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tt0124014 | The Mutilator | A woman is seen working on a birthday cake in the kitchen. In another room, her young son puts a sign on a gun cabinet reading: 'Happy Birthday, Daddy. All cleaned by me'. The boy takes out one rifle to polish. He playfully aims the gun and pulls the trigger, and a single bullet shoots right through the door and hits h... | comedy, murder, cult, horror, violence, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt0441773 | Kung Fu Panda | "Legend tells of a legendary warrior whose kung fu skills were the stuff of legend..." A mysterious panda donning a flowing cape and sedge hat walks through the Chinese landscape. Reputed to be a grand master of kung fu, he enters a tavern where he is immediately attacked by the local ruffians. However, they are no mat... | comedy, cute, violence, clever, good versus evil, flashback, absurd, action, entertaining | train | imdb | All the classic elements of those great kung fu flicks are there, while still keeping it pleasantly G-rated.Let me get this out of the way: this movie has some of the greatest 3D animated fight scenes.
It was the perfect blend of comedy, heart, and action, all necessary elements in a successful and great animation/CGI ... |
tt0960835 | Transmorphers | In 2009, a race of aliens piloting giant robots have conquered Earth and forced humanity to live underground. They have done this by altering the environment, causing constant rainfall and darkness. Over 300 years later, after many generations of living underground, a small group of human rebels plan to finally take ba... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0062957 | Malenka | Just two weeks from her marriage, model Sylvia Morelle [Anita Ekberg] receives a
letter from her Uncle, Count Waldrick [Julián Ugarte], informing her that her mother has
died and that she has inherited a castle and the title of Countess.
Consequently, Sylvia leaves her fiance, Dr Piero Lufuani [John Hamilton], in Rome ... | gothic, flashback | train | imdb | Readers should NOT let the negative nellies dissuade them from seeking this film out -- it is a marvelous little bit of Eurotrash from one of the genre's finest directors when he was just flexing his muscles.Most literature I have encountered on MALENKA agree that Ossorio's main inspriration was THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KI... |
tt0217869 | Unbreakable | The film opens as we see a baby being born in west Philadelphia. This is Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson). Elijah is so brittle that he is born with broken arms and legs. As he grows older, he is taunted at school and called Mr. Glass by his classmates since he is so fragile. As an adult, he runs a successful high pric... | murder, cult, horror, atmospheric, flashback, good versus evil, plot twist, storytelling | train | imdb | Yet I know other people who think Signs is his best, specifically because of the way the alien plot line accentuates the central one.Unbreakable is a beautifully simple film, but I think it has to hit you just right for you to completely get it.
Samuel L Jackson's character history is really nicely crafted in the middl... |
tt0080745 | Flash Gordon | The story opens with Emperor Ming the Merciless (Max von Sydow) declaring that he will first play with, and then destroy, the Earth, using seemingly natural disasters which include earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanic euptions, tornados, and something called "hot hail".Sometime later on Earth, New York Jets football star ... | good versus evil, cult, psychedelic | train | imdb | null |
tt0242572 | Kandukondain Kandukondain | Kandukondain Kandukondain opens with army commando Major Bala (Mammootty) fighting in a war and losing his left leg in a grenade explosion. After the opening credits, Sowmya (Tabu) and Meenakshi "Meenu" (Aishwarya Rai) are shown as the adult daughters of Pathma (Srividya) living in a Chettiar mansion in Karaikudi, Tami... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Engaging characters, witty screenplay, great music.....
I came to this film with the background of having watched and thoroughly Bride & Prejudice, and having not read Austen's Sense & Sensibility.
(I did re-read P& P after watching B&P and enjoyed the contrast.) I was intrigued to see a "real" Indian movie, since Brid... |
tt0095941 | Quando Alice ruppe lo specchio | Lester Parson (Brett Halsey) is a cannibal psychopath who regularly abducts and mutilates young women, eating certain cuts and disposing the rest in his back yard to his horde of pigs. He converces schizophrenically with himself via tape recordings of his own voice. He is also being hounded by Randy (Pier Luigi Conti),... | violence, revenge, comedy, murder, romantic | train | imdb | "Touch of Death" is the story of Lester Pearson, a down on his luck gambler whom starts seducing wealthy women with various deformities, then killing them off for a prie fixe lunch of human flesh and cash for his horse racing betting debts.Fulci has an oft tenuous grasp on his plots, but this has to be the most ridicul... |
tt0081617 | Terror Train | A large group of college students are at a bonfire for the New Year's Eve celebration. All of the pledges are wearing beanies, and one nerd-ish pledge named Kenny (Derek McKinnon) is sent by the fraternity president Doc (Hart Bochner) and his friends up to a room in the frat house where a sorority sister named Alana (J... | grindhouse film, murder, cult, horror, violence, revenge, sadist, prank | train | imdb | And as with HALLOWEEN and THE FOG, the heroine at the center of this is none other than Jamie Lee Curtis.But unlike most HALLOWEEN-inspired bloodfests, TERROR TRAIN does boast a lot of good things to lift it above the worst of an always-bad bunch.
Furthermore, the violence and bloodshed are surprisingly kept relatively... |
tt0498366 | The Life of Reilly | The film begins with Reilly recounting his childhood and his parents in New York City and Connecticut. We meet his family an institutionalized father, a racist, baseball bat-wielding mother, and a lobotomized aunt, amongst others. Eugene ONeill would never get near this family, Reilly declares.
Prior to being put into ... | autobiographical | train | imdb | Quite the character, a great filming of his one man show.
I saw this at the Waterfront Film Festival in Saugatuck, Michigan.As the film opens, some people on the street are asked if they know who Charles Nelson Reilly is.
Several of them say they've heard his name but don't really know him.
Well, before seeing this fil... |
tt0121164 | Corpse Bride | In an unspecified Victorian-era village somewhere in Europe, Victor Van Dort (Johnny Depp), the son of nouveau riche fish merchants, and Victoria Everglot (Emily Watson), the neglected daughter of snobbish aristocrats, are preparing for their arranged marriage, which will simultaneously raise the social class of Victor... | dark, comedy, gothic, cult, horror, psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | A Work of Dark Art. After enchanting audiences with "The Nightmare Before Christmas," Tim Burton brings another stop-motion animated spectacle, "Corpse Bride." In this story, Victor Van Dort, an inept young groom-to-be, can't make his way through his wedding rehearsal.
