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The Beastmaster (1982) WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
The Beastmaster
director: Don Coscarelli actor: Marc Singer / Tanya Roberts …
other title: Kaan principe guerriero / O Guerreiro Sagrado …
Dar, the son of a king, is hunted by a priest after his birth and grows up in another family. When he becomes a grown man, his new father is murdered by savages and he discovers that he has the ability to communicate with animals, which leads him on a quest for revenge against his father's killers.
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Hawk the Slayer (1980) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Hawk the Slayer
4.4 (5 ratings) director: Terry Marcel actor: Jack Palance / John Terry …
other title: La spada di Hok / Hawk - Hüter des magischen Schwertes …
Hawk the Slayer, after seeing both his father and bride die at the hands of his malevolent brother, Voltan, sets out for revenge and the chance to live up to his title. Tooling himself up with the "mind-sword" and recruiting a motley band of warriors — a giant, a dwarf, a one-armed man with a machine-crossbow, and an elf with the fastest bow in the land — Hawk leads the battle against Voltan to free the land from the forces of evil and avenge his loved ones.
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Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
ゴジラの逆襲
director: Motoyoshi Oda actor: Hiroshi Koizumi / Setsuko Wakayama …
other title: Godzilla - Il Re Dei Mostri / Godzilla kehrt zurück …
Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new monster named Anguirus. Without the weapon that killed the original, authorities attempt to lure Godzilla away from the mainland. But Anguirus soon arrives and the two monsters make their way towards Osaka as Japan braces for tragedy.
Aug. 3, 2026 watched
Lacked a lot of the emotional power of the 1st film, and sagged in the middle. Also had some kaiju fight scenes *sped up* (instead of slowed down). But nice to see somewhere other than Tokyo get smashed! Hopefully the franchise picks up again when Honda Ishirō resumes directing.

Watched in the #ReMonsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
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D.C. Cab (1983) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
D.C. Cab
director: Joel Schumacher actor: Mr. T / Max Gail …
other title: D.C. CAB / Os Taxistas do Ritmo …
The tale of a hapless group of cabbies and a rundown cab company owned by Harold. Albert comes to town with a dream of starting his own cab company but needs to motivate Harold's employees to want to make something out of themselves. It is only when Albert is kidnapped that the cabbies must decide whether or not they are loyal to Albert and his cause.
Aug. 3, 2026 watched
Not great but fun movie that needed to be more focused on one storyline. Mainly notable as Joel Schumacher's debut feature.

Watched in #SundayFunnies watch party on Mastodon.
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The Wicker Man (1973)
The Wicker Man
8.3 (30 ratings) director: Robin St. C. Hardy actor: Edward Albert Arthur Woodward / Christopher Lee …
other title: L'uomo di vimini / Offerfesten …
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
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Cruel Jaws (1995) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Cruel Jaws
director: Bruno Mattei actor: David Luther / George Barnes Jr. …
other title: Fauci Crudeli - Cruel Jaws / The Beast - Unheimliche Tiefe …
A tiger shark bred by the Navy as a killing machine is wreaking havoc in the sleepy tourist town of Hampton Bay.
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Shiri (1999)
쉬리
director: Kang Je-kyu actor: Han Suk-kyu / Choi Min-sik …
other title: Shiri - Missão Terrorista / 쉬리
North Korea's 8th Special Forces hijack a shipment of CTX, a potent new liquid explosive, and threatens South Korea as part of a plot to re-unify the two countries. Ryu and Lee, special agents of O.P., South Korea's secret intelligence service, attempt to track down the terrorists and find the CTX. Meanwhile Hee, the 8th's ultra-bad female sniper, resurfaces to wreak havoc and haunt Ryu.
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The Haunted Cop Shop (1987)
猛鬼差館
director: Jeffrey Lau Chun-Wai actor: Jacky Cheung / Ricky Hui Koon-Ying …
other title: 猛鬼差館
During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, the soldiers had a clubhouse, where, on V-J Day, they committed seppuku. Now it's a police station, and its inhabitants burn dolls to keep the souls at peace. However, tonight is the Ghost Festival, when ghosts are allowed one night's leave, and the Colonel has risen, turning those he bites into vampires.
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Laserhawk (1997) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Laserhawk
director: Jean Pellerin actor: Jason James Richter / Melissa Galianos …
250 million years ago, a carnivorous species 'planted' a crop of humans on an uninhabited planet known as Earth. Now, the alien life form has returned to harvest its yield. With total destruction looming just moments away, a futuristic warrior and a prophetic mental patient join forces against the creatures, but with mortal weapons no match for the superior alien technology, the duo's only hope for victory lies in finding a 250 million year-old spaceship known as Laserhawk. The future of the world depends on it.
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Beginning of the End (1957) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Beginning of the End
5.0 (5 ratings) director: Bert I. Gordon actor: Peter Graves / Peggie Castle …
other title: Le Début de la fin
An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?
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The Mysterians (1957) WikiData IMDb TMDB
地球防衛軍
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Kenji Sahara / Yumi Shirakawa …
other title: I misteriani / Os Bárbaros Invadem a Terra …
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to storm the city by night, after which they request a small patch of land on Earth and the right to marry earthling women, claiming to be pacifists. Mankind must decide whether to capitulate or to resist.
July 27, 2026 watched
Some impressive footage but long stretches of not much happening, and missed opportunities to explore some of the ideas: e.g. would we sacrifice others to save ourselves?

