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A truly terrific 70's drive-in trucker classic
One of the earliest - - and hence best - - of a handful of 70's trucker movies , a once quite hot , but now hopelessly passé sub-genre which beget a mixed bag of films which includes the stellar Claudia Jennings vehicle " Truck Stop Women , " the not half bad Peter Fonda pic " High Ballin ' , " the great'n'gritty overl...
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A wonderfully rude , wild and raucous 80's punk rock riot
Brassy lead singer Kitty ( the adorable Jennifer Schwartz ) , spunky bass player Bunny ( the equally cute Hilary Rubens ) and feisty drummer Patch ( the likewise attractive Janet Housden ) are the hottie 18-year-old girl members of the scrappy all-female punk band the Lovedolls . The Lovedolls prove to be a fleeting fl...
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A terrifically trashy vampire horror treat
While driving a delivery car across desolate desert badlands backroads self-absorbed twentysomething slacker Sean ( amiable Kerr Smith ) winds up running into both scruffy vampire hunter Nick ( an excellent , charismatically ragtag turn by Brendan Fehr ) and a deadly bunch of age-old itinerant bloodsuckers led by the s...
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A simply spectacular motion picture
Late , great crazy creepo character actor extraordinaire Timothy Carey really outdoes himself with this wonderfully warped crackpot classic . Carey wrote , produced , directed , distributed , plays the lead , and even sings and dances in this positively insane knockout about Clarence Hilliard , a fortyish insurance sal...
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It's the end of the world as we know it - - and it's like so totally rad , y'know ? !
Tough , smart Los Angeles resident Regina ( smoking hot brunette Catherine Mary Stewart of " The Last Starfighter " ) and her flighty younger sister Samantha ( adorably bubbly blonde sprite Kelli Maroney of " Fast Times at Ridgemont High " ) are amongst a small handful of folks left alive after the bulk of the planet's...
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An absolutely awesome and unjustly overlooked blithely amoral prison movie knockout
One of the most exquisitely trashy - - and hence best - - seriocomic crime / prison movies to ever ooze onto celluloid . James Woods , that splendidly spacey , spastic , spindly stringbean who's turned sleazily engaging pent-up intensity into something of a modern science , is very much in his usual mondo nutzoid eleme...
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A truly terrific , nicely naughty and often uproarious 70's sci-fi / horror sexploitation hoot
This gloriously gaga piece of prime drive-in sci-fi / horror sexploitation junk could have only been made in the 70's . It's a wonderfully raunchy and raucous romp about a deadly strain of sexually insatiable and incredibly desirable mutant young woman who cause men to have fatal massive heart attacks while engaging in...
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It's a groovy blast , man !
Charles Band , one of the true masters of choice crappy nickel'n'dime cinematic crud , strikes again with this typically shoddy , but oddly appealing and immensely enjoyable sci-fi / action sex role reversal of " Carrie . " Kim Milford ( the cocky homosexual car thief in " Corvette Summer " ) cowers , snivels and whimp...
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One of the best , most moving and inspired horror films of the early 21st century
Brash hottie redhead Ginger ( a fabulously tart and ferocious performance by the stunningly gorgeous Katharine Isabelle ) and her more plain mousy brunette sister Brigitte ( superbly played by Emily Perkins ) are a couple of weird withdrawn death-infatuated misfit Goth outsider girls living in a stuffy suburban town . ...
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A wondrous and impressive fantasy adventure marvel
In an alternate world there exists two races : the evil , black-hearted , reptilian Skeksis and the wise , gentle , wizened Mystics . Naive , yet brave lone Gelfling Jen has to find the missing shard of the magical dark crystal and restore it prior to three suns converging . He's assisted on his quest by feisty female ...
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A truly astonishing over-the-top epic schlock masterpiece of monolithic proportions
Russ Meyer's stupendously trashy , excessive and gloriously over-the-top horror - splatter - comedy - rock'n'roll - musical - soap opera extravaganza still stands tall and proud as one of the greatest wonderfully wild and crazy satires on Hollywood decadence and debauchery to ever explode across the screen with an unbr...
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Shaft ain't got nothing on " The Guy from Harlem "
Tough private detective Al Connors ( the hopelessly wooden Loye Hawkins , who has all the screen presence and charisma of a stale bag of pretzels ) is assigned by the CIA to protect the beautiful African princess Ms . Ashanti ( the hot , but awful Patricia Fulton , who sports an American accent ! ) from no-count crimin...
