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| x The Thin Man |
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The Thin Man (1934) was the first of six comic detective films starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, a flirtatious married couple who banter wittily as they solve crimes with ease. Nick is a hard drinking retired detective...
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| x The Karate Kid |
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The Karate Kid is a 1984 drama film directed by John G. Avildsen and written by Robert Mark Kamen, starring Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita and Elisabeth Shue. It is a martial arts film and an underdog story in the mold of a previous Avildsen success, the...
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| x Poltergeist | Poltergeist |
The Poltergeist movies are a trilogy of horror films produced in the 1980s. Steven Spielberg co-wrote and co-produced the first Poltergeist, with Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre) as the director. Brian Gibson directed Poltergeist II: The...
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| Poltergeist II: The Other Side | |||
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| x Spy Kids |
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Spy Kids |
The Spy Kids trilogy is a trilogy of family/action/adventure films written, produced and directed by Robert Rodriguez. The main plot follows the adventures of the children of a married spy couple who become involved in their parents' espionage. The...
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| Spy Kids 2: Island Of Lost Dreams | |||
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| x Dead End Kids |
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The Dead End Kids were a group of young actors from New York who appeared in Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play Dead End in 1935. In 1937 producer Samuel Goldwyn brought all of them to Hollywood and turned the play into a film. They proved to be so...
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| x The Sons of Hercules |
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The Sons of Hercules was a syndicated Embassy Pictures television show that aired in the United States of America in the 1960s. The series repackaged 14 Italian sword-and-sandal films by giving them separate memorable theme songs for the opening and...
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| x The Gods Must Be Crazy |
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The Gods Must Be Crazy is a film released in 1980, written and directed by Jamie Uys. The film is the first in The Gods Must Be Crazy series of films. Set in Botswana and South Africa, it tells the story of Xi, a Sho of the Kalahari Desert (played...
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| x Return of the Living Dead |
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Return of the Living Dead |
Return of the Living Dead is a series of films that was produced between 1985–2005. The series came about as a dispute between John Russo and George A. Romero over how to handle sequels to their 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead. The two reached a...
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| Return of the Living Dead Part II | |||
| Return of the Living Dead 3 | |||
| Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis | |||
| Return of the Living Dead: Rave from the Grave | |||
| x House Party |
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House Party |
House Party is a 1990 comedy film released by New Line Cinema. It stars Kid and Play of the popular hip hop duo Kid n' Play, and also stars Paul Anthony, Bow-Legged Lou, and B-Fine from Full Force, and Robin Harris (who died of a heart attack nine...
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| House Party 4: Down to the Last Minute | |||
| x Crocodile Dundee |
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"Crocodile" Dundee is a 1986 Australian comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City. It stars Paul Hogan as the weathered Mick Dundee and Linda Kozlowski as Sue Charlton.
Inspired by the true life exploits of Rodney Ansell, the...
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| x Emmanuelle |
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A Man for Emmanuelle |
Emmanuelle is the lead character in a series of French softcore erotic movies based on a character created by Emmanuelle Arsan in the novel Emmanuelle (1959). Only films and episodes produced by ASP ("Alain Siritzky Productions") film company are...
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| Goodbye Emmanuelle | |||
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| x The Cremaster Cycle |
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Cremaster 2 |
American visual artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney is best known for his epic Cremaster Cycle, a project consisting of five feature length films and related sculptures, photographs, drawings, and artist's books. The Cremaster Cycle was made over a...
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Wishmaster is a 1997 American black comedy horror film directed by Robert Kurtzman, and is the second film directed by Kurtzman. It was executive produced by Wes Craven—the only film of the Wishmaster series with his name attached.
The plot of...
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| x Guinea Pig |
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Guinea Pig: Devil's Experiment |
The Guinea Pig films (ギニーピッグ, Ginī Piggu) are a series of seven controversial 1980s Japanese exploitation gore-horror films. The series achieved global notoriety mostly for the first two films, which were mondo-inspired fake documentaries...
