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Psychomania (1971) Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Psychomania
director: 唐·夏普 actor: 乔治·桑德斯 / 贝里尔·瑞德 …
other title: 精神狂躁症 / 死亡机车 …
A gang of young people call themselves the Living Dead. They terrorize the population from their small town. After an agreement with the devil, if they kill themselves firmly believing in it, they will survive and gain eternal life. Following their leader, they commit suicide one after the other, but things don't necessarily turn out as expected...
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A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness (1977) Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
悲愁物語
6.2 (6 ratings) director: 铃木清顺 actor: 江波杏子 / 原田芳雄 …
other title: 悲愁物语 / 悲愁物語 …
A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.
Jan. 10, 2026 watched
About as much fun as watching the marketing machine and entertainment industry build up a celebrity can be! Reiko gets chewed up and spit out as her star rises and the price of fame and fandom takes its toll (on both sides, I suppose).
Loved that guy with the flowers, and I laughed everytime he showed up.
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Our Selves Unknown (2016) TMDB IMDb
Our Selves Unknown
director: Edwin Rostron
‘Our Selves Unknown’ takes the book ‘Landscape in Distress’ as its raw material, reconfiguring its photographic illustrations, text and cover design into pencil and ink drawings, using a working process of self-enforced rules and restrictions, obstacles and chance.
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To Fire You Come at Last (2023) IMDb TMDB
To Fire You Come at Last
director: Sean Hogan actor: Mark Carlisle / Harry Roebuck …
other title: 마침내 찾아온 불길 / 你终将至
In rural 17th-century England, a group of men gather to carry a coffin on the long walk to the local graveyard for burial. Much ancient folklore and superstition surround the pathway to the church, and several of the party are afraid to walk it after dark. Squire Marlow, the grieving father of the dead man, promises to double their wages if they agree to make the mysterious journey full of unexpected revelations.
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Blood Beat (1983) IMDb TMDB WikiData
Blood Beat
director: Fabrice A. Zaphiratos actor: Helen Benton / Terry Brown …
other title: Blood Beat - Pulsschlag des Schreckens / 热血沸腾 …
Sarah and her boyfriend have decided to spend Christmas at his home in rural Wisconsin. However, upon arriving, she begins to feel a strange presence around her, and a mysterious figure garbed in a Samurai outfit begins murdering the townsfolk.
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The Silent Partner (1978) Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Silent Partner
director: 达里尔·杜克 actor: 埃利奥特·古尔德 / 克里斯托弗·普卢默 …
other title: 伪善者 / 起尾注 …
A timid bank teller anticipates a bank robbery and steals the money himself before the crook arrives. When the sadistic crook realizes he's been fooled, he tracks down the teller and engages him in a cat-and-mouse chase for the cash
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Trance (1982) Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Der Fan
director: 艾克哈特·施密特 actor: Désirée Nosbusch / Bodo Steiger …
other title: 嗜血追星女 / Der Fan …
The hero-worship that Simone has for a pop singer is built to a crescendo until she passes out when she finally sees him up-close in a crowd of fans. She is later shocked when he lets her know that he does not love her.
Nov. 12, 2025 watched
Quite an exploration of fandom and fanaticism; objectification - both of the body and of the heart - that kinda cuts both ways (and, in a sense, a third way, too); how unchecked obsession can really do a number on someone....notions still sadly quite relevant today.
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Mermaid Legend (1984) WikiData Douban TMDB IMDb
人魚伝説
6.8 (12 ratings) director: 池田敏春 actor: 白都真理 / 清水健太郎 …
other title: 人鱼传说 / 人魚伝説 …
After a woman is framed for the murder of her fisherman husband, she seeks out a bloody revenge on the corrupt businessmen responsible.
Nov. 9, 2025 watched
A pretty good and dreamy revenge flick with a great leading lady doling out some solid kills - and many of them near the end! - avenging her husband's murder.
Also neat to see how abalone is harvested.
