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After decades of neglect, Castle Heights Hospital, this symbol of the city's segregated past has been packed with dynamite and is ready to be demolished. No one knows that a gang leader, now in prison, hid the 3 million dollars in cash he stole from his rivals inside the abandoned building. Now, three desperate parties want the money - a blue collared ex-fighter (Scott Adkins) who finds it while working as part of the demolition crew, a prison guard (Dolph Lundgren) willing to do anything to pay for his daughter's cancer treatment and a ruthless gang who claim to be the rightful owners. The demolition charges are set, everyone clears out and the Castle is set to fall in 90 minutes. The clock is ticking. Who will find the cash and: will they get out alive? - Director:
- Dolph Lundgren
- Cast:
- Scott Adkins, Dolph Lundgren, Vas Sanchez
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Brought up in slums, fifteen-year-old Luci (Linda Hayden) is orphaned when her mother (Diana Dors) commits suicide. A successful doctor who was once in love with her mother invites Luci to live with him and his family in their luxurious home. While she quickly develops a taste for her new comfortable life, her resentment grows for the society that she feels was responsible for her circumstances. Little by little, Luci seduces everyone around her, as she sets out to destroy her adoptive family... - Director:
- Alastair Reid
- Cast:
- Diana Dors, Linda Hayden, Troy Dante
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Hell High (1989)Real Trouble / What do you Want to do Tonight / Raging Fury
When high school football hero Jon-Jon (Christopher Cousins) quits the team, he winds up falling in with a group of outcasts led by the sadistic Dickens (Christopher Stryker). With a willing new recruit in tow, the gang's youthful hijinks soon spiral into a night of abject horror when they decide to play a cruel prank on the home of their teacher Miss Storm (Maureen Mooney) - who, unbeknownst to the youngsters, harbors a dark and tormented past. - Director:
- Douglas Grossman
- Cast:
- Maureen Mooney, Christopher Stryker, Christopher Cousins
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Disgraced and retired mixed martial artist Wes "The Jailor" Baylor (Scott Adkins) couldn't refuse the million-dollar purse offered to fight in Myanmar. When he arrives to fight, he learns he's been tricked into becoming the target of a human hunt. Carrying only water and a ruby-filled money belt for the last person standing, Wes must outsmart the heavily armed group who's paid to kill him. As Wes fights for his life in the treacherous jungle terrain, the hunters become the hunted. - Director:
- Roel Reiné
- Cast:
- Scott Adkins, Robert Knepper, Rhona Mitra
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)Todo comienza el sabado
A key film of the British New Wave, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was a great box-office success-audiences were thrilled by its anti-establishment energy, the gritty realism of its setting, and most of all by a working-class hero of a fresh and outspoken kind. Based on Alan Silletoe's largely autobiographical novel, the film is set in the grim industrial streets and factories of Nottingham, where Arthur Seaton spends his days at a factory bench, his Saturday nights with Brenda (Rachel Roberts), wife of a fellow factory worker. Played by Albert Finney with an irresistible animal vitality, Arthur is anti-authority and unashamedly amoral. With powerful central performances, crackling dialogue by Sillitoe and a superb jazz score by Johnny Dankwroth, the film stands as a vibrant modern classic. - Director:
- Karel Reisz
- Cast:
- Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts
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Experienced manservant Barrett (Dirk Dirk Bogarde) starts working for foppish aristocrat Tony (James Fox) in his smart new townhouse. Much to the chagrin of Tony's girlfriend (Wendy Craig), Barrett slowly insinuates himself in the house and manipulates his master by slyly rearranging the decor. The arrival of Barrett's alluring and sexually permissive 'sister' (Sarah Miles) fatally severs the class barriers and the boundaries between master and servant, as Tony succumbs to the will of his stronger adversary. - Director:
- Joseph Losey
- Cast:
- Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig
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Whilst in England to promote his latest work, successful American novelist Kenneth Magee (Desi Arnaz Jr.) enters a bet with his publisher, Sam Allyson (Richard Todd), that he can compose a gothic novel within a 24 hour period. Sam arranges for him to use Baldpate Manor, an uninhabited house in the Welsh countryside that should provide Kenneth with the seclusion and atmosphere he requires. Although told he has the only key to the house, Kenneth soon discovers that he is not alone. He is startled by an old man and his daughter who claim they are Baldpate Manor's caretakers and soon another old woman unmasked as Mary Norton (Julie Peasgood), Sam Allyson's secretary sent to distract Kenneth and keep him from winning the bet. Mary informs him that the manor has no caretakers and their lives may be in danger. Later that evening a gaunt faced man called Sebastian (Peter Cushing) knocks on the door to say his car has broken down and he needs shelter. He is later followed by Lionel Grisbane (Vincent Price) who announces Baldpate Manor as his ancestral home. It is soon revealed that all the strange folk there are members of the Grisbane dynasty and they have gathered to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of a terrible family secret. It has haunted their lives all these years, and still lives, locked in the attic upstairs. To add to the confusion a property developer named Corrigan (Christopher Lee) arrives and threatens the gathering with eviction. Soon, the assembled party members are murdered one by one as the curse of the Grisbanes takes its toll. - Director:
- Pete Walker
- Cast:
- Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
