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518,587 | 8,239,592 | 183,649 | 8 | A strong , tense and gripping thriller | Sleazy , smarmy and arrogant New York City publicist Stu Shepard ( a bracing and bravura performance by Colin Farrell ) finds himself trapped in a phone booth by a cunning sniper ( splendidly voiced to skin-crawling sinister perfection by Kiefer Sutherland ) who wants Stu to come clean and confess to his indiscretions ... |
517,967 | 8,239,592 | 64,088 | 8 | A hysterically campy psychedelic 60's kitsch hoot | Sweet , innocent , but petulant young rich girl Lisa ( the cute Karin Mossberg , who sports a great funny accent ) doesn't get along with her new former stage actress stepmother Adriana ( a game performance by faded 40's leading lady Lana Turner ) . After her wealthy father Charles ( a solid Dan O'Herlithy ) dies in a ... |
517,913 | 8,239,592 | 74,768 | 8 | A totally disgusting and hence quite pleasingly scuzzy piece of Italian Nazisploitation trash | Ghastly medical experiments are conducted on the lovely young lady inmates in a secret SS love camp in order to create a superior race . The wicked , but impotent commandant Colonel Von Kleiben ( excellently essayed with suavely sadistic aplomb by Giorgio Cerioni ) has the testicles of handsome and virile stud soldier ... |
518,946 | 8,239,592 | 90,327 | 8 | A very good and effective 80's low-budget horror winner | Lovely Linda Brewster ( a warm and appealing performance by ravishing redhead hottie supreme Tawny Kitaen ) becomes obsessed with contacting the spirit of a deceased little boy with a Ouija Board . Linda finds herself in substantial peril when she encounters a malevolent spirit which plans on taking possession of her m... |
518,219 | 8,239,592 | 74,775 | 8 | A really enjoyable Crown International Pictures crime caper romp | This on the money solid and enjoyable Crown International Pictures crime caper affair comes across like a cheerfully low-rent drive-in discount version of " Ocean's 11 . " Adding immensely to this film's already considerable entertainment value is the always charming and delightful presence of the divine Stella Stevens... |
518,602 | 8,239,592 | 434,964 | 8 | Good , silly and thoroughly enjoyable Japanese giant monster-on-the-loose fun | An atomic blast in the freezing Artic caused by a downed fighter plane awakens a gigantic upright walking , flying , fire-breathing ( and eating ! ) prehistoric turtle from its centuries of slumber . Naturally , said titanic turtle is in a very grouchy mood ; he proceeds to lay waste to everything in his lethal path an... |
518,630 | 8,239,592 | 86,937 | 8 | A likable made-for-TV drama | Legendary late , great country singer Johnny Cash gives a typically fine and credible performance as legendary shrewd and redoubtable professional pool player William " The Baron " Addington , who calls it quits and only plays pool for charity because of problems with alcoholism . Addington gets back in the game to ser... |
518,828 | 8,239,592 | 67,162 | 8 | An extremely brutal , potent and unnerving 70's seriocomic crime sleeper winner | The 1930's . Spoiled and snotty wealthy heiress Barbara Blandish ( superbly played to prissy perfection by Kim Darby ) gets abducted by a vicious family of depraved and dangerous outlaws . Complications ensue when the infantile , yet lethal and volatile Slim Grissom ( a remarkable performance by Scott Wilson ) falls fo... |
518,387 | 8,239,592 | 71,535 | 8 | An excellent Spanish monster horror winner | In a small town by the Rhine river young women are being savagely butchered by having their hearts ripped out . Macho hunter Sirgurd ( nicely played by the hunky Tony Kendall ) is hired by the faculty of an all girls school to find and dispose of the killer , which turns out to be a lethal , but alluring sea siren of l... |
519,140 | 8,239,592 | 60,228 | 8 | A hugely entertaining 60's fright feature treat | Cunning , deranged and sophisticated wealthy aristocrat Jason Cravatte ( superbly played with lip-smacking wicked aplomb by Patrick O'Neal ) gets apprehended by the authorities for murder . Jason escapes by cutting off his own hand and replacing it with a hook . He then goes on a grisly killing spree , specifically bum... |
518,581 | 8,239,592 | 86,971 | 8 | An effectively creepy and perverse low-budget 80's horror vampire sleeper | Sleazy and bored hubby Larry ( well played by Jimmy Stathis ) ain't too happy with his marriage to his neglected wife Robin ( a fine and touching performance by Clara Perryman ) . Larry decides to rent a creepy black room in a swanky Hollywood Hills mansion from the strange Jason ( muscular Stephen Knight ) and his equ... |
518,536 | 8,239,592 | 209,264 | 8 | A fun giant killer snake horror creature feature romp | The considerable box office success of the deliciously cheesy " Anaconda " not surprisingly inspired a rash of derivative , yet still enjoyable low-budget direct-to-video cash-in copies . These rip-offs include the none too shabby " King Cobra , " the exceptionally fine and intelligent " Komodo , " and this snazzy litt... |
