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504,005 | 2,911,571 | 70,531 | 9 | Excellent early 70's science fiction with a creepy atmosphere | I remember this movie well from when I was young , and while I haven't seen it in at least 20 years or more in watching it again it was like I had just seen it yesterday . Two scientists go to the Arizona desert to look into unusual ant activity that has apparently been caused by solar / atmospheric disruptions and fin... |
505,204 | 2,911,571 | 65,206 | 9 | one of my favorites | Hey now , this is one of my favorite movies . A woman living in an isolated house near the desert ( in Arizona ) is having trouble with housekeepers . None of them seem to stay very long . But every time a housekeeper leaves , a new tree gets planted along the driveway ? Hmm . Well , along comes Ruth Gordon , who seems... |
504,432 | 2,911,571 | 91,251 | 9 | Not really my kind of film , but very worthwhile & powerful | I'm not much for " war " films , but this one sounded interesting , and I found a used copy so bought it . This is the tale of a young boy who " enlists " for military service during WWII in Byelorussia . The group he falls in with leaves him behind , and he ends up deafened by blasts and wanders the countryside . This... |
504,688 | 2,911,571 | 780,571 | 9 | refreshingly different for this day and age | I will say that when a buddy of mine and I had just purchased our tickets for this we noticed " Hostel 2 " was playing and there was a slight hesitation , and I know we both sort of cringed as we realized we'd probably purchased tickets for some lame movie that we were going to hate and be kicking ourselves afterward .... |
504,954 | 2,911,571 | 451,079 | 9 | Justice done to Dr . Seuss's Creations ! | I got my first Dr . Seuss book ( Dr . Suess's Sleep Book ) when I was about 3 or 4 , and even then I can remember that I was drawn to the strange critters and odd buildings and contraptions , and went on to have more of his books as I grew a little older . I still have a soft spot in my heart for Dr . Seuss so I was de... |
504,536 | 2,911,571 | 17,739 | 9 | excellent silent " spook house " film | I had seen the 1979 version of The Cat and the Canary a few years ago , & didn't find it particularly good or memorable . Now that I watched the original , I found that to be far more entertaining & an excellent " spook house " film . The story is that of an old mansion , built on a hill above the Hudson River ( which ... |
504,303 | 2,911,571 | 451,094 | 9 | haunting ( perhaps minor spoiler ) | I guess this is the third of Chan Wook Park's " revenge " trilogy ( Oldboy & Sympathy for Mr . Vengeance being the other two ) and it's excellent and haunting . Lee Geum-Ja is a 19 year old woman who goes to prison in 1991 for the murder of a child ( as a result of a kidnapping ) but she was not responsible . The perso... |
505,139 | 2,911,571 | 21,577 | 9 | The age of gold ? ha . . . | I'm not sure if I'm qualified to comment on this film , being that I'm not a film student and never have been , and I'm not one that reads all kinds of things that may or not be into what I'm seeing . However , I'll give this my best shot . This is an incredibly weird film from 1930 and I loved it . It's full of black ... |
504,520 | 2,911,571 | 232,960 | 9 | What have you brought home instead of my bride ? | Woh Kaun Thi is a wonderful black and white Indian film about a man who is seemingly haunted by ghosts . Anand is a doctor ( who smokes a lot ) and encounters a strange woman on a dark road in a storm , who he gives a ride to and she gets off at the cemetery , where she ( of course ) disappears . Anand is engaged to Se... |
504,980 | 2,911,571 | 382,806 | 9 | excellent , off-beat Aussie film about life & death | Nick has just found out that he has testicular cancer , and he's devastated . Meryl has a brief chance meeting with Nick on her way home from visiting her parents , and just before she witnesses a man run down by a train who was apparently trying to save his dog . Meryl is an artist who sees death everywhere in her ima... |
504,827 | 2,911,571 | 1,139,797 | 9 | dream-like , offbeat Swedish vampire flick delivers the goods | Let The Right One In is a vampire flick , but it's also kind of a " coming of age " flick & a story about friendship , even though it's a very odd friendship . Oskar is a young boy , going on 13 , who lives in a apartment building in suburban Stockholm , where there's not a lot to do . He meets a young girl , who is ... |
505,590 | 2,911,571 | 112,922 | 9 | Awesome over-the-top horror comedy from Spain | Father Angel is a priest and a professor at a small university in Spain , and he's discovered that the Antichrist will be born in Madrid on December 25th so he's off to Madrid to commit all the sin he can to get as close to the un-blessed event as possible , to prevent it . Along the way he manages to pick up a a coupl... |
