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366,868 | 3,109,237 | 281,686 | 7 | Elvis & JFK | - This movie answers the age old question - what would happen if Elvis were still alive and living in an East Texas nursing home that was under attack from a mummy ? It's up to Elvis and his friend , a black man who is convinced he is John F . Kennedy , to save the other residents of the rest home . - Bubba Ho-Tep is b... |
366,094 | 3,109,237 | 152,018 | 7 | Massi and Merli team-up for a fun , action packed ride | If you're a fan of the Italian polizia thriller , the names Stelvio Massi and Maurizio Merli should be familiar . The pair , whether together or individually , are responsible for some of the best this genre has to offer . They teamed-up to make 1978's Convoy Busters and , for the most part , came up with a winner . Th... |
366,387 | 3,109,237 | 83,630 | 7 | Never fails to entertain | I've said it before , but with The Beastmaster , it bears repeating ? the biggest single factor I use when rating a movie is entertainment value . Great production values , an intricate plot , superb acting , expensive special effects , etc . are secondary to the enjoyment I get form a film . Sure , I realize my enjoym... |
366,799 | 3,109,237 | 56,347 | 7 | And when you sing , Christine , you will be singing only . . . for me . | Almost every movie fan knows the story ? an opera house is beset with problems as a new production is set to open . At first it's strange , annoying occurrences like missing music or damaged instruments . But it goes beyond mere annoyance when a stagehand is murdered . What evil force is behind this series of events ? ... |
366,184 | 3,109,237 | 30,491 | 7 | Aw , quit disturbing the molecules ! | Mary Eldredge , a wealthy older woman , is prepared to make a substantial donation to the school Nancy Drew ( Bonita Granville ) attends . But when she disappears before the gift can be finalized , Nancy immediately suspects foul play . And when Nancy witnesses the local doctor being kidnapped , she's sure she's on the... |
366,152 | 3,109,237 | 30,483 | 7 | A solid entry in the Mr . Moto series | It's interesting to me that it's the " B " films of the 30s and 40s that seem to be so popular today . I sincerely doubt that anyone involved in the making of these movies could have imagined or cared that there would be an audience for their work almost 70 years later . Mysterious Mr . Moto is an enjoyable " B " that ... |
366,515 | 3,109,237 | 533,107 | 7 | It doesn't matter what he's doing - Jack Palance is awesome ! | When the Earth's tainted food supply knocks most of its pilots out of commission putting the planet's defenses at risk , Buck and Col Deering visit the planet the food comes from to investigate . What they find is a population enslaved by the charismatic and ruthless Kaleel ( Jack Palance ) , a clueless Governor ( Rodd... |
366,588 | 3,109,237 | 83,542 | 7 | Terrific cast and terrific set-pieces | Dr . Dan Potter has accepted a position at a mental facility known as the Haven . It's a unique place with no bars to keep the patients inside , only electric doors . During a blackout , four mental patients escape from the institution with the plan of getting their revenge on the new doctor who they believe killed the... |
366,149 | 3,109,237 | 61,409 | 7 | Very enjoyable krimi | I'm still relatively new to these krimis , but I rate Creature with the Blue Hand as one of the best I've seen so far . It's the story of man named Dave Emerson ( Klaus Kinski ) who has been committed to an asylum for murdering his family's gardener . Dave escapes and makes his way home ( which is conveniently located ... |
366,658 | 3,109,237 | 65,225 | 7 | One of the better Matt Helm films | Count Massimo Contini ( Nigel Green ) is the mastermind behind a billion dollar gold robbery . His plan is to send the world markets into chaos . He may get away with it unless Matt Helm ( Dean Martin ) can track down the missing gold . But along the way , Helm will meet up the Count's hired muscle , a gorgeous female ... |
365,934 | 3,109,237 | 70,633 | 7 | A Guilty Pleasure | - A young girl seemingly commits suicide for no reason . Her sister Elizabeth ( Pamela Franklin ) , feeling that something was terribly wrong , takes an assumed name and enrolls at the all-girls ' school her sister attended . In short order , two more girls commit suicide . With the help of her friend Roberta ( Kate Ja... |
366,410 | 3,109,237 | 52,655 | 7 | But if you'd have shot me , you'd be moppin ' up my blood now . | A Bucket of Blood is a nice little Corman horror film . It plays better than many of his other non-Poe , non-Price films . It's the story of a " backwards " busboy in a beatnik dive trying to fit in by becoming an artist . His creations are the talk of the joint . But just how is the seemingly talentless busboy able to... |
366,145 | 3,109,237 | 68,168 | 7 | Gritty | - Across 110th Street is definitely a product of its time . Although it's lumped in with the Blaxplotation movies of its day , it's really doesn't belong with those films . While films like Foxy Brown , Cleopatra Jones , and Superfly featured larger than life characters that border on being comic book characters , Acro... |