Helena Bonham Carter is the voice of Emily, the Co... |
tt0084777 | Tenebre | Peter Neal, an American writer of violent horror novels, is in Italy to promote his latest work, Tenebrae. He is accompanied by his literary agent, Bullmer and his assistant, Anne. Neal is unaware that he has also been followed to Rome by his embittered ex-wife, Jane. Just before Neal arrived in Rome, Elsa, a young fem... | gothic, murder, violence, horror, flashback, brainwashing, storytelling | train | wikipedia | I really enjoyed the film, so I bought the rerelease print from Anchor Bay, and I must say, the restored, uncut, letterboxed print looks and sounds wonderful.There's no need to go into the plot other than to say Anthony Franciosa stars as American horror novelist Peter Neal and, while he's in Rome on a book tour, murde... |
tt0091578 | My Beautiful Laundrette | Omar Ali is a young man living in Battersea in the Wandsworth area of South London, right by the railway station during the mid-1980s. His father, Hussein (known to the rest of the family as Papa), once a famous left-wing British Pakistani journalist in Bombay, lives in London but hates Britain's society and its intern... | violence, psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | It's about the characters, rather than a social message (but that's there too).'My Beautiful Laundrette' mainly centres around Omar and his relationship with Johnny.
Daniel Day-Lewis and Gordon Warnecke are excellent as Johnny and Omar.
A classic film in my book, My Beautiful Laundrette is the story of Omar, a young re... |
tt0366292 | Chakushin ari | The film begins with a young girl being rescued from a burning hospital. A firefighter asks her if her mother is still inside, to which she remains speechless.
Meanwhile, Shelley, a college student, sits outside near her koi pond in her Japanese-styled home and after having a chat over the phone with Leann, she hears h... | good versus evil, paranormal, cruelty, sadist, flashback | train | wikipedia | However this factor does not deter Japanese creative production teams to come up with movie gems, in different genres.In the realm of Japanese horrors for example, a studio working with a limited budget has to resort to Jaws-style direction, in which you hardly see or visualise the ghosts/monsters.And it is through the... |
tt1392170 | The Hunger Games | The nation of Panem, formed from a post-apocalyptic North America, is a country that consists of a wealthy Capitol region surrounded by 12 poorer districts. Early in its history, a rebellion led by a 13th district against the Capitol resulted in its destruction and the creation of an annual televised event known as the... | suspenseful, mystery, murder, dramatic, violence, cult, flashback, psychedelic, action, romantic, revenge | train | imdb | There's almost nothing to say about a movie like The Hunger Games -- it's been so worked to death to be a successful blockbuster that all of its edges, the things that make a film good or bad, have disappeared.
It just exists as a spectacle, a finished product that defies any critical lens.I could go on about the parti... |
tt0102522 | Nekromantik 2 | The film opens with a scene showing the protagonist of the first Nekromantik, Rob (Daktari Lorenz), committing suicide. The film then goes to a churchyard in the evening where Monika (Monika M) is searching for a way in. She finds her way in and after quite some digging she absconds with the remains of Rob. Once back a... | insanity, violence, murder, flashback | train | imdb | There are some genuinely funny scenes that are good for a laugh, and definitely some strong gore that rivals the first "Nekromantik", but I found myself checking my watch too often.
The latter film is a superbly original romantic comedy about an unusual love triangle between a woman, her lover and a rotting corpse.
Nek... |
tt0973790 | Steel Trap | With a million dollars cash in the vault, Jim Osborne (Joseph Cotten), an assistant bank manager in Los Angeles, is tempted to steal from his own bank and flee the country. Doing research at the library, he learns that Brazil has no extradition treaty with the United States. If he steals the money at close of business ... | murder | train | wikipedia | If you're looking for a horror movie that is just simple and a bit "mindless", then Steel Trap may just be for you.
Its starts off interesting with the use of children nursery rhymes to try to add a scary element to the movie, but then half way in, decides to forget about it.
It tries to draw you in by making you belie... |
tt0061138 | Un homme et une femme | A young widow, Anne Gauthier (Anouk Aimée), is raising her daughter Françoise (Souad Amidou) alone following the death of her husband (Pierre Barouh) who worked as a stuntman and who died in a movie set accident that she witnessed. Still working as a film script supervisor, Anne divides her time between her home in Par... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0364751 | Without a Paddle | Ten years after graduating high school, three friends, Jerry (Matthew Lillard), Dan (Seth Green) and Tom (Dax Shepard), find out that their childhood friend, Billy (Antony Starr), died in a para-sailing accident in Costa Rica. After the burial, they take a trip down to memory lane and enter their tree house, where the ... | violence, romantic, humor, storytelling, home movie | train | imdb | The film talks about a trio friends(Seth Green,Dax Shepard,Matthew Lillard),later the death a childhood's friend ,they propose the making a hick by canoe into woods of Oregon territory.Their aim is the looking for of D.B Cooper bounty for carrying out the promise they made when were little boys .Cooper was a mythic hig... |
tt0069047 | La orgía nocturna de los vampiros | Seven very tired passengers -- Ernesto [Indio González], Godo [Luis Ciges], Cesar [David Aller], Marcos [Manuel de Blas], Alma [Dianik Zurakowska],
Raquel [Charo Soriano], and Raquel's eight year old daughter Violet [Sarita Gil] -- are traveling by
bus to Bojoni (filmed in Spain) where they have secured jobs working fo... | murder | train | imdb | The driver has a fulminating heart attack, and the group decides to drive to the near village of Tolnio instead, to spend the night and follow to Bojoni on the next morning.
I particularly liked the scenes where meat is served to the hosts; the death of the little girl; the finger in the food of Alma; the vampires chas... |
tt0051413 | Bijo to ekitai ningen | (Japanese Version)
Following a routine nuclear experiment, the ship Ryujin Maru II disappeared while in the South Pacific Days later, another ship, bound for Izu, stumbles upon the craft adrift at sea. Six members of the crew decide to board the ship. To their surprise, they find no one on board at all, only clothes ly... | horror | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3110958 | Now You See Me 2 | New Jersey, 1984The magician Lionel Shrike (Richard Laing) is set to perform a trick in which he attempts to escape from a safe as it is dropped into the river. Thaddeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman) is reporting on the event, claiming it can't be done. Lionel's son Dylan (William Henderson) runs to his dad, expressing doub... | revenge, suspenseful, comedy, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0093058 | Full Metal Jacket | It's the late 1960s at Parris Island, South Carolina, the U.S. Marine Corps Training Camp, where a group of young Marine recruits, after having their heads shaved, are being prepped for basic training by the brutal Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey), whose orders are to "weed out all non-hackers". Hartman gives ea... | dark, murder, dramatic, violence, anti war, action, brainwashing | train | imdb | SPOILER: Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 realistic Vietnam war film and is one of the best films of the 80's ever made, directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick.
A superb ensemble falls in for for Stanley Kubrick's brilliant saga about the Vietnam War and the dehumanizing process that turns people into trained killers.
Fro... |
tt0432348 | Saw II | The film opens with Michael (Noam Jenkins), a police informant, finding himself ensnared in a deadly trap created by the Jigsaw Killer (Tobin Bell). A videotaped message informs him that a Venus flytrap-like helmet full of spikes has been locked around his neck and will close on his head unless he finds the key in time... | mystery, gothic, murder, violence, horror, flashback, clever, suspenseful, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt0094721 | Beetlejuice | In a sleepy little town in New England, we meet Barbara (Geena Davis) and Adam (Alec Baldwin) Maitland, a couple who have chosen to take a vacation by staying at home. However, the realtor who sold them the house, Jane (Annie McEnroe), tries to entice them to sell the house, since it seems too big for just a couple. Th... | comedy, fantasy, gothic, paranormal, whimsical, cult, alternate reality, horror, haunting, psychedelic, entertaining | train | imdb | Director Tim Burton is very careful not to overload the movie with raunch; he is surprisingly careful in setting up this story, and he works magic within a dubious scenario: a comic fantasy about dead folks which ultimately celebrates life.
