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366,342 | 3,109,237 | 132,118 | 5 | Worth seeing as a curiosity piece , but that's about the only reason . | As a curiosity piece for fans of Charlie Chan , Eran Trece is rather interesting as it represents a peak at the lost film Charlie Chan Carries On . It gets bonus points from me for that fact alone . But without that connection and bit of trivia , Eran Trece is a weak film . My problems with the movie do not include mos... |
366,087 | 3,109,237 | 227,804 | 5 | The evils of make-up | I'm not an expert when it comes to these RKO-Pathe Screenliner shorts , but Where is Jane Doe ? is one of the worst I've seen . I'm not even sure what message the film is trying to convey . Is it intended to be a warning about the problem of teen runaways or is it a congratulatory pat on the back of the police ? You wo... |
366,666 | 3,109,237 | 70,578 | 5 | Too tedious to call very good | - The Pyx ( aka The Hooker Cult Murders ) is billed as a horror movie . It should probably more correctly be called a drama with a bit of horror thrown in . It's during these bits of horror that The Pyx becomes interesting . Unfortunately , the majority of the movie is devoted to the drama and is rather tedious and bor... |
366,224 | 3,109,237 | 70,603 | 5 | It's certainly not the worst Naschy film I've seen | I'm like the Energizer Bunny when it comes to Paul Naschy ? I keep going and going and going with the hope of one day finding a Naschy film I really enjoy . I know the man has his fans , but I've yet to see the appeal . My latest excursion into Naschy's filmography is Curse of the Devil . It's certainly not the worst N... |
366,792 | 3,109,237 | 68,206 | 5 | Even with Barbara Bouchet and Rosalba Neri , it's surprisingly average | Given that Amuck features two of my Euro-favorites , Barbara Bouchet and Rosalba Neri , it's a surprisingly average giallo . Bouchet is a young secretary working for a publishing house . She becomes concerned when her friend and fellow co-worker goes missing . She gets assigned to the same writer ( played by the dull F... |
366,374 | 3,109,237 | 37,099 | 5 | Continuity ? What's that ? | In this installment of Universal's Kharis mummy series , George Zucco is back as Andoheb , High Priest of Arkan . He sends his loyal servant Yousef Bey ( John Carradine ) to America to reunite Kharis with his love Ananka ( to have been dead for thousands of years , this woman is a lot of trouble ) . Tana leaves are bre... |
366,545 | 3,109,237 | 56,480 | 5 | The German Sherlock Holmes | On paper , Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace looks like a sure fired winner . Christopher Lee as Holmes , Thorley Walters ( who I swear seemed to be channeling Nigel Bruce at times ) as Watson , the capable Terence Fisher directing , and Curt Siodmak writing the screenplay , - what could go wrong ? It might have ... |
366,735 | 3,109,237 | 63,090 | 5 | I acted against the dictates of God | Night of the Bloody Apes is a bizarre little film . It features : bad acting , a ridiculous storyline , terrible special effects , inane dialogue , Grand Canyon size plot holes , a complete lack of logic , enough padding for two movies , an insane amount of blood and gore , a generous helping of nudity , some truly " u... |
366,003 | 3,109,237 | 32,753 | 5 | When set design is the best part of the movie , you know you're in trouble | Dr . Leon Kraval ( Boris Karloff ) has developed a radical means of treating cancer using a freezing therapy . But before he can prove the success of his procedure he is accused of murder . An accident in his lab locks him , his accuser , the judge , the coroner , and the sheriff in his hidden freezing chamber . All ar... |
366,293 | 3,109,237 | 68,539 | 5 | What a bizarre plot ! | I would love to briefly explain the plot of It Can Be Done , Amigo , but I don't think I'm capable . It almost defies words with its bizarreness . I'll give it a stab though . Bud Spencer is Coburn , the opposite of what I normally associate with the hero of a Spaghetti Western ( SW ) . He's miles away from the image o... |
366,810 | 3,109,237 | 34,968 | 5 | Mantan Moreland is the only reason to watch this movie . | I won't even bother with a plot description . The plot isn't the reason anyone today is going to watch Law of the Jungle anyway . The only reason to watch this movie and the only thing its got going for it is Mantan Moreland . As un-PC as it is in today's world , Moreland's brand of comedy is often laugh-out-loud funny... |
366,206 | 3,109,237 | 37,151 | 5 | Fairly standard 1940s comedy / horror / mystery / thriller | One Body Too Many is a fairly enjoyable The Cat and the Canary style film . It's not great , but it's certainly not the worst piece of trash to come down the pike . As I alluded , those familiar with The Cat and the Canary aren't going to find the plot groundbreaking with its originality ? an old dark house with secret... |
