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436,566 | 9,938,570 | 58,405 | 8 | Nightmare | A teenage girl has an awful recurring nightmare of being trapped in an insane asylum cell with her sick mother who murdered dear old daddy on the poor child's birthday . Janet deeply fears of not only winding up at an asylum like in her nightmares , but the possibility of inheriting mother's murdering ways . Wishing to... |
436,354 | 9,938,570 | 58,403 | 8 | William Castle's The Night Walker | Howard Trent ( Hayden Rorke ) , hideous face with creepy white eyes , whose cane taps the floor loudly wherever he walks , suspects his wife , Irene ( Barbara Stanwyck ) of adultery due to her " sleep-talking " embracing her gentleman caller within the realm of blissful fantasy . He suspects that his attorney , and con... |
436,066 | 9,938,570 | 50,766 | 8 | Curse of the Demon | A skeptical scientist ( Dana Andrews ) , investigating the death of a doctor friend , does not easily accept the fact that a wealthy cultist ( and leader of a Satanic Worship Cult ) has placed a witchcraftian curse on him which , in three days , will bring forth a demon to kill him . Despite warnings from those around ... |
436,032 | 9,938,570 | 47,424 | 8 | Rogue Cop | Cop-on-the-take Sgt Chris Kelvaney ( Robert Taylor ) vows to take down the two mob bosses , Dan Beaumonte ( George Raft ) & Ackerman ( Robert F Simon ) responsible for the death of his straight-arrow beat cop brother Eddie ( Steve Forrest ) . The drama starts when a lowlife named ' Wrinkles ' Fallon ( Peter Brocco ) ki... |
436,478 | 9,938,570 | 312,843 | 8 | Suicide Club | A suicide epidemic is sweeping across Tokyo and could very well be related to a girl pop band , Dessert , whose song , Mail Me , might be sending subliminal messages to those who embrace it . Detectives , wary and worn , attempt to find out what is indeed causing so many to end their lives in such harsh ways . Soon Det... |
436,062 | 9,938,570 | 43,117 | 8 | Wagon Master | Travis and Sandy ( Ben Johnson and Harry Carey , Jr . ) are horse traders coerced into selling their animals to a Mormon group and guiding them across the frontier to a settlement . What they do not expect is to encounter the notorious Clegg murderers , with their wounded leader Uncle Shiloh ( Charles Kemper ) . Ward B... |
436,417 | 9,938,570 | 80,388 | 8 | The Scarecrow reviews " Atlantic City " | Burt Lancaster plays Lou , a supposed gangster slowly watching his beloved Atlantic City dying a slow death as a new more modern place is on the horizon . He falls in love with Susan Sarandon's Sally , a croupier traveling wannabe whose rotten drug dealing thief decides to bother her again { he is the reason she loses ... |
436,549 | 9,938,570 | 424,136 | 8 | Hard Candy | No mistake about it , this film is a daring one to make . We essentially see this 13 year old girl , howbeit a bright , " smart way beyond her years " drug and torture a 33 year old pedophile for an hour and a half or so . This film cleverly dares to show this girl actually out-dueling , psychologically , a man who has... |
436,691 | 9,938,570 | 62,827 | 8 | Countdown | A geologist ( James Caan ) working for NASA gets the opportunity of a lifetime . Since US government will not allow perhaps a better candidate ( Robert Duvall ) , an " air-force guy " , to pilot the PILGRIM capsule to the moon , a civilian is needed and Caan is their boy . It's all about beating the Russians to the moo... |
436,711 | 9,938,570 | 76,590 | 8 | Rabid | After a " successful " skin grafting experimental plastic surgery ( using tissue not only for outside work , but inside as well using skin from the thigh ) , innocent , sweet Rose ( Marilyn Chambers who is actually not bad in a rare dramatic role ; she still looks incredibly sexy and bares her breasts often , however )... |
436,570 | 9,938,570 | 492,754 | 8 | Salvage | Teenager " Claire " ( cutie Lauren Currie Lewis ) is continuously haunted by the prolonging image of a supposedly dead psychopath named Duke Desmond ( Chris Ferry ) who worked in a salvage yard . He was shot dead by Detective Miller ( John P Miller ) when attempting the firing of his pistol . Duke is known for hacking ... |
436,657 | 9,938,570 | 783,238 | 8 | The Dead Girl | Lives are examined revolving around a dead young woman's corpse laying in a deserted valley in California . The woman that finds her , Arden ( Toni Collette ) is awaken from the morose existence of taking care of her vile , viciously scathing , unappreciative mother ( Piper Laurie who lets loose that nasty streak she a... |
436,446 | 9,938,570 | 104,782 | 8 | Léolo | A young boy whose birth father is a " contaminated tomato " from Italy he insists , rejects his family and escapes his meager existence into his own thoughts , shelterly painted on his diary . He longs for his paramour Bianca , believes his grandfather is the source of his family's little tragedies amongst other things... |
