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The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

Posted on February 11, 2023 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Robert Fuest Writer: James Whiton and William Goldstein

Posted in Comedy, Horror | Tagged 1971, airplane, basil kirchin, bats, bible, biblical scholar, blood, brussel sprouts, comedy, death, detective, disfigured, disguise, doctor, doctors, dr. phibes, embalmed, horror, hugh griffith, james whiton, joseph cotten, locusts, louis m. heyward, make-up, murder, music, musician, norman warwick, organ, organist, peter jeffrey, plague, plagues, rats, revenge, robert fuest, ronald dunas, scholar, scientist, scotland yard, serial killer, suicide, telescope, terry-thomas, the abominable dr. phibes, tristam cones, vengeance, vincent price, virginia north, william goldstein | Leave a comment

The Sadness (2021)

Posted on June 18, 2022 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Rob Jabbaz Writer: Rob Jabbaz

Posted in Foreign, Horror | Tagged berant zhu, david barker, emerson tsai, foreign, horror, hospital, jie-li bai, military, murder, pandemic, plague, regina lei, rob jabbaz, sadism, subway, suicide, taiwan, the sadness, train, tzu-chiang wang, virus, wei-hua lan, yi-jie lian, ying-ru chen, zombie | Leave a comment

Benedetta (2021)

Posted on April 16, 2022 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Paul Verhoeven Writers: David Birke & Paul Verhoeven (Based on the book “Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy” by Judith C. Brown)

Posted in Drama, Foreign | Tagged 2021, adaptation, anne dudley, benedetta, blessed virgin, catholic, catholicism, charlotte rampling, confession, convent, crucifix, daphne patakia, david birke, drama, foreign, gay, historical, history, immodest acts, italian, italy, jeanne lapoirie, jerome seydoux, job ter burg, lambert wilson, lesbian, michel merkt, nun, paul verhoeven, plague, said ben said, stigmata, trial, true story, virginie efira | Leave a comment

Flesh+Blood (1985)

Posted on July 25, 2020 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Paul Verhoeven Writers: Gerard Soeteman and Paul Verhoeven (Story by Gerard Soeteman) The great English language Verhoeven watch beings! First time seeing this. It is a really gross and nasty movie.