Dan's film collection: 2009-02-15

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Eagle Island

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Video Distributor : Esselte CIC

Year : 1987

Running time : 90 minutes

Actors : Tom O'Rourke, Summer Lee Thomas, Tim Earle, Lisa Robinson

Director : Mats Helge

Snake Eater's Revenge

Snake Eater's Revenge

Aka : Snake Eater II : The Drug Buster

Story : The SnakeEater is about to clean up the street. No matter how dirty he has to get.

Video Distributor : Warner Home Video

Year : 1990

Running time : 93 Minutes

Actors : Lorenzo Lamas, Michelle Scarabelli, Larry B. Scott

Director : George Erschbamer

Story : When the woman deputy prosecutor R.K. Sabich had an affair with is murdered the prosecutor asks him to lead the investigation. When Sabich digs too deeply he finds himself framed for the murder.

Video Distributor : Warner Home Video

Year : 1991

Running time : 122 minutes

Actors : Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, Raul Julia, Bonnie Bedelia

Director : Alan J. Pakula

The Big Chill

The Big Chill

Story : A group of friends who attended the University of Michigan together in the 1960's convene for the funeral of one from their group, Alex, who committed suicide. The group, each now in their thirties, have kept in touch over the years, but have drifted somewhat apart as their respective lives changed. Their individual ideals have also changed from their socially conscious and radical days in college, to where they mostly now live outwardly comfortable and financially lucrative lives. With Alex's young and socially naive girlfriend, Chloe, added to the mix, the friends spend the weekend together at married couple Harold and Sarah's house in South Carolina following the funeral. Especially in light of Alex's suicide, the friends discuss their lives and collective relationships with each other, then and now.

Video Distributor : RCA Columbia

Year : 1984

Running time : 101 minutes

Actors : Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, Kevin Kline, Tom Berenger, William Hurt

Director : Lawrence Kasdan

Miami Supercops

Miami Supercops

Story : In 1978, $20 million was stolen from a Detroit bank. One of the robbers was caught, one was found dead, and the third disappeared. The money was never found. Seven years later, the robber who was caught was released from jail. He immediately went to Miami, only to be found dead the next day. Now FBI agents Doug Bennet and Steve Forest have been called in to investigate the case while posing as Miami police officers. Somewhere in Miami the third robber is hiding with his $20 million, and he has a seven-year head start on the authorities.

Video Distributor : RCA Columbia

Year : 1986

Running time : 94 minutes

Actors : Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Jackie Castellano, C.V. Wood Jr

Director : Bruno Corbucci

The Mean Season

The Mean Season

Story : Malcolm Anderson is a reporter for a Miami newspaper. He's had enough of reporting the local murders and so promises his school teacher girlfriend (Christine), they'll move away soon. Before Malcolm can hand in his notice, the murderer from his latest article phones him. The murderer tells Malcolm that he's going to kill again. The phone calls and murders continue, soon Malcolm finds that he's not just reporting the story, he is the story.

Video Distributor : RCA Columbia

Year : 1986

Running time : 110 minutes

Actors : Kurt Russel, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan, Richard Masur

Director : Philip Borsos

A Soldier's Story

A Soldier's Story

Story: In the towm of Tynen, Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. A military lawyer, also a black man, is sent from Washington to conduct an investigation. Facing an uncooperative chain of command and fearful black troops, Captain Davenport must battle with deceipt and prejudice in order to find out exactly who really did kill Sergeant Waters.

Video Distributor : RCA Columbia

Year : 1985

Running time : 96 minutes

Actors : Howard E. Rollins Jr, Adolph Caesar, Art Evans

Director : Norman Jewison

Fallen Angel

Fallen Angel

Story : Twelve year old Jennifer is unhappy with her widowed mom's relationship with a family friend. Feeling lonely, she readily accepts the friendship of an adult man named Howie and joins the softball team he coaches. Soon, Howie is convincing Jennifer to pose for photographs which become more and more revealing. Howie turns out to be a pedophile who works in child pornography and he plans to make Jennifer a "star". Will Jennifer's mother be able to help her daughter before it's too late?