518,489 | 8,239,592 | 67,148 | 8 | Give a hoot . Don't pollute ! | Mankind's constant thoughtless pollution begets severely dire consequences in the form of one Hedorah . Man , does Hedorah rate as one fabulously foul'n'freaky beast : this grotesque and unsightly gigantic mutant humanoid tadpole has glowing red eyes , inhales noxious fumes from smokestacks , drips disgusting acidic go... |
519,343 | 8,239,592 | 135,465 | 8 | An enjoyably clunky low-budget Crown International Pictures rip-off of " The Dirty Dozen " | How's this for a fresh , novel and interesting premise for a World War II action potboiler : Mighty macho foul-mouthed , cigar-chomping Major Stony Stonewall ( gruffly essayed by John Ericson ) , assisted by compassionate Lt . Jennifer West ( the appealing Karen Ericson ) and tough guerrilla fighter Paco Rodrigeuz ( li... |
519,378 | 8,239,592 | 67,141 | 8 | A very offbeat and interesting early 70's post-nuke sci-fi curio | An intriguingly spartan and offbeat avant-garde early 70's excursion into post-nuke sci-fi survivalist cinema centering on the obsessive Glen ( muscular , curly-haired Steven Curry ) and his more passive female companion Randa ( a sweetly disarming performance by the lovely , willowy Shelley Plimpton ) , a pair of guil... |
517,890 | 8,239,592 | 82,565 | 8 | A surprisingly bleak and brutal made-for-TV early 80's " ALIEN " clone | I must admit that I really like this jarringly harsh and downbeat made-for-TV " ALIEN " copy . This time the rugged roughneck crew of a remote off-shore oil rig are terrorized by a large , scaly , fanged , lumbering centuries old humanoid beast dredged up from the ocean floor . Sure , the plot ain't much , but Peter Ca... |
517,912 | 8,239,592 | 86,967 | 8 | An enjoyably crummy earthbound " Alien " rip-off by the ever-reliable Fred Olen Ray | An entertaining , incredibly idiotic , and basically all-thumbs mid-80's earthbound " Alien " clone from the forever fumble-fingered Grade D dreckmonger Fred Olen Ray , who once again shows off his characteristic consummate ineptitude and flagrant disregard for anything remotely resembling professional film-making . Be... |
519,076 | 8,239,592 | 469,227 | 8 | The best of the " Camp Blood " slasher flicks | Ambitious Jessica ( foxy brunette Stephanie Mathis ) , rugged Russ ( hunky Phil Lander ) , sweet , kooky aspiring singer Kat ( adorable blonde sprite Erin Holt ) , scrappy tomboy Mel ( solid Denise Lorraine ) , and laid-back thrill-seeking rich guy Nolan ( amiable Adam Van Conant ) all volunteer for a reality TV show i... |
519,418 | 8,239,592 | 86,980 | 8 | A hugely enjoyable Grade B sci-fi / horror comedy hoot | A mysterious alien virus which manifests itself as a deadly gust of wind transforms the local yokels in a sleepy small Texas town into pasty-faced bloodthirsty zombies . Laid-back photographer Jeff Rhodes ( a solid and engaging performance by Thom Meyers ) and his sweet newfound girlfriend Julie ( the adorable Laura El... |
518,687 | 8,239,592 | 74,829 | 8 | A satisfyingly sordid & scuzzy slice of 70's Italian horror sleaze | Rino Di Silvesto's outrageously trashy and nonsensical nudity-ridden soft-core horror sleaze sensation stars gorgeous , voluptuous , stupendously buxom blonde hottie supreme Annik Borel as Daniella , a severely troubled young lass whose intense sexual repression causes her to believe that she's the reincarnation of a c... |
518,427 | 8,239,592 | 64,002 | 8 | A tad uneven , but still quite good | Arlo Guthrie's hilariously mordant 20 minute story song gets adopted into an affably whimsical , episodic , occasionally funny and ultimately quite downbeat and sobering free-form feature by director Arthur Penn that astutely captures the key issues and concerns of the 60's hippie counterculture : dodging the draft , s... |
518,697 | 8,239,592 | 94,642 | 8 | A wickedly enjoyable horror black comedy hoot | Six vacationing young adults who include the troubled Cynthia ( well played by Sarah Torgov ) are forced to land their plane on a remote sylvan island . They not only encounter the strict Pa ( a gloriously hammy performance by Rod Steiger ) and the equally stern Ma ( a delightfully batty , yet understated portrayal by ... |
518,586 | 8,239,592 | 265,459 | 8 | A chillingly plausible and absorbing thriller | Robin Williams gives a remarkably bold , subtle and stunning performance as sad and socially maladjusted convenience store worker Sy " The Photo Guy " Parrish . Sy has an unhealthy fixation on the seemingly perfect Yorkin family : loving mother Nina ( a fine Connie Nielson ) , faithless , neglectful husband Will ( the ... |
518,013 | 8,239,592 | 71,471 | 8 | A compellingly offbeat and unsettling European horror thriller oddity | Hunky , blithely decadent wealthy swinging playboy Peter Crane ( an engaging performance by handsome and brawny Mexican super star and sex symbol Jorge Rivero ) has horrific visions of killing folks and freaky naked shrieking people . Kindly psychiatrist Dr . Stone ( veteran character actor Richard Conte ; mob capo Emi... |
518,344 | 8,239,592 | 90,293 | 8 | An excellent , exciting and underrated 80's medical science sci-fi / horror sleeper | In remote rural Utah a crisis situation transpires when a lethal experimental germ warfare virus gets loose in government Lab P-4 and causes the folks who become infected to degenerate into dangerous murderous raving lunatics led by Dr . Nielsen ( robustly essayed by Richard Dysart ) . Gutsy , but frightened security c... |
