Archive for January, 1987
Hellraiser
Clive Barker’s feature directing debut graphically depicts the tale of a man and wife who move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man’s half-brother, who is also the woman’s former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, he is brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor. He soon forces his former mistress to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to complete his body… but the Cenobites won’t be happy about this.
Hellraiser DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.70 out of 10 (8174 votes)
Director: Clive Barker
Actors: Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Sean Chapman, Oliver Smith, Robert Hines, Anthony Allen, Leon Davis, Michael Cassidy, Frank Baker, Kenneth Nelson, Gay Baynes, Niall Buggy, Dave Atkins, Oliver Parker,
Tags: Fantasy, Horror, adaptation-directed-by-original-author, adulterous-wife, affair, based-on-novel, blood, chain, cult-favorite, demon, evil, eyes-sewn-shut, gore, hell, hook, house, independent-film, occult, pinhead, portal-to-hell, reverse-footage, sex, skin, splatterpunk, supernatural, unfaithfulness
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Witches of Eastwick, The
Alex, Jane, and Suki are three bored New England woman left to live without their husbands. They innocently conjure up a mystery man, who could satisfy all their desires. A new man moves into town - and he fits the bill perfectly. Daryl Van Horne is filthy rich and wild eyed, and within days the three women have all discovered almighty power within themselves. Will good triumph over evil, or will Daryl continue to have his evil way with his witches ?
Witches of Eastwick, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.30 out of 10 (10007 votes)
Director: George Miller
Actors: Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, Veronica Cartwright, Richard Jenkins, Keith Jochim, Carel Struycken, Helen Lloyd Breed, Caroline Struzik, Michele Sincavage, Nicol Sincavage, Heather Coleman, Carolyn Ditmars, Cynthia Ditmars,
Tags: Fantasy, Horror, Comedy, Thriller, animal, baby, balloon, based-on-novel, battle-of-the-sexes, bed, bedroom, black-comedy, black-magic, blockbuster, cello, chandelier, church, classical-concert, classical-music, devil, dog, dysfunctional, fall-down-stairs, fall-from-height, feather, female-musician, fire, food, food-market, friendship, glass, journalism, kiss, lightning, magic, male-musician, mansion, music, musical-performance, musician, occult, part-stop-motion, performer, pool, pregnancy, promiscuity, rain, school, single-mother, single-parent, small-town, snake, snoring, stairs, sunglasses, supernatural, telephone, tennis, tennis-ball, tennis-court, tennis-player, tennis-racket, umbrella, violin, violinist, vomit, voodoo-doll, witchcraft, yelling
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Angel Heart
Harry Angel is a private investigator. He is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer called Johnny Favorite. As he begins to investigate, all the people he contacts concerning Johnny are killed in mysterious ways. As he finds out more about himself and his client he discovers that he is fighting for his very existence and is forced to deal with the devil himself.
Angel Heart DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.10 out of 10 (9798 votes)
Director: Alan Parker
Actors: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling, Stocker Fontelieu, Brownie McGhee, John Michael Higgins, Elizabeth Whitcraft, Eliott Keener, Charles Gordone, Dann Florek, Kathleen Wilhoite, George Buck, Judith Drake, Gerald Orange,
Tags: Mystery, Horror, Thriller, 1950s, addiction, amnesia, animal-attack, assault, atheist, baptism, bar, based-on-novel, bathtub-scene, beach, blood, brooklyn-new-york, cajun, cannibalism, catholic-church, chase, chicken, coney-island, corpse, cut-out-heart, devil, diner, dream-sequence, drowning, egg, electric-fan, evil-child, female-nudity, flashback-sequence, fortune-teller, freight-elevator, genital-mutilation, harlem, head-butt, horse-racing, hospital, hotel, house-breaking, incest, independent-film, interracial-relationship, jazz, lawyer, loss-of-daughter, magic, male-nudity, mirror, murder, neo-noir, new-orleans-louisiana, new-year's-eve, new-york, new-york-city, nude-woman-murdered, orgy, police, private-detective, racial-slur, railway-station, rainstorm, razor, religion, restaurant, satan, satanism, scalding, scene-during-end-credits, sex, shot-in-the-eye, singer, spiral-staircase, stabbing, stable, streetcar, superstition, times-square, twist-in-the-end, voodoo, vulgarity, wwii-veteran
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Lethal Weapon
Los Angeles police sergeant Roger Murtaugh, who has just turned 50 years old, is assigned to investigate the death of Amanda Hunsaker, a prostitute who is one of the daughters of bank president Michael Hunsaker, a friend whom Roger has known since they were in the Vietnam War together, but Roger hasn’t seen Michael in 12 years. Beginning with this investigation, Roger is assigned a new partner Sergeant Martin Riggs, who has been suicidal ever since his wife Victoria “Vicky” Lynn Riggs died in a car crash in 1984. Riggs and Murtaugh’s investigation of Amanda’s death reveals that she was murdered. Upon hearing of this, Michael tells Murtaugh that he would like for whoever is behind Amanda’s murder to end up dead, like Amanda. Riggs and Murtaugh’s investigation continues and it makes them the targets of Shadow Company, a group of former Vietnam War era mercenaries who now bring heroin into the Los Angeles County region. Shadow Company’s leader, General Peter McAllister, and his right hand man, Mr. Joshua, want Riggs and Murtaugh dead, no matter what the cost.