366,320 | 3,109,237 | 54,295 | 7 | A very nice heist film | The plot of Seven Thieves is similar in many respects to the dozens of other heist movies made in the 50s and 60s . Edward G . Robinson plays the kindly , but discredited professor who has put together a plan to rob a Monte Carlo casino much as he would put together an experiment to mix two chemicals . He assembles his... |
366,850 | 3,109,237 | 26,197 | 7 | Nice entry in the series | Charlie Chan arrives in Egypt and , as expected , a murder soon takes place . The murder in Charlie Chan in Egypt is among the most clever than I've seen in a Chan film . And , Chan's method of discovering how the murder was committed is equally clever . The mystery here is fairly straight forward without a lot of red ... |
366,237 | 3,109,237 | 182,332 | 7 | Other than a poorly timed flashback , not much to complain about | While on holiday with his friend , Captain Hastings , renowned detective Hercule Poirot is pressed into service to help solve a murder . A very wealthy man's body has been discovered in a sand bunker at a golf course with a knife in his back . His wife is found bound and gagged with a story of two Chilean kidnappers th... |
366,688 | 3,109,237 | 37,168 | 7 | I don't like the smell of you - an underground smell , the sick sweetness of decay . | The Pearl of Death is about average for the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films I've seen so far . It's not as good as something like The Scarlet Claw , but I thought it was better than some of the others I've seen . Rathbone and Nigel Bruce give their usual solid performances . However , I found that a little bit too... |
366,913 | 3,109,237 | 39,302 | 7 | My only interest in your head is how easy it'll crack open . | Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall only made a handful of movies together . Three of these movies ? The Big Sleep , To Have and Have Not , and Key Largo ? are in that special class of films that I call great . Dark Passage , on the other hand , is merely a good movie . It's not great by any stretch of the imagination ? ... |
366,005 | 3,109,237 | 68,505 | 7 | Weird , man . Way out . I mean , spooks , hobgoblins , black magic . All that sort of stuff . | In 1872 , Dracula was finally put to rest by Professor Van Helsing . One hundred years later , a group of young people thinks it might be good for a few laughs to perform a Black Mass . Unknown to them , a member of their group is a decedent of one of Dracula's disciples who has been waiting for this opportunity to bri... |
366,738 | 3,109,237 | 32,818 | 7 | A sequel in name only | The Mummy's Hand may be known as a sequel to Universal's classic The Mummy , but it's a sequel in name only . And in my opinion , it was a very wise decision to drop the story line and characters of The Mummy and create a new mythos with Kharis . Without Boris Karloff's involvement , carrying I'm-ho-tep / Ardath Bey in... |
366,255 | 3,109,237 | 68,481 | 7 | Hail Diane - Princess of Darkness | After her mother's untimely and violent death , Diane Shaw ( Belinda Montgomery ) meets a woman named Lilith Malone ( Shelley Winters ) who claims to be one of her mother's old friends . Lilith invites Diane to stay with her for a while . At first things seem almost ideal , but a series of strange events soon puts a di... |
366,573 | 3,109,237 | 21,668 | 7 | Death is a black camel that kneels unbidden at every gate . | On her way to Hawaii to make a movie , actress Shelah Fane meets and falls in love with a very wealthy man . She intends to marry him but something from her past is troubling her . After she is talked out of going through with the wedding by her psychic Tarneverro ( Bela Lugosi ) , Shelah Fane is found dead in her ocea... |
366,825 | 3,109,237 | 59,106 | 7 | Go and remove that FILTH at once ! | The story : A young woman named Pat Carroll ( Stefanie Powers ) pays a courtesy call on Mrs . Trefoile ( Tallulah Bankhead ) , the mother of Pat's dead fiancé . Pat plans to stay one night and be on her way . But Mrs . Trefoile has other ideas . She sees it as her mission to " cleanse " Pat and keep her pure for the da... |
366,297 | 3,109,237 | 80,057 | 7 | Much better the second time around | I saw Fulci's Zombi 2 a number of years ago and didn't really care for it . I suppose that at the time I didn't quite understand Italian horror and its excesses . Having re-watched it last night at the insistence of an internet friend , I've done a 180 and completely changed my opinion . While I don't think it's one of... |
366,161 | 3,109,237 | 929,559 | 7 | An ape with wings ? | As far as the story is concerned , " Screaming Wings " is one of the best episodes I've seen so far . In this episode , Urko has acquired an operational , vintage , WWII airplane . Jeff , Bill , and Judy realize that with an airplane , the humanoids do not stand a chance . They've got to steal Urko's plane and do so be... |