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My all-time favorite 70's Bigfoot fright flick
Creature from Black Lake gets my vote as the single most amiable and entertaining Bigfoot fright film to ever amble onto the big screen . John David Carson and the ever-daffy Dennis ( " Truck Stop Women , " " House of 1 , 000 Corpses " ) Fimple display a breezy , relaxed , wholly personable chemistry as two eager bea...
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A hilariously horrendous hunk of clunky low-budget sci-fi junk
The peace and serenity of the spaceship Southern Sun gets rudely disrupted by a nasty gang of mutineers led by the evil Flight Commander Elijah Kalgan ( an outrageously hammy portrayal by a constantly scowling John Phillip Law ) . It's up to mighty macho man supreme Dave Ryder ( beefy hunk Reb Brown , who displays all ...
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An incredibly thorough , informative and intriguing documentary about the making of the landmark sci-fi / horror classic " Alien "
This amazingly compelling and comprehensive retrospective documentary about the making of the fantastic sci-fi / horror masterpiece " Alien " leaves no stone unturned . Among the many people interviewed are director Ridley Scott , writers Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shussett ( O'Bannon admits that his earlier collaboration...
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The insanity of loneliness
May is the kind of film which quietly sneaks up on you , lulls you into a lazy trance and then knocks you flat on your butt when you least expect it , pulling the rug out from under you with a deceptive ease and subtlety that's a true breath-taking wonder to behold . It's the extremely sad , funny and ultimately terr...
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Alfred Hitchcock's undeniably outstanding killer animal horror masterpiece
I finally bought a copy of Alfred Hitchcock's undeniably outstanding killer animal fright film masterpiece on DVD and rewatched it . Although I've viewed it many times , " The Birds " still managed to creep me out and make my hair stand on end as I saw it yet again . I think this alone serves a sterling testament to ju...
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A terrific allegorical Depression-era period action yarn doozy
Nothing gets my blood a boilin ' somethin ' hot more than watching a rugged , brutal , mighty manly man adventure yarn done with plenty of grit , style , and insight . This truly terrific allegorical Depression-era period action doozy concerning the legendary , almost mythical rivalry between train-jumping hobos and th...
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An absolute riot !
Damon Packard , the mad maverick independent cinematic genius who blessed us with the alarmingly odd and original " Reflections of Evil , " strikes again with this uproariously irreverent and no-holds-barred brutal parody of the making of the atrocious " Attack of the Clones . " This 45 minute comedy short starts on a ...
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An excellent and invaluable documentary on the making of a terrific landmark Western
Paul Seydor's Oscar-nominated 34 minute documentary offers a concise and compelling glimpse on the making of Sam Peckpah's remarkable gem " The Wild Bunch . " Seydor uses a combination of gritty black-and-white behind-the-scenes footage and crisp still photographs to shed plenty of light on the arduous shooting of this...
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Why this landmark sci-fi / horror classic still works
There are several reasons why this remarkably taut , scary and effective science fiction / horror hybrid holds up so well to this very day . 1 . ) The premise ingeniously mixes elements from two separate , yet compatible genres into a strong and satisfying synthesis . The futuristic outer space setting is pure sci-fi ,...
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A smart , scary and overall superb subterranean creature feature survivalist horror shocker
A motley sextet of spunky and adventurous young British women embark on an exciting spelunking expedition into a heretofore neglected and unexplored Appalachian cavern . Things turn sour when they get trapped deep down in the bowels of the earth by a sudden cave-in . Things go from already really bad to much , much hor...
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A simply great horror action zombie comedy gore treat
This gloriously wild , crazy , funny and gory as all hell zombie splatter action extravaganza centers on three colorfully flaky and funny ordinary guys - - smart and resourceful medical student Bill Johnson , hopelessly geeky computer nerd Max Giggs , and rough'n'tumble cowboy ex-wrestler John West - - who have to figh...
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An incredibly strange and thus quite wonderful one-of-a-kind oddity
An incredibly strange and mixed-up movie indeed ! This divinely demented Ray Dennis Steckler doozy actually inspired legendary late , great gonzo madman rock critic Lester Bangs to make a rare foray into wild-eyed film journalism in which he wrote a hilariously lengthy and thorough essay praising this picture to the hi...
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A first-rate nifty 50's creature feature classic
Atomic bomb testing in the New Mexico desert creates a lethal giant mutant strain of ants which naturally pose a grave threat to mankind's status as the dominant species on the planet . It's up to stalwart police sergeant James Whitmore , no-nonsense FBI agent James Arness , sweet , cranky , dynamic old entomologist Ed...