365,926 | 3,109,237 | 72,356 | 5 | What a title ! | What a title ! Just imagine The Inconsolable Widow Thanks All Those Who Consoled Her ( let's shorten that to The Inconsolable Widow for the rest of this ) on a marquee . The movie is about a childless widow named Catarina Prevosti ( Edwige Fenech ) . Because Catarina gave her husband no heirs , Italian law mandates tha... |
366,089 | 3,109,237 | 66,315 | 5 | Hit and miss from Bava | Reading various comments on the internet about Roy Colt and Winchester Jack , you would think that it was the worst movie ever made . I've now seen most of Mario Bava's films ( 23 , to be exact ) and I've seen my fair share of Spaghetti Westerns . While Roy Colt and Winchester Jack isn't a very good example of either ,... |
365,930 | 3,109,237 | 39,321 | 5 | Not the best of the series | - Stolen furs , a dead night watchman , insurance scams , and a killer with a hook for a hand named The Claw . It's up to Dick Tracy to unravel the mystery . - I have now seen four of these Dick Tracy movies from the 1940s and this is easily my least favorite . Dick Tracy's Dilemma seems tired and offers very few fresh... |
366,814 | 3,109,237 | 330,691 | 5 | And I had such high hopes for this one | A deranged serial killer wants to play a game of internet poker with the police . But the stakes are very high . If the police win , the woman he has kidnapped goes free . If the killer wins , the captive dies . It's up to an Italian policewoman and an Irish agent to stop this high-tech killer before anymore young wome... |
366,877 | 3,109,237 | 929,553 | 5 | Run Bill , Run | The second episode in Return to the Planet of the Apes , " Escape from Ape City " , primarily follows the plight of Bill as he is taken to Cornelius and Zira's lab for experimentation . Bill quite naturally proves to be brighter than the average human . But when brain surgery is suggested , Bill blows his cover and the... |
366,702 | 3,109,237 | 68,577 | 5 | Not even Peter Cushing can save this one | Fear in the Night is a very seldom discussed Hammer film with Peter Cushing and Joan Collins . It's the story of a woman recently released from the hospital after suffering a nervous breakdown . She's just been married and is about to join her husband who teaches at an all-boys school . The night before she leaves , sh... |
366,694 | 3,109,237 | 56,633 | 5 | Why do people in horror movies insist on staying in creepy old castles ? | - After running out on an unpaid hotel bill , a bus carrying five showgirls , their manager , and a driver becomes stranded because of bad weather . They seek shelter in a nearby castle ( Is it a European custom to ask any stranger with a spooky castle if you can spend the night when you're stranded ? ) . At first , th... |
366,703 | 3,109,237 | 72,196 | 5 | Not Lenzi's Best | To fully enjoy many of the gialli I've seen recently , the viewer must , as I call it , take a " leap of logic " . What I mean is that if the viewer were to stop and think about how illogical things in the movie were , they probably wouldn't enjoy the movie as much . Well , with Spasmo the viewer is asked to take a Gra... |
366,556 | 3,109,237 | 433,409 | 5 | Interesting , but flawed | - Liberia : An Uncivil War is a sometimes interesting , sometimes shocking , but sometimes flawed look at the last days of the Civil War in Liberia in 1993 . One of the directors was embedded with the rebel group LURD , while the other spent his time in the capital city with the government and the people . The portions... |
366,628 | 3,109,237 | 72,200 | 5 | I've come to expect more from a cop movie with Tomas Milian | When a band of crooks kills a police officer during a daylight robbery , Inspector Tomas Ravelli of Interpol quickly discovers that the gun used by the robbers matches the gun used to kill his wife some years previous . Whether the Italian police want his assistance or not , Ravelli makes it his mission to track down t... |
366,467 | 3,109,237 | 68,396 | 5 | One of the Worst of the Columbo Series | - While on a trip to England to learn about some of Scotland Yard's latest innovations , Columbo stumbles upon a murder . The producer of a Shakespearean play has been killed and Columbo's suspicion soon fall on a husband and wife acting team appearing in the producer's latest play . Columbo must match wits with this p... |
366,847 | 3,109,237 | 68,398 | 5 | The keys to the mystery are too obvious | - Renowned symphony conductor Alex Benedict ( John Cassavetes ) has a problem - the pianist with whom he's having an affair threatens to go public if he doesn't leave his wife . This would ruin his career , so he decides to kill her . He arranges the murder to look like suicide . Should the police become suspicious , h... |
365,943 | 3,109,237 | 390,521 | 5 | There is a big , nappy hair in my sundae . | Super Size Me is the hugely successful documentary that follows Morgan Spurlock , a healthy 32 year-old filmmaker , as he goes on a month long diet consisting of nothing but food from McDonald's . If McDonald's doesn't sell it , he's not eating it . He's also set a goal of limiting his exercise to 5 , 000 steps per day... |
