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366,219 | 3,109,237 | 38,934 | 4 | An average , but unoriginal , little mystery | Phyllis Allenby ( June Lockhart ) is about to be wed . But a series of murders in a park nearby the Allenby estate attributed to a werewolf have her rethinking her plans . Phyllis is sick over the thought that she may be responsible for the grisly deaths . Muddy shoes , wet clothes , and blood on her hands found in Phy... |
366,695 | 3,109,237 | 61,412 | 4 | Dracula the Diva | - A young couple is overjoyed to discover they've inherited a castle and plan to move in right away . But first , they'll have to evict the elderly couple who have been renting the place for 60 years . What the young couple doesn't know is that this is no ordinary elderly couple . It's actually Count and Countess Dracu... |
366,716 | 3,109,237 | 50,432 | 4 | A bird as big as a Battleship ! | While doing a test flight to help with the calibration of a new radar installation , pilot and engineer Mitch MacAfee ( Jeff Morrow ) is buzzed by something that shouldn't be in the area . The radar didn't pick it up so no one in the military brass believes his story . They change their tune when airplanes start gettin... |
366,304 | 3,109,237 | 70,634 | 4 | Lee and Cushing - One Last Time | Hammer's Dracula series started with a bang . THE HORROR OF Dracula is one of the best Dracula movies ever made . Hammer followed it with a number of sequels , including Dracula : PRINCE OF DARKNESS which some feel even exceeds the original . Hammer's Dracula run with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing ended with THE SA... |
366,681 | 3,109,237 | 56,472 | 4 | If you've seen either Seven Samurai or The Magnificent Seven , the plot of Gladiators 7 should seem familiar . | If you've seen either Seven Samurai or The Magnificent Seven , the plot of Gladiators 7 should seem familiar . Gladiators 7 is the Italian / Peplum take on this winning formula . To help him avenge his father's death , Darius ( Richard Harrison ) rounds up six of his gladiator buddies . They train together , laugh toge... |
366,383 | 3,109,237 | 52,289 | 4 | Divining for Heads | While out divining for water , a young psychic woman named Jessica Burns ( Carolyn Kearney ) stumbles upon something else altogether . She discovers a chest that has been buried for centuries on her aunt's ranch . Instead of the treasure her aunt is hoping for , the chest contains the head of Gideon Drew , a devil wors... |
366,180 | 3,109,237 | 60,956 | 4 | Marisa Mell and Margaret Lee would give any Bond girl a run for her money . | I'll keep the plot synopsis short and sweet . Most of Secret Agent Super Dragon was so unnecessarily confusing that little of the plot seemed to matter anyway . In this James Bond wannabe , CIA agent Super Dragon ( Ray Danton ) goes up against a Venezuelan drug lord who uses candy to distribute his merchandise . Anythi... |
366,584 | 3,109,237 | 68,485 | 4 | More Columbo than Horror | I don't care that this movie is listed as a horror on IMDb or that the video cover art features hands coming from a wall to grab a woman or that the film is included on just about every budget horror set , Die Sister , Die ! has little in the way of horror to offer . There are moments of horror to be sure , but it's re... |
365,987 | 3,109,237 | 929,551 | 4 | One of the weakest I've seen so far | As Urko plans his latest campaign to wipe-out the humanoids , Ape City is terrorized by a flying , prehistoric beast . The apes are not alone as the creature sees fit to frighten the humanoids and actually steals one of their cow-like creatures . Once again , Jeff , Bill , and Judy must save the human race . " Attack f... |
366,878 | 3,109,237 | 929,554 | 4 | A very familiar plot | Flames of Doom is the first episode in the animated Return to the Planet of the Apes . If you are at all familiar with the basic Planet of the Apes storyline , not much in the first episode will surprise you . It features the basic set-up ? three astronauts ( one female named Judy and two males named Jeff and Bill ) ... |
366,464 | 3,109,237 | 70,222 | 4 | It's probably not as bad as you've heard | - Healthy men in a California town are dropping dead from coronary arrest . All died while having sex . A government investigator notices a resemblance between the men's deaths during sex and the sexual habits of bees . It's not long before he discovers that the town's women are being turned into bee-human hybrids . - ... |
366,765 | 3,109,237 | 59,080 | 4 | It will never be confused with Godzilla | To be such a legendary kaiju and to have spawned a hoard of sequel , Gamera is a decidedly pedestrian film . Gamera was originally designed to be Daiei Studio's answer to Toho's Godzilla , but it's really no competition . From the moment Gamera makes his first screen appearance , the creature looks terribly silly . Whi... |
