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366,576 | 3,109,237 | 58,267 | 7 | Why , David , I thought I'd never find you in ladies ' underwear . | Jody ( Ann-Margaret ) is a teen on the run . She finds an empty house and decides to use it as a place to spend the night . After she's asleep , the house's owner , Senatorial candidate David Patton ( John Forsythe ) , returns home and makes his way to his bed . The next morning , Patton finds Jody in his house and , a... |
366,142 | 3,109,237 | 67,084 | 7 | Solid , but not great | - The Bloodstained Butterfly has one of the most convoluted plots I've seen thus far in a giallo . The story is about a young girl who is murdered in a park . A man is apprehended , tried , and convicted of her murder . But the murders don't stop . Two deaths later and the man is released . So just who is the real kill... |
366,883 | 3,109,237 | 60,188 | 7 | Fu Manchu's up to his old tricks | Fu Manchu's up to his old tricks ? he's trying to take over the world . This time he's kidnapped the daughters of several esteemed scientists to use as blackmail so their fathers will help him with his plans . He's constructing something akin to a laser that can destroy entire cities . As usual , Nayland Smith is hot o... |
366,335 | 3,109,237 | 69,278 | 7 | Well , one good thing : all drinks are on the airline for everyone . | A flight bound for Minnesota is hijacked and diverted to Anchorage with Moscow as its ultimate destination . Between terrible weather and zero visibility over Alaska and the possibility of being shot down my Russian fighters , it's going to be a harrowing journey . And that doesn't even take into account the unknown , ... |
366,063 | 3,109,237 | 62,022 | 7 | Funky 60s Killer | There's a lot going on in The College Girl Murders . A mad scientist creates an almost undetectable poisonous gas . Before he can reap the rewards of his discovery , the scientist is killed by a hooded , whip-welding monk . After a co-ed is killed in a church by the gas , Scotland Yard is called in to investigate , but... |
366,049 | 3,109,237 | 31,710 | 7 | If you wanna get rich , stay away from women . | Nancy Drew and her lawyer father , Carson , set off for the country to help out an old family friend wrongly accused of murder . Conveniently for Nancy , her friend Ted Nickerson and his family are vacationing nearby . She quite naturally ropes Ted into helping her with her investigations . But this time , Nancy may ha... |
366,732 | 3,109,237 | 34,248 | 7 | Oh , I beg your pardon . Was that your leg ? | Suspicion could have been one of Alfred Hitchcock's best films . Up to the final few minutes of the film , it's wonderful . I even enjoyed ( or at least didn't mind ) the long-winded verbal exchanges that some viewers seem to dislike . I'm a fan of intelligent , well-written dialogue and that's what I found for most of... |
366,200 | 3,109,237 | 51,622 | 7 | It'd be funny if life wasn't so sacred . | To begin with , I'm going to skip the normal plot summary . Most people probably know it anyway - a scientist has a horrific accident and turns himself into half man , half fly . And please don't misunderstand what I'm writing ? I like and enjoy The Fly . My rating should be proof of that . But am I alone in thinking t... |
366,796 | 3,109,237 | 259,153 | 7 | How beautiful you are , Rose Red . | Prof . Joyce Reardon teaches psychology and has a particular interest in the psychology of the occult . For her next research project , she intends to take a group of psychics to a local haunted house , Rose Red . The house is known as " dead cell " as it's been years since any reported supernatural activity occurred i... |
366,429 | 3,109,237 | 84,719 | 7 | Overall , it was a good , efficient butchery . | There's not much need to go into detail on the plot . Simply put , The New York Ripper is the story of a mad killer with a penchant for slashing young woman and harassing the police with his duck-like voice . That's really all you need to know . The New York Ripper is Lucio Fulci's latter day ultra-violent take on the ... |
366,246 | 3,109,237 | 74,975 | 7 | Low-budget film-making at its best | Wherever they go , the members of the motorcycle club known as The Scorpions seem to wind up the target of local law enforcement . They can't even drive their motorcycles down the road without drawing unwanted ( and unneeded ) attention of the local " pigs " . But things escalate during a Scorpions wedding in the middl... |
366,365 | 3,109,237 | 366,292 | 7 | A restrained Miike | In Takashi Miike's One Missed Call , there's really very little new ground covered . If I've seen one Asian film that revolves around a pale-skinned , long black-haired female ghost , I feel as if I've seen a dozen . Whether One Missed Call is derivative of other Asian horror films or whether it's the other way around ... |
366,645 | 3,109,237 | 48,728 | 7 | From where I sat it looked as though you were conjugating some irregular verbs . | A string of daring jewel robberies on the French Riviera leads the police to suspect one-time cat-burglar John Robie ( Cary Grant ) . Robie claims to be reformed but the police suspect otherwise . As the police seem so intent on following him instead of looking for the real crook , Robie decides to track down the thief... |