Once again I'm not sure exactly how to start this comment other than to praise ... |
tt0055205 | Murder She Said | This is based on the Agatha Christie book "4:50 from Paddington" and the opening locale is Paddington Station in London. The movie starts with Miss Jane Marple (Margaret Rutherford) being escorted with her bags, by a porter, onto a train car. While traveling through the countryside another train slowly overtakes and Mi... | cult, mystery, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0111495 | Trois couleurs: Rouge | The film begins with clips that track a telephone call between London and Geneva, where a French university student and part-time model, Valentine Dusot (Irène Jacob), is talking to her emotionally infantile but possessive boyfriend. During her work as a model, she poses for a chewing-gum campaign, during the photo sho... | psychedelic, mystery, atmospheric | train | imdb | null |
tt0088850 | Brewster's Millions | Montgomery "Monty" Brewster (Richard Pryor) is a second-rate minor league baseball pitcher with the Hackensack Bulls. One night after winning a game, Monty and his best friend, the Bulls' catcher, Spike Nolan (John Candy), are hitting on two women at a local bar. When they try to leave with them, they're confronted by ... | entertaining | train | imdb | Montgomery Brewster (Richard Pryor) is a down and out baseball player in the lower leagues along with his best friend Spike Nolan (John Candy).
Out of the blue he inherits 30 Million Dollars that he must spend in 30 Days and have nothing to show for it, so he can get his real inheritance of 300 Million Dollars; oh yes ... |
tt0052378 | War of the Colossal Beast | The film starts with a young Mexican man driving a truck at a breakneck pace. After the truck ends up submerged in water, the young man gets out of the truck, looking at something and screaming his head off.Sometime afterwards in Guavos, Mexico, the owner of the truck named John Swanson goes into the Sheriff's office t... | insanity, flashback | train | imdb | Col. Glenn Manning, having survived the fall from Boulder Dam is disfigured and hopelessly insane,(he somehow manages to hold on to his loin cloth),the U.S. military tries to contain him while his sister (Sally Fraser) tries to communicate with him.
(This was one of the factors that made NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD one of... |
tt0465234 | National Treasure: Book of Secrets | When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Bens great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in Abraham Lincolns death. Determined to prove his ancestors innocence, Ben follows an international chain of clues that takes him on a chase from Paris to London and ultimately bac... | entertaining, historical, murder | train | imdb | The outraged Ben decides to prove the honor of his ancestor and together with his wife Abigail (Diane Kruger) and his best friend, the writer Riley Poole (Justin Bartha), they head to France, England and Washington to collect clues to lead them to a lost city of gold Cinola and clean the name of Thomas Gates.
But Mitch... |
tt1569334 | Zapiski ekspeditora Taynoy kantselyarii | ''The secret service agent's memories'' is a russian historical film based on the novel by Oleg Ryaskov. It was directed and produced by Oleg Ryaskov in 2010-2011. The world premiere was held at the tv channel Russia 1 in Russion Federation, on June 10, 2011. Also movie was shoved in USA, Canada ( by HULU), Germany, Th... | romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt2473510 | Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension | The film starts in 1988 at the end of the third film. A supernatural entity bends Dennis backwards and kills him. Grandma Lois (Hallie Foote) guides young Katie (Chloe Csengery) and Kristi (Jessica Tyler Brown) upstairs where they meet with a guy named Kent (Don McManus), whom Lois says will be the girls' teacher. Kent... | paranormal | train | imdb | null |
tt1668200 | Elle s'appelait Sarah | It is the year 1942 in Paris, France. The scene opens with a young girl playing with her brother in a bedroom. The two children are laughing and having fun together when several sharp knocks sound on the front door of the apartment. The girl, Sarah Starzynski (Mélusine Mayance) immediately quiets down. Sarah and her mo... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0066011 | Love Story | The film tells of Oliver Barrett IV, who comes from a family of wealthy and well-respected Harvard University graduates. At Radcliffe library, the Harvard student meets and falls in love with Jennifer Cavelleri, a working-class, quick-witted Radcliffe College student. Upon graduation from college, the two decide to mar... | tragedy, cult, romantic, sentimental | train | imdb | A box office phenomenon at the time (this was one of those movie that people reportedly waited in line for hours to see), LOVE STORY has continued to be ridiculed by cynics and adored by romantics for decades.
The film even manages to make subtle commentary on class struggles, personal identity, and even the changing a... |
tt0114568 | Stripteaser | The story starts one late one weekday evening at Zipper's Clown Palace topless strip club. The beautiful Christina (Maria Ford) is on stage and devoted fan Carey (Lance August), a socially backwards, stuttering, but good natured young man sits at her feet.Outside a bus drops off Neil (Rick Dean), a man with sunglasses ... | cult, murder | train | imdb | A typical Maria Ford Bare-it-all flick.
This movie has an interesting premise.
A supposedly blind man (Rick Dean) enters a strip club.
You wonder for what purpose.
Clearly he can't see anything behind his shades.
Perhaps, he's there for the drinks.
Or maybe, he has an acute sense of smell.
This is after all a fully nud... |
tt1211837 | Doctor Strange | A sorcerer, later revealed to be Kaecilius (Mads Mikkelsen), tears some pages from a chained book in a library and escapes with the help of several followers. The owner of the book, whom we later meet as the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton), goes after them. As he flees, Kaecilius bends, folds, and reshapes the streets and ... | murder, violence, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, humor | train | imdb | Every normal movie watcher will love the action, humour, adventure and fantasy throughout the film.A solid new character introduced to the Marvel Cinematic Universe with loads of potential.
Overall Doctor Strange is both fun and funny, clever and pretty, well acted and well-written, and is just an all-around great movi... |
tt0292963 | Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | Note: The story is explained here in its chronological order, rather than as it is presented in the film.
Andy Hanson (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a finance executive at a real estate firm in New York City. Facing an upcoming audit he knows will reveal his having embezzled from his employer (in support of a drug habit),... | suspenseful, neo noir, murder, violence, flashback, melodrama, revenge | train | wikipedia | After a cold sex scene, between Andy and Gina, in South America, we know that Andy is a payroll manager who finds himself in a hard economic situation where he badly needs some extra money
We also discover that he has been stealing from his job and using the money to his drug habits
He's also attempting to keep up wi... |
tt0082089 | Body Heat | Mary Ann Simpson (Kathleen Turner) and Matty Tyler (Kim Zimmer) graduate together from Wheaton High School in Illinois. According to the yearbook, Mary Ann's goal is to be rich and live in an exotic land. She pursues her goal in a calculated, manipulative, and ruthless manner that includes a switch of identities.The fo... | suspenseful, neo noir, murder, atmospheric | train | imdb | By that, I mainly mean nudity and profanity, although the language isn't that offensive.Kathleen Turner plays a femme fatale, similar to Barbara Stanwyck's role with Fred MacMurray in "Double Indemnity," except with a different ending.
