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The Frighteners (1996) Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Frighteners
director: Peter Jackson actor: Michael J. Fox / Trini Alvarado …
other title: Sospesi nel tempo / Agarrem-me esses Fantasmas …
Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.
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Magic Crystal (1986) NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
魔翡翠
director: Wong Jing actor: Cynthia Rothrock / Andy Lau …
other title: El cristal mágico / The Magic Crystal
Archaeologist Shum finds an antique jade with supernatural power in Greece. The stone is wanted both by KGB's agent Karoff and the Interpol. Shum asks his friend Nike for help. However, Shum is finally caught by KGB but the jade is slipped into the hands of a boy called Pan.
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Death Warrant (1990) WikiData NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB
Death Warrant
director: Deran Sarafian actor: Jean-Claude Van Damme / Robert Guillaume …
other title: Colpi proibiti / Van Damme - Implacável …
Canadian policeman Louis Burke is assigned in a jail to investigate the murders of prisoners and jailors. While there, Louis, using his outstanding martial arts skills, is able to save his life and make himself respected in this violent world.
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Dead Man's Shoes (2004) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Dead Man's Shoes
director: Shane Meadows actor: Paddy Considine / Toby Kebbell …
other title: Cinque giorni di vendetta / Blutrache – Dead Man’s Shoes …
A soldier returns to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his disabled brother while he was away.
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Faster (2010) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Faster
director: George Tillman Jr. actor: Dwayne Johnson / Billy Bob Thornton …
other title: Vingança Rápida / Sed de venganza
After 10 years in prison, Driver is now a free man with a single focus - hunting down the people responsible for brutally murdering his brother.
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Shaolin Soccer (2001) NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
少林足球
8.1 (8 ratings) director: Stephen Chow actor: Stephen Chow / Richard Ng …
other title: Kung Fu Futebol Clube / Shaolin Kickers
A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage.
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Doctor Mordrid (1992) IMDb ReviewDB TMDB
Doctor Mordrid
director: Albert Band / Charles Band actor: Jeffrey Combs / Yvette Nipar …
other title: 超时空魔法师 / Invasori dalla IV dimensione …
Bound by hate and a mystical amulet that holds the powers of life and death, two immortal wizards meet for the last time in an ancient struggle of good versus evil.
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Meg 2: The Trench (2023) WikiData NeoDB KevGa-NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban
Meg 2: The Trench
director: Ben Wheatley actor: Jason Statham / Wu Jing …
other title: Shark 2 - L'abisso / Meg 2: Dødens dyb …
An exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean of a daring research team spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival.
July 24, 2025 watched
Is it a serious oeuvre of the seventh art that conveys a deeper message? Is it fuck! Is it braindead schlock that delivers what I needed: thrills, spills and kills? Fuck yeah!

Watched for #SharkWeek in BMovieBonanza https://piefed.social/post/1068347
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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.
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Twin Dragons (1992) WikiData IMDb NeoDB TMDB Douban
双龙会
director: Ringo Lam Ling-Tung / Tsui Hark actor: Jackie Chan / Maggie Cheung …
other title: Gémeos Em Fúria / Twin Dragons - Das Powerduo …
Twins, separated at birth, end up as a Hong Kong gangster and a New York concert pianist. When the pianist travels to Hong Kong for a concert, the two inevitably get mistaken for each other.
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Wheels on Meals (1984) NeoDB TMDB Douban
快餐車
director: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo actor: Jackie Chan / Sammo Hung Kam-Bo …
other title: Il mistero del conte Lobos / Wheels On Meals …
Cousins Thomas and David, owners of a mobile restaurant, team up with their friend Moby, a bumbling private detective, to save the beautiful Sylvia, a pickpocket.
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The Street Fighter (1974) TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
激突! 殺人拳
director: Shigehiro Ozawa actor: Sonny Chiba / Etsuko Shihomi …
other title: Den sorte drage / Der Wildeste von allen …
Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress of her millions.
Sept. 7, 2025 watched
All-out, practically non-stop action! With the displays of violence I thought only existed in The Story of Ricky, like an X-ray view of a punch smashing a guy's skull, or ripping off a rapist's genitals and showing them to the camera.

X Rated
70sAction Action MartialArts SonnyChiba
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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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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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Eliminators (1986) NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Eliminators
director: Peter Manoogian actor: Andrew Prine / Denise Crosby …
other title: Destroyers / Decapitron …
A former pilot rebels against his creator, teaming up with the scientist responsible for android technology, her pet robot Spot, a rough-and-tumble riverboat guide, and a martial arts warrior.
Sept. 4, 2025 watched
The plot, the acting, the effects, the pacing... none of them were anywhere near as bad as I was expecting. They were often downright good. Is this movie... kind of great???
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The Limey (1999) NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
The Limey
director: Steven Soderbergh actor: Terence Stamp / Lesley Ann Warren …
other title: L'inglese / O Falcão Inglês …
The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon arrival, Wilson goes to task battling Valentine and an army of L.A.'s toughest criminals, hoping to find clues and piece together what happened. After surviving a near-death beating, getting thrown from a building and being chased down a dangerous mountain road, the Englishman decides to dole out some bodily harm of his own.
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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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