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518,560 | 8,239,592 | 73,835 | 9 | A gritty , thrilling and shamefully overlooked ahead-of-its time 70's end-of-the-world sci-fi knock-out | 2012 A . D . : Plague epidemics have wiped out a fair share of the populace and reduced society to a hellish , feral , survival of the fittest kill or be killed barbaric shambles with lethal hordes of Cro-Magnon thugs running amuck on the streets of every major city . In New York a peaceful , barricaded compound led by... |
518,171 | 8,239,592 | 372,849 | 9 | A fascinating and informative making of documentary | This neat little vintage documentary offers an intriguing glimpse into the making of John Boorman's landmark 1972 classic " Deliverance . " Among the subjects addressed are the arduous and exacting shooting of the picture on location in Georgia ( the film equipment had to be brought up into the mountains with jeeps ! )... |
518,748 | 8,239,592 | 56,347 | 9 | A worthy Hammer adaptation of the classic tale | Something is very amiss at a London opera house . Tragedy occurs at the grand opening night of a major production . The leading lady quits the program . But mean , lecherous , overbearing owner Lord Ambrose d'Arcy ( superbly played to the haughty'n'hateful hilt by Michael Gough ) insists that the show go on . He hires ... |
518,392 | 8,239,592 | 66,115 | 9 | A stunningly ghastly marvel of pure cinematic foulness | This fetid stinkbomb of a film has a notorious reputation as one of the worst movies to ever ooze its disgusting way onto celluloid . Is it really that bad ? Well , yes it is , but it's often so strange and perverse that it ultimately becomes downright mesmerizing in its unapologetic freakishness . Raquel Welch , looki... |
519,268 | 8,239,592 | 66,122 | 9 | A fabulously raw , gritty and admirably unsentimental teen coming-of-age knockout | This earthy , unromanticized and fiercely unmawkish coming-of-age adolescent angst sleeper centers on awkward , gangly , sexually frustrated virginal blue collar klutz Mike ( exceptionally played to moody , ungainly , temperamental perfection by " Vampire Circus " ' s John Moulder-Brown ) , who gets a job as an attenda... |
518,193 | 8,239,592 | 66,126 | 9 | An excellent and exciting bikers go to ' Nam 70's trash exploitation classic | Rough and tumble hog-riding Hell's Angels hellions Link ( the almighty William Smith ) , Duke ( the equally awesome Adam Roarke ) , Dirty Denny ( former real-life Green Beret Houston Savage ) , Speed ( Gene Cournelius ) and Limpy ( a fine Paul Koslo ) are recruited by the CIA to rescue an arrogant presidential adviser ... |
518,506 | 8,239,592 | 372,921 | 9 | Much better than the negative reviews would have you think | Boy , am I in the minority on this one . I thoroughly enjoyed this film and consider it to a very fine throwback to the gloriously down'n'dirty European exploitation horror films of the 70's . First off , I appreciated Terry West's moody and visceral approach to banging out a horror film . There's very little CGI ( one... |
518,058 | 8,239,592 | 70,565 | 9 | A very potent and supremely disturbing shocker | The lovely , slender , gap-toothed blonde beauty Mimsy ( " More , " " Autopsy " ) Famer gives a splendid , shattering , heart-breaking performance as Sylvia , a shy , passive and very reserved lass who suddenly starts to lose her marbles . Sylvia experiences troubling childhood flashbacks entailing a time she caught he... |
518,658 | 8,239,592 | 78,240 | 9 | The greatest horror-Western ever made | Arkansas , circa 1865 : After losing the final battle of the Civil War , sexist , sadistic Conferate commander Wishbone Cutter ( a gruff , intimidating , but fairly restrained turn by the often overly hammy Joe Don Baker , here giving one of his better , less blustery and bombastic performances ) , faithful half-Irish ... |
518,984 | 8,239,592 | 83,511 | 9 | Lives up to its classic reputation and then some | Scruffy maverick police detective Jack Cates ( a marvelously gritty portrayal by Nick Nolte ) springs smartaleck convict Reggie Hammond ( a bravura star-making performance by Eddie Murphy ) from jail so he can catch dangerous criminal Ganz ( a frightfully intense James Remar ) and his equally lethal partner Billy Bear ... |
519,359 | 8,239,592 | 91,209 | 9 | An edgy and intense 80's " danger on the road " nail-biter | Sweet , naive , wet behind the ears young guy Jim Halsey ( an unexpectedly strong C . Thomas Howell , whose callow boyishness and soft passivity for once work in his favor ) is driving a friend's car from Chicago , Illinois to San Diego , California through a lonely stretch of dusty and desolate Texas backroads . Jim m... |
518,620 | 8,239,592 | 78,269 | 9 | A marvelously smart and suspenseful thriller knockout | Quiet , timid , but shrewd Miles Cullen ( an outstanding performance by the always affable and reliable Elliott Gould ) works as a teller at a bank in a shopping center . One day Miles gets held up by vicious psychotic criminal Harry Reikle ( a superbly chilling portrayal by Christopher Plummer ) . However , Miles only... |