I liked the classic actors better but Turner and Hurt shine with their performances,... |
tt0050210 | The Brain from Planet Arous | Titles and credits run over a vista of the desert with a mountain in the background. It is evening and a light descends from the sky and explodes into the mountain. Dr. Steve March (John Agar) is in his lab working and notices something strange on his Geiger counter. He tells his colleague, Dan Murphy (Robert Fuller) t... | brainwashing | train | imdb | null |
tt0096969 | Born on the Fourth of July | The film opens when Ron Kovic is a young boy living in Massapequa, Long Island, New York. He grows up in a patriotic and Catholic household, instilling within him a strong sense of pride in his country and his religion. As a teenager, and a top member of his high school's wrestling team, he proves himself physically fi... | dramatic, boring | train | imdb | There are a thousand details that Stone got exactly right, from Dalton Trumbo's paperback novel of a paraplegic from WW I, Johnny Got His Gun, that sat on a tray near Kovic's hospital bed, to the black medic telling him that there was a more important war going on at the same time as the Vietnam war, namely the ci... |
tt0120903 | X-Men | In 1944 Nazi-occupied Auschwitz, Poland, 14-year-old Erik Lehnsherr is separated from his parents upon entering the Auschwitz concentration camp. While trying to reach them, he causes a set of metal gates to bend towards him before being knocked out by guards. Fifty-six years later, U.S. Senator Robert Kelly attempts t... | psychological, murder, stupid, paranormal, violence, cult, flashback, psychedelic, action, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0499556 | War | In San Francisco, FBI Agents John Crawford (Jason Statham) and Tom Lone (Terry Chen) are at a Dock Warehouse. Tom lives with his wife & daughter. Toms daughters younger than 10. John lives with his wife & son. Johns sons younger than 10. The Chinese Triads are also at the same Warehouse. Crawfords carrying a shotgun. T... | dramatic, violence, revenge, neo noir, murder | train | imdb | If you walk into a movie theater showing "War" and expect to be dazzled by some thought-provoking paragon of acting destined to change the way the world thinks about film and culture, you're either an idiot or an idealist.
Jason Statham delivers a pretty good performance, considering that this is really designed for pu... |
tt2357291 | Rio 2 | The film starts with an enormous celebration going on across Rio de Janeiro. In the bird community of the city, we catch up with blue macaws Blu (Jesse Eisenberg) and Jewel (Anne Hathaway), now married with three kids. They dance and sing together with their pals Raphael (George Lopez), Pedro (will.i.am), and Nico (Jam... | romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0073195 | Jaws | Late one night, on one of the many beaches of Amity Island off the coast of New England, a group of teenagers throw a bonfire party. Chrissie Watkins (Susan Backlinie), a beautiful blonde, catches the eye of partygoer Tom Cassidy (Jonathan Filley) and leads him away from the group to go skinny-dipping with her in the o... | horror, cult, suspenseful, violence, prank | train | imdb | Steven Spielberg captures pure terror in that scene.Jaws completely absorbs you, as the trio of shark hunters venture off to try to snare the great white you begin to feel part of their adventure.
It's the Michael Jordan of cinema: there will never be another 'Jaws,' simply because the film so profoundly changed the wa... |
tt0373074 | Kung fu | Turmoil grips Shanghai in the 1940s. Various gangs vie for power, the most feared of which is The Axe Gang, led by the infamous Brother Sum and aptly named after its weapon of choice. In the absence of law enforcement, people can live peacefully only in poor areas which do not appeal to the gangs. An example is Pig Sty... | comedy, murder, cult, violence, flashback, absurd, psychedelic, action, philosophical, romantic, entertaining | train | imdb | Chow's comedic timing gets better and better with every movie he makes, and while his films are depending more and more on CGI these days, and makes this movie much more a fantasy kung fu film than a traditional one, it hardly detracts from the enjoyable experience.
Kung Fu Hustle not only reminds us of Chow's terrific... |
tt0105323 | Scent of a Woman | Charlie Simms is a student at an exclusive New England prep school, Baird. Unlike most of his peers, Charlie was not born to a wealthy family and attends Baird on scholarship. To pay for a flight home to Oregon for Christmas, Charlie accepts a temporary job over Thanksgiving weekend looking after retired Army Ranger Li... | dramatic, atmospheric, prank | train | imdb | null |
tt0384806 | The Amityville Horror | In 1974, Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murdered his family at their house at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York. He claimed that he was persuaded to kill them by voices he heard in the house.
One year later, married couple George and Kathy Lutz move into the house along with Kathy's three children from a previous marriage, B... | insanity, horror, murder | train | wikipedia | But all in all, a decent effort, just like i said.HOWEVER.If you're going into this expecting any resemblance WHATSOEVER to the book, the original film, or any of the stories told over the years, you're going to be severely disappointed.
Don't get me wrong, this is still effective, but if you're going to release a movi... |
tt1591479 | Act of Valor | The film opens with narration by Dave speaking about the code of a soldier. Dave says every man has a code, an ethos that he lives by. The code allows him to do his job and get home. He always tries to get home.In San Diego, Seal Team 7 is doing a test jump out of an airplane.The Philippines. A man in an ice cream van,... | realism, violence, suspenseful, action, murder | train | imdb | Since my service ended I have been working in film and TV myself to somewhat try and make a difference in this manner.This movie may not have Oscar winning acting, but it gave me a true chilling effect of realism.
Act of Valour set out to create a film with 100% authentic and realistic action sequences and promote the ... |
tt0453556 | TMNT | The film begins with a turtles prologue, explaning their transformation and their victory of defeating their arch-nemisis The Shredder. Then, 3000 years back, Yaolt, a warrior-king, and his four generals, lead an army in conquest of the world. After defeating a Central American kingdom, Yaotl learns that when nine star... | violence, entertaining, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt1012804 | Redbelt | The movie opens in a Jiu-Jitsu studio where Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is teaching an advanced class. Mike employs a unique training method. Before a sparring match, each fighter draws one of three marbles, two black and one white. Whoever draws a black marble has to fight with a handicap as determined by the spin o... | violence, neo noir, plot twist | train | imdb | As David Edelstein says in his nonetheless favorable review of 'Redbelt,' its plot is "so bizarrely convoluted it barely holds together on a narrative level." Maybe Edelstein's right that this is typical of fight movies; it's even more typical of Mamet.
Some have just attributed this to Mamet's doing a "noir," a "prize... |
tt0100618 | Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4 | Kim Levitt is an aspiring journalist working for the newspaper, L.A. Eye, as a classified ads editor. Her sexist boss, Eli, seems to give all of the men in her office the breaks, including her boyfriend Hank. When a woman is discovered dead on the sidewalk, half-burned to ashes in an apparent case of spontaneous human ... | violence, cult, murder | train | imdb | While asking the owner of a bookstore (Maude Adams) within the building about the strange death, she is lead into a sacrificial cult of modern day witches that plan on using her for one of their sacrificial ceremonies on Christmas Eve.Take elements from "Rosemary's Baby" and throw in some nasty monster creatures and fe... |
tt0099088 | Back to the Future Part III | We pick up where Part II left off. 1955 Doc (Christopher Lloyd) has just finished helping Marty's counterpart return to 1985, and is running down the street shouting and laughing victoriously. Marty runs to him and grabs him from behind. Doc is shocked, saying that he just sent Marty back to the future. Marty says that... | comedy, fantasy, alternate reality, humor, alternate history, entertaining, sci-fi | train | imdb | I love the rescue mission in which Marty goes back in time from the year 1955 back in to the past in to the Old West to save his best friend Doc Brown from getting killed by an outlaw Buford Tannen.
It was a return to the basics, the friendship between Marty and Doc and how each was thrown through time to change not on... |
tt0059045 | I coltelli del vendicatore | Vikingland, the 9th Century. On a beach, a witch reads the future to Karan (Elisa Pichelli) and her young son, Moki (Luciano Polletin). Karan is the wife of King Arald (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart), who is thought to have been killed at sea. It is Karan's hope that her husband will return to rescue them from the clutches of t... | revenge, violence | train | imdb | Sword And Sandal Film for Bava-Enthusiasts.
"Knives of the Avenger" (1966) is a somewhat cheesy, but doubtlessly fun 'Sword and Sandal' flick by the arguably greatest Horror director of all-time, the brilliant Mario Bava.
If I was to select one all-time favorite director of mine it would quite possibly be Mario Bava, a... |
tt0138647 | Nattens engel | Following the death of her grandmother, Rebecca [Maria Karlsen] has inherited Angel
Land Estate, a large, gothic mansion with plenty of rooms and family
secrets lying in the dark, dank, spiderweb-filled cellar. Rebecca and her
boyfriend Mads [Tomas Villum Jensen], along with Rebecca's best friend Charlotte [Mette Louis... | violence, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0115571 | The Arrival | Zane Zaminski (Charlie Sheen), a radio astronomer working for SETI, discovers an extraterrestrial radio signal from Wolf 336, a star 14 light years from Earth. Zane reports this to his supervisor, Phil Gordian (Ron Silver) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but Phil dismisses the claims. Zane soon finds that he has been... | suspenseful, murder | train | imdb | One scene in particular involving a large dish and someone almost falling off the side of it almost caused me to make a mess in my pants when first watching the film on the big screen.When I saw it the theater was mostly empty (not good for the movie, but it probably allowed us to enjoy it some more) and it was its fir... |
tt0221069 | Chasing Sleep | Ed Saxon (Jeff Daniels), a college professor, wakes up to find his wife has not returned home. He takes some mysterious pills, then calls one of his wife's friends, Susie (Molly Price), confusedly asking whether he should be worried. Susie suggests that he call the local hospital, but they have no record of his wife be... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0105470 | Stepfather III | Having survived the stab wounds he sustained at the end of the previous film, Gene Clifford (Robert Wightman), escapes from the same institution in Puget Sound, Washington he was placed in four years ago. He seeks out a back alley plastic surgeon (Mario Roccuzzo) to alter his appearance, using no anesthesia. After a fe... | murder | train | wikipedia | It is surprisingly good for a made-for-cable movie, and it stands up to Stepfather II, at the very least.
Terry O'Quinn does not return to his role in this one, he is replaced by Robert Wightman.
The plastic surgery sequence is particularly unsettling, as the stepfather undergoes the procedure without any anesthesia, a... |
tt0087592 | The Last Horror Film | Vinny Durand (Joe Spinell) is a New York City taxi driver who is obsessed with the international cult actress Jana Bates (Caroline Munro), who is known as the "queen of horror films". Vinny returns home to his apartment where he lives with his mother (played by Joe Spinell's real life mother), where he tells her that h... | pornographic, cult, satire, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0058620 | Strait-Jacket | Various flashbacks and images introduce Lucy Harbin [Joan Crawford], a young woman who comes home unexpectedly to find her husband in bed with another woman. Carol, their very young daughter, is in bed right in the next room, but she is awake. Heartbroken, Lucy suffers a moment of fury and confusion that leads her to s... | dark, neo noir, murder, cult, horror, flashback, insanity, revenge | train | imdb | Throughout his career, producer-director William Castle liked to build his movies around gimmicks: TINGLER had "Percepto," 13 GHOSTS had "Illusion-O," and HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL had "Emergo." But STRAIT-JACKET had something better: Joan Crawford herself, who plays in a style that can only be described as "Emote-O-Rama."... |
tt0116731 | The Juror | Annie Laird (Demi Moore) is a sculptor who lives in New York with her son Oliver (Joseph Gordon-Levitt); she works a day job as a data entry clerk. Annie is selected to be a juror in the trial of mob boss Louie Boffano (Tony Lo Bianco), who is accused of ordering the murder of Salvatore Riggio.
Mark Cordell (Alec Baldw... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | 'The Juror' has a strong, easy to follow plot and some really great acting; Alec Baldwin's role was terrifyingly real!
One almost wishes that there weren't this little matter of her agreeing to serve on the jury in the case of a Mafia boss on trial for murder..I will gloss over the excellent, if unlikely, plot since it... |
tt0039190 | The Bishop's Wife | On a snowy evening, a dapper gentleman (Cary Grant) strolls serenely through the streets of New York City, admiring the Christmas decorations and the smiling faces of children. He seems to be wandering around doing good deeds for others, almost magically appearing at the right place and time. He helps a blind man cross... | paranormal | train | imdb | A good script and inspired casting is what makes this film a real winner.Cary Grant as Dudley the Angel has a charm that transcends his role.When he enters a room his presence fills the screen -- you know he is there even if you cannot always see him.
Not hard to do with Cary Grant I am sure -- but they take it to the ... |
tt0036931 | House of Frankenstein | It's some 20 years after the Frankenstein monster and the wolfman met their demise in "Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman" (1943), but Dr Neimann [Boris Karloff] and his hunchback assistant Daniel [J Carroll Naish], currently locked in jail, still plan for a way to cure Daniel's deformity by Dr Frankenstein's operation. Wh... | revenge, gothic | train | imdb | In a move to re-generate interest in its fading horror series, Universal gives us Dracula, the Frankenstein monster, the Wolf Man, the Hunchback and the Mad Doctor all in the same film.