504,078 | 2,911,571 | 109,550 | 9 | Creeeepy | First , it's a shame this is on York Video , being that this is way too good for them & if you've been burned by some of the other " looks interesting but isn't " stuff they crank out , then you're more than likely to pass right over this in your local used bin . This owes a lot to Dario Argento but it also stands pret... |
505,231 | 2,911,571 | 96,218 | 9 | Welcome to the dark | Welcome to the darkly disturbing world of Guy Maddin , whose films always seem to take place in the 20's or 30's and yet have a disturbingly modern sense to them . In an outbreak of " plague " in a small Canadian town , two hospital-ridden victims vie for the attention of the nurses and make fish out of tree bark . One... |
505,280 | 2,911,571 | 60,794 | 9 | One of Bava's top films | I've finally seen Kill Baby Kill in a decent format , having gotten the Anchor Bay box set of Bava's films , and the transfer is beautiful and the colors are not as washed out as the DVD I had prior , plus I can watch it in Italian with English subtitles , oh , I'm in heaven . This is a great Gothic horror flick with a... |
504,871 | 2,911,571 | 96,251 | 9 | Forget comparisons to Eraserhead | Comparisons to Eraserhead and this movie are frequent and inevitable , i reckon , but while I like Eraserhead a lot , Tetsuo leaves it panting in the dust . OK , it's in black and white , it's surreal , and has industrial themes up the wazoo , but there the similarities end . A Japanese businessman hits a metal fetishi... |
505,056 | 2,911,571 | 113,241 | 9 | low-key but high interest vampire flick , of the off-beat kind | I guess Larry Fessenden has been working in films for a while now , but I've really only seen two of his efforts , this and Wendigo , and both are good but this one ( Habit ) is , well , great , I'd say . The story of a guy that has lost his father , just broken up with his girlfriend , and meets a strange but interest... |
505,060 | 2,911,571 | 113,269 | 9 | excellent old-fashioned ghost story , with an odd twist | Aidan Quinn plays David , who , as a young boy had pushed his sister while playing , and she fell & hit her head and fell into a pond . Despite David's attempt to rescue her , she drowned . Not long after David's mother took him to America & now , as an adult , he's returned to England as a university professor whose s... |
505,577 | 2,911,571 | 65,744 | 9 | very strange and very cool | The more I see the films of Jean Rollin the more I want , well , more . Shiver of the Vampires is probably the strangest of any films by Rollin I've seen yet and it has an " ahead of its time " rock soundtrack which is quite good too . The basic story ( and it is pretty basic ) is that a newly married couple go to visi... |
505,623 | 2,911,571 | 57,181 | 9 | How I stopped worrying and learned to love this bomb | It's interesting to hear the interview with Ray Dennis Steckler on the DVD , because apparently the original title of this conflicted with Dr . Strangelove and Stanley Kubrick had a fit , so one word in the title ( why ) had to be changed to who . This is a delightfully incoherent movie , it's got dancing girls , zombi... |
505,474 | 2,911,571 | 286,244 | 9 | The kids might not like this but adults will | This is quite the strange little animated feature . . . . I saw a preview for this a while back & finally found a copy and watched it yesterday afternoon , and I found it fascinating and fun . The idea is that a grandmother gets her grandson interested in Tour De France and while running the race he disappears , along ... |
504,789 | 2,911,571 | 64,949 | 9 | Fab and groovy 60's horror | This is one of my favorite horror movies of the 60's , it has cool jazzy music & even a band singing Scream and Scream Again , it has Vincent Price , it has Peter Cushing ( as a honcho of some pseudo-Nazi type army ) , it has Christopher Lee , hard to tell if he's a good guy or a bad guy , actually , but overall it's j... |
504,317 | 2,911,571 | 57,261 | 9 | Excellent adaptation of the book | As I recall the book " Lord of the Flies " was required reading in some English class I took and it's one book I didn't mind reading . Now I've finally gotten my mitts on the Criterion DVD and this is a pretty good and faithful adaptation of the book . If you don't know the story , a group of young English schoolboys h... |
503,995 | 2,911,571 | 166,314 | 9 | very cool stuff | A young and almost autistic-acting man arrives in Tokyo and wanders the streets , running afoul of some Yakuza and proving to be more than he appears to be . The young man speaks very little and his favorite phrase seems to be " not needed " and that's generally in reference to Yakuza . He is taken into this gang and p... |
504,108 | 2,911,571 | 94,713 | 9 | This ain't no Benji . . . . . . . | For people that like cute talking dog movies , find something else , this isn't what you were looking for . Baxter is a bull terrier that has been cursed with the ability to think , and he does far too much of it . After being given to an elderly woman he grows bored and takes care of her , yearning for the young coupl... |
