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Excessive Force (1993) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Excessive Force
director: Jon Hess actor: Thomas Ian Griffith / Lance Henriksen
other title: Excessive Force - Im Sumpf der Gewalt / Fuerza excesiva
Chicago policeman Terry McCain is determined to put away mobster Sal DiMarco, who always gets acquitted on technicalities. While monitoring a drug sale, a shootout ensues, and one of Terry's fellow officers gets away with $3 million of Sal's money. Suspecting Terry took the cash, the mobster sends his men to kill Terry's brother, Dylan, and partner, Frankie Hawkins. Furious, Terry sets out to take his revenge by any means necessary.
The Return of Swamp Thing (1989) TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Return of Swamp Thing
director: Jim Wynorski actor: Louis Jourdan / Heather Locklear
other title: Il ritorno del mostro della palude / O Segredo do Pântano
The Swamp Thing returns to battle the evil Dr. Arcane, who has a new science lab full of creatures transformed by genetic mutation, and chooses Heather Locklear as his new object of affection.
Swamp Thing (1982) TMDB IMDb
Swamp Thing
director: Wes Craven actor: Louis Jourdan / Adrienne Barbeau
other title: Il mostro della palude / Perigo no Pântano
Mutated by his own secret formula, Dr. Alec Holland becomes Swamp Thing; a half-human, half-plant superhero who will stop at nothing to rescue government agent Alice Cable and defeat his evil arch nemesis...Even if it costs him his life.
Chocolate (2008) TMDB IMDb WikiData
ช็อคโกแลต
director: Prachya Pinkaew actor: JeeJa Yanin / Hiroshi Abe
other title: Chocolate - La furia / Chocolate - Süß und tödlich
Zen, an autistic teenage girl with powerful martial arts skills, gets money to pay for her sick mother Zin's treatment by seeking out all the people who owe Zin money and making them pay.
Escape from New York (1981) NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Escape from New York
6.6 (5 ratings) director: John Carpenter actor: Kurt Russell / Lee Van Cleef
other title: 1997: Fuga da New York / Flugtaktion New York
In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam free. After the US president crash-lands inside, war hero Snake Plissken has 24 hours to bring him back.
Aug. 19, 2025 watched
Another collaboration between Kurt and John that somewhat presciently explores the rise of the incarceral state and authoritarianism in the US. With plenty of great action scenes to boot.

Rewatched in #MondayActionMovie #WatchParty on Mastodon
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Little Shop of Horrors (1986) Douban NeoDB TMDB WikiData IMDb
Little Shop of Horrors
director: 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.
Big Trouble in Little China (1986) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Big Trouble in Little China
director: 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.
Aug. 17, 2025 watched
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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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.
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The Dead Next Door (1989) NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
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".
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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.
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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) WikiData IMDb TMDB
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
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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.
Freejack (1992) NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Freejack
director: Geoff Murphy actor: 艾米利奥·艾斯特维兹 / 米克·贾格尔
other title: 雷霆穿梭人 / 未世追魂
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.
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.
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Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994) NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
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.
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.
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
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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
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