366,862 | 3,109,237 | 364,385 | 7 | Ju-on or The Grudge - Take Your Pick | - The plot ( and almost everything else ) of Ju-on is almost identical to that of the American remake , The Grudge . When one of the other social workers doesn't show-up for work , one of the newest workers goes to take his place . When the new social worker arrives at the house , she immediately realizes that somethin... |
366,609 | 3,109,237 | 82,516 | 7 | Look , we've got four million dollars . We could put Donald Duck in the White House . | - Four regular guys come up with a plan to rob a South American drug lord of $5 million . The money is locked inside a safe in a heavily guarded compound . Getting to the money proves to be fairly easy . But getting away is another story . In addition to the drug lord's men , the guys are chased by a rebel army who wou... |
366,665 | 3,109,237 | 60,288 | 7 | Entertaining | - Surprise , surprise - a James Bond spoof that works . Richard Johnson ( of The Haunting fame ) is Bulldog Drummond , a insurance investigator trying to uncover what happened to one of the planes his company had written a policy on . It's not long before anyone with information for him turns up dead . And most of the ... |
366,867 | 3,109,237 | 69,141 | 7 | A different type of Bava | - Four Times that Night is the story of what happened during Tina and John's first date . According to Tina , John tried to rape her and she barely escaped with her innocence intact . According to John , Tina was an insatiable wild woman he couldn't get away from . According to John's voyeuristic doorman , while John w... |
366,188 | 3,109,237 | 51,221 | 7 | Our survival hinges on one thing - finding someone who not only can fly this plane , but didn't have fish for dinner . | It's like déjà vu all over again . Until last night , I had never seen Zero Hour ! , but I feel as if I've seen it a dozen times . I knew that some of Airplane ! ( the sick girl and singing nun for example ) came from Airport , but I had no idea just how much was taken from Zero Hour ! Airplane ! is like some weird com... |
366,126 | 3,109,237 | 62,429 | 7 | Nice SW Parody | - A group of bandits rob a train of the gold shipment it is carrying . In their escape , the bandits split up . The one thief who knows where the gold is hidden is killed before he is able to talk . Three men have a different part of the " clue " that will lead to the gold . Can the banker , the bandit , and the bounty... |
366,389 | 3,109,237 | 42,539 | 7 | A " Small " War Movie | - Despite it's grand name , Halls of Montezuma is a small war film . What I mean is that the movie focuses more on a small group of men and their fears and problems than it does on a grand plan for Allied victory . It's a very personal movie . We get to see these men up-close and we begin to develop feelings for them .... |
366,563 | 3,109,237 | 616,896 | 7 | The Quests in Thailand | Dr . Quest is in Thailand doing research with some plants that may prove beneficial to future spaceflights . While there , Race takes the opportunity to visit a giant Buddah deep in the jungle for some pictures . But when Race comes back , something's different . It takes Jonny and Hadji a while to figure it out , but ... |
366,491 | 3,109,237 | 33,879 | 7 | Terrible ? Is it terrible that I gave him life ? | After surviving an accidental electrocution , Dan McCormick ( Lon Chaney , Jr . ) comes to the attention of a couple of scientists doing work with the effects of electricity on the human body . While Dr . Lawrence's intentions are very noble and above reproach , Dr . Rigas ( Lionel Atwill ) has other , more " sinister ... |
366,191 | 3,109,237 | 53,677 | 7 | Might be the most original of the Hammer Dracula's | A young teacher on her way to an all-girls school in Transylvania becomes stranded and must accept the hospitality of the Baroness Meinster . Although the Baroness tells the girl that she lives alone , the young teacher discovers the Baroness ' son chained to a wall in another part of the castle . The naive teacher is ... |
366,472 | 3,109,237 | 67,446 | 7 | More plot twists than a mountain road and boatload of red herrings . | A jewel thief is brutally murdered on a train by a masked assailant . But when the murderer is unable to locate any diamonds , the murderer immediately suspects that the thief's daughter , a Parisian stripper named Nicole ( Nieves Navarro aka Susan Scott ) , may have the diamonds . Nicole , however , claims to know not... |
365,917 | 3,109,237 | 36,094 | 7 | A different sort of Stanwyck | I love the alternate title for Lady of Burlesque . Just imagine seeing The G-String Murders on a marquee in 1943 ! How incredible would that have been ? While the movie isn't as lurid as either title might suggest , it's a very enjoyable little film . Lady of Burlesque is the story of the murder of a dancer backstage a... |
