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Over the Top (1987) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Over the Top
director: Menahem Golan actor: Sylvester Stallone / Robert Loggia
other title: O Lutador / Over the Top : Le Bras de fer
Lincoln Hawk a hard-luck big-rig trucker takes us under the glaring Las Vegas lights for all the boisterous action of the World Armwrestling Championship. Relying on wits and willpower, Hawk tries to rebuild his life by capturing the first-place prize money, and the love of the son he abandoned years earlier into the keeping of his rich, ruthless father-in-law.
Excessive Force II: Force on Force (1995) NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Excessive Force II: Force on Force
director: Jonathan Winfrey actor: Stacie Randall / Dan Gauthier
other title: La forza della vendetta / Excessive Force II
Stacie Randall plays Harley, a Special Forces agent-turned-investigator, who arrives on the scene of an apparent mob hit to help the local police. In actuality, she's hunting down Francis Lydell, her former C.O. and lover, who shot her in the head when she turned down his offer to become part of the freelance assassination squad he was forming. Ignoring the need for surgery to remove the bullet fragment which still causes her to have occasional bouts of disorientation, she continues her quest to bring down Lydell before he has the chance to kill a Mafia informant being held at the police station. Written by Chris Holland
Children of the Corn (1984) Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Children of the Corn
director: Fritz Kiersch actor: Peter Horton / Linda Hamilton
other title: Grano rosso sangue / Os Filhos da Terra
A traveling couple end up in an abandoned Nebraska town inhabited by a cult of murderous children who worship a demon that lives in the local cornfields.
Freejack (1992) NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData Douban
Freejack
director: Geoff Murphy actor: Emilio Estevez / Mick Jagger
other title: Freejack - In fuga nel futuro / Corrida Contra o Futuro
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.
Tripwire (1989) WikiData TMDB IMDb
Tripwire
director: James Lemmo actor: Terence Knox / David Warner
other title: Ein Schritt zu weit / Piège de sang
A band of ruthless international terrorists led by Josef Szabo hijack a speeding railroad train loaded with a full arsenal of powerful military weaponry capable of threatening world peace. The only hero who can stop the terrorists' scheme for world domination is Jack DeForest. During the battle between good and evil the hero DeForest accidentally kills the son of the Szabo. Seeking revenge Szabo locates DeForest’s family, murders his wife and kidnaps their teenage son thereby turning their fight it into a personal vendetta. So, DeForest must fight not only to save the world, but for his only remaining family.
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.
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 Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
director: Alan Gibson actor: Christopher Lee / Peter Cushing
other title: I satanici riti di Dracula / Satan er løs...
The police and British security forces call in Professor Van Helsing to help them investigate Satanic ritual which has been occurring in a large country house, and which has been attended by a government minister, an eminent scientist and secret service chief. The owner of the house is a mysterious property tycoon who is found to be behind a sinister plot involving a deadly plague. It is in fact Dracula who, sick of his interminable existence, has decided that he must end it all in the only possible way- by destroying every last potential victim.
Satan's School for Girls (1973) IMDb WikiData
Satan's School for Girls
director: David Lowell Rich actor: Pamela Franklin / Kate Jackson
other title: Escuela Satánica para señoritas
Satan's School for Girls is set within the grim walls of Fallbridge College for Girls. Hoping to learn the truth behind the "suicide" of her younger sister, Beth Hammersmith enrolls in Fallbridge under the assumed name of Karen Oxford. Our heroine soon learns that the school is in the clutches of a coven of witches called "The Five" — and that she herself has the right satanic qualities to enable The Five to take over the world.
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.

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American Samurai (1992) NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
American Samurai
director: Sam Firstenberg actor: David Bradley / Mark Dacascos
When a father passes on the traditional family sword to one of his two adopted sons, the other--in a fit of jealous rage--joins a yakuza drug smuggling mob. When the other son decides to find him and set things straight, things don't seem to go as smoothly as he planned, and a misunderstanding leads the stepbrothers into a Turkish arena to battle swordsmen from around the world.
Sept. 9, 2025 watched
It's often hard to give a review of a film watched as part of a watch party, because bad films can cause lots of funny comments & laughter. This was one whose badness led to lots of fun for us watching.

It was cool seeing a young Mark Dacascos.

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