518,320 | 8,239,592 | 196,185 | 8 | A perfectly stupid final installment in the enjoyably idiotic series | Lovable airhead Candy ( the adorably daffy Elizabeth Kaitan ) and her brassy rival Traci ( the delightfully sassy Raelyn Saalman ) run afoul of a gang of sexy , but nefarious bikini-clad bank-robbing strippers . Ramrod Internal Affairs detective Hank Grisham ( a perfectly jerky Brad Parker ) wrongly assumes that Candy ... |
518,302 | 8,239,592 | 113,858 | 8 | An enjoyably silly , gory and trashy retro 50's giant killer bug horror creature feature hoot | An enjoyably pulpy , trashy , competently mounted and energetically executed 50's style over-sized killer insect creature feature done with wonderfully sleazoid 90's type gore , nudity , profanity and general self-aware film buff fanaticism . An alien spaceship crashlands in a lake located nearby by a forest summercamp... |
518,640 | 8,239,592 | 82,642 | 8 | A solid and provocative futuristic sci-fi / action car chase thriller | Following a lethal plague which has wiped out millions of people and a severe oil crisis that has caused driving to be outlawed , an authoritarian government has come into power and set up restrictive , rigidly enforced codes of proper conduct that have made individual freedom a thing of the past . Stubbornly rebelliou... |
518,276 | 8,239,592 | 82,639 | 8 | A very cool early 80's rock'n'roll cult favorite | Fiery and insolent rebellious teenager Corinne " Third Degree " Burns ( a wonderfully raw and dynamic portrayal by Diane Lane ) is angry about the untimely death of her mother . So she convinces her reluctant sister Tracy ( the cute Marin Kanter ) and her equally surly cousin Jessica ( Laura Dern at her most adorable )... |
519,139 | 8,239,592 | 60,188 | 8 | An immensely enjoyable entry in the " Fu Manchu " series | Shrewd , ruthless and fearsome Chinese criminal mastermind Fu Manchu ( the impeccable Christopher Lee in peak villainous form ) kidnaps the beautiful daughters of the world's leading scientists and demands that they help build him a lethal death ray or else he will kill all of the lovely ladies . It's up to Fu Manchu's... |
518,788 | 8,239,592 | 74,855 | 8 | A perfectly putrid piece of pure trash | Obviously made on the cheap to capitalize on the notorious " Mandingo , " this crassly pandering hunk of blithely rancid Italian sexploitation junk really pours on the sordid stuff with a commendable lack of taste and restraint : The evil arrogant white family who own and operate a lavish slave plantation spend a major... |
518,084 | 8,239,592 | 71,478 | 8 | A nifty supernatural shocker | The Gibson family are rich , decadent and dysfunctional . Youngest daughter Leila ( a convincing performance by foxy brunette Grace Mills ) is especially wild : her fiancé Richard practices the black arts and takes Leila to a debauched satanic ceremony . Pretty soon Leila starts acting strange : she says mean and spite... |
518,800 | 8,239,592 | 833,098 | 8 | A very bleak and disturbing little shocker | A strange and lethal virus causes men to go insane and savagely murder women in a psychotic fit of religious fervor whenever they are sexually aroused . Scientists Alan ( an engaging performance by Jason Priestley ) and Barney ( the always excellent Elliott Gould ) try to find a cure while Alan's feisty wife Anne ( wel... |
518,490 | 8,239,592 | 82,495 | 8 | A worthy follow-up to the outstanding original | This surprisingly solid sequel starts off immediately where the original ended , with poor Laurie Strode ( the ever-personable Jamie Lee Curtis ) being sent to the local hospital to be treated for her injuries . Naturally , the relentless Michael Myers ( an effectively eerie pantomime performance by veteran stuntman Di... |
518,326 | 8,239,592 | 71,628 | 8 | An excellent and extremely effective British variant on your standard women-in-prison film | Adorable French model Anne Marie ( sweetly played by the charming and ravishing Penny Irving ) gets only a minor fine for exposing herself in public . Anne Marie meets mysterious , yet charismatic Mark E . Desade ( brooding Robert Tayman ) at a party . Mark takes Anne Marie to a hellish remote countryside correctional ... |
519,183 | 8,239,592 | 82,464 | 8 | An enjoyably lightweight screwball goof of a seriocomic road movie delight | Kelly Johnson and Tony Barry are affably boorish and unaffected as a couple of aimless , disaffected , alienated everyday nobody ne'er-do-well blokes - - Johnson's a nutty , reckless juvenile delinquent hell-raiser while Barry's a dejected middle-aged loser who's just broken up with his wife - - who decide to make a cr... |
517,939 | 8,239,592 | 60,415 | 8 | Enjoyable fluff | Assured ace race car driver Dave Owens ( a likable performance by Frankie Avalon ) goes down south to compete in the local stock car races . Dave winds up at loggerheads with cocky reigning champion Sony Leander Fox ( a deliciously smarmy portrayal by Fabian ) . Moreover , Dave also starts running moonshine for sleazeb... |
