Low IMDb Rating Challenge (Official, November 2023)

[sol]

Spoiler

1. To Kill a Clown (1972) 5.3 on IMDb REVISION
2. Quicksand (2023) 4.3 on IMDb
3. Violated (1953) 5.1 on IMDb
4. Freejack (1992) 5.4 on IMDb
5. Sidekicks (1992) 5.1 on IMDb
6. Lady in the Death House (1944) 5.3 on IMDb
7. Circumstantial Evidence (1945) 5.3 on IMDb
8. Circumstantial Evidence (1935) 5.4 on IMDb
9. 186 Dollars to Freedom (2012) 5.2 on IMDb
10. You Can't Beat the Law (1942) 5.2 on IMDb
11. Gunmen (1993) 5.2 on IMDb
12. Accomplice (1946) 5.2 on IMDb
13. Fair Game (1982) 4.9 on IMDb
14. Fair Game (1995) 4.3 on IMDb
15. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous (2005) 5.1 on IMDb

16. Miss March (2009) 5.0 on IMDb



In a coma for four years since prom night, a young man is kidnapped from hospital by his reckless best friend who is adamant about reuniting him with his now estranged high school girlfriend here. This was directional debut of Zach Cregger of BARBARIAN fame, co-directed with his co-star here. While not a horror film, there are fascinatingly similar doses of dread and mounting uncertainty here with the guy finding out that everyone has moved on during his four years in a coma, and taken on a road trip with no guarantee that his old girlfriend would even still be interested in him. And his girlfriend has become a Playboy Playmate during their time apart, leading to a final third spent at the Playboy Mansion where all sorts of crazy and wild shenanigans take place.

[cinephage]

01. Puppet Master X: Axis Rising, by Charles Band (2012) 3.9 on imdb

I found it was one of the best of the puppet master series, actually... Still not a great film...
A few key elements : a ridiculous puppet girlfight, a highly racist puppet called Kamikaze which swears in japanese and blows itself to dust, a nymphomaniac, big-brested, nazi girl who keeps trying to get laid and is constantly interrupted... No more ! No more !

[Silga]

31. The New Daughter (Luiso Berdejo, 2009) 3/10 5,3 on IMDb
32. Cop and ½ (Henry Winkler, 1993) 5/10 4,1 on IMDb

The New Daughter plays like a Wrong Turn that took a turn.

the search for good stuff among IMDb lows

1. Ultimate Heist (Laurent Tuel, 2009) 4/10 5,4 on IMDb
2. All I See Is You (Marc Forster, 2016) 6/10 5,4 on IMDb
3. Winchester (Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig, 2018) 2/10 5,4 on IMDb
4. Miami Rhapsody (David Frankel, 1995) 7/10 5,4 on IMDb
5. Sniper: Ghost Shooter (Don Michael Paul, 2016) 4/10 5,4 on IMDb
6. Fall Time (Paul Warner, 1995) 3/10 5,4 on IMDb
7. Lying and Stealing (Matt Aselton, 2019) 5/10 5,4 on IMDb
8. Feeling Minnesota (Steven Baigelman, 1996) 3/10 5,4 on IMDb
9. The Witches (Robert Zemeckis, 2020) 4/10 5,4 on IMDb
10. Terminal (Vaughn Stein, 2018) 3/10 5,3 on IMDb
11. The Contractor (Josef Rusnak, 2007) 2/10 5,4 on IMDb
12. Killing Me Softly (Chen Kaige, 2002) 4/10 5,4 on IMDb
13. The Body (Jonas McCord, 2001) 3/10 5,3 on IMDb
14. The Enforcer (Richard Hughes, 2022) 4/10 5,3 on IMDb
15. Paradise Hills (Alice Waddington, 2019) 6/10 5,2 on IMDb
16. Bent (Bobby Moresco, 2018) 2/10 5,2 on IMDb
17. Mafia Mamma (Catherine Hardwicke, 2023) 1/10 5,4 on IMDb
18. Dangerous (David Hackl, 2021) 5/10 5,1 on IMDb
19. The River Murders (Rich Cowan, 2011) 2/10 5,2 on IMDb
20. Pick Up Your Belongings (Bernard Guillou, 1983) 5/10 5,1 on IMDb
21. Invasion U.S.A. (Joseph Zito, 1985) 2/10 5,4 on IMDb
22. My Mom’s New Boyfriend (George Gallo, 2008) 3/10 5,2 on IMDb
23. Castle Falls (Dolph Lundgren, 2021) 4/10 5,2 on IMDb
24. Dead for a Dollar (Walter Hill, 2022) 5/10 5,4 on IMDb
25. Reprisal (Brian A. Miller, 2018) 2/10 4,3 on IMDb
26. Meg 2: The Trench (Ben Wheatley, 2023) 5/10 5,1 on IMDb
27. Stroker Ace (Hal Needham, 1983) 5/10 4,9 on IMDb
28. Bullet Head (Paul Solet, 2017) 4/10 5,4 on IMDb
29. First Kill (Steven C. Miller, 2017) 4/10 5,0 on IMDb
30. Edge of Winter (Rob Connolly, 2016) 4/10 5,4 on IMDb
31. The New Daughter (Luiso Berdejo, 2009) 3/10 5,3 on IMDb
32. Cop and ½ (Henry Winkler, 1993) 5/10 4,1 on IMDb

[sol]

Spoiler

1. To Kill a Clown (1972) 5.3 on IMDb REVISION
2. Quicksand (2023) 4.3 on IMDb
3. Violated (1953) 5.1 on IMDb
4. Freejack (1992) 5.4 on IMDb
5. Sidekicks (1992) 5.1 on IMDb
6. Lady in the Death House (1944) 5.3 on IMDb
7. Circumstantial Evidence (1945) 5.3 on IMDb
8. Circumstantial Evidence (1935) 5.4 on IMDb
9. 186 Dollars to Freedom (2012) 5.2 on IMDb
10. You Can't Beat the Law (1942) 5.2 on IMDb
11. Gunmen (1993) 5.2 on IMDb
12. Accomplice (1946) 5.2 on IMDb
13. Fair Game (1982) 4.9 on IMDb
14. Fair Game (1995) 4.3 on IMDb
15. Miss Congeniality 2 (2005) 5.1 on IMDb
16. Miss March (2009) 5.0 on IMDb

17. Martial Law (1990) 4.8 on IMDb



Lead actor Chad McQueen looks more like an office worker than a hardcore martial artist here, and there is a lot to dig in how his looks constantly throw others off. Particularly impressive are the fights in which the bad guys smirk and snicker upon throwing his gun away, unaware that he does not need one to take them down. And the film's very best action sequence is the first one in which McQueen goes undercover as an ordinary pizza delivery driver, only to singlehandedly take down a gang of jewellery thieves, forcing one of them to stab himself with his own weapon. The plot here though? Less impressive.

[Torgo]

52. Hell Riders (James Bryan, 1984) 3.4/10
How do you like your biker flicks? With or without Adam West? If it's the latter, then by all means check this out. He's a mild mannered doctor. That is, until he dons a baseball cap and shades and is thus able to break the arm of the most fearless biker. But alas, they probably only had him on set for a couple of days because he randomly disappears from the plot shortly after scaring off the bikers, and they naturally just start up the tormenting of innocent folks once again, naked lady pet in tow.