518,769 | 8,239,592 | 112,702 | 9 | An excellent and unjustly overlooked deadpan black comedy gem | Beverly Hills 90210 star hunk Jason Priestley gives a startlingly able and engaging performance as Cosmo , a quiet , passive , thoroughly nebbishy and unassuming recluse who works as a bookie for a mob syndicate . When new capo Gordon ( a perfectly pernicious Robert Loggia ) becomes gang leader after the previous cri... |
518,334 | 8,239,592 | 61,389 | 9 | A potent and uncompromisingly harsh World War II action drama knockout | A platoon of American soldiers lead by the rugged , but humane Captain MacDonald ( superbly played by Cornel Wilde ) and the mean , bloodthirsty Gunnery Sergeant Honeywell ( a chilling performance by the always excellent Rip Torn ) embark on a dangerous mission to find a Japanese base on a remote island in the Pacific ... |
518,571 | 8,239,592 | 268,548 | 9 | An excellent and exciting road chase action thriller winner | Take-charge , take-no-crap , two-fisted father Jed Griffin ( nimbly played to gruff'n'growly perfection by the redoubtable Michael Madsen ) and his family are driving cross country in a ' 79 Couchman motor home to a Vermont ski resort . Vicious psycho scumweed band robber Rudy Wicker ( dynamically portrayed to the dele... |
518,351 | 8,239,592 | 95,583 | 9 | You have the right to enjoy this excellent and hugely entertaining 80's B-horror gem | Bitter , hulking , vengeful cop Matt Cordell ( the enormous Robert Z'Dar in his best-ever role ) embarks on a brutal and frightening killing spree in New York City , viciously slaughtering folks left and right . Rugged detective Lieutenant McCrae ( the always fine and personable Tom Atkins ) , honest framed patrolman J... |
518,213 | 8,239,592 | 198,494 | 9 | A very cool vintage 70's skateboard documentary | This cool documentary centers on funky , blonde-maned , up and coming hot shot skateboarder par excellence Stacy Peralta , his cute , loving , twinkle-eyed groupie girlfriend Camille Darrin , Stacy's equally gnarly , in the zone buds Tom Sims and Ken Means , and friendly rival board rats Guy Grundy , Mike Weed and Russ... |
518,877 | 8,239,592 | 83,907 | 9 | A pretty crude and rough , but undeniably effective little 80's splatter horror shocker | Okay , we all know the plot to this one backwards and forwards , so I'm not going to bother with an unnecessary synopsis here . Instead , I'll just give this endearingly ragged early 80's splatter horror indie landmark all the props that it deserves . Granted , Bruce Campbell's acting leaves a bit too be desired ( he's... |
519,374 | 8,239,592 | 87,795 | 9 | A wonderfully crass and vulgar laugh riot | Man , reading all the ferociously harsh reviews of this one is depressing . I can't believe so many people mercilessly slag this blissfully stupid , witless and tasteless chunk of choice 80's comedy cheese . I personally think this delightfully raucous and rambunctious movie is funny as all hell . Sure , it's dumb , gr... |
519,009 | 8,239,592 | 77,904 | 9 | William Girdler's final and most gloriously outrageous horror film | Prolific 70's drive-in horror hack William ( " Grizzly , " " Day of the Animals " ) Girdler really outdoes himself with this delightfully berserk Native American variant on " The Exorcist , " which Girdler had previously done a lowdown funky blaxploitation spin on with " Abby . " Sweet young Karen Tandy ( the ever love... |
517,982 | 8,239,592 | 141,105 | 9 | A really hip , charming and flat-out hilarious riot | Feckless , laid-back and amiable Robert ( the very likable Rafer Weigel ) and his sarcastic , more grouchy and irritable best buddy Mark ( the equally engaging Eric McCormack ) are a couple of hardcore " Star Trek " fans who are both facing their 30th birthdays and the subsequent sense of maturity and responsibility tu... |
518,542 | 8,239,592 | 66,327 | 9 | Another yuletide TV special winner from Rankin / Bass | A mailman relates the story of how Santa Claus came to be . A small baby is left on the doorstep of the house where the Kringle family lives . They name him Kris . Kris ( excellently voiced by Mickey Rooney ) grows up to be a fine young man who decides to deliver toys to the children of the dreary small hamlet of Sombe... |
518,564 | 8,239,592 | 66,418 | 9 | The first and best of the 70's nurse movies | Four lovely young nurses in their last year of nursing school experience all kinds of turmoil and excitement in their lives : sweet Susan ( winsome brunette Elaine Giftos ) tries to comfort the bitter , terminally ill Greg ( a moving performance by Darrell Larson ) , eager , but neurotic Phred ( lovely blonde Karen Car... |
518,301 | 8,239,592 | 195,343 | 9 | A really excellent , exciting and engrossing car racetrack drama corker | This surprisingly potent and involving low-budget 60's car racetrack drama centers on the heated rivalry between anxious , but adamant and determined ace driver Mickey Arnold ( splendidly played by Harry Millard ) and intense and surly aspiring champion Ticker Walsh ( the equally excellent Mike Bradford ) . You see , n... |
519,249 | 8,239,592 | 65,398 | 9 | A scary , suspenseful and altogether superior early 70's British women-in-jeopardy thriller | Petite , adorable , doe-eyed early 70's brunette scream queen Pamela ( " The Legend of Hell House , " " The Food of the Gods " ) Franklin and buxom , voluptuous blonde Michele ( " Blood on Satan's Claw " ) Dotrice make for highly charming and appealing fair damsels in distress as a pair of spunky young nurses enjoying ... |
