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Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A biker gang visits a monastery where they encounter black-robed monks engaged in worshipping Satan. When the monks try to persuade one of the female bikers, Helen, to become a satanic sacrifice the bikers smash up the monastery and leave. The monks have the last laugh, though, as Helen, as a result of the satanic rituals, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get the mineral back! REVIEW: The first time I tried to watch The Devil Came from Akasava, it was entirely in German without any English subtitles. This led to some confusion …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Real autopsy footage highlights this short film from Stan Brakhage. REVIEW: The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes is a literal Greek translation of the word autopsy. Stan Brakhage gives us a view inside a normally closed off room, where coroners dissect bodies to determine cause of death and various pathologists research disease and its possible …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A woman recently released from a sanitarium hopes to start a new life in a quiet town with her husband and their mutual friend, only to discover that the world she thought she knew does not exist. Is what is happening really happening? Or is it all in her mind? REVIEW: In the history of cinema, …

SYNOPSIS: “A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates (and their increasing number of friends). However, when one of them is killed at work, Willard goes on a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house REVIEW: Paul Henderson (Jon Pertwee) is a film star who disappears after renting an eerie old house. Inspector Holloway (John Bennett) is in charge of the mystery and inquiries at the town’s police station where, the local police sergeant (John Malcolm) begins to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while they are asleep in bed, teen-aged Ellie Masters is sent to an isolated orphanage run by Mrs. Deere and her handyman. Taking an avid interest in her welfare is detective Calvin Carruthers. Taking almost no interest at all, is social worker Harold Mullins who …

Rate This Movie   SYNOPSIS: “They Might be Giants chronicles the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in modern-day New York City. The fact that Sherlock Holmes is a psychotic paranoid and Doctor Watson is a female psychiatrist fascinated by his case is almost beside the point. Doctor Watson follows Holmes across Manhattan and is, against her better judgment, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two gunfighters separate and experience surreal visions on their journey through the west.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two men on the run take up residence in a house as one of them poses as his Aunt Martha to evade detection by the police, going so far as to wear a wig and female clothes. A series of strange events transpire that threatens to expose their identities.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A trio of bohemian dropouts buy a remote farmhouse only to discover that a mysterious young woman named Emily has taken up residence. The three allow their free-spirited tenant to stay on, and she quickly becomes part of their unconventional family unit. But Jessica, who is recovering from a nervous breakdown, discovers their idyllic farmhouse hides …

SYNOPSIS: In the early 18th century a plowman unearths a skeleton that is neither man nor beast. He reports his discovery to a visiting judge, but the carcass mysteriously vanishes before it can be examined. Within hours evil manifestations begin to sweep through the small village as the resurrected entity grows stronger. Some of the villagers disappear into the woods, …

SYNOPSIS: A biker gang discovers that their leader’s runaway old lady has been laying low at a hippie commune. Enraged at her betrayal the gang descends on the hippies, demanding they hand over the woman. REVIEW: Biker movies are one of cinema history’s more curious sidebars. There must be a hundred of these films, each focusing a group of rebels …

SYNOPSIS: A frustrated music journalist befriends an aging classical pianist, only to discover that the musician has supernatural designs on his body. REVIEW: Occult themed films are tricky business. Often the menace, be it Satan or some lesser minion, remains unseen, utilizing devoted mortals to carry out their schemes. The best occult films don’t rely on shock, opting instead for …

SYNOPSIS: On her way home from a stay at a mental institution after a traumatic rape, a woman realizes that someone is deliberately trying to drive her insane. REVIEW: Adequate. There’s a word you just don’t hear very often. I used to know a gentleman who used that word to occasionally describe movies that he’d seen. It was the most …