366,245 | 3,109,237 | 52,227 | 7 | The rating for The Space Children is as puzzling to me as any I've run across | I've seen a lot of weird things on IMDb , but the rating for The Space Children is as puzzling to me as any I've run across . 2 . 1 ? ! ? ! I couldn't disagree any more . 2 . 1 is getting close to Manos territory . The Space Children may not be the best movie I've ever seen , but it doesn't deserve a 2 . 1 . Why the lo... |
366,627 | 3,109,237 | 61,036 | 7 | Honestly , I wasn't expecting to enjoy it this much | Sergio ( Richard Johnson ) responds to a " Help Wanted " ad for a librarian that seems to have been written just for him . When he arrives at the rambling villa , he meets an old woman who has been following him . At first , he writes her off as a nutty old broad and wants nothing to do with her or her job . But then h... |
366,537 | 3,109,237 | 59,095 | 7 | Worth a look | - In the future , murder is legal ? as long as you follow the rules . Killers and victims compete against one another for cash prizes . Once you have survived being either a killer or victim ten times , you win $1 million . The trouble arises when the pair fall in love . - Marcello Mastroianni and Ursila Andress star a... |
366,239 | 3,109,237 | 43,643 | 7 | When I'm broke , I press my pants . | In the world of the film noir , His Kind of Woman is something completely different from what I've become accustomed to . Some would argue that it's not even noir , but some sort of crime / adventure / comedy amalgamation . To me , it's definitely noir . . . with a twist . His Kind of Woman features three distinct acts... |
365,909 | 3,109,237 | 37,303 | 7 | Feline , not canine . | The Spider Woman is another fun and enjoyable outing for Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr . Watson . In this one , Holmes investigates a series of murders that the police have labeled suicides . He quickly determines the connection the men have with one another and surmises the murders are being committed by an unkn... |
366,468 | 3,109,237 | 68,402 | 7 | Culp and Falk are great together | - When the owner of a football team is found dead in his pool , it looks like an accident . That is until Columbo starts poking around . He quickly latches on to the man who runs the team , Paul Hanlon ( Robert Culp ) , as the primary suspect . But how could Hanlon have committed the murder ? He was at the ballgame at ... |
366,699 | 3,109,237 | 76,150 | 7 | So much more than Brooke Shields ' first movie | - A little girl is waiting in line to receive her first communion . Suddenly , she is grabbed from behind and murdered . All of the evidence seems to point toward the girl's sister , Alice . Next , Alice's Aunt is attacked in the stairwell of her apartment building . Again , the suspicion falls on Alice . Alice's paren... |
366,135 | 3,109,237 | 63,275 | 7 | A whole lot of fun and my new favorite Naschy film | Finally ! I've been searching and searching for a Paul Naschy film that appeals to me . And I'm so happy to have discovered one . After sitting through some less than stellar offerings like Vengeance of the Zombies and Dr . Jekyll vs . the Werewolf , I've finally found a winner . I won't go so far as to proclaim it as ... |
366,463 | 3,109,237 | 58,983 | 7 | My perfect body . . . in the poisonous clutches of The Lover Of Death ! | - Seeking locations to use for photographs for a series of horror books , a group stumbles on what they believe to be a deserted castle . The castle happens to have been the former home of The Crimson Executioner ? a centuries old murderer who was himself put to death in his own castle , but not before putting a curse ... |
366,074 | 3,109,237 | 72,260 | 7 | Not like any teacher I ever had | I can't believe how much fun I had watching The Teacher . They don't make ' em like this anymore . Having recently graduated from high school , 18 year-old Sean ( Jay North ) has one last summer at home before he heads to college . He discovers quite the novel way to spend his time ? he begins having an affair with his... |
366,896 | 3,109,237 | 65,499 | 7 | Not a bad example of what I'm going to call a lesser SW | Sartana blows into town just after a local prospector , Joe Benson , has been murdered . Suddenly , there seems to be no shortage of buyers for the old man's land that most describe as nothing more than a pile of worthless sand . The two men who seem to want the land the most are the local crooked banker and the Chines... |
365,922 | 3,109,237 | 68,424 | 7 | Creepy Gothic Fun | The Creeping Flesh is good , old-fashioned fun . The Creeping Flesh has that one ingredient necessary for a successful Gothic horror ? atmosphere . From the minute that Peter Cushing opens that crate he's brought back with him from New Guinea , you just know nothing good is going to come from that bizarre looking skele... |