366,273 | 3,109,237 | 79,946 | 5 | Halt the flow of time ! | Writing any sort of review on Starcrash is difficult . The plot is hardly worth rehashing as it's little more than a mish-mash of ideas taken ( i . e . stolen ) from other movies . Writing about the poor technical aspects of the movie is like shooting fish in a barrel ? not much of a challenge . And it would be a waste... |
366,242 | 3,109,237 | 50,294 | 5 | There is no more deadly or voracious creature than the Preying Mantis . | The Deadly Mantis is another of the big bug sci-fi movies that the studios were putting out in the 1950s . While these movies have a lot in common , not all big bug movies were created equally . Even though The Deadly Mantis does have a point or two in its favor ( special effects , etc . ) , overall it's just not as go... |
366,717 | 3,109,237 | 50,292 | 5 | So Mr . Hyde was some sort of werewolf / vampire combo monster ? | On her 21st birthday , Janet Smith ( Gloria Talbott ) discovers she has inherited an estate and a large sum of money . She's suddenly a wealthy woman about to be wed to the man of her dreams , George Hastings ( John Agar ) . But she learns something else . She learns her father's secret . She discovers she is the daugh... |
366,436 | 3,109,237 | 68,471 | 5 | Requires a rewatch . | As I've written any number of times , one of the things I enjoy most about Italian films is their convoluted plots . I've rarely run across a Giallo that I have difficulty making sense out of after it's over . But I've met my match with Delirium . It's a movie that I'm definitely going to have to watch again to fully c... |
366,379 | 3,109,237 | 388,230 | 5 | A wishy-washy | A mother and daughter , coming home from a softball game , decide to stop for ice cream . Their plans change when a bank robber on the run kidnaps them and forces the mother to drive him to an abandoned house his gang is using as a meeting place . What the would-be criminals don't know is that their hideout is just ove... |
366,492 | 3,109,237 | 47,898 | 5 | He tampered in God's domain ! | Dr . Varnoff ( Bela Lugosi ) is trying to build an army of atomic supermen . He uses a trained octopus to gather his test subjects . When the latest two men go missing , the newspapers are filled with stories of monsters . But the police have been through the swamp numerous times and have so far turned up nothing . Int... |
365,983 | 3,109,237 | 74,157 | 5 | You cannot mesmerize me ! I'm British ! | How many of these lost-world / center-of-the-earth style movies did they make in the late 60s and early 70s ? I swear I think I've seen a dozen or more . In At the Earth's Core , Dr . Abner Perry ( the great Peter Cushing ) and David Innes ( Doug McClure ) set off for an experimental ride in their earth digging machine... |
366,291 | 3,109,237 | 80,833 | 5 | Cardona Does Johnsontown | If you take a look at Rene Cardona Jr . ' s credits , you'll quickly discover that he jumped on every bandwagon that passed by . Tintoera is his Jaws " inspired " film . Cyclone is his cash-in on the disaster movie boom . The Bermuda Triangle is his link to the unexplained mysteries craze of the 70s . And I'm sure you ... |
366,482 | 3,109,237 | 371,606 | 5 | I hear some teenagers get a major rush out of stamp-collecting ! | For my family's second official Family Movie Night , we went with Chicken Little . In the movie , Chicken Little is hit in the head and causes a great deal of panic and confusion in the town of Oakey Oak with his claim that the sky is falling . When it appears that it was nothing more than an acorn that hit Chicken Lit... |
366,451 | 3,109,237 | 65,597 | 5 | Winter's coming in and the wolves coming with it . | By no stretch of the imagination is this even close to Price's best film . In most of his films , Price can play the most evil , vile , hideous person alive , yet you can still find qualities to like because of his charismatic , sympathetic nature . This is not the case in Cry of the Banshee . Price's Lord Edward Whitm... |
366,036 | 3,109,237 | 65,569 | 5 | Lee's best performance as Dracula ? | In the past , I've accused Jess Franco of losing focus about 10 minutes into his films . It's not unusual to see him stray from his subject for a few unnecessary close-ups of any random object or to include several minutes of what appears to be vacation footage he shot out of the window of a car . That's certainly not ... |
366,443 | 3,109,237 | 130,623 | 5 | I'm not sure what Disney was thinking with this one | - I'm not sure what Disney was thinking when they gave the " green light " to this film . Sure it looks good , but that's about it . The opening scenes are a thing of beauty with a dinosaur egg going through an amazing journey until coming to rest on an island of lemurs . But once you get past the look of the movie you... |
366,746 | 3,109,237 | 54,923 | 5 | Deborah Walley is certainly no Sandra Dee | In many respects , Gidget Goes Hawaiian is a better movie than Gidget . Some of the comedy is actually funny , it's less sappy , and Carl Reiner is a much better father . Also there are fewer of the seemingly endless surfing scenes that make up almost half of Gidget's runtime . Unfortunately , however , not every aspec... |