436,083 | 9,938,570 | 69,838 | 8 | The Bell from Hell | A psychologically wounded young man is released cautiously from an asylum and we follow his pursuit of manipulative revenge towards his cruel , greedy , paralyzed Aunt Martha ( Viveca Lindfors ) , the one personally responsible for getting him put there , thanks to the help of her daughter Esther ( Maribel Martín ) who... |
436,179 | 9,938,570 | 84,516 | 8 | Poltergeist | I remember catching a special inside look to the making of POLTERGEIST in one of those 15 minutes clips introduced from Turner Classic Movie's vault and you could get an idea how involved Producer Steven Spielberg was in the overall production of the movie . After watching it again , POLTERGEIST is distinctly a Steven ... |
435,825 | 9,938,570 | 71,519 | 8 | Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell | Surgeon and Frankenstein loyalist , Simon Helder ( Shane Briant ) is sent to an asylum for practicing methods similar to his inspiration , having received bodies dug from a grave robber . Inside the asylum , Simon realizes that Baron Victor Frankenstein ( Peter Cushing , in perhaps his finest performance as the mad sci... |
436,084 | 9,938,570 | 71,535 | 8 | Loreley's Grasp | According to the legend of the seven moons , Loreley will come out of the river in the form of a filthy beast to devour human hearts that will return her to her sleep of centuries . The film opens with a scaly monster exploding through the windows of a bride-to-be ripping her flesh with it's claws in gory splendor . ... |
435,933 | 9,938,570 | 60,228 | 8 | Chamber of Horrors | An aristocratic , sociopathic strangler , Cravatte ( Patrick O'Neal , evoking the spirit of Vincent Price with his quietly mad psychopath and demented eyes ) in Baltimore ( . . who removes his handcuffed hand , which was locked to a steel wheel , with an ax after escaping from a train into the sea below a bridge ) hide... |
436,281 | 9,938,570 | 71,523 | 8 | Frightmare | Twisted little tale from Pete Walker with the theme being pathological cannibalism . Jackie , a make-up artist for a TV station , is the unfortunate daughter of cannibal mother , Dorothy . Daddy Edmund , by now a wreck who can not control his wife's homicidal urges , who covers up for the woman he loves despite the fac... |
435,985 | 9,938,570 | 62,185 | 8 | Reflections in a Golden Eye | Major Weldon Penderton ( Marlon Brando ) is grappling with buried homosexuality that awakens lustfully when he becomes enamored with an enlisted soldier ( Robert Forster ) working as a stable-hand for his horses . Penderton is bottled in an unhappy marriage to Leonora ( Liz Taylor , great as always ) who can be loud an... |
436,487 | 9,938,570 | 64,106 | 8 | Le Boucher | A young accomplished headmistress of a Parisian village , Miss Helen ( Stéphane Audran ) , is in a conundrum . . she's in love with a serial killer , Paul ( Jean Yanne ) , the local butcher , who has been stabbing young females in the surrounding area with a knife , leaving bloody corpses . Stumped Police Inspector Gru... |
436,352 | 9,938,570 | 69,341 | 8 | Tales from the Crypt | Who's next ? Perhaps . . YOU ? Ralph Richardson , under a cloak , prophetically releases five people into their possible future fates as we watch each tale one by one . The first tale has the perfect murder spoiled . Joanne Clayton ( Joan Collins , cold and calculatingly evil , but quite stunningly beautiful ) faces ... |
435,770 | 9,938,570 | 69,343 | 8 | Black Belly of the Tarantula | A burned out detective , Inspector Tellini ( Giancarlo Giannini ) contemplating the thought of turning in his resignation , resides over the bloody investigation where a psychopath , donning tan skin-tight gloves , a large hat and overcoat , is paralyzing female victims by throttling an acupuncture needle into the back... |
436,740 | 9,938,570 | 71,431 | 8 | Let Sleeping Corpses Lie | London art dealer , George ( Ray Lovelock ) unexpectedly finds himself in a problem . . a traveler backs over his motorcycle , damaging it . Awaiting repairs which would take over a weekend , George " commandeers " Edna's ( Cristina Galbó ) car , since she run it over and he needs to be at a specified location hoping t... |
436,491 | 9,938,570 | 67,116 | 8 | The French Connection | Narcotics cops Popeye Doyle ( Gene Hackman ) and Buddy Russo ( Roy Scheider ) find themselves in a major sting operation of a major drug shakedown when it's discovered Sal Bocca ( Tony Lo Bianco ) , a drug-dealing virgin has formed a major coup with French drug-lord Alain Charnier ( Fernando Rey ) . In a sneaky trick ,... |