366,747 | 3,109,237 | 54,988 | 7 | If you do not leave this house in the next minute , I will kill you ! | I'm very impressed with Homicidal . William Castle accomplishes more with the obviously small budget he had to work with in Homicidal that a lot of filmmakers could have with ten-times the money . Homicidal is Castle's rather obvious attempt to cash-in on the success of Psycho , released the year before . And , he's mo... |
366,141 | 3,109,237 | 69,920 | 7 | A weak Martino is still a good movie | - Torso may not be the best giallo that Sergio Martino ever made , but I'll argue that it has some of the most intense moments found in any of his films . The last 30 minutes or so are as edge-of-your-seat , tension filled as you'll see . The movie kicks into high gear when Jane ( Suzy Kendall ) wakes-up only to find a... |
365,933 | 3,109,237 | 65,553 | 7 | Bava and Edwige : A Winning Combination | - Plot : ( from IMDb ) George Stark is a wealthy industrialist who invites five business friends of his to his remote Mediterranean island for a weekend of relaxation and business when he introduces them to Professor Farrell , a brilliant chemist who gives investment ideas to the group . But against Farrell's wishes , ... |
366,622 | 3,109,237 | 74,345 | 7 | A very familiar story | Carlos Monzon ( World Middleweight Boxing Champion for over 7 years ) is Marco Russo , a stranger in town looking for a job . He learns that the only real work is with one of the two competing crime families that run the city . Marco gets a job as a heavy for one of the groups and quickly proves to be very valuable . B... |
366,843 | 3,109,237 | 69,897 | 7 | How do you take your Coffy ? | - Pam Grier is the undisputed queen of the 70s Blaxplotation films . In Coffy , she's a woman who wants to avenge her sisters overdose on some bad dope . Posing as a prostitute , she infiltrates the drug gang and starts kicking butt . Coffy is a little more serious in tone that some of the Grier's other films like Foxy... |
366,490 | 3,109,237 | 51,150 | 7 | A very satisfying film | Dr . Campbell is a sick man . Just before he dies , he gives a bottle of tablets to Dr . Paul Beecher ( Paul Beal ) . Quite by accident , Paul takes one of the pills thinking it's his migraine medication . The pills were part of Dr . Campbell's work on mind regression to a more primitive state and were made from the bl... |
366,267 | 3,109,237 | 454,841 | 7 | A worthy remake | I've been a fan of the original The Hills Have Eyes since I first saw it during a midnight showing while in college . I had my doubts about the remake , but as I enjoyed Aja's High Tension more than I probably should have , I at least felt the film was in good hands . I still enjoy the 1977 version more , but my faith ... |
366,425 | 3,109,237 | 882,438 | 7 | A man and his pet dinosaur | Dr . Benton Quest is deep in the jungle in search of a rare metal that might prove beneficial to the space program when he runs into a hysterical native who will only repeat the word , " Turu " . The Quest Gang accompanies the frightened man and discover a mountain full of the metal they seek guarded by a crazed man in... |
366,199 | 3,109,237 | 37,453 | 7 | Lon Chaney , Jr . - The Love God | While doing field research , Professor Norman Reed ( Lon Chaney , Jr . ) meets and falls in love with a beautiful , exotic woman . He marries her and brings her home . Things couldn't be any better for the Professor . That is , until he discovers his wife is still practicing the voodoo type ceremonies of her homeland .... |
366,088 | 3,109,237 | 33,650 | 7 | Very entertaining beginning to the Falcon series | The Gay Falcon , the first movie in the Falcon series , finds the Falcon ( George Sanders ) ready to give up both women and detective work at the request of his fiancé . This promise , however , doesn't last long as a pretty woman with a story of stolen jewelry soon walks into his life . In no time at all , the Falcon ... |
366,698 | 3,109,237 | 408,970 | 7 | Predictable , but Beautiful | - Koma starts with a bang - an unknown girl awakens in a tub full of ice . Written on the wall above her head , she reads the words " Call the police or you'll die " . As she steps from the tub , there is an obvious pain in her side . When she examines the area with her hand , she discovers that she is bleeding from a ... |
366,397 | 3,109,237 | 74,279 | 7 | A Nice Ride | - The basic premise of Cannonball has been done several times - a diverse group of drivers compete in a cross-country race where anything goes . Sound familiar ? Hal Nedham ripped the guts out of Cannonball for his Cannonball Run made five years later . The difference , though , is that while Cannonball is often funny ... |
366,706 | 3,109,237 | 78,622 | 7 | When they met . . . it was murder ! | If you've read some of my other user comments , you'll quickly discover that Hart to Hart isn't the kind of thing I usually go for . But , surprisingly , the show works for me . A loving relationship , plenty of money , a wonderful house , nice cars , and a life filled with adventure and mystery ? this is what has alwa... |