366,819 | 3,109,237 | 213,245 | 5 | Not as advertised | - I had been intrigued by Shikoku for a while . The plot sounded interesting and the movie featured Chiaki Kuriyama ( Gogo Yubari in Kill Bill Vol . 1 ) , so I finally decided to give it a chance . The summary on the back of the DVD case ( " Hinako returns to her childhood home on the island of Shikoku after many years... |
366,908 | 3,109,237 | 54,938 | 5 | Godzilla it ain't | Gorgo follows the basic plot premise laid out by the much better known Godzilla . A giant monster is awakened from the depths of the ocean and begins destroying everything in its path . The difference , and this is a matter of personal preference , is that Toho did the giant rampaging monster better than anyone . For a... |
366,655 | 3,109,237 | 62,657 | 5 | What's the matter with a broad in the daylight ? | This is not an exact quote , but I read somewhere on the internet that Dean Martin's portrayal of Matt Helm could make Perry Como look hyper . The Ambushers is a great example of this . Martin literally sleepwalks his way through this one . He's in very little hurry to get anywhere other than to the nearest bar . And ,... |
366,357 | 3,109,237 | 71,987 | 5 | Maybe I should re-watch this one now that I know what to expect . | Giacomo Solaris ( Franco Nero ) has just made a film about the hypocrisy in the judicial system focusing on one particular judge and his ties with the Mafia . As life often imitates art , the real life judge he used as a basis for his character is brutally murdered just as in his movie . Solaris begins to weave his way... |
366,201 | 3,109,237 | 53,219 | 5 | I know something terrible happened , something even more terrible than suicide or murder | Following the death of his mother , Philippe Delambre ( Brett Halsey ) decides to continue the work his father began 15 years previous . His father's experiments in matter transference ended disastrously . Philippe promises his uncle , Francois Delambre ( Vincent Price ) , he'll be more careful and not make the same mi... |
366,183 | 3,109,237 | 64,691 | 5 | It's got style to burn ! | Moon Zero Two features two seemingly unrelated plot threads with Capt . William H . Kemp ( James Olson ) as their only connection . In the first , a distraught woman is looking for her brother , a miner on the far side of the moon . She enlists Capt . Kemp to help her by taking her to the brother's claim site . In the ... |
366,125 | 3,109,237 | 35,640 | 5 | Lugosi Grows a Beard | The basic story of the Ape Man is straight forward . Lugosi plays a scientist messing around with nature ( these guys never learn ) . Through some experimentation he has turned himself into a half-ape ( he had a heavy beard and walked stooped over ) . He , along with his gorilla assistant , must kill to get the spinal ... |
366,263 | 3,109,237 | 89,562 | 5 | How can a movie this bad be so much fun ? | Some may see the rating I've given Massacre in Dinosaur Valley and think I've lost my mind . I'm fully aware that a may be too high . In all honesty , the movie is horrible . Tarantini has crammed the film with every exploitation element and cliché you can think of . Massacre in Dinosaur Valley lacks originality , any ... |
366,608 | 3,109,237 | 74,452 | 5 | By this time next year pigeons are going to be crapping on statues of you across the whole damn state of Nebraska . | The German's hatch a plan to kidnap Churchill . Using a local citizen sympathetic to the German cause and an IRA operative , the Nazis move a group of specially trained commandos into England disguised as Polish paratroopers . But their cover is quickly blown while on maneuvers when one of the German soldier's true ide... |
366,893 | 3,109,237 | 85,124 | 5 | If you're able to look past the shortcomings , 1990 : The Bronx Warriors can be fun . | I'd be lying if I said 1990 : The Bronx Warriors was a good movie , because its not . In fact , the rating I've given it is probably too high . But there's a certain amount of fun to be had with the movie . It's one part Jack Hill's The Warriors , one part John Carpenter's Escape from New York , a sprinkling of the Hel... |
366,475 | 3,109,237 | 85,125 | 5 | In search of fertility | In the sub-genre of post-apocalyptic action films , 2019 : After the Fall of New York is pretty much an average example . The plot makes sense within the framework of the film and provides the film's heroes with a legitimate reason to go on their mission into enemy territory . In some of these films , the heroes go on ... |
366,779 | 3,109,237 | 781,084 | 5 | I really wanted to like this movie | I really wanted to like Yo-Yo Girl Cop and , for a while anyway , I thought I was going to . To begin with , just take a look at the DVD cover ? a Japanese school-girl complete with uniform and a lethal yo-yo striking a pose in front of a fiery explosion . How awesome is that ? And the plot sounded very promising : Sak... |
