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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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Deathstalker (1983) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Deathstalker
director: James Sbardellati actor: Rick Hill / Barbi Benton …
other title: Deathstalker - O Guerreiro Invencível / Der Todesjäger …
The warrior Deathstalker is tasked by an old witch lady to obtain and unite the three powers of creation - a chalice, an amulet, and a sword - lest the evil magician Munkar get them and use them for nefarious purposes. After obtaining the sword, Deathstalker joins with other travelers going to the Big Tournament to determine the strongest warrior. The false king holds the true princess in captivity, and plots to have Deathstalker killed, and Deathstalker must fight to free the princess.
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The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy (1958) TMDB IMDb WikiData
La momia azteca contra el robot humano
director: Rafael Portillo actor: Ramón Gay / Rosita Arenas …
other title: Il terrore viene d'oltretomba / Die Azteken-Mumie gegen den Menschen-Roboter …
A mad doctor builds a robot in order to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from a tomb guarded by a centuries old living mummy.
June 29, 2025 watched
Despite being a brief 64 minutes, it still feels like this could have been cut another 20 minutes, and the promised "robot"-(more like a cyborg)-on-mummy action was only a few minutes at the very end.

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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.

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Narco Shark (2024) IMDb
Narco Shark
director: Gerardo Preciado actor: Ricky Valente / Tico Suave …
In 1989, mexican direct to video superstar Ricky Valente was in line to write and direct NARCO SHARK, a wild and ambitious film about a Detective/Saxophonist who battles the Mexican Yakuza and a cocaine fueled Killer Shark while trying to save his marriage from falling apart and helping his awkwardly shy but sexually depraved brother in law learn some breakdancing moves. Sadly, the film was never made… until now.
July 21, 2025 stopped watching I love the posters for Narco Shark and sequel Narco Sharks and it sounds good on paper. But I hate the actual film. It's like an experimental student film. A bad, dull one. With almost zero shark or narco action! (I'm sure there's some ironic justification for that.) I fell asleep in the middle, and restarted it the next day but just couldn't be arsed to finish it.

My rating for this is 0 stars. Zilch, nothing, nada. Not sure if NeoDB understands that, or just thinks I forgot to rate it.

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Cocaine Shark (2023) TMDB IMDb
Cocaine Shark
director: Mark Polonia actor: Titus Himmelberger / Ken Van Sant …
A mafia drug lord has unleashed a new, highly addictive stimulant on the streets called HT25, derived from sharks held captive in a secret lab, and which causes monstrous side effects. After an explosion and leak at the lab, an army of mutated, bloodthirsty sharks and other creatures are set loose on the world.
July 22, 2025 watched
A bunch of friends and family decide "Hey, we can make our own shark movie!" using their lakehouse and motorboat.

But instead of terrible CGI sharks, we get terrible rubber & papier mâché sharks. Sweet!

Unfortunately we get too much of the non-existent acting and not enough of the laughably bad effects. And it's nothing like the poster, of course.

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Shark (1969) IMDb WikiData
Shark
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Burt Reynolds / Barry Sullivan …
other title: 4 bastardi per un posto all'inferno / Outsider …
A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.
July 23, 2025 watched
Burt Reynolds is his usual charming self, perhaps a little more abrasive than in most films, and convincing as a dirtbag with a vestigial conscience.

With a slow pace and very little shark action, this is more of a noir thriller. And even as a noir thriller, it ain't great. Who knows if it would have been any better in Fuller's (apparently lost) edit?

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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!

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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!

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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.

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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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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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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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