518,343 | 8,239,592 | 90,184 | 8 | An enjoyably dopey piece of 80's Crown International teen comedy trash | Lovely , perky , curly-haired and highly appealing brunette 80's flash-in-the-pan B-movie starlet Betsy ( " Out of Control , " " Cheerleader Camp " ) Russell gives a winningly spunky performance as Tomasina " Tommy " Boyd , a scrappy , willful , fiercely self-reliant spitfire hoyden automobile mechanic with a humongous... |
518,763 | 8,239,592 | 71,647 | 8 | Peter Fonda's interesting and ambitious , if pretty flawed low-budget sci-fi end-of-the-world effort | Peter Fonda's second directorial effort following the excellent feminist Western " The Hired Hand " makes for an extremely atypical and hence compelling post-holocaust sci-fi survivalist message movie related in the form of a subtle , very serious and pertinent ecological parable concerning mankind's selfish , self-des... |
518,471 | 8,239,592 | 289,438 | 8 | An immensely enjoyable and effective Spanish horror winner | Six teenagers go to an old remote abandoned school where 27 years ago a horrible massacre took place for a night of fun and pranks . Instead the kids run afoul of the vicious crazed security guard ( excellently played with supremely creepy menace by Spanish horror icon Paul Naschy ) who committed the nasty killings . D... |
518,141 | 8,239,592 | 51,622 | 8 | A nifty 50's sci-fi / horror classic | Brilliant , hearty , but obsessive scientist Andre Delambre ( an excellent performance by David Hedison ) creates a teleportation device . Things go awry when his genes are crossed with those of a common fly , thereby resulting in a grotesque humanoid insect monster . Andre's loyal and loving wife Helene ( superbly pla... |
518,340 | 8,239,592 | 491,005 | 8 | A nifty killer animal horror flick | A flock of ravens contract mad cow's disease and turn into vicious carnivorous beasts who attack the populace of a sleepy small town . A handful of folks who include the stalwart Police Chief Wayne Merkle ( a solid Sean Patrick Flanery ) , amiable physician Doc ( winningly played by Rod Taylor ) , and recovering alcoho... |
518,639 | 8,239,592 | 426,459 | 8 | Good'n'gory Grade B horror monster splatter fun | Your standard motley assortment of folks in a small remote tavern find themselves under attack by a ferocious family of foul and deadly carnivorous subhuman monsters . That's basically it for the admittedly skimpy plot , but luckily what we got here is a pleasingly straightforward and unpretentious rough'n'ready Grade ... |
518,370 | 8,239,592 | 48,696 | 8 | A hugely enjoyable 50's giant monster on the loose sci-fi / horror romp | Kindly scientist Leo G . Carroll creates a remarkable special nutrient which makes animals grow to alarmingly large sizes at an accelerated rate . A giant spider escapes from Carroll's lab and goes on the rampage . It's up to Carroll , affable country doctor John Agar and spunky , fetching lab assistant Mara Corday to ... |
519,433 | 8,239,592 | 74,914 | 8 | Not your standard lowbrow sexploitation fare | Handsome and dashing British airline pilot George Taylor ( a solid portrayal by Guiseppe Pambieri ) gets beat up by thugs after a wild night in Hong Kong . George meets and falls in love with the sweet and virginal Dr . Emy Wong ( a fine and charming performance by the lovely Chai Lee ) . George regains his health and ... |
518,925 | 8,239,592 | 74,924 | 8 | A very solid and satisfying 70's " don't go down to Dixie " redneck exploitation flick | Scruffy , mischievous smartaleck Detroit drifter Eddie ( rangily personable beanpole Stephen McHattie ) and his sweet , plucky gal pal Cam ( a winning performance by the ever pert and appealing Kay Lenz ) witness a murder committed by a growly , profane , corrupt , vicious , irritable , just flat-out no-count and repre... |
518,528 | 8,239,592 | 280,802 | 8 | An entertainingly inane jungle adventure camp hoot | A group of college student anthropologists and a rival team of no-count treasure hunters run afoul of a lethal tribe of primitive cannibals led by an evil witch doctor while checking out a dangerous jungle on a remote island . It's up to feisty'n'fetching Tarzanesque jungle babe Jelita ( ravishing brunette fox Lydia Ka... |
518,852 | 8,239,592 | 74,967 | 8 | A satisfyingly sleazy 70's hicksploitation outing | Sweet Cathy Phillips ( well played by the lovely Deborah Raffin ) and her sassy best gal pal Diane Emery ( a winningly brash and spirited performance by the fetching Lynne Moody ) are a couple of California college students who experience car trouble while driving cross country in the deep rural south . The pair run af... |
518,480 | 8,239,592 | 51,654 | 8 | A fun 50's horror flick | Huge murderous behemoth Vargas ( hulking Buddy Baer , the brother of Max Baer of " The Beverly Hillbillies " fame ) terrorizes a small California country hamlet . The frightened townspeople believe Vargas is the reincarnation of an infamous Spanish Conquistador who was killed in the mountains many years ago . Folksy an... |
518,987 | 8,239,592 | 74,975 | 8 | An excellent 70's drive-in biker flick | A rowdy and scruffy , but basically decent and likable biker gang stop off in a small Southern town . They are immediately antagonized and put in jail by the browbeating local yokel cops . A brutish deputy rapes a teenage girl and blames it on the bikers . This in turn begets a chain of harsh and vicious violence with ... |
