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  Honto ni Atta! Noroi no Video Vol.56 2014

  ★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  I watched this only having translations for the text parts via Google translate.

  A typical, yet subpar, entry into this long ass series of found footage vignettes. Dreadful (sometimes laughable) effects and mostly uninteresting videos. The one with the motorcycle accident is okay, but the rest is completely forgettable. Especially the two part main video and subsequent investigation that takes up a majority of the runtime is really boring.

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  Jack the Ripper 1976

  ★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Terror creeps through the streets of London. Or at least through an alleyway in Switzerland that has to stand in for it a couple of times. Busy filmmaker Jess Franco doesn't keep us in suspense for long about who the mysterious slasher might be, as the credits proudly announce: Klaus Kinski is Jack the Ripper. So we've already got that out of the way.

  Franco gives us atmospheric, fog-soaked images and, compared to some of his other cheaper works, a…

Popular reviews

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  Sodomites 1998

  ½ Watched 03 Dec 2013

  It truly takes a 'genius' like Gaspar Noé to turn 7 minutes of butt banging into an unwatchable, unbearably boring mess of nothing.

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  Men Behind the Sun 3: A Narrow Escape 1994

  ★½ Watched 28 Feb 2014

  What the hell, Godfrey? Where are the ninjas?