366,090 | 3,109,237 | 539,176 | 4 | One of my least favorite episodes | In something I recently wrote for the Charlie's Angels episode called Angels in Vegas , I said that the show is " 70s television in all its glory . It's cheesy , unrealistic , and a whole lot of fun . If you're going to enjoy this stuff , you simply cannot take it seriously . " Angels in Springtime pushes the limits of... |
366,674 | 3,109,237 | 120,667 | 4 | It's clobbering time ! | Fantastic Four ( 2005 ) is essentially the origin story of this band of Marvel superheroes . The four soon-to-be heroes are sent into space , subjected to cosmic radiation , shocked at the resulting effects on their bodies , and band together to stop a would-be evil villain . An origin story like this would seem to be ... |
366,855 | 3,109,237 | 66,451 | 4 | Lackluster SW | As far as Spaghetti Westerns go , I'd put This Man Can't Die on the dull side of the genre . It's not that the movie is particularly bad , but it lacks the brilliance and flash of some of the other SWs I've seen . Guy Madison does his best in the lead role , but lacks the on-screen charisma necessary to pull it off . W... |
365,975 | 3,109,237 | 63,306 | 4 | Stretches believability to the limit | Shayne ( Diane McBain ) , the leader of the Mini-Skirt Mob , has been jilted by her lover . Cowboy star Jeff Logan ( Ross Hagen ) left Shayne and has married straight-laced Connie ( Sherry Jackson ) . Shayne enlists the rest of her gang to help her get Jeff back ? even if that means killing him in the process . Oh , wh... |
365,963 | 3,109,237 | 345,950 | 4 | Can you have too much Sponge Bob ? | I've always enjoyed watching Sponge Bob when I get a chance . I wouldn't say that I've ever gone out of my way to catch an episode , but if it's on and I don't have anything else to do , I'll watch . But there is a limit to how much Sponge Bob I can endure at any one time . Trying to stretch Sponge Bob into a feature l... |
366,822 | 3,109,237 | 62,626 | 4 | Where's the mystery ? | - During a game of cards , one of the players is found the be a cheat . The others decide that running him out of town isn't good enough and lynch the cheater . Soon afterward , however , the men in the lynching party begin dying violent deaths . In the Old West , a showdown between two armed men was one thing , but mu... |
366,766 | 3,109,237 | 98,048 | 4 | Get out of here , you disgusting ' worm ' ! | Outlaw's plot comes straight out of the Sword and Sorcerer Handbook ? an evil queen kills her husband and blames it on the innocent hero , Tarl Cabot ( Urbano Barberini ) , so she might take control of the thrown . Cabot spends the rest of the movie trying to clear his name , undo the queen's evils , and return to his ... |
366,494 | 3,109,237 | 35,713 | 4 | One of Universal's poorer efforts | Captive Wild Woman is proof that not all of the Universal horror movies of the 30s and 40s should be considered " classics " . I've seen worse movies , but this is certainly one of the poorer Universal efforts I've thus far run across . The plot description on IMDb ( " A mad scientist transplants human glands into a go... |
366,319 | 3,109,237 | 51,128 | 4 | All the Kings horses and all the Kings men cannot put the witches together again | Through hypnosis , a woman is able to visit a previous life where she is to be put to death for being a witch ? a charge of which she is innocent . But if she is able to change her fate and avoid the executioner's ax , what will that mean for her future ? How will changing history affect the present ? Come on people ! ... |
366,406 | 3,109,237 | 360,717 | 4 | Monsters belong in B movies . | I saw the remake King Kong the other night for the first time and have to say I was disappointed . I had recently read some positive things about the movie from some people I trust , so my hopes of discovering a good and enjoyable movie were up . But in the end I had way too many problems with the movie . I could make ... |
366,133 | 3,109,237 | 69,986 | 4 | It never goes far enough | The Doll Squad is a specially trained group of women who kick butt for the government . When a NASA rocket is blown-up after takeoff , the CIA calls in The Doll Squad to find out who's behind the sabotage and put a stop to it . To do this , the women must infiltrate a secret and heavily guarded island belonging to Eamo... |
366,101 | 3,109,237 | 51,134 | 4 | A mad scientist's work is never done | I really appreciate and admire the effort the mad scientists of the 40s and 50s put into their work . Always injecting mysterious fluids and exposing bodies to different types of radiation in the pursuit of some " noble " purpose . They were so single minded in their focus that noting could get in their way . So what i... |
365,919 | 3,109,237 | 91,902 | 4 | There are other , much better examples of the genre | I think most fans of cannibal / jungle type films will agree that Cannibal Holocaust is the Granddaddy of the genre . Amazonia : The Catherine Miles Story was originally marketed as a sequel to that film . But , Cannibal Holocaust it ain't . To my surprise , most of the reviews of Amazonia that I've read have been posi... |
