jarf's - Rented List
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Nick Nolte plays a tough, seasoned ex-con fresh out of prison who is trapped in a bank and held hostage by a bungling, first-time holdup man (Martin Short). No one will believe Nolte's innocence and no one can believe Short's guilt, so the unlikely duo become partners in crime... and parenting when Short's six-year-old daughter joins the hunted men on the hilarious, heart-stopping, wheel-screeching run for the Canadian border! - Director:
- Francis Veber
- Cast:
- Nick Nolte, Martin Short, Sarah Rowland Doroff
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Wanted: Dead or Alive (1986)Wanted Dead or Alive
Nick Randall (Rutger Hauer) is an urban bounty hunter, a lethal professional who collects society's garbage for a living. Malak Al Rahim (Gene Simmons) is an international terrorist with a plan to turn Los Angeles into a bloody battlefield. But when the CIA uses Randall as bait to trap the madman, the hunter becomes the hunted. And when the violence hits Randall's home, the bounty becomes a mission of very personal vengeance. - Director:
- Gary Sherman
- Cast:
- Rutger Hauer, Gene Simmons, Robert Guillaume
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Trapped in a prison of the future, Frank Warren is wired to explode. Electronics expert Frank Warren, masterminds a multi-million dollar diamond heist with his lover Noelle and long-time friend Sam. After a narrow escape Frank is brutally shot and left for dead by his double-crossing partners. But Frank has secretly hidden the diamonds. Trapped in an experimental high-tech prison Frank has an explosive collar around his neck secretly linked to that of one of his inmates. If either is removed, both explode. Tracy Little reveals that her collar is Frank's partner and they escape to get the diamonds, relentlessly pursued by the authorities and cruelly hunted by the murderous Sam and Noelle. - Director:
- Lewis Teague
- Cast:
- Rutger Hauer, Mimi Rogers, Joan Chen
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Finally being held accountable for his catastrophic experiments in re-animating the dead, Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) finds himself incarcerated at a maximum-security penitentiary. With the arrival of a new prison doctor Howard Phillips (Jason Barry) who happens to be an enthusiastic student of West's work, the medical deviant is afforded the opportunity to resume his grisly studies - this time on his fellow inmates, with predictably hair-raising results. - Director:
- Brian Yuzna
- Cast:
- Jeffrey Combs, Tommy Dean Musset, Jason Barry
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"It was an evil house from the beginning, a house that was born bad". The place is the 90-year-old mansion called Hill House. No one lives there. Or so it seems. But please do come in. Because even if you don't believe in ghosts, there's no denying the terror of 'The Haunting'. Robert Wise returned to psychological horror for this much admired, first screen adaptation of Shirley Jackson's 'The Haunting of Hill House'. Four people come to the house to study its supernatural phenomena. Or has the house drawn at least one of them to it? - Director:
- Robert Wise
- Cast:
- Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson
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A Scotland Yard detective investigates a mysterious mansion with a ghoulish history and a chilling fate for its occupants in these four tales of terror.
- Director:
- Peter Duffell
- Cast:
- John Bryans, John Bennett, John Malcolm
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Klaus Kinski stars in this horrifying and gruesome thriller, as a crazed maniac who is obsessed with trapping young women and then slowly torturing them to death. Karl Guenther (Kinski) is a conscientious landlord who looks out for his young and attractive tenants. Jessica, a rising young soap star, Harriet, a sensuous and vivacious secretary and Sophie, an accomplished pianist who enjoys wild fantasy sex with her boyfriend - all live in Karl's well kept apartments. The only discord is the "tap, tap, tap" sound at night from the crawlspace above their rooms. Karl tells them its rats, but in reality it is Karl spying on them. One by one his tenants become victims - each one put to a gruesome test. Only one tenant remains to disclose the diabolical Karl and she enters the crawlspace - she is alone with a madman capable of anything. - Director:
- David Schmoeller
- Cast:
- Klaus Kinski, Talia Balsam, Barbara Whinnery
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The House by the Cemetery (1981)Quella Villa Accanto Al Cimitero
The Boyles - Lucy (Catriona MacColl), Norman (Paolo Malco) and their young son Bob (Giovanni Frezza) - relocate from Wew York City to an ageing house in rural New England. But the evil force which lurks in its basement has already claimed the previous occupant and now has its sights set on the new owners. Soon, the unsuspecting family will become only too familiar with the dark secret of the monstrous Dr. Freudstejn (Giovanni De Nava)... - Director:
- Lucio Fulci
- Cast:
- Catriona MacColl, Carolyn De Fonseca, Edward Mannix
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We've all heard that wine has its health benefits. But what if it could help prolong your life … indefinitely? Crackpot scientist and celebrated winemaker Dr. Elson Po has made the ultimate discovery: the secret to everlasting life. As with all good things, however, there's an inevitable downside; and a bunch of good-looking and horny youngsters, invited to Dr Po's island under the premise of an "audition", are about to find out the hard way. When the vineyard starts to give up its dark secrets, these doomed teens will have to contend not only with Dr. Po and his kung-fu fighting henchmen but also with a rotting gang of marauding zombies! - Director:
- James Hong
- Cast:
- James Hong, Karen Lorre, Michael Wong
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