518,362 | 8,239,592 | 70,300 | 9 | A splendidly moody and spooky Southern Gothic-style 70's vampire horror treat | Late , great 70's drive-in movie goddess Cheryl " Rainbeax " Smith gives a smashing , touching performance as Lila Lee , a passive , ingenuous church choir girl who's lured into a remote and dangerous part of the Georgia wilderness by artful , poised vampire countess Lemora ( a strikingly hypnotic portrayal by Lesley G... |
518,629 | 8,239,592 | 210,065 | 9 | A marvelously tough and stylish British mobster gem | 1968 : A ruthless young mobster ( a sublimely chilling and mesmerizing performance by Paul Bettany ) desperately wants to emulate his mentor Freddie Mays ( the excellent David Thewlis ) , a suave crime kingpin who lords over London . The gangster literally murders his way to the top , betraying Freddie in the process a... |
519,392 | 8,239,592 | 70,289 | 9 | A very hip , funny and on the money enjoyable sci-fi black comedy blast | Satire comes no darker , meaner or more malignantly funny than this strange , bold , brutally on-target end-of-the-world lampoon based on Michael Moorcock's corrosively sardonic cult novels about hipster anti-hero supreme Jerry Cornelius . Jon Finch ( the sullen , untrustworthy lead cat in Roman Polanski's magnificent ... |
518,501 | 8,239,592 | 74,205 | 9 | A very funny pre - " Airplane ' disaster movie parody | The 70's disaster movies were pretty ridiculous by design , what with their paint-by-the-numbers formula stories , credibility-defying plot contrivances , laughably cardboard characters , embarrassing acting by slumming celebrity thesps , and overwrought attempts at tension . So , this delectably deadpan pre - " Airpla... |
518,847 | 8,239,592 | 70,287 | 9 | Excellent race car drama with a splendid Jeff Bridges performance | Jeff Bridges gives a typically splendid , boyishly affable and charming performance as Elroy " Bobcat " Jackson , Jr . , a cocky , rebellious , recalcitrant , trouble-making hot dog hillbilly moonshine runner who becomes a professional stock car racer and demolition derby driver in order to raise enough cash to get his... |
518,488 | 8,239,592 | 70,334 | 9 | Robert Altman's inspired and ingenious modern revisionist take on legendary private detective Philip Marlowe | Elliott Gould delivers a brilliantly loosey-goosey performance as a shabby , rundown , laid-back and sarcastic Philip Marlowe , who finds himself adrift and out of place in mean'n'selfish 70's Los Angeles . Marlowe investigates the apparent suicide of good buddy Terry Lennox ( well essayed by former baseball player Jim... |
518,563 | 8,239,592 | 105,275 | 9 | A potent and startling depiction of angry disaffected youth | A gang of savage skinheads led by the ruthless and charismatic Hando ( a mesmerizing portrayal by Russell Crowe in his star-making role ) battle Korean immigrants who are moving into their suburban Melbourne neighborhood . Things go sour when the Koreans outnumber the skinheads and kill off most of their number . Furth... |
518,169 | 8,239,592 | 65,446 | 9 | A lovely and touching seriocomic Western gem | 1908 . Scraggly frontiersman Cable Hogue ( beautifully played by Jason Robards ) gets left in the fierce Arizona desert to die by his treacherous no-count partners Bowen ( the always excellent Strother Martin ) and Taggart ( a splendidly nasty L . Q . Jones ) . Hogue discovers water in the middle of nowhere and starts ... |
518,730 | 8,239,592 | 74,235 | 9 | An excellent & absorbing Woody Guthrie bio film with a top-rate David Carradine performance | David Carradine , looking suitably gaunt , tattered and worn-out ( and doing his own astonishingly tuneful , subdued , rawboned singing with a hoarse , but sturdy baritone , plus playing a pretty mean acoustic guitar ) , gives a terrifically tenacious , touching and totally believable performance as legendary folk sing... |
518,127 | 8,239,592 | 206,314 | 9 | An excellent , gripping and suspenseful " danger on the road " thriller winner | During a lengthy cross country trek from Boulder , Colorado to Princeton , New Jersey amiably impudent chronic loser Fuller ( an engagingly feckless Steve Zahn and his more sensible , but gullible do-right brother Lewis ( an admirably sturdy and composed performance by Paul Walker of " The Fast and the Furious " ) deci... |
517,924 | 8,239,592 | 198,545 | 9 | A very charming and delightful show | Horton the Elephant ( amiably voiced by Hans Conried ) discovers a microscopic community called Whoville living in a speck of dust . Alas , Horton can't convince the other skeptical animals in the jungle that Whoville really exists . The second TV special team-up by master animator Chuck Jones and renowned children's b... |
518,519 | 8,239,592 | 361,127 | 9 | Kevin Bacon gives a remarkable performance in this powerful indie sleeper | Kevin Bacon gives a strong , fearless and riveting performance as Walter , a troubled , reserved and laconic convicted sex offender who gets released from prison and struggles to get on with his life . But can Walter resist his baser urges and subsequently overcome his personal demons ? Directed with praiseworthy tact ... |