366,527 | 3,109,237 | 33,646 | 4 | The gang may be here , but it's nothing to get excited about | A series of truck hijackings threatens to put the Overland Transport Company out of business . In fact , the company is so desperate , they agree to hire the inexperienced team of Frankie O'Malley ( Frankie Darro ) and Jeff Smith ( Mantan Moreland ) to be their saving grace . But who's really behind the hijackings ? Wh... |
366,594 | 3,109,237 | 60,782 | 4 | Raquel and nothing else | - Two brothers fight to succeed their father as the leader of a tribe of cavemen . Along the way , the run into dinosaurs , an earthquake , and Raquel Welch . - I've always found this movie a fairly boring affair . The story is uninvolving , much of the acting is very stiff , and it doesn't help matters that not a word... |
366,460 | 3,109,237 | 98,193 | 4 | Funny , but little else to recommend | - The evil Dr . Arcane ( Louis Jourdan ) , thought to be dead at the end of the original Swamp Thing , is alive and well . His life , however , will be short-lived unless he is able to reverse his cell degeneration . Up to this point , his experiments have yielded only horribly disfigured mutants . Fortunately for the ... |
366,781 | 3,109,237 | 76,404 | 4 | Watchable - but that's being generous | It's difficult to write a plot description for a movie like The Monkey Hustle . On its surface , it would seem to be the story of a diverse group of people banding together to stop a proposed freeway from destroying their community . But the movie is just as much about a cheap , small-time hood named Daddy Foxx ( Yapha... |
365,996 | 3,109,237 | 58,706 | 4 | It should be quite obvious to anyone watching who the killer really is . | A modern day Jack the Ripper is on the loose in London . The police and other government officials are concerned that a play concerning the Ripper's activities may have been , at the least , the inspiration for the rash of murders . In fact , the police view the actor who performs as Jack the Ripper each night as their... |
365,916 | 3,109,237 | 58,703 | 4 | I expected a bit more from a movie with Brigitte Bardot and Anthony Perkins . | I expected a bit more from a movie with Brigitte Bardot and Anthony Perkins . They're both okay , but they just don't have much to do . The script lets them down at every opportunity . The Ravishing Idiot ( or Agent 38-24-36 ) is the story of a bumbling spy played by Perkins . He enlists the aid of a dipsy Bardot to he... |
366,671 | 3,109,237 | 111,280 | 4 | Actually , Captain , I am familiar with history . And if I'm not mistaken , you're dead . | I remember seeing Star Trek : Generations in the theater back in 1994 . At the time , I was so heavily into Star Trek : The Next Generation that anything with Picard and Data was going appeal to me . Seeing it now , some 13 years later , the best word I can think of to describe the experience is " silly " . Oh , I enjo... |
366,518 | 3,109,237 | 72,006 | 4 | Another movie I really wanted to like | Policewoman Lacy Bond ( Sondra Currie ) longs for more interesting and meaningful assignments than guarding female prisoners . After almost single handedly thwarting a mass prison escape , Lacy catches the eye of her superiors and is finally given her big chance . Her assignment ? go undercover to bust up an all-girl s... |
366,484 | 3,109,237 | 847,161 | 4 | A weak , unsatisfying , and disappointing affair | Based on several aspects of the plot description for this 2006 BBC version of Dracula , it would be understandable to ask what this production has to do with either the Bram Stoker novel or the many film adaptations that came before it . In this version , Lord Holmwood , with the assistance of a Satanic / blood cult , ... |
366,107 | 3,109,237 | 78,778 | 4 | Women can make a difference ! | When I write one of these things , I generally try to sound reasonably intelligent . I try to do more than write " It SUX " or " Best Movie I've Ever Seen " . I honestly try to put a little more thought into it than that . But with Angel's Revenge ( or Angels ' Brigade ? which I actually prefer ) , I'm at a loss . Ange... |
365,951 | 3,109,237 | 67,983 | 4 | Wasted Potential | - Auntie Roo is crazy . The opening scenes leave little to the imagination as to her mental state . The movie begins with Auntie Roo singing a lullaby to a little girl . As she finishes her song , the camera goes to a close-up of the child sleeping in bed . But there is no child . Only the mummified remains of what was... |
366,285 | 3,109,237 | 52,846 | 4 | It's unfair to compare it with the big budget movies of today . | A string of deaths and disappearances on the roadways of a rural Texas town has the sheriff at a loss for an explanation . Trucks and cars seem to be sliding of the road sideways with their drivers nowhere in sight . When the local drunk reports having seen something strange on the road , he is dismissed by the sheriff... |
