Kwaidan
Synopsis: Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, Kwaidan features four nightmarish tales in which terror thrives and demons lurk. Adapted from traditional Japanese ghost stories, this lavish production draws […]
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La frusta e il corpo
Synopsis: Nevenka’s ex-lover, who is her husband’s brother, Kurt, has come back to claim her and he does so by engaging in a forbidden rendezvous. The next day Kurt is […]
Hausu
Synopsis: How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable 1977 movie House (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava? Any […]
The Maid
Synopsis: Some rules should never be broken Chinese legend has it that the gates of Hell open and the dead walk the Earth for 30 days each year. Break the […]
Re-Animator
Synopsis: Herbert West has a very good head on his shoulders… and another one in a dish on his desk. Herbert West is obsessed with the idea of bringing the […]
Braindead
Synopsis: Some things won’t stay down…even after they die. On a quiet street, in a small town, pure evil has come to stay. Lionel, an innocent young man, is forced […]
The Frighteners: The Director’s Cut
Synopsis: From Academy Award®-winning director Peter Jackson (King Kong, The Lord of the Rings) comes this wicked comedy-thriller. Michael J. Fox stars as Frank Bannister, a small-town “ghostbuster” in league […]
La cité de la peur
Synopsis: This French comedy parodies horror movies and detective films. It is set at the Cannes Film Festival. There, Odile, a sincere publicist, tries to promote the horror movie “Red […]
X: The Erotic Treasury
X: The Erotic Treasury, by various authors 7.5 I was given this gorgeous anthology by my partner some three years ago, for Christmas. It’s such a beautiful, almost velvety, book and […]
Jism
Synopsis: Never has a woman been so beautiful, so exotic, so dangerous to know…the dark side of desire. In a story of passion and betrayal, a chance meeting brings together […]
Basic Instinct
Synopsis: Michael Douglas stars as Nick Curran, a tough but vulnerable detective. Sharon Stone co-stars as Catherine Tramell, a cold, calculating and beautiful novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite. Catherine […]
Zwartboek
Synopsis: In the darkest days of World War II, Jewish fugitives attempt to escape occupied Holland – only to face a Nazi ambush. Rachel Stein (Carice van Houten) alone survives the […]
Song of the Thin Man
Synopsis: At a charity gambling benefit aboard the S.S. Fortune, the tables are hot, the jazz is hotter and before you know it, a bandleader’s body is growing cold. They’re […]
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