435,882 | 9,938,570 | 88,944 | 8 | Commando | The Schwarzenegger answer to Stallone's Rambo is John Matrix , an ex-commando ( . . the best there is , of course ) , retired under a new name living comfortably with his daughter Jenny ( Alyssa Milano , adorably cute as his kid ) , forced back into service when an ex-partner , Bennett ( Vernon Wells , wonderfully over... |
436,484 | 9,938,570 | 1,020,530 | 8 | Eden Lake | Freckled , radiant red-head , schoolteacher Jenny ( Kelly Reilly , luminous before her life becomes a living hell ) and her handsome yuppie boyfriend Steve ( Michael Fassbender ) take a trip to an idyllic quarry on the verge of being turned into a gated community , who fall prey to a menacing group of local kids , a ga... |
436,461 | 9,938,570 | 64,208 | 8 | Death Rides a Horse | Bill ( John Phillip Law , fashioned in a Clint Eastwood type of role ) watched as his father , mother and daughter were killed by a nasty band of vile criminals led by Walcott ( . . giallo and spaghetti western veteran , Luigi Pistilli ) . Ryan ( Lee Van Cleef ) has served a fifteen year prison sentence and is finally ... |
436,737 | 9,938,570 | 49,429 | 8 | I Vampiri | This may have Ricardo Freda's name in the credits as director , but to me this is a Mario Bava film . His stylistic and thematic signatures which make his films so wonderfully unique are on display from start to finish . The camera work and how massive spaces are shot with characters within the middle of the frame and ... |
436,060 | 9,938,570 | 375,920 | 8 | I'm 33 years old . . and I'm dying . | The Earl of Rochester ( Johnny Depp , in his finest performance I believe ) is invited back from being banished in the country by Charles II ( Malkovich , very effective as the long-nosed King ) to London where he begins where he left off . . embellishing himself with women , wine , and the theater . Charles allows the... |
436,182 | 9,938,570 | 51,622 | 8 | The Fly | Returning to THE FLY for the first time in a while , I'm fascinated with the film's structure in story-telling . How the film introduces us to a distraught wife of a man killed under a press , his head and hand crushed . We are , at the off-set , told the tragic end of a scientist , yet I found myself completely grippe... |
436,464 | 9,938,570 | 870,958 | 8 | Bloody Reunion | This was one hell of a reunion ! What is supposed to be a celebration for a dying teacher turns out to be far more sinister , bloody , violent , and painful . A group of adults return to reunite with their school teacher and we discover that each member of her class have grown with boulder-sized chips on their shoulder... |
435,956 | 9,938,570 | 89,034 | 8 | The Doctor and the Devils | Up the alley and down the street Fallon and Broom sell bones and meat . Fallon's a butcher and Broom's a thief . And Rock's the boy that buys the beef . At the film's closing , Dr . Thomas Rock ( Timothy Dalton ) proclaims that he has become a ghost story that frightens children and questioned how it had gotten so fa... |
436,494 | 9,938,570 | 84,698 | 8 | Smithereens | Terrific poverty-row character study about Wren ( Susan Berman ) a young woman who reckons herself a possible punk-rock manager , desperately latching onto Eric ( Richard Hell ) , a supposed rock " star " who she sees as a future success in the making . Paul ( Brad Rijn ) , a kind-hearted portrait artist from Oklahoma ... |
435,862 | 9,938,570 | 82,509 | 8 | Heavy Metal | Series of sci-fi animated tales revolving around a powerful evil green orb named Loc-Nar ( who serves as narrator to a young female earthling it plans to possess ) . Set to a rock soundtrack with many ( if not most ) of the tales loaded with profanity , sex & graphic violence . Lots of animated boobage . There's even a... |
436,095 | 9,938,570 | 67,434 | 8 | My Dear Killer | An insurance investigator is decapitated by someone operating a dredger near a polluted quarry . Inspector Luca Peretti ( George Hilton , in fine form ) and partner Chief Marò ( Salvo Randone ) are on the case and soon discover that his death , that of Vincenzo Paradisi ( Francesco Di Federico ) , is tied to the kidnap... |
436,503 | 9,938,570 | 40,427 | 8 | He Walked by Night | A thief and psychopath named Martin ( portrayed with diabolical accuracy by an excellent Richard Basehart ) , murders a cop without compassion when caught breaking into a store . This sets off a massive investigation to find Martin and it hits pitfalls along the way as their suspect is crafty and intelligent . What mak... |
436,257 | 9,938,570 | 82,869 | 8 | Outland | Often this is regarded as HIGH NOON in space , and to a point it is very western flavored not to mention has elements one might could possibly claim as lifted from that classic Zinnemann film . First , Connery as the marshal of this mining outpost is the only one with enough integrity to stand up against corruption in ... |
435,752 | 9,938,570 | 865,496 | 8 | Diary | The Pang Brothers really outdid themselves this time . . what a powerful experience DIARY was . It's truly a tragic insider's look into the tormented mind and soul of a paranoid schizo woman ( Isabella Leong ) who sees horrors that haunt her , as well as reliving traumatic memories of a relationship that went sour , an... |
436,205 | 9,938,570 | 465,602 | 8 | Shoot ' Em Up | Basically " Shoot'Em Up " is an 80's film using today's modern technology . Replace Arnie or Bruce Willis with Clive Owen and baby in tow and you have this film . Owen's carrot fixation is even put to good use pulling triggers and stabbing the villains in the eyeball or through the mouth and out the back of their necks... |
435,855 | 9,938,570 | 443,543 | 8 | The Illusionist | I'm not sure I buy the end result ( an illusionary twist which depends on an awful lot of coincidence ) , but it's a lot of fun getting there . Visually dazzling and well executed drama about an illusionist named Eisenheim ( Edward Norton who is quite spellbinding in a very mysterious role ) who ruffles the feathers of... |
436,351 | 9,938,570 | 129,332 | 8 | Ravenous | The man eats the flesh of another . He steals his strength . He absorbs the other man's spirit . Deemed a coward by his commanding officer ( " You're no hero . I want you as far away from my troop as possible . " ) , despite decorating him with a medal for his supposed heroism for somehow surviving an attack during a... |
435,836 | 9,938,570 | 67,384 | 8 | Short Night of Glass Dolls | American journalist , Gregory Moore ( Jean Sorel ) is found supposedly dead and when taken to the hospital is pronounced just that . No sign of life is shown , but we the viewer hear his thoughts as he wonders why he can not move . As his body is moved to the morgue , his memory unravels bit by bit , as we often see fr... |
436,589 | 9,938,570 | 53,719 | 8 | The Scarecrow reviews " Horror Hotel " | Good " black mass " chiller with naive Stevenson , interested in bringing more depth to her term paper on witchcraft , is given directions by " Professor of the Black Arts " Lee to Whitewood . . an old village where a witch was burnt at the stake centuries prior . Unknowingly , Stevenson is the chosen victim of a cerem... |
436,329 | 9,938,570 | 154,683 | 8 | Hell | Various characters descend into a type of Buddhist hell for their multitude of sins . Each individual is judged by the amount of sins they committed and punished accordingly . Film's main focus of tragedy is Shiro ( Shigeru Amachi ) , a student in love with a professor's daughter . His " friend " is Tamura ( Yoichi Num... |
435,713 | 9,938,570 | 77,304 | 8 | The Cat and the Canary | Divine little " killer - on - the - loose - inside - the - creepy - mansion " thriller as someone supposedly from an insane asylum will perhaps harm a group of cousins , hoping for an inheritance from dear Cyrus West ( Wilfrid Hyde-White , simply marvelous in his limited screen time ) , who stay the night in his eerie ... |
435,873 | 9,938,570 | 758,742 | 8 | Death Note | Ultra-slick , ingeniously plotted crime fantasy ( . . based on a popular anime ) stars Tatsuya Fujiwara as a college kid , Light Yagami who gains possession of a " death book " accidentally dropped by the god of death ( . . a computer generated angel of death who carries the appearance of a heavy metal rock star with l... |
436,856 | 9,938,570 | 69,495 | 8 | What's Up , Doc ? | Bogdanovich's mad-cap ode to the screwball comedies he so dearly loves from his youth about poor musicologist Ryan O'Neal who has no idea that his life will be turned upside down when feisty Streisand locks eyes on him . She will be a thorn that will change his life forever . She clearly is smitten to the point where s... |
436,367 | 9,938,570 | 47,034 | 8 | Gojira | Clearly more of an outcry against war , nuclear weapons , and violence , GOJIRA really packs an emotional wallop I never saw coming . It gets dead serious when , as Gojira attacks Tokyo , leaving buildings in rubble and the entire city ablaze , this mother nestles her three children in tight proclaiming that they will ... |
435,942 | 9,938,570 | 38,343 | 8 | Bedlam | Excellent Val Lewton production is far more probing ( . . in dialogue ) than many films of this type . It dares to pit two people , who loathe each other's philosophies , against each other in a psychological duel over how to treat the insane in a period where the upper-class wealth often enjoyed the exploitation of th... |
