jarf's - Rented List
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Two thousand years ago: Alexander the great was conquering the world, he had his highest ranking general, Parmenion, assassinated. Before Parmenion died, he vowed that he would one day return to exact revenge. Present day: Andrew Garret is a cop with psychic abilities. He is assigned to investigate. The play, a barbarous gladiatorial competition organised by the city's underworld. Andrew goes undercover and infiltrates the Play disguised as a fighter, calling himself the Gladiator. Parmenion, a gambler of the play, baits Andrew to enter the battle dome called the Arena of Death and fight the giant, Mongol. - Director:
- Nick Rotundo
- Cast:
- Frank Anderson, Dan Carter, Eugene Clark
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Crimewave (1985)The XYZ Murders / Broken Hearts and Noses
Extermination is not just a business. It's a way of life! When Ernest Trend (Edward R. Pressman) of Odegard-Trend Security decides to hire a pair of exterminators instead of a hit man to rid him of his business partner he thinks he has found the perfect solution. But when they murder the wrong person accidentally and realise their crime has been witnessed, they seek to frame a poor video surveillance man for the murder, whatever the cost! - Director:
- Sam Raimi
- Cast:
- Louise Lasser, Brion James, Paul L. Smith
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Death Tube (2010)X gêmu
This extreme splatter game - in the vein of Saw - centre's around a website called Death Tube: Broadcast Murder Show. Tragedy begins with curiosity. The on-line killer website broadcasts scenes of death in real time. Viewers are drawn to the website through curiosity, and then are shocked by what they see. Against their will, random viewers are selected to enter the killing game. It is literally a life and death situation to survive in this cruelest of spectator sports. - Director:
- Yôhei Fukuda
- Cast:
- Shôichi Matsuda, Wataru Kaoru, Ishino Atsushi
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Tokyo Gore School (2009)Gakkô ura saito
For Fujiwara, everything seems to be going well - he is doing well in high school, he is good looking and also a good fighter. One day, he is suddenly attacked by a group of students without any provocation. He then discovers that there is a mysterious violent game being played out in the corridors and playgrounds of Tokyo's high schools. The game is being spread virally via the students' mobile phones! The victims are mysteriously hypnotized and become senseless killing machines. Fujiwara must fight for his survival and discover the game's terrifying secret. - Director:
- Yôhei Fukuda
- Cast:
- Masato Hyûgaji, Takafumi Imai, Kenta Itogi
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Anatomie 2 (2003)Anatomy 2
In the research department of Berlin's most prestigious hospital, a centuries-old secret society is once again operating outside the rules of medical science - and the laws of nature. This time Anti-Hippocratics are led by a renowned neurosurgeon bent on developing the first synthetic body parts - at all costs. Assisted by a handpicked team of ambitious medical students, the doctor is close to achieving his ruthless drean - until an inquisitive young intern and a relentless investigator (Franka Potente) discover the deadly truth about the team's experiments. Now, this terrifying body of information could cost them their lives... - Director:
- Stefan Ruzowitzky
- Cast:
- Ariane Schnug, August Diehl, Herbert Knaup
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Telling a terrifying tale of some teenagers who opt to spend the night in a morgue but awake a demonic force that takes none too kindly to trespassers - 'One Dark Night ' has not been seen in the UK since the VHS era! However, this colourful bout of eighties carnage is back to frighten a new generation - and with a leading lady turn from the beautiful Meg Tilly is it any wonder this decade defining ghost story has never been forgotten by those who first encountered its eerie charms? - Director:
- Tom McLoughlin
- Cast:
- Meg Tilly, Melissa Newman, Robin Evans
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Anatomy (2000)Anatomie
Paula (Franka Potente) has one dream in life, to become a successful doctor just like her beloved grandfather (Werner Dissel). So when she is offered a place on a prestigious anatomy course taught by a legendary professor she can't quite believe her luck. Delight soon turns to horror when during her first anatomy class, Paula discovers David (Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey), a nice young man she met a few days earlier, lying in front of her on the dissecting table. Shaken by this experience, Paula ignores all warnings and investigates his mysterious death. As other students begin disappearing, Paula grows more determined to search for the answers... even if it means she could be the next victim. - Director:
- Stefan Ruzowitzky
- Cast:
- Franka Potente, Benno Fürmann, Anna Loos
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A lonely teenage horror-movie fan discovers a mysterious computer game that uses hypnosis to custom-tailor the game into the most terrifying experience imaginable. When he emerges from the hypnotic trance he is horrified to find evidence that the brutal murder depicted in the game actually happened - and he's the killer. - Director:
