Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater

Season 1989

"Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater" was a hosted horror movie show with John Bloom as host "Joe Bob Briggs" where he would present fantasy, horror and science fiction movies on The Movie Channel, providing background information on each movie shown.

Where to Watch Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater • Season 1989

91 Episodes

Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981)
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981)After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)
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Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)Six people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents proceed to kill them one by one as revenge for the town's destruction during the Civil War.
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
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Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
Savage Streets (1984)
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Savage Streets (1984)A teenage vigilante seeks revenge on a group of violent thugs who raped her handicapped sister and killed her best friend.
The Barbarians (1987)
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The Barbarians (1987)Triple feature iron-man marathon begins. One of the rippling deltoid flicks following in the steps of 50s Hercules. Twin barbarians seek revenge from the warlord who massacred their tribe. No rating given.
Hercules (1958)
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Hercules (1958)Triple feature iron-man marathon, part 2. No Joe Bob segments. Steve Reeves rips trees, tears down temples, races chariots and rescues Sylva Koscina in a huge 50s indie hit that succeeded despite the star being stiff as a board. No rating given.
Hercules Unchained (1959)
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Hercules Unchained (1959)Triple feature iron-man marathon, part 3. No Joe Bob segments. Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, and an extra $100 costume budget cross paths with a bandit revolting against vandals and challenging people to strength contests. No rating given.
The Video Dead (1987)
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The Video Dead (1987)A family takes delivery of a new television set, unaware that it is the gateway by which killer zombies enter the world.
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974)
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Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974)A master swordsman and former soldier and his hunchbacked assistant hunt vampires.
Savage Streets (1984)
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Savage Streets (1984)Triple feature iron-man marathon, part 2. No Joe Bob segments. Linda Blair classic where she takes revenge on the guys who raped her deaf sister played by Linnea Quigley. No rating given.
Sheena (1984)
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Sheena (1984)Triple feature iron-man marathon, part 3. No Joe Bob segments. Tarzan rip-off where a white girl raised by Zamboulis talks with animals and gets a flamboyance of flamingos to attack a helicopter. No rating given.
She-Devils on Wheels (1968)
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She-Devils on Wheels (1968)An all-female motorcycle gang, called 'The Maneaters' hold motorcycle races, as well as terrorize the residents of a small Florida town, and clash off against an all-male rival gang of hot-riders.
The World Is Full of Married Men (1979)
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The World Is Full of Married Men (1979)David Cooper works in advertising but spends more time on his love life despite the fact that he is married. When his wife Linda discovers his girlfriends, she decides to find get revenge by having an affair.
Separate Vacations (1986)
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Separate Vacations (1986)A young architect finds himself in a situation that he never had to deal with before--now that he is successful (and married), sexy young women are throwing themselves at him. He and his wife take separate vacations to follow their urges.
Acapulco Gold (1976)
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Acapulco Gold (1976)Triple feature iron-man marathon. An insurance salesman gets caught up in an international drug ring in Hawaii and grins a lot. No rating given.
They Still Call Me Bruce (1987)
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They Still Call Me Bruce (1987)Triple feature iron-man marathon, part 2. No Joe Bob segments. Comedy kung-fu movie staring the "best comedian in Korea" coming to America to thank the soldier who saved his life, but ends up running a struggling karate studio. Joe Bob gives it ★★½
The Joy of Mykonos (1976)
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The Joy of Mykonos (1976)Triple feature iron-man marathon, part 3. No Joe Bob segments. A maid at a seaside hotel nurses an amnesiac man back to health. One of the worst movies that TMC keeps showing. Joe Bob says: "Stay away from it."
Rage of Honor (1987)
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Rage of Honor (1987)Tanaka, a DEA agent, and his partner Ray are after a bunch of drug dealers. But they are betrayed by an insider and Ray is killed. Tanaka follows the culprit, a sadistic drug lord, down to Argentina.