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A hilariously sick and twisted cartoon short parody of those beloved Peanuts TV specials
After the Great Pumpkin places a huge bounty on the ever-hapless Charlie Brown's head , the Peanuts gang try to bump poor Charlie off : Schroeder drops a giant piano on him , Lucy tries to get Charlie to kick a bomb that's disguised as a football , Snoopy bites his hand off ( blood gushes everywhere from the grisly stu...
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A hilariously horrendous camp splatter anti-drug , pro-Christian horror monster hoot
Brawny Vietnam veteran biker Herschell ( a remarkably terrible performance by the beefy Steve Hawkes , who also co-wrote and co-directed this amazing atrocity ) befriends conservative , responsible , morally upright good Christian girl Angel . Alas , Herschell gets led astray by Angel's naughty , flighty , immature par...
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A gloriously ghastly no-budget 70's alien invasion obscurity
Wow , I can't believe the fiercely negative reviews this marvelously messed-up two-cent amateur oddity has elicited . You see , I honestly really dig this flick . I personally think this gloriously godawful regional Utah " Invasion of the Body Snatchers " - stealing drive-in sci-fi doozy deserves a place on your home v...
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A delightfully idiosyncratic documentary gem
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Errol Morris follows his remarkable debut feature " Gates of Heaven " with this equally astonishing little doozy about the eccentric residents of the remote backwater hamlet of Vernon , Florida . Among the folks interviewed are an endearingly zealous turkey hunter , an elderly fellow wit...
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A superb 70's " don't go down to Dixie " Southern-fried drive-in exploitation gem
Eternally entrancing firebrand actress Yvette Mimieux scores her best , strongest , most commanding and effective role to date as a smart , classy , fiercely self-sufficient no bullst Los Angeles businesswoman who runs afoul of psycho hicks and rapist redneck cops when she goes down South during her cross country trek ...
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A fascinating documentary
This remarkable documentary centers on a troop of American soldiers in Iraq who make their base of operation in the bombed-out remains of Saddam Hussein's pleasure palace . The soldiers interviewed herein candidly discuss killing enemy soldiers , the bitter possibility of being killed in combat , and how no one but the...
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A simply spectacular send-up of 70's drive-in schlock
A surprisingly sly and deliciously dead on-target parody of " to hell with substance and style , let's just get this sucker in the can and toss in every last crassly exploitative thing we can think of " quick'n'dirty no-budget Grade Z film-making , a true marvel of cut'n'paste cost-cutting ingenuity that was promptly s...
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One of the greatest 70's drive-in movies ever made
I absolutely love " The Candy Snatchers . " It's a wickedly clever and dead-on nasty grind-house variant on the classic O . Henry short story " The Ransom of Red Chief . " It's got everything you can want in a 70's exploitation flick : solid production values , an unflinchingly grim and nihilistic tone , colorfully war...
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A hilariously horrible hoot
1480 : Cruel , evil , haughty schizophrenic holy man Guru ( a deliciously over the top performance by Neil Flanagan ) resides on the remote island of Mortavia . Guru gets his sadistic jollies out of killing and maiming thieves , voyeurs , witches and various other sinners . Crazed lesbian vampire lady Olga ( the seriou...
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A true work of beauty
Yes , this classic one and a half minute animated short still amuses and entertains even today . We start off with sweet little Bambi grazing in the woods to the lovely , lulling orchestral overture to " William Tell . " WARNING : Possible major SPOILER ahead . Then big , bad Godzilla stomps his massive foot down and s...
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Mr . T's finest hour
Mr . T , that cocky , hulking , gold chain-wearing , Mohawk-sporting macho cretin from " The A-Team , " hits a hilariously horrible all-time career low with this incredibly asinine build up your self-esteem tape that's specifically targeted for an extremely insecure and angst-ridden adolescent audience . A majority of ...
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Got to get moving - - no time to tarry !
After pulling off a successful grocery store heist ( $170 , 000 bucks is stolen ) , hot-blooded , devil-may-care stock car racer Larry ( Peter Fonda in peek personable form ) , stoic , intense mechanic Deke ( the always excellent Adam Rourke ) and pert , bubbly small town strumpet Mary ( an incredibly sexy and vibrant ...
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The best and most exciting 70's drive-in car chase movie to ever roar its wild way across the big screen
Quite simply one of the best , leanest , fastest , most bluntly straightforward and unpretentious of the numerous fuel-burning , whiplash-inducing , tire-shrieking , rubber-shredding , neck-snappingly quick and spectacularly destructive crash ' em and smash ' em car chase action romps to tear hell broke for next week f...
