tjc's - Rented List

This classic cult movie of the 50's combined both elements inherent in the Sci-Fi and teen delinquent movies of the time and created a new hybrid that transcended both and set the standard for movies to come while helping to launch the careers of Steve McQueen and Burt Bacharach (who wrote the infectious theme song).

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While holidaying in Berlin, Australian photojournalist Clare (Teresa Palmer) meets Andi (Max Riemelt), a charismatic local man and there is an instant attraction between them.

But what initially appears to be the start of romance suddenly takes an unexpected and sinister turn when Clare wakes up the following morning to discover Andi has left for work and locked her in his apartment. An easy mistake to make, of course, except Andi has no intention of letting her go again. Ever.

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Having made their mark on American horror cinema with three colourful adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe - 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'Pit and the Pendulum' and 'Tales of Terror' - Vincent Price and director Roger Corman enjoyed a brief hiatus from the macabre author with 'Tower of London'.

Shot in black and white, the film was loosely based on the Universal horror picture of the same name as well as two Shakespeare plays: a dash of 'Macbeth' and a dollop of 'Richard III'. Price plays Richard of Gloucester, brother to a dying king and eager to take his place on the throne. When he is overlooked in favour of their sibling, the Duke of Clarence, things take a murderous turn. Richard goes on a murderous rage, only for the ghosts of those he has slain to return from the grave and haunt him... Less well-known than the Poe movies, 'Tower of London' is no slouch. Price relishes the opportunity to flex his Shakespearean muscles, just as he would eleven years later with Theatre of Blood, and Corman works wonders, as usual, with his low budget. If you've ever wondered what a drive-in Shakespeare film would look like, you're in the right place!

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The ultimate super computer creates the ultimate terror in this chillingly real sci-fi suspense thriller.

When computer genius Charles Forbin creates a massive computer complex that is capable of independently regulating the national defence of the United States, it appears that no enemy will ever be able to penetrate it's sovereign borders. But such a promising thought turns into a stunning nightmare when it's discovered the Russians have built an equally sophisticated computer and that these two 'doomsday machines' have linked, sharing classified information and national secrets. Desperately Forbin and his Soviet counterparts try to stop the all-knowing 'monster' computers from seizing command of the world's nuclear missile stockpiles.

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Ten years ago, tragedy struck the Russell family, leaving the lives of teenage siblings Tim and Kaylie forever changed when Tim was convicted of the brutal murder of their parents.

Now in his 20s, Tim is newly released from protective custody and only wants to move on with his life; but Kaylie, still haunted by that fateful night, is convinced her parents' deaths were caused by something else altogether: a malevolent supernatural force unleashed through the Lasser Glass, an antique mirror in their childhood home. Determined to prove Tim's innocence, Kaylie tracks down the mirror, only to learn similar deaths have befallen previous owners over the past century. With the mysterious entity now back in their hands, Tim and Kaylie soon find their hold on reality shattered by terrifying hallucinations, and realise, too late, that their childhood nightmare is beginning again...

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An isolated country mansion promises to be the perfect hideaway for an unsuspecting family on a summer vacation, but the peace and quiet of the country is abruptly shattered by an unspeakable horror.

High in the house awaits an evil presence that promises only a vacation of terror from which there is no return. 'Burnt Offerings' is a gothic tale that holds you in the grip of a family's nightmare as they confront the nameless evil of a possessed house. Oliver Reed and Karen Black star as a vacationing college professor and his wife who are besieged by the malevolent force, while Bette Davis is the tenant's aunt.

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While researching a paper on witches, a female student (Venetia Stevenson) travels to a New England town. Whitewood: to find a place cursed and full of death and occultism.

The beautiful student also finds that she has arrived on Candlemass Eve, the night of Satanic human sacrifice and numerous other evil goings on, with rather unpleasant results...

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What would happen if every human being on Earth disappeared? This isn't the story of how we might vanish - it is the story of what happens to the world we leave behind.