504,299 | 2,911,571 | 253,514 | 9 | awesome Bollywood horror epic with . . . songs ? | At the beginning of this classic Indian horror epic there is a disclaimer from Mondo Macabro stating that the print of the film is the only one they could find and due to poor storage conditions it wasn't in the best of shape . Huh , I guess their standards are pretty high because it looked pretty good to me . As our s... |
504,008 | 2,911,571 | 125,301 | 9 | Comic Czech science fiction-fantasy from the 60's is great . . ! | A man and his wife are scientists . Now , the wife is working on a machine that will find and correct bad dreams and relax the subject . However , it seems that when she experiments on a cow that the flies that tormented the cow in its dreams manifest themselves in the real world . But that's mostly overlooked and she ... |
504,356 | 2,911,571 | 74,937 | 9 | Say your damn pronouns ! | I haven't watched this film in years but just recently got it on DVD and enjoyed it all over again . A bunch of parodies of famous sleuths ( Sam Spade , Miss Marple , Hercule Poirot , Nick & Nora Charles , and Charlie Chan ) all get together at the home of an eccentric millionaire , Lionel Twain ( Truman Capote ) who ,... |
505,646 | 2,911,571 | 491,000 | 9 | creepy , disturbing , and even original ! | This is a low-budget flick that is already disturbing and creepy long before it actually even gets to the meat of what's going on . Three young men , who have a secret in their past that they share , are brought together in the same town again after the father of one dies and he returns for the funeral . Talk about dys... |
504,254 | 2,911,571 | 74,949 | 9 | Awesome Bollywood supernatural thriller | This is an awesome Bollywood thriller based on the premise that certain cobras can take human form . Our film begins with one such cobra ( in human form ) being attacked by either vultures or eagles , hard to say , but a man with a gun saves Nag by shooting the bird . This man ( Vijay ) then tells of his quest to find ... |
504,348 | 2,911,571 | 404,032 | 9 | Warning : This is actually an intelligent movie | Exorcism of Emily Rose is not what people think it is . I had someone I work with tell me he wouldn't see it and that's because of the word " Exorcism " which I'm sure in some people evokes thoughts of oodles of pea soup and misuse of religious items . They couldn't be more wrong . This is the story of a young girl tha... |
504,116 | 2,911,571 | 117,715 | 9 | weird , odd , possibly unwholesome but utterly wonderful | Nobody ( except perhaps Guy Maddin ) does weird as well as Jan Svankmajer . In this film he explores something that not many films dare to , and that's fetishes . There is a small group of people in a large Czech city that are not necessarily connected but they do interact . They all exhibit some pretty strange behavio... |
504,050 | 2,911,571 | 71,598 | 9 | A must-see if you haven't . . . . . | Movies like this are generally not my thing , but being that I have a great love for cats I checked it out and thoroughly enjoyed it . Art Carney is great as an old man living in a NYC apt . with his cat Tonto , who must move when the building is being torn down . Life with relatives is not for him , he finds though , ... |
504,964 | 2,911,571 | 274,428 | 9 | surreal , bizarre , wonderful & even a bit touching . . . . . . | I'm not truly sure of the " pedigree " on this film as it seems to have been a collaboration between several countries . The basic story though , seems to be two Palestinian lovers that are separated by a army checkpoint who meet on the sly . I guess the city in which this takes place is Jerusalem , and the film also f... |
505,216 | 2,911,571 | 174,834 | 9 | Creepy grim fairy tale is excellent but not for the kids | Jiri Barta's " Krysar " ( rat catcher ) is a somewhat creepy and disturbing take on the Pied Piper of Hamelin . According the IMDb keywords this falls under " kids and family " . I suggest that the kids don't watch this though , that is , unless you like them climbing into bed with you at 2 AM after screaming nightmare... |
504,497 | 2,911,571 | 456,630 | 9 | Maybe the best of the " 8 Films To Die For " | First off , I was wrong when I reviewed " The Abandoned " because I said that this was the only film of the 8 that had a director I'd heard of . Takashi Shimizu was director of " Ju-On " and the subsequent films and American remakes . I just didn't realize it at the time . Anyway , forget Ju-On and The Grudge ( s ) , b... |
505,362 | 2,911,571 | 67,386 | 9 | A Very Strange Film , not really horror but well worth seeing | I first read of this in an Aurum Encyclopedia of Horror Films , and it sounded interesting , and lo and behold I found it had just been released in the U . S . and I found myself with a copy in my hand buying it . This is an incredibly weird film but I'd call it more surreal & macabre than a horror film , although it i... |