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| Guinea Pig: Mermaid in a Manhole | |||
| Guinea Pig: He Never Dies | |||
| Guinea Pig: Flower of Flesh and Blood | |||
| Guinea Pig: Devil Woman Doctor | |||
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| x Ma and Pa Kettle |
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Ma and Pa Kettle were comic characters who first appeared in the 1945 novel The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald about life on a chicken farm. She based them on real-life farming neighbors in Washington state, U.S.A. In 1947, Universal Pictures adapted...
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| x Police Academy |
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Police Academy |
Police Academy is a series of comedy films, the first six of which were made in the 1980s. The seventh and to date last installment, Mission to Moscow, was released in 1994. The series opened with Police Academy (1984) which started with the premise...
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| Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment | |||
| Police Academy 3: Back in Training | |||
| Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol | |||
| Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach | |||
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| x Blondie |
Blondie is a 1938 movie directed by Frank Strayer, based on the comic strip of the same name. The screenplay was written by Chic Young and Richard Flournoy.
This was the first of 28 films based on the comic strip; Columbia Pictures produced them...
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| x Walking Tall |
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Walking Tall is a 1973 semi-biopic of Sheriff Buford Pusser, a former professional wrestler-turned-lawman in McNairy County, Tennessee. It starred Joe Don Baker as Pusser. The film was directed by Phil Karlson.
Pusser, at his wife Pauline's behest,...
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| x Star Wreck |
Star Wreck is a series of Finnish Star Trek parody movies started by Samuli Torssonen in 1992. The first movie, simply named Star Wreck, was a simple Star Control–like animation with three ships shooting at each other, but later movies featured 3D...
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| x Dracula |
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Dracula is a 1958 British horror film, and the first of a series of Hammer Horror films inspired by the Bram Stoker novel Dracula. It was directed by Terence Fisher, and stars Peter Cushing, John Van Eyssen and Christopher Lee. In the United States,...
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| x Beverly Hills Cop |
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Beverly Hills Cop |
Beverly Hills Cop is a 1984 American action-comedy film directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy, John Ashton, Judge Reinhold, and Ronny Cox. Murphy stars as Axel Foley, a street-smart Detroit cop, who heads to Beverly Hills, California to...
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| x Sleepaway Camp |
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Sleepaway Camp is a 1983 cult classic horror movie written and directed by Robert Hiltzik—who also served as executive producer. The film is about teen campers getting killed at a summer camp. The film came at a time when slasher films were in...
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| x The Exorcist |
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The Exorcist is a 1973 U.S. horror film directed by William Friedkin, adapted from the 1971 novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty, dealing with the demonic possession of a young girl, and her mother’s desperate attempts to win back her...
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| x Moment of Truth Movie |
Moment of Truth movies are a series of TV movies produced for the Lifetime cable television and movie networks during the 1990s.
The Lifetime network marketed itself towards an audience of American women; as such, Moment of Truth movies were...
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| x Gidget |
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Gidget (1959) is a Columbia Pictures feature film starring Sandra Dee, Cliff Robertson, and James Darren in a story about a teenager's initiation into the California surf culture and her affliated romance with a young surfer. The screenplay by...
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| x Otoko wa Tsurai yo |
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Otoko wa tsurai yo (男はつらいよ, "It's tough being a man") is a Japanese film series starring Kiyoshi Atsumi as "Tora-san" (寅さん), a kind-hearted vagabond who is always unlucky in love. Spanning 48 installments (1969–95), it was considered by the Guinness...
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| x Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS |
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Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS is a 1974 Nazi exploitation film produced in the USA. The film was directed by Don Edmonds, produced by David F. Friedman and written by Jonah Royston.
It starred Dyanne Thorne as "Ilsa," commandante of a Nazi Stalag ...
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| x Topper |
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Topper (1937) is a comedy film which tells the story of a stuffy, stuck-in-his-ways man who is haunted by the ghosts of a fun-loving married couple. It was adapted by Eric Hatch, Jack Jevne and Eddie Moran from the novel by Thorne Smith. The film...
