Sep 18
Plot:
Sam Stone is a clothing manufacturer, who married his wife Barbara, for the money that she was suppose to inherit from her dying father, but her father didn’t die for another fifteen years. He is now planning to kill her and is on his way home to do just that but when he gets there, she’s not there. He then receives a call from someone claiming to have kidnapped Barbara and threatening to kill her if he informs the police, which he does hoping that they do. What Stone doesn’t know is that the kidnappers, Ken and Sandy are a couple whose idea for a garment he stole and made fortune off, are not that lethal, as a matter of fact Barbara’s more lethal. And what Stone doesn’t know is that his girlfriend, Carol, has another boyfriend and they plan to blackmail Sam, by videotaping him disposing of Barbara’s body. When her boyfriend, Earl goes there to do that, the person who goes there was not Sam but a guy with a hooker, and the guy instructs the hooker to scream her head off, Earl mistakenly believes that Barbara’s not dead and that Sam was killing her there, and was so freaked out that he didn’t bother to see if it was Sam. And Carol tries to put her plan in operation by sending Sam a copy of the tape, Sam thinks that it’s for something kinky that Carol wants and when Sam tells her that he is going to do what was done on the tape to her, she assumes that he is going to kill her. So she sends another copy of the tape to the Chief of Police, and tells him that she wants him to arrest Sam for murdering Barbara, and the Chief is happy to oblige cause he is the guy who is on the tape. The Chief manages to find the instruments that Sam was going to use to kill Barbara and arrests him. Sam now has to get Barbara, alive, so that he can prove that he didn’t kill her. And Barbara starts to bond with Sandy.
IMDB rating: 6.70 out of 10.0 (5347 votes) Continue reading »
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adultery,
animated-credits,
black-comedy,
blackmail,
blockbuster,
chloroform,
fall-down-stairs,
farce,
get-into-shape,
kidnapping,
marriage,
poodle,
ransom,
staged-death
Sep 15
Plot:
More than a half-century after the events of ‘Alien’, Warrant Officer Ripley - the sole survivor of the Nostromo - is discovered adrift in the shuttle she used to escape. By now, the Company - Ripley’s employer - has colonized the planet where the alien was found. Intent on covering up its illegal actions of years before, the Company strips Ripley of her flight officer’s license. But when transmissions from the colony stop without warning, she is called into action again - this time with a group of Space Marines. Now the alien menace is hundreds of times larger, more insidious, and all but invincible. The sole survivor of the Nostromo re-enters a world of sudden, unspeakable horror - one that attacks without warning again and again and again.
IMDB rating: 8.30 out of 10.0 (73342 votes) Continue reading »
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2100s,
acid,
action-heroine,
alien,
alien-contact,
ambush,
android,
bio-organic-weapon,
blockbuster,
bravery,
brotherhood,
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catfight,
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hand-grenade,
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honor,
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humanity,
humor,
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love,
loyalty,
monster,
mother-daughter-relationship,
mother-figure,
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outer-space,
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power-outage,
promise,
redemption,
reluctant-hero,
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righteous-rage,
robot-sentry,
sacrifice,
second-part,
sequel,
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tragedy,
vacuum,
video-footage,
violence,
warrior,
warrior-woman,
weapon,
western-in-space,
women-soldiers,
xenomorph
Sep 13
Plot:
Retired FBI agent Will Graham (William L. Petersen) returns to action to hunt down a serial killer by using his ability to get inside the psychopath’s mind. However, it was this ability that drove him into retirement in the first place. The process of tracking and capturing the infamous Hannibal Lecter (Brian Cox) took a tremendous psychic toll on Graham, causing him to spent time in a mental hospital. With another madman on the loose, Graham has no choice but to return to duty, though he knows that it might cost him his family and his sanity.
To get the old mind-set back, Graham visits Hannibal Lecter in his high-security jail cell. However, the manipulative Lecter plays both sides and warns the new killer that Graham is on his trail, telling him to destroy Graham’s family to protect himself. In order to save his own family, Graham must risk everything to once again enter into the mind of the criminally insane.
With MANHUNTER, Mann raises the bar for serial killer films, imbuing his killer with an almost sympathetic quality while keeping him extremely menacing and clearly dangerous. Based on the Thomas Harris novel RED DRAGON, which serves as the prequel to THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, MANHUNTER is a masterpiece of gripping storytelling and psychological horror.