366,225 | 3,109,237 | 87,298 | 5 | Jason's body has disappeared from the morgue . | I know there are fans out there that feel the fourth installment in the Friday the 13th series is the best . I don't happen to agree . While the first three movies weren't necessarily groundbreaking in their innovation , there were moments in each that we had not seen before ? at least in a Friday the 13th movie . By t... |
366,458 | 3,109,237 | 35,679 | 5 | It might be good | The Black Raven is another movie that IMDb has incorrectly listed as a " Horror / Mystery " . " Mystery " - I'll give you . " Horror " - None that I saw . The basic story : Several varied travelers are forced to stay at an inn by a thunderstorm that has washed out the roads and bridges . One of the guests has $50 , 000... |
366,625 | 3,109,237 | 78,417 | 5 | What's John Huston doing in this movie ? | It's official - I can't seem to get enough of Rene Cardona , Jr . ' s brand of movie-making . When I got my hands on The Bermuda Triangle , I was expecting the usual stuff ? planes and ships disappearing at sea , unknown lights , and the ocean changing colors . While The Bermuda Triangle gives you all this , Cardona ha... |
366,203 | 3,109,237 | 35,489 | 5 | After a terrific start , the movie kind of fizzles | A curse hangs over the Hammond family . For years , the family has been haunted by a creature that's believed to be responsible for several deaths . When Oliver Hammond doesn't return home when his sister , Helga , thinks he should have , she becomes increasingly worried . Her fears are compounded by a strange sound co... |
366,549 | 3,109,237 | 351,283 | 5 | Not as good as it could have been | - The story of a group of animals from a zoo in New York who want to find the Wild . With the help ( or possibly in spite of ) some penguins , they manage to crash on Madagascar - the Wild . It's not long before their natural instincts start to show themselves . Can a zebra and a lion coexist when one of them is hungry... |
366,748 | 3,109,237 | 52,847 | 5 | Honest to goodness it's the absolute ultimate ! | I don't think you can get much further away from the stuff I usually watch like Cannibal Holocaust or Zombi 2 than Sandra Dee and Gidget . It's impossible not to enjoy Dee's performance . She's bubbly , spunky , and cute . What's not to like ? Overall , Gidget is a sweet little movie that , for the most part , is enter... |
366,780 | 3,109,237 | 52,829 | 5 | Despite its shortcomings , its a " must see " for krimi fans | While I enjoy watching these German-made krimis , I've yet to find one that I just love and can recommend without hesitation . That holds true with Fellowship of the Frog . The best I can say is that it's about average . The plot is twisted and nonsensical like you'll find in most krimis . I won't even attempt to go in... |
366,122 | 3,109,237 | 33,283 | 5 | Lugosi , Karloff , and Lorre | IMDb lists this film as a Comedy / Horror / Musical / Mystery . While it does have elements of all four genres , none are portrayed very well . The comedy is weak . The horror is almost non-existent . While there are musical numbers , none is very memorable . And the mystery could be solved by a first grader . Sounds p... |
366,182 | 3,109,237 | 57,215 | 5 | And I so wanted to embrace this movie | Japan and the rest of the world are under the threat of attack from the mysterious underwater kingdom known as Mu . Their plan is to turn the land into their colonies and enslave the surface dwellers . The people of Mu fear only one thing ? Atragon , a super-secret ( so secret in fact that no one knows about it ) flyin... |
366,511 | 3,109,237 | 76,731 | 5 | It's kinda like Jaws , but in the snow . . . and on a mountain . . . and with fur . . . | In Snowbeast , a town is preparing for its annual Winter Carnival only to find it threatened by some sort of killer snow monster . You don't have to look too hard to find the similarities between Snowbeast and Jaws . They're everywhere - from canceling the Winter Carnival vs . the 4th of July celebration in Jaws to the... |
366,398 | 3,109,237 | 69,729 | 5 | Middle-of-the-Road WIP | - At first glance , it appears that Roger Corman was trying something new and different with The Arena . But once you get into it , it's easy to see that the movie is yet another Women in Prison film , albeit in a different setting . As far as WIPs go , it's middle-of-the-road - some of the movie works while while some... |
366,132 | 3,109,237 | 69,715 | 5 | Headless horsemen , horseless headsmen | What a disappointment . With a cast that features Peter Cushing , Herbert Lom , Patrick Magee , and Stephanie Beacham , I expected a whole lot more . The film gets off to a great start . Within the first 10 minutes , we see body parts coming out of portraits , a severed hand creeping across the floor , and a new bride ... |
366,343 | 3,109,237 | 317,219 | 5 | These white wall tires , they say look at me , here I am , Love me . | It was inevitable . The string of winners churned out by Pixar and Disney had to end sometime . And it ends with Cars . That's not to say there aren't moments in the film to enjoy . The beginning and ending of the film are great . As long as the action is centered on the racetrack , Cars is good and entertaining . Unfo... |
