tjc's - Rented List

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Get ready for a runaway comedy that's right on track! Danny DeVito and Billy Crystal are hilarious and Anne Ramsey is hysterically frightful in this wickedly screwball laugh riot that won a Golden Globe nomination for DeVito and an Oscar nomination for Ramsey.

With Rob Reiner and Oprah Winfrey on board for cameos, this fast-track comedy will certainly make you laugh! Writing teacher Larry Donner (Crystal) and his student Owen Lift (DeVito) have a lot in common: the women in their lives are driving them mad! Larry's ex-wife Margaret (Kate Mulgrew) stole his novel and made it her own bestseller, and Owen's mother (Ramsey) is a monster! But Owen has a plan to kill both problems...literally! He'll murder Margaret while Larry sends Momma to her maker! But when Owen fulfils his end of the deal before telling his teacher, Larry's left with no alibi...and an outrageous obligation to knock off the nastiest old lady he's ever met!

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From Michael Bay, the producer of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, comes the true story of Amityville. In November 1974, a family of six was brutally murdered.

Now, a year later, an unsuspecting young couple, George and Kathy Lutz and their children move into the house that was the site of the horrific event and is now haunted by a murderous presence. What follows is 28 days of unimaginable terror...

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What happens when a young girl is sentenced to Borstal and locked away from the everyday world? Blazingly well acted by a cast including Pam St Clement, Kathy Burke, Robbie Coltrane, Miriam Margoyles and many others some of whom had actually done time, 'Scrubbers' exposes a brutal society in which

the strong survive and the weak are no match for the cruelties of the system. Through the hatred of lesbian Carol and promiscuous teenage mother Annetta, we follow the endless rounds of violence, bitching and brawling that have made Britain's borstals notorious breeding grounds for crime.

In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.

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Trapped on her family's isolated farm, Pearl (Mia Goth) must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother.

Lusting for a glamorous life like she's seen in the movies, Pearl finds her ambitions, temptations, and repressions all colliding in this stunning, technicolor-inspired origin story of X's iconic villain.

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Colin Childress (Jeffrey Combs), a comic book artist with a penchant for the macabre, takes inspiration from an ancient tome and dies in mysterious circumstances. Years later, his house is now an art institute run by Mrs. Briggs (Yvonne De Carlo).

When new student Whitney Taylor (Debrah Mullowney) arrives and occupies the cellar that used to be the Childress' studio, an ancient evil is accidentally unleashed. 'Cellar Dweller' is a terrifying tale of horror and suspense, monstrous mystery and fear-filled fun. Are you brave enough to face it?

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The Awakening is the chilling tale of American archaeologist Matt Corbeck who arrives in Egypt with his pregnant wife, searching for the tomb of Queen Kara: his life's mission. At the same moment he discovers the tomb and opens its accursed seal, his wife gives birth to a girl.

Years later it transpires that when the tomb was disturbed, the malevolent spirit of the Egyptian queen escaped and possessed his new-born daughter Margaret (Stephanie Zimbalist). With Margaret crucially ill as her true personality gradually succumbs to the evil invader, Matt can hesitate no longer and - unaware of the startling and terrifying events which he is to trigger off - proceeds with the ritual of Kara's re-incarnation.

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Tonight the people of Cove Crescent are in for a treat they'll never forget. A grotesque parade if intergalactic, candy coloured, hooligan freaks are about to march their bigred shoes throughtown leaving a twisted trail of death and destruction.

Armed with flesh melting custard pies, lethal pizza, rabid balloon animals and laser firing puppet shows, they're about to turn this toen into a bizarre funhouse of murder and mayhem. They're clowns, they kill people, they're from outer space and they need feeding. So whatever you do, stay away from the popcorn and don't go near the candyfloss.

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If you thought the Witchfinder General was a wrong 'un, wait until you meet 'The Bloody Judge'! Charged by the king to sniff out witchcraft and treason, Judge Jeffries - the legendary Christopher Lee - is a man who enjoys his work, especially the opportunities it affords for torture and sexual

violence. But his brand of legal sadism creates enemies: His Honour cannot escape justice forever...

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In the dying days of Empire, Ancient Rome falls under the rule of Caligula (Malcolm McDowell), the most evil and perverse emperor ever to wield power over men.

Director and softcore legend Tinto Brass and Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione team upto craft the most expensive, excessive erotic production ever filmed. Emperor Caligula is an incestuous, psychopathic despot, hell bent on bloodshed and sodomy in this orgiastic fever dream that plays like a Fellini movie with money shots. Watch with ever increasing shock and awe as Caligula, the twisted dictator brings an empire, and the women of Rome, to their knees, in an explosion of lust, lesbianism, torture and bloodshed.

Toby (Adam Driver), a cynical advertising director, finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of a Spanish cobbler (Jonathan Pryce) who believes himself to be Don Quixote.

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Step into a virtual reality nightmare...Desperately in need of money to care for a sick parent, Jenny (Elizabeth Morris) takes a job supervising children at a learning centre for gifted students.

But when she and two other new employees are ushered into a maximum-security underground bunker where eerily robotic children are outfitted with augmented reality glasses, Jenny finds herself thrust into a disturbing technological experiment in which she is an unwitting player in a terrifying virtual game.

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Peter Greenaway became a director of international status with this witty, stylised, erotic country house murder mystery.

In an apparently idyllic 17th century Wiltshire, an ambitious draughtsman is commissioned by the wife of an aristocrat to produce twelve drawings of her husband's estate, in return for which he will receive payment, board and bed - hers. Extravagant costumes, a twisting plot, elegantly barbed dialogue and a score by Michael Nyman make the film a treat for ear, eye and mind.

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Inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner's plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it, this wild dark comedy finds an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converging in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound apex predator has ingested a staggering amount of

cocaine and gone on a coke-fueled rampage for more blow - and blood.

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After their mother's death, Jack (George Mckay) and his siblings have to learn to survive on their own, hiding from the world in the crumbling family house and with no other place to go.

When their peaceful existence is threatened by a local lawyer wanting to repossess the house, their mother's death is only the first of many secrets kept within the walls of the old Marrowbone House that will be revealed. As a menacing presence takes hold, Jack must fight against the demons to protect his siblings.