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An excellent and very effective Grade B " danger on the road " thriller
Successful businessman Jeff Taylor ( a typically on the ball performance from the always dependable Kurt Russell ) and his wife Amy ( a solid , but underused Kathleen Quinlin ) are driving from Massachusetts to California in their expensive new car via the scenic dusty'n'desolate desert country backroads route . The ca...
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Vincent Price , Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone all shine in this hugely enjoyable Edgar Allan Poe horror anthology treat
This immensely entertaining vintage 60's American International Pictures horror anthology treat based on a trio of delectably macabre Edgar Allan Poe short stories features Vincent Price in peak form in all three episodes . First and most spooky yarn , " Morella " - Young Lenora ( the lovely Maggie Pierce ) visits her ...
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A choice chunk of 70's Southern-fried drive-in exploitation swill
Popular jazz singer Liz Wetherby ( played by real-life singer and 70's TV game show perennial Leslie Uggams ) gets into big trouble when her fancy expensive breaks down in the middle of nowhere in the Deep South . Poor Liz runs afoul of both slimy , crazed , talentless wannabe Elvis gigolo Eddie Collins ( deliciously o...
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More solid & sleazy Italian post-nuke sci-fi action fun
In yet another savage , desolate , society - has - gone - completely - down - the - toilet after the Big Nuclear Blast wasteland , only five super-warriors - - the humane , trustworthy Nisus ( Al Cliver , acting tough and sturdy with customary earnest conviction ) , dorky joker Jab ( the extremely obnoxious Harrison Mu...
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A terrifically trashy piece of 70's Eurosleaze horror junk
A top-rate , exquisitely trashy and sexy Eurosleaze Gothic horror treat starring the gorgeously sleek'n'slender brunette hottie supreme Rosalba ( " Slaughter Hotel " ) Neri as a wicked bisexual Translyvanian vampire countess who every year sacrifices five virgins in order to appease Satan and retain her immortality . F...
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Good , goofy , lovably chintzy retro 50's creature feature fun
I must confess that I've got a special fondness for clunkily sincere el cheapo retro 50's contemporary horror creature features centering on the bloody exploits of a mean , nasty , butt-ugly humanoid beast that's quite obviously this poor putz in a none-too-convincing rubber suit . Among my all-time favorites in this p...
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Don't mess with girls in the park ; that's not nice ! An enjoyably sleazy distaff " Death Wish " clone
This entertainingly tacky'n'trashy distaff " Death Wish " copy stars the exceptionally gorgeous and well-endowed brunette hottie supreme Karin Mani as Billie Clark , a top-notch martial arts fighter and one woman wrecking crew who opens up a gigantic ten gallon drum of ferocious chopsocky whup-a on assorted no-count sc...
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A fun chopsocky revenge opus
Cocky and immature young Fong Su Yi ( nicely played by the handsome and likable Fei Meng ) accidentally kills a martial arts student in a fight . The two evil instructors of the martial arts school in turn murder Fong Su Yi's father . After undergoing strenuous and extensive training under the hard and exacting tutelag...
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A really enjoyable vintage 70's made-for-TV disaster feature
A motley assortment of folks find themselves in considerable jeopardy when the ski lift gondola they are in jumps the track and leaves them hanging way up in the chilly winter air . Director William Wiard , working from a colorful and eventful script by J . G . Hawks and Laurence Health , maintains a steady pace throug...
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A fun late 60's evil hag horror outing
Shrewd , resourceful and formidable old battleaxe Claire Marrable ( superbly played to the icy hilt by Geraldine Page ) loses both her husband and her affluent lifestyle . Ms . Marrable moves to Arizona , starts a pine tree garden , and begins bumping off her elderly housekeepers for their life savings so she can conti...
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An amusingly lowbrow parody of low-budget trash film-making
Sexy and slutty young Candy Faraday ( a divinely bitchy portrayal by the gorgeous Delia Sheppard ) tries to get geeky screenwriter Lou Lurrod ( likable Steven Benton ) to bump off her mean , overbearing cheapskate schlock movie producer husband King Faraday ( essayed with deliciously hammy relish by Robert Quarry ) and...
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A gripping and suspenseful made-for-TV thriller
Sassy TV director Leigh Michaels ( an engagingly spunky and spirited performance by the lovely Lauren Hutton ) arrives in Los Angeles and moves into a swanky high-rise apartment . Some peeping tom creep starts stalking her from afar , taunting her with crank phone calls and sinister letters in the mail . But Leigh refu...
