jarf's - Rented List

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A teenage farm boy looking for excitement finds himself on a collision course with his smooth-talking gang leader father in this powerfully disturbing tale based on the story of real-life killer Bruce Johnston.

Oscar nominee Sean Penn and Oscar winner Christopher Walken star in this "hot, horrifying saga of an American criminal family. Juvenile delinquent Brad Whitewood, Jr. (Penn) knows about petty theft, but he wants big money - enough to blow the lid off his boring life, enough to get out of town and to find his ol' man. He wants to be like his dad, a big-time thief, who knows the business. Seductive and sinister, Brad's father is full of toxic wisdom that makes his illicit life appear eerily sexy. But when Brad witnesses his father deliberately killing someone, he realizes he may not only be in over his head...he may also lose it for good.

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Deborah Kerr (in the performance of her career) plays the emotionally repressed vicar's daughter who takes up a job as a governess to two seemingly angelic orphans.

Gradually coming to believe that the children are possessed by the perverse spirits of their former governess and her sadistic lover, she begins to see manifestations of the ghosts prowling the huge gothic mansion of Bly House. Director Jack Clayton sustains a superbly haunting atmosphere throughout the film, and like James' original work, cleverly retains the ambiguity of wether the ghosts are real or the products of the governess's fevered imagination. Aided by Freddie Francis's exquisitely inventive and atmospheric CinemaScope photography, we, like the governess, are never quite sure what unspoken horrors are lurking beyond the edge of the frame and are kept guessing until the film's tragic conclusion.

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Three chilling words, spoken repeatedly by a sadistic exiled Nazi war criminal (Laurence Olivier), become a nightmare catchphrase for Thomas "Babe" Levy (Dustin Hoffman), a Manhattan graduate student who is innocently swept into a deadly international conspiracy involving a renegade U.S.

government agent and a fortune in stolen diamonds. Director John Schlesinger builds terror and suspense in this thrilling adaptation of William Goldman's best-selling novel. The film's acclaimed cast also includes Roy Scheider, William Devane and Marthe Keller; Olivier garnered a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination' for his terrifyingly unforgettable role of Christian Szell, a former concentration camp dentist.

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Adapted by Paul Meyersberg from the novel by Laurens Van der Post, the film is a riveting exploration of racism, brutality and the sparks that fly when cultures collide, concentrating on a war of wills between enigmatic and rebellious POW Jack Celliers (David Bowie) and camp commandant Capt Yonoi

(Ryuichi Sakamoto). Intelligently exploring the psychology of its characters, 'Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence' also hints at a sexual attraction between Celliers and Yonoi, and as such is an audacious and original addition to the POW genre.

A troubled young man, who believes himself to be a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and religious cousin in a small Pennsylvania town where he tries to redeem his bloodcraving urges after he falls for a lonely housewife, all the while his hostile cousin becomes convinced that the young man is actually Nosferatu.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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.

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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.

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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)...

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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!