matty-m00's - Rented List

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Michael Faraday (Jeff Bridges) and his 10 year old son, Grant (Spencer Treat Clark) are both trying to come to terms with the loss two years earlier of Michael's wife, Grant's mother. When they befriend a family from across the road, things seem to get a little better for them.

However, as the families become closer, Michael starts having misgivings about Oliver and Cheryl Lang (Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack), and begins investigating them. He soon realises that the Langs are definitely not who they claim to be. The film is a tense political psychological thriller with Michael uncovering more and more about the seemingly innocent family living opposite him on Arlington Road.

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It remains the most joltingly violent, psychosexual grindhouse shocker of the '80s, directed by a veteran of 'I Love Lucy' and starring a frequently shirtless former teen idol with an epically demented performance by an Oscaf nominee.

And now it can be experienced for the first time ever: Jimmy McNichol stars as an orphaned high-school student raised by his strangely overprotective aunt (Susan Tyrrell) who becomes implicated in a grisly murder investigated by a psychotic police detective Joe Carlson (an equally unhinged Bo Svenson). 7x Emmy nominee Julia Duffy (Newhart) and Bill Paxton (in one of his first film roles) co-star in this "jaw-dropping hunk of genre insanity" and former DPP 39 Video Nasty - also known as 'Night Warning'...

In Pete Walker's 'Schizo', a young woman's engagement to a famous athlete is overshadowed by terrifying threats from an unknown assailant As the stalker's menacing presence grows, she unearths a web of deceit and betrayal, leading to a suspenseful climax that will keep audiences guessing until the very end.

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The epic battle continues with an explosive, action-packed adventure that follows Kong's journey to find his family through an undiscovered layer of Hollow Earth - and what he uncovers inadvertently brings forth the most dangerous threat to mankind yet...

one that can only be countered by the combined ever-evolving forces of Kong and Godzilla.

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Horror writer Thad Beaumont (Timothy Hutton) hopes to distance himself from his murder novels and from George Stark, the pseudonymous name he has used to author them. To achieve this, he cooks up a murder of his own: a publicity stunt that should lay Stark to rest forever.

But when the people around him are found gruesomely slain - and his own fingerprints dot the crime scenes - Beaumont is dumbfounded until he learns that Stark has taken on a life of his own...and begun a gruesome quest for vengeance!

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What happens when a young girl is sentenced to Borstal and locked away from the everyday world? Blazingly well acted by a cast including Pam St Clement, Kathy Burke, Robbie Coltrane, Miriam Margoyles and many others some of whom had actually done time, 'Scrubbers' exposes a brutal society in which

the strong survive and the weak are no match for the cruelties of the system. Through the hatred of lesbian Carol and promiscuous teenage mother Annetta, we follow the endless rounds of violence, bitching and brawling that have made Britain's borstals notorious breeding grounds for crime.

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At the turn of the 19th century, visionary scientist Victor Frankenstein (Kenneth Branagh) embarks on an obsessive quest to conquer the mysteries of human mortality.

But his hubristic bid to create life out of death goes hideously wrong, and succeeds only in begetting a deformed monster (Robert De Niro). Horrified by what he has wrought, the scientist attempts to destroy his creation, but fails. Rejected by his creator and shunned by the world of man, the tormented creature swears vengeance against Frankenstein and his family. As the monster begins to enact his murderous revenge, Victor must face a terrible'reckomng with the tragic consequences of attempting to play God.

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Whilst on holiday, young timid ladies companion (Joan Fontaine) meets handsome and wealthy widower Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier) whose wife Rebecca has recently died in a boating accident. The two fall in love and marry.

However, her joy is short lived when she returns to the de Winter estate and soon discovers that Rebecca still has a strange, unearthly hold over everyone there.

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As Arthur Curry confronts the responsibilities of being King of the Seven Seas, a long-buried ancient power is unleashed.

After witnessing the full effect of these dark forces, Aquaman (Jason Momoa) must forge an uneasy alliance with an old enemy and embark on a treacherous journey to protect his family, his kingdom and the world from irreversible devastation.

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Senior Yakuza, Ozaki, appears to be going mad. What began as minor eccentricities have become major problems endangering not only himself but also members of his brotherhood. There is only one option left to the boss - to dispose of him.

He orders Minami to take Ozaki to the Yakuza disposal dump in Nagoya and to report him once the job is done. On the way to Nagoya, Ozaki is killed accidentally. After Minami reports the news to his boss, he returns to the car to find that the body has gone. From here, we enter a surreal world of bizarre characters and unnatural goings-on, where the only people stranger than the lactating inn owner and the autistic spiritual medium are the mysterious cow-headed demon and the Yakuza who can't make love without a strategically placed ladle for added stimulation... If you thought you'd seen it all - think again.

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Inspired by the terrifying story of Robert 'Willy' Pickton (Jake Busey), the pig farmer cum prolific serial killer whose horrific crimes shocked the world, 'Pig Killer' graphically depicts the rape, torture, slaughter and dismemberment of forty-nine young women on a pig farm.

With his herculean hog, Balthazar, by his side, Willy and his menagerie of colourful cohorts terrorize Vancouver's seedy downtown until his arrest which uncovered a horrific series of brutal murders.

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Ghost Dog (Forest Whitaker) lives above the world, alongside a flock of birds, in a homemade shack on the roof of an abandoned building. Guided by the words of an ancient Samurai text, Ghost Dog is a professional killer able to dissolve into the night and move throughout the city unnoticed.

When Ghost Dog's code is dangerously betrayed by the dysfunctional mafia family that occasionally employs him, he must find a way to defend himself without breaking the code of the samurai.

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Set in 19th century China, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon follows two martial-arts masters Li Mu Bai (Chow Yon Fat) and Vu Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh) as they battle against evil forces to regain the stolen Green Destiny sword and defeat long-time foe Jade Fox.

To succeed they must overcome an unknown warrior, the supremely skilled Jen (Zhang Ziyi), who is fighting against an arranged marriage. In the process Li is torn between his deep and long-denied feelings for Shu, and his wish to tame and teach Jen.

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Oscar nominee Barbara Hershey stars as Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother who, one terrible night is raped in her bedroom by someone - or something - that she cannot see. Met with sceptical psychiatrists, she is repeatedly attacked in her car, in the bath, and in front of her children.

Could this be a case of hysteria, a manifestation of childhood sexual trauma, or something even more horrific? Now, with a group of daring parapsychologists, Carla will attempt an unthinkable experiment: to seduce, trap and ultimately capture the depraved spectral fury that is The Entity.

"Wonka" tells the wondrous story of how a young dreamer named Willy Wonka (Timothée Chalamet) becomes the world's greatest inventor, magician and chocolate maker.