Posts Tagged ‘bizarre’

Clash of the Titans (1981)

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Laurence Olivier | Claire Bloom | Maggie Smith | Ursula Andress | Jack Gwillim | Susan Fleetwood | Pat Roach | Harry Hamlin | Judi Bowker | Burgess Meredith | Siân Phillips | Flora Robson | Anna Manahan | Freda Jackson | Tim Pigott-Smith
Directors: Desmond Davis
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By answering a seemingly impossible riddle, Perseus, the son of Zeus, wins the hand of the Princess Andromeda in marriage. Trouble appears in the shape of Calibos, the princess’s former love, and his mother, the Goddess Thetis. In order that the dreaded Kraken not be released, Andromeda has to be sacrificed and Perseus searches for the Medusa; her head is the only thing that can stop the Kraken.

Black Sunday (1977)

Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Shaw | Bruce Dern | Marthe Keller | Bekim Fehmiu | Fritz Weaver | Steven Keats | Michael V. Gazzo | William Daniels | Walter Gotell | Victor Campos | Joseph Robbie | Robert Wussler | Pat Summerall | Tom Brookshier | Walter Brooke
Directors: John Frankenheimer
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A demented war veteran plots to kill thousands of Americans at the Superbowl in Miami by using a specially designed dart-gun from the Goodyear blimp which flies above the stadium. However, a tough Middle Eastern anti-terrorist agent has uncovered some of the plot and is out to stop him.

The Holy Mountain (1973)

Friday, December 12th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: Horácio Salinas | Zamira Saunders | Juan Ferrara | Adriana Page | Burt Kleiner | Valerie Jodorowsky | Nicky Nichols | Richard Rutowski | Luis Lomeli | Ana De Sade | Chucho-Chucho | Letícia Robles | Connie De La Mora | David Kapralik
Directors: Alejandro Jodorowsky
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A Christlike figure wanders through bizarre, grotesque scenarios filled with religious and sacrilegious imagery. He meets a mystical guide who introduces him to seven wealthy and powerful individuals, each representing a planet in the solar system. These seven, along with the protagonist, the guide and the guide’s assistant, divest themselves of their worldly goods and form a group of nine who will seek out the Holy Mountain, in order to displace the gods who live there and become immortal.

The Animatrix (2003)

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Animation | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Clayton Watson | Akio Ôtsuka | Terrence 'T.C.' Carson | Dane A. Davis | John DeMita | John Di Maggio | Alex Fernandez | Jack Fletcher | Rick Gomez | Tom Kenny | Phil LaMarr | Matt McKenzie | Keanu Reeves | Kevin Michael Richardson | Rodney Saulsberry
Directors: Peter Chung
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Anthology of nine short anime (Japanese animation) films tied in to the 1999 blockbuster “The Matrix” and its sequels. “Final Flight of the Osiris”: The crew of the hovercraft Osiris attempt to warn their city of an imminent attack. “The Second Renaissance, Parts 1 & 2″: The story behind the war between man and the machines, how mankind scorched the sky, and the creation of the Matrix. “Kid’s Story”: A teenager is contacted by Neo, and manages to escape the Matrix. “Program”: Two warriors battle in a samurai training simulation when one decides to betray his crewmates and re-enter the Matrix. “World Record”: A champion sprinter manages to break free of the Matrix by sheer physical effort during a record attempt. “Beyond”: A young girl searching for her cat discovers a haunted house caused by a glitch in the system. “A Detective Story”: Private investigator Ash tracks a hacker named Trinity through the looking glass. “Matriculated”: A group of humans capture a machine scout and insert it into a ‘human matrix’.

THX 1138 (1971)

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Duvall | Donald Pleasence | Don Pedro Colley | Ian Wolfe | Marshall Efron | Sid Haig | John Pearce | Gary Alan Marsh | John Seaton | Eugene I. Stillman | Jack Walsh | Mark Lawhead | Robert Feero | Johnny Weissmuller Jr. | James Wheaton
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The human race has been relocated to a underground city located beneath the Earth’s surface. In the underground city, the population are entertained by holographic TV which broadcasts sex and violence and robotic police force enforces the law. In the underground city, society controls all life, all citizens are drugged to control their emotions and their behavior and sex is a crime. Factory worker THX-1138 stops taking the drugs and he breaks the law when he finds himself falling in love with his room-mate LUH 3417 and is imprisoned when LUH 3417 is pregnant. Escaping from jail with illegal programmer SEN 5241 and a hologram named SRT, THX 1138 goes in search of LUH 3417 and escape to the surface, whilst being pursued by robotic policemen.

Final Destination 3 (2006)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Ryan Merriman | Kris Lemche | Sam Easton | Jesse Moss | Texas Battle | Jody Racicot | Patrick Gallagher | Dylan Basu | Alberto Ghisi | Stuart Cowan | Harris Allan | Alexander Kalugin | Nels Lennarson | Jacob Rupp | R. David Stephens
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After a girl has a premonition of a horrific roller coaster accident, her and several of her friends get off the ride. Only when her vision comes true does horrible things start happening to those that got off. Now, everyone who got off is dying in various ways in the order they died in the vision. Now, her and her friend, armed with only the picture she took at the carnival, have to find out how her classmates are going to die and how to stop it.

Freddy Got Fingered (2001)

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Green | Rip Torn | Eddie Kaye Thomas | Harland Williams | Anthony Michael Hall | Jackson Davies | Connor Widdows | John R. Taylor | Bob Osborne | George Gordon | Ron Selmour | David Neale | Scott Heindl | R. Nelson Brown | Allan Gray
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Tom Green plays Gord Brody, a slacker who dreams of becoming an animator for cartoon shows. He is forced to move back in with his parents, but then refuses to leave. Along the way, he sexually pleasures various farm animals, licks open flesh wounds, accuses his father of molesting his brother, goes scuba diving in a toilet, plays an organ with several sausages attached to it which are suspended in midair, and does a bunch of other stuff that is too insane, offensive, disgusting, or weird to be mentioned here.

The Living and the Dead (2006)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Roger Lloyd-Pack | Leo Bill | Neil Conrich
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A descent into Hell is triggered when “Ex-Lord” Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house for a series of ever more panicked home treatments, mistakenly protecting her from the arrival of Nurse Mary and any outside help.

Brazil (1985)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK
Actors: Jonathan Pryce | Robert De Niro | Katherine Helmond | Ian Holm | Bob Hoskins | Michael Palin | Ian Richardson | Peter Vaughan | Kim Greist | Jim Broadbent | Barbara Hicks | Charles McKeown | Derrick O'Connor | Kathryn Pogson | Bryan Pringle
Directors: Terry Gilliam
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Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill’s lives are put in danger.

Clockwork Orange, A (1971)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Malcolm McDowell | Patrick Magee | Michael Bates | Warren Clarke | John Clive | Adrienne Corri | Carl Duering | Paul Farrell | Clive Francis | Michael Gover | Miriam Karlin | James Marcus | Aubrey Morris | Godfrey Quigley | Sheila Raynor
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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In a futuristic Britain, a gang of teenagers go on the rampage every night, beating and raping helpless victims. After one of the boys quells an uprising in the gang, they knock him out and leave him for the police to find. He agrees to try “aversion therapy” to shorten his jail sentence. When he is eventually let out, he hates violence, but the rest of his gang members are still after him.