Crime is the disease and Sylvester Stallone is the cure in Cobra, a high-octane rehash of the Clint Eastwood/Dirty Harry films, burnished to a 1980s action sheen. Stallone is Marion Cobretti, a cop called in when regular police methods have failed. Cobra is sent to get a cult of Charles Manson-like serial killers and to protect Ingrid (Brigitte ...
In a small town in Arkansas in 1958, a pitiful, deformed "feral boy" is tortured and killed by trouble-making local teenagers. The creature, however, was the son of the monster Pumpkinhead. Twenty-five years later, in the same town, a group of bored teenage punks manage to bring back his spirit and get him to start killing off the local adults. ~ ...
The feature-film debut of multi-talented filmmaker Clive Barker, this grim and surreal project is based on the writer/director's own novella The Hell-Bound Heart. The film opens with a chilling prologue in which globe-trotting pervert Frank (Sean Chapman) -- a connoisseur of sexual depravity seeking the ultimate sensual experience -- purchases a ...
Theresa Russell stars in this suspense drama as an art restoration expert living in Los Angeles who falls into a deep depression after her son is killed during a carjacking. As she attempts to investigate the murder on her own, she uncovers a vast web of corruption that involves the police, powerful politicians, and the city's wealthy elite. The ...
Don Siegel directed this offbeat crime thriller which stars Walter Matthau as the titular Charley Varrick. Varrick is a small-time stick-up man who, in tandem with his partner Harman Sullivan (Andrew Robinson), makes plans to rob a small bank in New Mexico. Varrick and Sullivan are expecting a modest payday for a simple heist, but to their ...
This crime drama tells the story of the man behind the terrible Kansas City massacre, Verne Miller. Miller started out as a South Dakota sheriff and during the 1920s became a notorious gangster hit man. He started out doing jobs for Al Capone in Chicago and was so good at his job that Capone appointed him head of his Kansas City operation. The ...
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