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A simply delightful yuletide TV special gem
Bitter , hateful , grouchy hermit the Grinch has no love or respect for the Christmas holiday season . The Grinch decides to rain on everybody's parade by dressing up like Santa Claus and stealing all the food , presents and decorations from the town of Whoville . Directed by the legendary Chuck Jones and Bob Washam , ...
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The adorable Monica Gayle shines as a low-rent Loretta Lynn in this choice chunk of 70's Southern-fried drive-in sleaze
You know you're in for a four-star 70's drive-in sleazy treat when barely two minutes into the picture the luscious and adorable Monica Gayle , a lovely sprite actress who appeared in trashy films for such B-movie luminaries as Jack Hill , Harry Novak , Gary Graver and Larry Buchanan , peels her clothes off to go skinn...
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A wonderfully warped and wretched piece of pure rancid 70's drive-in psycho horror schlock
An odd , absorbing and even touching low-budget stalk'n'slash meditation on viciously enforced puritanical mores , obsession , psycho killers , sex , nudity , bold-faced cinematic ineptitude , paltry production values and , most importantly , the profound need to spend your life loving that oh so wonderful , but annoyi...
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A truly timeless and terrific TV yuletide holiday special treat
I've seen this truly timeless and terrific late 60's TV yuletide holiday special classic more times than I can count and it never fails to make me feel totally elated . Jolly , lovable snowman Frosty ( exuberantly voiced with marvelously plummy gusto by Jackie Vernon ) miraculously comes to life when a discarded magic ...
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An astonishingly awful , yet strangely charming and entertaining ultra-cheap horror splatter hoot
The gnarly 80's retro hell prologue deftly sets the tone for the considerable campiness to come : a luckless lady jogger wearing leotards , a tank top , leg warmers and a headband gets brutally bagged by a machete-wielding lunatic . The film gets worse / better after that dubious beginning . Four uniformly obnoxious an...
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A simply spectacular 70's women-in-prison drive-in gem
Jonathan Demme's directorial debut for Roger Corman's legendary exploitation outfit New World Pictures rates highly as one of the finest chicks-in-chains 70's grindhouse classics to ever grace celluloid . Beauteous Russ Meyer starlet Eric ( " Vixen , " " Beyond the Valley of the Dolls " ) Gavin gives a robust , winning...
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An absolutely astonishing camp riot
This astoundingly abysmal piece of unmitigated schlock rates highly as one of the single most sublimely stupid and sidesplitting kitsch hoots I've had the pleasure to watch in quite a while . An evil drug lord uses a bunch of rot-faced hopping vampires to retain his power . Narcotics agent Tom Wilde gets shot and kille...
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My favorite Mexicon biker movie
If you've always wanted to see a sordidly spirited south-of-the-border version of Roger Corman's immortal chopper classic " The Wild Angels , " then this alarmingly crude and gloriously excessive degenerate filth biker trash is the answer to your wildest , most deranged and antisocial scuzzy celluloid prayers . You kno...
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An exciting and hugely enjoyable fantasy adventure treat
Courageous sailor Sinbad ( an appealingly earnest Kerwin Matthews ) embarks on a perilous quest to break a spell put on his beloved fair maiden Princess Parisa ( ravishing brunette beauty Kathryn Grant ) by cunning and wicked powerful magician Sokurah ( grandly played with lip-smacking aplomb by Torin Thatcher ) . Nath...
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A wonderfully ridiculous 50's low-budget sci-fi camp classic
Rich recovering alcoholic Nancy Archer ( a marvelously fierce performance by the gorgeously statuesque Allison Hayes ) transforms into an angry and lethal roaring behemoth after she has a run-in with a giant bald alien ( leering chromedome Michael Ross ) . Nancy breaks free from her chains and goes looking for both her...
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It's the end of the world with Chuck Heston - - and it's a total groove , baby !
Richard Matheson's terrific novel " I Am Legend " has been twice adapted for the big screen . The first adaptation was " The Last Man on Earth , " an unsparingly grim'n'gloomy Italian mid 60's Gothic horror outing starring Vincent Price . " The Omega Man " on the other hand is a lively undead corpse of an altogether se...
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One of the all-time great 70's made-for-TV horror movies
Darren McGavin gives a wonderfully robust and engaging performance as Carl Kolchak , an abrasive , impetuous , impulsive , and excitable down-on-his-luck newspaper reporter who uncovers the scoop of a lifetime after he finds out that Janos Skorzeny ( a genuinely frightening portrayal by Barry Atwater ) , the man respon...