518,913 | 8,239,592 | 100,991 | 9 | Delightfully wild'n'wacky Asian horror lunacy | A crazed , gory , wonderfully absurd and furiously kinetic piece of Asian supernatural horror hokum ; it's a feverishly inventive , turbo-charged , hard-driving trash terror item that's deliriously overloaded with demented imagination , wild-eyed passion , devilishly frolicsome wit and rip-roaring flair to spare . In s... |
518,594 | 8,239,592 | 91,498 | 9 | Love your monkey | The always lovely and captivating Charlotte Rampling gives one of her warmest and most appealing performances to date as the elegant , bored stiff wife of bland stuffed shirt diplomat Anthony Higgins . Rampling has an extramarital affair with Max ( Ailsa Berk in an amazingly convincing Rick Baker simian outfit ) , a mo... |
519,177 | 8,239,592 | 95,312 | 9 | Quite simply one of the greatest pieces of blithely sleazy junk to ever ooze its way onto celluloid | Low-rent private eye Jack Chandler ( nicely played to the scuzzy hilt by Jay Richardson ) runs afoul of a deadly cult of crazed chainsaw-worshiping hookers while searching around Los Angeles for runaway teen Samantha ( the ever-adorable Linnea Quigley in peak perky form ) . Director Fred Olen Ray , who also co-wrote th... |
518,814 | 8,239,592 | 83,739 | 9 | Worthy of its cult status | Naive and idealistic music teacher Andy Norris ( a fine and likable performance by Perry King ) gets a job at Lincoln High School in a crime-infested neighborhood . Andy locks horns with the shrewd and sadistic Peter Stegman ( an outstanding portrayal of magnetic evil by Timothy Van Patten ) , a brilliant , yet psychot... |
519,040 | 8,239,592 | 175,536 | 9 | An absolutely astonishing piece of gleefully demented & degenerate filth | Any film which toplines a teenage bulimic drug addict prostitute criminal sociopath who when she isn't indulging in scarf'n'barf eating binges habitually robs her johns so she can eke out a sordidly meager existence as its anti-heroine is unarguably pushing the limits of good taste and restraint to the breaking point .... |
519,335 | 8,239,592 | 69,890 | 9 | A total vintage 70's blaxploitation treat | Cleopatra Jones ( the stunningly classy and statuesque Tamara Dobson ) , a no-nonsense government agent , ace martial artist and funky fashion plate , is determined to rid the inner city streets of heroin . Cleopatra's crusade against smack incurs the venomous wrath of ruthless lesbian drug kingpin Mommy ( a positively... |
519,120 | 8,239,592 | 56,931 | 9 | An excellent and absorbing semi-sequel to the outstanding " Village of the Damned " | This surprisingly strong semi-sequel to the outstanding " Village of the Damned " centers on six highly advanced mutant kids with remarkably sophisticated intellects and acute psychic abilities from all over the globe . They all band together in London at an old rundown and abandoned church seeking refuge from a scared... |
518,292 | 8,239,592 | 481,565 | 9 | A funny and spot-on seriocomic short film about the hapless plight of the working class | I had the pleasure of catching a screening of this wryly funny and sharply observant seriocomic 28 minute gem of a short at a film festival held in my hometown of Metuchen , New Jersey and thoroughly enjoyed it . The story centers on an antsy and worn-out struggling working class mother ( a charming performance by Tiff... |
519,406 | 8,239,592 | 74,279 | 9 | A cross country 70's road race drive-in smash in more ways than one | Following hot on the scorching asphalt skid-marks of the impish " The Gumball Rally , " Paul Bartel's characteristically deadpan , quirky , slyly subversive cross country road race car picture presents a blithely apocalyptic vision that's akin to the anarchic world views shown in the equally madcap " Freebie and the Be... |
518,989 | 8,239,592 | 74,281 | 9 | A real delight | This very funny , lively and engaging comedy hoot offers a slice-of-life seriocomic cinematic snapshot of a single frantic day at an inner city Los Angeles car wash . Michael Schultz directs with great galvanizing zeal and panache , stringing together a wacky and enjoyable series of freewheeling vignettes with a positi... |
518,161 | 8,239,592 | 60,794 | 9 | A superbly eerie and unsettling supernatural shocker from the ever-reliable Mario Bava | The vengeful ghost of dead little girl Melissa Graps ( portrayed by some genuinely creepy boy in drag ! ) bumps off various folks in a remote rural hamlet in Transylvania . Stalwart Dr . Paul Eswai ( a solid performance by Giacomo Rossi-Stuart ) and feisty Monica Schuftan ( well played by the fetching Erika Blanc ) try... |
519,107 | 8,239,592 | 91,853 | 9 | A wonderfully wild'n'wacky retro 60's anti-Establishment satirical hoot | The time : a dystopian near future where right-wing reactionary conservatism reigns supreme . A creaky , just barely together , ready for the scrapyard rattletrap World War II B-52 bomber called Uncle Slam , which has been airborne since the Vietnam war , is still doing its nutty mind-melting " psy-ops " mission , jamm... |
519,415 | 8,239,592 | 126,886 | 9 | A splendidly wicked satirical treat | Popular , but frustrated high school civics teacher Jim McAllister ( an excellent performance by Matthew Broderick ) locks horns with ruthlessly driven and ambitious overachiever Tracy Flick ( Reese Witherspoon in peak aggressively obnoxious form ) , who's determined to become president of Carver High's student body . ... |