Hollywood Boulevard (1976)
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Hollywood Boulevard (1976)Triple feature sleaze weekend. Innocent young girl goes to Hollywood and gets turned into bacon bits by the meat grinder of cheap exploitation B-movie business plagued by deadly accidents. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
The World is Full of Married Men (1979)
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The World is Full of Married Men (1979)Triple feature sleaze weekend, part 2. No Joe Bob segments. Scum advertising executive cheats on his wife, and she finds out. One of those flicks where you love to hate everyone as rich people hop from bed to bed and scream at one another. No rating given.
Crazy Mama (1975)
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Crazy Mama (1975)Triple feature sleaze weekend, part 3. No Joe Bob segments. Sex & gun crazed mama goes back home to Arkansas to get revenge on the sheriff who shot her husband and took her land. No rating given.
Programmed to Kill (1987)
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Programmed to Kill (1987)A middle eastern female terrorist is captured by the CIA in Greece, after an attack on a marketplace. Transported back to the USA, the terrorist undergoes an operation where she is transformed into a cybernetic killing machine. Now the CIA have a secret weapon to send back to the Middle East, but how long can they control her?
Caged Heat (1974)
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Caged Heat (1974)Triple feature iron-man marathon. Drive-in classic about a prison where you might be a girl when you check in, but you are definitely a woman when you leave. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
The Inheritance (1976)
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The Inheritance (1976)Triple feature iron-man marathon, part 2. No Joe Bob segments. Italian classic about a cold as ice gold digger daughter-in-law who uses her body to destroy a whole family in 1880s Rome. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
Separate Vacations (1986)
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Separate Vacations (1986)Triple feature iron-man marathon, part 3. No Joe Bob segments. Dr. Pepper commercial guy has bunch of jiggling flesh gals throwing themselves at him, as he and his wife take separate vacations to follow their urges. Joe Bob gives it dog doo doo
Steele Justice (1987)
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Steele Justice (1987)Steele is ex-cop and Vietnam vet who is determined to bring down Kwan, former South Vietnamese general and now rich and powerful drug lord.
The Wizard of Gore (1970)
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The Wizard of Gore (1970)A TV talk-show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician who has the ability to hypnotize and control the thoughts of people in order to stage gory on-stage illusions using his powers of mind bending.
The First Nudie Musical (1976)
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The First Nudie Musical (1976)Triple feature iron-man marathon. To save his movie studio, a producer has to adapt a porno script into a musical with a giant dancing dildo production number. Featuring a Ron Howard cameo. No rating given.
The Retaliator (1987)
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The Retaliator (1987)Triple feature iron-man marathon, part 2. No Joe Bob segments. Decent action picture about where a beautiful member of the meanest terrorist gang in Europe gets her brain replaced with a computer by the CIA. Joe Bob gives it ★★½
Pacific Banana (1981)
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Pacific Banana (1981)Triple feature iron-man marathon, part 3. No Joe Bob segments. One of the floppy white skinned British sex comedies that we've shown 937 times already, but it has sex in it, so people will watch it again. No rating given.
The Challenge (1982)
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The Challenge (1982)A down-and-out American boxer becomes involved in a feud between two Japanese brothers.
Bolero (1984)
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Bolero (1984)Set in the 1920s, a young woman sets out to lose her virginity. Her mission leads her to a Moroccan sheikh and a Spanish bullfighter.
American Justice (1986)
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American Justice (1986)Triple feature iron-man marathon. Corrupt Arizona cops that round up wet bags when they come over the border and weed out pretty Mexican girls. Joe Bob gives it ★★★
The Adventure of the Action Hunters (1986)
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The Adventure of the Action Hunters (1986)Triple feature iron-man marathon, part 2. No Joe Bob segments. Couple hunts for underwater treasure alongside a motley crew of lowlifes. Don't expect much action or adventure. Negative ★★★★
Eye of the Tiger (1986)
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Eye of the Tiger (1986)Triple feature iron-man marathon, part 3. No Joe Bob segments. It's High Noon, but with decapitations and shotgun blasts when Gary Busey gets out of prison and finds his hometown taken over by a gang of skinhead bikers. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
Blood Feast (1963)
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Blood Feast (1963)An Egyptian caterer kills various women in suburban Miami to use their body parts to revive a dormant Egyptian goddess while an inept police detective tries to track him down.
