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Pee Wee's Big Adventure

    Director Tim Burton's debut feature is an inventive visual playground that creates a grand stage for the title character to run wild with his imagination while setting forth on a quest to retrieve his stolen bicycle.
    While out running some errands in town, Pee Wee Herman returns to the location where he locked up his bicycle to find that it has been stolen.  Without the aid of the police, without any clues at the scene, and based on the fraudulent information p...

Edward Scissorhands

    Director Tim Burton's 4th feature length film is a fabled tale about an innocent man with scissors for hands, brought to creation by a reclusive scientist that dies prior to finishing his subjects final transformation, that finds his way into a suburban world that is not ready to embrace someone his unique eccentricities.
    An innocent man with scissors for hands is brought down from his isolated life in a large mansion overlooking a suburban community by a local Avon...

My Bloody Valentine (1981)

    Director George Mihalka's 2nd feature film is a well made slasher film full of atmospheric and gritty death sequences, a decent script that relies heavily on classic slasher motifs, and some strong editing and pacing to create tension throughout.
   20 years after the brutal revenge killings perpetrated by the sole survivor of a Valentines Day mining massacre a deranged killer stalks the town of Valentine Bluffs vowing to kill again unless the Valentine's Day festiviti...

April Fools Day (1986)

    Director Fred Walton's 2nd feature film is a cliched, pedestrian, slasher film with a twist that is as short on story as it is on adding anything new to the genre; at least anything new that is worthwhile.

    The script is chocked full of 80's...

Rec 2

    Writer/Director Jaume Balaguero's 5th feature film is a tandem effort with co-writer/director Paco Plaza, his 4th feature film, that picks up immediately where the first film ended and delves even deeper into the mysterious spiritual aspects behind the contagion.
    A priest posing as a doctor from the ministry of health enters the quarantined building with three S.W.A.T. members on a secret mission to document and find the original source of the contagion in order to...

Rec 2

    Writer/Director Jaume Balaguero 5th feature film is a tandem effort with co-writer/director Paco Plaza, his 4th feature film, that picks up immediately where the first film ended and delves even deeper into the mysterious spiritual aspects behind the contagion.
    A priest posing as a doctor from the ministry of health enters the quarantined building with three S.W.A.T. members on a secret mission to document and find the original source of the contagion in order to ke...

Abbott And Costello Meet The Mummy

    Director Charles Lamont's 84th feature film is a riotous comedic adventure that sees Bud and Lou mistakenly tangled up in a murder investigation in Egypt that leads them to the tomb of an ancient Mummy.
    While attempting to procure jobs escorting the body of an ancient Mummy back to the U.S., Bud and Lou are mistakenly entangled in a murder investigation while at the same time caught up in a search for a missing medallion that will lead to the discovery of a vast tre...

The Mummy's Ghost

    Director Reginald Le Borg's 6th feature film, the 4th instalment in the Mummy series, picks up where the previous film left off placing a young Egyptian University student in danger when Kharis believes her to be the incarnation of his beloved Ananka.
    Yousef Bey arrives in the U.S. to claim the bodies of Kharis and Ananka to take back home to Egypt.  While in pursuit of his own interests involving the reincarnated version of Ananka, Yousef Bey loses control of...

The Mummy's Curse

    Director Leslie Goodwins' 39th feature film, the 5th instalment in the Mummy series, rehashes the similar scenario from previous films in the series without lending much new insight into the character or creating any new scenario's.

    The script is pretty much a rehash of the previous three films with a f...

Idiocracy

    Writer/Director Mike Judge's 3rd feature film is a witty look into the decline of human intelligence on a global scale told through the story of an average man that wakes up in the distant future where idiocy reigns supreme.    Joe Bauers is the epitome of the average man: he has very little ambition, he doesn't want to be noticed, he has very little interest in anything, and is willing to do what it takes to remain unseen.  After being volunteered for a secret mi...