505,579 | 2,911,571 | 67,341 | 9 | one of the best early 70's horror flicks | I'm so glad to finally have this little gem on DVD . This has been one of my favorite films for years and it's a rather haunting little tale of a man , his wife , and a friend , that give up city living to go to a country house , which of course , has an unsavory past . Jessica ( Zohra Lampert ) was released from a men... |
505,436 | 2,911,571 | 109,592 | 9 | Awesome and finally out on DVD ! | Finally Cemetery Man is out on DVD , thanks to Anchor Bay , and I watched it last night and it's just as wonderfully twisted as I remember it . " Shaun of the Dead " was touted as the first " rom zom com " but could this be the rightful holder of that title ? Well , sort of , but it's far more weird , twisted , and dar... |
504,757 | 2,911,571 | 443,453 | 9 | an equal opportunity offender | I read something about this that it was anti-Semetic , but I wonder if the person that wrote that knows that Cohen himself is Jewish ? That aside , this film doesn't portray Jews in a positive manner , but then again neither does it portray Americans , Pentacostals , Kazakhs , women , gays , and many other folks in a p... |
504,043 | 2,911,571 | 64,473 | 9 | One of my all time favorite movies , finally on DVD ! | I grew up reading Ray Bradbury stories and books , and there's really precious little of his work that's been committed to film , as far as I know . Illustrated Man is one of my all time favorite movies , and it's just come out on DVD and I watched it last night . It's a bit darker and intense than I remembered but tha... |
503,893 | 2,911,571 | 165,895 | 9 | A real oddball & bizarre treat | Hey now , this is a real hoot of a movie , and it's not straight horror , but more of a satire , and as much as I hate these sort of comparisons , I'd say it was almost like a " This is Spinal Tap " for serial killers ? Or maybe not . David Carradine plays an FBI agent , and not just any FBI agent , but a " gifted " FB... |
504,589 | 2,911,571 | 60,089 | 9 | Wonderfully odd but more for adults than kids | Imagine ( if you will ) , Alice in Wonderland with the music of Ravi Shankar and none of the characters in make-up ? Sound strange ? It is . But it's also more in the spirit of Lewis Carroll's stories than the Walt Disney version ( or other versions ) . I did rather like Peter Cook as the mad hatter & one will find all... |
504,692 | 2,911,571 | 101,889 | 9 | sort of atypical Gilliam , if there is such a thing | One never really knows what to expect from Terry Gilliam , but almost with fail , it never disappoints . . . . except for perhaps Brothers Grimm , but I've only seen that once and as I recall the first time I saw ' The Fisher King " I don't think I liked it that much . A NYC shock jock ( Bridges ) says something to a r... |
505,271 | 2,911,571 | 55,830 | 9 | No frills classic horror , probably the best ever . . . . | This is probably the best ever low budget horror film ever made , back in the dark days of 1962 . It has an eerie quality that's hard to explain to anyone that hasn't seen it . A young woman is the sole survivor of a car that went off a bridge into a river , but no one seems to understand how she survived . She goes of... |
505,130 | 2,911,571 | 66,563 | 9 | for 1970 , this kicks butt | I have no idea how this film was received upon release but it's a dark dark comedy , with plenty of bad words and plenty of controversial subjects , in other words , it's pretty offensive , and I loved it . George Segal stars as a lawyer with a senile mother ( Ruth Gordon ) who has apparently managed to scare away all ... |
505,509 | 2,911,571 | 79,714 | 9 | Great movie , why is it OUT OF PRINT on DVD ? | I saw this in the theater many years ago , when it first came out , and it was the weirdest movie I'd probably ever seen up until that point , and it has quickly become one of my all time favorites . Never mind that it's all over the map and makes little sense . There's an alien grave-robber dude known as the Tall Man ... |
504,446 | 2,911,571 | 361,862 | 9 | unpleasantly surprising | I was interested in this film but held back till I found a used copy thanks to its expensive price tag , because I didn't think it would be that great . But I was unpleasantly surprised , it is great , and while most people would say they were " pleasantly surprised " this isn't that pleasant of a movie so there you ha... |
505,227 | 2,911,571 | 156,729 | 9 | What to do in case of the end of the world | The world will end at midnight , and how will people spend their last hours ? Well , a young man ( played by Don McKellar ) will have Christmas dinner with his family ( even though it's not Christmas ) and then head back to his place to face the last hours alone . Or will he ? Sandra Oh plays a woman with a mission , s... |
504,263 | 2,911,571 | 40,522 | 9 | desperation & hope | In post-WW2 Italy , a man gets a job ( which are scarce ) and to do his job , he needs a bicycle , which he has pawned , so his wife sells their sheets to get the money to get the bicycle out of hock . With the new job , the man is thinking of how much money he will make and how much better his family will live , until... |
