Tag Archives: psychotronic

The Ice Pirates

IMDB Rating: 5.10
2515 votes

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In the far future water is the most valuable substance. Two space pirates are captured, sold to a princess, and recruited to help her find her father who disapeared when he found information dangerous to the rulers. A real Space Opera with sword fights, explosions, fighting robots, monsters, bar fights and time warps.
Actors
JasonRobert Urich
RoscoeMichael D. Roberts
KilljoyJohn Matuszak
Also posted in 1984, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Sudden Impact

IMDB Rating: 6.30
6890 votes

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After destroying a case involving a crime lord, Harry Callahan is sent down to San Paulo to investigate the killing of a man found dead in a car. Jennifer (the killer of the man in the car) is murdering all the rapists who brutally raped both her and her sister 10 years ago, and she has returned to San Paulo to exact her revenge. Harry becomes inadvertently involved in Jennifer's own troubles during his investigations, all the while not suspecting she is the killer.
Actors
Harry CallahanClint Eastwood
Chief JanningsPat Hingle
Captain BriggsBradford Dillman
Also posted in 1983, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Time Bandits

IMDB Rating: 6.90
16930 votes

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A young boy's wardrobe contains a time hole. Through this hole an assortment of short people (i.e. dwarfs) come while escaping from their master, the supreme being. They take Kevin with them on their adventures through time from Napoleonic times to the Middle Ages to the early 1900s, to the time of Legends and the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness where they confront Evil.
Actors
Robin HoodJohn Cleese
King Agamemnon/FiremanSean Connery
NapoleonIan Holm
Also posted in 1981, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

New Jack City

IMDB Rating: 6.10
6572 votes

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In 1989, Nino Brown, a small time drug dealer, is convinced by one of his fellow thugs that the wave of the future is in the cocaine derivative, crack. Brown sees potential in crack and sets out to establish himself as chief kingpin by killing off his rivals and even going as far as to take over a whole apartment complex. Out to stop him are undercover cops Scottie Appleton and Nick Paretti. Appleton especially wants to get Nino because of the fact that he murdered Scottie's mother as part of a gang initiaton. Also involved is Pookie, a former crackhead who wants to bring down Nino as well.
Actors
Nino BrownWesley Snipes
Scotty AppletonIce-T
Gee MoneyAllen Payne
Also posted in 1991, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Army of Darkness

IMDB Rating: 7.50
37549 votes

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In this sequel to the Evil Dead films, a discount-store employee ("Name's Ash. Housewares.") is time-warped to a medieval castle beset by monstrous forces. Initially mistaken for an enemy, he is soon revealed as the prophecised savior who can quest for the Necronomicon, a book which can dispel the evil. Unfortunately, he screws up the magic words while collecting the tome, and releases an army of skeletons, led by his own Deadite counterpart. What follows is a thrilling, yet tongue-in-cheek battle between Ash's 20th Century tactics and the minions of darkness.
Actors
AshBruce Campbell
SheilaEmbeth Davidtz
Lord ArthurMarcus Gilbert
Also posted in 1992, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror | Comments (0)

Deranged

IMDB Rating: 6.50
739 votes

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A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies he misses her, so a year later he digs her up and takes her home. He learns about taxidermy and begins robbing graves to get materials to patch her up, and inevitably begins looking for fresher sources of materials. Based closely on the true story of Ed Gein.
Actors
Ezra CobbRoberts Blossom
Ma CobbCosette Lee
Tom SimsLeslie Carlson
Also posted in 1974, High IMDB rating, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Fly II

IMDB Rating: 4.30
4649 votes

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Seth Brundle was a research scientist whose genes were fused with a housefly in a matter transmission experiment and he transformed into the terrifying mutant creature "Brundlefly" and the journalist who he fell in love with, Vernoica Quaife killed him by blowing out his brains with a shotgun. Veronica has died giving birth to Seth's son Martin. Martin is raised by Seth's evil employer Anton Bartok who requires Martin's help to solve the problems of the Telepods, believing the Telepods are the key for worldwide domination. Growing at a accelerated rate and inheriting his father's mutated genes, Martin finds himself suffering his father's fate as he himself transforming into a even more fierce and terrifying "Brundlefly". Befriend by beautiful computer specialist Beth Logan, Martin sets out a way to cure himself, as the answer lies within the Telepod which is his only chance of saving himself from a terrible death.
Actors
Martin BrundleEric Stoltz
Beth LoganDaphne Zuniga
Anton BartokLee Richardson
Also posted in 1989, Horror, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

An American Werewolf in London

IMDB Rating: 7.40
14578 votes

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Two American students are on a walking tour of England and are attacked by a Werewolf. One is killed, the other is mauled. The Werewolf is killed, but reverts to it's human form, and the townspeople are able to deny it's existence. The surviving student begins to have nightmares of hunting on 4 feet at first, but then finds that his friend and other recent victims appear to him, demanding that he find a way to die to release them from their curse, being trapped between worlds because of their unnatural death.
Actors
David KesslerDavid Naughton
Nurse Alex PriceJenny Agutter
Jack GoodmanGriffin Dunne
Also posted in 1981, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Horror, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

Heathers

IMDB Rating: 7.30
17437 votes

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Dear Diary: Veronica Sawyer is sick of being part of the Heathers, the most powerful clic of Westerberg High; making fun of Martha Dunnstock ("Dumptruck"), the fat girl, or doing some stupid polls is something she'll never get used to. Meanwhile she meets JD, a cool rebel guy who wouldn't mind shooting a gun at school just to make his point. Remington University's party is where Veronica has to go as a Heather, and there's where she gets her ultimatum as a Heather from Heather Chandler, the head of the Heathers. So Veronica and her lover JD "accidentally" kill Heather Chandler and manage to cover it up by making a suicide note. Will this be just the beginning of the assasination-turned-suicide serie of Westerberg High which nor the FBI, the CIA or the PTA would be able to stop? Or will Veronica be able to pull herself together and stop her psychotic lover from killing absolutely EVERYONE at school?
Actors
Veronica SawyerWinona Ryder
Jason 'J.D.' DeanChristian Slater
HeatherShannen Doherty
Also posted in 1989, Comedy, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Romance | Comments (0)

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

IMDB Rating: 5.80
14495 votes

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Mad Max is a former cop who finds himself in a post-apocolyptic desert town called Bartertown. He is hired by the leader of the city to fight in a gladiator like arena called Thunderdome, so he can kill Auntie's rival master blaster. He is later banished and finds a group of children that survived a plane crash during the war. They believe he is their former pilot Captain Walker. Some of the children leave to find their fabled tomorrow morrow land. So Mad Max has to save them from the desert and from Auntie's Bartertown.
Actors
'Mad' Max RockatanskyMel Gibson
Aunty EntityTina Turner
Jedediah the PilotBruce Spence
Also posted in 1985, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)
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