Posts Tagged ‘stop-motion’

Evil Dead, The (1981)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Campbell, Bruce | Sandweiss, Ellen | DeManincor, Richard | Baker, Betsy | Tilly, Theresa | Gillis, Philip A. | Tapert, Dorothy | Guttridge, Cheryl | Carey, Barbara | Horton, David | Thomas, Wendall | Long, Don | Smith, Stu
Directors: Raimi, Sam
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Five friends go up to a cabin in the woods where they find unspeakable evil lurking in the forest. They find the Necronomicon and the taped translation of the text. Once the tape is played, the evil is released. One by one, the teens become deadly zombies. With only one remaining, it is up to him to survive the night and battle the evil dead.

Beetle Juice (1988)

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Baldwin, Alec | Davis, Geena | McEnroe, Annie | Page, Maurice | Stanger, Hugo | Keaton, Michael | Mittelman, Rachel | O'Hara, Catherine | Saunders, J. Jay | Ettlinger, Mark | Jones, Jeffrey | Ryder, Winona | Shadix, Glenn | Martinez, Patrice | Daly, Cindy
Directors: Burton, Tim
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The Deetz’s gothic daughter discovers the Maitands in the attic and befriends them. She finds their after life handbook which is eventually confiscated by the family’s interior decorator who is fascinated by the paranormal, and during a seance,conjures up the Maitlands. Most of the trouble starts as the free lance bio-excorist, Beetlejuice gets involved.

Cabin Boy (1994)

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Elliott, Chris | Brinkley, Ritch | Gammon, James | Lake, Ricki | Doyle-Murray, Brian | James, Brion | Walters, Melora | Hobson, I.M. | Nevil, Alex | Sterry, David H. | Elliott, Bob | Flotard, Edward | Cummings, Jim | Magnuson, Ann | Tamblyn, Russ
Directors: Resnick, Adam
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Snobby school boy goes left, and mistakes the “Filthy Whore” for his millionaire dad’s yacht. He joins four filthy fishermen for hijinx on the high seas.

It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Tracy, Spencer | Berle, Milton | Caesar, Sid | Hackett, Buddy | Merman, Ethel | Rooney, Mickey | Shawn, Dick | Silvers, Phil | Terry-Thomas | Winters, Jonathan | Adams, Edie | Provine, Dorothy | Anderson, Eddie 'Rochester' | Backus, Jim | Blue, Ben
Directors: Kramer, Stanley
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After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careers over a cliff in view of four cars whose occupants go down to help. The dying Grogan gives details of where the money is buried and when the witnesses fail to agree on sharing the cash, a crazy chase develops across the state.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Hoskins, Bob | Lloyd, Christopher | Cassidy, Joanna | Fleischer, Charles | Kaye, Stubby | Tilvern, Alan | LeParmentier, Richard | Hirsch, Lou | Brantley, Betsy | Silver, Joel | Springer, Paul | Ridings, Richard | Craig, Edwin | Holiday, Lindsay | Edmonds, Mike
Directors: Zemeckis, Robert
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Roger Rabbit is a cartoon character who (along with many others) exists along side of real humans. Eddy is a private eye who has seen better days and has been on the skids since the death of his brother at the hands of a Toon (cartoon character). Rogers’ boss hires Eddy to see if his sexy wife has other male interests, but things get out of hand as Roger is framed for murder with no one but the Toon hating Eddy to go to for help.

Evil Dead II (1987)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Campbell, Bruce | Berry, Sarah | Dan Hicks | DePaiva, Kassie | Raimi, Ted | Bixler, Denise | Domeier, Richard | Peaks, John | Hancock, Lou | Winters, Snowy | Abrams, Sid | Becker, Josh | Spiegel, Scott | Kidd, Thomas | Cantor, Mitch
Directors: Raimi, Sam
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Ash - the sole survivor of the original ‘Evil Dead’ - returns with his girlfriend Linda to the remote cabin in the woods. He discovers a tape recorder that a professor had used to record incantations from the Necronomicon XMortis - the Book of the Dead. When he turns it on, the recording releases a dark, sinister force from the woods. It turns Linda into a zombie, her soul possessed by some hideous demon, and then tries to do the same to Ash. Other people come to help Ash, but one by one they are taken over by the Evil Dead force that also possesses Linda, the Professor, and the Professor’s wife…and they try to make sure Ash is…Dead by Dawn!