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| x Puppet Master |
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Puppet Master (also known as Puppetmaster and Puppet Master I) is a 1989 horror film written by Charles Band and Kenneth J. Hall, and directed by David Schmoeller. It is the first film in the Puppet Master franchise and stars Paul Le Mat, Irene...
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| x The Tulse Luper Suitcases |
The Tulse Luper Suitcases is a multimedia project by Peter Greenaway, initially intended to comprise three "source" and one feature films, a 16-episode TV series, and 92 DVDs, as well as Web sites, CD-ROMs and books. Once the online Web-based...
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| x Hunting For Bambi |
Hunting For Bambi is a series of hoax videos that center around a fictional competition to hunt semi-naked women with paintball guns in the deserts of Las Vegas. Created by Florida resident Michael Burdick, Hunting For Bambi drew significant...
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| x Karl May movies |
Karl May movies are movies based on stories and characters by German author Karl May (1842-1912). The characters Old Shatterhand, Winnetou, and Kara Ben Nemsi are very famous in Central Europe.
In most of the film versions the novels were reworked...
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| x Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 |
Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 is a series of ten syndicated movies for television produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for syndication and aired from 1987 to 1988 featuring the studios' most well-known and popular classic animated characters in...
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| x 激突！殺人拳 |
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The Street Fighter (激突！殺人拳, Gekitotsu! Satsujin Ken), literally Clash, Killer Fist!, is a Japanese martial arts film released in 1974 and produced by Toei Company Ltd. The copyright for the film failed to be renewed and it lapsed into public domain....
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| x Doctor in the House |
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Doctor in the House is a 1954 British comedy film, directed by Ralph Thomas and produced by Betty Box. The screenplay, by Nicholas Phipps, Richard Gordon and Ronald Wilkinson, is based on the novel by Gordon, and follows a group of students through...
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| x The Curse of Frankenstein |
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The Curse of Frankenstein is a 1957 British horror film by Hammer Film Productions. It was Hammer's first colour film, and the first of their Frankenstein series. Its worldwide success led to several sequels, and the studio's new versions of Dracula...
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| x Taboo |
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Taboo is a pornographic movie series of the 1980s, which deals with mother-son incest. It stars Kay Parker, and was directed by Kirdy Stevens and others.
The plot, which raised controversy when the film was released, involves a woman, who is left by...
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| x Paul Temple |
Paul Temple is a fictional character created by British author Francis Durbridge (1912-1998). Some of the novels in which he appears were written in collaboration with John Thewes, Douglas Rutherford, or Charles Hatten – and those with Rutherford...
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| x Dracula Has Risen from the Grave |
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Dracula Has Risen from the Grave is a 1968 British horror film directed by Freddie Francis for Hammer Films. It stars Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, with support from Rupert Davies, Veronica Carlson, Barry Andrews, Barbara Ewing, Ewan Hooper and...
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| x The Evil of Frankenstein |
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The Evil of Frankenstein is a 1963 British horror film made by Hammer Studio. This film version of Shelley's tale was directed for Hammer by Freddie Francis. The film stars Peter Cushing as Frankenstein and New Zealand wrestler Kiwi Kingston as the...
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| x Dracula: Prince of Darkness |
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Dracula - Prince of Darkness is the 1966 sequel to the popular horror film, Dracula (1958 film). It was directed by Terence Fisher and starred Christopher Lee, who again starred as the evil Count Dracula.
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Psycho II is the 1983 sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. It stars Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Robert Loggia and Meg Tilly. The film was directed by Richard Franklin and written by Tom Holland. The original music score was composed by Jerry...
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Psycho III is a 1986 sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. The film stars Anthony Perkins (who also directed the film), Diana Scarwid, Jeff Fahey and Roberta Maxwell. The screenplay is written by Charles Edward Pogue. The original electronic music...
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| x East Side Kids |
The East Side Kids were a group of actors who made a series of films and serials released by Monogram Pictures from 1940 through 1945. Many of them were originally part of The Dead End Kids and The Little Tough Guys', and several of them later...