518,545 | 8,239,592 | 71,565 | 8 | A wonderfully wild'n'wacky beastbash | Evil apelike alien invaders unleash a titanic lethal robot Godzilla so they can destroy Japan . It's up to the Big G and fellow behemoth beast King Caesar to stop the towering automaton . Director / co-writer Jun Fukuda offers a ridiculously convoluted plot that speeds along at a nonstop snappy pace . The jumbled scrip... |
518,178 | 8,239,592 | 109,895 | 8 | A shamefully unsung camp crap classic | The lovely , yet lethal Alexandra ( stunning statuesque blonde beauty Stacie Randall , who looks absolutely smashing in a tight black leather outfit ) must find a magic amulet so her evil demonic master Faust can cross over into our dimension . It's up to fearless , rugged cop Jonathan Graves ( likable Peter Liapis ) t... |
518,831 | 8,239,592 | 51,665 | 8 | A fun 50's rock'n'roll romp | Legendary 50's rock disc jockey Alan Freed's last and best movie with Freed not only starring ( he gives perhaps his most comfortable and engaging performance here ) , but also producing as well . Freed plays wise , kindly , worldly mentor to an eager beaver orphan ( and failed choirboy ! ) who needs Freed's endorsemen... |
518,956 | 8,239,592 | 71,569 | 8 | A very charming and enjoyable fantasy adventure romp | Brave sailor Sinbad ( an engaging performance by John Phillip Law ) goes to the island of Lemuria in search of the mystical Fountain of Destiny . Assisting Sinbad on his perilous journey are the badly scarred Grand Vizier ( solid Douglas Wilmer ) of Marabia , ravishing slave girl Margiana ( a positively enchanting turn... |
518,695 | 8,239,592 | 430,239 | 8 | A solid and enjoyable horror monster flick | An ancient lethal and powerful humanoid creature ( Matt Jordan in a gnarly monster suit ) of local Native American legend gets freed from its mountainside cave prison and goes on a bloody rampage in the woods . It stalks and torments troubled forest ranger Danielle St . Claire ( a strong and sympathetic performance by ... |
518,680 | 8,239,592 | 86,873 | 8 | An excellent and enjoyable comic vehicle for both Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin | The spirit of uptight dying rich spinster Edwina Cutwaters ( superbly played by Lily Tomlin ) gets accidentally transferred into the body of swinging bachelor lawyer Roger Cobb ( Steve Martin in fine and inspired form ) . The two radically opposite personalities are forced to share the same body until they can get wack... |
518,322 | 8,239,592 | 82,516 | 8 | A hugely enjoyable heist action film | The best , most successful and entertaining heist movies are the ones that roll up their sleeves , spit on their hands , and promptly get down to thrilling brass tacks with topmost immediate urgency and a refreshing lack of momentum-killing pretense . This crackerjack number sure does the above cited correct thing in a... |
518,110 | 8,239,592 | 64,177 | 8 | An excellent and intelligent thinking man's science fiction thriller | Brilliant electronics genius Dr . Charles Forbin ( a strong and charismatic performance by Eric Braeden ) creates Colossus , a powerful and super-intelligent computer that's devised to regulate America's defense systems . Colossus instead gets in touch with its equally potent Russian counterpart Guardian . The two comp... |
519,108 | 8,239,592 | 71,589 | 8 | Marjoe Gortner excels in this hugely enjoyable made-for-TV Western | Former real life child evangelist Marjoe Gortner gives a solid and engaging performance as Ernie Parsons , a shrewd gunslinger who's forced to assume the identity of a dead minister in order to elude being captured by an angry posse . Parsons winds up in a dusty little hamlet where the cowed townspeople are under the c... |
519,124 | 8,239,592 | 55,505 | 8 | An excellent Hammer thriller | Sweet , fragile , but resilient wheelchair-bound cripple Penny Appleby ( a beautifully warm and touching performance by the lovely Susan Strasberg ) goes to France to see her father at a remote seaside villa . Alas , her dad turns out to be away on an errand . Penny starts to see the corpse of her father all over the p... |
519,101 | 8,239,592 | 71,593 | 8 | An unusual and engrossing made-for-TV Western | Rugged Steve Forrest gives a properly steely and stalwart performance as James Devlin , a tough , cynical gunfighter who after miraculously surviving a hanging decides to dedicate his life to doing good instead of bad . Devlin comes to the aid of Carrie Gault ( the engagingly spunky Sharon Acker ) , a feisty widow who'... |
518,990 | 8,239,592 | 90,169 | 8 | An enjoyably silly car chase action romp | Few studios could rival Cannon back in the 80's when it came to cranking out slickly mounted give the audience what they've paid to see action / adventure potboilers . Sure , their films were usually pretty empty-headed and utterly lacking in originality , but they delivered the goods just the same in an admirably prec... |