504,671 | 2,911,571 | 460,829 | 9 | dense , claustrophobic , disturbing , difficult to follow , and great ! | I'm kind of disappointed that Inland Empire may have only had a very short theatrical run in the US , because I would have loved to have seen it at the cinema . However , since I live out in the " boondocks " , I had to make do with the DVD which I've been waiting for anxiously . I can't say I was at all disappointed b... |
504,663 | 2,911,571 | 312,004 | 9 | absolutely great entertainment | In this film , Wallace & Gromit are working to rid vegetable gardens of pesky rabbits , under the name " Anti Pesto " . They're humanely trapping the rabbits and holding them in their house , so they're quickly running out of room , so Wallace comes up with an idea to brainwash them so they don't like vegetables , but ... |
504,775 | 2,911,571 | 63,823 | 9 | still enjoyable after all these years | I saw Yellow Submarine for the first time in a movie theater on a double bill with " Fantastic Planet " and I was transfixed through both movies . This was in the early 70's and I've seen Yellow Submarine a few times since but finally snagged a used copy being sold by a video store and watched it yesterday afternoon & ... |
505,442 | 2,911,571 | 339,840 | 9 | For once a movie that lives up to the hype on the box | In the mood for an Aussie horror-comedy that is a worthy successor to Peter Jackson's Dead Alive ? ( Yeah , I know he's from NZ ) . Then look no further ! This is a gory , goofy concoction from the Spierig brothers , whomever they may be , and it's clever , funny , creepy , and yes , bloody as hell . But it works VERY ... |
504,260 | 2,911,571 | 59,646 | 9 | I've watched this MANY times and could watch it many more | Even though I pretty well know the story & lines by heart , I could watch " Repulsion " over and over again . It's an odd little story of a young French or Belgian girl , Carole , ( Catherine Deneuve ) who lives in London with her sister . Now , her sister is having an affair with a married man , Michael ( as played by... |
504,154 | 2,911,571 | 304,262 | 9 | A Kinder , Gentler , Takashi Miike ? | A kinder , gentler , Takashi Miike , you say ? Well , sort of , yes , a bit , anyway . There is a little girl in this so it's a bit more restrained , possibly because of that , and it's a LITTLE more of a family-type movie , at least more a " normal " family , not like the family of Visitor Q . The Katakuris open a sma... |
504,593 | 2,911,571 | 407,621 | 9 | Note to self : Never Get Lost In Belgium | I found this creepy little film in the cheap bin at Blockbuster so I picked it up because it looked interesting , plus it was on Palm Pictures label which was promising . I was not quite sure what to expect but what I got was extremely disturbing and quite creepy , to say the very least . An entertainer , Marc Stevens ... |
504,155 | 2,911,571 | 56,291 | 9 | Pretty sharp | This is one of my favorite all-time Polanski movies , next to Repulsion , so I decided since it was on sale I'd spring for the Criterion Collection DVD , and while I haven't yet looked at the other disk ( which is a collection of Polanski's short films , some of which I've actually heard of ) , I found that this is nic... |
504,985 | 2,911,571 | 66,993 | 9 | What a whacked-out film . . . ! ! | First , a word on the current " unofficial " uncut DVD available from Amazon . If you've watched Substance / Televista " gray market " stuff , then you won't mind the quality so much . It's completely watchable , and yet at times it's crisp and other times a bit murky . For the only thing currently available though , i... |
504,564 | 2,911,571 | 110,620 | 9 | one of the weirdest vampire films around | A vampire legend with a David Lynch-style twist to it sounds pretty darn good on paper and looks just as good on screen . In fact , this film is a " David Lynch Presents " and he's even got a bit part as a morgue attendant in it . Nadja is a modern day vampire living in NYC , and she " gets lonely " , so when she gets ... |
505,313 | 2,911,571 | 59,260 | 9 | After 41 years , it's still a fun movie | I'm no raving Beatles fan , because I haven't got any of their CD's , but I don't mind dragging this out to watch every once in a while and it's still as fun as it used to be . If you don't know the story , well , Ringo has ended up with a sacrificial ring from some Eastern cult on his famous finger , and no sacrifice ... |
505,534 | 2,911,571 | 350,044 | 9 | Jackhammer approach to film making ? | I recently heard a commentary on the radio by the proprietor of a local indie video store saying that this was a film to check out , and I happened to find a used copy yesterday so immediately snagged it . This is about as indescribable a movie as I've ever seen , but I'll give it my best shot . A grossly overweight mi... |
504,152 | 2,911,571 | 76,240 | 9 | Clockwork Orange taken a few steps further , with Time Travel | I have seen this film many times on my tired old VHS tape , and now I have it on DVD and watched it last night , and found that it still holds some bizarre fascination for me . Queen Elizabeth the 1st is taken by the Angel Ariel to behold the future of England , circa 1977 , and hoo-boy , is she in for a disappointment... |