366,045 | 3,109,237 | 73,449 | 7 | Women are the wave of the future , and sisterhood is stronger than anything ! | - During a dogfight with a Nazi plane , Major Steve Trevor ( Lyle Waggoner ) is shot down over the Bermuda Triangle . He is rescued by the all-female inhabitants of the uncharted Paradise Island . Escorting Trevor back to the U . S . , Princess Diana ( Lynda Carter ) stays to do whatever she can as Wonder Woman to help... |
365,925 | 3,109,237 | 67,396 | 7 | If it weren't for those meddling kids . . . . . . | As much as I enjoy Murder Mansion , don't take my enthusiasm for the film as some kind of recommendation . Although I don't like the term , I am fully aware that Murder Mansion is a " guilty pleasure " of mine . I realize that it's not really a very good movie , but I love it just the same . So watch it at your own ris... |
366,358 | 3,109,237 | 58,024 | 7 | Crackers ! I'd rather have fresh panties in Teaneck , New Jersey . | IMDb's short plot synopsis is written better than anything I can come up with ? " Three thieves rip off a shipment of used money being sent back to the US . As they are escaping the robbery ( after having taken a hostage ) , they wind up on an island in a hotel with an apparently crazed manager and a building full of d... |
366,775 | 3,109,237 | 77,278 | 7 | Get out your card decks and backgammon boards , lucky Buck is back ! | Buck Rogers in the 25th Century was the pilot movie that set-up the television series of the same name . I doubt there's anyone with even a passing interest in science fiction who doesn't know the basic plot : After having spent 500 years floating in space in a state of suspended animation , Buck Rogers is revived by a... |
366,616 | 3,109,237 | 67,361 | 7 | Not quite as good as Don't Torture a Duckling | - A mentally unbalanced woman tells her therapist about a recent dream involving her neighbor . In the dream , Carol Hammond ( Florinda Bolkan ) violently murders her neighbor . A few days later , the neighbors body is found . Suspicion immediately falls on Carol - her fingerprints are on the knife , her scarf is on th... |
366,274 | 3,109,237 | 27,440 | 7 | Small things sometimes tell large story . | Gravelle ( Boris Karloff ) , a former opera singer who is accused of killing his wife and her lover , is an amnesia victim living in a sanitarium . A newspaper story on the opera sparks some memory in his brain and he escapes to get his revenge on those who did him wrong . A murder at the opera house appears to be the ... |
366,015 | 3,109,237 | 67,341 | 7 | Do you like my new dress ? My new old dress ? | Jessica ( Zohra Lampert ) is a troubled woman . Recently " cured " of a psychological disorder , she and her husband , along with a friend , move to a large house in the country . Upon arriving , they find a mysterious , but agreeable woman named Emily ( Mariclare Costello ) living in their house . They invite her to s... |
366,450 | 3,109,237 | 53,717 | 7 | Quick , get her to a doctor . And send the clowns in . | A plastic surgeon ( Dr . Rossiter ) , who has just butchered the face of a patient , is on the run . After having an accident and requiring plastic surgery himself , he and his assistants travel to France so the doctor may start anew with a new face and name . After a fatal accident to the owner of a circus , Dr . Ross... |
366,565 | 3,109,237 | 616,895 | 7 | Hadji's story and Jesse White | Through a flashback , " Calcutta Adventure " tells the story of how Hadji came to live with the Quest family . In this episode , Dr . Quest is in India lecturing at a local university . However , he has another , more dangerous purpose for being in India . He's looking for a secret nerve gas factory . When a young Indi... |
366,299 | 3,109,237 | 57,993 | 7 | Barbara Steele - What more could you ask for ? | Castle of Blood is a good example of the quality work in the horror genre being turned out in Italy in the 60s . The film has all of the right elements - old dark house , atmosphere , a decent story , and Barbara Steele . Steele makes most any film worth seeing . The story concerns a haunted castle . People have visite... |
366,535 | 3,109,237 | 71,216 | 7 | Trashy Fun | - Wilma McClatchie ( Angie Dickinson ) wants more for her two daughters than depression era Texas can provide . With no money to speak of they set off for California to find their fortunes . Along the way , they rob a bank , pick up a bank robber , mug a preacher , steal the take from a racetrack , take on a penniless ... |
366,248 | 3,109,237 | 62,380 | 7 | We can't claim to be the town virgins and can't afford to be the town tramps . | Frank Sinatra does his best to bring the tough talking , hard drinking , womanizing detectives of the 1940s into the 1960s . Sinatra plays detective Tony Rome much like I would image Bogart would have had he been alive . Sinatra doesn't do much of anything that Bogart wasn't doing when he played either Philip Marlowe o... |
