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The Giant Claw (1957) TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Giant Claw
director: Fred F. Sears actor: Jeff Morrow / Mara Corday
other title: Il mostro dei cieli / O Ataque Vem do Polo
Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant turkey-like bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.
Gus (1976) NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
Gus
director: Vincent McEveety actor: Ed Asner / Don Knotts
other title: Uno strano campione di football
The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard field goals!) they start winning, and move up in the rankings, Hurrah! The competition isn't so happy.
Heaven and Hell (1980) TMDB IMDb WikiData
第三类打斗
director: Chang Cheh actor: Li Yi-Min / David Chiang Da-Wei
other title: 第三类打斗
When a fallen angel descends to the Earth on a mission to storm the underworld, a love shared between angels and humans offers telling testament to the power of a lucky ghost. In the battle that follows, both the living and the dead will discover that a war waged in hell could have consequences that resound forever.
June 14, 2026 watched
Crazier than a sackful of flying monkeys, Chang Cheh gives us a gorgeously-shot, mind-blowingly absurd fantasy moving through Heaven, Hell & Earth.

Watched in the #KungFuSat watch party on Mastodon
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Outbreak (1995) Douban TMDB NeoDB KevGa-NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Outbreak
director: Wolfgang Petersen actor: Dustin Hoffman / Rene Russo
other title: Virus letale / Outbreak - Fora de Controlo
A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col. Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.
Class of 1999 II: The Substitute (1994) IMDb WikiData
Class of 1999 II: The Substitute
other title: Classe 1999 II - Il supplente / Die Klasse von 1999 Teil 2
In the original movie, the cyborg-teachers were all destroyed. Well that's what we thought, but there's one more rogue military robot out there determined to clean up the education system.
Class of 1999 (1990) IMDb WikiData
Class of 1999
director: Mark L. Lester actor: Bradley Gregg / Traci Lind
other title: Classe 1999 / Curso de 1999
The time is in the future and the youth gang violence is so high that the areas around some schools have become "free-fire zones", into which not even the police will venture. When Miles Langford, the head of Kennedy High School, decides to take his school back from the gangs, robotics specialist Dr. Robert Forrest provides "tactical education units". These are amazingly human-like androids that have been programmed to teach and are supplied with devastatingly effective solutions to discipline problems. So when the violent, out-of-control students of Kennedy High report for class tomorrow, they're going to get a real education... in staying alive!
Godzilla (1954) KevGa-NeoDB TMDB NeoDB Douban Bangumi IMDb WikiData
ゴジラ
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Akira Takarada / Momoko Kôchi
other title: O Monstro do Oceano Pacífico / Godzilla, Japón bajo el terror del monstruo
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.
June 8, 2026 watched
Surprisingly serious and dark origin for a franchise that has taken varying paths over the years.

Watched in #ReMonsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
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Kung Fu Stuntmen (2021) Douban IMDb WikiData NeoDB
龍虎武師
director: Wei Junzi actor: Tsui Hark / Yuen Woo-Ping
other title: 龍虎武師
A new documentary film revisits the golden age of kung fu stuntmen and action directors in Hong Kong during the 1960s-'80s, exploring their pain and struggles. The documentary is a tribute to kung fu stuntmen. “They risked their lives for stunts,” said kung fu choreographer Yuen Bin. In their heyday, these stuntmen and choreographers presented the best, most creative and most complicated kung fu fight sequences anywhere in the world, creating stunts that looked seemingly impossible.
The Stepford Wives (1975) NeoDB IMDb KevGa-NeoDB TMDB Douban
The Stepford Wives
director: Bryan Forbes actor: Katharine Ross / Paula Prentiss
other title: La fabbrica delle mogli / Dukke-kvinderne
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
June 6, 2026 watched
Still scarily relevant. Perhaps even more so now as we approach the technological capability & many men don't seem any more accepting of women as real people with their own minds.