Ghostbusters II (1989)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Murray, Bill | Aykroyd, Dan | Weaver, Sigourney | Ramis, Harold | Moranis, Rick | Hudson, Ernie | Potts, Annie | MacNicol, Peter | Yulin, Harris | Margulies, David | Fuller, Kurt | Margolin, Janet | von Homburg, Wilhelm | Deutschendorf, William T. | Deutschendorf II, Henry J.
Directors: Reitman, Ivan
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It’s 5 years after the battle against Gozer. A restraining order has forbidden Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Winston Zeddemore, and Egon Spengler from working as Ghostbusters, and as a result, they’ve had to find other jobs. Ray owns a book store called “Ray’s Occult” and performs at children’s birthday parties with Winston, Egon conducts experiments at the institute for advanced theoretical research, Dana Barrett broke up with Peter some time ago before marrying another guy, and Peter now hosts a local TV show called “The World of the Psychic”. Dana, who is now the divorced mother of an 8-month-old baby named Oscar, works in the restoration department at the Manhattan Museum of Art. Strange things start happening when Oscar’s baby carriage takes off by itself with Oscar in it, and it stops in the middle of 1st Avenue. While Dana’s boss, Janosz Poha, is restoring a painting of a 16th-century tyrant named Vigo Von Homburg Deutschendorf, the painting comes to life. Vigo wants to live again by taking over Oscar’s body. Vigo takes complete control of Janosz and orders Janosz to get Dana to cooperate. Janosz also has his own agenda. He wants Dana because he’s in love with her. When Peter, Ray, and Egon try to help Dana, they are arrested and put on trial for violating the restraining order. When the ghosts of the killer Scoleri Brothers show up at the court room, the judge is forced to remove the restraining order against the guys so they can put the Scoleri Brothers in a ghost trap. After this, Peter, Ray, Egon, and Winston re-open Ghostbusters, and mayor’s assistant Jack Hardemeyer tries to slow them down any way he can, because he believes the Ghostbusters are frauds who will hurt the mayor’s chances of becoming the governor of New York. The Ghostbusters and their lawyer, Louis Tully, refuse to be stopped by Jack. When Jack has the Ghostbusters put in the Parkview mental hospital, there is an eclipse and Janosz kidnaps Oscar for Vigo. The mayor wants the Ghostbusters on the job, and when the mayor hears that Jack had the Ghostbusters put in the Parkview mental hospital, he fires Jack and has the Ghostbusters released to try to rescue Oscar from Vigo, and Vigo intends to make it as hard as possible for the Ghostbusters.

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)

Thursday, March 29th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Hamill, Mark | Ford, Harrison | Fisher, Carrie | Williams, Billy Dee | Daniels, Anthony | Mayhew, Peter | Shaw, Sebastian | McDiarmid, Ian | Oz, Frank | Jones, James Earl | Prowse, David | Guinness, Alec | Baker, Kenny | Pennington, Michael | Colley, Kenneth
Directors: Marquand, Richard
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The Empire is more than halfway through construction of a new Death Star - almost twice as big, but more than twice as powerful. When completed, it will spell certain doom for Luke Skywalker and the Rebels. Han Solo is a prisoner of crime lord Jabba the Hutt, and Princess Leia soon finds herself in the gangster’s hands. Luke Skywalker, aided by C-3PO and R2-D2, makes his way into Jabba’s palace, hoping to secure his friends’ freedom. But the Hutt has no intention of doing so and tries to kill them all. After escaping from Jabba and the sands of Tatooine, they regroup with the Rebel fleet, which is massing for an attack against the new satellite battle station at Endor. Lando Calrissian is pressed into action to lead the Rebel fighter attack, while Han is put in charge of a group of soldiers to take out the shield generator protecting the Death Star. Luke, however, surrenders to Vader’s soldiers on Endor, and is taken in front of Vader’s boss - the Galactic Emperor - on the Death Star for final corruption to the Dark Side of the Force. The fleet of Imperial Star Destroyers ambushes the Rebels, cutting them off. Worse, the new Death Star begins turning its giant laser on the Rebel carriers. It appears that nothing will stop the Empire’s triumph - unless things start to change quickly…

Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The (1988)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: UK | West Germany
Actors: Neville, John | Idle, Eric | Polley, Sarah | Reed, Oliver | McKeown, Charles | Dennis, Winston | Purvis, Jack | Cortese, Valentina | Pryce, Jonathan | Paterson, Bill | Jeffrey, Peter | Thurman, Uma | Steadman, Alison | Cooper, Ray | Henderson, Don
Directors: Gilliam, Terry
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Baron Munchausen is a character of European myth that might be considered the predecessor of American tales of Pecos Bill or Paul Bunyan. The Baron’s stories are taken to be outrageous and fanciful lies. This is the origin of the name of the psychiatric diagnosis of “Munchausen’s Syndrome”, a particularly bizzare form of hypochondria.

Corpse Bride (2005)

Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Bonham Carter, Helena | Watson, Emily | Ullman, Tracey | Whitehouse, Paul | Lumley, Joanna | Finney, Albert | Grant, Richard E. | Lee, Christopher | Gough, Michael | Horrocks, Jane | Reitel, Enn | Roy, Deep | Elfman, Danny | Ballantyne, Stephen
Directors: Burton, Tim | Johnson, Mike
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Blue-tinted, eye-ball-popping, maggot-infested beauty Emily (Bonham Carter) has become known as the Corpse Bride after waiting for her fiancĂ© where the couple planned to rendezvous before getting hitched. When her groom arrives, he kills her, and she rests in the ground to wait for her soul mate, whether he knows he is the Corpse Bride’s groom or not. It’s a cold dark night, the moon is full, the stars are bright and the forest is a little bit creepy. Wandering through the black mangled trees, Victor (Depp) just can’t memorize his wedding vows. Victor’s hesitance towards marriage causes him to jumble the words. Two prominent families have arranged their children to be married in order to overcome financial difficulties. As the objects of betrothal, Victor and Victoria (Watson) met for the first time the night before their wedding. It only makes sense that Victor, a groom with cold feet, would have trouble remembering tedious wedding vows. Thus Victor ends up in the dark forest ringing his hands and muttering his vows, the vows that the Corpse Bride hears, bringing her out of the grave. Victor suddenly finds himself married to another woman, a voluptuous bombshell bride who also happens to be dead. Whisked away to the Land of the Dead, Victor finds out that living amongst corpses is not as easy as it seems. Heads easily loose their owners and eyes never seem to stay in their sockets, an adjustment that Victor seems reluctant to accept. Once taken into the Land of the Dead, it is nearly impossible to return, causing Victor to choose between risking Victoria’s life or giving up his own.