366,211 | 3,109,237 | 71,408 | 7 | Nice and Twisted | - Deranged is a Ed Gein type story - a man takes care of his elderly mother and knows nothing else . After her death , he discovers he can't get on without her so he decides to dig her up and bring her home . She's been in the ground for over a year so she needs some work . In a matter of time , the graverobber discove... |
366,552 | 3,109,237 | 80,923 | 7 | I hope Argento finishes the trilogy | - As the second movie in Argento's Three Mother's trilogy , it's hard to watch Inferno without comparing it to Suspiria . And that's not really a fair comparison . Inferno has its moments of brilliance . The opening scenes as Rose ( Irene Miracle ) lowers herself into the flooded room are what horror movies are all abo... |
366,640 | 3,109,237 | 35,937 | 7 | A " lesser " Lewton is still a solid movie | Tom Merriman ( Russell Wade ) is the new 3rd Officer on a ship headed down the coast of Mexico . Merriman meets and , at first , likes his new skipper , Captain Wade Stone ( Richard Dix ) . However , a series of unfortunately events has Merriman questioning his first impression of Captain Stone . Merriman believes the ... |
365,918 | 3,109,237 | 467,432 | 7 | David Suchet may be the definitive Poirot | I believe that I've always loved Agatha Christie's books . When I was younger , I can remember reading and re-reading each one , especially those with Hercule Poirot , over and over . I've probably read most of her books at least 3 times . So it only seems natural that I would be a fan of and enjoy movies adapted from ... |
366,761 | 3,109,237 | 47,041 | 7 | Now that was fun ! | From what little I can find on the internet about Gorilla at Large , it seems that Anne Bancroft viewed the movie with disdain and wasn't at all proud of her appearance . Well , as far as I'm concerned , you can have your Academy Award for The Miracle Worker and you can have the incredibly dull The Graduate ? who needs... |
366,240 | 3,109,237 | 51,406 | 7 | I may sound like a lunatic , but I'm not crazy ! | Gillian Holroyd ( Kim Novak ) is a witch . Secretly , she's attracted to her quite normal neighbor Shep Henderson ( James Stewart ) . She casts a spell on Shep that forces him to dump his fiancé and fall for her . Things are going along quite nicely until Gillian discovers she really cares for this mortal man . She dec... |
365,957 | 3,109,237 | 287,576 | 7 | Interesting | Universal gave the classic horror fan a real treat with their series of short documentaries . While I don't necessarily thing that Mummy Dearest is the best of the bunch , it's informative and entertaining . My only complaint is that not enough time was spent on the sequels to The Mummy . I would have loved to see more... |
366,449 | 3,109,237 | 27,545 | 7 | I'll take the Daughter over the Daddy | To be honest , I've never been the biggest fan of the original Dracula . To me , Dracula never held the excitement of some of the other Universal classics . It always seemed too " stagey " for my liking . That's not the case with Dracula's Daughter . Gloria Holden is mesmerizing as Dracula's daughter , Countess Marya Z... |
366,226 | 3,109,237 | 71,330 | 7 | The film's good , but Nero gives an uncharacteristically bad performance | What do you do when you've been beaten , robbed , and kidnapped and you don't feel the police are doing enough to find those responsible for the crime ? If you're Carlo Antonelli ( Franco Nero ) you take matters into your own hands and go after the bad guys yourself . This is the basic premise of Enzo Castellari's Stre... |
366,651 | 3,109,237 | 67,487 | 7 | Nice mix of Giallo and Gothic horror | Lord Alan Cunningham has been a troubled man since the death of his wife . The only release he can find from his torment is by luring women that remind him of his dead wife to his castle and then brutally murdering them . That is until he meets Gladys . The two are quickly married and Lord Cunningham appears to be cure... |
366,238 | 3,109,237 | 182,225 | 7 | These psychologists , most of them are balmy themselves . | A series of random , seemingly insignificant thefts at her sister's boarding house has Miss Lemon quite agitated . A ring , light bulbs , a rucksack , a lighter , a stethoscope , a shoe ? there seems to be no rhyme or reason to any of it . Miss Lemon asks her employer , the great Belgian detective Hercule Poirot , to l... |
366,793 | 3,109,237 | 61,683 | 7 | The Bride of Hammer's Frankenstein | This entry in Hammer's Frankenstein series finds Baron Frankenstein ( Peter Cushing ) continuing his experiments with the help of Dr . Hertz and his servant , Hans . The Baron is working on capturing a soul and placing it in another body . When Hans is accused of killing his girlfriend's father and put to death , the B... |
366,352 | 3,109,237 | 63,568 | 7 | Nice Spaghetti Western | Nice Spaghetti Western . The story concerns four rival groups out to get a chest full of gold . While the plot is actually almost incomprehensible , it's fun to watch Sartana and others switch allegiances about every five minutes . But the story here is secondary to the action . The body count is very high with entire ... |
