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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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Edge of the World (2021)White Rajah
'The Revenant' meets 'Last of the Mohicans', 'Edge of the World' is an epic, swashbuckling adventure story that inspired 'The Man Who Would Be King' and 'Apocalypse Now'. Starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors) as Sir James Brook, the English adventurer who fought pirates and slavery to rule a kingdom in the jungles of Borneo in 1840. As he embarks on a lifelong crusade to end head-hunting, like Lawrence of Arabia, Brooke defied the Empire to free a nation. - Director:
- Michael Haussman
- Cast:
- Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Josie Ho, Dominic Monaghan
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Timecrimes (2007)Los cronocrímenes
Hector (Karra Elejalde) is relaxing on a lawn chair outside of his new country home, surveying the nearby hillside through a pair of binoculars, when he catches sight of what appears to be a nude woman amidst the trees. Hiking up to investigate, he is attacked by a sinister figure whose head is wrapped in a grotesque, pink bandage. Fleeing in terror, his next actions set in motion a brain-twisting, horrigying chain of events. - Director:
- Nacho Vigalondo
- Cast:
- Karra Elejalde, Libby Brien, Candela Fernández
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In a Sioux Indian village, a white buffalo rampages through the sleeping camp, killing the baby daughter of Chief Crazy Horse (Will Sampson). Tormented by a recurring dream of the very same buffalo, Wild Bill Hickok (Charles Bronson) returns west as part of the Dakota Gold Rush and, finding they share the same purpose, Hickok and Crazy Horse vow to track and destroy the legendary creature. When the final confrontation arrives however, only one man will stand alone to face the enemy. - Director:
- J. Lee Thompson
- Cast:
- Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Will Sampson
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La Cage aux Folles II (1980)La Cage aux Folles II
Even funnier this time around, Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault reprise their roles as the two madcap domestic partners from hilarious hit 'La Cage Aux Folles'. Having become the most improbable of male screen heroes, Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) and Albin (Michel Serrault) are this time taking on the secret service in an unforgettable cross-country - not to mention cross-dressing - adventure. In a move to make his partner, Renato, jealous, the flamboyant Albin waits in a local cafe - dressed as a woman - hoping to be picked up. But Albin gets more than he catches in his web is actually a spy.. who uses him as an unwitting courier of secret microfilm! Now on the run from ruthless agents, Albin and Renato flee to Italy where they attempt to hide out on a farm... with Albin posing as Renato's wife! Can Albin escape the deadly pursuit of these relentless spies or does he have to sustain this charade - as a woman - forever! - Director:
- Édouard Molinaro
- Cast:
- Michel Serrault, Ugo Tognazzi, Marcel Bozzuffi
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La Cage aux Folles (1978)The Mad Cage
Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) and Albin (Michel Serrault) - a middle-aged gay couple who are the manager and star performer at a glitzy drag club in Saint-Tropez - agree to hide their sexual identities, along with their flamboyant personalities and home decor, when the ultraconservative parents of Renato's son fiancée come for a visit. This elegant comic scenario kicks off a wild and warmhearted French farce about the importance of nonconformity and being true to oneself. A breakout art-house smash in America, Edouard Molinaro's 'La Cage aux Folles' inspired a major Broadway musical and the blockbuster remake 'The Birdcage'. But with its hilarious performances and ahead-of-its-time social message, there's nothing like the audacious, dazzling original movie. - Director:
- Édouard Molinaro
- Cast:
- Ugo Tognazzi, Jacques Balutin, Michel Serrault
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