When a severe thunderstorm destroys the foundation of the prison he's housed in, Niemann manages an escape and attempts to locate the ... |
tt0051226 | Zombies of Mora Tau | The movie opens with titles and credits over a pen and ink drawing of four zombies walking through the mist. There is a panning shot of the shoreline, then a car approaching on a dirt road at dusk. The driver, Sam (Gene Roth) is transporting Jan Peters (Autumn Russell) to her grandmother's house near Dakar on the Afric... | violence, murder | train | imdb | One of the many plot implausibilities in this enjoyably awful Sam Katzman-produced dreck occurs when Allison Hayes, she of the killer figure, is murdered by diamond-loving zombies and becomes one of the walking dead.
It seems every group of treasure-seekers that tries to steal the loot, end up dead, so good ole granny ... |
tt0199974 | The Prophet's Game | The Prophet's Game involves a game master (the killer) giving out obscure clues to all of the players. It is a game among anonymous people with enigmas and riddles that prophesies the next victim. If you want the next victim to be saved you have to give the solution to the latest riddle you received. Of course the game... | murder | train | imdb | Dennis Hopper is intense.
He is by far the best thing in this by the numbers serial killer 'thriller'.
The idea of the prophet's game itself is interesting, and could make a pretty good movie, but this isn't it.
It's too bogged down in revenge, police politics, and laughable action to go anywhere, and the ending is unb... |
tt0076704 | Shock Waves | The film opens as Rose (Brooke Adams) is found drifting alone in a small rowboat. Two fishermen find the dinghy and pull her onto their boat, barely alive and in a horrible state. Her voiceover indicates she had been rescued from some terrifying experience. The film's events are flashbacks.Rose is seen previously as pa... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0116136 | DragonHeart | Dragonheart begins with Bowen (Dennis Quaid), a Knight of the "Old Code" of honor, valor and chivalry, tutoring his young protege, Einon (Lee Oakes) in both swordplay and the values of a knight. Einon is the king's son and heir to the throne. The lesson, conducted amongst the ruins of an old Roman fortress, is interrup... | fantasy, murder, whimsical, cult, good versus evil, humor, action, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0056687 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | In 1917, nine-year-old "Baby" Jane Hudson (Julie Allred) is a vaudevillian child star. She performs to adoring crowds and inspires the creation of a rather expensive Baby Jane doll. Jane is shown to have become a spoiled brat whose doting stage-father Ray Hudson (Dave Willock) gives in to her whims and demands while he... | comedy, dark, gothic, murder, cult, insanity, revenge | train | imdb | Ryan Murphy's series "Feud" in which Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon play Joan Crawford and Bette Davis at the time of Baby Jane and beyond.
The stories behind the making of the film are as interesting as the movie, with Miss Crawford demanding the set be kept at a breezy 55 (but preservative) degrees causing all kind... |
tt0118883 | Conspiracy Theory | Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson), an obsessivecompulsive New York City taxi driver, visits his friend Alice Sutton (Julia Roberts), who works for the U.S. Attorney, at the Justice Department. She is trying to solve her father's murder. Jerry tells her that NASA is trying to kill the President using a secret weapon on the Sp... | comedy, mystery, murder, dramatic, thought-provoking, flashback, brainwashing, romantic | train | imdb | Mel Gibson put a lot of energy into what was obviously a demanding role and, as usual, Julia Roberts lights up the screen in every scene she's in.
I found this film really hard to focus on, there was Mel Gibson playing a paranoid crazy guy, being dragged off by government/non-government 'spooks' and having some sort of... |
tt1132620 | Män som hatar kvinnor | Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist who works for the magazine Millennium, a local Swedish newspaper that publishes left-wing political articles, loses a libel case brought on by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. The magazine & Blomkvist are ordered to pay damages and Blomkvist is sentenced to a short pri... | dark, suspenseful, gothic, murder, violence, flashback, revenge, sadist, home movie | train | imdb | null |
tt2395427 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | In the Eastern European country of Sokovia, the Avengers – Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Thor, Bruce Banner, Natasha Romanoff, and Clint Barton – raid a Hydra facility commanded by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, who has been experimenting on humans using the scepter previously wielded by Loki. They encounter two of Strucker'... | murder, violence, flashback, good versus evil, humor, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0088925 | City Limits | Fifteen years from now [well, from the time this flick was done, so that would be 1984+15=1994]A gang of motorbikers arrive to a house in the middle of nowhere. The owner directly shoots them. The gang takes inside one of their own, who's wounded. Albert (James Earl Jones) accepts taking him inside. He says that a plag... | cult | train | imdb | null |
tt0084565 | Querelle | The plot centers on the handsome Belgian sailor Georges Querelle, who is also a thief and murderer. When his ship, Le Vengeur, arrives in Brest, he visits the Feria, a bar and brothel for sailors run by the madame Lysiane, whose lover, Robert, is Querelle's brother. Querelle has a love/hate relationship with his brothe... | psychedelic, murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Since Brad Davis also appeared in THE PLAYER, we might say this film is like Huckleberry Finn meeting Nosferatu with a drunken Anne Rice as narrator.
As a source novel, Genet's 'Querelle' presents a challenge for any adaptation but as this is R.W. Fassbinder's final work, one is compelled to ignore one's initial (poor)... |
tt0091480 | Manon des sources | The film "Manon des Sources" (1986), together with "Jean de Florette" (1986), which PRECEDES IT, are the screen rendition of Marcel Pagnol's exquisite novel, "L'eau des Collines" ("The Water from the Hills," 1963). It is the story of two competing projects, one carried out by the city-dweller Jean Cadoret, and the othe... | dramatic, revenge, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0065207 | Where Eagles Dare | It is the winter of 1944. A lone transport plane, in German Luftwaffe insignia, picks its way through the peaks of the Bavarian Alps by night. Inside, seven paratroopers, in German Fallschirmjaeger uniform, wait in grim silence for the jump signal. Among them is their leader, Major Smith (Richard Burton) and his junior... | plot twist, violence, romantic, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0460949 | Stranglehold | In latter-day Hong Kong, a policeman goes missing. The department is dumbfounded by the disappearance until they receive a ransom call from an unnamed source. The kidnappers request that a single officer appear at Kowloon market. Tequila volunteers for the assignment against his superior's wish, beginning a sequence of... | violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0422401 | Hatchet | Set in the Louisiana bayou, it is the story of the legend of Victor Crowley. A group of tourists discover that the legend is real and more horrifying than they ever imagined.Two hunters, Sampson (Robert Englund) and his son Ainsley (Joshua Leonard), are fishing in a swamp during a full moon. Ainsley says he has to use ... | violence, absurd, boring, murder, storytelling | train | imdb | Watching the film feels more like viewing a condensed reel of slasher kills with a few drunk and fun-loving friends - certainly not a bad thing, but not exactly a horror movie either.