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| x Hopalong Cassidy films |
This is a chronological filmography of all films featuring the character Hopalong Cassidy, always played by actor William Boyd, annotated with film producer / film distributor.
Harry Sherman / Paramount Pictures
Harry Sherman / United Artists...
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| x The Karate Kid, Part III |
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The Karate Kid, Part III is a 1989 film, and the second sequel to the hit motion picture The Karate Kid (1984). The film stars Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Thomas Ian Griffith, Robyn Lively, and Martin Kove. Like the first two films, it was directed...
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| x Turbulence |
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Turbulence is a 1997 action thriller film directed by Robert Butler and stars Ray Liotta and Lauren Holly and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
It was also released in the United States on January 10, 1997.
After Ryan Weaver (Liotta) is...
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| x Ghoulies |
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The Ghoulies films are an American horror-comedy series released throughout the 1980s and 1990s and centered around a group of evil little demons usually summoned by Satanic worshipers. The Ghoulies films are thought to be Gremlins rip-offs, but...
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Critters |
The Critters film series, from New Line Cinema, comprises four movies that combine elements of horror, science fiction and comedy. The first film, called simply Critters, was released in 1986 and received "two thumbs up" from Siskel and Ebert....
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| x The Satanic Rites of Dracula |
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The Satanic Rites of Dracula is a 1974 Hammer Horror film directed by Alan Gibson, and starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.
The film is the eighth Hammer film featuring Dracula, and the seventh film to star Lee in the title role, and a sequel...
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| x Lude godine |
Foolish Years (Serbo-Croatian: Lude godine/Луде године) is a popular Yugoslav series of films spawned by a 1977 movie of the same name. The original film as well as its nine sequels were all directed by Zoran Čalić between 1977 and 1992. By its...
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Jerry Cotton is the fictional character in a series of crime novels by many different writers in German-speaking countries.
The novels center around the adventures of FBI agent Jerry Cotton, which take place in and around New York City. In 1954 the...
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Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood |
Friday the 13th is an American horror franchise that consists of twelve slasher films, a television show, novels, comic books, and tie-in merchandise. The franchise mainly focuses on the fictional character of Jason Voorhees, who drowned at Camp...
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| Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter | |||
| Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan | |||
| Friday the 13th: A New Beginning | |||
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| x Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge |
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Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge is a Disney Channel Original Movie released in October 2001 for the holiday of Halloween. This is the second in the Halloweentown series.
Marnie prepares to spend a year with her grandmother Aggie. While hosting a...
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| x Halloweentown High |
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Halloweentown High is a Disney Channel Original Movie released in October 2004 for the holiday of Halloween. This is the third in the Halloweentown series. 2.43 million viewers tuned into this movie in the U.S. placing it 5th in its timeslot.
Taking...
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| x Dragons: Fire and Ice |
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Dragons: Fire & Ice (2004) is an animated adventure movie and the first of a two part series. Fire & Ice was released directly to DVD and is the story of two unlikely heroes, Prince Dev of the Norvagen and Princess Kyra of the Draigar. These two...
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| x Night of the Demons |
Night of the Demons (also known as: Halloween Party) is a 1988 cult classic horror film written and produced by Joe Augustyn and directed by Kevin S. Tenney. The film tells the story of ten high school seniors having a Halloween party in an isolated...
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Black Emanuelle (It. Emanuelle nera) is an Italian softcore film from 1975, the first in a series made to cash in on the success of the French film Emmanuelle, which was released the year before. Like that film, it was followed by a long string of...
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| x The Karnstein Trilogy | The Vampire Lovers |
The Karnstein Trilogy of vampire films were produced by Hammer Films, and were notable at the time for being somewhat daring in explicitly depicting lesbian themes. All three films were scripted by Tudor Gates. The films in the trilogy are:
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Halloween is an American horror franchise that consists of ten slasher films, novels, and comic books. The franchise focuses on the fictional character of Michael Myers who was committed to a sanitarium as a child for the murder of his older sister....
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