Video Distributor : RCA Columbia

Year : 1987

Running time : 92 minutes

Actors : Dana Hill, Melinda Dillon, Richard Masur, Ronny Cox

Director : Robert Lewis

Eddie And the Cruisers

Eddie And the Cruisers

Story : Maggie Foley (Ellen Barkin) is a reporter who's interviewing the surviving members of a band who's music is being revived. Memories of the band's leader Eddie Wilson (Michael Pare) are being relived as Frank Ridgeway (Tom Berenger) is reunited with the old members of the band. As the memories are relived on the screen, it becomes clear that someone is looking for the lost unpublished tapes of the band's final recording and that someone might be Eddie!

Video Distributor : RCA Columbia

Year : 1987

Running time : 95 minutes

Actors : Tom Berenger, Ellen Barkin, Michael Paré

Director : Martin Davidson

The Broken Badge

The broken Badge

Stoy : Chick Stacy is a tough cop, He's accused of the murder on the prostitute Lilly, and been locked up in the San Quentin prison. As soon his fellow prisoners finds out he's a cop, life becomes a living Hell in the prison....

Video Distributor : RCA Columbia

Year ; 1985

Running time : 97 minutes

Actors : Claude Akins, Dennis Dugan, Michael Bell, Warren Stevens, Barbara Luna

Director : Lee H. Katzin

The Dark Side

The Dark Side

Story : A cab driver gets mixed up with a fare he picks up who turns out to be a porno star, and she claims she has proof that the people she is working for are producing snuff films. Her claims seem to be validated when the cabbie notices suspicious looking people following them.

Video Distributor : RCA Columbia

Year : 1988

Running time : 95 minutes

Actors : Tony Galati, Cyndy Preston, Peter Read, David Hewlett

Director : Constantino Magnatta

Educating Rita

Educating Rita

Story : Bored with teaching undergraduates English literature, Frank Bryant morosely reflects through a whisky glass on his failed marriage and his attempt at becoming a poet. His world is turned upside down by the arrival of Rita, a hairdresser who has decided to find herself by taking an Open University course. Excited by her freewheeling and acute observations, and - let's be honest - by Rita herself, Frank also feels a deep sadness as he watches her warm impulsive reactions being replaced by the sort of cold analytical approach he so much loathes in other students and colleagues.

Video Distributor : RCA Columbia

Year ; 1985

Running time : 112 minutes

Actors : Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Michael Williams

Director : Lewis Gilbert

The Hidden

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

The Hidden

Story : The police are hunting a man, who has committed several crimes, mostly auto theft. They eventually captured but not after a long chase and only after he crashes his car and is burned. At the hospital, the man rises and then proceeds to the man in the room with him. He then proceeds to open the man's mouth and a creature comes out of his and enters the man. The man then stands up and walks out of the hospital. An FBI agent goes to the police and says he is looking for the man they just caught. When he goes to the hospital, he takes a photo of the man and gives it to the police and says that they have to find him. After a long chase, the detective, who is frustrated, arrests the FBI agent and demands to know what is going on. He says that he is an alien and that the people they have been pursuing have each been taken over by an alien that he is pursuing.

Video Distributor : CBS/Fox Video

Year : 1988

Actors : Kyle Maclachlan, Michael Nouri

Director : Jack Sholder

The Blue Iguana

The Blue Iguana

Story ; Two overzealous psychopathic US tax collectors blackmail bounty hunter Vince Holloway into stopping an illegal transfer of 20 Mio. dollars from a Mexican tax paradise into the USA. So he arrives in Diablo, where life isn't worth a penny. It seems impossible to raid the heavily guarded bank. He has to assure himself of help of the barwoman Dakota and a little boy.

Video Distributor : CBS/Fox Video

Year : 1989

Running time : 90 minutes

Actors : Dylan McDermott, Jessica harper, James Russo, Tovah Feldshuh, Dean Stockwell

Director : John Lafia

Docteur Jekyll et les femmes

Docteur Jekyll et les femmes

Aka : Dr Jekyll en Lady Osborne

- Dr. Jekyll and His Women -

Story : The film takes place before, during and immediately after the engagement party of Dr.Henry Jekyll and Miss Fanny Osborne, attended by numerous highly respectable guests (a general, a doctor, a priest, a lawyer), the last of which informs the company that a child has been murdered in the street outside. While the others watch a young dancer perform, Dr.Jekyll instructs the lawyer to alter his will, leaving everything to a certain Mr.Hyde. Shortly afterwards, the dancer is found murdered, and the guests realise that one of their number must be a maniac with a prodigious sexual appetite...