366,137 | 3,109,237 | 55,294 | 4 | I grow more and more convinced that the wisest and the best is to fix our attention on the good and the beautiful . | While on a mission to find the whereabouts of a missing space ship , Captain Frank Chapman ( Dean Fredericks ) is forced to make a crash landing on a roving asteroid . There he discovers a race of people only a few inches tall . Before he quite knows what's going on , he is shrunk to their size . With little hope of es... |
366,031 | 3,109,237 | 60,464 | 4 | Godzilla Does Red Lobster | I never thought I would find a Godzilla movie where Godzilla was the weakest part of the film . In most these movies , the various scenes not involving Godzilla could generally be considered filler . They're there to pad out the film until Godzilla shows up and usually aren't very good . The filler in Godzilla vs . the... |
366,353 | 3,109,237 | 62,957 | 4 | I really wanted to like this movie | Plot : A woman inherits a castle from a distant relative . When she arrives to take possession , she learns her castle is a home for the undead who want to bring her into the family . I really wanted to like Fangs of the Living Dead , but two things really hampered my enjoyment . First , there are far too many stretche... |
366,250 | 3,109,237 | 69,700 | 4 | I think it was filmed through a layer of mud | I watched Battle of the Amazons only a few hours ago and I'm already having problems remembering many of the particulars about the movie . It wasn't necessarily as bad as some of the other movies I watch , just unmemorable . You'd think a movie about a band of Amazon warriors that raids a town to kidnap young men for s... |
366,673 | 3,109,237 | 76,650 | 4 | Cookie-cutter 70s disaster film-making | Here's a an idea ? let's round-up a bunch of Hollywood has-beens , second rate TV actors , and a bunch of no-names and put them all on board a cross Atlantic flight . And let's add a crazed mechanic with a grudge . Oh , and how about adding a deadly virus that fills the plane ? You've got the recipe for a 1970s TV movi... |
366,559 | 3,109,237 | 837,345 | 4 | Don't judge the series by this episode | While Dr . Quest is busy doing some underwater research , Jonny and Hadji ( and Bandit ) take the opportunity get in some swimming and general relaxation . On his way back to the boat , Jonny discovers an old gold doubloon on the ocean's floor . His discovery , however , is noted by a band of pirates looking for the sa... |
365,995 | 3,109,237 | 347,591 | 4 | Not what I was hoping for | My Name is Modesty is a low-budget film that tells the story of the origins of Modesty Blaise . It's not that the movie is terrible , it's just not what I was expecting or hoping for . While I've been aware of the Modesty Blaise character for years , I'm not overly familiar with the comic strips or the graphic novels ,... |
366,441 | 3,109,237 | 69,850 | 4 | Did I see this move ? | - I had planned to write something explaining what I didn't like about this movie , but this is going to be more difficult than I thought . Honestly , I can't remember much about it . I watched it just three days ago and it's made almost no impression on me . That's usually the sign of a real stinker . About the only t... |
366,723 | 3,109,237 | 62,159 | 4 | It's like a bad British version of The Fly | Professor Paul Steiner is doing research in matter transference . He has developed a machine that he can use to make an object like a wrist watch or rodent disappear , only to have that object re-materialize in a different location . But there are those at his research facility that do not like or approve of his experi... |
366,705 | 3,109,237 | 74,775 | 4 | A waste of some perfectly good cleavage | There's really not a lot to say about Las Vegas Lady . It's harmless enough , but it is little more than a dull heist film from the 70s . The movie is neither as clever nor as sexy as it strives to be . The plot is a retread of the tired old casino robbery storyline that's been done to death . Except in the case of Las... |
366,649 | 3,109,237 | 73,697 | 4 | Pam Grier Lite | Sheba Shayne ( Pam Grier ) receives a telegram informing her that her father may be in trouble . Sheba , a private investigator and former cop , goes to her father's aid . But someone will stop at nothing to run her father out of business . An attempt to show their muscle goes awry and Sheba's father is gunned down in ... |
366,615 | 3,109,237 | 307,109 | 4 | Could have used a little more variety | - After a meteor made up of a material knows as atmosphereum crashes into a wooded area , several different people go searching for it . The first is a scientist and his wife who hope that the atmosphereum might be of benefit to all humankind . The second is a " mad " scientist and his man-made girlfriend who hope to u... |
366,690 | 3,109,237 | 79,168 | 4 | Whoever did this . . . they're as good as dead . | Back when A Force of One was originally released , I viewed Chuck Norris ' movies as boring , brainless , and cheap . In the years since , I've changed that original assessment and can see them for what they really are . Now I look at these early Chuck Norris ' movies as fun , brainless , and cheap . The plot is incred... |