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A bleak , but eerie and absorbing horror mystery thriller
Tough , cynical lapsed Catholic police detective Jim Henderson ( a typically superb Christopher Plummer ) investigates the mysterious death of forlorn heroin addict prostitute Elizabeth Lucy ( a fine and heartbreaking performance by the divine Karen Black , who also sings a few hauntingly melancholy songs on the soundt...
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A nice'n'spooky low-budget 70's drive-in horror flick
Spunky college student Jenny ( a breezy and engaging performance by the pretty Laurie Walters , who also popped up in " The Harrad Experiment " around the same time and later became a regular on the fluffy 70's sitcom " Eight Is Enough " ) and goofy aspiring newspaper reporter John ( winningly played by Joe Spano , who...
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A hugely entertaining period action romp
Brave and noble El Kabir ( a solid and engaging performance by Mark Damon ) fights for his oppressed people in Egypt against evil and pompous Roman governor Petronio ( zestfully played to the hateful hilt by Livio Lorenzon ) . Director Ferdinando Baldi , who also co-wrote the engrossing script with Franco Airaldi and A...
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Joe Sarno's delightfully smart and racy 60's soft-core classic
Extremely prolific and dependable low-budget soft-core independent filmmaker Joe Sarno scored one of his biggest hits with this hugely enjoyable and for the time quite daring sexploitation gem . A bunch of bored suburbanites join a secret sex cult in which all the members wear masks and robes ala Stanley Kubrick's " Ey...
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Billy Jack goes fishing
This unjustly obscure and pretty good quintessentially 70's " fight back " revenge drama could easily be subtitled " Billy Jack Goes Fishing . " Earnest , taciturn , fiercely self-reliant and independent no-nonsense blue collar Native American fisherman Joe Bass ( firmly played with a pleasing blend of stubbornness and...
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A hugely entertaining change-of-pace Hammer horror vampire / action / thriller hybrid romp
By the early 70's Hammer Studios began making attempts to revitalize their by now trite'n'tired period Gothic horror formula with varying degrees of success . This enjoyably daft contemporary blend of horror , action and spy suspense thriller rates as one of their more engagingly offbeat efforts . Something sinister is...
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A fun piece of 60's sci-fi action camp
Evil renegade Chinese General Chan Lu ( a nicely wicked portrayal by Martin Benson ) plans on launching a bunch of nuclear attacks on America from a series of underground tunnels . It's up to brave , but disgraced military man Commander Jonathan Shaw ( the dashing Kerwin Matthews ) to stop him before it's too late . Di...
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A nice'n'nasty Italian thriller
A trio of vicious criminals - - charming , but ruthless leader Aldo ( Ray Lovelock in fine wicked form ) , savage Walter ( essayed with frightening intensity by Flavio Andreni ) , and ferocious Neanderthalic brute Nino ( a positively simian portrayal by Stefano Cedrati ) - - pull off a bank heist and seek refuge in an ...
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A choice cheesy chunk of 70's low budget psycho horror trash
Wacko sexually repressed mama's boy nutcase Matthew ( essayed with deliciously hammy relish by Fred Holbert ) kills his dear old dad by shoving him under a tractor and accidentally cuts off his own hand as well . After spending several years with the nuns at a local sanitarium and now sporting a hook for a hand , Matth...
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A hugely enjoyable Japanese giant monster mash
A vicious trio of giant nasty flesh-eating reptilian birds called the Gyaos awaken and start preying on hapless human beings . It's up to gigantic flying fire-breathing prehistoric turtle Gamera to stop them before it's too late . Director Shusuke Kaneko , working from a smart script by Kaznori Ito , treats the story w...
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Good , silly retro 50's giant monster horror fun
Carmen Electra holds a concert on a remote tropical island that's located in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle . Carmen gets abducted by a giant monster insect . A motley group of kids bravely venture into the dangerous jungle to rescue Carmen . A camera crew tags along to film their adventure for a reality TV show . ...
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A truly weird and original one-of-a-kind oddity
Nebraska in the early 1900's : Dour , serious Oriole ( flinty Christina Raines ) and sweet , flighty Acacia ( the adorable Hilarie Thompson ) are a couple of strange half-breed sisters who live on a remote farm in the middle of nowhere . They give food and shelter to a gang of scruffy , but basically decent bikers : co...
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An enjoyably trashy early 80's low-budget " ALIEN " rip-off
Made right after the splendidly schlocky " Galaxy of Terror , " this choice cheesy chunk of early 80's sci-fi / horror drive-in exploitation junk rates as yet another lovably low-rent two-cent Roger Corman gem . This time a toothy , voracious rampaging mutant beast terrorizes a bunch of hapless folks in a remote outpos...
