jarf's - Rented List
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Bordello of Blood (1996)Tales from the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood / Dead Easy
After her trouble-making brother, Caleb (Corey Feldman), goes missing, Katherine Verdoux (Erika Eleniak) seeks the services of sarcastic private investigator Rafe Guttman (Dennis Miller) to track the errant youth down. Rafe eventually determines that Caleb is in the thrall of Lilith (Angie Everhart), a powerful vampire who operates a seedy brothel. When Rafe and Katherine set out to rescue Caleb, they must contend with the lethal Lilith and her evil minions. - Director:
- Gilbert Adler
- Cast:
- Dennis Miller, John Kassir, Erika Eleniak
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Christian Slater stars as Captain Craig McCenzie, a disgraced special forces officer hand-picked to lead the ultimate extreme vacation. Five super-rich thrill-seekers have paid a premium to have themselves inserted into a real-life military mission: delivering weapons to the besieged rebels of an island stronghold. But when the plan backfires and all hell breaks loose, McCenzie and his squad of amateur soldiers find themselves fighting a furious battle to survive. - Director:
- Maxim Korostyshevsky
- Cast:
- Christian Slater, Sean Bean, Ving Rhames
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Witchfinder General (1968)The Conqueror Worm
England is in civil war as the Royalists battle Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads for control. This conflict distracts people from rational thought and allows unscrupulous men to gain power by exploiting village superstitions. One of these men is Matthew Hopkins (Vincent Price), who tours the land offering his services as a persecutor of witches. Aided by his sadistic accomplice John Stearne (Robert Russell), he travels from town to town and wrenches confessions from "witches" in order to line his pockets. When Hopkins persecutes a priest (Rupert Davies), he incurs the wrath of Richard Marshall (Ian Ogilvy), who is engaged to the priest's niece. Risking treason by leaving his military duties, Marshall relentlessly pursues the evil Hopkins and his minion Stearne. - Director:
- Michael Reeves
- Cast:
- Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies
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Simon Cordier (Vincent Price) is a well-respected magistrate, who chooses to visit a condemned prisoner, Louis Girot, on the eve of his execution. Girot frenziedly pleads his innocence, vowing that a spirit named Horla, who took over his body and forced his hand, is truly responsible for the crimes he has committed. When Cordier shows no mercy and refuses to believe him, the man astoundingly perishes before his eyes! Over the following days, the magistrate bears witness to a number of peculiar happenings in his own home. At first, he believes he may be sleepwalking, but soon he starts to hear voices and fears for his sanity. After taking up sculpting to soothe his anxieties, Cordier embarks on an affair with Odette (Nancy Kovack), a gold digger married to a struggling artist. Will the couple find happiness, or will the wrath of the Horla strike again..? - Director:
- Reginald Le Borg
- Cast:
- Vincent Price, Nancy Kovack, Chris Warfield
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Murder and mystery abound when Jim Hutton, as the detective sleuth Doug Selby, attempts to track down the murderer, after a dead body is found floating in a swimming pool. In this riveting and compulsive movie, Hutton's character discovers that one body leads to another, and the suspense increases as he desperately attempts to find the perpetrator. This is a movie that demands your attention throughout. - Director:
- Walter Grauman
- Cast:
- Jo Ann Pflug, Leslie Nielsen, Edward Asner
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It is the year 1968, Dr. Robert Morgan (Vincent Price) wake sup to find a world where everyone else has been infected by a disease that turns them into vampire-like creatures, during the day he gathers his weapons and goes out vampire hunting and by night he locks himself inside his house. One day he finds a beautiful woman (Franca Bettoia) who seems disease free and takes her home but becomes suspicious when he catches her injecting himself with a serum, she then explains that there are others like her trying to rebuild civilization. Morgan realizes that he has been killing others like her and vows to try and cure them all. By giving her some of his blood (which was infected by a bat bite when he was a child) her symptoms disappear. At last the cure has been found but before they can do anything about it the zombies chase Morgan into a chirch for a final confrontation - Director:
- Ubaldo Ragona
- Cast:
- Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia, Emma Danieli
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With gratuitous violence, sick humour and explosive action, 'Assault on Dome 4' never relents dragging you into its own demented universe. Space is tough on criminals, especially when they're dangerous and psychotic terrorists like Alex Windham. Extremely deranged and out for revenge, Alex escapes from a Martian penal colony to take hostage a community of brilliant scientists. His plan is to make his captives create a series of highly advanced weapons of mass destruction. But unbeknown to Alex there's someone very nearby waiting to eliminate his plans, waiting for the right moment to strike. - Director:
- Gilbert Po
- Cast:
- Joseph Culp, Bruce Campbell, Jocelyn Seagrave
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Vampira (1974)Old Dracula
It's Dracula with a difference as the smooth, suave David Niven brings a new dimension to the time-honoured role of the Transylvanian Count...conducting a desperate quest to bring his beloved Vampira, Countess Dracula, back to life. To do so he needs to find a victim with the right blood group - seizing his chance when a group of shapely beauty contest winners are brought to his castle, Count Dracula's efforts to track down the right donor on a trail which leads from Transylvania to London are both horrific and hilarious... - Director:
- Clive Donner
- Cast:
- David Niven, Teresa Graves, Peter Bayliss
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A futuristic retelling of Daniel Defoe's classic story, "Robinson Crusoe on Mars" has gained a beloved cult reputation ever since its debut in the years leading up to the space race. As a mingling of speculative science-fiction with an extraordinary visual design, it proved to have a significant influence on fantasy filmmaking on both the big and small screen. Paul Mantee plays American astronaut Kit Draper, stranded (with his pet monkey in tow) on the Red Planet after an emergency crash landing. Now he must find ways to adapt and survive, physically and emotionally, in the alien landscape - but he may not be as alone as he thought... - Director:
- Byron Haskin
- Cast:
- Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin, Adam West
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Maniac Cop III: Badge of Silence (1993)Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence / Maniac Cop 3
When Officer Kate Sullivan (Gretchen Becker) storms a hostage situation, she is shot by the supposed victim who is apparently an accessory to the crime. She manages to return fire before slipping into unconsciousness, ultimately killing her shooter. The whole incident is captured on tape by an unscrupulous media crew who edit the footage to show Kate as killing a helpless victim. Now in a coma, Kate's only hope is another detective, McKinney (Robert Davi), who tries to clear her name. Unbeknownst to him, Matt Cordell (Robert Z'Dar), "Maniac Cop", takes it upon himself to clear Kate's name and exact revenge upon those responsible for smearing her name. His vigilante mission takes a twisted turn when he kidnaps Kate from the hospital and prepares for an unholy wedding in an abandoned church. When McKinney interrupts Cordell's deranged plan, an explosive confrontation may finally send the Maniac Cop to his final fiery doom. - Director:
- William Lustig
- Cast:
- Robert Davi, Robert Z'Dar, Caitlin Dulany
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Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970)Il rosso segno della follia
Every time John Harrington (Stephen Forsyth) hacks up a bride on her wedding night with a meat cleaver, the face of his mother's killer (who died similarly) becomes a bit more clear. Compelled to discover the killer's identity, he kills again and again, even killing his own wife, who returns to haunt him as a ghost that everybody can see...but him! - Director:
- Mario Bava
- Cast:
- Stephen Forsyth, Dagmar Lassander, Laura Betti
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The mysterious Officer Matt Cordell is stalking the streets of New York once more...and when this psycho with a badge books you, it's for the arrest of your life! Once, Cordell was a hero, a super-cop. But he was framed by crooked superiors and now nothing can stop him on his macabre mission of vengeance. They thought he'd vanished in the murky river depths when he crashed off the pier-head in a stolen police van... but they were terribly wrong! You can't kill the dead that easy and the wrong arm of the law is back on the beat, more powerful and deadly than ever before. Cordell's burning need for revenge has driven him into unholy alliance with a vicious serial murderer. Now, the city's two most feared killers have become partners in terror, sharing a chilling common bond - the need to destroy. - Director:
- William Lustig
- Cast:
- Robert Davi, Catherine Battistone, Claudia Christian
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Pauline is a student in New Zealand who has no affection for her family or her classmates, but when the beautiful and wealthy Juliet enrols at her school the pair become best friends. Through their shared tastes in art, literature, and music they begin to build an elegant fantasy world. However, when Juliet's parents threaten to separate the girls, they make a ruthless pact to preserve their fairytale forever, whatever the cost... - Director:
- Peter Jackson
- Cast:
- Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse
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Scarlet Diva is a semi-autobiographical, darkly dramatic and surreal descent into the shockingly intimate world of rising actress Anna Battista. Anna's harrowing and graphic journey plunges her into the dark heart of the film industry where she experiences despair, loneliness and degradation while trying to recapture her innocence and purity. - Director:
- Asia Argento
- Cast:
- Asia Argento, Jean Shepard, Herbert Fritsch
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Threads, a shockingly realistic account of global nuclear war and its horrific aftermath. It's a normal Thursday in Sheffield when East. and West stumble into war and Britain is devastated by 200 megatons of nuclear explosive. This chilling film tells the story of a nuclear strike on Britain. Through the eyes of two Sheffield families we witness the immediate after effects of the attack - the shock, grief, radiation sickness, hypothermia and starvation. In the months that follow, hideous injuries remain untreated, looters are shot on sight, food supplies run out and many die in the intense cold of the nuclear winter. Thirteen years on reveals a depopulated Britain living below subsistence level - a devastated economy where money has no value, crops fail through lack of pesticides, no fuel and machinery, and a brutalised post war generation grows up stunted mentally, physically and emotionally. - Director:
- Mick Jackson
- Cast:
- Ed Bishop, Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale
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