436,065 | 9,938,570 | 25,423 | 8 | The Lost Patrol | A British regiment , lost in the desert after their guide ( who had the location of where they were headed in his mind ) is killed , must fend for themselves against hidden arabs who know the sandy dunes better than they do . They find an oasis surrounded by palm trees and a skeletal shelter . . this will have to be th... |
435,949 | 9,938,570 | 443,496 | 8 | Edmond | David Mamet scripted this existential undertaking directed by horror-meister Stuart Gordon about Edmond's slow journey into an abyss of sadness after leaving his wife . It really is a series of encounters that mold and shape Edmond into the unrecognizable man he'll wind up being by the end of the film . Startling and u... |
436,578 | 9,938,570 | 27,545 | 8 | Dracula's Daughter | The title character is Countess Marya Zaleska played by the stunning Gloria Holden . Edward Van Sloan's Von Helsing has been arrested by the authorities for killing Dracula . Scotland Yard thinks his claims of vampire slaying is preposterous . Von Helsing calls on psychiatrist Jeffrey Garth ( played by Otto Kruger ) to... |
436,336 | 9,938,570 | 73,207 | 8 | What a laugh . . Thirty years of madness | This is a glorified , down-beat & grim " biopic " of a Yakuza madman named Ishikawa ( Tetsuya Watari , who plays him as a quiet calm before the tornadic release ) who has this mentally unstable nasty streak that comes out in a fiendish explosion when others stand in his way . He almost causes a clan war when he attacks... |
436,844 | 9,938,570 | 77,485 | 8 | Effects | A cinematographer / special effects man ( Joseph Polito , Capt . Rhodes of Romero's " Day of the Dead " ) finds himself caught in a real snuff film , a tragic example of life imitating art . A demanding director , Lacey ( John Harrison ) secretly puts in motion a planned real snuff film , having his camera and f / x pr... |
436,206 | 9,938,570 | 83,976 | 8 | Funeral Home | Teenager Heather ( Lesleh Donaldson ) moves in with her devoutly religious grandmother Maude Chalmers ( Kay Hawtrey in a terrific performance ) who , along with her absent husband , once ran their place as a funeral home , now starting up a tourist bed'n'breakfast for visitors in town . Heather soon discovers her grand... |
435,846 | 9,938,570 | 61,683 | 8 | Frankenstein Created Woman | The diabolical , and deeply driven , scientist Baron Frankenstein ( Peter Cushing ) is still up to his old tricks , having discovered a method ( . . after being brought back to life from being in a cryogenic state ) of harvesting the soul within an apparatus , extracted from the body of a falsely accused young assistan... |
435,911 | 9,938,570 | 50,084 | 8 | 20 Million Miles to Earth | A spaceship , visiting and studying the Planet Venus , crashes into the ocean near a smallish Italian fishing village . Only one member survives , Col . Robert Alder ( William Hopper ) thanks to being rescued from the ship by fisherman pulling their nets . A canister containing the gelatinous cocoon of a Venusian creat... |
435,982 | 9,938,570 | 643,112 | 8 | The Fair-Haired Child | Now this MOH installment has one freaky monster ! William Malone helms this episode of Masters of Horror and it's one of the best of the series by far . He is able to just stammer you visually with wild images , yet connect them at the end toying with dream logic and flashback using a unique-looking form of black & whi... |
436,310 | 9,938,570 | 376,558 | 8 | Dawn | Little , no-budget film that looks like it was filmed with a cam-corder and cost about $0 . 12 . But , it has more going for it than most over-bloated Hollywood Asian remakes being churned out ad-nauseum . I think why I liked it was because the story really gripped me . I will say that the flick is made with non-actors... |
436,449 | 9,938,570 | 805,570 | 8 | The Midnight Meat Train | This is essentially one of those " journey into the dark abyss " kind of horror films where an up and coming photographer / artist chooses a subject who leads him into an absolute nightmare . Ryûhei Kitamura brings a very stylized look to this film , very flashy camera-work with the director over-indulging himself so t... |
436,406 | 9,938,570 | 275,773 | 8 | Versus | Delirius , no-holds-barred , full-throttle fantasy action , from director Ryûhei Kitamura ( Midnight Meat Train ) has a prisoner ( Tak Sakaguchi , whose crime is never revealed ) caught in the cross-hairs of a crime gang , within a supernatural wilderness ( Wilderness of Resurrection ) which is a limbo-of-sorts to " th... |
435,761 | 9,938,570 | 99,611 | 8 | Frankenhooker | A employee of a New Jersey power company plays mad scientist in his spare time . At his future father-in-law's birthday barbecue , his newly invented remote-control lawnmower chops his girlfriend to bits spreading her throughout the yard like a " salad . " You have to see the news report and hear their colorful descrip... |
