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Jess Franco's Succubus (Necronomicon) (1968)

— thisisquietcool.blogspot.com — Jess Franco 's Succubus (Necronomicon) (1968) has a sensational production history and release. It's original collaborator and... producer, Karl Heinz Mannachen and Adrian Hoven , respectively (the former was visited by Franco with a eight-page script after Franco came up with the film's idea) ... (more) Jess Franco's Succubus (Necronomicon) (1968)

James Franco

Elizabeth Taylor

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thisisquietcool.blogspot.com - 2 days ago

Hal Hartley's The Book of Life (1998)

— thisisquietcool.blogspot.com — The Son of Man ( Martin Donovan ) and Magdalena ( P.J. Harvey ) arrive in New... York City on New Year's Eve 1999, the final evening of humankind. The duo have arrived to open the Book of Life, found in a locker numbered 666 in the form of a Mac powerbook, to facilitate the coming apocalypse as ... (more) Hal Hartley's The Book of Life (1998)

Drama

P.J. Hogan

Martin Donovan

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thisisquietcool.blogspot.com - 3 days ago

Herman Yau's Laughing Gor-Turning Point (2009)

— thisisquietcool.blogspot.com — Hong Kong cinema has forever changed its image of the undercover cop. John Woo's Hard Boiled (1992)... is my earliest memory: Woo's phenomenal action sequences accompanied by excellent performances by Yun-fat Chow and especially Tony Leung Chiu Wai, as the undercover cop. Leung's representative ... (more) Herman Yau's Laughing Gor-Turning Point (2009)

Horror

Anthony Hopkins

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thisisquietcool.blogspot.com - 5 days ago

Fernando Di Leo's Slaughter Hotel (1971)

— thisisquietcool.blogspot.com — Under a beautiful purple dark night sky sits the asylum setting of Fernando di Leo's Slaughter Hotel... (1971), his sole contribution to the horror/thriller genre, a genre, perhaps, for which Di Leo had little love. Its opening sequence is a signal: a dark caped figure is prowling outside the ... (more) Fernando Di Leo's Slaughter Hotel (1971)

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thisisquietcool.blogspot.com - 8 days ago

Chan-wook Park's Thirst (2009)

— thisisquietcool.blogspot.com — Father Sang-hyun ( Kang-ho Song ) sits in the confessional and counsels a young nurse who is... thinking of suicide after her boyfriend has dumped her. Sang-hyun tells her three things: he gives her penance, "twenty hail marys,"; seek the help of science by taking anti-depressants; and offers ... (more) Chan-wook Park's Thirst (2009)

Sci-Fi

Chan Wook-park

Ray Park

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thisisquietcool.blogspot.com - 9 days ago

Pou-Soi Cheang's Accident (2009)

— thisisquietcool.blogspot.com — A young woman has a flat tire in the middle of a crowded street in Hong Kong.... The older gentleman behind her is irritated that she won't move her car to the side, so he takes a right turn down another street. The older gentleman inches by a large truck, and its cargo of water splashes onto the ... (more) Pou-Soi Cheang's Accident (2009)

Louis Leterrier

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thisisquietcool.blogspot.com - 10 days ago

Ruggero Deodato's Raiders of Atlantis (1983)

— thisisquietcool.blogspot.com — Brilliant. Phenomenal. Amazing. These are words that describe Ruggero Deodato's Raiders of Atlantis (1983), and perhaps, I'm... the only one who is using them. Mike ( Christopher Connelly ) and Washington ( Tony King ) are ex-soldiers turned mercenaries. At a Miami mansion, the two perform a ... (more) Ruggero Deodato's Raiders of Atlantis (1983)

Drama

Jennifer Connelly

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thisisquietcool.blogspot.com - 10 days ago

Renato Polselli's The Vampire and The Ballerina (1960)

— thisisquietcool.blogspot.com — After milking the cows, a young maiden goes wandering to encounter a sinister vampire! She's bitten and... taken to a villa which houses a troupe of ballerinas. The local farmer who brought the young milk maiden says there's a vampire on the loose, but the Professor ( Pier Ugo Gragnani ) believes ... (more) Renato Polselli's The Vampire and The Ballerina (1960)

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thisisquietcool.blogspot.com - 11 days ago

Jess Franco's Incubus (2002)

— thisisquietcool.blogspot.com — One of Jess Franco 's few and recent films, Incubus (2002) was produced by One Shot Productions... and released on DVD by Sub Rosa . The 90s and 00s haven't been critically kind to Franco nor have they garnered him any new fans really. Incubus is a low-budget, shot on video, remake of his sublime ... (more) Jess Franco's Incubus (2002)

Horror

James Franco

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thisisquietcool.blogspot.com - 13 days ago

Andrzej Zulawski's L'amour braque (1985)

— thisisquietcool.blogspot.com — Sophie Marceau's Marie tells Francis Huster's Léo, "Here, with you. It's not like in the movies or... in books, where everything is precise, thought-out, organized with a clear-cut goal. Everthing's chaos, chance, pain, disorder..." These playful lines from within Andrzej Zulawski's L'amour ... (more) Andrzej Zulawski's L'amour braque (1985)

Action

Sophie Marceau

Mickey Rourke

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thisisquietcool.blogspot.com - 15 days ago

Willard Huyck's Messiah of Evil (1973)

— thisisquietcool.blogspot.com — A man is running frantically through a neighborhood (future film director, Walter Hill). A gate is opened... by a young girl which offers the grateful man sanctuary from who or whatever was chasing him. She slits his throat with a straight razor. Point Dune. From a brightly-lit hallway, the ... (more) Willard Huyck's Messiah of Evil (1973)

Sci-Fi

Dune

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thisisquietcool.blogspot.com - 19 days ago

Jess Franco's Dracula's Daughter (1972)

— thisisquietcool.blogspot.com — In 1972, Jess Franco was in a period referred to by the authors of essential tome, Obsession:... The Films of Jess Franco , as "The Peak Years: 1970-1973." Of the fifty to sixty films that I've seen from Franco, these years hold some of my favorites. This span also sees the end of the Spanish ... (more) Jess Franco's Dracula's Daughter (1972)

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thisisquietcool.blogspot.com - 20 days ago

Cesare Canevari's Matalo (1970)

— thisisquietcool.blogspot.com — Cesare Canevari's Matalo (1970) begins with a powerful image of a woman covered completely in black, presumably... a widow, in the foreground of a quiet, dusty town, where its inhabitants are standing at the threshold of the jail. A criminal ( Corrado Pani ) is being led to the noose. The ... (more) Cesare Canevari's Matalo (1970)

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thisisquietcool.blogspot.com - 21 days ago

Takashi Miike's Crows Zero: Episode 0 (2007)

— thisisquietcool.blogspot.com — Although Crows Zero is not Takashi Miike's most commercial piece of cinema (that award goes to his... 2003 film, One Missed Call ), the film certainly is one of his most romantic, sentimental, and unabashedly escapist films that I've seen from his diverse filmography. Crows Zero is also as ... (more) Takashi Miike's Crows Zero: Episode 0 (2007)

Comedy

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thisisquietcool.blogspot.com - 22 days ago

Raúl Artigot's The Witches' Mountain (1972)

— thisisquietcool.blogspot.com — Raúl Artigot 's The Witches' Mountain (1972) has a very bizarre pre-credit sequence: lovely Carla arrives to... her wealthy villa after a few days stint away. She notices immediately a wig on her lawn with a large butcher knife stuck into it. She goes looking for her cat and finds its corpse ... (more) Raúl Artigot's The Witches' Mountain (1972)

Carla Gugino

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