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3 years, 11 months ago
Tales from the Crypt
Five people find themselves lost in some catacombs. The Crypt Keeper explains why they are there through a series of frightening stories. A superior Amicus anthology horror movie. Each of the Crypt Keeper’s five guests gets a story that may or may not be about an event from their pasts or their futures: a woman kills her husband before Christmas in order to collect his life insurance, a man leaves his wife and kids in order to begin a new life with his mistress but tragedy strikes whilst driving to their new home, a hoity young man dislikes his elderly neighbour and begins a campaign of hate against him, another man of the verge of bankruptcy must sell his belongings but his wife is not so keen and uses the special powers of an old statue from China to make 3 wishes and finally a retired Major gets to be in charge of a nursing home for the blind but decides to cut their heating and food. The natives begin a revolution against him. Each of the 5 stories are great and interesting and the final payoff when the Crypt Keeper tells the guests they are free to leave the catacombs leaves a nasty sting in the tail. There's an impressive cast which includes Joan Collins, Peter Cushing and Ralph Richardson. The movie is directed brilliantly by Freddie Francis. Overall, a classic anthology horror movie that's well worth seeing.
3 years, 11 months ago
Breakout
 Breakout 6/10
3 years, 11 months ago
Breakout
A bush pilot is hired for $50,000 to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner. A great movie that starts rather slowly but picks up quickly after 30 mins. The set up involves a surprising amount of comedy mined from a ragtag group's half-baked attempts at breaking a man out of Mexican prison. One of which involves a character dressing in drag for a conjugal visit! The payoff is the spectacular main prison break sequence involving an airplane, a helicopter, a car chase, and some incredible stunts. It culminates with a nasty death by propeller blade. Husband and wife team Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland perform well with a fantastic supporting cast which includes Robert Duvall. All in all, this is a great action movie that deserves to be seen more by people.
3 years, 11 months ago
The Flight of the Phoenix
A cargo aircraft crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for a replacement aircraft they will build to escape before their food and water run out. A slightly implausible, overlong, almost real time survivalist procedure movie which has an all-star cast. This movie is just full of imperfect characters, clashing ideals and personalities the whole way through. The script is good and makes it all feel so natural and urgent even if what they are doing is way implausible. The performances of the whole cast are superb from Jimmy Stewart to Hardy Kruger. Unfortunately the movie goes on for way too long and a 25 min chunk should have been cut to make it flow better. It's still a great movie to watch.
3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago
Lynn + Lucy
 Lynn + Lucy 7/10
3 years, 11 months ago
Lynn + Lucy
Lynn and Lucy are lifelong best friends, their relationship as intense as any romance. Neither has ventured far from where they grew up. Lynn, who married her first boyfriend and whose daughter is fast growing up, is delighted when the charismatic, volatile Lucy has her first baby boy. Lucy, however, does not react to being a mother as Lynn expects. Soon, they find their friendship is tested in extreme circumstances. One of the toughest and most brutal movie that I've watched all year - it's a gruelling experience mainly due to just how authentic and depressingly realistic it feels. It looks at a pair of childhood friends who find their lives torn apart by a terrible incident that changes their direction in life forever. Roxanne Scrimshaw and Nichola Burley are brilliant and it's devastating to watch everything bad that happens to them. Fyzal Boulifa's directing is excellent. A difficult but rewarding watch.
3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago
Richard
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3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago
Burned at the Stake
In 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, young Ann Putnam accuses several residents of being witches, and they are tried and put to death. In 1980, young Loreen Graham is on a school outing to the Salem Witch Museum when a wax figure of a man from 1692 comes to life and accosts her. It seems that she may be the reincarnation of Ann, who has accused the man’s 5-year-old girl of witchcraft and the girl is scheduled to be burned at the stake. Loreen must fight being possessed by Ann Putnam and confront the evil minister from 1692 who is consorting with Ann to falsely accuse people of witchcraft. An interesting little witchcraft/time travel movie that quickly came and went when it was released in the early 80's. Perhaps people expected sex and blood to take place and when neither happened they simply ignored it which is a shame as it's quite a decent movie even though it does have some issues with it. Characters are able to cross back and forth between time-zones with remarkable and never-explained ease and how come a wax figure suddenly comes alive as a human being? There are some nice atmospheric set pieces. Susan Swift plays the main dual roles of Ann Putnam/Loreen Graham and does a good job and the supporting cast are great as well. If you've seen all the other witchcraft movies from the 70's and 80's, it might be worth your while to give this a go too.