366,585 | 3,109,237 | 38,056 | 4 | It pains me to say that I'm not a fan of this installment in the Chan series | When I was little , my brother and I would stay up late at night any time Charlie Chan was on the midnight movie schedule on one of the local television stations . So I've been a fan for 35 years . And even though there are a few moments I enjoy , The Scarlet Clue has always been among my least favorite of the Chan ser... |
365,949 | 3,109,237 | 81,259 | 4 | Too bad the first hour is so dull | The plot in The Octagon hardly matters . Trying to follow the nuances of the story is enough to give you a headache . The plot deals with a lost brother , ninja training , a woman who has something to do with a group of terrorists , and some other hokum . It makes little sense . But that's not why people watch movies l... |
366,040 | 3,109,237 | 53,337 | 4 | Anyone feel like going to Red Lobster | - Aliens land on Earth to determine whether or not the planet is suitable for raising their Gargons ( a creature raised by the aliens for consumption ) . It seems that these Gargons are quite ferocious and as big as a house when fully grown . Therefore , they require their own planet . But releasing the Gargons on Eart... |
366,043 | 3,109,237 | 49,287 | 4 | Interesting but Flawed | - When the local sheriff is killed , his wife takes over until and is determined to clean-up the town . Not everyone in town , however , is happy with what she's doing . When the sheriff orders a curfew in town , the local saloon owner ( also a woman ) hires a killer to take care of the sheriff . There's no way the sal... |
366,815 | 3,109,237 | 78,908 | 4 | Time has not been kind to this movie | - There was a time when I thought that The Brood was one of the more intelligent horror movies I had seen . I recently re-watched the movie for the first time in a couple of decades and I now have trouble seeing it in the same light . I'm no expert in psychology , but all the psycho-mumbo-jumbo sounds like a big bunch ... |
366,529 | 3,109,237 | 445,483 | 4 | No Originality | - There is a curse affecting all who come into contact with it . It's spread like a horrible disease that only requires contact with an affected person . If you have the curse , you can expect to die a terrible , horrific death . The problem is that you may not know you've been cursed until it's too late and you see th... |
366,004 | 3,109,237 | 84,745 | 4 | See Barbeau Run | In a secret research facility in the middle of the swamp , Dr . Alex Holland is working on an experiment to combine plant and animal DNA . Alice Cable ( Adrienne Barbeau ) has been sent by the government to help with security . But when the evil Dr . Arcane's men storm to lab trying to get hold of Dr . Holland's work ,... |
366,371 | 3,109,237 | 58,073 | 4 | The changes to the storyline really bother me | Baron Frankenstein is up to his old tricks . He is still in the business of buying corpses to do his research . But without the means to afford a proper laboratory , Frankenstein has set up shop in a cabin . When the locals learn of experiments , Frankenstein is forced to flee . Accompanied by his assistant , Frankenst... |
366,508 | 3,109,237 | 236,523 | 4 | I beg of you a thousand pardons , but these vegetable marrows , they have driven me to the edges of barbarity ! | In most instances , I like to begin one of these " reviews " ( I put that word in parentheses because I'm not sure that what I'm doing here would actually constitute a " review " ) with a plot summary . But , this being Agatha Christie and all , I would hate to give away even the most insignificant of clues . So I'll b... |
366,143 | 3,109,237 | 59,914 | 4 | So bad it's not so bad | - The plot gets a bit muddled , but I'll give it a go . A mad scientist is trying to create a superior race . To do this , he has his henchmen kidnap and shrink his victims to the size of a Barbie doll . The " dolls " are then transported to his research facility for . . . I'm not sure what . Anyway , the scientists pi... |
366,445 | 3,109,237 | 73,396 | 4 | I've got beer and . . . vodka . | - Over the years I've learned that anytime Joe Don Baker is the " star " of a movie , you know you're in trouble . I don't know what the people behind Mitchell were thinking , but Joe Don Baker cannot carry a movie . He's fine as a goofy sidekick to provide some comic relief , but he just looks silly trying to play an ... |
366,338 | 3,109,237 | 38,387 | 4 | Attention all cars , attention all cars | Horribly disfigured in a lab accident , Hal Moffat ( Rondo Hatton ) seeks revenge against all those he blames for his condition . The police seem to be unable to put a stop to the killer they've dubbed the " Creeper " . During one of his escapes from the police , the Creeper hides out in an apartment occupied by a blin... |
366,892 | 3,109,237 | 395,585 | 4 | This stretches believability to the breaking point . | The plot to House of 9 is uncomplicated and straightforward . Nine complete strangers are abducted and taken to a house . Their kidnapper wants this varied group to play a game for his amusement . Think of it as a life-or-death game of reality television . The last person alive wins $5 million dollars . There appears t... |