436,799 | 9,938,570 | 40,636 | 8 | The Naked City | How stolen jewelry leads to murder of a blond model named Jean in The Big Apple . The film is an exciting step-by-step methodical police procedural with Det Lt . Dan Muldoon ( the simply wonderful Barry Fitzgerald ) and Det Jimmy Halloran ( Don Taylor ) on the case . They find this particular case , however , quite a p... |
435,756 | 9,938,570 | 451,984 | 8 | Criminal Woman : Killing Melody | This time Miki Sugimoto is the star and Reiko Ike takes the secondary lead female role . Sugimoto stars as Massayo , the daughter of a murdered alcholic / addict by powerful Yakuza boss , Obi ( ôji Hayama ) , sent to prison when she attempts to kill him in a club . Ike is Maki , Obi's squeeze , in prison she meets Mass... |
435,804 | 9,938,570 | 70,916 | 8 | Wicked , Wicked | A mentally disturbed electrician for a beach front resort , Jason ( Randolph Roberts ) , a victim of a terrible childhood , murders selected blonde females ( . . modeled after a woman who adopted him , attempting to molest the child leading to her husband's beating him ) checking in for a room , peering from a hole in ... |
436,341 | 9,938,570 | 99,637 | 8 | Nightmare Concert ( Cat in the Brain ) | I couldn't help but relish the entire premise of CAT IN THE BRAIN because it dutifully explains a director's steadily going mad , seeing people murdered from past movies he has made . Even mundane activities such as cooking a meal in the microwave or running a faucet of water yield some horrific butchery from a film in... |
435,793 | 9,938,570 | 55,913 | 8 | Divorce - - Italian Style | Marcello Mastroianni stars a Ferdinando Cefalú , a baron of a dishonored family who lustfully longs for his cousin , Angela ( the luscious Stefania Sandrelli ) . He has a wife , Rosalia ( Daniela Rocca ) who longs for attention and probes constantly of whether he loves her not . She is such an annoyance , he begins a s... |
436,539 | 9,938,570 | 156,887 | 8 | Perfect Blue | Very adult animated thriller about pop idol Mima trying to make it as an actress with a stalker ( running a fictional supposed website faking thoughts she has amongst real actions she makes during each day ) making her life practically unbearable . She is also tormented by her past success which seems to stalk her subc... |
436,383 | 9,938,570 | 407,821 | 8 | Spider Forest | A TV station manager and female reporter under his employ are found brutally murdered in a cabin within Spider Forest . Someone at the scene of the crime ( Woo-seong Kam ) may have all the answers . Unfortunately , he walks in front of a moving vehicle which causes a major gash on the side of his head ( a powerful imag... |
436,415 | 9,938,570 | 90,728 | 8 | The Scarecrow reviews " Big Trouble in Little China " | Some films move so fast plot holes and incoherency can be less focused on . Carpenter's film is so energetic and fun , it is such an example . It is loaded with Chinese Black Magic mumbo jumbo and supernatural shenanigans , but if one can accept it on it's own terms might just find themselves loving it . It pretty much... |
436,011 | 9,938,570 | 82,010 | 8 | An American Werewolf in London | But look at me . Here I sit in a porno theater , in Piccadily Circus , talking to a corpse . As you can tell from the dialogue above , Landis takes his werewolf film into a whole new arena letting it all hang out with wild ideas that somehow work despite how absurd they seem . David Kessler ( David Naughton ) watches... |
435,931 | 9,938,570 | 105,527 | 8 | Tale of a Vampire | Alex ( Julian Sands ) , a vampire who often frequents a library , finds that a newly hired clerk , Anne ( Suzanna Hamilton ) resembles a long lost love , Virginia , sparking up a desire for relations with her . A mysterious intruder named Edgar ( Kenneth Cranham ) who persuasively ignites dinner conversations with Anne... |
436,360 | 9,938,570 | 59,792 | 8 | Planet of the Vampires | Spiffy little sci-fi horror flick regarding two ships ' crews coming in contact with an alien force that had been sending them signals from their Planet Aura . Something is willing the crew members , once they land on Aura , to turn on each other . The crew of the space ship Argos are able to gather their wits about th... |
436,054 | 9,938,570 | 489,270 | 8 | Live or die . Make your choice | Jigsaw John ( Tobin Bell ) and his protégé Amanda ( Shawnee Smith ) are up to their old tricks , but in this third film ( and my favorite of the series ) there are some surprises I didn't see coming . On " trial " is Jeff ( Angus Macfadyen , who is blessed with a face and talent that can express all sorts of emotion ) ... |
