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[TRAILER] Jack Crow (James Woods) has a business: putting stakes through bloodsuckers' hearts. With his battle-hardened crew of vampire killers and the assistance of the Catholic Church, Crow roams the New Mexico desert looking for undead lairs to annihilate. But he meets his match when, at a roadside motel, he comes face to face with Jan Valek (Thomas Ian Griffith), a vampire kingpin possessed of incredible powers. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 12, 2024 - 11 comments

Three short stories by shock-meister Stephen King are linked by a stray cat that roams from one tale to the next in this creepy triptych that begins as Dick (James Woods) tries to quit smoking by any means necessary. Next, we meet Johnny (Robert Hays), an adulterous man who's forced by his lover's husband onto a building's hazardous ledge. Finally, Amanda (Drew Barrymore) is threatened by an evil gnome who throws suspicion on the family cat. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 13, 2022 - 8 comments

Bestowed with superhuman strength, a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in the eyes of his father, the great god Zeus. Along with his friends Pegasus, a flying horse, and Phil, a personal trainer, Hercules is tricked by the hilarious, hotheaded villain Hades, who's plotting to take over Mount Olympus! [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Oct 11, 2022 - 4 comments

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life. [more inside]
posted by drezdn on Mar 27, 2015 - 2 comments

Eddie Dodd (James Woods), a cynical former civil liberties attorney now reduced to "specializing" in defending drug dealers, becomes transformed by an eight-year-old murder case. Helped out by idealistic young lawyer Roger Baron (Robert Downey Jr.) he takes on the cause of convicted killer Shu Kai Kim (Yuji Okumoto), loosely based on the real-life case of Chol Soo Lee. [more inside]
posted by Gin and Broadband on Mar 18, 2015 - 1 comment

A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station. (IMDB) Videodrome is a 1983 Canadian postmodernist science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, and Deborah Harry. Set in Toronto in the early 1980s, it follows the CEO of a small television station who discovers a broadcast signal featuring extreme violence and torture. Layers of deception unfold as he uncovers the signal's source and loses touch with reality in a series of increasingly bizarre and violent hallucinations. (wikipedia) [more inside]
posted by valkane on Jan 25, 2015 - 14 comments