366,446 | 3,109,237 | 73,327 | 4 | If you want to see a good giallo , find another movie | - After you've seen giallo after giallo , you begin to think you've seen it all as far as a convoluted plot goes . But then you stumble upon Autopsy . It's got to be the King of the Bizarre Plot . I'm not going to even attempt to go into it in detail because it's so twisted and things come out of left field that I coul... |
366,783 | 3,109,237 | 31,387 | 4 | We'll all be murdered in our beds ! | When Walter Stevens ( Lionel Atwill ) receives a threatening letter from a mysterious killer known as The Gorilla , he calls in a team of detectives to help protect him and his family . Unfortunately for Mr . Stevens , he's hired the Ritz Brothers . The Gorilla does have a few things going for it ? a big , old , dark h... |
366,612 | 3,109,237 | 53,611 | 4 | A movie you can enjoy with a good cup of coffee . | - A local trapper claims he saw something odd in the swamp . Of course no one puts much stock in his claims , so nothing is done . But as the bodies start piling up , the local officials realize that something strange is going on . They can no longer deny the fact that monsters live in the local waters . One of the loc... |
365,973 | 3,109,237 | 42,707 | 4 | Jane Wyatt ? Who made that decision ? | Maybe I'm missing something because I've read more positive things about The Man Who Cheated Himself than I have read bad reviews - and I just don't get it . I like my noirs to have a little style to them with characters that speak , look , and act like Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep or Gene Tierney in Laura . None o... |
365,931 | 3,109,237 | 95,179 | 4 | Stop the Madness | - Normally , I start with a brief ( sometimes very brief ) outline of the plot . With Friday the 13th Part VII , there's really no point in doing that . A group of young people is staying in a cabin on Crystal Lake . They have sex , smoke dope , and act incredibly stupid . Gee , I wonder what's going to happen to them ... |
366,363 | 3,109,237 | 53,902 | 4 | This one fails at almost every turn | What an average , ordinary movie . And by average and ordinary , I mean dull . The plot revolves around a traveling show in the old West . The group runs afoul of Indians , sheriffs , and killers as they seek to make their fortunes . Sophia Loren is the star and is in almost every scene , but not even she can save Hell... |
366,831 | 3,109,237 | 63,592 | 4 | The presence of Bardot and Connery should have been enough to ensure a winner . | What a shame ! Shalako could have been so good . Two of the biggest stars in films at the time and a unique , fairly entertaining story should have made for a good movie . Instead , Shalako turns into a dull Western with too many traditional stereotypes , actors who give among the worst performances of their careers th... |
366,159 | 3,109,237 | 478,227 | 4 | One of poorest entries in the series | From IMDb : " Hercule Poirot finds himself trying to solve the mystery of the Cloade family . Rosaleen is the young widow of Gordon Cloade who was killed in a gas explosion in his London home . Rosaleen has inherited her late husband's substantial fortune and she and her brother David Hunter are refusing to share it wi... |
365,921 | 3,109,237 | 66,757 | 4 | Little to get excited about | I did something while watching Feast for the Devil that I rarely , if ever , do ? I caught myself nodding off a couple of times . Why ? It's dull . It's uneventful . It's pointless . It's not very good . Instead of Feast for the Devil , a better title might be Feast for the Insomniac . Usually these Euro-Gothic films w... |
366,400 | 3,109,237 | 55,946 | 4 | You're funny , Mr . Miller . Really funny . | On her way to a rendezvous with her boyfriend , Roxy Miller ( played by 30-something teenager Marilyn Manning ) quite literally runs into a 7 foot tall caveman . Luckily for Roxy , the giant makes a hasty retreat as another car approaches . Roxy shares her story with her boyfriend and her father . They find it tough to... |
366,789 | 3,109,237 | 71,167 | 4 | These have to be some of the dumbest people ever assembled | The Killer Reserved Nine Seats is the Italian / Giallo take on Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians . A group of people are gathered together and one by one murdered . In this case , nine people find themselves locked inside an large , old theater with a masked killer on the loose . Each person comes under suspicion as... |
366,596 | 3,109,237 | 68,727 | 4 | Cushing's worst performance | - I , Monster is Amicus ' take on the Jekyl and Hyde story . I won't go into details on the plot as most everyone is familiar with the story . From a couple different sources I've read that I , Monster may be the most faithful adaptation of Stevenson's book ever put to film . I don't know about that , I've never read t... |