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An unjustly obscure and overlooked 70's psycho crime thriller
Cruel and cunning misogynistic serial killer Danny ( superbly played with creepy intensity by John Karlen of " Dark Shadows " and " Daughters of Darkness " fame ) preys on nubile young lady hitchhikers in a small San Francisco town . It's up to tough , determined Detective Vince De Carlo ( a fine and convincing perform...
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A surprisingly tasteful and compelling portrait of one of America's most notorious serial killers
Jeremy Renner gives a superbly subtle and convincing performance as Jeffrey Dahmer , a lonely , alienated chocolate factory worker and repressed , pathologically shy homosexual who picked up gay men , brought them back to his apartment , and killed them . Writer / director David Jacobson commendably downplays the expec...
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A very solid & spooky 80's zombie horror flick
If anyone out there wondered what a gore-eschewing , spooky atmosphere emphasizing , modestly produced , yet still capably acted and directed backwater Hickville , USA-set cross between " Macon County Line " and " Night of the Living Dead " would be like , this surprisingly sound lethal toxic mutants running murderousl...
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An above average 70's hick revenge picture starring the ever-beauteous Claudia Jennings
The irrepressible Claudia Jennings is her usual affable , fiery , smolderingly sensual self as Desiree , a spunky Cajun alligator poacher who's falsely accused of murder by a cretinous clan of vile sexist hillbilly male scuzzbuckets . Worse yet , these detestable rednecks rape and kill Desiree's little sister as well ....
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A really fun Japanese giant creature flick
This comment is on the original Japanese version of the film . A group of researchers investigate the disappearance of two colleagues in the mountains of northeastern Japan . They discover lethal and ill-tempered behemoth prehistoric lizard Varan , who awakens and makes an immediate beeline to Tokyo with the specific i...
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The adorable Pia Zadora lights up the screen in this enjoyably silly comic action romp
Sweet and naive , yet sassy and sexy Las Vegas casino lounge singer Bobbie Warren ( the adorably diminutive and dynamic Pia Zadora ) gets incarcerated at a brutal women's penitentiary after refusing to testify in court against her mobster boyfriend . The little songbird quickly changes her tune after she's assaulted in...
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Mario Bava's spirited spoof of Spaghetti Western movies
Stoical smoothie Roy Colt ( affable Brett Halsey ) and his more scruffy wild card buddy Winchester Jack ( the equally engaging Charles Southwood ) go searching for a fortune in gold . Shrewd spitfire Native American prostitute Manila ( winningly played by the lovely Marilu Tolo ) tags along . Meanwhile , irascible Russ...
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Don't stay at the mangy mountaintop motel of death and doom !
The gloriously godawful , to hell with subtlety title does a most apt job of telling the viewer about the enjoyably atrocious lackluster quality evident in this supremely stinky , often uproariously rotten and hence strangely endearing all-thumbs down-home slasher flick . Dowdy , rotund , middle-aged motel proprietor E...
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An enjoyably lightweight piece of 70's drive-in fluff
Shy , but sweet and enticing Dina ( winningly played with infectiously perky charm by the lovely Kim Lankford ) starts her new job as a lifeguard at Malibu beach and immediately turns a lot of guys ' heads . Cool dude Bobby ( likable James Daughton ) and his funky buddy Paul ( the equally engaging Michael Luther ) befr...
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An excellent , harrowing and engrossing subterranean horror winner
A motley group of eight people venture deep into a cave located in Central Asia . They find themselves trapped within the caverns and are hunted by a vicious predatory monster . Writer / director Olatunde Osunsanmi takes his time developing the well-drawn and genuinely likable characters , effectively creates and susta...
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A highly enjoyable 70's made-for-TV killer animal flick
A boozy , burnt-out animal trainer sets a pair of deadly Bengal tigers free so they can terrorize a quiet California suburban hamlet . It's up to amiable detective Tom Skerritt ( who faced off with ferocious felines some more in " Savage Harvest " ) and rugged hunter Steve Forrest to bag the bloodthirsty beasts before ...
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Good , silly 40's cheapie horror fun
Crazed , bitter , vengeful mad scientist Dr . Cameron ( veteran villainous character actor George Zucco in peak lip-smacking wicked form ) creates a special experimental serum which he uses to transform his gentle , dim-witted , but hulking gardener Petro ( sweetly played by Glenn Strange ) into a lethal and ferocious ...
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A sweet and engaging comedy
Bud Spencer gives a wonderfully warm and charming performance as Bulldozer , an amiable , but ill-tempered former pro football player turned fisherman who's recruited by a wacky gang of street people to whip them into shape for a major all-or-nothing football game against a rival group of American soldiers led by gung-...