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A great stirring slice of prime 60's Japanese sci-fi horror fun
In the early 21st century an asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth is successfully destroyed by the courageous crew of the military space station Gamma 3 ( this harrowing beat-the-clock tension heavy sequence , with several dudes drilling holes into the asteroid so explosives can be planted in its core , was...
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An exciting , outstanding and extremely imaginative sci-fi / action time travel treat
In the wake of an unfortunate incident which lead to six people losing their lives , smart , gutsy , but severely guilt-ridden hostage negotiator Karen Warren ( strongly played by Kylie Travis ) quits her job and goes driving cross country to get her head together . Problems arise when Karen wrecks her car in the middl...
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A truly beautiful , touching and thoughtful piece of sophisticated cinematic art from the glorious 80's
This gloriously ghastly celluloid abomination is downright jaw-dropping in its flagrant absurdity and stupidity . For starters , Sylvestor Stallone as Lt . Marion " Cobra " Cobretti has to be one of the single most slimy and hateful would-be " heroes " to ever ooze his scummy way across the screen : With his three day ...
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Watch out for the killer jellyfish man !
William Grefe , the terminally terrible bargain basement Sunshine State auteur responsible for such choice all-thumbs turkeys as the atrocious " Death Curse of Tartu , " the tawdry " The Naked Zoo , " the wonderfully wretched William Shatner psycho scream " Impulse , " and the amiably dippy " Jaws " clone " Mako : Jaws...
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One of the single most sublimely screwy Saturday morning kidvid TV shows to ever grace the airwaves
I use to religiously watch this incredibly off-the-wall quirky'n'kooky children's TV show every Saturday morning as a kid growing up in the mid to late 70's . Stalwart widowed forest ranger dad Rick Marshall ( excellently played by the firm-as-granite Spencer Milligan ) , his whiny son Will ( teen pin-up hunkling Wesle...
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The triumphant return of Nazisploitation !
The Nazisploitation sub-genre was briefly hot in the 70's . Perhaps most famously represented by Don Edmonds ' legendary sickie " Ilsa : She Wolf of the SS , " other examples include such similarly twisted sleaze as " SS Girls , " " The Gestapo's Last Orgy , " and " Deported Women of the SS Special Section . " Alas , t...
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The kids are totally messed up !
New Grenada is a cozy , pleasant , sedate planned suburbanite community in California . The swank , dreary burg's bored and ignored adolescent population wreaks much havoc ( senseless vandalism , excessive swilling of cheap , available booze , inane , but irritating pranks , multifarious abuse of illegal illicit narcot...
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An awesomely awful 80's direct-to-video sci-fi / horror atrocity
They're bad movies and then there's exceptionally atrocious , brain-numbing , please God make it stop jaw-stopping spectacles of sheer mind-rotting awfulness that are so utterly abominable that they defy belief and soar off into a stratosphere of extraordinary stinkiness that's a ghastly wonder to behold . " Breeders "...
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This so - awful - it's - downright - awesome 70's Grade Z creature feature schlocker quite simply rocks ( pun intended )
Loner mineralogist Paul Carlson ( drably played by the singularly dry and uncharismatic Chase Cordell , who alas never acted in another film ) gets a piece of moon rock lodged in his skull during a meteorite shower . The decidedly lethal chunk of green cheese has a severely bad effect on Paul come nightfall : He transf...
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A poignantly astute and accurate portrait of the devastating psychological effects of incest
Please do not read this review unless you've seen the film first . I'm going to address and elaborate on a key aspect of the movie which is of paramount importance . This stunningly dark , daring , and disturbing exploitation masterpiece tackles the touchy subject of incest head-on with genuinely insightful and unsettl...
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Mickey Rooney really cuts loose in this stunningly strange and twisted early 70's psycho horror oddity
The legendary Mickey Rooney gives an incredibly wild , hammy and over-the-top full-tilt insane , inspired and uninhibited performance as B . J . Lang , a deranged and delusional psychotic washed-up Hollywood has-been who thinks he's a great successful big-time film director ala Orson Welles . Lang relentlessly torments...
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A truly startling and wickedly funny black comedy treat
Morose middle-aged Donnelly ( a typically terrific performance by the always great Brendan Gleeson ) takes a long and grueling train ride home following the tragic sudden death of his wife . Donnelly encounters both a young couple whose baby has just passed away and a brash , rowdy , irrepressibly snotty punk kid ( spl...
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Behold the righteously destructive fury of Father Beatdown
This is without a doubt the greatest , wildest , most gloriously ridiculous and hilarious action movie ever made about a kick-boxing , a-whupping , limb-breaking vigilante Catholic priest with the gift of second sight . Yes , you read that correctly . Our hero ( woodenly played by martial arts champion Michael Foley , ...