505,489 | 2,911,571 | 106,579 | 9 | disturbing movie will suck you right in | This is a very disturbing tale of a young man , who is schizophrenic , trying to reunite with his young daughter , who was placed for adoption after her mother died and her dad was sent away . It begins with the man's escape ( Peter ) from the institution he's been in , and while the escape is not shown he apparently d... |
505,359 | 2,911,571 | 23,649 | 9 | very unsettling film for the time in which it was made | If you enjoy older films of the horror genre then you should definitely give this a look if you haven't already . A young man , Allan Grey , comes to a strange house where shadows live on their own , and things are not at all what they seem . He also stumbles across a man and his two daughters , one daughter which is q... |
505,600 | 2,911,571 | 59,025 | 9 | Interestingly weird little time capsule | I found this DVD for five bucks yesterday at a used movie & music store and it jumped into my hand , claiming to be something that I wanted , so I took it home with me , and wow , it's great and I wasn't disappointed at all . This is the semi-autobiographical story of the director himself , an alcoholic & drug addict t... |
504,140 | 2,911,571 | 85,809 | 9 | No plot , no dialog , what kind of movie IS this ? | Hey now , this has no plot , no dialog , just a bunch of beautifully photographed sequences set to music . No car chases , no boys in the hood getting shot , nothing like that . So how can this be a good movie , you might ask ? Well , it's not for everyone , I'll say that right off the bat , but it's absolutely fascina... |
505,185 | 2,911,571 | 63,456 | 9 | a neglected gem | Anthony Perkins plays Dennis Pitt , a young man just released from a mental hospital to the " real world " , after spending years there for arson when he was 15 . He gets a job at a lumber yard ( ! ! ? ) and is supposed to check with his case worker regularly but he changes jobs immediately and never checks in . Now , ... |
504,568 | 2,911,571 | 116,344 | 9 | alternate histories | This is a short little " mockumentary " done by Peter Jackson for NZ TV , I guess , about the life of film maker Colin McKenzie , who was a pioneer in many ways in early film making , including talkies , color , and smut . This has a very dry humor to it for the most part and I found it to be wonderful from start to fi... |
504,094 | 2,911,571 | 79,944 | 9 | Danger Will Robinson . . . . . . | Danger Will Robinson , if you've stumbled into this review then this will be my warning : This is in Russian , with subtitles , it's very long , and it's by the same guy that did Solaris ( the real one , not the George Clooney one ) so if you've seen that and didn't like it you can stop reading now . Now , if you're st... |
503,936 | 2,911,571 | 460,791 | 9 | Blurring the line between fantasy & reality | The Fall is about an 1920's movie stuntman , seriously injured ( you see some of the aftermath at the beginning of the film ) in a stunt , who is in an hospital , in Los Angeles , and who befriends a little Romanian girl who has a broken arm , also from a fall , but from picking oranges . Now the stunt man is a kind ma... |
505,124 | 2,911,571 | 98,068 | 9 | Now available again for your viewing unease | For all their faults , Lion's Gate does things right sometimes too , and the latest is their re-release of Parents ( with the movie " Fear " from 1990 ) on DVD , which has long been out of print . And this fairly inexpensive double feature is nicely remastered too and looks great . Now , as for the movie , Parents is c... |
504,023 | 2,911,571 | 93,754 | 9 | Beautifully done , surreal tale of evil & vengeance | When Mayor Varlam , of a small Georgian town , dies , he's buried after a fairly lavish funeral , only to show up in the garden of his son's house the next day . Of course , this causes some alarm , & again he's buried , but only to turn up yet again , and then again . Precautions are taken to secure the grave site but... |
504,571 | 2,911,571 | 468,492 | 9 | Cool horror / comedy / drama with great monster ! ! | As our story begins we see a man being directed to empty chemicals down a sink . He's reluctant as they're toxic and could cause problems , but he's ordered to do it anyway so he does . Fast forward to a couple years later when two fisherman are in the Han River fishing , and one sees something odd , which he catches i... |
504,764 | 2,911,571 | 67,633 | 9 | highly disturbing and as relevant today as when it was made | Punishment Park is a pseudo-documentary made by Peter Watkins . The premise is that the nation's dissidents ( hippies , musicians , protesters , pacifists , etc . ) are being rounded up and tried by a tribunal and then given the choice of prison or running the course of Punishment Park . It's a 52 mile grueling trek th... |