In summary, I'd certainly recommend the film for anyone who gets a kick out of the slasher craze of the 80s, but be sure you're in the m... |
tt0075342 | The Town That Dreaded Sundown | Sunday, March 3, 1946, in the small town of Texarkana, Arkansas, Sammy and Linda Mae are out parking in a car. The car hood pops open and a man wearing a hood over his face takes something from the engine. Sammy realizes that someone is out there and fruitlessly tries starting the car as the hooded man breaks the drive... | grindhouse film, murder, violence, cult, horror, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt1097643 | Fifty Dead Men Walking | In the 1980s when the Irish civil conflict was at its most treacherous, 16-17 year old Martin McGartland was recruited by the British police to infiltrate and spy on the IRA. He lived his life under constant threat of exposure and subsequent guaranteed torture and death yet he continued because his information saved ma... | suspenseful, action, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0109297 | Blink | A bar in which an Irish-sounding band called The Drovers (Sean C. Cleland, Craig Winston Damon, Michael Kirkpatrick & David Callahan) are playing music. A group of executive dudes is creating a bit of a mess. One of them gets cocky and tells the rest of his beer-drinking buds that he's is going to know that girl sexual... | mystery, neo noir, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0099108 | Basket Case 2 | Duane Bradley (Kevin van Hentenryck) has survived to the fall from the condo where he used to live with his deformed brother. The newscaster (Judy Grafe) gives the description of handsome Duane but his brother is so ugly! Both lie at hospital, where the nurse feels disgusted. The nurse called Sherri (Alexandra Auder) d... | comedy, grindhouse film, murder, cult, violence, insanity, satire | train | imdb | This first sequel to the original "Basket Case" sees the return of Duane (Kevin VanHentenryck, who is in all of the Basket Case movies), and this flick introduces Annie Ross as Granny Ruth, who gives a memorable performance, and returns for "Basket Case 3: The Progeny".
This second entry in the series is not as gory as... |
tt0080520 | Cheech and Chong's Next Movie | As the movie opens, Cheech & Chong are siphoning gas from a tow truck to fill the tank of their "borrowed" car. As they drive away, Chong rolls and lights up a joint, igniting the gas fumes and causing an explosion in the car. Cheech is dropped off at a movie studio to ask a girlfriend for clean clothes, claiming his s... | humor, adult comedy | train | imdb | Hey, I grew up on Cheech and Chong films.
This is probably the second best of the lot, closely following "up in smoke".If you don't like Cheech Marin or Tommy Chong, this movie probably isn't for you.
If you like Tommy Chong in that 70's show, you will most likely like this movie.
And if you have any interest in Paul R... |
tt0377091 | Mean Creek | When small and shy Sam admits to his older brother Rocky that the school bully, a dyslexic boy named George, has hurt him because he moved George's video camera while George was filming himself playing basketball, Rocky devises a plan to exact revenge on George.
Rocky recruits his friends, Clyde and Marty, to assist hi... | dramatic, revenge, violence, prank | train | wikipedia | No one has any whiny special requests, and no one refuses to share a room with someone.Guess that explains why this movie made no sense to my friend.However, if you are an American, as I am, this movie is deeply touching, and may even bring back unsettling childhood memories of bullies.Scott Mechlowicz is certifiably g... |
tt1047007 | Young @ Heart | Over the last 25 years, there has existed a group of senior citizens living in Northampton, Massachusetts, who refuse to let age and ill health get them down. Young@Heart is a documentary based on the lives of the current singing group of 24 senior citizens, brought to the big screen by British filmmaker, Stephen Walke... | entertaining, queer | train | imdb | null |
tt1623205 | Oz the Great and Powerful | Oscar Diggs (James Franco) is an ambitious illusionist/con man employed by a midwestern traveling circus. Despite being greatly ambitious, Oscar's magic career isn't taking off. His illusions are cheap, his suits are torn and patched, and he's barely making enough money to keep his head above water. Frank (Zach Braff),... | fantasy, whimsical, good versus evil, psychedelic, romantic, revenge, entertaining, storytelling, sci-fi | train | imdb | The supporting cast also performs pretty well, sometimes capturing that original 'Wizard of Oz' magic.The Bad: Going into this film with high expectations for the dialogue, & acting is going to leave you very disappointed.
(Such as transferring characters of "the real world" into characters of The Land of Oz) Without s... |
tt0266697 | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 | Before the credits we learn that the film is about the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, which has five members. A quotation gives the flavour: "Revenge is a dish best served cold". In monochrome, a gasping, blood-covered bride (Uma Thurman) looks up from a chapel floor. A hand wipes her face using a handkerchief with ... | comedy, mystery, neo noir, murder, boring, allegory, cult, violence, flashback, psychedelic, action, romantic, tragedy, revenge, entertaining | train | imdb | Having seen Tarantino's 3 previous films, going into the cinema, my expectations for 'Kill Bill' were already over the roof.
I had quite simply never seen anything even remotely like it.In 'Kill Bill', the revenge plot serves only as a larger story arc, thus allowing Tarantino to play with as many different genres as h... |
tt0082118 | The Burning | At Camp Blackfoot, five boy campers decide to frighten the caretaker, Cropsy (Lou David). The group heads over to his cabin with a box, and one boy goes inside, puts the box down, lights something and walks out. They rap on the window until Cropsy wakes up, and sees a wormy skull with lit candles in the eye sockets. He... | revenge, cult, murder, violence, prank | train | imdb | This movie has a different story, it is not that bad and it is a good slasher movie and it just become my favorite horror film.The story follows campers from summer camp goes with canoe trip to Devil's Creek once there they become targets, from a former summer camp caretaker, horribly burned from a prank gone wrong, wi... |
tt0980970 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | Edmund Pevensie (Skandar Keynes), almost but not quite an adult, envies adult men. He tries to enlist in His Majesty's Army, but the recruiter, of course, catches him out with his fake I.D., especially when his sister Lucy (Georgie Henley) reminds him that he was supposed to help her with grocery shopping.Lucy envies a... | good versus evil, violence, alternate reality | train | imdb | Unfortunately this meant that most of the magic of the story was lost as well.I gave the film 6 stars due to the redeeming qualities that were the stunning visuals, some excellent acting (notably by Will Poulter as Eustace), and a beautifully executed final scene.If you haven't read the book, then you may enjoy this fi... |
tt0061014 | Le spie vengono dal semifreddo | The foppish mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) plots another mad scheme to take over the world by killing off the major military leaders of every country; to that end, he creates in his secret lab a bevy of bodacious girl bombs; full-length, life-size robots that explode when embraced.Goldfoots plans become com... | good versus evil, murder | train | imdb | I should emend that statement after watching this movie: I'd watch Vincent Price read a phone book IF he was nowhere near a pair of Italian idiots...I saw Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, so I knew what to expect; but, any camp enjoyment one could derive from this film was nullified by the idiot doormen/spies who mug t... |
tt0068863 | Lisa e il diavolo | [note: this synopsis is only for Mario Bava's true and original Lisa and the Devil (1973), not the re-shot, re-edited version 'The House of Exorcism' (1975)]Lisa Reiner (Elke Sommer) is a young American woman vacationing in Spain with some friends of hers. During a stop in a small town square with her tour group, Lisa ... | violence, gothic, murder | train | imdb | Of course, the argument could also be made that this film suffers from slow pacing and a telegraphed conclusion, but I still think the movie is gorgeous, and Elke Sommer is a delight.But don't let that stop you from checking out "House of Exorcism", either!
