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The Witch Who Came From The Sea
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Movie Information
Release year.........: 1976
Genre................: Horror/Thriller
IMDb rating..........: 5.1/10
IMDB Link............: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075433/
Language.............: English
Subtitles............: None
Duration.............: 1h 26mn
Source...............: DVD-R copy original source unknown
Format...............: MPEG-4
Format/Info..........: Base Media
File size............: 433 MB
Overall bit rate.....: 699 Kbps
Writing application..: HandBrake 0.9.5
Two interesting figures in offbeat cinema, director Matt Cimber (who was married to Jayne Mansfield and directed her final film before going on to a handful of expressive blaxploitation efforts) and screenwriter Robert Thom (who wrote Wild in the Streets and Bloody Mama), teamed up for this unusual portrait of one woman's descent into madness. Molly (Millie Perkins) is a woman who is haunted by vivid memories of abuse and molestation at the hands of her father, who was a ship's captain; now middle-aged, Molly is obsessed by the ocean and images associated with pirates and sailing lore, which fill her with both fascination and loathing. Molly dotes on her young nephews (Jean Pierre Camps and Mark Livingston) and often spins tall tales for them in which her father is a noble hero, but her sister, Cathy (Vanessa Brown), is not comfortable with her presence, and soon the boys are old enough to spend their time elsewhere. Single and lonely, Molly longs for a man, and is openly attracted to strong, burly types, but at the same time she bears a deep hatred for them, and sometimes murders and dismembers the men she lures into her home. However, given Molly's penchant for fantasy, how much of her story is real, and how much is the product of her twisted imagination?
Shot in 1971 but not released until 1976, The Witch Who Came From the Sea was one of the first feature films for cinematographer Dean Cundey, who later went on to work with Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard.
For its scenes of extreme sexual violence the film was banned in several countries around the world.In 1983, the United Kingdom Department of Public Prosecutions compiled a list of 72 video releases that were not brought before the BBFC for certification and declared them prosecutable for obscenity. This list of "video nasties" included The Witch Who Came From the Sea, which was successfully prosecuted and banned.In the United Kingdom, the film was only finally released completely uncut in 2006. The Witch Who Came From the Sea has been recommended by film critic Mark Kermode as one of the best video nasties of the era.One critic viewed the film as not being a horror film but actually representing a scathing indictment of child sexual abuse as well as a study of a troubled woman's descent into madness; "a study of a woman whose sanity teeters on the edge".Another completely dismissed the film as representing nothing more than "an absurd story with no redeeming qualities. Highly recommended for lovers of bad cinema".The 2004 DVD release of the film (whose 16:9 transfer was overseen and approved by Dean Cundey[citation needed]) sparked renewed interest,with one reviewer remarking that The Witch Who Came From the Sea is "an unsung psychological gem" among 1970s exploitation films.
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Frauengefängnis
AKA
Jailhouse Wardress/
Barbed Wire Dolls /
Caged Women/Woman Caged/
Womens Penitentiary IV
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Movie Information
Release year.........: 1976
Genre................: Crime/Drama/Horror
IMDb rating..........: 4.9/10
IMDB Link............: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073017/
Language.............: English
Subtitles............: None
Duration.............: 1h 19mn
Source...............: DVD R1
Format...............: MPEG-4
Format/Info..........: Base Media
File size............: 397 MB
Overall bit rate.....: 699 Kbps
Writing application..: HandBrake 0.9.5
Cult siren Lina Romay stars in legendary sleaze merchant Jess Franco's perverse women in prison flick about a cunning vixen who winds up in the big doll house after stealing a priceless cache of diamonds. A dangerous diamond heist has turned into a bloody shootout following a treacherous double cross. The traitor thought he gotten away scot free, but he was fatally blind
to the greed of his murderous mistress. Later, after murdering her lover and hiding the diamonds safely away, the beautiful black widow is sentenced to an extended stay in a tropical prison. In a place like this, attempting to keep a million dollar secret can be murder. Now, in order to ensure that no one else discovers the location of the diamonds, the scheming convict will
have to fend off the warden's seductive Sapphic spies while enduring the pain of whips, chains, and electrodes in the dreaded prison dungeon. Even if she should somehow manage to escape, greedy thugs working on both sides of the law are waiting to track her every move. If she retrieves the diamonds, she will most certainly be killed; if she continues to run, she must struggle
to survive as a penniless fugitive. Will her body and mind prove strong enough to endure the agony and ecstasy of this hellish prison, or will she perish alone and brutalized in a darkened torture chamber?