IMDB rating: 7.10 out of 10.0 (8558 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
8-track,
airplane,
baltimore-maryland,
based-on-novel,
beach,
blind,
blindness,
car-accident,
code-breaking,
crime-scene,
dream,
evil,
fbi,
fbi-agent,
florida,
forensic-psychiatrist,
gay-slur,
hannibal-lecter,
hannibal-lektor,
home-movie,
homosexuality,
independent-film,
kidnapping,
mirror,
mistaken-identity,
murder,
murder-of-family,
neo-noir,
oedipal-complex,
parking-garage,
photographic-laboratory,
police,
police-officer-killed,
premarital-sex,
prison,
psychoanalysis,
psychosis,
red-dragon,
serial-killer,
set-on-fire,
st.-louis-missouri,
supermarket,
tabloid-reporter,
tattoo,
tiger,
visually-impaired-person,
washington-d.c.,
wheelchair
Sep 13
Plot:
Connor Macleod was born in 1518 in the Highlands of Scotland. In 1536, after facing a mysterious, evil opponent, he survives a fatal stab wound and is banished from his village, for they believe his survival is the work of the Devil. Five years later, Macleod is met by Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez, a Spanish swordsman who teaches Macleod the awful truth; he is immortal, one of a race of many who can only die when the head is cut from the body. When one immortal takes the head of another, the loser’s power is absorbed into the winner. Ramirez teaches Macleod the ways of the sword, until Ramirez is tragically killed by Connor’s ultimate opponent, the evil Kurgan, a murderous immortal brute who lusts for the ultimate power of the immortals, “The Prize”; enough power to rule the earth forever. Connor fights his way through the centuries, until the time of the Gathering, when the few immortals who have survived the endless battles come together to fight until only one remains, and that winner will receive The Prize. The time: 1985. The place: New York City. The final fight is about to begin, and in the end, there can be only one.
IMDB rating: 7.10 out of 10.0 (20296 votes) Continue reading »
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1500s,
bittersweet,
chrysler-building-new-york,
cult-favorite,
dark-hero,
decapitation,
evil,
evil-man,
flashback-sequence,
friendship,
gay-slur,
helicopter,
highlander,
historical,
honor,
human-relationship,
immortality,
katana,
kidnapping,
kindness,
love,
love-scene,
magic,
martial-arts,
mentor,
new-york,
police,
psychotronic,
scotland,
supernatural,
sword,
sword-fight,
teacher-student-relationship,
title-spoken-by-character,
tragedy,
warrior
Sep 13
Plot:
Story of Anna Anderson, who claimed to be Anastasia Romanov, the only surviving daughter of the Czar and Czarina of Russia.
IMDB rating: 6.60 out of 10.0 (185 votes) Continue reading »
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anastasia,
based-on-book
Sep 13
Plot:
Maverick Chicago cop Eddie Jillette poses as a hit man to meet with someone in from New Orleans looking to have a job done. The result is that both the guy and Jillette’s partner wind up very dead, while a stunning blonde in on the setup disappears. He heads south to settle the score and soon finds himself being hunted, with the girl in tow and the local police anything but happy. New Orleans may never be the same again.
IMDB rating: 5.30 out of 10.0 (1568 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
bayou,
cajun,
chase,
gunfight,
motel,
murder,
neo-noir,
new-orleans-louisiana,
organized-crime,
police,
revenge,
showdown,
vengeance,
violence
Sep 12
Plot:
Eddie Murphy plays a detective with a speciality of finding lost children. He is told he is the ‘Chosen one’ who will find and protect the Golden Child, a Bhuddist mystic who was kidnapped by an evil sorcerer. Murphy disbelieves the mysticism but finds more and more evidence of demon worship as he investigates.
IMDB rating: 5.20 out of 10.0 (8800 votes) Continue reading »
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bird,
blockbuster,
buddhism,
child-abandonment,
chinatown,
chosen-one,
crossbow,
culture-clash,
demon,
detective,
devil,
dragon,
dream-sequence,
eiffel-tower-paris,
fish-out-of-water,
hallucination,
hell,
hollywood-sign,
holy-child,
house,
humor,
interracial-romance,
karate,
kidnap,
kung-fu,
los-angeles-california,
martial-arts,
massacre,
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missing-person,
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monster,
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mysticism,
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parakeet,
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search,
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supernatural,
telekinesis,
temple,
tibet,
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young-boy