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... A bizarro world of frog butlers, topless princesses, machine-gun toting teachers, eccentric dwarves, their demonic wives, and the Devil himself (Danny Elfman). You've never seen anything like it...! Check your basement.

Is there door to the 6th Dimension there? If so, you're going on a wild ride into excess as you join Frenchy and Rene in a land of musical madness, despotic queens and strange frog man-servants. If you've tired of Rocky Horror and enough of Hedwig, it's time to 'The Forbidden Zone', a demented tribute to the hot jazz and dark glamour of a lost age, featuring new wave pop music and Cab Calloway-style insanity, filtered through the mind of a maniac!

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Herod (Gene Hackman), Mayor and ruler of Redemption, has turned his town into a haven for thugs and miscreants of every type.In return for his 'leniency', he keeps 50 cents on every dollar traded by the unsavoury group.

Each year, in order to weed out rivals and to protect his position of power, Herod holds a shooting contest, which attracts people from miles around, including his son, "The Kid" (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Cort (Russell Crowe).It is a shoot to kill contest with the prize being a large sum of cash.Herod wins every year, so protecting his position and reputation for being the fastest killer in the West.That is until Ellen (Sharon Stone) rides into town, a six-gun strapped to her hip and revenge burning in her heart.She's fast, furious and her mind is set on winning the ultimate prize of a duel to the death with Herod.

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Dr. Terror (Peter Cushing) is a mysterious fortune teller who boards a train and offers to tell fellow passengers (Christopher Lee, Roy Castle, Donald Sutherland) their fortune with tarot cards.

Five possible futures unfold: an architect returns to his ancestral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a huge flesh-eating vine takes over a house; a musician gets involved with voodoo; an art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand and a doctor discovers his new wife is a vampire. But they all end in the same result Death.

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Peter Cushing stars as Dr. Christopher Maitland, a writer and collector of occult items (with a preference for those with a somewhat macabre history), who is offered the chance to purchase a highly expensive and unusual item - the skull of the Marquis de Sade.

Warned against obtaining the item by fellow collector (Christopher Lee) in a rare non-villainous role), the skull's influence draws Maitland in, and madness and death soon follow...

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As an initiation rite into Alpha Sigma Rho fraternity, four pledges must spend a night in Garth Manor, twelve years to the day after the previous resident murdered his entire family.

Two of the pledges, Marti (Linda Blair) and Jeff (Peter Barton), ignore the rumours that the now deserted mansion is haunted by a crazed killer, until one by one, members of their group mysteriously disappear. Could this be part of a fraternity prank or is a demented former tenant seeking revenge? When their seemingly innocent rite of passage turns deadly, these college students will do anything to survive Hell Night.

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The Clash of Titans! In Bajo Rio, they pay to see a man kill a bull. Today, they'll pay to see a man kill another man. Two long-in-tooth gunfighters agree to a winner-take-all showdown.

Tickets are sold for a winner-takes-all gunfight between two legendary gunmen in a bullring across the Mexican border.

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In the futuristic world, a strict regime has eliminated war by suppressing emotions: books, art and music are strictly forbidden and feeling is a crime punishable by death. Cleric John Preston (Christian Bale) is a top ranking government agent responsible for destroying those who resist the rules.

When he misses a dose of Prozium, a mind-altering drug that hinders emotion, Preston, who has been trained to enforce the strict laws of the new regime, suddenly becomes the only person capable of overthrowing it.

An age-old family curse hits sisters Kitty (Barbara Bouchet) and Franziska (Marina Malfatti) following the death of their grandfather Tobias (Rudolf Schündler). Every hundred years, so the legend goes, the bloodthirsty Red Queen returns and claims seven fresh victims. Was Tobias just the first...and are Kitty and Franziska next?

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Troubled aristocrat Alan Cunningham (Anthony Steffen), haunted by the death of his first wife Evelyn, tries to move on by marrying the seductive Gladys (Marina Malfatti).

Marital bliss is short-lived, however, as various relatives meet untimely and gruesome deaths, prompting speculation that a vengeful Evelyn has risen from the grave...

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A bloody, gruesome and relentless thriller, The Traveller stars Val Kilmer as a mysterious stranger whose past threatens to haunt the lives of six unsuspecting sheriff's deputies.

The moment he arrives in their small town police station confessing to multiple murders, their lives are forever changed. From the first scene to the shocking conclusion, horror fans will get more than their fair share of torture and bloodshed.

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Khoma (Leonid Kuravlyov), a young novice Monk, travels across the Ukrainian countryside whilst on a break from his seminary, and stays for one night in a barn belonging to a seemingly harmless old woman. Whilst sleeping the old woman attacks him, displaying supernatural strength.

The scared novice fatally wounds her while fending her off. But before dying, she transforms into a beautiful young woman. Some time later Khoma, is called to the estate of a rich Kosack landowner, grieving the death of his daughter. Khoma has been personally requested to attend, and against his wishes taken by force to the estate. There he must pray for three nights in the chapel until the body of the landowners daughter is buried. On the first night, the woman Khoma had killed rises from the coffin and tries to kill him. Khoma must use every skill he knows for the next 3 nights to prevent this from happening.

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When Jimmy Kerrigan (Alex Ferns) is released from jail everyone expects him to fall back into his old ways. But Jimmy's changed, says all he wants to do is open a bar on a Greek island once his parole is up.

Problem is, nobody believes him, not least his former gangland boss, Donnie McGlone (James Cosmo) and Jimmy's old adversary, Detective Inspector Walter Villers (Kenneth Cranham). They both think Jimmy's up to no good, branching out on his own. Enter Father Gabriel Flynn (Tom Georgeson), the man in charge of Jimmy's anger management classes. He sees something in Jimmy nobody else does and to the amazement of all, asks him to play the lead in the church's annual passion play. Faced with the prospect of endless anger management classes, Jimmy agrees. It's a decision which is to have repercussions throughout the entire community and to throw McGlone and Villers' cosy world into turmoil. Jimmy Kerrigan is back alright, with a vengeance.

The Christian Haute Couture fashion house is a home to models...and backstabbing...and blackmail... and drug deals...and Murder.

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It's night over Europe, the night of 2nd of May 1945. A crippled Lancaster Bomber struggles home across the English Channel, all crew dead save for the young pilot desperately scanning the radio for signs of life.

His prayers are answered, June (Kim Hunter), a young radio operator, picks up his signal, and in the final moments of the young flyer's life, a special bond is formed. The next morning washed up on an English beach, Squadron Leader Peter Carter (David Niven) is alive. He finds June, and the two fall in love. Somehow he survived. It's a miracle...or is it? Peter Carter should have died that night; a heavenly escort missed him in the fog above the Channel, and now he must face the celestial court of appeal for his right to live.

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A couple loves their new house, bought for a steal out of foreclosure. During their first visit, they find illegal drugs stashed in the walls, and they realise this is not their dream house.

As they are about to leave, suddenly their exit is blocked by a gun-wielding neighbour Spector and his accomplice. They come to realise the house is hiding more than drugs - it's the operation centre for mass drug tsar who is buried beneath the floorboards. On the run from the professional killers who want the drugs and evidence, the resourceful couple will need to turn the tables on their attackers to survive.