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A nice and informative documentary on one of the great British film producers
This nifty and illuminating documentary paints a compelling portrait of Euan Lloyd , who was one of the rare film producers who treated his cast and crew alike with great kindness and consideration . Moreover , Lloyd was one of the first independent producers to make ambitious pictures with big budgets and all-star cas...
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Don't forget to take the trash out
Uptight yuppie businessman Ted ( well played to ramrod perfection by Dave R . Watkins ) gets infuriated after his sloppy neighbor Will ( likable Scott Hodges ) and Will's airhead blonde wife Kay ( a delightfully perky Becky Biggs ) continually neglect the proper disposal of their trash . So Ted summons lethal local urb...
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A prime piece of rousing Sonny Chiba martial arts trash
A tough rogue mercenary ( the almighty Sonny Chiba ) arrives in a town where two rival gangs are engaged in a harsh turf war over who's got exclusive dibs on an expensive stash of heroin . Chiba pits both gangs against each other for his own personal gain . Director Kazuhiko Yamaguchi maintains a fast , unflagging pace...
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A strong , absorbing and effectively creepy horror winner
Classy , worried Claire Ward ( the lovely Jane Sibbett ) hires smooth private detective John March ( the likable John Terry ) to find out what her secretive , obsessive husband Charles Dexter Ward ( a typically fine , intense and gripping portrayal by the always reliable Chris Sarandon ) has been doing in a remote wood...
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A solid and enjoyable 50's fright feature
Evil mob boss Frank Buchanan ( a perfectly nasty Michael Granger ) has ex-Nazi scientist Dr . Wilhelm Steigg ( a nice turn by Gregory Gaye ) reanimate the bodies of recently deceased criminals so Buchanan can get revenge on his enemies . Shrewd , hard-boiled police investigator Dr . Chet Walker ( an excellent and engag...
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Deliciously cheesy 70's Saturday morning Sid and Marty Krofft kidvid lunacy
For sublimely silly Sasquatch Saturday morning live action entertainment , there's only one show to see . Yep , it's this supremely screwy 70's TV series from Sid and Marty Krofft , those undisputed kings of such Me Decade kidvid insanity as " Land of the Lost " and " Sigmund and the Sea Monsters . " Eight years ago Bi...
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Good , goofy fun
A prehistoric troglodyte ( Joe Cornelius in a hairy apesuit left over from " 2001 " ) gets discovered living in a cave in Britian . Stubborn , hard-nosed , dedicated anthropologist Dr . Brockton ( a remarkably sincere performance by legendary actress Joan Crawford in her last role ) wants to study him . Huffy local jer...
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A very creepy & underrated 70's sci-fi medical horror chiller
Clonus is an isolated , rigidly closed off , and closely monitored facility where young , fit , healthy clones of wealthy , powerful people are created and raised for the specific purpose of serving as donors for an illicit underground black market organ ring whose central function is to keep its rich , privileged clie...
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A nifty indie psychological thriller
Lonely and paranoid agoraphobe Camden ( a likable performance by Robert C . Sabin ) takes in the seemingly friendly Randy ( a creepily intense portrayal by Tommy Sweeney ) as a boarder in his apartment . Unfortunately , Randy turns out to be a claustrophobic psychotic and Camden finds himself a frightened prisoner in h...
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A nicely creepy and disturbing 70's psycho horror exploitation winner
Former 50's teen idol Tab Hunter gives a superbly chilling and convincing performance as Eddie Collins , a lonely , impotent and sexually frustrated high school gym teacher who was driven around the bend by his shameless whore mother who used to parade around naked in front of him as a little boy . Eddie viciously murd...
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An immensely enjoyable martial arts action winner
Nice guy college art student and ace martial artist Jake Lo ( an extremely likable and charismatic performance by Brandon Lee ) finds his life in considerable jeopardy after he witnesses ruthless and flamboyant Mafia kingpin Antonio Serrano ( deliciously played with lip-smacking hammy aplomb by Nick Mancuso ) bump off ...
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A hugely enjoyable low-budget " Bonnie and Clyde " cash-in copy
The Florida Everglades in the 1920's . Shrewd , handsome John Ashley ( a surprisingly solid turn by 50's rock'n'roll teen idol Fabian Forte , who also played Pretty Boy Floyd in Larry Buchanan's " A Bullet for Pretty Boy " ) and his sweet , flighty steady gal pal Laura ( a charming performance by the ever-radiant Karen...