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A very thorough and fascinating behind-the-scenes making of documentary
This highly engrossing and informative documentary covers many different bases concerning the making of the fantastic fantasy adventure cult favorite " The Dark Crystal . " Among the people interviewed are Jim Henson , Frank Oz , conceptual designer Brian Froud , Froud's wife Wendy Widener , producer Gary Kurtz , Garth...
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A simply stupendous early 60's end-of-the-world sci-fi scream
This endearingly earnest , but hopelessly ham-fisted early 60's $1 . 98 poverty row sci-fi end-of-the-world doomsday thriller plays today like a four-star funny laugh-a-minute high camp exercise in hilariously hysterical Cold War era paranoia . The minimalistic setting is the side of a desolate desert backroad . The ti...
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Are you man enough , big and bad enough , to dig this superfly Shaft flick ?
The ever-cool Richard Roundtree , who along with the equally awesome John Saxon has played more cops than any other actor alive , makes his third appearance as John Shaft , the super-tough , super-smooth , oh-so-hot black private dick who's a sex machine to all the chicks and a most gnarly guy who's always getting into...
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It's all about the big showdown between car and truck
Substantially more than just the definitive man vs . machine vehicular horror movie ( although this aspect of the film has acquired greater and more stinging resonance because of our current near-total reliance - - hell , debatable over-dependence - - on technology ) , this groundbreaking " danger on the road " genre l...
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A deliciously cheesy chunk of vintage 70's Crown International drive-in exploitation sleaze
Bitchy , surly , calculating high school senior Kim Bentley ( a marvelously venomous performance by tasty hot brunette Jill Lansing ) ain't having a good time of it . She's been dumped by her jerky boyfriend Kevin ( stolid Stuart Taylor ) , lives with her shrewish , overbearing mother ( shrill Phyllis Benson ) , is sti...
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A funny , touching and simply wonderful gem of a drama
Eric Stoltz delivers an extraordinary performance as Joel Garcia , a successful young novelist who winds up paralyzed and in a special hospital for the recently disabled after breaking his neck in a hiking accident . While learning to cope and adjust with the gravity of his new limited physical condition Joel befriends...
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Do the BIM , everybody !
Set in the excessively garish and tasteless retro 70's discoid totalitarian future of 1994 , this spectacularly horrendous sci-fi musical religious fable rates highly as one of the single most uproariously atrocious cinematic abominations to ever disgrace celluloid . It sure ain't remotely good by a long shot , but it'...
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A simply wonderful yuletide show
Cheery Emmet and his kindly Ma are two otters who live in poverty in the quaint rural swampland community of Frogtown Hollow . Both want to buy the other a gift for Christmas , but neither has the money . So they both enter a local talent show contest in order to win the $50 dollar cash prize . This endearingly pleasan...
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A total gut-busting riot
This movie reigns supreme as one of the funniest features ever made . The key to this film's success is its gloriously inane and cheerful anything-goes comic attitude . Some of the jokes are crude ( the st literally hits the fan at one point ) , others strange ( Robert Stack walking out of his mirror ) , many are spot-...
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54,443
10
A superbly eerie , intelligent and ambiguous 60's British sci-fi / horror gem
Quite simply one of the all-time great spooky and atmospheric British sci-fi / horror winners from the 60's , this supremely chilling and engrossing knockout still packs a potent , lingering punch even today . All the young women in the quiet remote English hamlet of Midwich mysteriously become pregnant after the whole...
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8,239,592
75,923
10
A very powerful and poignant 70's made-for-TV drama classic
Troubled , confused , insecure teenager Richie ( a stunningly fine and moving performance by Robbie Benson ) feels unloved , unwanted and alienated , so he becomes dangerously involved with drugs . His stern , abusive , overbearing father ( superbly played by Ben Gazzara ) and overprotective mother ( the equally excell...
518,603
8,239,592
89,912
10
The true reason cinema was invented . An absolute celluloid masterpiece of exceptional subtlety and profound artistic significance
As the extremely subtle , tasteful and artistic title alone suggests , this here is one of those unsung cinematic masterpieces , a monumentally important and incisive cinematic landmark of tremendous cultural significance , a profound and provocative rumination on the complex multi-faceted tenets of the human condition...
518,714
8,239,592
275,309
10
An awesomely funky , exciting and dynamic blast of a sports documentary on professional skateboarding
In the groovy mid 70's a scruffy bunch of brash young Venice , California adolescents from broken homes and the bad side of town known as the Z-Boys turned the previously staid world of professional skateboarding on its ear with their fierce punk attitude , radical unconventional riding style , and unbridled spirit of ...