518,882 | 8,239,592 | 90,149 | 8 | Beware of the killer mutant Nutriaman ! | One of the all-time worst and thus most oddly enjoyable " cheap rubber suit monster on the loose " nickel'n'dime low-budget fright flicks to crawl out of the bayou and slither its moronic way onto celluloid . The trite , more prosaic than a Sunday picnic story deals with your standard bunch of enthusiastic , but unethi... |
518,606 | 8,239,592 | 67,206 | 8 | An enjoyably inane piece of 70's drive-in fluff | This enjoyably goofy'n'duffy piece of 70's drive-in fluff centers on a six woman outlaw gang who prey on hapless backwoods motorists . The gals are owned and trained by the amiable , scruffy , pleasantly mellow Manson-like Benson ( shaggy hairball Norman Klar ) , a charismatically breezy anti-establishment type who wan... |
519,292 | 8,239,592 | 373,900 | 8 | Absorbingly sordid trash | 1978 , Los Angeles . Lovely and charming psychiatrist Dr . Samantha Stone ( well played by the gorgeous Brittany Daniel ) interviews nervous and scared suspected serial killer Kenneth Bianchi ( a strong and compelling performance by Clifton Collins , Jr . ) in order to determine if he's sane or crazy . Director / co-wr... |
518,968 | 8,239,592 | 82,509 | 8 | A real funky blast from the 80's past | Made right before the buzz-crushing ultra-conservative religious right backlash against the gloriously loose'n'libertine permissiveness of the 70's took hold , this wonderfully wild'n'raucous animated sci-fi / horror / fantasy anthology film gleefully wallows in excessive graphic violence , crass leering objectificatio... |
518,706 | 8,239,592 | 71,611 | 8 | A nifty little 70's made-for-TV " danger on the road " suspense thriller | While driving across lonely , misty , rain-streaked California backroads en route to Santa Barbara to visit her sister , nice middle-aged lady Clair ( Cloris Leachman ) decides to give handsome young hitchhiker Miles ( Michael Brandon ) a lift to San Francisco . Unbeknownst to Clair , Miles is really a volatile and dan... |
517,922 | 8,239,592 | 51,226 | 8 | An enjoyable 50's zombie horror picture | A zombie captain and crew guard the treasure of a sunken ship . A motley assortment of scavengers risk their lives to retrieve the fortune in diamonds hidden inside the vessel . Competently directed by Edward L . Cahn , this endearingly hokey low-budget horror flick moves along at a reasonable clip and offers a fair am... |
518,133 | 8,239,592 | 90,564 | 8 | A very cool and enjoyable 80's teen gang romp | Class of 1984 meets " High Noon " and subsequently gets transposed to the blighted , crime-ridden East Los Angeles ghetto area in this really solid and effective teen gang opus . A vicious street gang called the Cobras holds a reign of terror over Lincoln High School . Stand-up , no-nonsense tough guy Jeff Hanna ( a ... |
519,341 | 8,239,592 | 90,567 | 8 | A terrifically tough and sleazy thriller | Successful self-made married businessman Harry Mitchell ( a superbly steely performance by Roy Scheider ) has an adulteress fling with sweet'n'sexy young stripper Cini ( the gorgeous Kelly Preston ) . Harry's blackmailed by a trio of scummy low-life hoods - - sleazy porno theater manager Raimy ( a splendidly slimy John... |
518,308 | 8,239,592 | 75,035 | 8 | An enjoyably tacky lump of Italian sci-fi / horror cheese | Your standard " Frankenstein " esque mad scientist messing around with ill-advised covert bacteriological war experiments premise gets clumsily crossed with a similarly hackneyed crazed killer on the loose story with a dash of that old reliable standby of the deadly plague which could wipe out thousands of folks if it ... |
519,057 | 8,239,592 | 71,237 | 8 | An enjoyable 70's redneck drive-in comedy / drama winner | Arkansas , 1933 . The Prohibition era . Serious Othar Pruitt ( a fine performance by Paul Koslo ) and his more easygoing buddy Dewey Crenshaw ( a wonderfully engaging portrayal by Dennis Fimple ) are a couple of moonshine runners who find themselves involved in a bitter and deadly territorial feud with the no-count riv... |
519,307 | 8,239,592 | 125,015 | 8 | A solid & satisfying Al Adamson blaxploitation crime / action outing | Late , great grind-house trash movie-maker Al Adamson takes a stab at the blaxploitation genre - - and , surprisingly , the net result rates a cut or so above the norm , meaning that what we got here is a genuinely solid 70's drive-in black action opus . Former gridiron great Timothy Brown ( whose other B-picture credi... |
519,325 | 8,239,592 | 135,204 | 8 | A very strong and disturbing 70's porno roughie gem | Short , blandly handsome Jason Carns , a seemingly ordinary and unassuming nice guy next door type gone horribly bug crazy wrong , gives a frightfully plausible performance as lowly security guard Eddie , who gets his twisted deviant carnal kicks by pretending to be a Los Angeles police officer who joyfully browbeats ,... |
518,265 | 8,239,592 | 71,282 | 8 | A genuine oddity | Peter Weir made his directorial debut with this truly bizarre and unique blackly humorous multi-genre pastiche that's a compellingly novel and singular blend of horror , Western and sci-fi conventions mixed together into a jarringly offbeat whole . A pleasant , mild-mannered American tourist ( a sweetly amiable perform... |