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Jo (Rita Tushingham) is an awkward, shy 17-year-old girl living with her promiscuous alcoholic mother, Helen (Dora Bryan) in the grey, bleak, tenement houses of Manchester. Desperately longing to simply be loved, when her mother's latest boyfriend drives Jo out of their apartment she spends the night with a black sailor on a brief shore leave. When Jo's mother abandons her to move in with her latest lover, Jo finds a job and a room for herself. Then Geoffrey (Murray Melvin) drifts into her world, a shy and lonely homosexual, with whom she agrees to share her flat. When Jo discovers that she is pregnant with the sailor's child, Geoffrey, Grateful for her friendship, looks after her, even offering marriage. But their brief taste of happiness is short-lived for Jo's fickle and domineering mother wants to be part of the picture. - Director:
- Tony Richardson
- Cast:
- Rita Tushingham, Robert Stephens, Dora Bryan
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Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)Ouija 2
It was never just a game. Inviting audiences again into the lore of the spirit board, 'Ouija: Origin of Evil' tells a terrifying new tale in 1967 Los Angeles. A widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their seance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side. - Director:
- Mike Flanagan
- Cast:
- Elizabeth Reaser, Lulu Wilson, Annalise Basso
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Beware My Brethren (1972)The Fiend / Mummy Wouldn't LIke That / Beware of the Brethren
Robert Hartford-Davies (The Black Torment, Incense of the Damned) thrills with this early seventies British shocker by mixing religious fanaticism with sexploitation and horror in this down beat gritty story of lust, murder and terror. When widow Birdy, joins a fundamentalist sect called The Brethren, she soon finds herself at the centre of a fire and brimstone existence where sin is dealt with in violent rather than spiritual terms. Riffing on previous work like Psycho (1960) and more importantly Peeping Tom (1960), The Fiend taps into the distorted mind-set of an unhinged killer providing a bleak, yet sensationalised take on the British thriller. Starring Patrick Magee (Masque of the Red Death, The Skull, Tales from the Crypt), The Fiend is a must for all lovers of cult horror. - Director:
- Robert Hartford-Davis
- Cast:
- Ann Todd, Patrick Magee, Tony Beckley
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Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
The days of adventures and merriment have come to an end, as Christopher Robin (Nikolai Leon), now a young man, has left Winnie-The-Pooh and Piglet to fend forthemselves. As time passes, feeling angry and abandoned, the two become feral. After getting a taste for blood, Winnie-The-Pooh and Piglet set off to find a new source of food. It's not long before their bloody rampage begins. - Director:
- Rhys Frake-Waterfield
- Cast:
- Nikolai Leon, Maria Taylor, Natasha Rose Mills
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Laine convinces her group of friends to use a Ouija board to make contact with their recently deceased friend Debbie. When they return to where Debbie died in an attempt to reach her, they discover disturbing film footage Debbie recorded of herself after she found the Ouija board, leading up to her brutal death. The friends soon learn that they have awoken a dark and terrifying power that begins to haunt them, and that the only way to break the connection with this darkness... is to play the game again! - Director:
- Stiles White
- Cast:
- Olivia Cooke, Ana Coto, Daren Kagasoff
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Ed and His Dead Mother (1993)Bon Appetit, Mama
A black comedy about a son's undying love for his undead mother! Life just hasn't been the same for Ed Chilton (Steve Buscemi - Reservoir Dogs, Fargo), since his beloved mother (Miriam Margolyes - William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet) passed away. Sharing the house with cantankerous Uncle Benny (Ned Beatty - Deliverance), he quietly goes about keeping the memory of his mother alive, that is until he meets salesman A.J Pattle (John Glover - Batman & Robin). Pattle is selling an unusual product - life. For a price he promises that he can bring Ed's mother back to life, just the way she used to be. Ed accepts Pattle's offer, and is overcome with joy when there before him stands his mother! However, life gradually becomes a nightmare, as Ed starts to see changes in his mother, such as a more violent approach to the chores, and having to eat cockroaches in order to stay alive! Realising he's made a big mistake, Ed tries to track Pattle down, desperate to find a way of putting his mother back where she belongs. When he finally locates Pattle, it turns out the solution may be too much for poor Ed. What's a loving son to do? - Director:
- Jonathan Wacks
- Cast:
- Eric Christmas, Steve Buscemi, Harper Roisman
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Based on terrifying true events, Borderland tells the story of three Texas University seniors, who take a road trip to the US Mexican border for a final weekend of drinking and debauchery before they return to study. Their vacation becomes a living nightmare when one of them is captured by an ancient blood cult looking for human sacrifice. - Director:
- Zev Berman
- Cast:
- Brian Presley, Jake Muxworthy, Rider Strong
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Dr. Ian Mandeville (Christopher Lee) and his sister Sarah (Joan Collins) mean to get their hands on the £200,000 stashed in the derelict Marr's Grove - only to find that Edward Foster (Robert Hardy), a stranger to the district, has recently inherited the place. As Edward rapidly succumbs to the influence of the mansion's long-dead owners, madness and bloody murder ensue…Dare you enter Marr's Grove and encounter the evil lurking within? - Director:
- Don Sharp
- Cast:
- Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Herbert Lom
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