While traveling to a resort in Tunisia, the magician and clairvoyant Professor Vestar befriends the idle millionaire Edouard Vangard and he offers a ride in his car. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Paradaisu byû / Paradise View (1985) Go Takamine, Kaoru Kobayashi, Jun Togawa, Haruomi Hosono, Arthouse, Fantasy
Reishu quits a job on a US military base; while mulling over his future he catches snakes, sticks numbers on ants and gets village girl Nabi pregnant. Read More »
La machine à découdre (1986) Jean-Pierre Mocky, Patricia Barzyk, Pierre Semmler, Comedy, Thriller
The insane Doctor Enger is obsessed with his plan to build a hospital to cure blind children. Read More »
Mr. Vampire (1985) Ricky Lau, Ching-Ying Lam, Siu-Ho Chin, Ricky Hui, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A ghost sucks the life-force out of a one of Uncle Nine’s student. The other is slowly turned into a vampire. Read More »
Why Worry? (1923) Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, John Aasen, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Harold Van Pelham (Lloyd) is a hypochondriac, rich businessman who sails to the tropics for his ‘health.’ Instead of the peace and seclusion he is seeking, he finds himself in the middle of a revolution. Read More »
Heroic Trio 2 – Executioners (1993) Siu-Tung Ching, Johnnie To, Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Set some time after the original ‘Heroic Trio’ the city has been devastated by nuclear attack. Read More »
Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind (1978) José Mojica Marins, Jorge Peres, Magna Miller, Horror
A psychiatric doctor is driven insane plagued by nightmarish visions of Zé do Caixão’s (Coffin Joe) subterranean world of bizarre horror. Read More »
Dark Delusion (1947) Willis Goldbeck, Lionel Barrymore, James Craig, Lucille Bremer, Drama, Mystery
Dr. Leonard Gillespie, for several reasons and not all medically related, asks a young surgeon, Dr. Tommy Coalt, to go to a small town and replace a local doctor while he is on vacation. Read More »
Comanche (1956) George Sherman, Dana Andrews, Kent Smith, Nestor Paiva, Romance, Western
Indian scout Jim Read is picked by his commander to set up a meeting between Comanche Chief Quanah Parker and a representative from Washington to negotiate a peace treaty. Read More »
Eroica (1958) Andrzej Munk, Edward Dziewonski, Barbara Polomska, Ignacy Machowski, Comedy, Drama, War
Two sketches covering episodes from the World War II. In the first novel, “Scherzo alla polacca”, a shrewd son, trying to preserve his skin, ultimately becomes a hero and finds a reason for fighting. Read More »