366,067 | 3,109,237 | 295,700 | 7 | We are never going into the woods again ! | A group of six young people find themselves stranded in the mountains of West Virginia . When four members of the group leave to find either help or a phone they stumble upon a cabin that at first appears to be deserted . But what they find in the cabin proves that it is actually inhabited and not the place they want t... |
366,753 | 3,109,237 | 134,821 | 7 | Sabato's good , but he's no Milian | Salvatore Cangemi ( Antonio Sabato ) is the head of an Italian crime family and the biggest pimp in Milan . When a French mobster wants to use Cangemi's girls to traffic his drugs , Cangemi refuses . The Frenchman doesn't take this lightly and moves in on the Milan territory by recruiting some of Cangemi's girls behind... |
366,354 | 3,109,237 | 41,263 | 7 | Well worth the $2 . 99 I paid for it | Before his company will pay out , an insurance investigator ( Dennis O'Keefe ) arrives in a small town to look into an apparent suicide . But he immediately begins to suspect something's not quite right . No gun , no powder marks , no bullet , no coroner's report , and no sheriff's report seem to lead to no suicide . W... |
366,091 | 3,109,237 | 10,323 | 7 | It's like a work of art come to life . | The Cabinet of Dr . Caligari is , for me , a tale of two movies . On one hand , there's no denying the film's historical significance or amazing " look " . Instead of going into detail on the film's historical significance , I think that simply stating the fact that The Cabinet of Dr . Caligari is a German horror film ... |
366,147 | 3,109,237 | 33,723 | 7 | One of A & C's better films | - Abbott and Costello ( A & C ) get mixed up with a gangster and become his sole heirs upon his death . The estate consists of an old roadside inn that may or may not be the hiding place for the gangster's money . But , there are a lot of other people who want to get their hands on that money - and some of them may be ... |
366,826 | 3,109,237 | 65,677 | 7 | A stylish Italian thriller full of blackmail and perversity | The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion ( let's shorten that to Forbidden Photos for the rest of this write-up ) is a stylish Italian thriller full of blackmail and perversity . Forbidden Photos would easily be among the best Gialli I've seen if it weren't for the lack of actual murders and other on-screen mayhe... |
366,788 | 3,109,237 | 80,761 | 7 | Doomed . . . You're all doomed . | Friday the 13th may not have been the first movie of its kind and the kill scenes may have been copied from other movies , but there's no denying the importance of the film . Friday the 13th is the film I see as most responsible for the slasher boom of the 80s . It and its sequels proved that horror fans were willing t... |
366,742 | 3,109,237 | 67,630 | 7 | Twisted and Fun | A group of young motorcycle thugs , getting their kicks by terrorizing their community ( what else would they do ) , discover that if someone commits suicide with the unwavering belief that they will come back , they will arise from the dead . And the coolest part is that once you're dead , you can't be killed again . ... |
366,422 | 3,109,237 | 74,454 | 7 | Will Opie get the girl ? | Hoover Niebold ( Ron Howard ) steals a race car to impress the girl of his dreams , Darlene ( Christopher Norris ) . It seems that Darlene has a thing for fast cars and the guys who drive them . Hoover sets off with Darlene , but the law is in hot pursuit . And in Hoover's case , the law comes in the form of his father... |
366,461 | 3,109,237 | 82,951 | 7 | One of the better 80s slashers | - A " Dear John " letter is the impetus for a returning WWII G . I . to brutally murder his former girlfriend during a Spring Dance . 35 years later , the local college decides to bring the dance back . Once again , someone dressed in army fatigues is stalking a murdering the young women at the dance . - I hadn't seen ... |
366,901 | 3,109,237 | 74,383 | 7 | Deliciously inept 70s trash | Fans of trashy , bad 1970s cinema gather ' round . I've found a real winner ? Death Machines . Calling Death Machines " so bad it's good " doesn't begin to explain how deliriously enjoyable this movie truly is . Sure , it's bad ? in fact you'd have a hard time finding anything quite so inept ? but it's also an incredib... |
366,431 | 3,109,237 | 74,593 | 7 | If ya feel a wet snout in ya face , whatever you do , don't move . And don't kiss it back ' cause it ain't me . | Has there ever been a movie that spawned more imitators than Jaws ? I've lost count at the number of Jaws " inspired " films I've seen over the years . Grizzly is not only one such movie but it happens to hold the distinction of being the first movie to hop on board the Jaws moneytrain . The comparisons with Jaws are a... |
366,836 | 3,109,237 | 78,405 | 7 | 70s Sleaze | - A mad killer wearing a ski mask commits a series of violent murders using the contents of his toolbox as weapons . After a teenage girl is kidnapped , the police seem to think her brother is responsible . Can he find his sister and save his own neck in the process ? - If I could use one word to describe The Toolbox M... |