519,117 | 8,239,592 | 96,046 | 9 | An excellent and on the money effective 80's low-budget indie horror sleeper | A motley quintet of thieves and their two hostages are forced to land their plane in a remote rural cornfield when one of their number bails out with the three and a half million in hot loot they just stole from an army payroll . Unfortunately for our five hoods and two hostages said cornfield is the dangerous domain o... |
518,221 | 8,239,592 | 91,671 | 9 | A great , gruesome and hugely enjoyable 80's horror anthology winner | One of the most richly cherished memories of my gloriously misspent adolescence stems from seeing this right-on horror anthology flick in some scuzzy second-rate shoebox theater with my younger brother . We both quite enjoyed watching it and today it holds a special place in my heart for the simple reason that in our c... |
519,277 | 8,239,592 | 197,849 | 9 | A sobering and fascinating short documentary about a department store Santa Claus | This brief , yet compelling and illuminating documentary short offers an intimate behind-the-scenes glimpse of Art Baldwin , who worked for over twenty years as the night shift Santa Claus during the Christmas holiday season at Chicago's Marshall Field and Company department store . Baldwin was deemed the only authenti... |
518,733 | 8,239,592 | 307,431 | 9 | A fascinatingly mysterious documentary | This wonderfully strange , sad and haunting documentary relates the chilling and heart-breakingly tragic tale of Otto Rahn , a restless and sensitive visionary soul whose need for acceptance and obsessive interest in finding the Holy Grail led him down a dark and complex road which ultimately culminates with Rahn becom... |
518,033 | 8,239,592 | 420,087 | 9 | A lovely , charming and wonderfully radiant gem of a movie | The dream collaboration between esteemed director Robert Altman and wry humorist Garrison Keillor proves to be every bit as lovely , charming and wonderfully radiant as I had hoped it would be . Altman relates with his trademark unerring acuity , facility and humanity the hectic and eventual last broadcast of a long-ru... |
518,595 | 8,239,592 | 477,348 | 9 | Almost a great movie | Shrewd , resourceful Vietnam veteran Llewelyn Moss ( the excellent Josh Brolin ) stumbles across a bunch of dead bodies , a pick-up full of heroin , and a bag with two million bucks worth of drug money in it . Moss decides to take the bag . This in turn makes Moss the target of vicious and remorseless psychopath Anton ... |
518,778 | 8,239,592 | 56,983 | 9 | Francis Ford Coppola's superbly creepy & atmospheric horror gem | After helming a few thoroughly fluffy and disposable nudie cuties in the early 60's Francis Ford Coppola made his legitimate commercial feature debut by writing and directing this moodily Gothic horror mystery thriller under the sage aegis of irrefutable legendary exploitation movie ace Roger Corman , with Jack Hill ha... |
518,229 | 8,239,592 | 83,000 | 9 | An excellent , absorbing and totally up to par early 80's Australian " danger on the road " thriller winner | While driving a load of freight across the godforsaken Australian outback from Melbourne to Perth spacey loner American truck driver Pat Quid ( an endearingly eccentric portrayal by Stacy Keach ) begins to suspect that the man ( scruffy top Aussie stuntman Grant Page ) in a van he keeps seeing on the highway might very... |
518,771 | 8,239,592 | 60,440 | 9 | A really wild & exciting Japanese giant monster creature feature delight | This wonderfully ridiculous Japanese giant monsters wreaking mucho mondo destructo havoc hoot was originally done as a sequel to " Frankenstein Conquers the World " until American distributors momkeyed around with it and omitted any connections this baby has with that previous picture . That minor issue aside , what's ... |
517,904 | 8,239,592 | 64,819 | 9 | Jack Hill's excellent & unjustly overlooked race car drama | Surly , thuggishly handsome Dick Davalos superbly carries the day with plenty of rugged , growly , super-slick hipster punk attitude as Rick , a brash , hustling , opportunistic amateur drag racing young turk who willingly compromises what few teensy , faintly held on values he has in order to make it big in the harshl... |
518,887 | 8,239,592 | 78,405 | 9 | A splendidly scuzzy 70's slasher sleaze classic | Cameron " I'll act in any piece of junk for the money " Mitchell's already patchy schlock picture career hits its wonderfully lurid and repugnant all-time skankiest gutter-crawling nadir here with his joltingly frantic , bug-eyed portrayal of a crazed , puritanical superintendent who gruesomely dispatches several " sin... |
518,716 | 8,239,592 | 206,634 | 9 | An excellent , exciting and above all intelligent bleakly futuristic science fiction winner | 2027 : Society has collapsed into total violent anarchy and no children have been born in the last eighteen years . Glumly indifferent Theodore Faron ( a superb Clive Owen ) gets shocked out of his morose apathy when his underground revolutionary ex-wife Julian Taylor ( the always fine Julianne Moore ) enlists his aid ... |