504,558 | 2,911,571 | 108,906 | 10 | incredibly good Danish hospital horror / drama / comedy | I really loved " Riget " ( The Kingdom ) but one wonders if Von Trier doesn't owe a bit to David Lynch's " Twin Peaks " . It's not that it's a rip-off , by any means , but one wonders if The Kingdom would have come about had it not been for Lynch's pioneering ultra-weird TV show . The Kingdom is about a very strange ho... |
505,043 | 2,911,571 | 112,682 | 10 | ALL films of Jeunet & Caro are masterpieces | Hey now , a local store of a video chain was actually selling a used copy of this so I scored , huh huh . This film is a masterpiece of wonder , but so are ALL the films of Jeunet & Caro , they're sort of modern fairy-tales set in a world that could be the 30's or 40's and yet they have modern contrivances . This parti... |
505,390 | 2,911,571 | 30,341 | 10 | Wonderful early Hitchcock is highly recommended | Most of my interest in Hitchcock films has been in the 50's forward , but since I've seen all those ( and most more than once ) I've started to work my way backward & found THIS delight , from 1938 . It seems that a small group of English people are stranded in a hotel in the fictional country of Bandrika , due to an a... |
505,209 | 2,911,571 | 462,322 | 10 | In a word , FANTASTIC ! | I had high hopes for this movie ever since I'd heard about it , and saw the previews not too long ago at another show and it looked great . For once the previews did not show all the best parts and leave me with filled with disappointment . Grindhouse is by far the best movie I've seen in years . It's hilarious , it's ... |
505,672 | 2,911,571 | 86,984 | 10 | Sleazy and fun Hitchock tribute | I saw this in the theater back when it first came out and to me this has always been one of my favorite films , and I've seen it numerous times over the years and it still holds up well . An out of work actor witnesses a murder while house-sitting , and everything isn't what it seems as the murder victim and the woman ... |
504,891 | 2,911,571 | 71,615 | 10 | Enlightenment , the Jodorowsky way | I just got the newly released Jodorowsky box set ( El Topo , Fando & Lis , and this ) a few days ago & have been working my way through it . While El Topo is great & interesting to watch it may have things in it that were entirely lost on me . Holy Mountain may have things in it that are lost on everyone , because it s... |
505,203 | 2,911,571 | 106,450 | 10 | Those Aussies know how to go OVER THE TOP | Hey now , I'm usually up for any Aussie film , although I've seen some stinkers in my time but this isn't one of them . Nothing like a little romp through the outback with inbred mutants all juiced up on kangaroo pituitary glands , YEE HA ! Whew . . . . OK , so the residents of this little suburban area are being given... |
505,249 | 2,911,571 | 840,027 | 10 | nightmarish , creepy , and downright scary | First , I should mention I guess , that I have experimented with hallucinogenic drugs a few times , back in the late 70's and early 80's , but I don't take ANYTHING anymore . Now , for those of you that enjoy ingesting a few controlled substances before settling down to watch a movie , please reconsider before watching... |
505,496 | 2,911,571 | 109,781 | 10 | Disturbing , demented , and delightful | Jan Svankmajer's films are 3-D . . . . disturbing , demented , and delightful . Actually the only other film I'd seem prior to this was " Alice " and that's the Alice in Wonderland story turned on its ear , so then he tackled the legend of Faust , a man who sold his soul to the Devil . This begins with ordinary streets... |
505,186 | 2,911,571 | 17,136 | 10 | A truly astounding movie | This is the first time I've seen all of Metropolis , that is , in a clear and " as complete as possible " print . I will have to say that for 1927 this was an astounding achievement , and is probably one of the most innovative films for its time . The story is , from what I can tell , that the very rich exploit the ver... |
504,616 | 2,911,571 | 101,700 | 10 | A real feast | This is one of my favorite foreign films ever . Like " Brazil " it takes place in a " futuristic " society which looks like it takes place in the 40's . After a nuclear war a small band of people in a town survive by trading , scrounging , and eating each other . This has some absolutely wonderful performances by an ex... |
503,937 | 2,911,571 | 63,633 | 10 | creepy , disturbing , gets under your skin and STAYS there | Kopfrkingl is a man who runs a crematorium in pre-world war 2 Czechoslavakia . He has a wife & two children , a comfortable home , and a more than a couple of loose screws . He enlists a man as his agent to entice people to arrange for cremation upon their deaths , and his business seems to be doing well . But , there ... |
503,927 | 2,911,571 | 59,410 | 10 | jet black comedy with creepy overtones | Finally " The Loved One " is available on DVD and is now available for your viewing pleasure . I read , perhaps somewhere on the message boards here , that this version would be " colorized " , but that's not true , it's in glorious original black and white . The tag line of ' something to offend everyone ' is still ap... |
