Scott Thorsen is a film set animal trainer. On meeting Bob Black in a gay bar he is then taken to a performance by Liberace. Black knows the flamboyant performer and so takes Scott to meet him backstage. Liberace is taken with Thorsen and employs him but they quickly become lovers with Thorsen then becoming …
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10. The Boston Strangler (1968) 9. Zodiac (2007) 8. Silence of the Lambs (1991) 7. Helter Skelter (1976) 6. The Deliberate Stranger (1986) 5. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) 4. The Black Panther (1977) 3. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) 2. Psycho (1960) 1. Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
As I had recently watched The Wicker Man from 1973, I thought it only fair to rewatch the remake. I remembered very little about the film from when I first saw it when it was released in 2006 apart from the 'bees' scene that became a meme years later. Would the film be worthy of reappraisal? …
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A very religious policeman (Edward 'Equalizer' Woodward) arrives at the Scottish island of Summerisle to investigate the disappearance of a child, Rowan Morrison. Whilst he makes enquiries regarding the missing child he witnesses first-hand the pagan lifestyles of the inhabitants which shock him and clash severely with his staunchly Christian and somewhat puritanical beliefs. I …
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10. Road Games (1981) An Ozploitation classic that imported the great Jamie Lee Curtis and Stacey Keach to star in it. Keach plays a truck driver travelling across Oz who with the aid of a hitchhiker tries to track down a serial killer. For the longest time, Road Games was unavailable but this is no …
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