Lethal Weapon DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.50 out of 10 (22928 votes)
Director: Richard Donner
Actors: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Mitch Ryan, Tom Atkins, Darlene Love, Traci Wolfe, Jackie Swanson, Damon Hines, Ebonie Smith, Bill Kalmenson, Lycia Naff, Patrick Cameron, Don Gordon, Jimmie F. Skaggs,
Tags: Crime, Comedy, Thriller, Action, action-hero, assault-rifle, beverly-hills-california, black-cop, blockbuster, boat, body-landing-on-car, buddy, buddy-cop, car-battery, car-jacking, cat, cellular-phone, chase, christmas, cocaine, covert-operation, death, desert, drive-by-shooting, drugs, ex-special-forces, exploding-car, exploding-house, fall-from-height, famous-line, father-daughter-relationship, first-of-series, helicopter, heroin, heroin-smuggling, jump-from-height, kidnapping, limousine, martial-arts, memorial-service, neck-breaking-scene, neo-noir, nightclub, police, police-officer-killed, prostitution, run-over-fire-hydrant, self-mutilation, sharpshooter, shot-in-the-arm, shot-in-the-chest, shot-in-the-forehead, shot-in-the-head, shot-in-the-leg, shot-to-death, smuggling, sniper, suicidal, suicide, suicide-attempt, swimming-pool, title-spoken-by-character, topless, torture, trailer-home, undercover, vietnam, violence, vulgarity, widower
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Evil Dead II
Ash - the sole survivor of the original ‘Evil Dead’ - returns with his girlfriend Linda to the remote cabin in the woods. He discovers a tape recorder that a professor had used to record incantations from the Necronomicon XMortis - the Book of the Dead. When he turns it on, the recording releases a dark, sinister force from the woods. It turns Linda into a zombie, her soul possessed by some hideous demon, and then tries to do the same to Ash. Other people come to help Ash, but one by one they are taken over by the Evil Dead force that also possesses Linda, the Professor, and the Professor’s wife…and they try to make sure Ash is…Dead by Dawn!