Haha, what?

56. The Starfighters (Will Zens, 1964) 1.5/10
Oh God... I made a terrible mistake in watching this without MST3K... It was excruciatingly dull. I even remember that Mike & the bots couldn't make this one that entertaining.

Oh yes, I remember this one! And the many SPECTACULAR scenes of mid-air refueling ..
A Paste article mentioned this as one of their ultimate most unwatchable films, with or without the bots. (Some very strong contenders in their Top 5 which I'd support ..)

[frwnk]

65. Overdrive (2017) - 5.4
66. Wild Wild West (1999) - 4.9



67. Garfield (2004) - 5.0
68. Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006) - 5.0
69. Garfield Gets Real (2007) - 4.3
70. Crime Zone (1989) - 4.5



71. Godzilla (1998) - 5.4



72. American Psycho II: All American Girl (2002) - 3.7
73. Firequake (2014) - 3.1
74. Storage Locker 181 (2016) - 4.6
75. Kanyamakan (2014) - 4.2
76. Apocalypse of Ice (2020) - 2.6
77. Locked Down (2010) - 4.2
78. Force of Execution (2013) - 4.3
79. Battle of the Damned (2013) - 4.4
80. Badge of Honor (2015) - 5.0
81. The Reunion (2011) - 5.1
82. Knucklehead (2010) - 5.1
83. Crypto (2019) - 5.2
84. Inside Out (2011) - 4.5
85. Zombie Shark (2015) - 3.0
86. Apex (2021) - 3.0

[Lonewolf2003]

14. Bull Shark (2022, Brett Bentman) 2.6 : 3.0 - A shark attacking people in a lake, this does sounds like a ridiculous fun premise. Alas most of the screen time is taken up by boilerplate drama acted by actors, that the casting agency scrapped the bottom of the barrel for. All this could still be forgiven if the kills were fun and tense, that's the reason to watch these kind of movie after all. Here in the movie also disappoints. Kills exist basically out of one or two shots of a cheap CGI shark approaching and than the nameless victim splashing around before going down under.

15. Nemesis 3: Time Lapse [Nemesis III: Prey Harder] (1996, Albert Pyun) 3.0 : 3.5 - Pray harder this movie is better. Yes that was a lazy joke, but this movie is even lazier.

16. Yogi Bear (2010, Eric Brevig) 4.6 : 4.2

Action Stars of Yesteryear Starring in Recent Duds:
17. Gun Shy [Salty] (2017, Simon West) 4.1 : 3.0 - Antonio Banderas plays an aging rock star whose supermodel wife (Olga Kurylenko) is kidnapped in a movie that's painfully unfunny. This is embarrassing for everyone involved. I have no idea why Banderas feels the need to still appear in movies like this at this point of his career.

18. First Kill (2017, Steven C. Miller) 5.0 : 4.0 - Bruce Willis sleep walks again through a movie, while his character could have been a interesting play on his image. The plot isn’t half bad and the characterization of the criminal surprisingly decent even. It’s deserving of a better movie, cause the execution is sincerely lacking, making this utterly forgettable. Hayden Christensen does a fine enough job for the limited actor he is.

Spoiler

1. Bloodstone (1988, Dwight H. Little) 4.6: 7.2
2. Schiave bianche - Violenza in Amazzonia [Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story/White Slave] (1985. Mario Gariazzo) 4.7: 6.2
3. Nemesis (1992, Albert Pyun) 5.4: 7.5
4. Backtrace (2018,Brian A. Miller) 3.8: 4.0
5. Slugs, muerte viscosa [Slugs] (1988, Juan Piquer Simón) 5.3: 6.5
6. Once Upon a Time in Venice (2017, Mark Cullen) 5.3: 6.0
7. Exterminator 2 (1984, Mark Buntzman) 4.6: 3.5
8. Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968, Peter Bogdanovich) 2.9 : 2.5
9. Nemesis 2: Nebula (1995, Albert Pyun) 3.8 : 4.5
10. Tom and Jerry (2021, Tim Story) 5.2 : 4.2
11. The Misfits (2021, Renny Harlin) 4.4 : 5.8
12. Beyond the Law (2019, James Cullen Bressack) 3.7 :3.5
13. Hot Seat (2022, James Cullen Bressack) 4.3 : 4.2

[Torgo]

Did you know that ...
.. after the famous Baby Genius 2 there came another sequel, 9 years later, and a 4th and a 5th part AND that all of them star Jon Voight?!
Wild times.

[Silga]

33. The Big Bang (Tony Krantz, 2010) 6/10 5,4 on IMDb
34. The Prince (Brian A. Miller, 2014) 2/10 4,6 on IMDb

The Big Bang was a surprisingly good neo-noir with beautiful visuals and some unexpected mentions or references to Schrodinger, Planck and Heisenberg with plenty of nuclear physics on top. A fun role for Antonio Banderas. Cast and cameos include Snoop Dogg, Bill Duke, Sam Elliott, Delroy Lindo, William Fichtner among others.

the search for good stuff among IMDb lows

1. Ultimate Heist (Laurent Tuel, 2009) 4/10 5,4 on IMDb
2. All I See Is You (Marc Forster, 2016) 6/10 5,4 on IMDb
3. Winchester (Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig, 2018) 2/10 5,4 on IMDb
4. Miami Rhapsody (David Frankel, 1995) 7/10 5,4 on IMDb
5. Sniper: Ghost Shooter (Don Michael Paul, 2016) 4/10 5,4 on IMDb
6. Fall Time (Paul Warner, 1995) 3/10 5,4 on IMDb
7. Lying and Stealing (Matt Aselton, 2019) 5/10 5,4 on IMDb
8. Feeling Minnesota (Steven Baigelman, 1996) 3/10 5,4 on IMDb
9. The Witches (Robert Zemeckis, 2020) 4/10 5,4 on IMDb
10. Terminal (Vaughn Stein, 2018) 3/10 5,3 on IMDb
11. The Contractor (Josef Rusnak, 2007) 2/10 5,4 on IMDb
12. Killing Me Softly (Chen Kaige, 2002) 4/10 5,4 on IMDb
13. The Body (Jonas McCord, 2001) 3/10 5,3 on IMDb
14. The Enforcer (Richard Hughes, 2022) 4/10 5,3 on IMDb
15. Paradise Hills (Alice Waddington, 2019) 6/10 5,2 on IMDb
16. Bent (Bobby Moresco, 2018) 2/10 5,2 on IMDb
17. Mafia Mamma (Catherine Hardwicke, 2023) 1/10 5,4 on IMDb
18. Dangerous (David Hackl, 2021) 5/10 5,1 on IMDb
19. The River Murders (Rich Cowan, 2011) 2/10 5,2 on IMDb
20. Pick Up Your Belongings (Bernard Guillou, 1983) 5/10 5,1 on IMDb
21. Invasion U.S.A. (Joseph Zito, 1985) 2/10 5,4 on IMDb
22. My Mom’s New Boyfriend (George Gallo, 2008) 3/10 5,2 on IMDb
23. Castle Falls (Dolph Lundgren, 2021) 4/10 5,2 on IMDb
24. Dead for a Dollar (Walter Hill, 2022) 5/10 5,4 on IMDb
25. Reprisal (Brian A. Miller, 2018) 2/10 4,3 on IMDb
26. Meg 2: The Trench (Ben Wheatley, 2023) 5/10 5,1 on IMDb
27. Stroker Ace (Hal Needham, 1983) 5/10 4,9 on IMDb
28. Bullet Head (Paul Solet, 2017) 4/10 5,4 on IMDb
29. First Kill (Steven C. Miller, 2017) 4/10 5,0 on IMDb
30. Edge of Winter (Rob Connolly, 2016) 4/10 5,4 on IMDb
31. The New Daughter (Luiso Berdejo, 2009) 3/10 5,3 on IMDb
32. Cop and ½ (Henry Winkler, 1993) 5/10 4,1 on IMDb
33. The Big Bang (Tony Krantz, 2010) 6/10 5,4 on IMDb
34. The Prince (Brian A. Miller, 2014) 2/10 4,6 on IMDb