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A perfectly stupid sequel to the lovably idiotic original
Spunky Didi ( the always cute and perky Linnea Quigley ) and spoiled rich snob Holly Wells ( the delightful Ginger Lynn Allen ) are a couple of constantly sparring rookie cops who pose as strippers in order to stop evil villainess Spanish Fly ( essayed with deliciously hammy brio by Marina Benvenga ) from dumping a pow...
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A good'n'gory little straight-to-video horror shocker
Vicious serial killer Chambers ( a genuinely scary and intense portrayal of pure demonic evil by actor / stuntman James Binkley ) gets executed on the electric chair , but ain't down for the count just yet . Chambers comes back to ferocious and murderous life in a rundown hospital that's on the verge of closing . He na...
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A fun fantasy adventure flick
A commercial airliner crashes in a remote Amazon jungle . The motley group of survivors find themselves in a strange and dangerous world populated by big deadly spiders , giant scorpions , winged reptiles , killer sentient vines , a lethal native tribe , and a fearsome towering ape . Director / co-writer Leigh Scott re...
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A hilariously horrendous low-budget action hoot
A bunch of nasty thugs who work for vicious crime kingpin Hawthorne ( a deliciously hammy portrayal by Tom Story ) kill both the father and fiancé of ace martial artist Alex Hunter ( a hopelessly wooden performance by real-life kickboxing champion Curtis Bush ) . The thugs severely beat Alex up , but don't finish him o...
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A hugely enjoyable 70's redneck crime / action exploitation treat
Bored and brassy small town carhop waitress and aspiring country singer Bobbie Jo Baker ( a splendidly sassy'n'sexy portrayal by the luscious Lynda Carter of TV's " Wonder Woman " fame ) hooks up with brash wannabe Billy the Kid-style modern-day fugitive Lyle Wheeler ( a wonderfully robust and engaging performance by M...
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A worthy sequel to the outstanding original
The first and probably best of four rather variable sequels to the fantastic ' 67 original begins with the almighty Charlton Heston as the unhinged and embittered Taylor disappearing into the dreaded Forbidden Zone . James Franciscus acquits himself reasonably well as Brent , an astronaut who crashlands on the planet o...
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A compellingly stark and harsh allegory on human cruelty
Character actor Everett McGill gives an excellent performance in a rare substantial starring role as Oberlus , a bitter and misanthropic outcast harpooner with a grotesquely disfigured face which gives him a hideous lizard-like appearance . Oberlus is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors , so one night he escapes ...
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Shelley Winters excels in this enjoyably sleazy Depression-era mobster winner
The late , great , sorely missed Shelley Winters really lets it all hang out with her savage , forceful and brave portrayal of notorious Depression-era crime matron Kate " Ma " Barker , who along with her twisted sons embarks on a wild anything-goes crime spree in the Deep South . Her ungodly dysfunctional brood includ...
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One of Andy Milligan's better horror films
Prissy priest Algernon Ford ( an effectively smug and sinister portrayal by Gavin Reed ) is really a vampire who's organizing a gala annual feast for his fellow bloodsuckers . Assisted by pathetic hunchback Spool ( the pitiable Berwick Kaler ) and a trio of grotesque green-skinned vampire women , Ford has grisly plans ...
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A delightfully scuzzy serving of pure 70's drive-in swill
Ruthless and unhinged predatory psycho nympho slut Victoria Waterman ( deliciously overplayed with lip-smacking wicked aplomb by foxy brunette knockout Maria De Aragon ) kills her ailing wealthy father Rideley Waterman ( a memorably grumpy Eric Allison ) so she can get her grubby hands on his substantial inheritance . ...
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A hugely enjoyable and evenhanded depiction of the early 70's youth scene
Square middle-aged movie director Jim Carlton ( nicely played by George E . Carey , who also produced the picture and co-wrote the story ) befriends sweet , but foxy and enticing teenage babysitter Candy Wilson ( a winningly warm and sincere performance by gorgeously voluptuous brunette stunner Susan Romen ) . Candy sh...
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A touching documentary about the more human side of Sam Peckinpah
Legendary tough guy director Sam Peckinpah's sister Fern Lea Peter reminisces about growing up with Sam . She talks about an incident when Sam fell off a horse and broke his back , how in the Peckinpah family you hunted always for food instead of sport , how her father was a judge and died at a fairly young age ( had h...
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A nicely silly and enjoyable 70's crime caper yarn
Earnest , but rather inept treasury agent James Franciscus enlists the aid of an elderly erstwhile con man turned wise , amiable religious kook decent cat ( a delightfully droll Fred Astaire , who played a similar part in " The Towering Inferno " ) and the old dude's special collection of versatile police trained Dober...