- John Flynn
- Cast:
- Edward Furlong, Frank Langella, T. Ryder Smith
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Stroll down the corridors of a mental asylum, where your mind won't believe what your eyes see. In the tradition of Tales from the Crypt and Creepshow...this anthology of pulp horror tales, helmed by the ever- reliable horror master, Freddie Francis. The film features a quartet of eerie vignettes involving four patients in the care of psychiatrist Donald Pleasance, who's attempting to justify his strange theories of colleague, Jack Hawkins. - Director:
- Freddie Francis
- Cast:
- Jack Hawkins, Charles Gray, Donald Pleasence
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Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye (1973)La Morte Negli Occhi del Gatto
The MacGrieff's, a wealthy Scottish family, are rocked by a grisly murder on their estate. The youngest, Corringa (Jane Birkin), finds herself embroiled in an increasingly bizarre saga. As the bodies pile up, Corringa starts suspecting someone within her own family of the murders, is it her arrogant cousin, James (Hiram Keller)? Their seductive French teacher, Suzanne (Doris Kunstmann)? Her own mother, Alicia (Dana Ghia)? Or can the legend of the MacGrieff family be true? That any MacGrieff killed by the hands of another will bring about a vengeful curse on the whole clan. - Director:
- Antonio Margheriti
- Cast:
- Jane Birkin, Carolyn De Fonseca, Hiram Keller
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For four college students, it sounded like an idyllic gig... a semester's lodgings in an old Georgian mansion, in exchange for making a few house repairs. But their arrival has unearthed more than just dirt and dust...it has uncovered a doorway to demonic evils and depraved passions. Recruiting paranormal expert Professor Lamont (Roy Scheider), they must close the doorway before all Hell breaks loose. But with Hell...what goes down, can come back up...for you! - Director:
- Michael B. Druxman
- Cast:
- Roy Scheider, Lauren Woodland, Christian Harmony
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Absurd (1981)Rosso Sangue / Horrible / Monster Hunter
Mikos (George Eastman), an unstoppable killing machine, is on the loose in a sleepy American town. The town's only hope is a mysterious priest (Edmund Purdom) who has been hunting this madman around the globe. As the bodies pile up, desperate Police Sergeant, Engleman (Charles Borromel), teams up with the priest in hopes of stopping Mikos from slaughtering more and more of his town folk. - Director:
- Joe D'Amato
- Cast:
- George Eastman, Carolyn De Fonseca, Annie Belle
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Alien 2: On Earth (1980)Alien 2 sulla Terra
When Dawn of the Dead was released in Italy as Zombi the late great Lucio Fulci took it upon himself to make his own sequel, Zombi 2 - also known as Zombie Flesh-Eaters. Thus, proving that copyright was a grey area back in the 1980s, director Ciro Ippolito decided that there was nothing to stop him making a follow-up to Ridley Scott's sci-fi suspenser Alien - resulting in the birth of Alien 2: On Earth. This Italian offering came six years before Aliens and, with a bevy of low budget charm and the occasional spilled brain, spins out a story of an extraterrestrial terror landing in the here and now and stalking its prey in contemporary California. Putting themselves up against this otherworldly entity are a small group of explorers - and seasoned fans of Italian shock will doubtlessly notice the great Michele Soavi among the cast! Arguably more exciting than Alien 3, decades later and Alien 2: On Earth might well be the film that David Fincher wishes he had made. - Director:
- Ciro Ippolito
- Cast:
- Belinda Mayne, Fabrizia Castagnoli, Luigi Diberti
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What would you think of being trapped into a terrifying bet?
The spooky keeper of the eery inn of the graveyard had warned them: "It's a haunted crypt, rumour has it, it is the waiting room to hell, a place where all horrors from beyond the grave can be witnessed, but whoever succeeds inspending the night there and coming out alive wins the prize, the treasure nobody has been able to win for centuries..."
But for five friends, teenagers, full of optimism, brave and reckless do not believe that ghosts and monsters really exist and as long as they stick together, what could ever happen to them! Will they survive? Will they overcome the terror...will they win the bet?- Director:
- Lamberto Bava
- Cast:
- Pat Starke, Gregory Lech Thaddeus, Lea Martino
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Pam Grier plays Sheba Shayne, a private eye based in Chicago who is called to her hometown to stop the local mob boss from moving in on her father's loan business. Aided by her father's partner, Brick Williams, Sheba finds out that the violent thugs aren't going go away with a fight. Car bombs, gun fights and boat chases ensue whilst armed with her curves, street smarts and a 44, Sheba is in for a bloodbath! - Director:
- William Girdler
- Cast:
- Pam Grier, Austin Stoker, D'Urville Martin
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