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Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Little Shop of Horrors
★ 7.6 10 ratings
Frank Oz actor: Rick Moranis / Ellen Greene …
other title: La piccola bottega degli orrori / Gys i blomsterbutikken …
Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's; a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker, Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day, Seymour finds a very mysterious unidentified plant which he calls Audrey II. The plant seems to have a craving for blood and soon begins to sing for his supper.
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The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
The Little Shop of Horrors
★ 5.4 5 ratings
Roger Corman actor: Jonathan Haze / Jackie Joseph …
other title: La piccola bottega degli orrori / Gys i blomsterbutikken …
Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He creates a new plant that not only talks but cannot survive without human flesh and blood.
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Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Big Trouble in Little China
★ 6.6 16 ratings
John Carpenter actor: Kurt Russell / Kim Cattrall …
other title: Grosso guaio a Chinatown / Hvem springer kineserne for? …
Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm.
Watched
Aug. 17, 2025
John Carpenter's ode to Hong Kong kung fu movies. With Kurt Russell playing perfectly the "white-saviour-is-really-just-a-braggart-who-gets-saved-by-the-Chinese-hero-over-and-over-again" in that string of great Carpenter/Russell collaborations of the 80s. A thoroughly enjoyable blend of action, comedy and fantasy.

Rewatched as part of #KungFuSat #WatchParty on Mastodon.
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The Hidden (1987)
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★ 8.1 7 ratings
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.
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Oblivion (1994)
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Sam Irvin actor: Richard Joseph Paul / Jackie Swanson …
other title: Alien Desperados / El olvido
On another planet which resembles the Old West, a die-hard pacifist is forced to re-examine his ways after an evil alien bandit and his gang murder his estranged sheriff father, take over his home town, and threaten his friends.
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Equalizer 2000 (1988)
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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.
Watched
Aug. 15, 2025
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.
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The Dead Next Door (1989)
The Dead Next Door
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.
Watched
Aug. 14, 2025
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".
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Red Sun Rising (1994)
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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.
Watched
Aug. 13, 2025
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.
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Big (1988)
Big
★ 7.2 5 ratings
Penny Marshall actor: Thomas Jeffrey 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.
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Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)
ゴジラ・モスラ・キングギドラ大怪獣総進撃
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.
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Pitch Black (2000)
Pitch Black
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.
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Programmed to Kill (1987)
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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?
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Big Night (1996)
Big Night
★ 7.6 5 ratings
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.
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The Raven (1963)
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★ 5.0 5 ratings
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.
Watched
Aug. 4, 2025
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.
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Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994)
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
★ 7.5 10 ratings
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.
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Vampire Circus (1972)
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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.