Video Distributor : Video For Pleasure

Year ; 1985

Running time : 95 minutes

Actors : Udo Kier, Marina Pierro, Gérard Zalcberg

Director : Walerian Borowczyk

Macabra

Macabra

Aka : Demonoid : Messenger of Death

Story : A British woman visits her husband at the Mexican mine he is attempting to reopen and discovers that the workers refuse to enter the mine fearing an ancient curse. The couple enter the mine to prove there is no danger and inadvertently release a demon which possess people's left hands and forces them to behave in a suitably diabolical manner. The only way for a possessed person to free themselves from this torment is to cut off their left hand after which it scurries away in search of its next victim

Video Distributor : Video For Pleasure

Year : 1984

Running time : 99 Minutes

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Roy Cameron Jenson

Director : Alfredo Zacharias

The Toolbox Murders

The Toolbox Murders

Story : A lunatic runs around an apartment complex, apparently home only to attractive flight attendants with a tendency towards exhibitionism. While there, the lunatic tries to kill all the tenants with the contents of a toolbox. Based (probably quite loosely) on a true story.

Video Distributor : Video Media

Year : 1984

Running time : 93 minutes

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Pamelyn Ferdin, Wesley Eure, Nicholas Beauvy

Director : Dennis Donnelly

Exorcism

Exorcism

Aka : Exorcismo

Story : The story in this horror movie involves a young woman's unknowing participation in a satanic ceremony which causes her to be possessed by the spirit of her dead father. She promptly begins exhibiting the standard symptoms - curses, vomiting, and even twisting the heads of a few people 180 degrees. Naschy plays the village priest summoned to perform the rites of exorcism, and must fend off the possessed's lewd advances before casting the evil spirit out of her body.

Video Distributor : Sunrise Tapes

Year : 1983

Running time : 90 minutes

Actors : Paul Naschy, Maria Perschy, Maria Kosty, Grace Mills

Director : Juan Bosch

Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home

Story : An escaped mental patient steals a station wagon and makes his way to the Bradleys' Thanksgiving celebration, where he plans to make them a little less thankful...

Video Distributor : Media

Year : 1983

Running time : 90 minutes

Actors : Jake Steinfeld, Sallee Elysse, Peter de Paula, Collete Trugg

Director : Nettie Pena

Fade To Black

Fade To Black

Story : Eric Binford watches a lot of movies. He is the truest definition of a film geek. One day, his sanity takes a turn for the worse and he begins acting out his favorite scenes from the movies. In doing so, he manages to involve his enemies and the scenes usually result in death

Video Distributor : Media

Year : 1982

Running time : 100 minutes

Actors : Dennis Christopher, Tim Thomerson, Normann Burton

Director : Vernon Zimmerman

Blackout

Blackout

Aka : Stroomstoring

Story : A black comedy of violent criminals who terrorize apartment dwellers during New York's 1977 power blackout

Video Disributor : Video For Pleasure

Year : 1984

Running time : 104 minutes

Actors : Robert Carradine, Jim Mitchum, Belinda Montgomery, Ray Milland

Director : Eddy Matalon

The Day Time Ended

The Day Time Ended

Story : Aliens visit the solar-powered house of a middle-class family, and the house is suddenly sucked into a time warp that takes it back to prehistoric times.

Video Distributor : Sunrise Tapes

Year : 1984

Running time : 79 minutes

Actors : Jim Davis, Dorothy Malone, Chris Mitchum, Marcy Lafferty

Director : John Cardos

Black Shampoo

Black Shampoo

Story : John Daniels stars as Jonathan Knight, the owner of "Mr. Jonathans", the most successful hair salon for women on the Sunset Strip. Jonathan is tall, muscular, black and ballsy. His reputation as a lover has become so awesome that he is sought after almost as much in that capacity as in his expertise as a hair stylist. Everything is cool for Jonathan until he messes with the mob in an effort to protect his young, attractive receptionist from her former boss. Action explodes when the "lovin' machine" becomes the "killing machine". Jonathan, equipped with chain saw in hand, gets down on the vicious mob gang.