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Hell of the Living Dead
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Zombie Creeping Flesh/Virus/
Zombi 4/Zombie Inferno
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Movie Information
Release year.........: 1980
Genre................: Horror/Sci-Fi
IMDb rating..........: 4.6/10
IMDB Link............: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082559/
Language.............: English
Subtitles............: None
Duration.............: 1h 40mn
Source...............: DVD R1
Format...............: MPEG-4
Format/Info..........: Base Media
File size............: 503 MB
Overall bit rate.....: 669 Kbps
Writing application..: HandBrake 0.9.5
The film opens at a top secret chemical research facility called Hope Center #1 where a chemical leak in one of the modules at the facility turns the entire staff into flesh-eating zombies.The movie then shifts to an unnamed European country with a four-man team of commandos led by Lt. Mike London (José Gras) being deployed to eliminate a group of terrorists who have taken hostages inside a large building. The unknown terrorists are demanding the closing down of all the Hope Centers, which both the government and the military deny the existence of, and the press, under orders of the local authorities, do not make any public announcement to the terrorists' demands or any mentioning of Hope Centers. After pumping tear gas into the building, Lt. London and his three commandos burst into the room where the terrorists are and kill them all.
Once the mission is completed, the team is flown to Papua New Guinea due to communication being lost with Hope Center #1, presumed due to terrorist action. They soon meet journalist Lia Rousseau (Margit Evelyn Newton) and her cameraman, who are investigating a series of mysterious and violent attacks on the local native population.
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Zombie Flesh Eaters
AKA
Zombi 2/Island of the Flesh-Eaters
Island of the Living Dead/Zombie
Zombie 2:The Dead are Among Us
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Movie Information
Release year.........: 1979
Genre................: Horror
IMDb rating..........: 6.7/10
IMDB Link............: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080057/
Language.............: English
Subtitles............: None
Duration.............: 1h 31mn
Source...............: DVD R1
Format...............: MPEG-4
Format/Info..........: Base Media
File size............: 457 MB
Overall bit rate.....: 399 Kbps
Writing application..: HandBrake 0.9.5
An apparently abandoned yacht drifts into New York Harbor. When the Harbor Patrol investigates, a huge decomposing man kills one of the officers. The remaining officer shoots the hulking man, a zombie, who topples into the sea. The body of the deceased officer is deposited in the morgue.Ann Bolt (Tisa Farrow) is questioned by the police, since the boat belonged to her father (Ugo Bologna). She only knows that her father left for a tropical island to do research. Reporter Peter West (Ian McCulloch) is assigned by his news editor (director Lucio Fulci in a cameo) to report on the mysterious boat. Anne and Peter meet on the boat and discover a note from Anne's father saying he is on the island of Matool (Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands) suffering from a strange disease. Anne and Peter decide to investigate together. They arrive in the tropics and enlist the aid of a seafaring couple, Bryan Curt ('Al Cliver' aka Pier Luigi Conti) and Susan Barrett (Auretta Gay), to help find the island.
Matool is a cursed place where the dead rise to attack the living. Dr. David Menard (Richard Johnson), a resident on the island and physician at the local mission, is investigating its secrets. His contemptuous, highly-strung wife Paola (Olga Karlatos) wants to leave the island in fear of the increasing zombie attacks, but Menard insists on staying to continue his research. Anne, Peter, Brian, and Susan reach Matool. As they investigate, the zombies attack en masse, killing most of the mission's occupants. Susan is later killed and returns as a zombie, infecting Brian. Peter and Anne escape by boat, taking the reanimated Brian with them as evidence. On reaching the open ocean, however, they receive a radio report that a plague of zombies has attacked New York City.
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Posted by..........: XxXx BIG A LITTLE A xXxX
Date of post.......: 26.01.2012