She just cuts loose & goes for it, mugging for the camera, vom... |
tt0116770 | La lengua asesina | A lady says that she should have stayed in Mexico and lead a suburban life, even killing her husband like her mother did. She's breaking the fourth wall.Welcome to New Mexico. Two bank clerks are overjoyed that have robbed a bank successfully. They are Vic (Richard Waters) and Chip (Nigel Whitmey). A Marilyn-Monroe loo... | violence, cult | train | imdb | This horror story is set in New Mexico when something falls from space onto Earth , it involves two delinquents , she is Candy (a beautiful Mandy Clarke) and he is Johnny (Jason Durr) , they flee with the loot from a hold-up , but the latter is trapped and does prison time .
As a meteorite crashes near the station tran... |
tt0024025 | Flying Down to Rio | The film opens with an airplane flying straight at the audience. Its propeller spins into the films title frame. During the opening credits each of the principal characters is introduced in a film clip from the movie that includes their real name and the character they portray. Then, the same airplane shot is seen; thi... | romantic | train | imdb | You'd be surprised at what they could get away with in those days - it would be forty years before a film could get away with a line like that spoken by a starlet of her South American rivals - `What have those girls got below the equator that we haven't got?'The film, about a love triangle between a Brazilian woman an... |
tt0070898 | A Warm December | This bittersweet movie centers around Dr. Matt Younger (Sidney Poitier) recently widowed, who travels to England on a month long holiday with his charming young daugther Stephanie(Yvette Curtis). While there, his meets a beautiful and mysterious stranger Katherine(Ester Anderson). She elicits his help to avoid a man wh... | melodrama | train | imdb | null |
tt0780583 | Plane Dead | On a routine flight from Los Angeles to Paris, a renegade group of scientists has smuggled aboard a secret container holding a fellow scientist infected with a deadly genetically engineered virus which reanimates the dead.The virus is a variant of the Malaria virus, created by three scientists. They discovered and manu... | violence | train | imdb | It took a concept that has been done to death, people locked in a confined area fighting back a zombie invasion...(Night of the Living Dead being the blueprint) and gave it a twist that I really appreciated.Being trapped in a confined space with the Zombies, leaving you with zero room to hide and none of that long draw... |
tt0374212 | Señorita Justice | Anna Rios (Yancy Mendia) is a young lawyer who negotiates property agreements in the city of Miami. Anna learns that her younger brother was murdered in a gang-related drive-by attack and learns that her father had emotionally broken down. Not capable of opposing the call of her home, she proceeds to the seedy streets ... | murder | train | wikipedia | It had been a good, long time since me and my high school buddies sat down to a righteously awful straight-to-video flick.
This confused mess fit the bill and then some.Try to picture a sort of Pam Grier-type exploitation movie but with Cuban Americans and production values that make you wonder if they just strung thre... |
tt0039211 | Born to Kill | Helen Brent (Claire Trevor) has just received a Reno divorce in Nevada. That night, she discovers one of her neighbors, Laury Palmer, and Palmer's gentleman caller both murdered in Palmer's home. The killer is Palmer's other boyfriend, Sam Wilde (Lawrence Tierney), an insanely jealous man who won't abide anyone "cuttin... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | As good as she and Tierney play off each other, for me, the most entertaining parts of the film were watching three of the supporting characters, played by Elisha Cook Jr., Walter Slezak and Esther Howard.Cook played his normal film noir jittery-worried gangster accomplice and victim.
The detective (Walter Slezak) is t... |
tt0313443 | Out of Time | Chief Matthias Whitlock (Denzel Washington) gets a call from a woman about an intruder. He finishes his beer and heads over. She invites him in to her bedroom for the investigation, they end up on the bed kissing, it was a ruse and just foreplay. The chief gets another call interrupting the "assault with a deadly weapo... | suspenseful, mystery, neo noir, murder, violence | train | imdb | There may have been a handful of good (or decent) film noirs recently, but the bad outnumber them by about 100 to 1.I went into Carl Franklin's "Out of Time" with a certain amount of interest--I wasn't sure what to expect.
I had finally come to expect a fairly decent thriller with illogical plot holes and a boring pace... |
tt0109302 | Bloodlust: Subspecies III | NOTE: Sequel to Subspecies II: Bloodstone (1993).Mummy heals Radu's wounds while Becky summons Mel Thompson and Lt Marin to the
tomb in the cemetery. They find Professor Popescu's body but nothing else to
substantiate Becky's story about vampires and a witch. As night
approaches, Radu, Mummy and Michelle leave the tomb... | tragedy, violence, gothic | train | imdb | Just edges out S2 as my favorite in this hugely entertaining vampire series, mostly on the strength of Anders Hove and Denise Duff's performances.
Same basic plot: Rebecca and her Fearless Vampire Stalkers continue where they left off, in pursuit of her sister Michelle, Radu, and the Bloodstone; while Radu tries futile... |
tt0084737 | Summer Lovers | Americans Michael Pappas (Peter Gallagher) and Cathy Featherstone (Daryl Hannah), a young couple who have just graduated from college, have known each other about 10 years and have been together about half that time. They vacation for the summer on the Greek island of Santorini. When they visit a nude beach crowded wit... | adult comedy | train | wikipedia | Two young people vacation on a Greek Island and meet a French woman who has led a rather eclectic life.
It serves to introduce us to Darryl Hannah and Valerie Quennessen, who was lost in an automobile accident in the eighties.If you're looking for a movie that will give you a few laughs, a little titillation and some h... |
tt0060121 | Arabesque | Professor Ragheeb (George Coulouris) is taken aback that his regular optometrist is not working, Sloane (John Merivale), a man who he has never met, taking his regular optometrist's place. During the eye examination, Sloane places drops in Ragheeb's eyes, blinding him in pain after a few seconds. After Ragheeb collapse... | murder | train | imdb | Both of them adrift in a tourist-eye as well as beautifully photographed London and on the run from sinister crooks and death-dealing , double secret agents who want to take a hieroglyph .This is a sparklingly sophisticated comedy/thriller/romance with Donen's stylish direction and full of plot twists , suspense , fast... |
tt0114857 | Virtuosity | Lt. Parker Barnes (Washington) and another officer, Donavan, step off of a subway car. Their surroundings appear to be glitching as they run down a crowded city street. Donavan is not sure of where he is going, but Parker runs confidently into a Japanese structure. Donavan asks what they are looking for, and Barnes rep... | murder, violence, flashback, good versus evil, insanity, sadist, sci-fi | train | imdb | You can't help but like Crowe's gleeful portrayal of a schizophrenic nano-bot serial killer in this ridiculous film, and with futuristic fascists, pervey programmers and a bucket loads of virtual reality cyber nonsense, this should really be a winner in the style of The Demolition Man or the Robocop series.
Parker must... |
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