Nana (1983)
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Nana (1983)A beautiful and willful prostitute puts her appearance and body to use to become the toast of the town.
Scarecrows (1988)
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Scarecrows (1988)Criminals hijack a plane and force the pilot and his daughter to fly them to Mexico. However, an unexpected landing finds them in a cemetery inhabited by killer scarecrows.
Lethal Obsession (1987)
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Lethal Obsession (1987)Several known criminals already have been murdered by a professional killer, leaving no trace but the "ace" game card. The police suspects a new mob is trying to take over the district. The investigating police officer Jan is victimized by a bomb himself, when he's at his girlfriend Daniela's father's Italian restaurant. Although paralyzed and suspended from work, the tuff cop continues to investigate and takes revenge on the gangsters who did this to him.
Meatballs Part II (1984)
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Meatballs Part II (1984)Second in the series of Meatball movies. A group of kids attempt to save a summer camp that's a financial failure.
Double Exposure (1982)
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Double Exposure (1982)A photographer plagued by horrific nightmares in which he kills the young female models he shoots is shocked to discover that there is a serial killer in his city who is targeting attractive women.
Terror Squad (1988)
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Terror Squad (1988)A squad of Libyan terrorists infiltrate the city of Kokomo, Indiana, and take over a nuclear power plant. A counter-terrorist expert must stop them before they blow it up.
The Order of the Black Eagle (1987)
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The Order of the Black Eagle (1987)A James Bondish spy and his female assistant infiltrate a group of South American Nazis who have kept Hitler alive until they take over the... using the ultimate weapon
Fairy Tales (1978)
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Fairy Tales (1978)Triple feature iron-man marathon. The finest fairy tales inspired smut musical ever made where an impotent prince searches for a princess that gets him excited. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
Terror Squad (1987)
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Terror Squad (1987)Triple feature iron-man marathon, part 2.No Joe Bob segments. Police chief Chuck Connors must stop Libyan terrorists that took over Kokomo, IN and hid out at the high school. Joe Bob gives it ★★★½
Double Exposure (1982)
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Double Exposure (1982)Triple feature iron-man marathon, part 3. No Joe Bob segments. L.A. photographer with sexual hang-ups keeps dreaming about murdering all the bimbos he photographs. Real weird kinky mystery. Joe Bob gives it ★★★½
She’s 19 and Ready (1979)
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She’s 19 and Ready (1979)A young woman, just turning 19, is ready for anything, including fullfilling her dreams and fantasies. But two young men, Klaus and Stephen, are after her with their raging hormones to lead the way. The young lady learns to grow up fast, though, when strange occurences and new people enter her life, including more and more men.
The Malibu Bikini Shop (1986)
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The Malibu Bikini Shop (1986)Triple feature iron-man marathon. Two brothers inherit a bikini store and perform a complex examination of tanned female bodies twitching on the beach. Joe Bob gives it ★★, ★★★ if you're currently undergoing brain surgery.
Hunter's Blood (1986)
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Hunter's Blood (1986)Triple feature iron-man marathon, part 2. No Joe Bob segments. One of the best Texas Chainsaw Massacre rip offs where bunch of guys go to a part of Arkansas where everybody is descended from a long line of cousins. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
Sorority House Massacre (1986)
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Sorority House Massacre (1986)Triple feature iron-man marathon, part 3. No Joe Bob segments. Innocent young freshman co-ed wasn't ready for the sorority initiation to be this hard. Based on a true story. Joe Bob gives it ★★★
On the Air Live with Captain Midnight (1979)
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On the Air Live with Captain Midnight (1979)Kid in L.A. runs a pirate radio show out of his van, gets really popular and parachutes into Magic Mountain amusement park. One of the lamest flicks we've shown on Drive-In theater.