519,286
8,239,592
75,888
10
A choice crummy 70's Crown International creature feature favorite
One of my all-time favorite so - laughably - lousy - that - it's - totally - lovable el cheapo and stinko nickel'n'dime independent horror creature features , an enjoyably dreadful marvel that was released by the formidably fecund exploitation outfit Crown International Pictures so it could play numerous crappy double ...
519,407
8,239,592
72,324
10
My head's still swimming ! A true Claudia Jennings 70's drive-in gem
With her lovely , delicately sculpted face , lustrous long red hair , sparkling blue eyes , slender , shapely figure , ceaseless vivacity , and strong , assertive , engaging personality , the late , great , much-missed former " Playboy " Playmate of the Year turned surprisingly good actress Claudia Jennings was undoubt...
518,634
8,239,592
200,642
10
Absolutely astonishing
Diminutive three foot tall midget thespian Weng Weng positively lights up the screen with his infectious energy and irresistible charisma in this delightfully dippy spy spoof as Agent 00 , a supremely smooth and suave super spy who's an ace martial artist ( he's a very dirty fighter with a shocking sadistic penchant fo...
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8,239,592
89,689
10
An astonishingly abominable unsung camp classic
A band of nefarious terrorists lead by crippled ruthless drug kingpin Alby the Cruel ( the stunningly dreadful Blackie Dammett , who does a third-rate Dr . Strangelove impression throughout the entire movie ) kidnap a bus full of tourists who include a U . S . congressman . Alby demands the release of a dangerous crimi...
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147,119
10
A wonderfully raunchy and ridiculous cinematic ode to the naked female form
This terrific piece of lascivious trash begins on a profoundly artistic note with Rose ( the impossibly tall , busty and leggy Cierra Knight ) cooling herself off with a garden hose . A lone foxy cavegirl ( the divine Michelle Bauer ) shows up . Rose and cavegirl engage in an ineptly staged catfight . Then they take a ...
518,415
8,239,592
59,026
10
Still holds up after over 40 years
Yeah , this particular enduring ( and endearing ) classic TV special was indeed made over forty years ago , but still retains its magical ability to cast an enchanting spell just the same . It's partly because of the appealing topicality of the central story ( mopey Charlie Brown can't get into the Noel spirit because ...
518,251
8,239,592
85,821
10
An outstanding seriocomic slice-of-life character study indie treat
A wonderful , unjustly forgotten little beaut of a film , a wryly seriocomic and sharply observant slice-of-life character study focusing on the feckless , outmoded , past his prime modern-day " cowboy " and his increasingly woeful , insignificant plight in a rapidly changing contemporary society that no longer has any...
517,957
8,239,592
76,164
10
A truly astonishing and often uproarious low-budget " King Kong " clone
The lamentably lousy ' 76 " King Kong " remake fortunately inspired a handful of hilariously horrible low-budget cash-in copies which includes the incredibly awful Korean cheapie " APE , " the groan-inducing idiotic spoof " King Kung Fu , " and this simply stupendous Hong Kong howler . Produced by the Shaw Brothers , w...
518,098
8,239,592
54,673
10
A positively gut-busting no-budget camp classic !
Widely hailed as one of the single most spectacularly shoddy pictures to ever disgrace the big screen , Coleman Francis ' notorious Grade Z cheapie clinker makes for an admittedly painful , but still oddly hypnotic and hence unforgettable viewing experience . The massive Tor Johnson of " Plan 9 from Outer Space " infam...
518,284
8,239,592
85,764
10
A misunderstood masterpiece of rancid 80's schlock art
I can't believe all the harsh reviews this movie gets . I think it's a true work of deliciously dreadful 80's trash exploitation movie art that totally nails the rampant hedonism and stupidity of adolescence with uncanny accuracy . All the kids want to do in this film are play video games or make out . They have no amb...
519,365
8,239,592
89,741
10
Crispin Glover at his wonderfully wacky best
The gloriously gaga opening scene expertly sets the tone for the incredible , jaw-dropping , incessant and often excruciatingly riotous eccentricity to come : A silhouetted nighttime profile shot of chronically kooky and uncompromising consummate flake thesp Crispin Glover , wearing a flowing blonde wig , wind whipping...
518,559
8,239,592
89,348
10
The Commies are coming ! The Commies are coming ! Save us Chuck Norris !
Our country is in big trouble : a ragtag multi-ethnic guerrilla army of nefarious Communist terrorists led by no-account Russian psycho Rostov ( veteran screen villain Richard Lynch in peak nasty'n'snarly form ) have washed up on the Florida coast . These horrible scumbuckets first slaughter a boat full of helpless Cub...
519,202
8,239,592
640,463
10
Rock me , Mr . Spock ! Rock me !
In 1967 Leonard Nimoy was at the height of his " Star Trek " fame . He had also recorded several albums in which he croaked out a variety of songs that include everything from Credence Clearwater Revival's " Proud Mary " to Jackie DeShannon's " Put A Little Love in Your Heart " to Judy Collins ' " Clouds " in a pained ...
519,409
8,239,592
58,631
10
A simply sensational 60's rock concert winner
That's the " Teenage Awards Music International " to you and me - - and without a doubt one of the best , grooviest , most utterly enjoyable and righteously raucous , hell , even historically relevant , mid-60's rock concert films to ever romp its way onto celluloid , a dazzling and eclectic mix of rowdy rock'n'roll ba...
517,907
8,239,592
319,185
10
One of the sickest and hence funniest cartoon shorts ever made !
Director John Goras earns every last ounce of my respect and admiration for making this sublimely perverse and depraved porno cartoon marvel . Jolly and adorable little yellow bird Chirpy gets seriously stoned after eating some smiling psychedelic mushrooms . Chirpy walks through the woods while tripping out of her tin...
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9,938,570
93,220
1
Scarecrow reviews a horrible mess of a film
Obviously a film like this is destined to have a fanbase . While I absolutely found it truly awe-inspiringly dreadful , that same feeling I had as I sat through it will be a reverse for those who love absolute trash which is what this is . I never had a clue anyone could make such an inept hunk of crap and pass it off ...
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9,938,570
120,458
1
The Scarecrow reviews " Virus "
Dreadful sci-fi / horror hybrid based on a comic book about an alien force which electrifies a Russian space station which in turn links to a Russian scientific research vessel down on the ocean of earth . A tug boat helmed by nut-case captain Sutherland ( in one of the worst performances of his career , battling an Ir...
436,381
9,938,570
77,904
1
The Manitou
Awful ( and I mean AWFUL ) horror flick using Native American folklore and undermining it for unintentional laughs is an embarrassing statement about Tony Curtis ' career ( this is the same actor who starred in SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS & SOME LIKE IT HOT ) . He plays a supposed fortune teller named Erskine ( mostly worki...
436,380
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91,847
1
Revenge of the Living Dead Girls
Simply excruciating French " Zombie " film , badly dubbed ( with horrendous dialogue ) , sleazy ( plenty of full frontal nudity . . but not erotic , just boring ) , & cheap ( the zombie get up , face mask and hand gloves are easily recognized as rubber ) . It's about supposed living dead girls , who were former employe...
435,789
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185,266
1
Deadly Daphne's Revenge
Charlie Johnson ( who looks like Hank Williams , Jr . but sounds like an aging hippie ) rapes Cindy which places him and his buddies ( they were at the scene of the crime . . an old lodge which seems to have an escaped mental patient living in it's woods ) under the microscope with heavy scrutiny changing their once co...
435,916
9,938,570
441,796
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Stay Alive : The Video game to Die For
A group of young adults open a plain of escape for the spirit of Elizabeth Bathory when they recite her poem from a video game supposedly representing a séance . The only one who dies in the game is Miller ( Adam Goldberg ) who also is found dead the same way he perished in said video game . While the others ' characte...
436,702
9,938,570
89,200
1
Ghoulies
Bottom-of-the-barrel film-making has Jonathan ( Peter Liapis ) , the son of a powerful Satan worshiper , possessed by his dead father's spirit after he inherits the man's estate . Everyone , from his girlfriend Rebecca ( Lisa Pelikan ) to his other seven friends . . all will fall prey to the ghoulies , a nasty group of...
436,667
9,938,570
132,888
1
Blood Freak
A buff , but gentlemanly , biker rides into the life of two sisters , one a Born-Again Christian , the other a heavy partyer who enjoys smoking pot and having a good time . Thanks to some kind support from his Christian pal , an employer at a poultry farm gives him a job . Hershell ( Steve Hawkes , who also co-wrote , ...
436,146
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1
An American Laugh or two
Really , really lousy ghost tale supposedly based on a true story about some kind of entity terrorizing John Bell ( Donald Sutherland ) and his daughter Betsy ( Rachel Hurd-Wood ) . They believe it to be Kathryn Batts ( Gaye Brown ) who threatens them with witchcraft . Sissy Spacek plays the worried mother , Lucy . Jam...