Sci-Fi Trash: Escape From New York

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981)

Director: John Carpenter
Writer: John Carpenter / Nick Castle
Rating: 8

Synopsis:
In the future, crime is out of control and New York City is a maximum security prison. Grabbing a bargaining chip right out of the air, convicts bring down the President's plane in bad old Gotham. Gruff Snake Plissken, a one-eyed lone warrior new to prison life, is coerced into bringing the President, and his cargo, out of this land of undesirables.

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Action Trash: Duel

DUEL (1971)

Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Richard Matheson
Rating: 8

Synopsis:
David Mann is just what his name suggests: an everyman with a mediocre job who has trouble standing up for himself. While driving through the desert to an important appointment, he passes a slow-moving, rusty tanker truck. The driver proves to have a severe case of road rage and takes offense at this action, devoting the rest of his day purely to killing Mann. The malevolent driver is never seen, giving the impression that it's the truck itself that is the agressor.

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Horror Trash: EQUUS

EQUUS (1977)

Director: Sidney Lumet
Writer: Peter Shaffer
Rating: 8

Synopsis:
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.

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Horror Trash: The Man With The X-Ray Eyes

THE MAN WITH THE X-Ray Eyes (1963)

Director: Roger Corman
Writer: Robert Dillon / Ray Russell
Rating: 8

Synopsis:
Dr. James Xavier is a world renowned scientist experimenting with human eyesight. He devises a drug, that when applied to the eyes, enables the user to see beyond the normal realm of our sight (ultraviolet rays etc.) it also gives the user the power to see through objects. Xavier tests this drug on himself, when his funding is cut off. As he continues to test the drug on himself, Xavier begins to see, not only through walls and clothes, but through the very fabric of reality!

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Action Trash: The Thing With Two Heads

THE THING WITH TWO HEADS (1972)

Director: Lee Frost
Writer: Wes Bishop
Rating: 5

Synopsis:
A rich but racist man is dying and hatches an elaborate scheme for transplanting his head onto another man's body. His health deteriorates rapidly, and doctors are forced to transplant his head onto the only available candidate: a black man from death row.

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Horror Trash: The Thing

THE THING (1982)

Director: John Carpenter
Writer: Bill Lancaster / John W. Campbell Jr.
Rating: 8

Synopsis:
An American scientific expedition to the frozen wastes of the Antarctic is interrupted by a group of seemingly mad Norwegians pursuing and shooting a dog. The helicopter pursuing the dog crashes leaving no explanation for the chase. During the night, the dog mutates and attacks other dogs in the cage and members of the team that investigate. The team soon realizes that an alien life-form with the ability to take over other bodies is on the loose and they don't know who may already have been taken over.

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Western Trash: A Fistful of Dollars

FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1977)

Director: Sergio Leone
Writer: A. Bonzzoni / Víctor Andrés Catena
Rating: 8

Synopsis:
A drifter gunman arrives in the Mexican village of San Miguel at the border of United States of America, and befriends the owner of the local bar Silvanito. The stranger discovers that the town is dominated by two gangster lords: John Baxter and the cruel Ramón Rojo. When the stranger kills four men of the Baxter's gang, he is hired by Ramón's brother Esteban Rojo to join their gang. However, the stranger decides to work for both sides, playing one side off against the other

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Horror Trash: Suspiria

SUSPIRIA (1977)

Director: Dario Argento
Writer: Daria Nicolodi / Dario Argento
Rating: 8

Synopsis:
A young American dancer travels to Europe to join a famous ballet school. As she arrives, the camera turns to another young woman, who appears to be fleeing from the school. She returns to her apartment where she is gruesomely murdered by a hideous creature. Meanwhile, the young American is trying to settle in at the ballet school, but hears strange noises and is troubled by bizarre occurrences. She eventually discovers that the school is merely a front for a much more sinister organization.

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Sci-Fi Trash: Brazil

BRAZIL (1985)

Director: Terry Gilliam
Writer: Tom Stoppard / Terry Gilliam
Rating: 9

Synopsis:
Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill's lives are put in danger.

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Action Trash: Soldier of Orange

SOLDIER OF ORANGE (1977)

Director: Paul Verhoeven
Writer: Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema / Kees Holierhoek
Rating: 7.8

Synopsis:
This film depicts World War II through the eyes of several Dutch men. It covers the beginning of the war, the Nazi occupation and the liberation. It has resistance fighters, Nazi collaborators, torture by the Gestapo and nekkid boobs. The film manages to be both entertainment and a very serious and patriotic portrayal of the role of Holland in WWII.

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