Tag Archives: 1996

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An evil millionaire believes he is Santa Claus after an accident renders him amnesiac.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A feature film director and his crew begin to question their debut production when the spirit of a murdered actress possesses a celluloid reel. REVIEW: Director: Hideo Nakata Cast: Yûrei Yanagi, Yasuyo Shiroshima, Kei Ishibashi, Ren Osugi, Takanori Kikuchi, Reita Serizawa. The Examination: Kindergarten Ghost Story. Japanese director Hideo Nakata achieved a degree of fame with Ringu, and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The Agency’s computer database is compromised by a powerful criminal named “The Warrior”. Now, with the list of all the undercover agents’ identities in hand, he is going after them, one by one. REVIEW: There was once a director that many a teenaged boy in the 1990s with a penchant for staying up late at nights …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Snake Plissken is once again called in by the United States government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an autonomous island where undesirables are deported. REVIEW:

SYNOPSIS: Keiko, a lonely single woman living in Tokyo, is taking the elevator up to her apartment one day when a couple of young thugs suddenly appear. They immediately assault her, dragging her into a stairwell and taking photographs of her in the throes of her ordeal. She leads them to an apartment inhabited by Miho, a woman she often …

SYNOPSIS: Over the years, a child’s romantic ideals about death blossom into necrophilia, the study of embalming and the most profound relationship of her life

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A zombie attempts to rise from the grave, but he needs blood in order to do it. He is able to get a pumpkin to fly aroundand kill people. He also mentally enslaves other people. Will he ultimately return from the dead? REVIEW:  Before Andreas Bethmann was combining hardcore p*rn with hardcore horror, and even before …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A blackout leaves those affected to consider what is necessary, what is legal, and what is questionable, in order to survive in a predatory environment. REVIEW: A rare gem that seems to have gotten lost over the years can be summed up with the 1996 film, “The Trigger Effect“. The Trigger Effect was released on VHS in …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After a tragic car accident kills his wife, a man discovers he can communicate with the dead to con people. However, when a demonic spirit appears, he may be the only one who can stop it from killing the living and the dead. REVIEW: Sometimes, when you re-watch a movie that you originally watched ages ago, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Female police psychologist is targeted by a supernatural devil-worshiping serial killer who wants to prove to her that she’s the Antichrist. A tough cop, his inept womanizing comic relief partner and a reverend try to stop him. REVIEW: Satan Returns is a 1996 Hong Kong action horror by the director Wai-Lun Lam. It’s a very uneven …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft, and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who anger them. REVIEW: It’s one thing to call the 1996 film “The Craft” iconic and a cult favorite, it’s another to say it’s …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Zane, an astronomer, discovers intelligent alien life. But the aliens are keeping a deadly secret, and will do anything to stop Zane from learning it. REVIEW: Before he became the punch line to his own set of jokes, Charlie Sheen was considered a serious actor. What better role for a man who acts insane in his …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: While on assignment in the jungles of Nepal, photojournalist Ted Harrison (Michael Pare) and his girlfriend are savagely attacked by a hideous beast which tears the woman to shreds and leaves Ted badly mauled. He later returns to the States to live near his sister Janet (Mariel Hemingway), nephew Brett (Mason Gamble) and their German shepherd …

SYNOPSIS: Tromeo, a filmmaker, falls in love with Juliet, the daughter of a former partner who tried to steal his business from him.

SYNOPSIS: A group of hardworking young shoemakers in Hong Kong find success with their latest product. Little do they know that their new supply of leather is made of human skin. The cops set out on the trail of a missing person, and suspicions grow as more and more people disappear. Jealousies and resentments see the close-knit group of shoemakers …