518,649 | 8,239,592 | 82,816 | 8 | A solid and seriously underrated sleeper | Loosely based on Vicki Lawrence's notoriously trashy country story song , this unexpectedly amiable and engrossing dramatic feature about ordinary small-time dreamers who aspire to greater things in life makes for a perfectly nice and affecting character-oriented slice-of-everyday-life affair , specifically centering o... |
519,184 | 8,239,592 | 114,070 | 8 | A good deal of enjoyably cheesy low-budget direct-to-vid horror fun | Okay , stop me if you've heard this one before . Your usual bunch of scientists doing morally dubious and ill-advised experiments in a secret subterranean laboratory create a super-strong brain-eating mutant named Thor ( handsome , muscular Dan Blom , who's actually quite good ) who gets loose and goes on a destructive... |
518,786 | 8,239,592 | 71,268 | 8 | A nifty 70's made-for-TV flick | 1958 . The sleepy small Southern town of Clarksburg . Evil Sheriff Roy Childress ( the almighty Vic Morrow in peak nasty form ) cracks down super hard on speeders by forcing said offenders off a cliff to their untimely deaths on an especially dangerous stretch of road . Childress meets his match when cool young hot rod... |
518,548 | 8,239,592 | 456,630 | 8 | A genuinely spooky and unnerving Japanese horror shocker | Aspiring young actress Nagisa Sugiura ( winningly played by the lovely Yuki ) gets a role in a movie about a terrible mass murder which happened at a remote hotel thirty-five years ago . Intense director Ikuo Matsumura ( an excellent performance by Kippei Shiina ) takes the cast and crew to the hotel to shoot the pictu... |
519,007 | 8,239,592 | 78,960 | 8 | A pleasingly sleazy 70's cheerleader romp | The 70's cheerleader teen sexploitation sub-genre receives an appropriately sleazy send-off with this satisfyingly tacky effort . The plot is slight , but serviceable enough : three bitter disgruntled former high school football star athletes along with one jock's dippy younger brother and a ruthless lesbian school nur... |
519,215 | 8,239,592 | 131,449 | 8 | A nicely eerie and effective 70's teen revenge drive-in horror outing | Poor Susan ( excellently played by the lovely and beguiling blonde beauty Suzanna Ling ) . The comely , but weird misunderstood misfit teenage girl lives with her undertaker father in a mortuary . She has an unnatural affinity for spiders . Susan catches her shrewish mother cheating on her father with her dad's own bro... |
519,384 | 8,239,592 | 71,186 | 8 | An effectively creepy 70's made-for-TV killer kid horror flick | Gawky misfit teen Ronald ( a truly spooky and unnerving performance by Scott Jacoby ; the gimpy magician in " The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane " ) accidentally kills a bratty little girl . He's subsequently hidden in a secret room of an old Victorian house by his sickly , smothering mother ( a wonderful portraya... |
518,329 | 8,239,592 | 385,218 | 8 | A hilariously ridiculous cheesy hoot | A bunch of sadistic college frat jerks tie fragile diabetic Sam ( scrawny Caleb Roehrig ) to a cross in a corn field . Sam nearly dies and subsequently resurrects a lethal evil scarecrow ( hulking Steve Worley ) who proceeds to brutally butcher a handful of party hearty kids frolicking on the beach during spring break ... |
519,304 | 8,239,592 | 49,128 | 8 | Roger Corman's extremely solid & engrossing 50's sci-fi end-of-the-world debut feature | Legendary B-movie pioneer Roger Corman made his sturdy directorial debut with this particularly prescient low-budget post-nuke end-of-the-world sci-fi survivalist item , a nifty little programmer which serves as an extremely basic , but still efficient exploitation cinema prototype for many similar features which follo... |
518,083 | 8,239,592 | 71,225 | 8 | A solid vintage 70's blaxploitation romp | Wise old numbers king Nate Williams ( affably portrayed by legendary blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon ) reigns supreme over a gritty ghetto urban jungle . Nate makes shrewd pimp J . J . ( well played with fiery aplomb by Rod Perry ) his righthand man . J . J . in turn declares war on evil white heroin drug lord Tony Burt... |
519,034 | 8,239,592 | 71,224 | 8 | A pretty nifty 70's blaxploitation private eye flick | Towards the end of his career Jack Arnold , a very efficient director who gave us such classic 50's creature features as " It Came from Outer Space , " " The Creature from the Black Lagoon , " and " Tarantula , " teamed up with former football star turned top 70's blaxploitation film headliner Fred " the Hammer " Willi... |
518,450 | 8,239,592 | 71,216 | 8 | Good , sexy , trashy 30's Depression-era set 70's drive-in exploitation fun | Tough and gutsy Texas widow Wilma McClatchie ( a splendidly brassy'n'sassy Angie Dickinson , looking mighty fine in her early 40's and frequently out of her wardrobe ) and her two equally feisty hottie daughters - - the sexually precocious Billie Jean ( adorable blonde sprite Susan Sennett of " The Candy Snatchers " ) ... |
519,172 | 8,239,592 | 78,924 | 8 | The Bionic Benji , or , the Six Million Dollar Mutt | Eager electronics whiz Brian Foster ( a likable performance by Wesley Eure of TV's " Land of the Lost " ) creates a computerized watchdog called C . H . O . M . P . S . ( an acronym for Canine Home Protection System ) for his boss Mr . Ralph Norton ( nicely played by Conrad Baain ) , whose home security business is flo... |
