We’re in the 70’s, and Gilderoy is a sound engineer traveling all the way from Britain to the Berberian Film Studio in Italy. He’s going to work on a film about horses…or so he thinks. When he arrives, the film producer Francesco tells him that the film is actually an Italian giallo film, called The …
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Piper is a girl who is partially sighted (played by Sora Wong who has a real-life condition of coloboma and microphthalmia). Despite her efforts, she struggles to find friends, but she’s pretty close to her step-brother Andy who both live together with their father, since Piper’s mother died. One day, they find their father dead …
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A married couple are being brought to an island, to explore a cave where there’s supposedly a “treasure“. Well, after some gory kill scenes (which is pretty much the only real gory scenes to be witnessed here) we realize that this opening was only set up so we could have some kill counts. Okey then, …
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Aquanoids, or Aquanooooids, like Johnny Depp would have said it, is a silly Z-grade amateur-hour creature/feature flick where we have a sea monster that looks more like a rejected, drunk band member of Gwar who’d fallen into the ocean, and just decided to stay in the water and kill everyone who comes near him. …
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On Maryland’s Eastern Shore, there’s a cozy town called Claridge. A reporter named Donna Thompson, totally fresh in the game, has decided to cover the local’s celebration of 4th July, but amidst all the fun a lot of the citizens start falling ill. And severely so. The hospital gets overwhelmed with patients, and the head …
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Nathan Sands is a geneticist (or just a mad scientist, if you will) who has been hired by the U.S. Navy to create a new weapon. Together with his daughter Nicole, they have created a large intelligent shark with the tentacles of an octopus, because that sounds like an excellent idea where nothing can go …
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Here we have a lost little gem that was buried among the endless wave of the 80s formulaic slasher craze, and was rediscovered eons later. And with a strange nursery rhyme’ish title like Butcher Baker, Nightmare Maker, it’s not too easy knowing what to expect. Then we also have the alternative VHS title Night Warning …
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This grimy, low-budget Grindhouse classic wastes no time as we are thrown straight into an obscure Satanic cult ritual in the woods in the middle of the night, led by the charismatic sociopath Horace Born. He is a self-proclaimed Capricorn who was born in Hell and reborn on Mother Earth to do Satan’s work with …
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This Italian-produced Predator ripoff starts in the midst of a full-blown bulletstorm mayhem in the jungle of the Philippines, and a group of commandos are sent to the green inferno to see what the hell is going on. We meet the four trigger-happy testosterone-filled walking ballsacks with the colorful code names Killzone, Blood, Papa, Diddy …
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Ted Harrison is a photo journalist who’s on an expedition in Nepal, together with his girlfriend Marjorie. While making out in the tent, they get attacked by a werewolf who rips the tent open and snatches Marjorie out from it. Ted tries to save her, but the werewolf bites him. It then kills Marjorie, before …
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