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The House of Lost Souls (1989) IMDb WikiData TMDB
La casa delle anime erranti
director: Umberto Lenzi actor: Joseph Alan Johnson / Stefania Orsola Garello …
other title: Ghosthouse 3 - Haus der verlorenen Seelen / 失魂之屋 …
A handful of young geologists are unlucky enough to be forced to stay at a rundown hotel in the middle of nowhere. What they don't know is that the hotel has been abandoned for twenty years because the owner of the hotel had killed his family and all the guests two decades ago. Strange things begin to happen, and suddenly murders are committed...
Nov. 2, 2025 watched
More like a *Hotel of Lost Souls*, really, but I won't hold it against them.
A cool concept and decent kills make this one a fun ride.
Some pretty good lines, too!
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The Sweet House of Horrors (1989) IMDb WikiData TMDB
La dolce casa degli orrori
director: 卢西奥·弗尔兹 actor: Jean-Christophe Brétignière / Cinzia Monreale …
other title: Das Haus des Bösen / 恐怖甜蜜家 …
A murdered couple return from the beyond to care for their two young children, as well as seek revenge against their killer, accept their children's step parents, and try to prevent their house from being sold.
Oct. 28, 2025 watched
A poem:
The funniest *Fear Street* I ever did watch.
The goriest *Goosebumps* I ever did see.
The silliest of *Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark*.
Fulci's kids' movie left an impression on me.
(The movie's pretty much a rock solid 2.5, but I could be talked up to a 3 for funsies.)
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Don't Torture a Duckling (1972) Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Non si sevizia un paperino
7.0 (8 ratings) director: 卢西奥·弗尔兹 actor: 弗洛琳达·布尔康 / 芭芭拉·布薛特 …
other title: 别动酷刑 / Non si sevizia un paperino …
A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders.
Oct. 25, 2025 watched
I kinda loved this movie! It has a little bit of everything one would hope to find from the genre and I was captivated right from the jump.
I'm grateful that my good friend Jesse gave me his Blu-Ray copy when he upgraded to the 4k release, but now I'm wondering if I should take the same step myself?
Man! Movies are great!
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The House of Witchcraft (1989) WikiData IMDb TMDB
La casa del sortilegio
director: Umberto Lenzi actor: Andy J. Forest / Sonia Petrovna …
other title: Ghosthouse 4 - Haus der Hexen / 夢汙 …
A man discharged from the hospital after suffering a nervous breakdown is taken to a remote Italian villa by his strangely-behaving wife. But he has strong premonitions that the house is possessed by some force of witchcraft, which he has been experiencing in his recurring nightmare.
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The House of Clocks (1989) Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
La casa nel tempo
director: 卢西奥·弗尔兹 actor: Keith Van Hoven / 卡琳娜·赫夫 …
other title: 钟之屋 / La casa nel tempo …
A gang of ruthless thugs intent on robbery prey upon a seemingly harmless elderly couple, Vittorio and Sara. The simple plan turns into a terrifying nightmare, as Vittorio's antique clock collection mysteriously turns back time. Now the hunters become the hunted and the old couple becomes a vengeful, malevolent force.
Oct. 14, 2025 watched
A fun romp with a neat premise and some good gore; incredible that this was a made-for-TV movie in Italy back in the day!
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Black Cat from the Grove (1968) Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
藪の中の黒猫
8.3 (32 ratings) director: 新藤兼人 actor: 中村吉右卫门 / 乙羽信子 …
other title: 黑猫 / 藪の中の黒猫 …
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.
Sept. 30, 2025 watched
What a beautifully tragic, haunting, thrilling and dreamy movie. Incredible imagery, framing, lighting... UGH! So good.
And shocked was I to tear up at such a tender scene in the middle of this revenge tale.
This was exactly what I was in the mood for and was an instant 5 from me when it ended.
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Stone (1974) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Stone
director: Sandy Harbutt actor: Ken Shorter / Sandy Harbutt …
other title: 스톤의 추적 / マッドストーン …
After one of its members witnesses a political assassination, an outlaw motorbike gang becomes the target of a string of murders, prompting a cop to join their ranks to determine who is responsible.