mikea's - Rented List

The BBC's most intrepid reporter of the culturally off-beat and the downright bizarre returns for tour more of the best episodes of his TV Series Weird Weekends. Swingers? Wrestlers? Crazy South African Boers? They're all here!

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Justine, geeky head girl of plush grammar school Fairview High, finds herself hanging out with the in-crowd after school heart-throb Alexis asks her out. All seems perfect...until she discovers the gang hides a dark secret.

Darren Mullet already knows what they did last summer: they bullied him until he committed suicide. But death does not stop him taking revenge and one by one, his former classmate get picked off in increasingly brutal and bloody ways.

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Suspecting only a night of hard beds and tacky decor, Caleb, his sexy new fiancee Jessica and his sarcastic best friend Tanner, check into the Meadow View Inn.

They have no idea that it is not just another lonely motel, but a horrific trap where guests are brutally tortured and murdered while the sadistic maniac Mr. Smith and his greedy accomplices film the grisly slayings for profit. Caught in a deadly game or cat and mouse, the three young friends now must fight to survive.

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The moment Lena Baker (Tichina Arnold) think she ahs overcome her inner demons, she is called to work for a tyrannical white man, Elliot Arthur (Peter Coyote), a father, a mill worker, and a drunk. They develop a highly-charged relationship that society deems inappropriate for the time.

His regular physical and mental abuse keeps Lena away from her children and mother (Beverley Todd). After imprisoning her in his home, Lena finally stands up and attempts to free from his bondage. A struggle ensues, and Elliot Arthur, a white man, is shot by Lena Baker, an African-American woman, on a hot humid night in Southwest Georgia in 1945. Following her arrest, a jury of 12 white men, her subpoenaed peers, found Lena guilty of murder in less than 6 hours. Lena Baker received the death penalty – earning her a place in history as the first and only woman to be sentenced to death by electric chair in the state of Georgia. Lena Baker was posthumously pardoned in 2005.

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A mysterious virus, carried by mutated rats creates pandemonium on the streets of New York City when rat-bite victims turn into homicidal rat-mutants. This movie focuses on six tenants on a small apartment complex on the Lower East Side, Mulberry Street.

They must fight to survive the night against the rats and the multiplying mutants.

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Tara Woodley (Emmy Smith) is a fiery young reporter searching for clues to write a story on the infamous ghost legends of an old desert town. In her search, she picks up a bizarre hitchhiker, Ebenezer Jackson (Joe Haggerty).

He leads the sceptical Tara on a vicious journey where the living dead prevail, and humans are the unwelcome intruders...

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Imaginative, impetuous and wild, Diana can’t wait for her adult life to begin. Whiling away the final days of high school in the lush springtime, Diana tests her limits with sex and drugs as her more conservative friend Maureen watches with concern.

But Diana’s aura of invincibility is shattered when a senseless act of violence erupts at school, forever changing the lives of the two best friends. Fifteen years later, a grown Diana (Uma Thurman) is still trying to come to terms with the traumatic events of that fateful day, and her grip on reality is starting to falter.

"They're Here", playful at first...but not for long. A storm erupts, a tree attacks and little Carol Anne Freeling (Heather O'Rourke) is whisked onto a spectral void. As her family confronts horrors galore, something else is here too: a new benchmark in Hollywood ghost stories.

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Sent by her parents to live in a Chicago high-rise with her aunt and uncle, Carol Anne discovers she must now face demons more frightening than ever before. Led by the Revered Kane (Nathan Davis), the spirits have moved from invading houses to taking over an entire skyscraper.

They are lurking behind every mirror...waiting to break through the only barrier that divides us from a horrifying dimension. Fortunately, Tangina (Zelda Rubinstein), a powerful psychic, returns to battle these malevolent forces.

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When David (Luke Wilson) and Amy Fox's (Kate Beckinsale) car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, they are forced to spend the night at the only motel around with only the TV to entertain them, until they discover that the low-budget slasher movies they're watching were all filmed in the very room

in which they're sitting. With hidden cameras now aimed at them, trapping them in rooms, crawlspaces, underground tunnels and filming their every move, David and Amy must struggle to get out alive before they end up the next victims on tape.

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This smash hit futuristic comedy is a fresh and sublimely entertaining tale from French filmmakers, Jeunet (Amelie) and Caro. In a starving, post-holocaust France, a butcher keeps his customers supplied by his cannibalistic tendencies.

But when his daughter falls in love with a circus performer, only an underground band of vegetarian freedom fighters can save her beloved from the meat cleaver.

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The Freeling family (JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Heather O'Rourke) may have settled into a new home... but the spirts of the dead have not given up their desire to possess Carol Anne.

Led by Kane (Julian Beck), a demon disguised as a preacher, the spirts attempt to convince Carol Anne to join them on "the other side". But when the plan fails, Kane inleashes the hellish fury of the Poltergeist on the Freelings...forcing the desperate family to turn for help to a mysterious medicine man, a medium, a grandmother and, most of all, to each other.

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From the secret files of the Vatican! If you ever watched 'La Dolce Vita' wishing that Swedish sex siren Anita Ekberg would get out of the Trevi fountain, turn junkie, torture some pensioners and stalk innocent young nuns for kinky sex in a convent then 'Killer Nun' is the film for you! One of the

true greats of the nunsploitation genre this stunningly shot descent into the morphine-addled world of Sister Gertrude is high on style and vivid with deliciously surreal murders. Boasting a powerhouse performance from Ekberg and banned upon release in Italy...

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Beautiful Valentina (Isabelle De Funès) is a famous trendy photographer, one night she's nearly run over by an enigmatic older woman, Baba Yaga (Carroll Baker), who it turns out is not only the devil witch...

but a sapphic predatory witch who must possess her! Pursued by the sensuous seduction of a now obsessed Baba Yaga, Valentina must either submit to her carnal S&M lust or escape what appears to have become a waking nightmare of perverted realities!

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Me and You and Everyone We Know is a comic and poetic take on contemporary relationships. In her feature debut as director, Miranda July casts herself as Christine, a drifting video artist who falls for down-on-his-luck shoe salesman Richard (John Hawkes).

Recently separated from his wife, Richard struggles with his parental responsibility for seven year old Robby and teenage Peter. Left unsupervised while their dad works, the two boys amuse themselves on their PC, constructing animal pictures using the punctuation keys, and getting involved in some increasingly risque instant-messaging. Orbiting this central quartet are an assortment of expertly drawn characters, whose lives intersect in sometimes bizarre but always believable ways; from the curator of the gallery to whom Christine has submitted her video project to Robby & Peter's next door neighbour, a young girl who collects consumer goods for a "hope chest" in her bedroom.