Video Distributor : Video Media

Year : 1983

Running time : 83 minutes

Actors : John Daniels, Tanya Boyd, Gary Allen, kelly Beau

Director : Greydon Clark

Bigfoot and the Hendersons

Bigfoot and the Hendersons

aka : Harry And the Hendersons

Story : Returning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family's car hits an animal in the road. At first they fear it was a man, but when they examine the "body" they find it's a "bigfoot". They think it's dead so they decide to take it home (there could be some money in this..). As you guessed, "it" isn't dead. Far from being the ferocious monster they fear "Harry" to be, he's a friendly giant. In their attempts to keep Harry a secret, the Henderson's have to hide him from the authorities and a man, who has made it his goal in life, to catch a "bigfoot".

Video Distributor : Esselte CIC

Year : 1988

Running time : 105 minutes

Actors : John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon, Don Ameche

Directed by : William Dear

Ai man niu huo bing gong fu liang

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Ai man niu huo bing gong fu liang

Aka : In the Claws of the C.I.A.

Story : Kung fu champ John is given the chance to train CIA agents in martial arts by using self-hypnosis. But when he discovers the reason he escapes and the CIA go after him. John must fight for his life all over Europe as he flees the CIA

Video Distributor : Empire

Year : 1983

Running time : 102 minutes

Actors : John Liu, José María Blanco, Casanova Wong, Christian Anders, Roger Paschy, paul Will

Director : ?

Dead Bang

Dead Bang

Story : A cop is gunned down on Xmas eve. Jerry Beck, the homicide cop given the job of hunting the killer, investigates some leads which bring him into contact with a group of white supremacy extremists. In addition to the racists, Beck also has to contend with an unhelpful FBI agent.

Video Distributor : CNR Video

Year : 1990

Running time : 105 Minutes

Actors : Don Johnson, Penelope Ann Miller, William Forsythe

Director : John frankenheimer

Neon City

Neon City

Story : In the year 2053, the earth has been devastated by a military experiment gone awry. The ozone layer is gone, radioactive clouds drift across the plains, and unpredictable, intense bursts of ultra-violet sunlight (called "brights") incinerate anyone caught outside. In these conditions, a group of travelers are trying to get from the frontier town of Jericho to the paradise safe haven of Neon City: A doctor named Tom (Nick Klar), an old man with a mysterious past (Arsenio 'Sonny' Trinidad), a prostitute (Valerie Wildman), a spoiled rich girl (Juliet Landau), an untalented comedian (Richard Sanders), and a bounty hunter named Stark (Michael Ironside) with his valuable prisoner Reno (Vanity). They board an armored truck converted into a passenger transport driven by an ex-convict named Bulk (Lyle Alzado). Along they way, the travelers deal with passing though radioactive Xander clouds, 150F degrees of "brights", unstable paved roads, and nomadic motorcycle riders whom kill anyone venturing though their territory. During the journey, few, if any, of the passengers turn out to be what they initially appear.

Video Distributor : CNR Video

Year : 1992

Running time : 100 minutes

Actors : Vanity, Michael Ironside, Lyle Alzado, Valerie Wildman

Director : Monte Markham

Me'Ahorei Hasoragim

Me'Ahorei Hasoragim

Aka : Beyond the Walls

Story : In Israel's Central Prison, the security officer is corrupt, supplying drugs and stirring the hatred between Jewish and Arab prisoners to his advantage. Uri, in for 12 years for armed robbery, and Issan, in for 50 years for PLO violence, command the respect of their cells. When the Arabs are framed for the murder of a Jewish prisoner and a young inmate commits suicide rather than lie about what happened, Uri and Issan form an unlikely partnership, leading the security block on a strike. Prison officials try to break it. In the background are Uri's daughter and Issan's wife, women of beauty and passion who embody the distance from inside a cell to the outside

Video Distributor : Warner Home Video

Year : 1985

Running time : 103 minutes

Actors : Arnon Zadok, Hitel Ne'eman, Rami Danon, Muhamad Bakri, Assi Dayan, Boaz Sharaabi

Director : Uri Barbash

The Howling

The Howling

Story : There is a serial killer on the loose, Karen White is the only reporter he communicates with. After a near fatal encounter with him at an adult video store, she is ordered to take a vacation. Eddie was killed by Police, but Karen doesn't want to let it go and discovers that he came from a tiny community in the woods and that's where she decides to vacation with husband Bill. Big mistake, because Eddie was an outcast of a pack of Werewolves who is trying to keep a low profile and doesn't want any interviews. Can Karen and Bill escape the village of the wolf?