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A compellingly stark and sordid depiction of the 60's New York gay bath house scene
Awkward young gay man Thomas ( an engagingly gawky performance by Gerard Jacuzzo ) goes to a bath house and encounters a diverse array of homosexual guys . Thomas strikes up a rapport with the friendly , but frustrated and unhappily married Mr . Jaffee ( superbly played with riveting gravitas by Robert Dahdah ) . Andy ...
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An absolute cruddy riot
Rugged , drippy Los Angeles Lt . James Long ( drab , pudgy chopsocky movie star Leo Fong ) and smooth FBI Agent Bill Bryant ( the always cool Richard Roundtree of " Shaft " fame ) join forces to thwart irritable , racist sicko illegal arms dealer Joe Marks ( a deliciously hammy over-the-top performance by the ubiquitou...
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Ugly , repulsive and unpleasant for sure , but still undeniably effective and upsetting stuff
The wicked Lord Cumberland ( splendidly played with venomous aplomb by Herbert Lom ) tortures and murders various hapless folks who have been accused of witchcraft in 18th century Austria . The vicious Albino ( the strikingly ugly Reggie Nalder in peak nasty form ) , naive young pupil Count Christian von Meruh ( a soli...
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A nifty little low-budget serial killer thriller
A vicious serial killer terrorizes the city by brutally strangling attractive young women . Weary , cynical Detective Grant Sutherland ( a fine performance by Kent Rulon ) enlists the aid of blind , fragile psychic Maggie Russo ( a strong and touching portrayal by the lovely Diane Grotke ) in order to capture the psych...
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A splendidly hard-edged Italian crime thriller knockout
After his beloved mentor and superior gets killed , rough'n'tumble loose cannon police lieutenant Giorgio Caneparo ( well played by the handsome and charismatic Luc Merenda ) goes undercover as a vicious criminal in order to infiltrate the bank robbing gang responsible for the hit . Director Sergio Martino , working fr...
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A nifty supernatural horror mood piece
Troubled young schoolteacher Amy Roberts ( a sound and sympathetic performance by the lovely Christine Taylor ) and her nice fiancé Nick ( likable Shane Bolly ) get into a car accident . Nick gets whisked away to a nearby hospital . Amy tries to find Nick to no avail . Assisted by the friendly Lucas Dylan ( an appealin...
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A compellingly bizarre , yet tasteful tale of necrophilia
Frigid , remote and repressed young Lindsay Finch ( a fine performance by gorgeous blonde Mary Wilcox of " Beast of the Yellow Night " ) has a morbid fascination with the recently deceased : she frequently attends funerals of complete strangers and finds herself drawn to a depraved cult of corpse-loving freaks led by s...
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A deliciously campy variant on " Ten Little Indians "
A small group of hip and debauched rich swingers are invited to a remote island for some rest and relaxation by wealthy industrialist George Stark ( a perfectly smarmy Teodoro Corra ) . Honest Professor Fritz Farrell ( nicely played by William Berger ) has a formula that everyone wants exclusive dibs on . Pretty soon p...
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A potent , poignant and overall disturbing teen coming-of-age drama sleeper
A strikingly clear-eyed and nonjudgmental portrait of adolescent explorations into sex , friendship , loyalty and cruelty which deftly captures the essential amorality and irresponsibility of that uncertain period of one's life with considerable candor and an admirable dearth of sentiment . Three carefree , unsupervise...
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A hilariously raucous redneck comedy hoot
Johnny Paycheck's super fed-up with being exploited by the Man proletarian honky-tonk rant , written by ex-convict David Allan Coe , was turned into one of the true unsung classic films of the early 80s . It's a rowdy , boisterous , high-spirited seriocomic slice-of-blue-collar-life redneck romp about refusing to kowto...
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Good , enjoyably cheesy slasher fun
Okay , please stop me if you've heard this one before . Seven totally obnoxious and unlikeable beer-chugging , snowboard-surfing , sex-obsessed party hearty college coed kids decide to spend a weekend of fun and frolics at a remote abandoned ski lodge . Naturally , they trespass , do drugs and make out . Of course , th...
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A good'n'goofy piece of total unapologetic late 80's low budget comic horror trash
As this film's gloriously bold title alone suggests this sure ain't no exceptionally smart , subtle and sophisticated work of remarkable cinematic art . Instead it's total unmitigated lowbrow crap , plain and simple ( with a definite emphasis on the simple , too ) . The so-called plot concerns two overaged , but very f...