Watched in the #ReMonsterdon watch party on Mastodon
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Rhinestone (1984) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Rhinestone
director: Bob Clark actor: Sylvester Stallone / Dolly Parton …
other title: Nick lo scatenato / Um brilho na noite …
After a big-time country singer brags that she can turn anybody in to a country-singin' star, she's out to prove she can live up to her talk when she recruits a cab-driver as a country singer. He's scheduled to sing at a big-time NYC country night club and she puts her ample powers to work in preparing her protege.
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Shaolin Intruders (1983)
三闖少林
director: Tong Kai actor: Derek Yee Tung-Sing / Lau Yuk-Pok …
other title: Os invasores de Shaolin / 三闖少林
On a routine courier mission, the prestigious Chin Hu chief was murdered by four mysterious monks. When all evidence points to Ching Hua, his friend Lei Hsin is determined to clear his name by barging in the Shaolin Temple thrice, and gets intwined in an intricate web of deception!
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The Killer (1989)
喋血雙雄
8.6 (12 ratings) director: John Woo actor: Chow Yun-Fat / Danny Lee Sau-Yin …
other title: O Assassino / The Killer (El asesino)
Mob assassin Jeffrey is no ordinary hired gun; the best in his business, he views his chosen profession as a calling rather than simply a job. So, when beautiful nightclub chanteuse Jennie is blinded in the crossfire of his most recent hit, Jeffrey chooses to retire after one last job to pay for his unintended victim's sight-restoring operation. But when Jeffrey is double-crossed, he reluctantly joins forces with a rogue policeman to make things right.
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Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
Jaws: The Revenge
director: Joseph Sargent actor: Lorraine Gary / Lance Guest …
other title: Lo squalo 4 - La vendetta / Dødens gab 4: Hævnen …
After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Michael, and his family. But a great white shark has followed her there, hungry for more lives.
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The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box (2013) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
director: Jonathan Newman actor: Aneurin Barnard / Michael Sheen …
other title: The adventurer - Il mistero dello scrigno di Mida / O Aventureiro: A Maldição da Caixa de Midas …
Seventeen-year-old Mariah Mundi's life is turned upside down when his parents vanish and his younger brother is kidnapped. Following a trail of clues to the darkly majestic Prince Regent Hotel, Mariah discovers a hidden realm of child-stealing monsters, deadly secrets and a long-lost artefact that grants limitless wealth — but also devastating supernatural power. With the fate of his world, and his family at stake, Mariah will risk everything to unravel the Curse of the Midas Box.
July 21, 2026 watched
A rather limp affair, a mash-up of every orphan tale ever made with some "light plagiarism" of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Fortunately, made bearable by the folks in the #MondayActionMovie watch party on Mastodon.
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Waterworld (1995)
Waterworld
6.2 (6 ratings) director: Kevin Reynolds actor: Kevin Costner / Dennis Hopper …
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'—which is tattooed on Enola's back.