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NESSIE (Bryan Forbes, 1978)

This infamous collaboration between Hammer Studios and Toho Films features the legendary lake serpent escaping the confines of Loch Ness to attack ships at sea. Starring Peter Cushing, Horst Janson, and Lea Brodie. Special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano.

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CAPTAIN KRONOS - WEREWOLF HUNTER (Brian Clemens, 1976)

Countess de Lesseps (Geneviève Page) asks a pair of legendary monster hunters (Horst Janson, Patrick Troughton) to pursue a mythic beast which has savagely murdered scores of women and children in the woods around Averoigne.

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THE KILLER INSIDE ME (Stanley Kubrick, 1959)

Deputy sheriff Lou Ford (Sterling Hayden), a murderous and Machiavellian psychopath, struggles to hide his true nature behind an affable, good ol’ boy persona. Co-starring Marie Windsor, Jean Simmons, Timothy Carey, George Macready.

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BATGIRL (Adil & Bilall, 2023)

Barbara Gordon (Leslie Grace), daughter of the police commissioner (J. K. Simmons) forces Batman (Michael Keaton) to take her on as a protege when Gotham City is threatened by a mercenary pyromaniac (Brendan Fraser).

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LIGHT STROKES (Don Wade, 2022)

An unscrupulous gallery owner (Anne Hathaway) worries that an $80M art fraud will be exposed when her silent partner (Jake Gyllenhaal), a brilliant forger, becomes obsessed with the idea of befriending a billionaire collector (Stanley Tucci).

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HARD RIDE (Don Flay, 1970)

A daring robbery and high-speed pursuit are complicated by a crooked cop (Ed Lauter), a kinky hitchhiking socialite (Stella Stevens), and the wounded pride of a psychotic Dixie Mob boss (William Smith).

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HARD RIDE (Don Flay, 1970)

A daring robbery and high-speed pursuit are complicated by a crooked cop (Ed Lauter), a kinky hitchhiking socialite (Stella Stevens), and the wounded pride of a psychotic Dixie Mob boss (William Smith).

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HARD RIDE (Don Flay, 1970)

After robbing a high stakes card game, a felonious adrenaline junkie (Peter Fonda) and his get-away driver (Andy Robinson) attempt to outrun the law and the Dixie Mob in their Hemi Challenger. Co-starring Stella Stevens, William Smith, Ed Lauter.

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THE STALWART GRADY GIRLS (D. W. Griffith, 1913)

When their caretaker father suffers a knock on the head, Delbert Grady’s resourceful daughters (Lillian & Dorothy Gish) must stymie his manic punch drunk shenanigans before he ruins the Overlook Hotel’s fancy New Year’s Eve orgy.

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HIGH STAKES (Tim Aviltssen, 1979)

A veteran vampire hunter (Christopher Lee) attempts to train a Chicago Times film-reviewer (John Belushi) as a replacement. Countess Dracula (Karen Stride) also has her eye on the over-eager assistant.

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The cast was rounded out by Steven Williams as Captain Robbins, Patrick St. Esprit as Lieutenant Daniel Bradford, Jolene Blalock as Janet Lawton, and George Steele as Lobo.

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This attempt to recapture the spirit (and audience) of the The X-Files only lasted a single season. Lo Truglio was delightful as a trepidatious police officer who was routinely thrown into fast-paced, paranormal situations that were out of his depth.

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THE KELTON CHRONICLES (FoxSitcom, 2007)

A put-upon beat cop (Joe Lo Truglio) is constantly assigned to cases involving monsters, space people, mad scientists, and other things they didn’t teach him about at the police academy. Inspired by the films of Paul Marco and Ed Wood.

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THE EAST TEXAS BONEYARD (Tobe Hooper, 1980)

A tenacious Texas Ranger named Sergeant Cordell "Southpaw" Enright (Chuck Norris) goes rogue while investigating a decades-long series of unsolved chainsaw killings. With Jim Siedow, Gunnar Hansen, L. Q. Jones, and Claudian Jennings.

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COUNTESS DRACULA (Terri Fisher, 1958)

On a search for her missing friend Joanna Harker (Joan Van Eyssen), vampire huntress Dr. Van Helsing (Petra Cushing) locates the accursed castle of Countess Dracula (Christina Lee).

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BESIEGED (Anna Biller, 1976/2009)

A naive young romance novelist, yearning for love, finds herself caught in a seductive web of murder & betrayal. Lenore Coffee’s screenplay was adapted from Robert Hill’s The Besieged Heart. Sam Elliott, Anna Biller, Dirk Bogarde, Gena Rowlands.

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David Cronenberg’s Frankenstein (1988)

The arrogant chief surgeon (Jeremy Irons) of a labyrinthine metropolitan hospital attempts to hide the fact that he has reanimated a living creature (Robert De Niro) from the reassembled corpses of dead homeless men.

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CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (John Carpenter, 1994)

A vengeful hunter (Sam Neill), an irritable archeologist (Robert Carradine), and a beautiful Greenpeace activist (Daryl Hannah) investigate a Mayan pyramid, half-sunk, in a remote estuary of the Amazon.

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CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (John Carpenter, 1994)
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CHACHA (Jo Díaz, 2022)

An untested narcotics agent (Margaret Qualley) goes undercover as a live-in housekeeper at the villa of a cartel boss (Javier Bardem) and his murderously jealous socialite lover (Anya Taylor-Joy). David Manning: “an unwieldy mix of thriller & sex farce.”

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THE LADY IN RED (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)

A farm girl from the midwest (Trudi Frazer) gets involved with gangsters, prostitutes, sleazy newspapermen, ambitious FBI agents, and crooked cops in 1930s Chicago. With Brad Pitt, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Diane Kruger, Walton Goggins, and Eli Roth.

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)

This infamous, abbreviated adaptation of Tolkien’s trilogy has been simultaneously praised by critics as a visionary work of cinema and reviled as an uneven psychedelic shambles. Roger Ebert called it “possibly the most indulgent film ever made".

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CLEAVER (Morgan Yam, 2007)

This Mafia revenge-slasher was hailed as “SAW meets THE GODFATHER 2”.

When a made-man is betrayed & murdered by his scheming girlfriend and jealous capo, he rises from the dead to wreak havoc on those who wronged him. Starring Jonathan LaPaglia and Daniel Baldwin.

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DEATH TOLL (Quentin Tarantino, 1999)

After a series of unnerving visions, a clairvoyant interior designer (Brudget Fonda) seeks to unravel the truth with help from her sister-in-law (Uma Thurman) and a therapist (Samuel L. Jackson) who is obsessed with parapsychology. 2/2

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DEATH TOLL (Quentin Tarantino, 1999)

While refurbishing the summer home of her wealthy husband (Bruce Willlis), a clairvoyant interior designer (Brudget Fonda) discovers the walled-up remains of a dead woman. 1/2

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