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A nifty horror anthology winner
Resourceful paperboy Timmy ( the adorable Matthew Lawrence ) relates a trio of scary stories to cheery witch Betty ( a delightfully wicked Deborah Harry of Blondie fame ) , who plans on cooking and eating the lad . First and most creepy anecdote , " Lot 249 " - Bitter luckless college student Bellingham ( splendidly pl...
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An excellent and underrated late 80's witchcraft horror sleeper
One of my all-time favorite late 80's horror mystery thriller sleepers , this nifty little flick plays like a modestly budgeted " Fatal Attraction " crossed with " Rosemary's Baby . " Handsome nice guy Los Angeles lawyer Jeff Mills ( appealingly essayed by Timothy Daly ) saves the beautiful and enigmatic Miranda ( a st...
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A fun swamp-set horror creature feature
Sweet young Melanie Blaine ( winningly played by foxy brunette Cindy Sampson ) returns to her small backwoods country hometown of Gibbington to check on her estranged ex-lawman father Howard ( splendidly essayed with edgy intensity by Bruce Dern ) , who's the prime suspect in a series of grisly murders . Nice guy local...
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A refreshingly offbeat and original tongue-in-cheek 80's post-nuke sci-fi oddity
Writer / director Albert Pyun's first foray into post-nuke sci-fi / action cinema remains to this very day his single most novel and idiosyncratic entry in that sub-genre . It's a wickedly wacked-out black comic tongue-in-cheek end-of-the-world oddity which fuses vintage 40's film noir conventions - - morally upright g...
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A real creepfest
Troubled young Elizabeth ( well played by the lovely Louise Salter ) goes to a remote Crimean island to investigate the death of her father and the disappearance of a missing friend . The island is populated by a bizarre order of sinister nuns who reside in a convent . Assisted by the friendly Sarah ( an engaging perfo...
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An amusingly silly hoot
Sweet , but fat , shy and homely teenager Phyllis Loden ( an endearingly gawky performance by Rhona Brody ) gets entered into a high school beauty pageant by a quartet of nasty girls . Phyllis not only loses the pageant , but also gets ruthlessly picked on and publicly humiliated by the other more pretty and popular pa...
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An enjoyably lowbrow redneck exploitation flick
Sweet , soft and sensitive young Buddy Owen Stover ( likable Channing Mitchell ) goes on a hunting trip with his hearty , macho , overbearing father Karl ( Cameron Mitchell at his most wild'n'woolly ) , jolly good ol ' boy Frank Whitman ( the always excellent Peter Jason ) , and tubby slob Leonard Simpson ( portly wond...
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A very likable movie spin-off from the TV show
Herman Munster ( the delightful Fred Gwynne ) inherits an estate in England . Herman along with his sweet wife Lily ( lovely Yvonne De Carlo ) , rascally Grandpa ( the always great Al Lewis ) , brash son Eddie ( the engaging Butch Patrick ) , and cute adopted daughter Marilyn ( the adorable Debbie Watson subbing for Pa...
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An unusual and interesting oddity
A then unknown pre-Prince Vanity stars in this outrageously campy , sexy and compelling " Beauty and the Beast " - type allegorical oddity as Tanya , a naive , but gorgeous and hence quite desirable aspiring young actress who has a nightmare that both she and her possessive , overbearing , sadistic older painter boyfri...
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A delightfully dippy piece of vintage 50's sci-fi camp
A quintet of folks - - stalwart Steve Dayton ( stolid Richard Travis ) , his plucky gal pal June Saxton ( pretty Cathy Downs ) , kindly old scientist Dirk Green ( affable Michael Whalen ) , brash escaped convict Gary Fennell ( sparky Tommy Cook ) and his whiny buddy Lon ( jittery Gary Clarke ) - - fly off in a rocket s...
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Four is fine , but five's a crowd !
Composed , elegant Carol ( marvelously played by the beautiful Rebecca Brooke ) , her nice husband Eddie ( likable David Houseman ) , Carol's wacky , constantly eating best gal pal Anna ( delightfully essayed with infectious comic zeal by the adorable Chris Jordan ) , and Anna's hunky , amorous husband Pete ( a typical...
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An enjoyably awful piece of chopsocky schlock
Allison Wong ( the lovely Cecilia Wong ) gets abducted by a nasty gang of drug smugglers who have a foul sideline business involving white slavery and prostitution . Honest worker Chen ( the likable Carter Wong ) , stalwart Interpol agent Bill Eaton ( a solid and engaging Ron Van Clief ) , and Allison's brother ( the b...