436,502 | 9,938,570 | 79,843 | 8 | Saint Jack | Atypical Bogdanovich feature about the passage of time in a life of pimp , Ben Gazzara , ( well cast ) in Singapore . Denholm Elliot brings a very good , melancholic performance as a accountant who comes to Singapore every year to work out the finances of Gazzara's Visa boss . Bogdanovich himself portrays a government ... |
436,811 | 9,938,570 | 59,311 | 9 | Incubus | Kia ( Allyson Ames ) is a succubus working for the God of Darkness who is bored with luring already lost souls to hell . She wants to be a major factor in the Dark Lord's legion and thirsts for the desire to turn a pure soul to the dark side . Kia's sister Amael ( Eloise Hardt ) , warns her that doing this might be a v... |
435,798 | 9,938,570 | 462,499 | 9 | Rambo | The synopsis is simple . A repulsive , completely evil militant group of Burmese soldiers are wiping out innocent Karen villages with Christian leanings . A small group of missionaries desire to boat to a specific village to help the lives of the people there . Rambo , now a snake wrangler and boatman , is asked to tak... |
436,790 | 9,938,570 | 734,643 | 9 | The Grave | It's a major surprise to see such a rich cast of male actors who could make a theatrical western hum with excitement , featured together in a spooky Twilight Zone episode of twenty or so minutes . It features none other than Lee Marvin as a cranky and aggressive gunfighter paid by a frightened town to track a known and... |
435,769 | 9,938,570 | 72,662 | 9 | The Killer Must Kill Again | Stunning manipulative giallo about a slimy , greedy womanizing husband , Giorgio Mainardi ( George Hilton , dashing even when portraying a loathsome jerk ) stuck in a marriage of convenience with a wife whose father is a wealthy industrialist , catches a sociopath ( Antone Saint-John ) disposing of a body in a creek . ... |
436,496 | 9,938,570 | 38,975 | 9 | The Spiral Staircase | Just magnificent psychological tale of suspense regarding a serial killer on the loose , who targets women with imperfections ( one was lame , another was simple-minded ) . The constable ( James Bell ) warns Professor Warren ( George Brent ) that he has traced the killer's whereabouts to the Warren estate and to keep a... |
436,286 | 9,938,570 | 59,170 | 9 | Faster , Pussycat ! Kill ! Kill ! | Brilliant trash from Russ Meyer about three volatile go-go dancers who live hard and race their cars harder . Their leader is Varla ( Tura Satana ) , a benevolent sort of mad dame who loves pushing the boundaries of bad . She decides to kill an innocent man just out to test-drive his car for speed time . She is always ... |
436,882 | 9,938,570 | 470,132 | 9 | Kibakichi : Don't Awake the Beast | For quite a while humans and the Yokai shape-shifting monsters were able to live in harmony . But , soon the racist humans wanted the Yokai out of the equation with war sending the monsters into exile . Master Onizo wishes for harmony to exist once again and has benefited from what he believed was a satisfying relation... |
436,902 | 9,938,570 | 21,815 | 9 | Drácula | Conde Drácula ( Carlos Villarías , portraying the count with these fiendish eyes like a rabid dog on the prowl for rabbit meat ) has Renfield ( Pablo Álvarez Rubio ) bring documents to his decrepit , centuries-old , decaying castle in Transylvania for a place in Carfax Abbey near London . He has plans to use Renfield a... |
436,803 | 9,938,570 | 212,132 | 9 | The Tracker | Three white hunters and an aboriginal tracker are combing Australia for another aboriginal accused of killing a white woman . Mostly on horseback , the nameless white hunters have their tracker walk on foot doing his work . The most aggressive white man is played by Gary Sweet . Sweet's authoritarian is a blinded racis... |
436,163 | 9,938,570 | 68,502 | 9 | Dr . Jekyll and Sister Hyde | Dr . Jekyll ( Alan Bates ) really wishes to cure the ills of mankind , but faces a moral dilemma . . he needs to live eternally so the act of death will not stand in the way of experimental progress for curing diseases . He finds that the female hormones is his answer for eternal life , but there's a catch . . when one... |
436,305 | 9,938,570 | 87,800 | 9 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | Whatever you do , don't fall asleep . A Word of Warning : This user comment is for those who have seen the film . You know , I often take away the memorable frightening images when watching this film , but this particular viewing had me focusing on something else . . the ending . If you think about it , the entire fi... |
436,556 | 9,938,570 | 66,412 | 9 | The Strange Vice of Mrs . Wardh | Mrs . Wardh ( the fetching Edwige Fenech ) has a vice . . dangerous men . They excite her sexual desires and director Martino shows this as we peer into her fantasies as many are strangely violent . Julie had married stockbroker Neil ( Alberto de Mendoza ) to separate herself from Jean ( Ivan Rassimov ) , who fulfilled... |