505,617 | 2,911,571 | 361,596 | 10 | 4 more years , and WHY ? | OK , let's just start out by saying that if you voted for George W . Bush on November 2nd , you approve of all that he does and will hate this movie so you can stop reading right now . Having said that , this is a movie that anyone with an open mind should see . I'm sure Moore takes an opportunity here & there to put h... |
504,117 | 2,911,571 | 434,409 | 10 | quite possibly the best movie in a long time | Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the house of Parliment on November 5th , in the old dark days , and in a future totalitarian society led by a crazed religious zealot , a man wearing a Guy Fawkes mask decides that Britain could possibly need such a change again . V for Vendetta is probably full of dangerous idealism and coo... |
505,671 | 2,911,571 | 367,594 | 10 | Absolutely wonderful | OK , you won't find many ' kids ' movies in my reviews , but I went to see this yesterday with friends and I have to give it the highest rating of pretty much any movie I've seen in a while . When Tim Burton is at his best ( which is usually ) his films are a wonder to behold , and he's truly outdone himself this time ... |
504,052 | 2,911,571 | 169,222 | 10 | wild and weird | I am not sure if there's a name for the " current wave " of Japanese films that have surfaced in the US in the past few years , some of which actually date back to the late 90's , but I'm pretty much grabbing anything I can find on the Kino Video label , so far I haven't gone wrong . According to the back of the box , ... |
428,178 | 3,079,504 | 52,602 | 1 | One of the Few Unwatchable Vincent Price Films | Normally , I find Vincent Price comforting . He's an old friend that never lets me down . Sure some of the movies he's been in were stinkers but they were always watchable . This film is the exception to the rule and along with Shock , is a film so bad that even Vincent Price can't save itIn theory this film is based o... |
427,949 | 3,079,504 | 182,703 | 1 | One of the worst acted films I've ever seen ( and the film making isn't much better either ) | I'm not sure what to say about this film that will be helpful to anyone who wants to know about it . Frankly the only thing that comes to mind is don't . The story of two friends who's loyalty is tested when a woman comes between them is painful to watch . I've seen enough movies to know when there is a problem beyond ... |
428,177 | 3,079,504 | 38,937 | 1 | One of the worst Vincent Price movies | This isn't going to be a review , rather its simply an expression of displeasure at film that wasted a couple hours of my life . Half way through the first and only time I ever watched this movie I vowed never to watch it again . Several years later I have been true to my word . I have kept the video tape of this movie... |
427,529 | 3,079,504 | 780,595 | 1 | One of the worst films of the year | This will be best known for the Ferrari that was crashed when Eddie Griffin was doing promotion . Tale of racing and betting is a poorly made by the numbers that appears to have a director who couldn't see the numbers . Largely a point and shoot affair with a group of actors in it for a paycheck . This is not a good mo... |
428,634 | 3,079,504 | 61,411 | 1 | Possibly the worst film Peter Cushing ever made | Is this the worst film Peter Cushing ever made ( he seemed to think so ) Anything is possible , But I'd have to see the rest of what he's made to see what beats BLOOD BEAST TERROR a not so nifty movie about a giant killer moth . Yes , a giant killer moth . I can't make this stuff up . . . I wish I could but I wasn't ol... |
428,415 | 3,079,504 | 312,528 | 1 | This Film Just Doesn't Work | Mike Myers is a nice guy , but he's falling into a rut . He has dispensed with the pretense of acting for sleep walking through his roles . While he's not as stupid as Jim Carrey when he's trodding the same ground , he is equally annoying . In the Cat in the Hat , Myers does what he's done before in most of his films o... |
427,313 | 3,079,504 | 308,152 | 1 | Easily one of the years worst | First off is this a horror film or dark comedy ? I don't know . Its neither scary nor funny , although it seems to be trying to be both . Second not a whole hell of a lot happens . They drive and talk ; stand and talk ; drive and talk ; talk to a woman with her baby ; talk and talk and talk and talk and talk . None of ... |
427,444 | 3,079,504 | 175,694 | 1 | Badly made kidnap story would have been better as a porn film | Watching this tale of a detective from Harlem , who now works in Florida ( hence the title ) I was struck by how much better this film would be if there was some hardcore sex in it . The idea may make me seem like an absolute pig but if you watch this movie for more than five minutes you too will be struck by two thoug... |
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