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The luscious Christina Lindberg heats up the screen in this enjoyable soft-core romp
Sweet , naive , yet lovely and enticing virginal 16-year-old innocent country girl Inga ( the delectable Christina Lindberg of " Thriller : A Cruel Picture " fame in her film debut ) goes to the city to spend the weekend with her older , more worldly and experienced sister Greta ( yummy blonde Monica Ekman ) and her ca...
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An enjoyably campy hoot
Conniving little weasel Eddie " the Cat " Murkil ( expertly played to the sniveling obnoxious hilt by David Kyle , who later quit acting to become a youth minister ! ) is a cunning adolescent psychopath who ruthlessly bumps off Punch ( a nifty , albeit brief appearance by Derrel Maury of " Massacre at Central High " fa...
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A deliciously cheesy hoot
Evil madman Eamon O'Reilly ( veteran villain character actor Michael Ansara in peak suavely sinister form ) and his army of cutthroat mercenaries acquire possession of a deadly plague virus . Feisty government agent Sabrina Kincaid ( well played by ravishing redhead Francine York ) rounds up a bunch of lovely , yet let...
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An offbeat horror mood piece
Troubled young Grace MacDonald ( well played by ravishing redhead Brooke Mills ) works as an assistant for itinerant carnie faith healer preacher Reverend Jesse Bundy ( essayed with tremendous rip-snorting gusto by Michael Pataki ) and can't get over her obsession with finding her long lost father . Grace eventually ru...
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A solid and engrossing Italian cannibal gore romp
Sweet , lovely , innocent rich girl Catherine Miles ( nicely played by stunningly comely blonde knockout Elvire Audray ) celebrates her 18th birthday with her parents in the Amazon jungle . Catherine winds up being abducted by a savage and primitive tribe of head hunters after her parents are brutally murdered . Poor C...
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Good , dumb car chase fun
Made in the early 80's when the 70's car chase genre was winding down , chockablock with copious footage lifted from such previous Roger Corman-backed drive-in flicks as " Grand Theft Auto , " " Moving Violation , " " Eat My Dust ! , " and " Thunder and Lightening , " coasting on the faintest sliver of a one-note story...
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A delightfully scroungy 70's horror exploitation gem
Sweet young nurse Charlotte Beale ( a charming performance by ravishing redhead knockout Rosie Holotik ) goes to work at a remote rural asylum run by Dr . Geraldine S . Masters ( the excellent Annabelle Weenick ) . Among the motley assortment of colorfully crazed patients are insatiable , aggressive nymphomaniac Allyso...
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A nicely spooky haunted house horror chiller
Grouchy Ben ( the always excellent Oliver Reed ) and his perky wife Marian ( superbly played by the divine Karen Black ) rent a large swanky country mansion for the summer for a mere $900 dollars . Staying with the married couple are their bratty son David ( solid Lee Montgomery ) and feisty Aunt Elizabeth ( a terrific...
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A solid and exciting 70's exploitation crime winner
A brazen band of no-count thieves rob roughly $400 , 000 in money and valuable merchandise from a political fund-raiser being held by ambitious black congressman Aubrey Clayton ( a perfectly smarmy Rudy Challenger ) . It's up to suave black Sargeant Jesse Williams ( the super smooth Hari Rhodes ) and slobby , cynical w...
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A gut-busting spoof of early 80's slasher flicks
A depraved killer known as the Breather ( voiced with hysterically lecherous aplomb by stand-up comedian Richard Belzer ) bumps off the libidinous students of Lamab High School in assorted highly imaginative ways ( the psycho's unlikely and inventive implements of death include paper clips , an eggplant , and even an e...
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An excellent and hugely enjoyable feminist variant on " Conan "
Fierce and fearless warrior woman Hundra ( a splendidly sassy and spirited portrayal by gorgeous Amazonian blonde goddess Laurene Landon ) declares open war on vile and oppressive misogynistic male swine after her whole village gets butchered by a foul horde of guy marauders . Moreover , Hundra must find a worthy man t...
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Another worthy entry in this delightful series
Blithely naughty virtual reality hooker Heidi Ho ( deliciously essayed to campy'n'vampy perfection by buxom blonde babe J . J . North ) gets unleashed from a computer by the commissioner's geeky son Irwin ( a nice'n'nerdy turn by Chad Gabbert ) and goes on a libidinous rampage . It's up to scatterbrained ditz Candy ( t...
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A cool and informative retrospective documentary on the Aussie biker cult favorite " Stone "
This nifty 63 minute documentary offers an interesting and illuminating portrait of " Stone , " a funky little independent Australian biker picture that was a huge hit in its day back in 1974 and has since become an enduring cult classic . Among the things we learn is that " Stone " star / co-writer / director / produc...