[jdidaco]

On this batch: dead men in car trunks; sexually fluid social climbers/arrivistes; Raquel Welch living the life of Thérèse Raquin/Katerina Izmaylova in Cyprus; men-eating Sabinae; Wotan, the mediunic cat; two Betty Blues going mad in the south of France; nudist bank robbers; and living & dying, tripping & cruising in Chilean forests!

35. Muere una mujer (A Woman Dies, Mario Camus, 1965) 6.5/10 (5.4)
36. Les jeunes loups (Young Wolves, Marcel Carné, 1968) 6/10 (5.4)
37. The Beloved (George P. Cosmatos, 1971) 7/10 (4.8)
38. Les voraces (The Voracious Ones, Sergio Gobbi, 1973) 5.5/10 (5.4)
39. No encontré rosas para mi madre (The Lonely Woman, Francisco Rovira Beleta, 1973) 5/10 (4.3)
40. La Sabina (The Sabina, José Luis Borau, 1979) 8/10 (5.4)
41. Morir de miedo (To Die of Fear, Juan José Porto, 1980) 7/10 (4.6)
42. Regreso del más allá (Back from Beyond, Juan José Porto, 1982) 7/10 (3.5)
43. Deux minutes de soleil en plus (Two Minutes More of Sunlight, Gérard Vergez, 1988) 7/10 (5.4)
44. Il gèle en enfer (Black Wings Has My Angel, Jean-Pierre Mocky, 1990) 7/10 (5.4)
45. Magic Magic (Sebastián Silva, 2013) 7.5/10 (5.0)
46. Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos (Death Will Come and Shall Have Your Eyes, José Luis Torres Leiva, 2019) 7.5/10 (5.4)

Spoiler

1. Babo 73 (Robert Downey Sr., 1964) 6/10 (5.3)
2. Futz (Tom O'Horgan, 1969) 8/10 (4.6)
3. We All Go Down (Gerard Damiano, 1969) 6/10 (4.8)
4. Las melancólicas (House of Insane Women, Rafael Moreno Alba, 1971) 7/10 (4.8)
5. Situation (Slaughter Day, Peter Patzak, 1972) 7.5/10 (5.3)
6. Truck It (Fred Halsted, 1973) 6.5/10 (4.8)
7. Bel ordure (Lovely Swine, Jean Marboeuf, 1973) 8.5/10 (4.3)
8. Bermude: la fossa maledetta (Cave of the Sharks, Tonino Ricci, 1978) 6/10 (4.2)
9. Uragano sulle Bermude - L'ultimo S.O.S./Encuentro en el abismo (Encounters in the Deep, Tonino Ricci, 1979) 4.5/10 (3.5)
10. La ville des silences (The City of Silences, Jean Marboeuf, 1979) 9/10 (5.4)
11. Viaje al más allá (Journey to the Beyond, Sebastián D'Arbó, 1980) 8/10 (5.4)
12. El ser (Psychophobia, Sebastián D'Arbó, 1982) 6/10 (4.8)
13. Revenge in the House of Usher (Jesús Franco & Olivier Mathot, 1983) 8/10 (3.4)
14. Killing Blue (Peter Patzak, 1988) 7/10 (4.2)
15. Buried Alive (Gérard Kikoïne, 1989) 5/10 (4.4)
16. La reina anónima (The Anonymous Queen, Gonzalo Suárez, 1992) 8/10 (5.1)
17. Die schwarze Kobra (The Black Cobra, Rudolf Zehetgruber, 1963) 7/10 (5.2)
18. La main noire (The Black Hand, Max Pécas, 1968) 8/10 (5.4)
19. Comment les séduire (1001 Ways to Love, Jean-Claude Roy, 1968) 4.5/10 (3.7)
20. Nel labirinto del sesso (Psichidion) (The Labyrinth of Sex, Alfonso Brescia, 1969) 4.5/10 (4.4)
21. Le champignon (The Killer Strikes at Dawn, Marc Simenon, 1970) 7.5/10 (5.4)
22. Gelobt sei, was hart macht (Praise, What Makes You Hard, Rolf Thiele, 1972) 7/10 (5.2)
23. L'insolent (The Insolent, Jean-Claude Roy, 1973) 7/10 (5.2)
24. Vanessa (Hubert Frank, 1977) 8/10 (5.4)
25. Una donna di notte (A Woman in the Night, Nello Rossati, 1979) 7.5/10 (5.2)
26. Dear Mr. Wonderful (Peter Lilienthal, 1982) 8/10 (4.4)
27. Rue barbare (Barbarous Street, Gilles Béhat, 1984) 7/10 (5.4)
28. Descente aux enfers (Descent Into Hell, Francis Girod, 1986) 8/10 (5.4)
29. Killing Cars (Michael Verhoeven, 1986) 6.5/10 (4.2)
30. Amantide - Scirocco (Sahara Heat, Aldo Lado, 1987) 7/10 (4.8)
31. Alibi perfetto (Circle of Fear, Aldo Lado, 1992) 5.5/10 (4.7)
32. La divine poursuite (The Gods Must Be Daring, Michel Deville, 1997) 7.5/10 (5.1)
33. Docteur Chance (Doctor Chance, F.J. Ossang, 1997) 8/10 (5.4)
34. Dharma Guns (La succession Starkov) (Dharma Guns, F.J. Ossang, 2010) 9/10 (5.4)

[vortexsurfer]

17. New York Minute (Dennie Gordon, 2004) - 6/10 4.9
18. Trauma Center (Matt Eskandari, 2019) - 4/10 4
19. Bio-Dome (Jason Bloom, 1996) - 6/10 4.4
20. College Road Trip (Roger Kumble, 2008) - 5/10 4.3
21. Asking For It (Eamon O’Rourke, 2021) - 4/10 3.7

