked into it that it no longer mattered . There aren't very many people in the small town of Port Oram , NY , that seem to be righ... |
505,305 | 2,911,571 | 82,700 | 8 | more palatable than " Cannibal Holocaust " | As cannibal films go , I guess I've seen a goodly portion of them , and while this does have some scenes of cruelty to animals , it's far less disturbing and sick than Deodato's " Cannibal Holocaust " . But that's hardly a ringing endorsement , eh ? Three hapless tourist types , a brother & sister and a friend that's a... |
504,073 | 2,911,571 | 106,341 | 8 | Minus 2 points for cat in cling wrap | This is an excellent movie but I have a cat that I love very much and seeing one wrapped in cling wrap to see if it stops breathing ( it does ) was a bit much for me . I know ( or hope I know ) that it wasn't real , but still . Anyway , Bubby has had a bit of an unorthodox upbringing being that he's been kept indoors f... |
503,889 | 2,911,571 | 71,396 | 8 | from the writers that brought us American Graffiti ? | Hey now , I read in one of my movie books that the writers on this were the same ones that did American Graffiti ? That seems a bit odd , this is quite the far cry from THAT film , which I liked as a kid but now can't stand . We have a young woman going to a small town by the sea to find her dad , who's an eccentric ar... |
505,443 | 2,911,571 | 144,084 | 8 | a really disgusting movie , with oodles of black humor | What truly makes this movie disgusting is not that Bateman ( Christian Bales ) is a psychotic killer that goes after folks with just about any sharp object he can get his hands on , it's more the scenes where a bunch of young and well to do people compare business cards to see which is the most tasteful , and shell out... |
503,914 | 2,911,571 | 67,549 | 8 | Love means never having to say you're sorry for stealing the last fix | I had never seen this film before , at least not much of it , and I was surprised when I got it to see it was only rated PG . Well , don't be fooled by that rating because all the glories of being a heroin addict make up for the lack of swearing and nudity , believe me . Al Pacino and Kitty Winn play a young couple thr... |
505,368 | 2,911,571 | 55,783 | 8 | eerie thriller from India | This is a highly atmospheric film & while rather tame by modern standards , it still manages to be quite creepy at times . A man ( Kumar ) returns to his ancestral home to find it seems to be haunted . There's a creepy butler called Laxman who is very reminiscent of old dark house films , almost like Boris Karloff . Th... |
504,450 | 2,911,571 | 67,500 | 8 | dark and creepy stuff | This is the first of the Blind Dead series , I just sprung for the box set from Blue Underground and while I'd seen this on VHS a long time ago I rather enjoyed seeing it again . If " enjoyed " is the right word , because it's dark , creepy , and dare I say it ? Sure , why not , disturbing . An old medieval town exists... |
505,063 | 2,911,571 | 425,661 | 8 | Entertaining and wild " children's film " that is probably not for children | Yokai Daisenso is a children's film by Takashi Miike , but as you might expect , it's probably a bit too dark & scary for younger ones . However , older children may well eat this up , that is , if you play it dubbed in English . The story is that of a young boy , who has moved with his mother to the country , to liv... |
503,974 | 2,911,571 | 192,194 | 8 | claustrophobic and disturbing | This is a strange film done in the style of Dogma 95 , which means hand held cameras and other restrictions . It's not so much a story as it is a portrait of a family with a schizophrenic member , specifically Julien ( as played by Ewen Bremner ) . We're shown his older sister who is pregnant ( by whom , we're not sure... |
504,983 | 2,911,571 | 86,640 | 8 | zombie sex , volcanic childbirth , and other delights | A taxi driver is married to a blackjack dealer . But the blackjack dealer is having an affair with a rich man . She quarrels with him because he won't leave his wife for her , and then she's raped and killed by two young thugs . Her husband , the cab driver , seeks revenge on both the man his wife was having an affair ... |
504,468 | 2,911,571 | 131,534 | 8 | Weird , twisted , worthy of your time . . . . if you enjoy dark humor | I'm not sure why so many people seem to dislike this film , at least ones that have reviewed it on IMDb . I have now seen this twice and found it to be just as weird and hilarious the second time as the first . Beth is a lonely young lady at a Kansas high school that makes two new friends , one of whom is Student Body ... |
