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Tag Archives: Romance

The Million Eyes of Sumuru

April 29, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Two years before The Girl From Rio, Shirley Eaton (Goldfinger) also starred as Sumuru, a beautiful but deadly woman with plans for world domination. When a couple of wise-cracking, […]

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The Tomb of Ligeia

April 27, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Roger Corman and Vincent Price hook up for horror in Edgar Allan Poe’s “most terrifying” (L.A. Herald Examiner) tale of passion, possession and PURR-fect evil! When a dead wife […]

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Nymphomaniac, vol. 2: Extended Director’s Cut

April 26, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Nymphomaniac: Volume 2 continues with the story of the self-diagnosed nymphomaniac Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and her adulthood, during which her journey of self-discovery leads complications. The film stars Jamie […]

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The Swinging Cheerleaders

April 21, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Welcome to Mesa University, where all the scoring does not take place on the field. Watch the pompons fly when Kate (Jo Johnston), a reporter for the campus underground […]

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Film

The Masque of the Red Death

April 20, 2017by The Thorn 3 Comments

Synopsis: Death and debauchery reign in the castle of Prince Prospero (Vincent Price), and when it reigns- it pours! Prospero has only one excuse for his diabolical deeds – the […]

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Nymphomaniac, vol. 1: Extended Director’s Cut

April 19, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Nymphomaniac: Volume 1 is the story of Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac who is discovered badly beaten in an alley by an older bachelor, Seligman (Stellan Skarsgard), who […]

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Body Double

April 17, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Another Brian De Palma gloss on Alfred Hitchcock, Body Double (1984) is a dark thriller set against the sleazy backdrop of bad filmmaking—from horror to porn. The focus is […]

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Film

Les Quatre de Baker Street, Tome 3

April 16, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: The adventures of the Baker Street Irregulars continue in the third volume of the award-winning comics series based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. It takes our young heroes […]

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Literature

Kanashimi no Beradona

April 15, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: An innocent young woman, Jeanne (voiced by Aiko Nagayama) is violently raped by the local lord on her wedding night. To take revenge, she makes a pact with the […]

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Film, Literature

The Haunted Palace

April 13, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Based on an Edgar Allan Poe poem, this Roger Corman chiller starring Vincent Price is “filled with terror and macabre events [and] guaranteed to bring shudders” (Boxoffice)! A perversely […]

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Film, Literature

Elsker dig for evigt

April 12, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: What happens when fate suddenly snaps its fingers and turns life upside down at a stroke. This is the central question Danish director Susanne Bier poses and attempts to […]

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Film

Celeste

April 11, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Summary: In London, the moment two commuters, Aaron and Lilly, lay eyes on each other on a packed Monday morning tube train, everyone else around them vanishes. In Los Angeles, […]

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Literature

Sie tötete in Ekstase

April 10, 2017by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: The erotically charged follow up to the Jess Franco DVD smash hit, Vampyros Lesbos. The enchanting Soledad Miranda stars as a woman intent on avenging the death of her […]

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