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Dont Go Near the Park
AKA
(Curse of the Living Dead)
(Nightstalker/Sanctuary for Evil)
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Movie Information
Release year.........: 1981
Genre.....................: Horror
IMDb rating............: 3.2/10
IMDB Link..............: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082276/
Language..............: English
Subtitles................: None
Duration................: 1h 28mn
Source..................: DVD R1
Format..................: MPEG-4
Format Profile.......: Audio Video Interleave
File size................: 576 MB
Overall bit rate.....: 965 Kbps
Don't Go Near the Park begins in a cave 12,000 years ago, where an old crone curses her sinful children, Gar and Tre (Crackers Phinn, Barbara Monker).
They will age ten years for every year of life and never die. To appear youthful, they must kill people by ripping their stomachs open and eating their
guts. To end the curse, Gar must marry a woman and produce a virgin girl who will be sacrificed at age 16. The next segment follows Gar (now named Mark)
as he hypnotizes his landlady (a young Linnea Quigley) into bearing him a child, Bondi.
On her 16th birthday, Bondi is upset by her parents' fighting and runs away to Griffith Park, blowing up a van full of rapists along the way. In the park,
supposedly cursed by the "demons of Los Feliz," Bondi is taken in by Patty, who is actually Tre in disguise. Patty lives in an abandoned ranch house with
two other runaways. Cowboy (Chris Riley) is a handsome teen who shows Bondi his child-abuse scars and falls in love with her, while Nick is a sassy
eight-year-old played by Voyager from the Unknown's Meeno Peluce, first seen as he tries to fondle Bondi in her sleep. Aldo Ray plays a writer named Taft
who tells Nick about the park's curse, leading the three kids to try an escape. They end up in a corpse-filled cave, where Mark tries to rape Bondi until
Patty hits him on the head with a rock. The witchy siblings shoot lasers out of their eyes at each other, then Bondi turns into their mother and causes all
the corpses to come alive, devouring them. Reverting to her normal form, Bondi helps Nick and Cowboy escape the cave, but rips Nick's stomach open on a
playground slide in a predictable "shock ending."
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Don't Look in the Basement
AKA
(The Forgotten/Death Ward #13)
(Don't Go in the Basement)
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Movie Information
Release year.........: 1973
Genre....................: Horror
IMDb rating...........: 4.8/10
IMDB Link.............: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069994/
Language.............: English
Subtitles...............: None
Duration...............: 1h 29mn
Source.................: DVD-R copy original source unknown
Format.................: MPEG-4
Format/Info..........: Base Media
File size...............: 645 MB
Overall bit rate....: 1 010 Kbps
One of the first of several horror films with "Don't" leading the title, this gory low-budget thriller takes place in an experimental hospital for
the criminally insane, where the pioneering director allows several patients to act out their twisted fantasies
(which involve necrophilia, paranoia and popsicles). When a new member of staff shows up, things start to go haywire, beginning with the bloody
axe-murder of the doctor himself and leading to a total takeover of the asylum by its most dangerous inmates. The acting is horrendous, the sound
is incoherent and the color is so cheap-looking that some theaters were issued black-and-white prints... but somehow the intrinsic sleaziness
generated by the threadbare production manages to lend it a remarkably suitable ambience. Instead of vanishing into obscurity, this quirky little
potboiler became a staple on the early-70's drive-in circuit, thanks to Hallmark Films'
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The Driller Killer
AKA
(Driller Killer)
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Movie Information
Release year.........: 1979
Genre....................: Horror/Crime/Thriller
IMDb rating...........: 4.8/10
IMDB Link.............: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079082/
Language.............: English
Subtitles...............: None
Duration...............: 1h 31mn
Source.................: DVD R2
Format.................: MPEG-4
Format Profile.....: Base Media
File size...............: 518 MB
Overall bit rate.....: 787 Kbps
Iconoclastic filmmaker Abel Ferrara made his directorial debut with this gory but fascinating horror tale about a troubled artist (played by
Jimmy Laine, aka Abel Ferrara). Haunted by bizarre hallucinations and the fear he'll end up a wino like his father, the artist eventually snaps and
begins taking out his frustrations on a growing number of homeless people, attacking them with a power drill. In time, his violent obsessions get
worse and he begins attacking people closer to him, including an art dealer and a woman he's been dating. Ferarra also wrote several of the songs
performed by a punk rock band in the film; he gained greater notoriety with his next film,the cult item Ms.45.
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The Evil Dead
AKA
(Book of the Dead/Into the Woods)
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Movie Information
Release year.........: 1981
Genre....................: Horror
IMDb rating............: 5.2/10
IMDB Link.............: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083907/
Language.............: English
Subtitles...............: None
Duration...............: 1h 25mn
Source.................: DVD R2
Format.................: MPEG-4
Format profile......: Base Media
File size...............: 762 MB
Overall bit rate....: 1 249 Kbps
This auspicious feature debut from Sam Raimi,shot on 16mm in the woods of Tennesse for around $350,000 secured the young director's cult status as
a creative forceto be reckoned with.
The nominal plot involves five vacationing college kids,Ash (Bruce Campbell), his girlfriend Linda (Betsy Baker), and their classmates Cheryl (Ellen Sandweiss),
Scott (Hal Delrich) and Shelly (Sarah York), making an unplanned stopover in an abandoned mountain cabin surrounded by impenetrable woods. Before settling
in for the night, they come across an ancient-looking occult tome filled with dense hieroglyphics and macabre illustrations, a dagger fashioned from human
bones, and a reel-to-reel tape recorder. The taped message, dictated by a professor of archaeology, describes the contents of the Sumerian "Book of the Dead,"
filled with incantations used to bring otherworldly demons to life, giving them license to possess the living. The message goes on to explain that those possessed
by these demons can only be stopped by total bodily dismemberment. When played among the group later that evening, the professor's recorded translations of the
ritual chants traumatize the strangely prescient Shelly and simultaneously release an ominous presence from the depths of the forest. The evil spirits take to
their dirty work with gusto, first assuming control of Shelly and transforming her into a cackling, murderous hag with superhuman strength; the others imprison
her in the fruit cellar and chain the trapdoor shut. The spirits then begin to possess the other women, including Linda,who immediately turns on Ash with a
barrage of punches and sadistic taunts. Unable to bring himself to chop up his lover's corpse, Ash gives her a more customary burial in the woods.As the others
succumb to demonic influence, Ash's horrific predicament becomes increasingly grim until, when all hope seems lost, he stumbles upon a final, desperate solution
to the ghoulish onslaught...well, maybe not.
Despite the shoestring production values, Raimi has fashioned a tight, lightning-paced fever dream of a movie, filled with operatic overacting and outrageously
gory effects that give the project a comic-book feel. Based on an earlier 8mm short titled Within the Woods, this feature version was fraught with distribution
difficulties before finding its first audience overseas. After considerable word of mouth (and a glowing endorsement from horror author Stephen King), the film
became a hit on home video, where it achieved further notoriety thanks to its highly-publicized banning in Britain amid the notorious "Video Nasties" censorship
campaign. Raimi, along with producer Robert Tapert, writer Scott Spiegel and much of the same crew, cranked up the story's comic aspects several dozen notches
for the rollicking semi-remake, Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn.
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Date of post.......: 17.10.2011 |