366,626 | 3,109,237 | 24,593 | 4 | You'll never catch a monkey that way . | In this quickly produced sequel to the iconic King Kong , Carl Denham ( Robert Armstrong ) and company head back to Skull Island in search of treasure . Once there , they run into the expected larger than life monsters . Fortunately for our group of explorers , they also run into Kong's offspring who proves to be more ... |
365,989 | 3,109,237 | 450,278 | 4 | I don't want to drink . I want to look at art ! | I'll skip to normal intro and jump right into this one . It's been awhile since I was this disappointed in a film . Eli Roth had an opportunity to make a classic with Hostel , but as far as I'm concerned , he failed miserably . Before I get to where Roth went wrong , I'll start with what he got right . The scenes of to... |
366,869 | 3,109,237 | 61,456 | 4 | The death of the beach movie | - As with most other beach movies , the plot in Catalina Caper is paper thin . The whole thing can be condensed into one sentence : ( from IMDb ) A group of swingin ' teens take time out from having fun in the sun to try to foil a group of crooks searching for a stolen scroll . - Beyond the terrible plot and script , t... |
365,959 | 3,109,237 | 396,230 | 4 | The Stepford Wives deserves more than this | I just love DVDs with these mini-documentaries . The Stepford Life , however , isn't one of the best . There's just not enough interesting information or stories about the making of the movie and / or the people involved . All three of the actresses spend their interview time saying nothing but glowing things about eac... |
366,543 | 3,109,237 | 79,362 | 4 | A great supporting cast , but a weak movie | To sum up the plot of Jaguar Lives ! in a couple of sentences ? Jaguar is a secret agent with a mission that takes him around the world to locate and bust-up up a large-scale heroin ring . If along the way he's able to find out who killed his former partner , so much the better . Joe Lewis ( 1979 World Karate Champion ... |
366,214 | 3,109,237 | 66,914 | 4 | I had such high hopes for this one | - Jess Franco's A Virgin Among the Living Dead was a real disappointment to me . Based on the plot descriptions I had read on the internet and the recommendations of a few trusted movie friends , I was sure that it would become one of my favorite Franco films . The living dead family are the biggest bunch of " do nothi... |
366,776 | 3,109,237 | 597,029 | 4 | Where are the police ? | Season 2 of The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries continues to disappoint with the season finale called Campus Terror . In this one , Joe is called by an old flame for help in solving the mystery of three girls who have disappeared from campus . Frank and Joe are on the case before you can say " missing coed " . While ... |
366,708 | 3,109,237 | 57,485 | 4 | Never lives up to its potential | While on an extended vacation in Rome , Shelley North's ( Cyd Charisse ) husband goes missing . The embassy can provide no real assistance , so she turns to an old flame and successful journalist , Dick Sherman ( Hugh O'Brian ) , for help . Shelley's husband seems to have been living something of a double life involvin... |
366,623 | 3,109,237 | 84,298 | 4 | It should have been called " How to Make a Movie with an Incoherent Plot " | Lucio Fulci made some real stinkers in his career and Manhattan Baby comes close to being the worst . The problem is the incoherent plot that I'm not even going to attempt to explain . The plot centers around an Egyptian amulet with evil powers . The evil powers manifest themselves in a series of totally unrelated even... |
366,470 | 3,109,237 | 597,049 | 4 | A memorable cast , but that's about it | I recently finished watching " The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries " Season 1 DVD set and boy oh boy did it bring back memories . This particular episode may not have been the best , but it's one of the more memorable from the first season . The fact that it's memorable has nothing to do with the actual plot ( it hap... |
366,228 | 3,109,237 | 59,440 | 4 | Based on everything I knew about it , I thought this one was destined to be a winner | Over the years , I've gotten pretty good at spotting movies I know I'm going to enjoy . While many of these don't turn out to be in my Top 10 or anything , I generally find these movies enjoyable at a minimum . That's not the case with At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul . Given its cult following , subject matter , and re... |
366,684 | 3,109,237 | 376,994 | 4 | What a mistake ! | Sadly , the third movie in the X-Men series doesn't come close to living up to either its potential or the precedent established by the first two movies . But before I get to that , I'll cover a couple aspects of the film that really worked for me . First , the action sequences are generally well done . As individual s... |