366,872 | 3,109,237 | 105,665 | 7 | The tender boughs of innocence burn first , and the wind rises , and then all goodness is in jeopardy . | - This film is essentially a prequel to the television series Twin Peaks . The movie begins one year before the television show with two FBI agents investigating the death of a waitress , Teresa Banks . After a half-hour , the focus of the movie switches to events that take place in the week that leads up to the murder... |
366,650 | 3,109,237 | 325,655 | 7 | Excellent horror film with a weak ending | Mun ( Angelica Lee ) is a young woman who has been blind since she was two years old . A cornea replacement surgery offers hope of being able to see . But once Mun's vision is restored , she gets more than she bargained for . She is bombarded with images of places and people that don't quite seem right . Mun sees ghost... |
365,982 | 3,109,237 | 34,586 | 7 | No phone ! No lights ! No motor cars ! | While I admit that the Chan films of Warner Oland are , as a group , superior to those of Sidney Toler , that doesn't mean that some of the Toler films aren't rock solid and as good individually as anything Oland made . Three that immediately come to mind are Charlie Chan at Treasure Island , Charlie Chan at the Wax Mu... |
365,969 | 3,109,237 | 61,587 | 7 | Another good one from the other Sergio | Joe vows revenge against a band of outlaws who have been killing and scalping his Indian brethren for bounties . Joe meets up with some folks in a town being threatened by the same outlaws . Joe sees this as his chance to get even with the cutthroats and offers his assistance to the townspeople ? for a price . But can ... |
366,048 | 3,109,237 | 40,613 | 7 | You've been taken to the cleaners , and you don't even know your pants are off . | - Having grown tired of the rat race and cramped living conditions of New York City , Jim Blandings ( Cary Grant ) finds a property in the country for his wife and children . He's hoping to find the simple life . But , building a house proves to be anything but simple . As the headaches and the bills start piling up , ... |
366,084 | 3,109,237 | 105,619 | 7 | Mixes elements of fantasy in places I hadn't expected | Trying to come up with a pithy plot description for something like The Heroic Trio is all but impossible . The plot simply cannot be explained in a few short sentences . So I'll go with a very general plot description realizing I'm leaving a lot out ? An evil demon is kidnapping male babies in hopes of finding the next... |
366,762 | 3,109,237 | 52,131 | 7 | I have come to bring you Death . | Posing as a foreign relative , Count Dracula moves to an idyllic 1950s American town to look for a fresh batch of victims . Other than the odd hours he tends to keep , the family he's moved in with doesn't suspect anything out of the ordinary . They explain away his eccentricities to either being tired or his European ... |
366,019 | 3,109,237 | 323,630 | 7 | Nice supernatural murder mystery | Shortly after popping Phone in the DVD player , my thoughts were , " Oh no . Not another Asian long-haired ghost story " . I thought it was going to be the same old thing . Since watching , I've read reviews on the internet that complain about the movie being " derivative " or " unoriginal " ( if you want to see deriva... |
366,194 | 3,109,237 | 71,147 | 7 | Tragic | Anna ( Edwige Fenech ) is a small town girl working as a cashier in a local coffee shop . When gangster Guido ( Corrado Pani ) blows into town and into her coffee shop , she is immediately smitten . Even though she knows little about him , Anna follows him to Milan . She is slowly introduced to a world that completely ... |
366,134 | 3,109,237 | 55,966 | 7 | Old-school , slow-burn , atmospheric horror | The Witch's Mirror is a veritable cornucopia of horror themes . Over the years , I've seen a number of very promising films ruined by an overly ambitious screenplay that tries to throw everything but the kitchen sink into the plot . Fortunately , The Witch's Mirror defies the odds and most of varied plot elements work ... |
366,420 | 3,109,237 | 49,964 | 7 | We are a peaceful people . We are sick of weapons and war . | I've been struggling to write a plot synopsis of World Without End and finally decided to take a look at what was posted on IMDb . The posted synopsis from D . A . Kellough is much better than anything I've been able to come up with ? " Four astronauts returning from mankind's first mission to Mars enter a time warp an... |
366,055 | 3,109,237 | 423,294 | 7 | A winner is someone who doesn't knock me off my surfboard . | In our house , we're trying to turn Friday night into Family Movie Night . For our first FMN , my son picked Surf's Up . Both he and my wife had seen the movie and thought I would enjoy it . I admit , I went into it expecting the absolute worst . But maybe the family knows a little about what will appeal to me , becaus... |