504,626 | 2,911,571 | 82,782 | 8 | Is the " uncut " version worth it ? Yes . . . . | My Bloody Valentine has been one of my favorite movies for years , and now I've seen the " uncut " version , freshly released & purchased at Wal Mart , and I have to say it was worth it . There seems to have been a lot of squabbling amongst those who seem to know what should have been in the film , but wasn't , but I... |
504,733 | 2,911,571 | 86,636 | 8 | Very creepy Italian horror but not of the zombie / gore variety | I see others have made comments about the American release of this film misleading potential viewers with the cover , which is true , " Revenge of the Dead " had a very lurid cover with a zombie popping out of a sewer drain , and that's not at all what this film is about . A man finds some strange evidence in an old ty... |
504,347 | 2,911,571 | 79,641 | 8 | Atmospheric and dream-like vampire movie | I much prefer the Nosferatu-type vampire instead of the Bela Lugosi style vampire , because it's more believable ( if such a thing is to be believed ) . This is an excellent reworking of Murnau's " Nosferatu " and feature Klaus Kinski as the creepy count , and he does justice to the role originally played by the rat-li... |
504,355 | 2,911,571 | 48,281 | 8 | an odd delight | I was curious about this film and happened across a used copy while I was DVD scrounging so I picked it up and finally watched it last night , and it's pretty darn good . I think the word " droll " comes to mind . One man ( Alec Guiness ) takes a room at the home of a sweet old lady who takes in boarders , and tells he... |
504,555 | 2,911,571 | 55,858 | 8 | Interesting debut film from Bertolucci | It seems like a lot of people compare this to " Rashoman " but since I have not seen that , I can't , although I know the basic story-line . What we have here is the mysterious murder of a prostitute , and several suspects who are all shown in flashback as they traverse the very park where the prostitute was murdered .... |
505,519 | 2,911,571 | 805,570 | 8 | Please step away from the meat | A photographer , who is looking for edgy & dangerous subjects , can sure pick ' em . He stumbles across a woman about to be raped by some thugs , saves her , and then photographed her as she was boarding a subway train , after which pictures of her appear in the paper , along with a story of her disappearance . In seek... |
504,194 | 2,911,571 | 482,606 | 8 | Pretty scary & suspenseful thriller , well worth seeing | I missed the chance to see " The Strangers " at the cinema , although I wanted to . . . . I think the choice at the time was between this & " Wanted " and while " Wanted " was OK , I think I'd have rather seen THIS on the big screen . A couple ( Scott Speedman & Liv Tyler ) have just returned from a wedding and recepti... |
504,080 | 2,911,571 | 191,774 | 8 | Strange little Brit-flick | This is a Troma Team release , a pick-up , not an original , so therefore it's not typical Troma . Which sometimes is good , and in this case , yes , this is good . Weird , definitely . This begins something like a melding of Man Who Fell To Earth with Land of the Lost and perhaps a dash of Laserblast thrown in for goo... |
504,940 | 2,911,571 | 438,327 | 8 | interesting and strange documentary of a little-known area | Being from northern California , I had heard of the Salton Sea before but did not know its origins , nor did I know the current state of things in and around the area in which it exists . The Salton Sea is sort of a man-made mistake , which was , for a while , a resort that threatened to overtake Palm Springs in popula... |
505,163 | 2,911,571 | 430,676 | 8 | Not the top-notch Argento of old , but still pretty good stuff | This begins rather promisingly with a young boy spying on two women in a forest and following them back to an old house where he witnesses them doing things to a chicken that are perhaps above and beyond the call of duty for merely preparing it for dinner , after which they chase him through the woods threatening to ki... |
505,429 | 2,911,571 | 55,844 | 8 | strange but interesting Russian science-fiction romance | This is a pretty strange movie for 1962 , especially considering it's a Russian film . We have what appears to be some kind of Mexican island paradise or something , that's " haunted " by a sea devil , which is some guy in a glittery silver suit and helmet that makes him look like an underwater Ultra-Man or something .... |
504,342 | 2,911,571 | 70,957 | 8 | Pork chops again ? | This is a pretty nasty flick , full of perversions and cannibalism and other wholesome things . It's rather hard to tell when the setting is though , although at the end it does say something about the 1920's but it looks more like the 40's or 50's in some cases . So let me set that part aside and continue on : Fritz i... |
