A group of women go on a horse-riding expedition to an isolated mountain region where they become prey to a gang of crazed white supremacists. Apparently an Ozploitation turkey (IMDb users have no kind words for it) directed by the once-eminent Tim Burstall and starring Lindsay Wagner, Joanna Cassidy and Tom Skerritt.Read More »
This slow-moving occult thriller has Pamela Sue Martin and hubbie Tim Matheson menaced by a coven of witches when they move to an island off the coast of Massachusetts. Director Carl Schenkel — who went on to make the interesting Knight Moves — does the best he can with a tedious script and a lot of miscasting, but it doesn’t make the movie any more interesting. It looks like a who’s who of ’80s sitcoms, with Woody Harrelson, Jeff Conaway, and Inga Swenson along for the evil doings, but some viewers will be rolling on the floor when they see Leave It to Beaver’s Barbara Billingsley as a 300-year-old witch. The highlight of the film is an exploding church, which may just be loud enough to wake you up so you can rewind the tape. “
by Robert FirschingRead More »
Synopsis
Set in the Ayutthaya Kingdom of the 16th century, King Chakra is going about his usual palace duties, granting audiences to his advisers, including his Lord Chamberlain who is keen to see the king fulfil his royal duty of taking 366 wives and who hopes that among them will be his daughter. However, the threat of invasion by the King of Honsa preoccupies King Chakra. The peace-loving King Chakra at first wants to negotiate for peace. But he is unsuccessful, and finds himself forced to go to war to stop the Honsa (Hanthawaddy) invasion.Read More »
From legendary Sci-Fi director Jack Arnold (The Incredible Shrinking Man, Creature From the Black Lagoon)… a glowing brain-like extra terrestrial communicates telepathically with the children of top-secret Air Force base in California. Dave Brewster (Adam Williams), an electronic technician arrives in town for a new job at the base with his wife, Anne (Peggy Webber) and their two children Bud (Michel Ray) and Ken (Johnny Crawford). The boys are drawn, along with the other children from the base to a lonely cave near the beach, where the kids start doing the alien’s bidding as the adults try to figure out what’s happening with their unruly offspring. The cast includes former child star Jackie Coogan (Chaplin’s The Kid), Ty Hardin (TV’s Bronco) and Russell Johnson (The Professor from Gilligan’s Island).Read More »
A doctor trying to fight a diphtheria epidemic comes into conflict with a police captain who is using all his resources to track down a cop-killer.Read More »
In 1979 Santa Barbara, Dorothea is a determined single mother who is raising her son, Jamie. Dorothea enlists the help of two women — Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist and Julie, a savvy teenager — to help with Jamie’s upbringing.Read More »
A woman engages a down-on-his-luck sailor to help her find her sister, who was kidnapped by modern day pirates.Read More »
On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild finds herself alone on Mother’s Day. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Niven, are out and she has the rare chance to spend quality time with her secret lover. Paul is the boy from the manor house nearby, Jane’s long-term love despite the fact that he’s engaged to be married to another woman, a childhood friend and daughter of his parents’ friends. But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane’s life forever.
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