365,966 | 3,109,237 | 60,580 | 5 | Early Sonny Chiba | When two reporters investigate the strange occurrences during a Navy submarine test , they become the prisoners of a strange underwater race of beings . They are taken to a secret laboratory where they discover a mad scientist who is using these creatures in his plot to take over the world . The reporters must free the... |
366,851 | 3,109,237 | 41,098 | 5 | One of the weaker A & C films | - With Costello poising as a big game hunter and guide , the boys tag along on an African expedition supposedly looking for a giant , undiscovered ape . What they don't realize is that the story of the ape is a hoax . The expedition is really searching for diamonds . Along the way , the boys run into crocodiles , canni... |
366,519 | 3,109,237 | 134,915 | 5 | Don't miss Tacey and her bouffant | A jewel heist is going just about as planned until the loot ends up in the back of a pick-up truck . Unaware of what he's carrying , the unsuspecting driver of the truck takes the fortune in jewels home with him . His young daughter finds the treasure and stuffs it into her doll . Unfortunately for this suburban family... |
366,442 | 3,109,237 | 62,808 | 5 | Franco's Spy Film | - Since I recently watched Mario Bava's Danger Diabolik , I had an urge to see some other , lesser known spy movies . This is Jess Franco's attempt at the genre and he almost pulls it off . If it weren't for some lapses in action ( and logic ) this one would have been very good . But far too often , nothing much of int... |
366,340 | 3,109,237 | 544,529 | 5 | The " Priest with a Problem " didn't work for me | I haven't seen many episodes of Combat ! yet , but of the handful I have seen , this is my least favorite . After a prolonged sequence of stock war footage , the episode gets off to a good start . The guys walking down the road and running into a squad of Nazis was quite exciting . But things go downhill from there , e... |
366,309 | 3,109,237 | 837,339 | 5 | Jonny goes to the North Pole | A rocket headed for space goes off-course and crashes in the Arctic . The rocket was armed with an auto-destruct mechanism , but it mysteriously failed to activate . Dr . Quest and family are sent in to investigate and retrieve the valuable scientific instruments on board the craft . But Quest and Company aren't alone ... |
366,349 | 3,109,237 | 76,554 | 5 | I can't believe I'm saying this , but more Joan would have also been a plus for the film . | Maurizio Merli plays a small-time private detective hired to find a missing girl . His hunt leads him to Austria and the case of a dead girl that he's sure is connected to the girl he's looking for . He learns that the girls were involved with a gang dealing in child prostitution . Merli has to get act fast if he's to ... |
366,266 | 3,109,237 | 82,592 | 5 | Calling it " Average " is about the best I can do | For whatever reason , I tend to be drawn to these backwoods , hillbilly horror films like a moth to a flame . I can't get enough of them . In this particular sub-genre , I would call Just Before Dawn average . It's not the best I've seen , but it's far from being as bad as something like Midnight ( 1982 ) . In general ... |
366,581 | 3,109,237 | 79,156 | 5 | I had fun with it regardless of how bad it really is | A photographer and model are flown to a new resort hotel in the middle of the jungle to shoot some publicity photos . The hotel is owned by a ruthless developer who appears to have little regard for the environment or the people surrounding his paradise . He has hired many members of a local tribe to work for him in hi... |
366,095 | 3,109,237 | 31,505 | 5 | That place - Jamaica Inn . It's got a bad name . It's not healthy , that's why . There's queer things goes on there . | Jamaica Inn is easily the weakest Alfred Hitchcock film I've yet seen . Actually , Jamaica Inn isn't so much a Hitchcock film as it is a Charles Laughton film . Now I generally enjoy Laughton's brand of acting . In fact , I rank his performance in The Island of Lost Souls as one of the all-time best performances in a h... |
366,586 | 3,109,237 | 51,536 | 5 | An okay way to spend an hour or so | A young man arrives in a small town ( Pop . 1505 we are informed ) after his Uncle , a local despised hermit , died . The young man moves into the Uncle's shack and immediately strange things begin happening . People are killed or maimed by a variety of animals and no one seems to be able to explain why . The only pers... |
366,140 | 3,109,237 | 69,253 | 5 | Average at best | - Fairly standard giallo about a string of murders with fashion models as victims . The one clue is snippets of a conversation overheard in a bar that seem to be tied to the murders . The only problem is that the man who overheard the conversation is blind . With the help of his butler and one of the models , he tries ... |