366,816 | 3,109,237 | 67,975 | 7 | Poor Mad Helen | - After their sons are sentenced to life in prison , Adelle ( Debbie Reynolds ) and Helen ( Shirley Winters ) begin receiving threatening phone calls because someone fells their sons got off easy . The pair decides to move to California to escape the publicity of the trial and to start a new life . They start a dance s... |
366,412 | 3,109,237 | 78,437 | 7 | Savage , wild , and fascinating | As a primer for the better known Cannibal Holocaust , Jungle Holocaust is definitely not a movie for all tastes . It's rough and raw presentation of savagery would put-off many a viewer . And because director Ruggero Deodato chose to use real aboriginals as his cannibals and real jungle locations , the movie has an aut... |
366,350 | 3,109,237 | 52,811 | 7 | We are students of Hippocrates , but some of us are hypocrites . | From what I've read , this movie comes as close as any to featuring a reasonably realistic and true-to-life presentation of the Burke and Hare story . For those unfamiliar with the story , Burke and Hare were grave robbers in 19th Century Scotland . The bodies they stole were sold to a doctor to be used in anatomy clas... |
366,794 | 3,109,237 | 462,322 | 7 | I want to eat your brains . . . and gain your knowledge . | My initial reaction ? err . . . it was alright , but I was hoping for better than this . I actually feel like I'm being generous giving Grindhouse a . My rating is based on my overall impression of not just the two movies , but with the total experience . Grindhouse gets off to a great start . I don't know how long it'... |
366,689 | 3,109,237 | 76,729 | 7 | Atlanta to Texarkana and back in twenty eight hours ? That ain't never been done before . | - Back in 1977 , I was 13 years old . I suppose that I fit right into the movies target market . If I remember correctly , I saw it 4 times in the theater . Years later , I dismissed the movie as too sophomoric and beneath me . But as I grow older , I see Smokey and the Bandit for what it really is ? a nice piece of br... |
365,997 | 3,109,237 | 416,315 | 7 | Nothing like rain water from the Top-End . | If the intent , as some claim , of the makers of Wolf Creek was to do something similar looking or in style to the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre , for the most part it was a success ( and much more successful than the TCM remake from a couple of years ago ) . Wolf Creek has that same sort of raw , brutal power found... |
366,500 | 3,109,237 | 52,782 | 7 | An instance where the sequel is better than the original | Hercules Unchained picks up right where Hercules ( 1958 ) left off . Hercules and his new bride , Iole , are headed to Thebes . A fight for the throne between two brothers puts a kink in Hercules ' plans , so he decides to act as peacemaker . But before he can carry out his mission , he mistakenly drinks from the " wat... |
366,495 | 3,109,237 | 33,397 | 7 | He must think he's Sherlock Holmes | The family of Henrietta Winslow gathers in her old rambling house for the reading of her will . Problem is , Henrietta's not dead . But this greedy bunch will soon see to that . Before you can say " Watch out Granny ! " , she's been murdered . And Henrietta won't be the only person murdered this night as greed takes ho... |
366,345 | 3,109,237 | 367,000 | 7 | If nothing else , I would call House of Voices an ambitious film . | A young woman named Anna ( Virginie Ledoyan ) is hired to help clean an abandoned orphanage , Saint Ange , after a series of accidents forces its closure . Anna has been forced to leave her previous job after her employer raped her and left her pregnant ? something she desperately wants to hide . She's not completely a... |
366,254 | 3,109,237 | 74,512 | 7 | Well even fish smells good when you're starving to death . | Blanche and George ( Barbara Harris and Bruce Dern ) are small time operators who use Blanche's supposed abilities as a medium to con trusting old souls out of a few dollars . Their latest mark has agreed to give them $10 , 000 if they can help her locate a long lost family member . Meanwhile , successful jewelry merch... |
366,396 | 3,109,237 | 57,295 | 7 | A different kind of movie from Toho | - Matango is an odd little movie . Coming from Toho , I expected rubber-suited monsters to dominate the action . But that's not the case . The creatures in Matango don't appear until the final 15 minutes of the movie . And when they do appear , they barely move at all . Not what I expected from the house that Godzilla ... |
366,336 | 3,109,237 | 416,496 | 7 | Always count your bullets , senoritas | Sara Sandoval ( Salma Hayek ) and Maria Alvarez ( Penélope Cruz ) are two very different women . They may be from the same area of Mexico , but everything else about their upbringing couldn't be more different . Sara comes from a wealthy family and has just returned home after having completed her studies in Europe . M... |