366,599 | 3,109,237 | 73,019 | 7 | Take my advice stay out of it . Get laid have a baby or something . | Friday Foster ( Pam Grier ) is a magazine photographer who is given the assignment of covering the airport arrival of the richest black man in America . But Friday gets more than she bargained for as this routine assignment turns into an assassination attempt . Because Friday was able to get some shots of the would be ... |
366,171 | 3,109,237 | 31,149 | 7 | A solid effort | Mary Whitman seems to be a logical suspect in the murder of Jeanne Bentley . After all , she was found standing over the body . And Jeanne was the " other woman " and the reason Mary was getting a divorce . On the surface , there seems to be little doubt of Mary's guilt . But Charlie Chan sees it all quite differently ... |
366,646 | 3,109,237 | 75,513 | 7 | Ahh , the Memories | I just finished watching " The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries " Season One DVD set . I must admit that I had a great time with the series . Sure , this stuff is pretty simplistic , but it's fun . The show is really pretty tame and the mysteries aren't very involved . It would probably be a good watch for the whole f... |
366,592 | 3,109,237 | 90,655 | 7 | One of the best of the 80s teen / slasher films | - The basic plot of April Fool's Day is similar to many of the teen horror / slasher movies of the 1980s . For the most part , the story of the first three quarters of the movie isn't really anything special . A group of eight friends travel to the island estate of Muffy St . John ( Deborah Foreman ) to spend the weeke... |
366,696 | 3,109,237 | 139,414 | 7 | Murders and rapes in the city , people bomb planes , can the police stop ' em ? No ! But feed one little cow to a crocodile . . . | - Some people may question my sanity for this one , but I'm a fan of Lake Placid . As a fluff-filled , popcorn movie , it's one of the more entertaining ones I've seen . If you're looking for a movie to answer the questions of life or provide you with something to think about for days after the movie ends , Lake Placid... |
366,633 | 3,109,237 | 48,554 | 7 | Not as bad as most say | - A group of scientist go back to the Black Lagoon to capture the Creature . From there he is taken to an aquarium in Florida for research . The Creature develops a sort of " crush " on one of the female scientists , escapes , and kidnaps her . Can the Creature be stopped ? - While it's the weakest of the series , I pr... |
366,216 | 3,109,237 | 82,307 | 7 | Woe be unto him who opens one of the seven gateways to Hell , because through that gateway , evil will invade the world . | - Liza Merril ( Catriona MacColl ) takes possession of a hotel in Louisiana . She has plans to renovate the place . But a series of seemingly accidental deaths may put a stop to her plans . She's unaware that her hotel has a past . Many years ago , a warlock was lynched in the basement of the hotel . Before dying , he ... |
365,942 | 3,109,237 | 51,744 | 7 | Once the door is locked , there is no way out . | Frederick Loren ( Vincent Price ) is a wealthy man with some strange ideas about throwing a party . He rents a supposed haunted house , invites five strangers , and offers them each $10 , 000 if they can make it through the night . But when Loren's wife ends up at the wrong end of a noose , the fun's over ( or is reall... |
366,061 | 3,109,237 | 72,869 | 7 | Borgnine the Goat | The plot of The Devil's Rain is very simple . It concerns the Preston family and a book their ancestors stole decades ago from a devil worshiper named Jonathan Corbis ( Ernest Borgnine ) . Corbis has spent centuries trying to locate the book and will stop at nothing to obtain it and use its power . What Works : - What ... |
366,643 | 3,109,237 | 70,698 | 7 | I saw a murder , and I'm going to prove it ! | Sisters is a very well made low-budget thriller form Brian De Palma with a few very shocking moments and , unfortunately , a couple of serious flaws that keep me from rating it any higher . The basic premise of the psychological impact of being separated Siamese twins is , as far as I know , rather unique . De Palma ha... |
366,873 | 3,109,237 | 66,849 | 7 | Criminally Underseen | - While plowing a field , a young man uncovers what he believes to be the devil . Soon , all the children and young people in the tiny village are performing pagan rituals in the woods . Very nice movie . - Blood on Satan's Claw is loaded with that key ingredient : ATMOSPHERE . Good acting by a cast of British horror r... |
366,119 | 3,109,237 | 69,048 | 7 | Underrated Bava | While I prefer Bava's Black Sunday and Kill Baby . . . Kill , this is a good movie that I would highly recommend . Baron Blood combines the best elements of a good old-time ghost / haunted house story with a modern day slasher film . All of Bava's trademarks are here - imaginative lighting , wonderful sets , and dramat... |
366,066 | 3,109,237 | 82,418 | 7 | My favorite of the series | - It's been five quiet years since a group of councilors were murdered at Camp Crystal Lake . But when a new group of councilors arrives to open a nearby camp , the killing starts all over again . Who's behind the murders ? The original Camp Crystal Lake Killer is dead . Could it be her son who was believed to have die... |