518,220 | 8,239,592 | 462,322 | 9 | A terrifically trashy tribute to cheerfully low-grade 70's exploitation cinema | Ladies and gentlemen , welcome to the show . Tonight for your viewing pleasure we have two blithely low-rent Grade B items on a single hugely entertaining double bill . " Planet Terror " - A zombie epidemic breaks out in a dusty backroads Texas armpit community . A motley assortment of folks have to fight their way thr... |
518,484 | 8,239,592 | 74,533 | 9 | A hilariously bawdy hoot | A hilariously wild'n'raunchy handy dandy combo of both " let's put on a show " 30's vaudeville musical comedy revues and then fashionable cheesy , one note , tongue-in-cheek silly gimmick porno movies ( anyone else remember the porno musical version of " Alice in Wonderland " ? ) . Barely released in theaters by Paramo... |
518,287 | 8,239,592 | 416,315 | 9 | A strong , scary and above all suspenseful Aussie " danger on the road " knockout | The set-up is deceptively familiar and unpromising : Three attractive young people - - one hunky guy and two hottie girls - - go driving cross country through the dry , dusty and desolate Australian outback . Their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere . A seemingly friendly motorist stops by and offers them a tow .... |
518,361 | 8,239,592 | 92,147 | 9 | A very cool , clever and hugely enjoyable 80's horror comedy hoot | Mild-mannered college student Keith ( affable Chris Makepeace ) , his more brash smooth-talking best buddy A . J . ( the equally engaging Robert Rusler ) and hopelessly geeky wannabe hip nerd Duncan ( a hilariously dweeby Gedde Watanabe ) venture into a dark , remote and dangerous Los Angeles neighborhood in search of ... |
518,724 | 8,239,592 | 69,729 | 9 | A hugely enjoyable & original 70's distaff drive-in movie variant on " Spartacus " | Roger Corman's tough , engrossing , skillfully executed proto-feminist $1 . 98 drive-in version of " Spartacus , " an early New World Pictures production reuniting the dynamic distaff duo of Pam Grier and Margaret Markov , who previously formed a sparky , highly charged rat-a-tat-tat chemistry together in Eddie Romero'... |
518,745 | 8,239,592 | 64,888 | 9 | A beautifully chilling Spanish horror winner | Something is seriously amiss at a fancy French boarding school that's run with the proverbial iron fist by strict head mistress Madame Fourneau ( splendidly played to the steely hilt by Lili Palmer ) . Several of the catty , bitchy , backbiting , high-strung problem girl students have mysteriously disappeared . Did the... |
518,841 | 8,239,592 | 92,112 | 9 | The best of the 80's heavy metal rock horror films | Undoubtedly the best heavy metal horror item made in the manically headbangin ' 80's , which admittedly doesn't sound like much considering how utterly abysmal many other entries in this odd little fright film sub-genre like " Hard Rock Zombies , " " Blood Tracks , " " Terror on Tour , " and the especially ungodly Jon-... |
518,071 | 8,239,592 | 87,170 | 9 | A very cute , charming and even touching cartoon | Adorable and intrepid little redhead girl Dot bravely ventures into the Australian outback in search of a missing baby kangaroo . Assisting Dot on her perilous quest is a comically mischievous rabbit called " funny bunny , " who constantly makes amusingly ill-advised and unsuccessful attempts at passing himself off as ... |
518,097 | 8,239,592 | 74,739 | 9 | A sweet little seriocomic indie sleeper | 12-year-old Kenny ( an engaging portrayal by Dan McCann ) hangs out with mischievous best buddy Doug ( the very likable Michael Baldwin ) , tries to figure out girls , musters up the courage to face mean , fearsome bully Johnny Hoffman ( an effectively hateful Willy Masterson ) , learns about death and mortality ( Doug... |
518,930 | 8,239,592 | 734,739 | 9 | Tim Thomerson is outstanding as a shameless hack stand-up comedian | I've been a huge fan of Tim Thomerson every since he portrayed tough-as-nails detective Jack Deth in " Trancers . " He's one of my all-time favorite character actors who's appeared in such excellent movies as " Uncommon Valor , " " Near Dark , " " Nemesis , " and " Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas . " He usually plays la... |
518,239 | 8,239,592 | 78,492 | 9 | An excellent and exciting action adventure treat | Hard-nosed mercenary Colonel Allen Faulker ( a superbly steely Richard Burton ) gets an assignment to rescue African president Julius Limbani ( well played Winston Ntshona ) from a prison camp . Faulker rounds up his best men for the tough and demanding job : flippant dandy Lieutenant Shawn Flynn ( the ever-suave Roger... |
519,095 | 8,239,592 | 182,996 | 9 | A hilariously horrendous and thus quite entertaining early 80's " wackos in the woods " slasher hoot | Wacko in the woods body count splatter slaughterfests became all the rage in the early 80's after " Friday the 13th " hit it big at the almighty box office . This staggeringly sloppy'n'slipshod shot-in-Utah no-budget atrocity could very well be the most unbelievably inept and unintentionally sidesplitting entry in this... |
518,337 | 8,239,592 | 78,490 | 9 | One of the great unsung sleeper gems of the 70's | Disaffected journalist John Converse ( superbly played by Michael Moriarty ) enlists the aid of his gruff , weary and unsociable ex-Marine friend Ray Hicks ( a fine and commanding performance by Nick Nolte ) to smuggle a stash of heroin from Vietnam into the United States . When the drug drop goes sour , Hicks and John... |