Video Distributor : Embassy home Entertainment

Year : 1983

Running time : 90 minutes

Actors : Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Christopher Stone

Director : Joe Dante

Clownhouse

Clownhouse

Story : Just before Halloween, three young brothers alone in a big house are menaced by three escaped mental patients who have murdered some traveling circus clowns and taken their identities

Video Distributor : Euro Screen

Year : 1990

Running time : 81 minutes

Actors : Nathan Forrest Winters, Brian McHugh, Sam Rockwell, Tree

Director : Victor Salva

Swamp Thing

Swamp Thing

Story : Dr. Alec Holland, hidden away in the depths of a murky swamp, is trying to create a new species - a combination of animal and plant capable of adapting and thriving in the harshest conditions. Unfortunately he becomes subject of his own creation and is transformed . . . Arcane, desperate for the formula attempts to capture the Swamp Thing. An explosive chase ensues that ultimately ends with a confrontation between Holland and a changed Arcane . . .

Video Distributor : Warner Home Video

Year : 1987

Running time : 90 minutes

Actors : louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise, David Hess

Director : Wes Craven

Lady In White

Lady In White

Story : The year is 1962. The place is Willowpoint Falls. Nobody talks about what happened in the school cloakroom 10 years ago. Now, in the dead of night, Frankie Scarlatti is going to find out why.

Video Distributor : CNR Video

Year : 1989

Running time : 110 minutes

Actors : Lukas Haas, Katherine Helmond, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco

Director : Frank Laloggia

Red Heat

Red Heat

Story : Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a Russian policeman sent after a Russian drug dealer who has escaped to the United States and is awaiting extradition in Chicago. Jim Belushi plays his temporary partner on the Chicago police. When the drug dealer escapes, the two police must overcome their differences in order to recapture him

Video Distributor : RCA Columbia

Year : 1989

Running time : 101 minutes

Actors : Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Belushi, Peter Boyle, Ed O'Ross,Gina Gershon

Director : Walter Hill

At Close Range

At Close Range

Story : A boy and his friends seek to join a mid-atlantic gang led by the boy's estranged father, unaware that his father's ruthlessness takes no account of family ties.

Video Distributor : RCA Columbia

Year : 1987

Running time : 109 minutes

Actors : Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson

Director : James Foley

Cocoon

Cocoon

Story : A group of aliens return to earth to take back some cocoons of their people they left behind from an earlier trip. The cocoons are resting at the bottom of the ocean. They kept the recovered cocoons in the swimming pool of a house they rented in a small Florida town. Their mission is hampered by a number of old people from an elderly home nearby, who have been secretly using the pool and discovering the unusual power of these cocoons

Video Distributor : CBS/Fox Video

Year : 1986

Runing time :110 minutes

Actors : Don Ameche, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jesica Tandy

Director : Ron Howard

Suspect

Suspect

Story : A judge commits suicide, and his secretary is found murdered. A homeless deaf-mute man, Carl Anderson is arrested for her murder. Public defender Kathleen is assigned by the court as his lawyer. She sets to find the real killer, and gets help from the congressional advisor, Eddie Sanger who is called to be on the jury panel. Together they discover a dangerous circle of corruption in high places.

Video Distributor : RCA Columbia

Year : 1988

Running time : 117 minutes

Actors : Cher, Liam Neeson, Dennis Quaid, Joe Mantegna

Director : Peter Yates

Cross Country

Cross Country

Aka : Vuil Spel

Story : After a woman is found butchered in her New York apartment, suspicion falls on her estranged husband, an ad executive who has suddenly left town on a cross-country road trip. He takes along a beautiful girl he met in a bar and a drifter he picked up along the way. A cop sets out after the husband, but he's more interested in shaking him down than bringing him back

Video Distributor : CNR Video

Year : 1986

Running time : 100 minutes

Actors : Nina Axelrod, Richard Beymer, Michael Ironside, Brent Carver

Director : Paul Lynch

Kill Slade

Kill Slade

Story : He's Wanted by the bad guys and the good guys. In fact everyone wants to Kill Slade

Video Distributor : RCA Columbia

Year : 1990

Running time : 85 minutes

Actors : Patrick Dollaghan, Lisa Brady, Danny Keogh

Director : Bruce McFarlane

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