366,752 | 3,109,237 | 72,813 | 7 | He's gone out again , I'm afraid . . . you're all alone again . . . with me . | I've really got to disagree with most of the reviews I've read on House of Mortal Sin ( I prefer that title to The Confessional ) . Most reviewers seem to see it as one of Pete Walker's weaker films . I saw it as one of his best ? second only to House of Whipcord . It's an entertaining tale of one Priest's madness and ... |
366,042 | 3,109,237 | 93,177 | 7 | Good , just not great | - ( From IMDb ) Clive Barker's feature directing debut graphically depicts the tale of a man and wife who move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother , who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs . Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S & M demons , the Cenobites , he... |
366,257 | 3,109,237 | 79,514 | 7 | Trashy and fun | She's lost her boyfriend , she's failing her classes at school , and she has no money . What's Kim Bentley to do ? The answer is obvious ? become a hooker . But sex for money is just the first step for this high school student . In no time at all , she's a contract killer . Writing about Malibu High is difficult . On t... |
366,295 | 3,109,237 | 57,413 | 7 | Take your filthy hands off my asp ! | Reading through the various reviews on the internet , including those on IMDb , it's obvious that many consider the original The Pink Panther either among the best of the series or among the worst of the series . I'm one of those who considers it the very best . What does it have that the others lack ? The quick answer... |
366,778 | 3,109,237 | 580,383 | 7 | Nice beginning to the series | I have a 5 year-old son who just loves anything to do with animals . The other day we were out shopping and ran across Season 1 of Flipper . I remembered watching it as a child and enjoying the show , so I thought I might take a chance on it and buy it for my son . And at less than $15 , I really wasn't risking a whole... |
366,534 | 3,109,237 | 97,021 | 7 | Surprisingly Good | - A group of three unprofessionals attempt to rob the house of an elderly couple . It's an isolated place full of expensive items such as a large collection of clocks . The robbery goes all wrong and the old couple are each hit with a shotgun blast . One of the robbers notices that immediately following the couple's de... |
366,875 | 3,109,237 | 40,829 | 7 | John Alton's cinematography is stunning | Alexis ( Turhan Bey ) is a con man preying on people's desires to communicate with their dearly departed . His new target , Christine Faber ( Lynn Bari ) , is a wealthy woman who has lost her husband . But with Christine , the would-be spiritualist may have bitten off more than he can chew when to Alexis ' utter astoni... |
366,571 | 3,109,237 | 28,709 | 7 | Big Time Spoiler Alert | Charlie Chan and # 1 son Lee get mixed up with a mysterious woman on board a ship bound for New York . Unbeknownst to Chan , the woman is the former girlfriend of a gangster with information that , if published , could blow the lid off the underworld . She hides a small package in Chan's luggage to make sure it gets to... |
365,923 | 3,109,237 | 105,785 | 7 | With a name like The Washing Machine , I had no idea what to expect . | In this latter day Giallo , Police Inspector Alexander Stracev is called to the home of three sisters to investigate a crime . One of the sisters claims to have found the mutilated body of a pimp named Yuri in her washing machine . When Inspector Stracev arrives , he finds no body and no sign of there having ever been ... |
366,904 | 3,109,237 | 266,075 | 7 | On your lips I've smelled the blood , that touches my tongue . | Although the Korean name for Memento Mori would lead you to believe it is a sequel to Whispering Corridors , other than the setting , the two films have very little in common . Having seen the first film is not a requirement to see and enjoy this film . The story in Memento Mori involves a love affair between two stude... |
366,601 | 3,109,237 | 32,520 | 8 | Pardon me , am I protruding ? | Bob Hope is Larry Lawrence , a radio personality who thinks he has committed murder . He meets Mary Carter ( Paulette Goddard ) and she unknowingly helps him out of his jam . Mary is on her way to Cuba to visit the supposed haunted mansion she has inherited . But Mary has more problems than a few ghosts . It seems that... |
366,000 | 3,109,237 | 338,095 | 8 | Brutal and Sadistic | Talk about an adrenaline rush ! High Tension is an adrenaline junkie's wet dream . After the first 15 minutes ( which are absolutely necessary to set-up what follows ) , the movie is a kick-to-the-balls thrill ride that rarely lets up . There's a reason the movie is called High Tension ? Director Alexandre Aja ratchets... |
366,260 | 3,109,237 | 56,412 | 8 | I hate to get married with one of my brothers smellin ' bad enough to gag a dog off a Gut Wagon . | It's all but impossible to watch Ride the High Country and not be impressed with Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea . Scott and McCrea are two aging " cowboy " types who have been asked to guard a shipment of gold from the mine into town . While McCrea sees this as just another paying job , Scott sees it as an opportunity ... |