366,844 | 3,109,237 | 146,316 | 5 | Disappointing | - Based on the popular video game series Tomb Raider , Lara Croft is a wealthy archaeologist who travels the world seeking ancient artifacts . In this movie , Lara is racing against the Illuminati ( a secret society seeking world control ) to find the two parts of a device that , when put together , allows the possesso... |
366,818 | 3,109,237 | 76,825 | 5 | Can you say " sleaze " ? | - It will be difficult , but I'll try to keep the plot description as brief as possible . The movie opens with shots of a tiger shark . Next we see our main character , Steve , who meets and has sex with Patricia . Patricia leaves Steve for Miguel . Steve gets into a fight with Miguel that only serves to push Patricia ... |
366,606 | 3,109,237 | 58,202 | 5 | Too restrained for my liking | Wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit , Minnesota Clay ( Cameron Mitchell ) escapes to seek revenge against the man who refused to testify at his trial . He finds that his target , Fox ( Georges Riviere ) , has made himself sheriff of Clay's hometown . Fox and his band of thugs run the town with an iron fi... |
365,978 | 3,109,237 | 74,971 | 5 | For a Franco film , it's not too bad | It's difficult to know how to rate a Franco film . Do you compare his films with all other films , or do you just compare Franco's films with his other films ? Compared with the entire population of movies , Night of the Skull probably isn't that good . But for a Franco film , it's not too bad . And when you consider t... |
366,013 | 3,109,237 | 44,871 | 5 | The ineffective George Brent | A respectable book shop manager , named John Harman ( George Brent ) , gets mixed up in blackmail and murder when he crosses paths with Ruby Bruce ( Diana Dors ) . It's either pay up or she'll go to the police with a made-up story of Mr . Harman attacking her . He agrees to hand over the money and thinks he's put the w... |
365,911 | 3,109,237 | 69,121 | 5 | Lee Marvin , Gene Hackman , and no plot | The best thing about Prime Cut is the chance to see both Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman . Marvin is the understated bad-ass we've seen before and Gene Hackman is the greasy bad guy we've seen before . If you like these two in familiar roles that don't require them to stretch their acting abilities , Prime Cut is for you .... |
366,060 | 3,109,237 | 324,216 | 5 | However unfair , I can't help but compare it with the original | I'm not sure that anyone ( especially fans of horror ) doesn't have any idea of what to expect from the plot of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre . For those who live under a rock , here's a very brief synopsis of the plot - TCM revolves around a group of friends who become stranded while traveling the back-roads of Texas . ... |
366,829 | 3,109,237 | 387,564 | 5 | This is the most fun I've had without lubricant . | There has been so much written on Saw since its release in 2004 that I doubt there's much left to be said . Therefore , I'll limit this to just a couple of comments . It may not be the best " new " horror film I've seen , but it certainly beats a lot of the post-Scream films that glutted the market in recent years . Sa... |
366,679 | 3,109,237 | 64,175 | 5 | Okay , but nothing special | I've wanted to see Boot Hill for a while now , but it's been difficult to find a watchable transfer . I realize now that I haven't been missing much . For the most part , the film is standard Spaghetti Western stuff . A group of claim jumpers , lead by Honey Fisher ( Victor Buono ) , have everyone in a small mining tow... |
366,079 | 3,109,237 | 92,532 | 5 | Kathy Ireland - The Frump | While I can't find fault with Kathy Ireland's decision to branch out of swimsuit modeling to get into acting , but is Alien from L . A . really the best she could come up with for her first movie ? What better way to begin a career than to star in a movie that's a cheesy sort of Alice in Wonderland meets the Road Warri... |
366,155 | 3,109,237 | 62,433 | 5 | Sex dominates the world ! And now , I dominate sex ! | Curious ? Yes . And weird , odd , bizarre , and maybe even a little eclectic . It certainly is one strange movie . The Curious Dr . Humpp has one of the craziest plots I've seen . Dr . Humpp is working on an experiment to increase the libido of women to basically turn them into braindead nymphomaniacs . With the assist... |
366,007 | 3,109,237 | 73,461 | 5 | Effective , but sadly unoriginal | In the fourth movie in the Blind Dead series , the Templars are terrorizing a small village whose inhabitants offer sacrifices of young women on a regular interval to appease the blind dead . It's obvious that de Ossorio had run out of original ideas by the time he made Night of the Seagulls . While many of the scenes ... |
366,052 | 3,109,237 | 465,569 | 5 | If you seek corroboration , interrogate my pillow . | When the daughter of a wealthy American industrialist is murdered aboard the Blue Train from Calais to Nice , Hercule Poirot ( David Suchet ) is pressed into service to assist the local police in finding a killer . With plenty of suspects , an attack on another passenger , and a missing world famous ruby , Poirot has h... |