518,712 | 8,239,592 | 71,200 | 8 | A hugely enjoyable horror werewolf murder mystery thriller treat | Cocky wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe ( a deliciously ripe slice of fat'n'juicy ham by Calvin Lockhart ) invites five folks to his posh island retreat : urbane werewolf expert Dr . Christopher Lundgren ( the always terrific Peter Cushing ) , jolly rake Paul Foote ( robust Tom Chadbon ) , pompous Bennington ( smoo... |
518,894 | 8,239,592 | 395,630 | 8 | A gloriously ghastly gut-buster | Cunning and deadly foreign beauty Linda Allen ( a hilariously atrocious performance by Rene Harmon , who sports an adorable heavy German accent ) arrives in Los Angeles to track down the evil mobsters who tortured and murdered her sister . Meanwhile , the mobsters try to find a tape with incriminating information on it... |
518,903 | 8,239,592 | 129,532 | 8 | I can't get enough of these blithely stupid flicks ! | Okay , I'll admit it . I'm a definite fan of the " Vice Academy " series . Granted , these films are cheap , cheesy and unapologetically low-brow trash that are utterly bereft of any artistic merit . And that's precisely why I dig ' em so much . One doesn't watch a " Vice Academy " feature looking for profound insights... |
517,947 | 8,239,592 | 281,048 | 8 | An eerie and interesting Indonesian supernatural horror shocker | Poor teenager Tommy isn't having a good time of it . His mother just passed away at a tragically young age . Tommy starts seeing a ghostly white apparition of her unrestful spirit . He also experiences scary nightmares of an evil devil cult . Plus a couple of close friends of the family meet brutal untimely ends . Coul... |
518,237 | 8,239,592 | 117,435 | 8 | A very fine and exciting change-of-pace action winner | Josh ( an outstanding performance by Troy Sostillio ) and Paul ( affable Henry White ) are a loving , affluent , five years going strong homosexual couple who are on the verge of adopting a child . On the day of the big event Josh stops off at a grocery store and witnesses a mob hit ( Edmond Sorel as the brutal , tacit... |
519,051 | 8,239,592 | 51,381 | 8 | A fun 50's sci-fi romp | Kindly , but sad and lonely doll maker Mr . Franz ( an excellent performance by John Hoyt ) shrinks some folks to miniature size so he cam have some company . His latest victims are affable salesman Bob Westley ( 50's science fiction film regular John Agar in fine form ) and sweet secretary Sally Reynolds ( a charming ... |
518,570 | 8,239,592 | 117,380 | 8 | A very enjoyable superhero vigilante flick | Ex Special Ops government agent Derek Leigh ( an excellent performance by Maxwell Caulfield ) vows revenge on evil drug lord Damian Bandera ( a splendidly nasty Trevor Goddard ) after Bandera murders his wife and son . Leigh assumes the identity of the Jaguar , a just and heroic crime fighting superhero who's patterned... |
518,955 | 8,239,592 | 71,413 | 8 | A nicely twisted 70's killer kid horror gem | A bus bound for a mental institution containing a quintet of psychologically unbalanced and murderous children runs off the road and goes tumbling down a cliff , killing the driver in the process ( this opening scene is quite jarring and splendidly staged ) . The deadly brats survive the accident and take refuge at a s... |
518,116 | 8,239,592 | 196,486 | 8 | An enjoyably atrocious horror splatter short | Todd Sheets rates highly as one of my favorite directors of extremely awful and amateurish , yet enthusiastic and hence oddly entertaining micro-budget Do-It-Yourself out-of-the-mainstream indie horror schlock . Well , this is one of Todd's early shorts and , of course , it's quite terrible , but still really funny and... |
518,012 | 8,239,592 | 78,976 | 8 | A hilariously horrible all-star Canadian disaster hoot | This uproariously absurd Canadian disaster ( semi ) epic centers on an unspecified metropolis ( Chicago ? New York ? Los Angeles ? ) catching aflame after a bitter oil refinery worker ( grossly overplayed by Jonathan Walsh ) pours fuel in the city's sewers that in turn gets set alight by two welders working in said sew... |
517,998 | 8,239,592 | 366,526 | 8 | A worthy recent entry in the long-running series | Two tiny twin fairies advise wise old scientist Dr . Sinichi Chujo ( nicely played by Hiroshi Koizuma ) to stop the repairs on the severely damaged MechaGodzilla . Their warning goes unheeded . Godzilla wakes up in one of his usual grouchy moods and heads towards Japan with the specific intent of trashing Tokyo . Mothr... |
519,113 | 8,239,592 | 86,571 | 8 | A sweet , lovely and underrated early 80's low-budget science fiction gem | Burnt-out , reclusive folk singer Bobby Sinclair ( an excellent performance by the always fine Robert Carradine ) and kindly psychic Iris Longacre ( nicely played by the fetching Cherie Currie of the Runaways ) free a trio of bald , mute , diminutive extraterrestrials - - Gamma ( Dov Young ) , Beta ( Joshua Oreck ) and... |
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