3 years, 11 months ago
Demon City Shinjuku
Kyoya’s father was a great warrior, killed at the hands of the diabolical psychic, Rebi Ra, who has now opened a portal to hell in the city of Shinjuku. It falls to Kyoya to finish what his father started and battle his way through demons, while protecting a young woman from harm. A great violent anime movie from the late 80's. Combining good action with adventure, magic, the occult, and even a touch of romance, this is one movie that has something for everyone. It does have a lot of blood and violence and while certainly far from the level of the Overfiend movies with tentacles abounding, there are still elements of shock and violence to this title that might disturb some viewers. The animation is really quite attractive, especially the backgrounds. The characters are interesting with the hero of the movie quite a cocky individual. The upshot is that if you enjoy tales of demon attacks and ultra-violence then you should check this out.
3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago
Combat Academy
Two errant high-school students are ordered by a judge to spend a year at a prestigious military academy, where one of the cadets finds out who is responsible for a spate of midnight thefts. Directed by the writer of 'Police Academy', the similarities are clear from the start, with the small change of punishment being the military instead of the police, the title of the movie was even changed from 'High' to 'Academy' to capitalise on the success and name value of a series of films that has completely nothing to do with this one. It's a decent enough comedy with some laughs to be had. Keith Gordon and Wallace Langham play the leads and act like total idiots but luckily both have enough charm and comedy chops for you to look past that. This movie also has a young George Clooney as the Major of the academy. It's a typical 80's comedy flick and I found myself enjoying this movie a lot more than I thought I would.
3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago
The Mummy
A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician and his beautiful daughter, they set out into the desert only to be terrorized by a sinister high priest and the living mummy Kharis who are the guardians of Ananka’s tomb. Universal's 2nd Mummy movie is a fairly good follow up to the first. The film opens with interesting bit of Egyptian lore, setting up the events to follow. Unfortunately the movie slows down for about 20 minutes as we get to know the characters. When the Mummy finally sparks into life, the movie starts to pick up. And with a runtime of just 66 minutes this movie is a fun, easy breeze to watch. It's a movie where you can relax for an hour and watch some campy Mummy silliness. Just a shame it takes nearly 40 mins for the Mummy to come alive before starting it's murderous rampage. The sets are quite impressive and the cast are great in their roles. All in all, a good horror movie but it doesn't come close to the greatness of the original Boris Karloff one.
3 years, 11 months ago
Nadja
Members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, in the wake of their father’s death. Meanwhile, they are being hunted by Dr. Van Helsing and his hapless nephew. A sometimes-interesting black and white independent art house cheapie produced by David Lynch that's sort of like a homage to the old 1936 movie Dracula's Daughter. If you're expecting a normal vampire movie don't bother watching as it will frustrate you. Granted, it's nice to have a vampire tale that gives a different slant on the genre and it never felt boring. Elina Löwensohn as Dracula's seductively decadent daughter is brilliant with Peter Fonda as a hippie-ish Van Helsing. I thought that the movie did a great job at creating a sort of old fashioned horror atmosphere, even though never anything scary or anything else horror related ever really happens in the movie itself. If you want to watch a vampire tale with a difference, give this a shot.
3 years, 11 months ago
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3 years, 11 months ago
Take the Money and Run
Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent. This is an eccentric comedy shot in the style of a fake documentary that chronicles the misadventures of Virgil Starkwell, an untalented thief and his various attempts to steal money and escape from prison. Woody Allen's 2nd movie is a set of sketches, gags, slapstick and physical comedy which is really funny to watch. It's an early indicator of what was to come and what the viewers will expect of Allen; smooth drama balanced by fast, witty monologues and lots of self-humiliation. Definitely recommended.