366,028 | 3,109,237 | 76,670 | 7 | 4 . 3 ? Come on , it's better than that . | Samantha's wedding day should be one of the happiest days of her life . But Samantha is convinced she has seen the man she help convict of brutally murdering her mother 15 years previous when she was 7 years old . No one seems to believe that a killer is stalking Samantha , but she sees the man everywhere . Soon enough... |
366,306 | 3,109,237 | 64,949 | 7 | That bloody chicken wasn't killed , it died of old age . | What a bizarre movie ! Scream and Scream Again is all over the place . It's a combination horror / sci-fi / mystery / espionage / thriller with sort of a James Bond twist . And it's a lot of fun . To be honest , at the beginning of the film , I was lost . There are about four different plot lines that don't seem to hav... |
365,945 | 3,109,237 | 60,548 | 7 | There was no face . Just a horrible mush with the eyes sittin ' in it . | Something strange is happening on a small island off the coast of Ireland . A dead body is a rarity in itself , but one with no bones ? that's not right . The local doctor realizes he needs help and goes to the mainland to find a couple of experts , Dr . Stanley ( Peter Cushing ) and Dr . West ( Edward Judd ) . In no t... |
366,195 | 3,109,237 | 58,405 | 7 | Let's hear it for Hammer | I recently wrote a review of Hammer's Paranoiac and , for the most part , I feel like I could change the name and delete references to Oliver Reed and post it as an original review for Nightmare . Oh , sure , there are differences between the two when you start talking about specific plot points , but the general theme... |
366,409 | 3,109,237 | 64,904 | 7 | The truth is , I am completely mad . | I've always considered Hatchet for the Honeymoon one of the " weaker " Bava films . It doesn't have the artistry of Black Sunday or the flair of Blood and Black Lace . Even with these perceived flaws , a weak Bava is still an enjoyable experience . The basic story : Models and customers of a wedding gown design house a... |
366,355 | 3,109,237 | 41,187 | 7 | Leslie Brooks is dynamite ! | For most if its runtime , Blonde Ice is a very entertaining b-noir . Leslie Brooks is about as evil a woman as you'll see in one of these movies . She's beautiful , ambitious , and completely ruthless ? it's a deadly combination . She's perfectly capable of chewing-up and spitting-out anyone who gets in her way . And ,... |
366,035 | 3,109,237 | 416,449 | 7 | Give them nothing ! But take from them everything ! | It seems there are only two or three movie releases each year that get me excited . 300 just happened to be one of those movies . Overall , while I enjoyed 300 , it wasn't quite the movie I had hoped for . Part of the reason could be that I had over-hyped it in my mind to the point where no movie could live up to that ... |
366,562 | 3,109,237 | 837,344 | 7 | Baron Heinrich Von Freulich - What a name ! | Engine trouble forces Race to set the Quest plane down on an unusual runway high in the Andean mountains . The runway belongs to the eccentric Baron Heinrich Von Freulich , a former WWI flying ace . He agrees to let Race borrow one of his vintage planes to get parts for the jet . However , Von Freulich has other plans ... |
366,790 | 3,109,237 | 327,084 | 7 | After a few missteps , DreamWorks comes up with a winner | Having seen the abysmal products DreamWorks has put out recently ( Madagascar was bad and Shark Tale was unwatchable ) , I wasn't expecting much from Over the Hedge . I couldn't have been more wrong . Over the Hedge is an enjoyable story of a band of animals faced with the prospect of finding food as suburbia encroache... |
366,730 | 3,109,237 | 35,447 | 7 | Despite all its shortcomings , forced patriotism , and light as air plot , I enjoyed it | To the Shores of Tripoli is the kind of movie that I generally don't care for . The title may conjure images of Marines fighting and dying on some foreign shore , but you won't find that here . Instead you'll find a flag-waving recruitment film that makes Marine basic training look like a trip to summer camp . The movi... |
366,683 | 3,109,237 | 65,009 | 7 | It's too bad they only made two of these films . | Even though the comparisons with James Bond are inevitable , I don't think they are fair . I enjoy the Bond movies and however similar , the two Hugh Drummond films from the 60s have their own , unique style . They're played a little more for humor and lack some of the big budget special effects . But fans of the bette... |
366,427 | 3,109,237 | 837,338 | 7 | A " new " episode for me | Race , Jonny , and Hadji are forced to land their plane in the middle of the jungle . Once on the ground , they discover an angry tribe of pygmies who seem to only want to see them dead . Wow ? I thought I had seen every episode of Jonny Quest . For whatever reason , I never watched A Small Matter of Pygmies as a kid a... |