436,421 | 9,938,570 | 76,162 | 9 | Hausu | There are some films that are bizarre beyond words . HOUSE is such a zany and really warped haunted house tale , unlike your typical of the genre , this one has such surreal sequences as a girl being eaten by piano ( . . her decapitated fingers actually playing the musical instrument afterward ! ) , a girl's removed lo... |
435,790 | 9,938,570 | 45,877 | 9 | Hitch-Hiker | One of the best films made about the misfortune of picking up the wrong hitchhiker . Ida Lupino's tough little programmer about two men , Roy Collins & Gilbert Bowen ( Edmond O'Brien & Frank Lovejoy ) who pick up killer Emmett Myers ( William Talman , who is really intense and creepy in this role ; very effective portr... |
436,905 | 9,938,570 | 32,366 | 9 | Crimes at the Dark House | Devlishly wicked tale of a murderer ( the deliciously vile Tod Slaughter ) stealing the identity of Percivel Glyde , a man supposedly on the throes of receiving a large castle and possible fortune . What the false Glyde doesn't expect is that the ancestor not only left him the castle , but in a state of massive debt . ... |
436,122 | 9,938,570 | 72,196 | 9 | Spasmo | Slippery giallo from Umberto Lenzi has young swinging bachelor Christian Bauman ( Robert Hoffman ) , a wealthy heir to his dead industrialist father's massive factory , abandons his painter girlfriend for the beautiful woman , Barbara ( Suzy Kendall ) , he meets under awkward circumstances lying face-down on the muddy ... |
436,087 | 9,938,570 | 105,242 | 9 | The Resurrected | Private detective John March ( John Terry ) is hired by a beautiful client , Claire ( Jane Sibbett ) concerned about her husband Charles Dexter Ward ( Chris Sarandon , yet again perfectly cast ) who has removed himself from her life almost completely , secluding himself from their cottage miles away in his ancestral ho... |
436,303 | 9,938,570 | 202,493 | 9 | Curse of the Blair Witch | Brilliantly conceived fake documentary of the Blair Witch mythos , Burkittsville's past origins ( . . how the township of Blair became Burkittsville ) regarding a witch banished to the woods by superstitious locals in Colonial times who is reported to haunt those very woods at least every 60 years , children disappeari... |
436,624 | 9,938,570 | 76,150 | 9 | Alice , Sweet Alice | The tragic murder of a little girl , Karen ( Brooke Shields , who was just an adorable child ) before receiving her communion powerfully opens this horror film about a killer donning a yellow raincoat and children's mask . The film immediately points towards Alice ( Paula Sheppard , who is quite creepy . . her image in... |
436,200 | 9,938,570 | 158,714 | 9 | Lady Snowblood | In turbulent Japan , in the 1870's , the political system was corrupt and often peasants and the poor suffered for their wicked ways of living . But , Yuki Kashima's ( Meiko Kaji ) mother was a victim of criminal swindlers who would thrive off villagers for protection against being drafted for war . Tsukamoto Gishiro (... |
436,362 | 9,938,570 | 47,985 | 9 | The Desperate Hours | Simply outstanding , genuinely suspenseful thriller about a group of escaped convicts terrorizing a suburban family as they hole up in their home . It's a game of cat-and-mouse as Dan Hilliard ( Fredric March , just terrific ) must find a way to keep his family safe against gruff louse Glenn ( Humphrey Bogart , unshave... |
436,783 | 9,938,570 | 47,880 | 9 | The Big Knife | One singular mistake in Hollywood " star " Charles Castle's life ( a criminal one at that ) haunts him to the point now that it has caught up with him . He had dreams of being a star of quality pictures , but along the way sold his soul to a producer , Stanley Shriner Hoff ( the great , ferocious Rod Steiger ) who only... |
436,941 | 9,938,570 | 72,288 | 9 | Thunderbolt and Lightfoot . | Preparations are in order to rob Montana Armoured when a young goof-ball roadie named Lightfoot ( Jeff Bridges , nothing short of amazing ) convinces ex-bank robber Thunderbolt ( Clint Eastwood , very mellow and pleasant in this particular film ) and his ex-heister partners ( Geoffrey Lewis as Goody & George Kennedy as... |
435,811 | 9,938,570 | 54,988 | 9 | Homicidal | Emily ( Jean Arless ) is so beautiful , yet so . . HOMICIDAL ! ! We watch as this blonde bombshell murders a justice-in-peace after coercing a bellhop , through a substantial sum , to marry her and this opens up the movie ! You know right here that this woman is truly nuts because director William Castle shoots her dem... |
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