3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 12 months ago
Manhattan Baby
A young girl on vacation in Egypt is given a mysterious charm, causing her archeologist father to be struck blind inside an unexplored pyramid tomb. But when the family returns home to Manhattan, a plague of supernatural evil and sudden violence follows. Can this ancient curse be stopped before it is unleashed on the streets of New York City? This has a similar kind of story to The Awakening which I watched recently but this is a little bit more interesting. It's yet another non-gory (apart from the finale) Lucio Fulci movie. It starts off really well and is quite atmospheric but things go downhill when the story relocates to NYC. Fulci goes for some disjointed scares which doesn't work as they're too inexplicable, too tame, or just too stupid. I really wanted to see some tension but there was nothing of the sort. The cast are fine with Brigitta Boccoli as the possessed young girl doing well. This movie could have been so much better had Fulci added more gore and violence but as it is it's just OK.
3 years, 12 months ago
Dark Age
 Dark Age 6/10
3 years, 12 months ago
Dark Age
In the Australian outback, a park ranger and two local guides set out to track down a giant crocodile that has been killing and eating the local population. An Aussie twist on the Jaws tale in that instead of trying to kill the beast, some people want to capture it and move it to a secluded location so that it can live out it's life in peace. The story can also be seen as the white people trying to kill the croc and the local indigenous folk trying to protect it as they think it is one of their Gods called the Numawari. There's not a lot of tension in the movie and the deaths aren't particularly gory. It seemed at times that it was trying to bring some light hearted comedy to the proceedings but it doesn't work. The cast are competent enough - the only one I recognised was Ray Meagher (Alf from the Australian soap opera Home & Away). This monster movie is worth a watch I think.
3 years, 12 months ago
3 years, 12 months ago
Chrome and Hot Leather
A Green Beret returns home from the Vietnam war to find that a gang of murderous bikers has killed his fiancee. He calls on several of his Green Beret buddies to come and help him take revenge on the gang. An unintentionally funny movie. It starts out well enough but the plot slows to a crawl afterwards until the hilarious finale when 4 army soldiers use their military toys to capture the bikers. I thought this was an exploitation movie but it was nothing of the sort - no nudity or sex, no foul language, and the violence is almost totally confined to the opening and closing. No one in the cast (which includes Marvin Gaye, a young Cheryl Ladd who is killed off very quickly and William Smith) gives a good performance, and the musical score is one of the worst I've heard from a movie for a long time. Perhaps this movie was supposed to be a self-parody the way the cast are playing their roles? An interesting curio only.
3 years, 12 months ago
3 years, 12 months ago
Braddock: Missing in Action III
When Colonel James Braddock is told that his Asian wife and 12-year-old son are still alive in Communist Vietnam, he mounts a one-man assault to free them. Armed with the latest high-tech firepower, Braddock fights his way into the heart of the country and ends up battling his way out with several dozen abused Amerasian children in tow! Chuck Norris is back in the final installment of MIA to kill all those horrible Vietnamese Communists who survived the war and this time, he's doing it for the children that can't fight back! This movie is another spin on the Rambo 2 formula, with Braddock travelling to Vietnam to find his Asian wife, who he presumed killed when America pulled out. As you might expect from a Chuck Norris vehicle made in 1988, this is stereotypical 80's action through and through. It might be full of clichés but it's a lot of fun to watch. Yes, it might be silly and unrealistic but the combination of colourful explosions, martial arts combat, heavy firepower and endless bad guys lining up to be killed make this entertainment at its most basic. Enjoyable.
3 years, 12 months ago
3 years, 12 months ago
Bill & Ted Face the Music
Yet to fulfill their rock and roll destiny, the now middle-aged best friends Bill and Ted set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they are helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures and a few music legends to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony to the universe. I really enjoyed the first 2 Bill & Ted movies but this one just didn't feel right and rather empty. I think this was an unnecessary movie to do. The two daughters were beyond irritating and by far the worst part of the movie. The minute I saw them I knew it was going to be a passing on the torch plot. There were some good jokes and throwbacks to the original movies but Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves just looked to be going through the motions. All in all, this wasn't a good movie. The plot was lazy and the ending just made me cringe. A shame that Hollywood felt they had to do this movie.
3 years, 12 months ago

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