Evil Dead II DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.70 out of 10 (18441 votes)
Director: Sam Raimi
Actors: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, Kassie DePaiva, Ted Raimi, Denise Bixler, Richard Domeier, John Peaks, Lou Hancock, Snowy Winters, Sid Abrams, Josh Becker, Scott Spiegel, Thomas Kidd, Mitch Cantor,
Tags: Fantasy, Horror, Comedy, Action, 1300s, animate-tree, anti-hero, archeology, attacked-by-plant, avant-garde, axe, backwoods, black-comedy, blood, bloodshed, book, book-of-evil, book-of-the-dead, bridge-collapse, cabin, car-falling-from-sky, cellar, chainsaw, chase, cult-favorite, curse, dancer, decapitation, deer, demon, disembodied-hand, epic, evil, evil-dead, exploding-eye, exploding-head, eyeball, fall-down-stairs, fall-from-height, fight-with-self, fog, gore, harpy, hillbilly, horror-spoof, independent-film, knight, levitation, loss-of-parents, mirror, monster, narration, necronomicon, obscene-finger-gesture, one-liner, pendant, piano, pixelation, portal, possession, pretty-boy, psychotronic, reanimation, reverse-footage, rocking-chair, sawing-head-in-half, sawn-off-shotgun, self-mutilation, self-strangulation, sequel, shallow-grave, shot-gun, shotgun, skeleton, splatter, spoof, stabbing, stop-motion, surreal, tape-recorder, tarmac, thunderstorm, time-travel, tragic-love, trophy-animal, undead, video-nasty, warrior, zombie
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Predator
Dutch (Arnlod Schwarzenegger) and a team of commandos have been sent into a Central American jungle to track down some missing airmen that were kidnapped by terrorists. By the time they get to the camp, the airmen have been butchered in a very violent fashion and the commandos retaliate on the terrorists’ camp. After that’s over, they wait for a helicopter to pick them up, but something strange begins to happen in the woods. It isn’t long before the commandos start getting killed off and Dutch and a girl from the camp, Anna (Elpidia Carrillo), are the only people left and fighting for their lives. But what they discover is too shocking for them to imagine. What’s been killing them is the Predator, an alien that hunts rare species and make his trophies out of their skulls. And human beings are the new species he has discovered.
Predator DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.40 out of 10 (30094 votes)
Director: John McTiernan
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Elpidia Carrillo, Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura, Sonny Landham, Richard Chaves, R.G. Armstrong, Shane Black, Kevin Peter Hall,
Tags: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Action, actor-playing-multiple-roles, alien, arm-wrestling, blood-splatter, booby-trap, camouflage, central-america, chase, cia, electric-shock, entrails, exploding-body, exploding-car, extraterrestrial, free-fall, gatling-gun, gay-slur, gore, green-berets, guerilla-base, helicopter, hunter, impalement, infra-red, invisible, jungle, knife, laser-gun, lasersight, latin-america, lifted-by-the-throat, masked-villain, minigun, monster, person-on-fire, predator, reverse-footage, scorpion, self-destruct, severed-arm, shot-in-the-head, shot-to-death, skull, special-forces, terror, timebomb, trap, violence, warrior, wild-pig
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Blind Date
Walter Davis is a workaholic. His attention is all to his work and very little to his personal life or appearance. Now he needs a date to take to his company’s business dinner with a new important Japanese client. His brother sets him up with his wife’s cousin Nadia, who is new in town and wants to socialise, but when he was warned that if she gets drunk, she looses control and becomes wild. How will the date turn out - especially when they encounter Nadia’s ex boyfriend David?
Blind Date DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.40 out of 10 (4044 votes)
Director: Blake Edwards
Actors: John Larroquette, Kim Basinger, Bruce Willis, William Daniels, George Coe, Mark Blum, Phil Hartman, Stephanie Faracy, Alice Hirson, Graham Stark, Joyce Van Patten, Jeannie Elias, Herb Tanney, Georgann Johnson, Sab Shimono,
Tags: Romance, Comedy, alcohol, animated-credits, blind-date, butler, guard-dog, judge, lawyer, mooning, wedding
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Empire of the Sun
An aristocratic British youth is seperated from his family at the start of World War II after the Japanese Army invades British controlled areas of China. Reduced to living on the street and fighting for food, the youth is eventually interned in a Japanese POW camp for British civilians. Here, admiration quickly develops both for captured American pilots and the Japanese themselves. When the war ends, the boy torn from everything he knew attempts to again find his parents.
Empire of the Sun DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.50 out of 10 (12089 votes)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, Joe Pantoliano, Leslie Phillips, Masatô Ibu, Emily Richard, Rupert Frazer, Peter Gale, Takatoro Kataoka, Ben Stiller, David Neidorf, Ralph Seymour, Robert Stephens,
Tags: War, Drama, 1940s, army, army-life, asia, atom-bomb, aviation, based-on-novel, betrayal, bicycle, bravery, chess, child, china, chinese, chocolate, class-differences, coin, coming-of-age, costume-party, courage, culture-clash, dead-child, epic, face-slap, food, friend, frustration, golf, harbor, hate, japan, japanese, japanese-army, japanese-occupation, katana-sword, mother-son-relationship, prison, prisoner-of-war, race-relations, racism, rice, road, separation-from-family, shanghai, shoe, soldier, sunglasses, surreal, wwii
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