366,557 | 3,109,237 | 80,440 | 7 | It may not be Fulci's best , but I like it | - Fulci's The Black Cat is " freely adapted " from Poe's story . I suppose that " freely adapted " means that the last 10 minutes might bear a vague resemblance . The Black Cat is the story of a man who uses his psychic abilities to force his cat to kill for him . But the tables soon turn when the man tries to kill the... |
366,310 | 3,109,237 | 837,342 | 7 | A solid way to start off the series | Over the years , I've seen everyone one of these Jonny Quest episodes at least a half-a-dozen times . When I was much younger , there wasn't much of anything on television as cool as Jonny Quest . It combined mysteries , monsters , and the unknown with some really groovy 60s music , and James Bond type gadgets . What b... |
366,123 | 3,109,237 | 22,827 | 7 | Dr . X meets the Moon Killer | I just love these old , dark house style horror / mystery / thrillers from the 30s . In this one , Lionel Atwill plays Dr . Xavier , the head of a surgical research institute . A series of brutal killings committed by a gruesome figure , nicknamed the ' Moon Killer ' , points to someone within the institute . The polic... |
366,382 | 3,109,237 | 36,349 | 7 | It's clear as mud to me . | A British secret agent is assigned the task of taking some secret documents to Washington , D . C . It's wartime in Europe and enemy agents would be only too happy to get their hands on these papers . When the British agent does make it off the train from New York , things look bleak . Enter Sherlock Holmes and his tru... |
366,430 | 3,109,237 | 74,792 | 7 | Unexpected surprises throughout | It took a while to grow on me , but by the time I had finished with Young , Violent , Dangerous , I realized how much I enjoyed the film . I found myself caring about the characters and what would become of them . Young , Violent , Dangerous is the story of three young punks out getting some kicks by knocking over a ga... |
366,870 | 3,109,237 | 391,198 | 7 | Some very creepy moments | - The film's title refers to a Japanese myth involving the spirits of people who have died in " the grip of a powerful rage " . Anyone who comes into contact with these spirits will die . The plot of The Grudge is very simple . An American exchange student , Karen ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ) , living in Japan takes a job... |
366,376 | 3,109,237 | 58,307 | 7 | Burning witches , Barbara Steele , creepy castles , and ghosts - What more could you ask for ? | A woman is burned for being a witch . Her daughter , Helen Karnstein ( Barbara Steele ) vows revenge , but is pushed off a cliff before she can carry it out . The younger sister , Elizabeth ( Halina Zalewska ) , grows up and is forced to marry the man who framed her mother . Then one stormy night , Helen rises from the... |
366,824 | 3,109,237 | 69,343 | 7 | A particularly sadistic means of murder | If you were looking for a blueprint on the common elements of a Gaillo , The Black Belly of the Tarantula would be a good example . It contains just about every cliché associated with the genre ? outrageous death scenes , a gloved killer , a convoluted plot , and beautiful women . 1 . Outrageous Death Scenes ? The kill... |
366,830 | 3,109,237 | 67,134 | 7 | A remarkable looking film | Much of The Fifth Cord is what I would call average for a Giallo . The death scenes aren't that original , the murder investigation is often muddled and confusing , and , other than Franco Nero , I've seen far better acting in other Gialli . As for the mystery elements , The Fifth Cord doesn't really play fair . It see... |
366,624 | 3,109,237 | 71,424 | 7 | You know what a man would do right now if he were smart ? | Needing money to finance a racing team , Larry ( Peter Fonda ) and Deke ( Adam Roarke ) decide to hold-up a grocery store . Things are going as planned until Larry's one-night-stand , Mary ( Susan George ) , turns up in the getaway car . The three must settle their differences if they are to evade the police and make t... |
366,598 | 3,109,237 | 51,542 | 7 | Wonderful Performance by Karloff | Corridors of Blood ( 1962 ) is the story of a doctor trying to discover the secret of painless surgery . While less a horror film and more a study of the decline in an individual caused by drug addiction , it does have several creepy and frightening moments . Some of the surgery sequences are gruesome . And , any film ... |
366,555 | 3,109,237 | 110,019 | 7 | Fun | - Of the first four Hercules movies that preceded the television series , this is easily my favorite . Hercules must save a town from an opening to Hades . Along the way , he faces several temptations and a slew of monsters . But that's not his greatest challenge . Deianeira has been killed and Hercules must find her w... |
365,954 | 3,109,237 | 84,556 | 7 | Excellent performance from Moriarty | - Jimmy Quinn ( Michael Moriarty ) is a small time crook who gets mixed up in a botched jewel heist . He escapes and makes his way to the top of the Chrysler Building . There , he discovers what appears to be a giant egg . Jimmy soon realizes that he's discovered the nesting spot of the giant serpent that's been terror... |
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