518,330 | 8,239,592 | 95,863 | 9 | An excellent sequel to the terrific original | Mike ( likable James LeGros ) and Reggie ( the equally affable Reggie Bannister ) hit the road in search of the Tall Man ( superbly essayed with sinister aplomb by Angus Scrimm ) . During their travels they pick up sassy hitchhiker Alchemy ( sultry brunette knockout Samantha Phillips ) and rescue sweet Liz ( gorgeous b... |
519,297 | 8,239,592 | 87,054 | 9 | A sly , sexy and stylish treat | Neurotic Nancy ( superbly played by Genieve Bujold ) gives advice to the lovelorn in Los Angeles over the airwaves of her popular radio program under the guise of husky-voiced talk radio host Dr . Anne Love . Nancy rents a room from sultry bar owner Eve ( a marvelous performance by Lesley Ann Warren ) , who doesn't kno... |
518,295 | 8,239,592 | 82,619 | 9 | A superb and stirring unjustly overlooked car race knockout | Here's a quintessentially rough'n'tumble early 80's high testosterone macho-posturing men being men gruntfest that John Milius would have been proud to make . Overconfident garage mechanic Steve ( solid Harry Hamlin ) , engagingly impudent aspiring songwriter Buddy ( the ever-puckish Joseph Bottoms ) , and stuffy junio... |
518,667 | 8,239,592 | 79,138 | 9 | David Cronenberg's excellent , exciting and engrossing racetrack drama | Almighty B-movie he-man William Smith calls his own shots , fights to keep his integrity and stubbornly refuses to knuckle under to the Man's rigid stay on the narrow path and just do what you're told nonsense as fiercely autonomous and uncompromising champion professional race car driver Lonny " Lucky Man " Johnson , ... |
518,087 | 8,239,592 | 236,216 | 9 | A fine and informative documentary about the legendary 70's British punk band the Sex Pistols | Julien Temple's slick mock rock doc " The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle " was a delightfully irreverent , but extremely embellished and thus less than accurate depiction of the Sex Pistols ' 26 legendary months of unmitigated excess , success , pandemonium and inevitable failure . This far more scruffy and honest down-to-e... |
517,927 | 8,239,592 | 74,806 | 9 | Jodie Foster shines in this exceptional psychological thriller | Feisty , fiercely self-reliant 13-year-old Rynn Jacobs ( a stand-out early lead performance by the remarkable Jodie Foster ) lives all by herself in a swanky house on the remote rural outskirts of a sleepy coastal village . Following the death of her father , Rynn has convinced everyone in town that dear dad's away on ... |
519,114 | 8,239,592 | 74,792 | 9 | A terrifically trashy and thrilling Italian punk kids on the rampage doozy | The awesome title " Young , Violent and Desprate " promises to really deliver the lowdown trashy exploitation teens-running-horribly-amok juvenile delinquent goods and boy does this wonderfully wild Italian crime action thriller treat ever do the trick with a splendidly sleazy and straightforward unapologetic aplomb . ... |
518,824 | 8,239,592 | 86,984 | 9 | One of Brian De Palma's most engrossing , enjoyable and ingenious thrillers | Amiable down on his luck actor Jake Scully ( a solid and likable performance by Craig Wasson ) gets a job taking care of a posh Hollywood high-rise home by fellow thespian Sam Bouchard ( splendidly played to smarmy perfection by Gregg Henry ) . Jake watches gorgeous rich neighbor Gloria Revelle ( a sympathetic turn by ... |
519,142 | 8,239,592 | 152,989 | 9 | A total riot | Everyone's favorite myopic solipsist Mr . Magoo ( wonderfully voiced with tremendous hearty aplomb by the great Jim Backus ) gets a surprise visit from the camera crew of a local TV show that want to shoot a feature about his home . Trouble occurs when a cat burglar and his hulking trained gorilla Wilfred also show up ... |
518,381 | 8,239,592 | 79,219 | 9 | A lovely and touching seriocomic gem | Feisty Joe ( a marvelously sprightly performance by George Burns ) , jolly Al ( a terrific Art Carney ) , and mopey Willie ( the excellent Lee Strasberg ) are three old retirees who share an apartment in Queens , New York . The guys decide to pull off a daring and outrageous bank robbery in order to alleviate the stult... |
519,220 | 8,239,592 | 74,875 | 9 | School's out forever in this excellent , intelligent and wickedly subversive 70's exploitation drive-in gem | School's out forever for a brutish and reprehensible gang of snobby stuck-up preppie bullies who maim rebellious iconoclastic new kid Derrel Maury ( who gives a superbly intense and subdued performance ) . Maury bumps off the vile troublemakers in assorted clever ways only to see the other previously oppressed adolesce... |
519,206 | 8,239,592 | 64,055 | 9 | A really happening late 60's drive-in exploitation blast | Frustrated middle-aged Deputy District Attorney George Maxwell ( a fine performance by George E . Carey , who also produced this picture ) can't stand his naggy , frigid wife Edith ( a perfectly bitchy Anne Bellamy ) anymore . Worse yet , poor George is further saddled with a newborn baby sun and a lascivious lesbian t... |