Lady on the Bus (1978)
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Lady on the Bus (1978)A sleaze-o-rama where Sonia Braga grapples with trauma, identity and marriage by using public transport to aardvark her way through Brazil. No rating given.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)Freddy Krueger returns once again to terrorize the dreams of the remaining Dream Warriors, as well as those of a young woman who may be able to defeat him for good.
Candy Stripe Nurses (1974)
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Candy Stripe Nurses (1974)Three high school girls work as volunteer candy stripe nurses at Oakwood Hospital.
Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988)
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Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988)Braddock mounts a one-man assault to free his wife and son who are still being held in a Vietnam prison camp.
Malibu Express (1985)
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Malibu Express (1985)
Maniac Cop (1988)
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Maniac Cop (1988)A killer dressed in a police uniform begins murdering innocent people on the streets of New York City.
The Brain (1988)
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The Brain (1988)A psychologist with an increasingly popular TV show brainwashes his audiences using a giant living brain. A mischievous high school student is sent to the psychologist's institute, and becomes determined to expose him.
Julia (1974)
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Julia (1974)Pauli is a sexually frustrated young man who's surrounded by sexually liberated women who will not give him the time of day. He meets a beautiful virgin woman, Andrea, who strongly resists his charms, which compounds his frustrations.
Unmasking the Idol (1986)
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Unmasking the Idol (1986)Duncan Jax is facing his most challenging mission ever, to save the world from evil terrorists!
Dirty Laundry (1987)
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Dirty Laundry (1987)A young man and his girlfriend unwittingly come into possession of a bag containing one million dollars belonging to a drug-smuggling ring. The mobsters try to catch the couple and retrieve their money.
Tiffany Jones (1973)
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Tiffany Jones (1973)Light-hearted and occasionally unclothed adaptation of a British comic strip in the over-the-top, on-beyond-Bond spy fantasy vein.
Julia (1974)
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Julia (1974)Pauli is a sexually frustrated young man who's surrounded by sexually liberated women who will not give him the time of day. He meets a beautiful virgin woman, Andrea, who strongly resists his charms, which compounds his frustrations.
Glitch! (1988)
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Glitch! (1988)Two thieves rob a large fancy house when the owner is away. But when a visitor mistakes them for the owner, and they find out about a casting party mis-scheduled for that day, they decide to stick around for the fun. There's only one small problem, a little glitch in their plan. The real owners owe some bad dudes a lot of money, and they show up to collect.
Destroyer (1988)
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Destroyer (1988)A prison riot breaks out at the moment of a serial murderer's execution by electrocution, 18 months later, a team of filmmakers converge on the prison to film a women-in-prison exploitation flick.
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974)
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Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974)A master swordsman and former soldier and his hunchbacked assistant hunt vampires.
Picasso Trigger (1988)
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Picasso Trigger (1988)After his brother got eliminated in Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987), a crime lord triggers a ruthless hunt against all agents responsible, and the remaining agents will have to avenge their fallen comrades.
The Inheritance (1976)
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The Inheritance (1976)Rome, 1880. Gregorio has decided to close his bakery, the family business. Then he tells his sons Pippo, Mario and daughter Teta that they will have to fend for themselves. But newly married Irene, Pippo's wife, a beautiful, calculating and ambitious young woman, wants to take over the inheritance. Acting on intelligence, weighing every step and its consequences, she manages to convince the brothers that they must prevent at all costs that his father falls in love again to avoid the risk of losing their inheritance.
Rage of Honor (1987)
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Rage of Honor (1987)Tanaka, a DEA agent, and his partner Ray are after a bunch of drug dealers. But they are betrayed by an insider and Ray is killed. Tanaka follows the culprit, a sadistic drug lord, down to Argentina.
Waxwork (1988)
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Waxwork (1988)A wax museum owner uses his horror exhibits to unleash evil on the world.
Hairspray (1988)
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Hairspray (1988)A 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.
Slumber Party Massacre II (1987)
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Slumber Party Massacre II (1987)Courtney Bates, the younger sister of Valerie, and her friends go to a condo for a weekend getaway, but Courtney can't get rid of the haunting feeling that a supernatural rockabilly driller killer is coming to murder them all.