Spoiler

1. Open Water 3: Cage Dive (Gerald Rascionato, 2017) - 3/10 4.2
2. The Jurassic Games (Ryan Bellgardt, 2018) - 5/10 3.9
3. Backwoods (Marty Weiss, 2008) - 4/10 4.5
4. Date Movie (Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer, 2006) - 3/10 2.8
5. Epic Movie (Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer, 2007) - 5/10 2.4
6. Meet the Spartans (Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer, 2008) - 5/10 2.8
7. Disaster Movie (Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer, 2007) - 4/10 1.9
8. Wrong Side of Town (David DeFalco, 2010) - 6/10 3.8
9. Breach (John Suits, 2020) - 7/10 2.9
10. Alone in the Dark (Uwe Boll, 2005) - 5/10 2.4
11. Meg 2: The Trench (Ben Wheatley, 2023) - 6/10 5.1
12. The Black Demon (Adrian Grünberg, 2023) - 6/10 3.7
13. Vampires Suck (Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer, 2010) - 5/10 3.4
14. The Last Airbender (M. Night Shyamalan, 2010) - 4/10 4
15. Dragonball Evolution (James Wong, 2009) - 4/10 2.5
16. Superhero Movie (Craig Mazin, 2008) - 6/10 4.6
17. New York Minute (Dennie Gordon, 2004) - 6/10 4.9
18. Trauma Center (Matt Eskandari, 2019) - 4/10 4
19. Bio-Dome (Jason Bloom, 1996) - 6/10 4.4
20. College Road Trip (Roger Kumble, 2008) - 5/10 4.3
21. Asking For It (Eamon O’Rourke, 2021) - 4/10 3.7

[FilmWalrus]

4. Maniac (1934), #IMDB of 3.7

I had trouble even deciphering the audio, but what little I understood included some priceless gems of terrible writing. Years from now I will probably only remember the cat rancher.

[sol]

Spoiler

1. To Kill a Clown (1972) 5.3 on IMDb REVISION
2. Quicksand (2023) 4.3 on IMDb
3. Violated (1953) 5.1 on IMDb
4. Freejack (1992) 5.4 on IMDb
5. Sidekicks (1992) 5.1 on IMDb
6. Lady in the Death House (1944) 5.3 on IMDb
7. Circumstantial Evidence (1945) 5.3 on IMDb
8. Circumstantial Evidence (1935) 5.4 on IMDb
9. 186 Dollars to Freedom (2012) 5.2 on IMDb
10. You Can't Beat the Law (1942) 5.2 on IMDb
11. Gunmen (1993) 5.2 on IMDb
12. Accomplice (1946) 5.2 on IMDb
13. Fair Game (1982) 4.9 on IMDb
14. Fair Game (1995) 4.3 on IMDb
15. Miss Congeniality 2 (2005) 5.1 on IMDb
16. Miss March (2009) 5.0 on IMDb
17. Martial Law (1990) 4.8 on IMDb

18. Dark Ride (2006) 4.6 on IMDb



Fleeing the mental health facility where he was sent after killing two young girls in a horror-themed amusement park ride, a serial killer returns to the now derelict ride in this slasher. The circumstances behind the killer's escape are bizarre, but there is a great part where he sticks a torchlight right through a rapey orderly's chest, creating a giant hole that another orderly eerily looks through from behind. How exactly the killer overpowered everyone else at the clinic is never shown though, and there is a giant coincidence in which a group of young adults have decided to break in and have a party in the so-called dark ride on the exact night that the killer returns. The ride is a perfectly spooky horror movie location, lit up in neon colours and full of ghoulish imagery.

[shugs]

52. Hell Riders (James Bryan, 1984) 3.4/10
How do you like your biker flicks? With or without Adam West? If it's the latter, then by all means check this out. He's a mild mannered doctor. That is, until he dons a baseball cap and shades and is thus able to break the arm of the most fearless biker. But alas, they probably only had him on set for a couple of days because he randomly disappears from the plot shortly after scaring off the bikers, and they naturally just start up the tormenting of innocent folks once again, naked lady pet in tow.

Saved it with a 3.7, it's the current rating it has on IMDb and doesn't seem to have changed lately.

[magnusbernhardsen]

17. 65 (Beck & Woods, 2023) #5.4 on IMDb
A boring slog, based on a somewhat interesting premise of time travel 65 million years back in time to when the asteroid hit and killed off all the dinosaurs.

[DudeLanez]

13. Doctor Faustus (1967, Burton/Coghill) 5/10 - 5,4 on IMDb
14. Submergence (2017, Wim Wenders) 6,5/10 - 5,4 on IMDb

Spoiler

01. Double Team (1997, Hark Tsui) 4/10 - 4,8 on IMDb
02. BloodRayne (2005, Uwe Boll) 2/10 - 3,0 on IMDb
03. Sanctimony (2000, Uwe Boll) 3,5/10 - 2,9 on IMDb
04. House of the Dead (2003, Uwe Boll) 2,5/10 - 2,1 on IMDb
05. BloodRayne II: Deliverance (2007, Uwe Boll) 4/10 - 2,7 on IMDb
06. Postal (2007, Uwe Boll) 1/10 - 4,5 on IMDb
07. BloodRayne: The Third Reich (2011, Uwe Boll) 1,5/10 - 3,0 on IMDb
08. Auschwitz (2011, Uwe Boll) 1/10 - 3,2 on IMDb
09. A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989, Stephen Hopkins) 4,5/10 - 5,0 on IMDb
10. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991, Rachel Talalay) 5/10 - 4,7 on IMDb
11. A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010, Samuel Bayer) 4/10 - 5,2 on IMDb
12. Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958, Nathan Juran) 4/10 - 5,0 on IMDb
13. Doctor Faustus (1967, Burton/Coghill) 5/10 - 5,4 on IMDb
14. Submergence (2017, Wim Wenders) 6,5/10 - 5,4 on IMDb

[Silga]

35. Top Dog (Aaron Norris, 1995) 4/10 4,2 on IMDb
36. Zeros and Ones (Abel Ferrara, 2021) 1/10 3,3 on IMDb

What was Abel thinking?

the search for good stuff among IMDb lows

1. Ultimate Heist (Laurent Tuel, 2009) 4/10 5,4 on IMDb
2. All I See Is You (Marc Forster, 2016) 6/10 5,4 on IMDb
3. Winchester (Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig, 2018) 2/10 5,4 on IMDb
4. Miami Rhapsody (David Frankel, 1995) 7/10 5,4 on IMDb
5. Sniper: Ghost Shooter (Don Michael Paul, 2016) 4/10 5,4 on IMDb
6. Fall Time (Paul Warner, 1995) 3/10 5,4 on IMDb
7. Lying and Stealing (Matt Aselton, 2019) 5/10 5,4 on IMDb
8. Feeling Minnesota (Steven Baigelman, 1996) 3/10 5,4 on IMDb
9. The Witches (Robert Zemeckis, 2020) 4/10 5,4 on IMDb
10. Terminal (Vaughn Stein, 2018) 3/10 5,3 on IMDb
11. The Contractor (Josef Rusnak, 2007) 2/10 5,4 on IMDb
12. Killing Me Softly (Chen Kaige, 2002) 4/10 5,4 on IMDb
13. The Body (Jonas McCord, 2001) 3/10 5,3 on IMDb
14. The Enforcer (Richard Hughes, 2022) 4/10 5,3 on IMDb
15. Paradise Hills (Alice Waddington, 2019) 6/10 5,2 on IMDb
16. Bent (Bobby Moresco, 2018) 2/10 5,2 on IMDb
17. Mafia Mamma (Catherine Hardwicke, 2023) 1/10 5,4 on IMDb
18. Dangerous (David Hackl, 2021) 5/10 5,1 on IMDb
19. The River Murders (Rich Cowan, 2011) 2/10 5,2 on IMDb
20. Pick Up Your Belongings (Bernard Guillou, 1983) 5/10 5,1 on IMDb
21. Invasion U.S.A. (Joseph Zito, 1985) 2/10 5,4 on IMDb
22. My Mom’s New Boyfriend (George Gallo, 2008) 3/10 5,2 on IMDb
23. Castle Falls (Dolph Lundgren, 2021) 4/10 5,2 on IMDb
24. Dead for a Dollar (Walter Hill, 2022) 5/10 5,4 on IMDb
25. Reprisal (Brian A. Miller, 2018) 2/10 4,3 on IMDb
26. Meg 2: The Trench (Ben Wheatley, 2023) 5/10 5,1 on IMDb
27. Stroker Ace (Hal Needham, 1983) 5/10 4,9 on IMDb
28. Bullet Head (Paul Solet, 2017) 4/10 5,4 on IMDb
29. First Kill (Steven C. Miller, 2017) 4/10 5,0 on IMDb
30. Edge of Winter (Rob Connolly, 2016) 4/10 5,4 on IMDb
31. The New Daughter (Luiso Berdejo, 2009) 3/10 5,3 on IMDb
32. Cop and ½ (Henry Winkler, 1993) 5/10 4,1 on IMDb
33. The Big Bang (Tony Krantz, 2010) 6/10 5,4 on IMDb
34. The Prince (Brian A. Miller, 2014) 2/10 4,6 on IMDb
35. Top Dog (Aaron Norris, 1995) 4/10 4,2 on IMDb
36. Zeros and Ones (Abel Ferrara, 2021) 1/10 3,3 on IMDb

[gunnar]

36. Zeros and Ones (Abel Ferrara, 2021) 1/10 3,3 on IMDb

What was Abel thinking?

He was predicting your rating.

[Silga]

36. Zeros and Ones (Abel Ferrara, 2021) 1/10 3,3 on IMDb

What was Abel thinking?

He was predicting your rating.

[magnusbernhardsen]

18. Exorcist II: The Heretic (Boorman & Pallenberg, 1977) #3.8 on IMDb

Is this the biggest fall from the original to the sequel ever? I see that Scorsese talks it up, but that is absolutely baffling to me. Absolute crap.

[Torgo]

36. Zeros and Ones (Abel Ferrara, 2021) 1/10 3,3 on IMDb

What was Abel thinking?

He was predicting your rating.

Now that's a special one. The IMDb score is devastating, way below your usual Abel movie (which are no site darlings). Critics reviews are on the better half of mixed, though: green Metascore, tightly, and 54% on RT. On both sites, audiences HATED it. And then there's LB, the other, biggest user-fed filmbase, and they .. LIKE the film at 3.0 at average!
This work must be more divisive than Trash Humpers.


I almost started watching Exorcist II this week, still having the original Friedkin very freshly in mind.

[maxwelldeux]

Shawty had them Apple Bottom jeans

1. Double Dragon (1994, 3.9) - 5/10
2. Hard Kill (2020, 3.0) - 4/10
3. Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003, 4.3) - 5/10
4. Swim (2021, 2.8) - 3/10
5. Street Fighter (1994, 4.0) - 5/10
6. Chain of Command (1994, 4.2) - 6/10
7. RobCop 3 (1993, 4.1) - 6/10
8. Trauma Center (2019, 4.0) - 2/10
9. Sheena (1984, 4.9) - 5/10
10. Kill 'em All (2012, 4.6) - 6/10
11. Supercell (2023, 4.4) - 2/10

12. Ring of Death (2008, 4.8) - 5/10
Blah blah blah Fight Club in a prison. They didn't waste much money on the writing department, but at least had the good sense to make most of the film about these near-death matches between prisoners. Fighting was OK. A passable watch.

13. Death Hunt (2022, 3.7) - 3/10
Most Dangerous Game. Except the hunters espouse right wing ideology, but in a way that they think it's obviously right. So I don't know if I'm supposed to be sad or glad the villains get their comeuppance.

14. 211 (2018, 4.4) - 4/10
I genuinely don't know how you can have a movie about a shootout during a bank robbery with a massive standoff, Nick Cage starring, and manage to pull off this snooze fest.

[FilmWalrus]

5. Traffic PSA Shorts

• Tomorrow’s Drives (1954), 11 min, #IMDB of 5.1
• The Bottle and the Throttle (1961), 10 min, #IMDB of 5.0
• Joy Ride: An Auto Theft (1976), 13 min, #IMDB of 4.9
• The Last Prom (1980), 24 min, #IMDB of 4.3
• Highball Highway (1963), 11 min, #IMDB of 4.1
• The Talking Car (1969), 16 min, #IMDB of 4.1

My girlfriend walked in on me watching these and there was just no good explanation that I could come up with.

6. Street Fighter (1994) , #IMDB of 4.0

Delicious ham and entertaining cheese, but very little fighting and even fewer streets. Performances all over the place and disappointing action, but it didn't annoy me.

[zzzorf]

1. Haunt (2013) - 6/10 - 5.1


Had a good premise but never quite lived up to its potential. Still an enjoyable watch but easy forgettable.

[shugs]

13. Battlefield Earth (Roger Christian, 2000, ) - 5/10 2.5
14. Killing Season (Mark Steven Johnson, 2013, ) - 7/10 5.4

John Travolta double feature. Battlefield Earth deserves all its criticism, but it's campy fun and I enjoyed it. Killing Season was quite good, an interesting character study about two men utterly broken by the Bosnian war.

Spoiler

1. A Good Day to Die Hard (John Moore, 2013, ) - 5/10 5.2
2. Manos: The Hands of Fate (Harold P. Warren, 1966, ) - 4/10 1.6
3. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (Joe Berlinger, 2000, ) - 6/10 4.0
4. Shadow of the Blair Witch (Ben Rock, 2000, ) - 6/10 5.3
5. Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967, /) - 8/10 5.4
6. Blair Witch (Adam Wingard, 2016, /) - 2/10 5.0
7. The Retirement Plan (Tim Brown, 2023, ) - 6/10 5.0
8. Retribution (Nimród Antal, 2023, ) - 6/10 5.3
9. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (Johannes Roberts, 2021, ) - 6/10 5.2
10. Earth vs. the Spider (Bert I. Gordon, 1958, ) - 5/10 4.6
11. The Beast of Yucca Flats (Coleman Francis, 1961, ) - 4/10 1.9
12. The Exorcist: Believer (David Gordon Green, 2023, ) - 4/10 4.9

[Minkin]

OK, so I will enter the theater of combat sooner than the last four days of the month, even if I risk coming in last place - I love the idea of this challenge too much. I will attempt to add reviews when they're available (says the person who's still backlogged to June!)

01. Invasion of the Animal People (1959) [IMDB - 3.7]

02. Abominable (2019) [IMDB - 2.7, which is weird cause the ICM page says "6.6" - guess it must not be updated]

03. Final Justice (1984) [IMDB - 2.2]

04. Pagan Warrior (2019) [IMDB - 3.0]

05. Manos Returns (2018) [IMDB - 3.1]

We went to the Dollar Tree for the first time, and found a "DVD section" - and I was overjoyed by how absurd and unknown most all the films were, so we bought four at $1.25 each, and I must say that's been one of the best investments of $5 - with #2 + #4 above being two of those purchases, with the film "Coven" to come, and also a Pope Francis documentary, which isn't on IMDB (so I won't include it in this challenge). I find it hilarious that the films were less than 5.4 on IMDB, without trying, but they've all been amusingly awful.

Also, Nov 15th was Manos the Hands of Fate Day (originally released on Nov 15) - so we at least had to watch the sequel!
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10. Double Down (2005) (Neil Breen/10) 4.1
Dedicated to OldAle - If this was my first exposure to the Neil Breen Cinematic Universe, I wouldn't talk about anything else for weeks. His very debut is probably the closest to the experience people had with The Room somewhere during the 00s. Outsider art amateur auteurism gone completely awry. The narration of the first 5 minutes is filled with so many incredible absurdities, it has to be seen and heard to be believed. What appeals to me a lot about Neil's approach is how he still shoots on film - not consumer cameras - and uses a ton of moody Creative-Commons-like soundtrack, which together with the empty landscapes, sets and not exactly modern cars makes for an older, if not timeless aesthetic. Am I getting crazy? Maybe. The amount of stock footage in this is unheard of. The pool scene! Love! Sex! Tuna from cans! Government conspiracies! BIOTERROR! Children with brain cancer! A single Neil Breen movie really has it all. The most fascinating sub 5.4 find.

11. Starcrash (1978) (3,5/10) 4.0
The campiness of Roger Corman's [distribution's] Star Wars knock-off must be over 9000. But people seem to love it, and I can't blame them: the sets are so clumsy, but you can see they TRIED. There are countless scenes in "space" with colorful stars, different planets to be roamed on. Laser swords, robots, giant robots, amazons, a chick in a bikini leather dress for half of the time. And while the special effects are cheap, there are hundreds of them. Starcrash hasn't time to brake! If you love the camp of Flash Gordon, maybe you can appreciate it in Starcrash, too. And if it makes you laugh, that's still cool, right?

These are both 9/10s (maybe even 10's) for me.

Double Down is such a great look into schizophrenia -

here's my write-up on it, idk if you can actually spoil anything in this movie though

I kept waiting for the movie to actually start, as the entire thing felt like it was the introduction before something, anything was to happen. Its essentially just Neil Breen telling us in voiceover that he’s an omnipotent god who, using three laptops that he hides in the desert + two satellite dishes attached to his car hacks into every possible computer system across the world. But he also says that if he doesn’t login every three days, poison will leech into the world’s metros + he murders random people… so he’s an evil villain then? Oh and he lives in his car and only eats cans of tuna, which he spills all over himself. He seems like a very classic case of schizophrenia to me. First, he has deity delusions: thinking he can cure some girl's brain cancer ("Oh no!") with his magic touch; the power to bring people back to life; an invisible death ray; and has every medal of honor the government can give him. As someone who's also thought they were a deity, I recognize the similar traits - thinking you can heal someone through will power, and that you're tantamount to the world's security (I've thought the CIA was going to assassinate me). Or he spends most of the movie paranoid about being tracked - usually hidden in gum. He also keeps hallucinating his dead girlfriend, and other random people, as he clambers around rocks in the desert to speak to these people - like his past self. Most of the people he talks to exist in this blue sky purgatory where FBI director and dead girlfriend alike show up. Then he has a habit of "waking up" on the ground, with a message of "help me" in blood. So he clearly experiences psychosis, and perhaps has moments of clarity where he realizes he needs to get professional help (true for me as well). He's also incredibly disorganized and lives this chaotic existence that's so essential to the schizo experience - and this is emblematic in the film itself - as everything that happens here just follows these random unexplainable sequences. You spend most of the movie having no idea what's going on, who anyone is, if any semblance of a plot has occurred, and unsure how to process what you've just seen - just like during psychosis. Its fantastically disorganized, and perhaps that's to its benefit - as there's clearly some logic to the chaos - just waiting to be deciphered - as there's quite a lot of depth here. But of course people find this to be hilarious, as the "insane" have been the butt of humanity's hate, scorn, and humor for centuries. So go on you fucks, laugh at us - as we suffer unimaginable horrors, that you will never even hope to understand.

And Starcrash is so amazingly fun, although the Corman edit that's most accessible cuts out some of the best / funniest moments, which one can see some of them here:



I honestly think I love Starcrash more than Star Wars - as it's just so joyous - there's such a goofy, nonsensical but delightful element to it all - this extracted attempt at world and lore building, that kind of all just gets thrown out for something new every 5 mins, each bringing some chaotic addition that just ends up making it even more absurd - and I can't get enough of it.

My partner also cosplayed as Stella Star ... at a Star Wars con (only 1 person recognized her character - most thought it was related to the Holiday Special).

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Shawty had them Apple Bottom jeans

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21. Invasion U.S.A. (Joseph Zito, 1985) 2/10 5,4 on IMDb
Invasion U.S.A. rivals The Delta Force as the dumbest and most nonsensical Chuck Norris film.

I'm afraid this comment will only find diminishing returns as you explore the even far worse side of Chuck Norris, from Silent Rage (Norris vs super karate zombie), or my personal favorite (aside from Lone Wolf McQuade): Forest Warrior

[cinephage]

02. Puppet Master: Axis Termination, by Charles Band (2017) 3.8 on imdb

This time, there's an actual story, visual effects, but it's still so weak it didn't get a better ranking...

A few key elements : A psychic midget, a witch with both ancient powers and a strangely forced accent, digital blood, the crazy nurse with syringes for fingertips.

03. Aquaslash, by Renaud Gauthier (2019) 4/10 3.7 on imdb

A slasher in an aquatic park, a graduation party and many horny kids... Well, that was bad, but also a bit fun.

A few key elements : a romantic opening (from behind), a slashing ride, some of the most ridiculous background actors ever...

04. Hell's ground / Zibahkhana, by Omar Khan 7/10 5.3 on imdb

A pakistanese texas chainsaw massacre, with zombies on the side... Cheap, but quite entertaining, really...

A few key elements : a killer in burqa with a flying spiked mace, a zombie midget, ladoos, and the coolest van ever

My kind of bad boys...

01. Puppet Master X: Axis Rising, by Charles Band (2012) 3.9 on imdb - ridiculous puppet girlfight, racist puppet called Kamikaze, a nymphomaniac, nazi girl

[sol]

Spoiler

1. To Kill a Clown (1972) 5.3 on IMDb REVISION
2. Quicksand (2023) 4.3 on IMDb
3. Violated (1953) 5.1 on IMDb
4. Freejack (1992) 5.4 on IMDb
5. Sidekicks (1992) 5.1 on IMDb
6. Lady in the Death House (1944) 5.3 on IMDb
7. Circumstantial Evidence (1945) 5.3 on IMDb
8. Circumstantial Evidence (1935) 5.4 on IMDb
9. 186 Dollars to Freedom (2012) 5.2 on IMDb
10. You Can't Beat the Law (1942) 5.2 on IMDb
11. Gunmen (1993) 5.2 on IMDb
12. Accomplice (1946) 5.2 on IMDb
13. Fair Game (1982) 4.9 on IMDb
14. Fair Game (1995) 4.3 on IMDb
15. Miss Congeniality 2 (2005) 5.1 on IMDb
16. Miss March (2009) 5.0 on IMDb
17. Martial Law (1990) 4.8 on IMDb
18. Dark Ride (2006) 4.6 on IMDb

19. The Red Menace (1949) 4.9 on IMDb



As one might expect from the title, this an anti-Communism propaganda drama with lots of heavy-handed dialogue regarding the supposed evils of Communism. What one might not expect is that the film also has echoes of a decent paranoia thriller. The opening scene is particularly strong with a seemingly ordinary man and woman on the run from mysterious unnamed persons. We also get some great parts later on involving Shepard Menken as an excommunicated party member. Whether it be looking out of his window at night to notice that he is being watched from cars below, or wandering the streets at night deep in thought, tension absolutely simmers. This is not really Menken's film though, and Robert Rockwell is a bit bland as the main guy.

[Silga]

37. Line of Duty (Steven C. Miller, 2019) 5/10 5,3 on IMDb
38. Voyagers (Neil Burger, 2021) 3/10 5,4 on IMDb

the search for good stuff among IMDb lows

1. Ultimate Heist (Laurent Tuel, 2009) 4/10 5,4 on IMDb
2. All I See Is You (Marc Forster, 2016) 6/10 5,4 on IMDb
3. Winchester (Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig, 2018) 2/10 5,4 on IMDb
4. Miami Rhapsody (David Frankel, 1995) 7/10 5,4 on IMDb
5. Sniper: Ghost Shooter (Don Michael Paul, 2016) 4/10 5,4 on IMDb
6. Fall Time (Paul Warner, 1995) 3/10 5,4 on IMDb
7. Lying and Stealing (Matt Aselton, 2019) 5/10 5,4 on IMDb
8. Feeling Minnesota (Steven Baigelman, 1996) 3/10 5,4 on IMDb
9. The Witches (Robert Zemeckis, 2020) 4/10 5,4 on IMDb
10. Terminal (Vaughn Stein, 2018) 3/10 5,3 on IMDb
11. The Contractor (Josef Rusnak, 2007) 2/10 5,4 on IMDb
12. Killing Me Softly (Chen Kaige, 2002) 4/10 5,4 on IMDb
13. The Body (Jonas McCord, 2001) 3/10 5,3 on IMDb
14. The Enforcer (Richard Hughes, 2022) 4/10 5,3 on IMDb
15. Paradise Hills (Alice Waddington, 2019) 6/10 5,2 on IMDb
16. Bent (Bobby Moresco, 2018) 2/10 5,2 on IMDb
17. Mafia Mamma (Catherine Hardwicke, 2023) 1/10 5,4 on IMDb
18. Dangerous (David Hackl, 2021) 5/10 5,1 on IMDb
19. The River Murders (Rich Cowan, 2011) 2/10 5,2 on IMDb
20. Pick Up Your Belongings (Bernard Guillou, 1983) 5/10 5,1 on IMDb
21. Invasion U.S.A. (Joseph Zito, 1985) 2/10 5,4 on IMDb
22. My Mom’s New Boyfriend (George Gallo, 2008) 3/10 5,2 on IMDb
23. Castle Falls (Dolph Lundgren, 2021) 4/10 5,2 on IMDb
24. Dead for a Dollar (Walter Hill, 2022) 5/10 5,4 on IMDb
25. Reprisal (Brian A. Miller, 2018) 2/10 4,3 on IMDb
26. Meg 2: The Trench (Ben Wheatley, 2023) 5/10 5,1 on IMDb
27. Stroker Ace (Hal Needham, 1983) 5/10 4,9 on IMDb
28. Bullet Head (Paul Solet, 2017) 4/10 5,4 on IMDb
29. First Kill (Steven C. Miller, 2017) 4/10 5,0 on IMDb
30. Edge of Winter (Rob Connolly, 2016) 4/10 5,4 on IMDb
31. The New Daughter (Luiso Berdejo, 2009) 3/10 5,3 on IMDb
32. Cop and ½ (Henry Winkler, 1993) 5/10 4,1 on IMDb
33. The Big Bang (Tony Krantz, 2010) 6/10 5,4 on IMDb
34. The Prince (Brian A. Miller, 2014) 2/10 4,6 on IMDb
35. Top Dog (Aaron Norris, 1995) 4/10 4,2 on IMDb
36. Zeros and Ones (Abel Ferrara, 2021) 1/10 3,3 on IMDb
37. Line of Duty (Steven C. Miller, 2019) 5/10 5,3 on IMDb
38. Voyagers (Neil Burger, 2021) 3/10 5,4 on IMDb

[jdidaco]

02. Puppet Master: Axis Termination, by Charles Band (2017) 3.8 on imdb

A few key elements : A psychic midget, a witch with both ancient powers and a strangely forced accent, digital blood, (AND) the crazy nurse with syringes for fingertips.

Oh, now I must prepare a Puppet Master marathon sometime next year (I've only seen the first one). Thanks for the delicious key elements descriptions, cinephage!

[cinephage]

02. Puppet Master: Axis Termination, by Charles Band (2017) 3.8 on imdb

A few key elements : A psychic midget, a witch with both ancient powers and a strangely forced accent, digital blood, (AND) the crazy nurse with syringes for fingertips.

Oh, now I must prepare a Puppet Master marathon sometime next year (I've only seen the first one). Thanks for the delicious key elements descriptions, cinephage!

Well, you'll certainly watch a few very bad films, I must say, but some of them are entertaining, and in any case the puppets will become new friends of yours, even when they only appear in stock shots...

[sol]

Spoiler

1. To Kill a Clown (1972) 5.3 on IMDb REVISION
2. Quicksand (2023) 4.3 on IMDb
3. Violated (1953) 5.1 on IMDb
4. Freejack (1992) 5.4 on IMDb
5. Sidekicks (1992) 5.1 on IMDb
6. Lady in the Death House (1944) 5.3 on IMDb
7. Circumstantial Evidence (1945) 5.3 on IMDb
8. Circumstantial Evidence (1935) 5.4 on IMDb
9. 186 Dollars to Freedom (2012) 5.2 on IMDb
10. You Can't Beat the Law (1942) 5.2 on IMDb
11. Gunmen (1993) 5.2 on IMDb
12. Accomplice (1946) 5.2 on IMDb
13. Fair Game (1982) 4.9 on IMDb
14. Fair Game (1995) 4.3 on IMDb
15. Miss Congeniality 2 (2005) 5.1 on IMDb
16. Miss March (2009) 5.0 on IMDb
17. Martial Law (1990) 4.8 on IMDb
18. Dark Ride (2006) 4.6 on IMDb
19. The Red Menace (1949) 4.9 on IMDb

20. The Hit List (2011) 5.3 on IMDb



A drunk debt-ridden man creates a hit list together with a stranger he met at a bar, only to discover that the stranger was a professional hit-man as the names on his list start turning up murdered in this thriller. While Cole Hauser is merely serviceable in the lead role, Cuba Gooding Jr. absolutely knocks it out of the park as the philosophical hit-man who keeps rationalising what he is doing with a very calm manner of talking. Hauser's initial dilemma is thought-provoking too; he instantly becomes the police's prime suspect while unable to tell them about the hit-man without also implicating himself.

[sol]

Spoiler

1. To Kill a Clown (1972) 5.3 on IMDb REVISION
2. Quicksand (2023) 4.3 on IMDb
3. Violated (1953) 5.1 on IMDb
4. Freejack (1992) 5.4 on IMDb
5. Sidekicks (1992) 5.1 on IMDb
6. Lady in the Death House (1944) 5.3 on IMDb
7. Circumstantial Evidence (1945) 5.3 on IMDb
8. Circumstantial Evidence (1935) 5.4 on IMDb
9. 186 Dollars to Freedom (2012) 5.2 on IMDb
10. You Can't Beat the Law (1942) 5.2 on IMDb
11. Gunmen (1993) 5.2 on IMDb
12. Accomplice (1946) 5.2 on IMDb
13. Fair Game (1982) 4.9 on IMDb
14. Fair Game (1995) 4.3 on IMDb
15. Miss Congeniality 2 (2005) 5.1 on IMDb
16. Miss March (2009) 5.0 on IMDb
17. Martial Law (1990) 4.8 on IMDb
18. Dark Ride (2006) 4.6 on IMDb
19. The Red Menace (1949) 4.9 on IMDb
20. The Hit List (2011) 5.3 on IMDb

21. The Black Bird (1975) 5.4 on IMDb



The sequel to The Maltese Falcon you never heard of, this features return performances from Lee Patrick and Elisha Cook Jr., but is pretty much an unofficial follow-up, following around Sam Spade's son. Played out as a comedy, this also feels much more like a spoof and the gags are unfortunately of the hit-and-miss variety. The chief antagonist is also a Nazi with dwarfism in what seems to be a mere excuse for a bunch of poor taste height related gags. George Segal is expectedly solid though and Lionel Stander is hilarious, completely oblivious to how much Segal dislikes him and misinterpreting everything.

[shugs]

15. Cats (Tom Hooper, 2019, /) - 2/10 2.8
I got used to the freaky looking cats, but, man, this movie is dull. There is no real story or characters to talk about, the songs are generic, so I guess the saving grace of the stage musical is the choreography, but that doesn't come across because of the way this movie is directed and edited.
16. The Bag Man (David Grovic, 2014, ) - 4/10 5.2
Felt random.

Spoiler

1. A Good Day to Die Hard (John Moore, 2013, ) - 5/10 5.2
2. Manos: The Hands of Fate (Harold P. Warren, 1966, ) - 4/10 1.6
3. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (Joe Berlinger, 2000, ) - 6/10 4.0
4. Shadow of the Blair Witch (Ben Rock, 2000, ) - 6/10 5.3
5. Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967, /) - 8/10 5.4
6. Blair Witch (Adam Wingard, 2016, /) - 2/10 5.0
7. The Retirement Plan (Tim Brown, 2023, ) - 6/10 5.0
8. Retribution (Nimród Antal, 2023, ) - 6/10 5.3
9. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (Johannes Roberts, 2021, ) - 6/10 5.2
10. Earth vs. the Spider (Bert I. Gordon, 1958, ) - 5/10 4.6
11. The Beast of Yucca Flats (Coleman Francis, 1961, ) - 4/10 1.9
12. The Exorcist: Believer (David Gordon Green, 2023, ) - 4/10 4.9
13. Battlefield Earth (Roger Christian, 2000, ) - 5/10 2.5
14. Killing Season (Mark Steven Johnson, 2013, ) - 7/10 5.4

[frwnk]

87. Rollerball (2002) - 3.1
88. Far Cry (2008) - 3.2
89. Collision Earth (2011) - 3.4
90. 2001: A Space Travesty (2000) - 3.5
91. Singularity (2017) - 3.6



92. Critters 3 (1991) - 4.4
93. Critters 4 (1992) - 4.1
94. Critters Attack! (2019) - 3.7
95. Ferocious Planet (2011) - 3.8
96. Kazaam (1996) - 3.1



97. Problem Child (1990) - 5.4
98. Batman Forever (1995) - 5.4



99. The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) - 3.9
100. Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983) - 3.9
101. Beyond Justice (2014) - 3.4
102. Wake Up (2019) - 5.0
103. Sword of Vengeance (2015) - 4.4
104. The Recall (2017) - 4.1
105. Outlawed (2018) - 3.8

[RogerTheMovieManiac88]

Hi shugs, thanks for hosting!

(Screenshot from 'Sluchaynyy adres')

1. Ángeles de arrabal / Angels of the Slums (1949, Raúl de Anda) - 7/10 / 4.5 on IMDb
2. Último día / Last Day (1952, Antonio Román) - 7/10 / 4.3 on IMDb
3. Amor, qué malo eres! / Love, How Bad You Are! (1953, José Díaz Morales) - 7.5/10 / 4.1 on IMDb
4. Sluchaynyy adres / Random Address (1973, Igor Vetrov) - 7.5/10 / 4.6 on IMDb
5. The Poison Rose (2019, Francesco Cinquemani, George Gallo) - 3/10 / 4.8 on IMDb

[Torgo]

(Screenshot from 'Sluchaynyy adres')

Hey Roger, you can't embed an IMDb image like that, because they're a mean website

[RogerTheMovieManiac88]

(Screenshot from 'Sluchaynyy adres')

Hey Roger, you can't embed an IMDb image like that, because they're a mean website

Haha, you're quick! I often mess around with my images and have to go back to edit things. It should be as intended now.

[Torgo]

Hey Roger, you can't embed an IMDb image like that, because they're a mean website

Haha, you're quick!

I take care of the place while the master is away.

5. Traffic PSA Shorts

• Tomorrow’s Drives (1954), 11 min, #IMDB of 5.1
• The Bottle and the Throttle (1961), 10 min, #IMDB of 5.0
• Joy Ride: An Auto Theft (1976), 13 min, #IMDB of 4.9
• The Last Prom (1980), 24 min, #IMDB of 4.3
• Highball Highway (1963), 11 min, #IMDB of 4.1
• The Talking Car (1969), 16 min, #IMDB of 4.1

My girlfriend walked in on me watching these and there was just no good explanation that I could come up with.

LOL, that statement could become the tagline of the challenge.

[Hunziker]

2. Loie Fuller (1902) 5.4/10, Raid on a Coiner's Den (1904) 5.0/10, Povratak srpskih pobednika (1913) 5.0/10, L'antique Tolède (1912) 4.9/10, L'antre de la sorcière (1906) 5.2/10, Le boudoir mystérieux (1907) 4.7/10, Le miroir magique (1909) 4.6/10, Ambush II at Eyrefield Lodge, Curragh (1902) 4.8/10, Flashback (2023) 4.9/10, On His Wedding Day (1913) 5.3/10

Spoiler

1. Amour d'esclave (1907) 4.9/10, Stadtführer Für Bonn Und Umgebung (1969) 5.4/10, Playmates (1912) 5.1/10, La leçon de musique (1909) 5.0/10, Form Phases (1953) 5.3/10, Form Phases II (1953) 5.1/10, Waconichi (1955) 4.7/10, The ABC's of Sex Education for Trainable Persons (1975) 5.3/10
2. Loie Fuller (1902) 5.4/10, Raid on a Coiner's Den (1904) 5.0/10, Povratak srpskih pobednika (1913) 5.0/10, L'antique Tolède (1912) 4.9/10, L'antre de la sorcière (1906) 5.2/10, Le boudoir mystérieux (1907) 4.7/10, Le miroir magique (1909) 4.6/10, Ambush II at Eyrefield Lodge, Curragh (1902) 4.8/10, Flashback (2023) 4.9/10, On His Wedding Day (1913) 5.3/10