519,235 | 8,239,592 | 417,148 | 9 | A great deal of wildly tongue-in-cheek fun | Easygoing surfer Sean Jones ( a likable portrayal by Nathan Phillips ) witnesses a mob hit and agrees to testify in court against the gangster who committed said hit . The mob tries to bump off Sean prior to the trial by unleashing a plethora of lethal poisonous snakes on board the plane Sean's on . It's to up super sm... |
518,654 | 8,239,592 | 71,617 | 9 | A superb & thoughtful horror sleeper about the plight of the elderly | Six feisty old folks - - blind Peter Brocco , hard-working superintendent Ian Wolfe and his nagging wife Ruth McDermott , kindly writer William Hansen , agoraphobic eccentric Frances Fuller and fierce , formidable old battle ax Paula Trueman - - refuse to leave their crumbling tenement building despite the fact that it... |
519,362 | 8,239,592 | 403,990 | 9 | A fiendishly clever & wickedly amusing seriocomic thriller | Wimpy , weary , stressed-out workaholic research scientist Michio Hayasaki ( superbly played by Koji Yakusho ) ain't having a good time of it : he's totally fried and exhausted by his job because he can't make that necessary breakthrough to perfect a spiffy new automated wheelchair he's designing for some big company .... |
518,077 | 8,239,592 | 74,923 | 9 | A very funny & underrated seriocomic sleeper | Long before weary , burnt-out Nicholas Cage trolled around a crack-ravaged Hell's Kitchen in search of spiritual redemption in Martin Scorsese's hauntingly gloomy " Bringing Out the Dead " the choice happening trio of Billy Cosby , Raquel Welch and Harvey Keitel pounded an outrageously freaky , stressful and eventful L... |
518,498 | 8,239,592 | 963,194 | 9 | A gloriously offbeat and inventive one-of-a-kind futuristic sci-fi musical marvel | In the bleak and hopeless near future a worldwide epidemic causes an alarming array of organ failures . The mighty and amoral biotech company GENECO rises to power by offering the desperate masses new organs . Folks who fail to keep up on their payments for their organs are targeted by the dreaded Repo Man . Bitter and... |
518,500 | 8,239,592 | 75,005 | 9 | Worthy of its classic status | Ambitious American ambassador Robert Thorn ( an outstanding and dignified performance by the inestimable Gregory Peck ) begins to suspect that something is amiss with his adopted son Damien ( well played by gifted child thespian Harvey Stephens ) following a troubling series of odd and fatal " accidents . " Thorn and c... |
519,310 | 8,239,592 | 82,522 | 9 | Dead bodies by Jake | Just what the world needs : a hilariously horrendous early 80's seasonal slasher fright flick about a brawny , berserk , bug-eyed chortling homicidal lunatic who escapes from an asylum and heads for the hills to bump off an extremely obnoxious dysfunctional family celebrating Thanksgiving in some remote woodland cabin ... |
518,371 | 8,239,592 | 71,240 | 9 | A gritty and hard-hitting 70's made-for-TV classic | Sullen and forlorn 14-year-old incorrigible runaway Chris Parker ( a touching and terrific performance by Linda Blair ) gets declared a ward of the state . She's placed in a juvenile reform school where she not only begins to feel even more dejected and alienated because of the cold bureaucratic system , but also runs ... |
517,933 | 8,239,592 | 82,869 | 9 | A superbly gritty and exciting science fiction action thriller | There's something sinister afoot on Jupitor's third moon of Io . The workers of a bleak mining colony are becoming crazy and killing themselves because they are being fed an amphetamine which not only increases their productivity , but also causes them to become psychotic . It's up to stalwart , morally sound and respo... |
518,259 | 8,239,592 | 71,295 | 9 | A splendidly sleazy slice of 70's drive-in slasher trash | If anyone was to ask me who's my all-time favorite delightfully dweebish 70's B-horror flick actor , my answer would have to be the ineffably gauche , yet still bizarrely riveting Andrew Prine . With his tall , lanky , ungainly build , gaunt hangdog face , quivering voice , and often antsy , uneasy disposition , Andy w... |
519,429 | 8,239,592 | 71,275 | 9 | Mario Bava's marvelously rough and hard-hitting crime thriller knockout | A trio of brutal criminals - - ruthless ringleader Doctor ( superbly played by Maurice Poli ) , vicious psycho Thirty-Two ( an incredibly feral and frightening performance by Luigi Montefiori ) , and his equally nasty buddy Blade ( a memorably vile Aldo Caponi ) - - barely manage to pull off a payroll heist . With one ... |
519,092 | 8,239,592 | 71,276 | 9 | A truly terrific Hammer horror / action / adventure hybrid winner | Evil elderly vampiress Lady Durward ( comely blonde Wanda Ventham ) preys upon numerous fair maidens in a small English village , draining the luscious damsels of their youthful lives and turning them into withered old crones . Concerned Dr . Marcus ( the fine John Carson ) calls upon handsome , dashing and courageous ... |
518,590 | 8,239,592 | 196,373 | 9 | A terrifically trashy compilation of choice cheesy drive-in exploitation film trailers | The wonderfully lurid lay it all out on the table outrageous title does not lie ! This resolutely seamy pip does indeed spew forth 28 of the most spectacularly loopy , torrid and trashy 70's and 80's exploitation trailers to ever ooze their slimy way across the big screen . In fact , this blithely brazen schlockfest is... |
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