365,932 | 3,109,237 | 72,662 | 8 | Underseen | - Mainardi ( George Hilton ) would like to see his wife dead . By chance , he stumbles upon a killer as he is disposing of his latest victim . Mainardi hires the man to do away with his wife . The killer is able to gain access to the house and soon enough the wife is dead . He carries her body to his car and places it ... |
366,871 | 3,109,237 | 65,143 | 8 | Argento's First | - Sam ( Tony Musante ) is an American writer vacationing in Italy . One night as he walks past an art gallery , he sees two figures inside struggling . One is obviously a woman , the other is wearing a black raincoat , gloves , and hat . The dark figure escapes out a side door after the woman is stabbed . She is not de... |
366,016 | 3,109,237 | 54,371 | 8 | My first venture into the world of Dr . Mabuse | The 1 , 000 Eyes of Dr . Mabuse represents my first venture into the world of Dr . Mabuse . Pigeon-holing this movie into a single genre is difficult . It's one part traditional krimi , one part spy movie , and one part thriller . Combined , these elements create , at least for me , a one of a kind experience that I re... |
366,038 | 3,109,237 | 75,852 | 8 | Lived up to the hype | After watching a bunch of less than stellar Poliziotteschi in recent months , I am happy to report that this one lived up to just about every positive review I've read . With a cast that includes Maurizio Merli ( doing less " posing " than in some of his other films ) , Tomas Milian , John Saxon , and a bunch of other ... |
365,944 | 3,109,237 | 65,206 | 8 | You've had such rotten luck with your housekeepers Aunt Claire . | Claire Marrable ( Geraldine Page ) is shocked to learn that her late husband has left her with nothing but debts . How is she to live in the style she's grown accustomed ? To solve her problem , she comes up with a fiendish plot . What if she were to hire a servant / companion with a small life savings , dupe her out o... |
366,513 | 3,109,237 | 424,942 | 8 | If you get the chance , see it in 3D on an IMAX screen | This past weekend , the family and I went to the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga . While there , we caught Deep Sea 3D at the IMAX theater . My son has a copy of the movie on DVD , so I knew what to expect and knew the basic premise of the film . What I didn't expect were some truly amazing visuals . I was completely... |
366,317 | 3,109,237 | 85,692 | 8 | A rock solid effort | This 1983 version of The Hound of the Baskervilles , Sherlock Holmes ' most famous mystery , is a rock solid effort . I enjoyed it immensely . And when you consider the fact that it's a made-for-TV film , it's even more amazing to me just how good it really is . I say amazing because I simply cannot imagine an American... |
366,033 | 3,109,237 | 93,428 | 8 | Why didn't you learn the violin ? | After 1985's A View to a Kill , it became apparent ( at least to me ) that the Bond series needed a change if it was going to be viable . Enter Timothy Dalton and The Living Daylights . What a breath of fresh air ! With Dalton , Bond was changed from a smarmy , one-line spewing 00 agent without the physical presence to... |
366,251 | 3,109,237 | 68,183 | 8 | Violent , trashy , exploitive , and a helluva lot of fun ! | That sure was fun ! Ricco ( or The Mean Machine or whatever you want to call it ) may not be the best , most dramatic , or grittiest Euro-crime film I've run across , but it is one of the most entertaining I've ever seen . Ricco ( Christopher Mitchum ) is a young man out for revenge . He's just finished serving a two y... |
366,341 | 3,109,237 | 26,198 | 8 | Optimist only sees doughnut . Pessimist sees hole . | Charlie Chan in Paris is another solid entry in the Charlie Chan series . In this one , Chan is hot on the heels of a gang of bond forgers . The criminals ' trail takes him from the night clubs of Paris to the cities famous sewers . And the sewers in Charlie Chan in Paris are as uninviting a place as Chan ever visited ... |
365,915 | 3,109,237 | 242,949 | 8 | Wicked men , you face The Tick . | Somehow , I missed The Tick during its run on television . Thank goodness for DVD ! The Tick has to be one of the funniest , most original shows I've seen . It's a riot ! I can't believe there are only eight episodes . I can pinpoint two things that make The Tick so good to me . First , the writing . Some of the dialog... |
366,670 | 3,109,237 | 72,325 | 8 | Turner's like a bulldog with eyes up his ass ! | Truck Turner ( Issac Hayes ) is a former football star turned bounty hunter . His latest case puts him on the trail of a notoriously vicious pimp named Gator . Though it's not his original intention , Turner kills Gator during a gunfight . This is when all hell breaks loose in Turner's life . It seems that Gator's main... |
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