The second season of the fascinating History series "Life After People" takes a stunningly graphic journey to a world wiped clean of humanity. Using cinematic CGI these programmes reveal, in scientific detail, the fate of every aspect of the man-made world and how the landscape of our planet would change forever in our absence. From animal outbreaks and massive structural collapses to hordes of toxins and chemicals unleashed across the globe, we witness the final downfall of the most famous buildings in the world - The White House, Monticello and Versaille - and the destruction of man's most treasured antiquities and works of art, as the unforgiving power of nature is cruelly demonstrated. As the skies are darkened by swarms of locusts and the streets overrun with packs of wild dogs "Life After People: Series 2" reveals what happens in the hours, days, months and years after people disappear. Welcome to Earth, population zero.

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This programme relies on experts' knowledge and understanding of history in order to predict the future, helping to paint a picture of what Earth will look like in the days, weeks, months, years and millennia after humans are gone.

Looking farther into the future and using analyses based on the past, we see how nature will reclaim the world we live in. Eventually glass buildings topple, stone buildings crumble, successive freezing and thawing turn streets to rubble, water rises, subways flood and sewers crack. What animals will survive? What kind of plant species will survive? Will the seas be filled with fish? Will humans ever return? Will man begin the cycle again, excavating our ruins and trying to imagine what life was like before? This programme uses feature film quality visual effects from ILM and top experts in the fields of engineering, botany, ecology, biology, geology, climatology and archaeology to answer these questions. Humans won't be around forever and now we can see in detail, for the very first time, the world that will be left behind in...Life After People.

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From the celebrated director of 'Wolf Creek' and starring Daniel Rridcliffe comes 'Jungle'; the terrifying true story of one man's 17 day fight for survival as he battles the darkest elements of human nature and the deadliest threats of the wilderness.

Young Israeli Yossi Ghinsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) leaves a safe future behind to chase an improbable dream in the mysterious depths of the Amazon rain-forest. For a year he journeys on the path well-traveled, but when he and two new fellow adventurers, Kevin Gale (Alex Russell) and Marcus Stamm (Joel Jackson), meet the darkly charismatic Karl Ruchprecter (Thomas Kretschmann), and follow him into the jungle, what begins as the realisation of a dream soon turns into a harrowing psychological test of faith and fortitude.

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Thought safely entombed deep beneath the desert, an ancient princess (Sofia Boutella) whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day. Her malevolence has grown over millennia and with it come terrors that defy human comprehension.

From the sand of the Middle East through modern-day London, The Mummy balances wonder, thrills, and imagination.

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Secret agent WD-40 (Leslie Nielsen) is assigned to foil the evil plan of his arch enemy General Rancor - a tyrannical madman who lost two limbs in an explosion and is now unarmed and dangerous! WD-40's mission (should he choose to accept it) is to save the world from destruction, rescue the

daughter of his former partner and, of course, do some "undercover' work with a sexy fellow agent (Nicollette Sheridan). Guided by a spy chief who disguises himself as office furniture, WD-40 plans… (sorry, the rest is classified).

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This wild, wacky comedy treat stars hilarious comedian Leslie Nielsen as beloved, bumbling Mr. Magoo... the world's most near-sighted millionaire!When apriceless stolen gem accidentally lands in Magoo's hands, a sinister plot is hatched by the thieves to get it back at all costs.

That means clueless Mr. Magoo is on the centre of a perilous predicament he's not even aware of! Pitted against a dangerous, sexy jewel thief (Kelly Lynch) and her dim-witted sidekick, Magoo has holy his blind faith in his nephew Waldo and his bulldog Angus to keep him out of harms way.

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It's Halloween night, and video clerk Stan Helsing along with his insanely sexy ex-girlfriend, his best buddy and an "exotic dancer / massage therapist"- detour into a town cursed by parodies of 6 of the biggest monsters in movie history: Freddy (A Nightmare On Elm Street), Jason (Friday The 13th),

Pinhead (Hellraiser), Leatherface (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Chucky (Child's Play) and Michael Myers (Halloween). But when Stan discovers that he's a direct descendant of the legendary monster hunter Van Helsing, the four have to survive a night with the monsters, homicidal hitchhikers, vampire strippers, killer karaoke, and the temptations of lots of hot chicks.

"Hacksaw Ridge" is the epic and inspiring true story of Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), an army medic and conscientious objector who, during one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun.