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The Hidden (1987) TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Hidden
director: Jack Sholder actor: Kyle MacLachlan / Michael Nouri
other title: L'alieno / Dødsruten
When average, law-abiding citizens suddenly turn to a life of hedonistic behavior and violent crime, Detective Tom Beck is tasked with helping young FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher determine the cause.
Equalizer 2000 (1988) NeoDB WikiData IMDb
Equalizer 2000
director: Cirio H. Santiago actor: 理查德·诺顿 / Corinne Wahl
other title: Defender 2000 / 废土战士
In a bleak, postnuclear future world, warring factions struggle to claim the Equalizer 2000, the one weapon powerful enough to guarantee survival.
Aug. 15, 2025 watched
Directed by Roger Corman protégé Santiago, who brought us flicks like the Filipino Blaxploitation women in prison movie The Muthers. And multiple Mad Max 2 ripoffs. (About 2 a year in the 80s and 90s?)

This one seems to have every single outdoor scene take place in the same quarry (except for the world's crappiest canyon car jump?), just shot from different angles.

Slade (Norton) builds the world's most redundant assault rifle with like 6 barrels, which automagically wipes the floor against all opponents.

If they had put one tenth of the effort into the story as they did the (pretty awesome) action, it might have been half-way decent.
Action ActionScifi BMovieBonanza SciFi
The Dead Next Door (1989) WikiData NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB
The Dead Next Door
director: J.R. Bookwalter actor: Peter Ferry / Bogdan Pecic
other title: Mondo zombie
The government sets up a zombie squad after an epidemic has made the world run rampant with living corpses. The team head off to Ohio to try and find a cure but soon run into a crazy cult of zombie lovers who are set on preserving the walking dead as they believe it's God's will.
Aug. 14, 2025 watched
This was a home movie shot on Super 8 that somehow grew over several years into something that got backing from Sam Raimi, voice work by Bruce Campbell and the participation of half the city of Akron, Ohio. Even some location shots by D.C. landmarks. (Decades later, it got a Kickstarter fundraiser to restore and upscale to HD.)

Silly fun with terrible dialogue and lots of gore (of varying quality). By an "elite squad of zombie hunters", they mean "the most incompetent ones imaginable".
BMovieBonanza Horror Zombies
Red Sun Rising (1994) NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Red Sun Rising
director: Francis Megahy actor: Don Wilson / Terry Farrell
other title: Sole rosso sangue / Soleil rouge
Thomas Hoshino is a tough Japanese detective, who lost his partner by a deadly Yakuza killer Jaho. He tracks down the killer and his master to Los Angeles, where he teams up with Det. Karen Ryder. Soon they discover that Jaho is preparing a gang war and weapon smuggling ring. Hoshino must find a way to defeat the killer who posses mystical ninja powers.
Aug. 13, 2025 watched
Don "The Dragon" Wilson stars as a Japanese cop who must overcome culture shock (i.e. US racism and cars much larger than back home) and learn the Power of the Laser Finger.

Not bad... for a Don "The Dragon" Wilson movie, if you know what I mean, and if you're a sucker for 90s action like I am.
1990s Action BMovieBonanza DonWilson EdwardAlbert
Day of the Assassin (1979) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Day of the Assassin
director: Brian Trenchard-Smith / Carlos Vasallo actor: Chuck Connors / Susana Dosamantes
other title: Der Tag der Mörder / Le jour des assassins
Treasure hunters from around the world race to Mexico after a Middle Eastern luxury yacht explodes, sending a Shah's fortune and mysterious document to the bottom of the ocean.
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001) IMDb TMDB WikiData
ゴジラ・モスラ・キングギドラ大怪獣総進撃
director: Shusuke Kaneko actor: Chiharu Niiyama / Ryudo Uzaki
other title: Godzilla, Mothra e King Ghidorah - Assalto di mostri giganti / Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack
Godzilla has become a distant memory for Japan when the destruction of a US submarine raises alarms for Admiral Tachibana. His estranged daughter Yuri investigates the legend of the guardian monsters, who must rise to protect Japan against the vengeful spirits within Godzilla that seek to destroy both the nation and its people for the suffering they inflicted in the Pacific conflict.
Aug. 11, 2025 watched
Great final battle... and then another final battle... and then another... and another... and another!

Seen in #Monsterdon #WatchParty
2000s Godzilla Japan Kaiju KingGhidorah
Big (1988) IMDb NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData
Big
director: Penny Marshall actor: Tom Hanks / Elizabeth Perkins
When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.
The Magic Blade (1976) TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
天涯明月刀
director: Chor Yuen actor: Ti Lung / Lo Lieh
other title: Der Todesschlag der Stahlfinger / Le Sabre infernal
Two rival swordsmen in imperial China, poncho-clad Fu Hung-Hsueh and Yen nan-Fei vie with a power-hungry villain for the deadly Peacock Dart and fend off waves of expert killers during their journey.
Pitch Black (2000) IMDb
Pitch Black
director: David Twohy actor: Vin Diesel / Radha Mitchell
other title: Eclipse Mortal / Pitch Black - Planet der Finsternis
When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is rapidly plunging into the utter blackness of a total eclipse. With the body count rising, the doomed survivors are forced to turn to Riddick with his eerie eyes to guide them through the darkness to safety. With time running out, there's only one rule: Stay in the light.
Programmed to Kill (1987) TMDB WikiData IMDb
Programmed to Kill
director: Allan Holzman actor: Robert Ginty / Sandahl Bergman
other title: Projeto Sibertron: Programada para Morrer / Retaliator
A middle eastern female terrorist is captured by the CIA in Greece, after an attack on a marketplace. Transported back to the USA, the terrorist undergoes an operation where she is transformed into a cybernetic killing machine. Now the CIA have a secret weapon to send back to the Middle East, but how long can they control her?
Freejack (1992) NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData Douban
Freejack
director: Geoff Murphy actor: Emilio Estevez / Mick Jagger
other title: Freejack - In fuga nel futuro / Corrida Contra o Futuro
Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.
Big Night (1996) IMDb TMDB
Big Night
director: Campbell Scott / Stanley Tucci actor: Stanley Tucci / Tony Shalhoub
other title: A Grande Inauguração / Big Night - Nacht der Genüsse
Primo and Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save their struggling restaurant.
Aug. 4, 2025 watched
Originally saw it in the cinema when it came out. Rewatched in #SundayFunnies #WatchParty on Mastodon.
1990s Comedy Drama Dramedy IanHolm
The Raven (1963) TMDB IMDb
The Raven
director: Roger Corman actor: Vincent Price / Peter Lorre
other title: I maghi del terrore / Ravnen
A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help.
Aug. 4, 2025 watched
Roger Corman takes an Edgar Allen Poe horror poem with three classic horror actors... and turns it into a comedy?

Neither scary nor (intentionally) funny. Looks impressive at times, though.

Watched as party of #Monsterdon #WatchParty on Mastodon.
BorisKarloff Monsterdon PeterLorre VincentPrice WatchParty
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994) NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
7.8 (5 ratings) director: Peter Segal actor: Leslie Nielsen / Priscilla Presley
other title: Una pallottola spuntata 33⅓ - L'insulto finale / Høj pistolføring 33⅓: Den ultimative fornærmelse
Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.
Under Paris (2024) NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Sous la Seine
director: Xavier Gens actor: Bérénice Bejo / Nassim Lyes
other title: Hajer i Paris / Sob as Águas do Sena
In order to save Paris from an international bloodbath, a grieving scientist is forced to face her tragic past when a giant shark appears in the Seine.
July 28, 2025 watched
A little bit of silliness, a little bit of Jaws rehashed. Good action above and below ground, through the spooky catacombs under Paris (hey, that's the title!) The CGI sharks are more convincing than in the other movies.

I even thought the film might make it all the way without a shark doing a Free Willy-style leap through the air, but I guess no shark movie director can resist the idea of airborne shark.

Watched for #SharkWeek 2025 in BMovieBonanza https://piefed.social/post/1081894
2020s BMovieBonanza BereniceBejo Shark SharkMovie
Vampire Circus (1972) TMDB WikiData IMDb
Vampire Circus
director: Robert Young actor: Adrienne Corri / Thorley Walters
other title: La regina dei vampiri / O Circo do Vampiro
After a spate of murders, the villagers of Schtettel kill the depraved perpetrator, Count Mitterhouse. Fifteen years later the Circus of Nights appeared in the plague-ridden village and its performers include Mitterhouse's mistress, children and cousins. They have come to Schtettel to fulfil the Count's last words, an evil, vicious curse of death and destruction on those who participated in his impaling. The children of Schtettel become the targets for a brutal and devastating revenge as the Vampire Circus rehearses for its most deadly performance.
Santa Jaws (2018) NeoDB IMDb TMDB
Santa Jaws
director: Misty Talley actor: Reid Miller / Courtney Lauren Cummings
Trying to survive the family Christmas, Cody makes a wish to be alone, which ends up backfiring when a shark manifests and kills his entire family.
July 27, 2025 watched
Just like a Hallmark movie, it's competent without being especially entertaining.

Watched for #SharkWeek 2025 in BMovieBonanza piefed.social/post/1078781
2010s BMovieBonanza Christmas SharkWeek USA
Convict 762 (1997) IMDb WikiData
Convict 762
director: Luca Bercovici actor: Frank Zagarino / Shannon Sturges
A spaceship with an all female crew runs into a meteor field because of a navigational mistake. They lose a lot of their fuel and realise they cant get home on what they've got. They are forced to land on a planet which has been reformed into one of the most dangerous penal colonies in the universe in order to refuel. Once there they realise only two men are left on the planet and they are engaged in hand to hand combat. The women cant figure out which one of the men is the officer and which one has systematically slaughtered the rest of the inmates. One by one each of the women is killed. Just who is Convict 762?
Ninja vs Shark (2023) IMDb WikiData
妖獣奇譚 ニンジャVSシャーク
director: Koichi Sakamoto actor: Kohshu Hirano / Shun Nishime
other title: 妖獣奇譚 ニンジャVSシャーク
In the Edo period, at the remote village of Okitsu, the evil cult leader Koushirou uses ninjutsu to bewitch sharks and forces them to attack local pearl divers so the cult can steal the pearls from their mangled corpses. Desperate for help, the village chief hires Kotaro Shiozaki, a guard at a nearby temple, but Kotaro soon finds his path blocked by lady ninja Kikuma and a gigantic shark that doesn't seem like something from this world.
July 26, 2025 watched
The thing you have to understand about 'Ninja vs Shark' is that for the first hour it's a low-budget but good, serious, dramatic samurai movie with betrayal, conflict, family drama, unrequited love, emotionally significant flashbacks, melodramatic villains, geysers of CGI blood, curses, giant sharks, magical ninjas, devil worship, zombies, sorcery, human sacrifice, decapitations, and homoerotic shape-shifting vampiric ninja weresharks... and only then does it get crazy. Absolutely unhinged!

Watched for #SharkWeek on BMovieBonanza https://piefed.social/post/1076908
2023 BMovieBonanza Horror Japan Ninja
Shark Night 3D (2011) TMDB WikiData IMDb
Shark Night 3D
director: David R. Ellis actor: Sara Paxton / Dustin Milligan
other title: Shark Night - Il lago del terrore / Terror na Água 3D
A weekend at a lake house in the Louisiana Gulf turns into a nightmare for seven vacationers as they are subjected to fresh-water shark attacks.
July 25, 2025 watched
Like 'Jaws', tends to wisely keep the sharks out of sight much of the time, with brief moments of silly shark action that seem more explainable now that I know it was originally a 3D movie (flashbacks to the gimmicky shots I saw in 'Jaws 3D' in the cinema).

Watched for #SharkWeek 2025 for BMovieBonanza https://piefed.social/post/1072153
2010s SharkWeek USA horror shark