Shame (1988)
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Shame (1988)Asta Cadell, a lawyer traveling through the Australian Outback on holiday, stops in a small Western Australian town after her motorcycle breaks down and shacks up with Tim Curtis, the local mechanic, while fixing it. She then becomes involved in helping Curtis' teenage daughter, Lizzie, who has been recently date-raped by Danny Fiske, the son of a wealthy, well-known citizen and his gang. Asta persuades Lizzie to press charges against Danny, but the local population becomes determined to keep the incident a secret at any cost and soon Asta and the Curtis family's lives are in danger.
In Dangerous Company (1988)
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In Dangerous Company (1988)A beautiful woman seduces and tricks a hitman in order to save her own skin.
Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987)
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Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987)In Hawaii, an undercover DEA agent and her civilian friend stumble upon a drug trafficking operation, and have to enlist the help of all their colleagues/friends to go after the vicious drug kingpin.
Acapulco Gold (1976)
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Acapulco Gold (1976)See former child evangelist MARJOE GORTNER as an ordinary Joe who gets involved in a dangerous DRUG SMUGGLING scheme in beautiful HAWAII!
Rabid (1977)
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Rabid (1977)A young woman develops a taste for human blood after experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into blood-thirsty zombies, leading into a city-wide epidemic.
They Live (1988)
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They Live (1988)They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live.
Fiona (1979)
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Fiona (1979)Heavily fictionalized 'autobiography' of 70s sex superstar Fiona Richmond.
Rolling Vengeance (1987)
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Rolling Vengeance (1987)A truck driver builds a special, eight-ton truck to help get revenge against the rednecks who killed his family and raped his girlfriend.
Bloodspell (1988)
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Bloodspell (1988)A teenage boy is hidden at an orphanage by his mother to protect him against his father, who wants to use the boys body to be reborn.
Fairy Tales (1978)
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Fairy Tales (1978)On his twenty-first birthday, the Prince goes on a quest that takes him across the land searching for the one woman that gets him sexually excited, Princess Sleeping Beauty.
Flesh + Blood (1985)
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Flesh + Blood (1985)In medieval Europe, a young girl from a noble family is obsessed with her captors - commoners.
Bloodsport (1988)
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Bloodsport (1988)"Bloodsport" follows Frank Dux, an American martial artist serving in the military, who decides to leave the army to compete in a martial arts tournament in Hong Kong where fights to the death can occur.
The Rejuvenator (1988)
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The Rejuvenator (1988)A rich actress who has gotten too old for leading roles employs a scientist who is working on a formula for eternal youth. The formula involves withdrawing certain fluids from the human brain. She takes the serum, but its unforeseen side effects turn her into a murderous monster.
Montenegro (1981)
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Montenegro (1981)A bored wealthy housewife on the verge of insanity cuts loose with some lively Yugoslavian immigrants who delight in their bohemian lifestyle.
Empire State (1987)
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Empire State (1987)In London's yuppie-dominated docklands of the 1980s Paul tries to make a deal with an American businessman However, he underestimates the clout of his old boss, a powerful Eastender.
Terminal Entry (1987)
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Terminal Entry (1987)The USA are attacked by a large group of well organized terrorists who communicate through a computer network via satellite. A bunch of high schooler kids has hacked the password and gained access. They believe it's a game and unknowingly cause terror acts all over the country. An anti-terror force fights against the terrorists.
Maniac Cop (1988)
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Maniac Cop (1988)A killer dressed in a police uniform begins murdering innocent people on the streets of New York City.
The Rejuvenator (1988)
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The Rejuvenator (1988)A rich actress who has gotten too old for leading roles employs a scientist who is working on a formula for eternal youth. The formula involves withdrawing certain fluids from the human brain. She takes the serum, but its unforeseen side effects turn her into a murderous monster.
Call Me (1988)
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Call Me (1988)A journalist agrees to meet an obscene caller at a bar, and ends up witnessing a murder.