505,095 | 2,911,571 | 55,894 | 8 | Classic British Science Fiction | Day of the Triffids is definitely one of the better British Science Fiction movies ever made . Earth is having spectacular meteor showers , and the next day all who witnessed them have gone blind . To make matters worse , there are strange plants that have taken root everywhere and can then uproot themselves and move a... |
504,508 | 2,911,571 | 66,561 | 8 | Cool & Fun stuff , with G-rated nudity intact | I just got the DVD of this ( double feature with Moon Zero Two ) and I hadn't seen " When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth " in many years . It is beautifully filmed , if , I guess , historically inaccurate in many ways , but if you can forget that it's great entertainment . A blonde woman who is due for sacrifice ( mainly be... |
504,291 | 2,911,571 | 82,118 | 8 | A notch up from " Friday the 13th " , and FINALLY on DV | The Burning , now on DVD , finally , is part of the early 80's " slasher craze " but it actually lesser known than many films of this type . To me , it manages to be at least a notch up from " Friday the 13th " although I still do enjoy the first couple of THAT series . The story is that a bunch of kids at summer camp ... |
505,074 | 2,911,571 | 277,909 | 8 | Hilarious animated sci-fi revenge flick | I've been a fan of Plympton's ever since I saw his early stuff in the 80's , probably at a " Spike & Mikes " festival . I enjoyed " I Married a Strange Person " , and now this , Mutant Aliens . Mutant Aliens isn't quite as funny or outrageous as " I Married . . . " but it still manages to be vile , disgusting , gory an... |
504,541 | 2,911,571 | 71,143 | 8 | somewhat contrived in parts but still fun and interesting | I guess you could say this wasn't really a true documentary , as there are parts of it that are staged , and if you're making a film you can get pretty much the outcome you want with editing , etc . But that doesn't detract from the enjoyment of the film , if you don't think about some of what you're seeing too hard wh... |
504,492 | 2,911,571 | 495,824 | 8 | coming of age story mixed with a ghost story , works pretty well ! | This is a pretty mild film for Tartan Asia " Extreme " , because there's really not much in it that would prevent it from maybe a PG or PG-13 rating . A young boy is sent to boarding school , which he hates , and he is befriended by a young man there who may or may not be real . He also has his head filled with ghost s... |
504,386 | 2,911,571 | 105,569 | 8 | easily as weird as the first but a bit of a different style | Tetsuo II : Body Hammer , is without a doubt as weird as Tetsuo : The Iron Man , but it has a bit of a different style , and it's in color . While the first was in black & white and had lots of stop-motion , this one has very little of that style but perhaps makes up for it in utter weirdness . A wimpy guy and his wife... |
505,444 | 2,911,571 | 407,821 | 8 | one big circle | A pretty decent and strange Korean thriller that seems to go full circle from beginning to end . This is one where you aren't sure if you're seeing a dream , reality , hallucination , etc . A man finds two people dead at an isolated cabin in a forest and chases yet another man who he finds there but never really sees h... |
504,866 | 2,911,571 | 55,966 | 8 | another goody from the guy that brought us " Brainiac " | This is a good little Mexican film from the early 60's by Abel Esparza , the guy who brought us " Brainiac " ( Baron Del Terror ) . It involves a man who wants to kill his wife so he can marry his lover instead , and he does so but with consequences , since his house keeper was also his former wife's godmother , and a ... |
505,527 | 2,911,571 | 478,394 | 8 | Fun Danish sci-fi / horror kiddie flick | Be forewarned . . . when I say " kiddie flick " I mean it has lots of kids in it , it's not FOR the kiddies , by any means . Unless you like ' em to have lots of nightmares . A substitute teacher is introduced to a class of Danish schoolchildren , and her name is Ulla . Her methods seem a bit unorthodox , as in , she r... |
504,778 | 2,911,571 | 71,095 | 8 | Eshu vs . Pazuzu | It's really a shame that Warner Brothers yanked this movie from distribution and pretty much took it out of circulation , seemingly forever , because of conflicts with " The Exorcist " . Abby is a low-budget film by Louisville director / writer William Girdler who is sort of a local legend here , to some anyway . It fo... |
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