366,600 | 3,109,237 | 67,367 | 5 | I wish Hammer had made more films with Yutte ! | Lust for a Vampire is the second of Hammer's Karnstein films . While the first , The Vampire Lovers , was far from being great , it is a much better movie than this , the first sequel . The acting is weak , the male lead is very unsympathetic , Mike Raven comes across as a Christopher Lee wannabe , the sets are " too c... |
366,502 | 3,109,237 | 49,363 | 5 | Chaney could play the menacing brute as well as anyone | After the criminal known as Charles " Butcher " Benton ( Lon Chaney , Jr . ) is put to death in the gas chamber , his body finds its way to the laboratory of a Professor Bradshaw . Bradshaw is doing some cancer experiments with electricity and can always use a fresh corpse . But his experiment has a side effect he is n... |
366,386 | 3,109,237 | 49,370 | 5 | There is hope , but it has to come from inside , from Man himself . | While It Conquered the World can't compare with some of the best sci-fi from the 50s , it's still a fun movie if you can get past the special effects . The plot is straight out of the 1950s Guide to Sci-Fi / Monster Movies . An alien comes to earth with the intention of taking over the place . The alien uses some sort ... |
366,903 | 3,109,237 | 892,782 | 5 | Boys , set the terror level at code brown , ' cause I need to change my pants . | Last weekend , I took my 6 year-old son to see the 3-D version of Monsters vs Aliens . For a user comment on the movie , I thought I would do something a little different and interview him to get his thoughts . Me : So , what did you think of Monsters vs Aliens ? Son : Good ( Let me explain a little about his one word ... |
366,526 | 3,109,237 | 58,007 | 5 | Why the need for a fake beard ? | Devil Doll is one of those movies that , while it will never be confused with a masterpiece of horror , is effective in its on little way . Though the story is often predictable , it's creepy enough to provide a few chills along the way ? not scary , just creepy . Ventriloquist dummies like Hugo have always given me th... |
366,895 | 3,109,237 | 347,107 | 5 | Interesting on two fronts | Gow the Killer follows a team of explorers as they cruise the South Pacific Islands searching for cannibals and head-hunters . Remember , this film was made in the 1920s . Places like Fiji , New Guinea , and Samoa were far away , exotic places to be feared . And , remember that in the 1920s , there may have still been ... |
366,539 | 3,109,237 | 675,104 | 5 | An average way to begin an average series | Escape from Tomorrow is the first episode in the Planet of the Apes television series that aired in 1974 . As you might expect from a pilot episode , its main function is the quickly and effectively set-up the series and the episodes that follow . The basic plot of this episode - Alan Virdon ( Ron Harper ) and Pete B... |
366,196 | 3,109,237 | 57,890 | 5 | A few excellent set-pieces , but little else to recommend | After a three-month absence , Sir Richard Fordyce and his new bride return to his estate under a black cloud . A young woman who lived on his lands was brutally raped and murdered just two days prior to his return . Her last words seemed to accuse Sir Richard of being the culprit . In addition , several of the locals r... |
366,885 | 3,109,237 | 73,275 | 5 | Not all Peter Cushing performances were created equal . | I'll keep this brief as there is really not much to say about this movie . The Legend of the Werewolf is a fairly enjoyable , although predictable , Hammeresque werewolf movie . The story is decent , just not overly original . There's very little in the way of new ground covered here . It's all " been there , done that... |
366,346 | 3,109,237 | 83,972 | 5 | Is that all you're gonna do this weekend ? Smoke dope ? | Writing a plot description for Friday the 13th Part III seems sort of unnecessary . It's pretty much the same as every other movie in the series ? a group of seemingly brainless kids goes into the woods only to be slaughtered by an unseen killer . How original ! But in fairness , it's actually no better or worse than t... |
366,861 | 3,109,237 | 55,819 | 5 | Everything's great , except the plot | After her car breaks down , Jane Lindstrom ( Glynis Johns ) makes her way to the gated home of a man known as Caligari ( Dan O'Herlihy ) . She is invited into the house and , at first , feels comfortable . But when Jane is not allowed to leave the next day , she realizes that , like Caligari's other " guests " , she is... |
366,540 | 3,109,237 | 71,033 | 5 | These humans are dangerous , don't you understand that ? | For those familiar with the Planet of the Apes movies , the television series should seem terribly familiar . Alan Virdon ( Ron Harper ) and Pete Burke ( James Naughton ) are two astronauts who crash land on Earth some 1 , 000 years in the future . Centuries previous , man effectively destroyed his civilization allowin... |
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