366,121 | 3,109,237 | 44,061 | 4 | Where's Hyde ? | What a lovely movie to look at . Wonderful costumes and sets make this movie a real treat to the eye . Some of the best I've seen in a period horror film . The acting is also quite good . It's just too bad that this is all The Son of Dr . Jekyll has to offer . It's easy to see why this film was titled The Son of Dr . J... |
366,697 | 3,109,237 | 68,967 | 4 | Are you left-handed ? | - Younger people may find it hard to believe , but there was a time when horror fans actually looked forward to movies like Moon of the Wolf . Before cable / satellite television and home video libraries , fans were at the mercy of the three major networks to satisfy some of their craving for horror movies . The networ... |
366,034 | 3,109,237 | 79,574 | 4 | You appear with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season . | Take a look at most of the lists of favorite Bond films found on the internet and you'll usually find Moonraker at or near the bottom . While I don't consider it the worst ( I reserve that distinction for Die Another Day ) , it's not among my favorites either . Most people when writing about Moonraker tend to focus on ... |
366,448 | 3,109,237 | 84,424 | 4 | Why have I seen this more than once ? | - Post apocalyptic story that does it's best to be The Road Warrior but generally fails on ever level . Various bands of people are all seeking civilization . But a group known as the Templars only wants to see everyone on the planet dead . Why ? They spout some wacky philosophical stuff that makes little sense . The T... |
365,972 | 3,109,237 | 68,284 | 5 | Gotta love Denise Nicholas | In the 18th Century , Count Dracula invites an African Prince and his wife to his home in Transylvania to discuss an alliance between their two countries . Slavery and the Prince's wife prove to be the sticking point . Before the Prince can take his leave , Dracula attacks the Prince , places a curse on him , and puts ... |
366,902 | 3,109,237 | 23,935 | 5 | A reunion for Lugosi , Manners , and Van Sloan | It's a plot device that's been used many times since , but The Death Kiss may have been the first time an actor was killed on set when someone fired a real bullet instead of blanks ( at least it's the first I know of ) . Studio writer Franklyn Drew ( David Manners ) takes it upon himself to " help " the police find the... |
366,351 | 3,109,237 | 68,227 | 5 | The Uber-Cool Telly Savalas | Scenes from a Murder is a fairly rare giallo that I felt fortunate to have found in a used video store . The movie stars the uber-cool Telly Savalas as a stalker . The woman he's after has amnesia and has trouble remembering simple things like where she lives or that her lover died five years previous . For whatever re... |
366,834 | 3,109,237 | 52,604 | 5 | It could have been really good , but it isn't | - Giant of Marathon could have been a really good movie . It's got a lot going for it . Steve Reeves , fresh off his stint as Hercules , is good and dependable in this kind of movie . He did Sword and Sandal as good as anyone . The movie also has some very nice action sequences . I'm far from an expert , but the battle... |
366,176 | 3,109,237 | 116,654 | 5 | I wanna go to Dog Heaven ! | Where to start with this bizarre modern-day retelling of the H . G . Wells ' classic ? In many respects , The Island of Dr . Moreau is a train wreck of a movie . On so many levels , it's an unmitigated disaster . The problems on the set with the cast and crew are legendary . People getting fired , others getting mad an... |
366,757 | 3,109,237 | 50,622 | 5 | It is true that you can't live among beasts without becoming one . | While doing some scientific explorations of Antarctica , four scientists are forced to make an emergency landing in a volcanic crater . Beneath the perpetual cloud cover at the volcano rim , they discover a warm and humid land that hasn't changed in centuries . They discover a world full of strange dinosaurs and carniv... |
366,514 | 3,109,237 | 533,125 | 5 | Not much originality | I've just started going through the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episodes for the first time since they originally aired . Up to now it's been an a blast . Episode 5 , " Vegas in Space " , is easily the worst I've watched so far . The problem ? the plot lacks any originality . You could have seen ( and probably did ... |
366,178 | 3,109,237 | 68,292 | 5 | A Mixed Bag | It's tough to pigeonhole a movie like The Devil Has 7 Faces . While I'm going to call it a Giallo , I do so with reservations . The Devil Has 7 Faces may not include the normal black-gloved , knife-welding mania , or even a body count usually associated with this kind of movie , but it does have enough of the Giallo fe... |
366,791 | 3,109,237 | 93,296 | 5 | My one word review - Uneven | Jane and the Lost City is the story of a band of plucky but incompetent band of Allies in a race to fortune in diamonds with an equally incompetent band of Nazis . Along the way , both groups run into a series of mildly amusing adventures and situations , including title character Jane's ability to lose her clothing at... |
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