Watched at some point decades ago, rewatched in the #FridayThrillerClub watch party on Mastodon.
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Serial Mom (1994) TMDB Douban WikiData NeoDB IMDb
Serial Mom
8.8 (5 ratings) director: John Waters actor: Kathleen Turner / Sam Waterston
other title: La signora ammazzatutti / Masse-mor
Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics.
Inspector George Gently (Series 2) TMDB
part of TV Series: Inspector George Gently
• Episode 1: Gently with the Innocents

Investigating the murder of an old man in his dilapidated mansion, Gently and Bacchus discover a world which is beyond their comprehension.

• Episode 2: Gently in the Night

Gently and Bacchus investigate the murder of a young woman whose body is found in a local church. They discover that the girl was a 'Fox', a waitress working at the first hostess club in Newcastle.

• Episode 3: Gently in the Blood

When a young woman is raped and murdered, Gently and Bacchus are thrown into a world of racial intolerance, sexual jealousy and turf warfare.

• Episode 4: Gently Through the Mill

When a body is found in a local mill, Gently and Bacchus go on to uncover a web of local corruption, blackmail, fraud and robbery.
Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992) WikiData NeoDB IMDb TMDB
Waxwork II: Lost in Time
other title: Waxwork 2 - Bentornati al museo delle cere / Spaceshift
The survivors of the first Waxwork must use a portal through time to defeat the evil that has followed them and turned their lives upside down.
June 1, 2026 watched
Riffs on multiple films & genres, veering from slapstick to homage. Gets bogged down for too long in mediaeval fantasy before picking up pace again. Somehow managed to get a ream of cameos ranging from Bruce Campbell to John Ireland.

Closes with a hiphop theme, as was de rigeur for early 90s Hollywood, but this one's a banger from the L.A. Posse. Suck it, hataz!

Watched in #MonsterMiru watch party after #Monsterdon on Mastodon.
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Seedpeople (1992) IMDb WikiData
Seedpeople
director: Peter Manoogian actor: Sam Hennings / Andrea Roth
other title: Seedpeople: Alla Radice del Male / Sway
The citizens of Comet Valley are being taken over by seeds from an alien plant that has taken root there. A sheriff investigates the strange goings-on.
June 1, 2026 watched
Low quality clone of Invasion of the Body Snatchers set in 90s Denim Valley, brought to you by Charles Band & Full Moon Pictures.

Watched in #Monsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
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Planet of the Vampires (1965) IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
Terrore nello spazio
director: Mario Bava actor: Barry Sullivan / Norma Bengell
other title: Terrore nello spazio / Planet der Vampire
After landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its strange inhabitants.
June 1, 2026 watched
Spooky & gorgeous. No, not me; the film, silly!

And I can see why people say it was an influence on Alien (1979).

Watched in the #ReMonsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
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Kid with the Golden Arm (1979) NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
金臂童
director: Chang Cheh actor: Sun Chien / Phillip Kwok Chui
other title: Die fünf Kampfmaschinen der Shaolin / The Kid With The Golden Arms
Jin bei tong opens with a group of escort guards preparing to move a shipment of gold from the local government to an area stricken by famine... one of the very few Venom films where all six Venom actors are present within a single film.
May 31, 2026 watched
Awesome nicknames? ✅
Awesome outfits? ✅
Awesome kungfu? ✅
Awesome treachery? ✅
Awesome plot, characters etc? Ehhh, not so much.

Watched in #KungFuSat watch party on Mastodon.
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Falling Down (1993) TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban ReviewDB WikiData
Falling Down
7.4 (7 ratings) director: Joel Schumacher actor: Michael Douglas / Robert Duvall
other title: Un giorno di ordinaria follia / Um Dia de Raiva
An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.
May 30, 2026 watched
When people are raised with certain expectations, to some those expectations not being met seems to justify victimhood. Even when they're the bad guy.

Rewatched for the first time in decades in #FridayThrillerClub watch party on Mastodon.
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