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After all, who hasn't heard about the opening segment of this film, where babysitter Jill Johnson (Carol Kane) fields an increasingly sinister series of phone calls imploring her to "check on the children"?
He soon becomes, ah, entangled in the web of a sinister society... Highly recommended.
The rest of the bunch include a trickster with an affinity to jokes and theft, basically the guy responsible for the fun-part, a young wuss who almost wets his pants throughout the film, and a sinister and racist jerk.
He becomes more and more sinister as things don't go his way.
A fortune is passing through a small bank in a godforsaken town ruled by a sinister tyrant and his sadistic son.
i like the way that the scenes are shot (especially when the 'demon' (djinn) is chasing each of the group of friends and the atmosphere is totally frightening and sinister.
We've got Giallo elements, supernatural elements, surreal ambiance and a dark, sinister plot.
Gertan Klauber and Stanley Lebor play almost exactly the same characters as they play in Soft Beds, Hard Battles as slightly sinister but ultimately comic heavies.
But there is something far worse and more sinister in this movie.
She runs her home with an invisible whip, snaking around her relatives with the sneaky, sinister airs of a cobra.
James Mason is an Austrian refugee from the Nazis who is accused of spying and then used as a decoy by the French authorities to flush out the real spy, who turns out to be Herbert Lom playing his usual sinister baddie.
Unsurprisingly, The Fly II is a disappointment, emerging as a mere exercise in formulaic shocks and little else, as young Martin Brundle (Eric Stoltz) is brought up by the sinister Bartok (Lee Richardson) only to realise his horrendous destiny as dormant genes in his body begin to transform him into a crossbreed of fly and human, just his like deceased father.
Michael Douglas as Steven Taylor is absolutely brilliant and sinister, and the best aspect of this story is that you don't find out why he wants really wants his wife murdered until later in the movie.
A reasonably involving, decent drama, but obviously Ken Loach's main concern it to unable us to have a clearer idea of what is really going on with our 'brave new world', globalization, we all need to work harder to compete, people in China need to work harder, everyone needs to work harder, and out of this sinister scam, unending progress etc. there is still half a billion people on planet hearth who don't have enough to eat and a few people filling their pockets.
Some "dream sequences" (as dreamed by the still-lovely Sandra Dee) are kind of silly, with people in makeup, who actually look fairly sinister but on the other hand they look like a bunch of hippies who ate acid for breakfast.
I've seen this film only twice now but I like it a lot, despite Stockwell's somewhat goofy performance as a low-key but "sinister" Wilbur.
Overall this film has a very scatter-shot feel to it and just seems thrown together, and given the subject matter it could have been a lot more sinister and creepy in the right hands, but alas, it comes off as no better than a TV movie of the week, which was fine back in the day of no VHS/DVD & nothing else to do.
Was their a sinister motive like CIA disinformation or just an attempt to slay the audience with peals of laughter?
Soon she begins to realize there is a sinister plot to starve the children so various people can profit from the children's trust fund.
As a cat lover, I've always wondered why Sylvester has to suffer so much in these cartoons, even if he's a sinister predator.
Director Lee H. Katzin and screenwriter Theodore Apstein expertly create a deliciously sinister atmosphere, relate the engrossing story at a steady pace, and top everything off with a wickedly funny sense of pitch-black humor.
Actually, the evil family is menacing and extremely sinister - after Dean infiltrates their homestead, they beat him and burn him with a red-hot fire-poker.
When Trevor Blackburn awoke from a coma,he had no memory of his past.In search for answers,he breaks into the secret attic with another patient,as the others are being killed one by one.A darkly sinister doctor played by a horror regular Jeffrey Combs informed him that he'd been committed to a sanitarium for the criminally insane for the sacrificial murder of his fiancée.Thrown into a bizarre halfway house filled with strange psychos he plunges into a violent world of magic,nightmares,wild sexual escapades and torturous medical experiments.The above synopsis on the back of my tape sounded pretty good,so I finally decided to check this film out."The
Then he still has to bring back her other daughter, the sinister Katy, back to the heavens.
Today, it's an old, spooky and sinister building where you would not want to live and if you did live there, you would want to leave...but could you?
It doesn't have the same kind of strange, mystical power of other Lewton films, but is effective at invoking the image of dark streets at night, when the most ordinary sidewalks and street lamps take on a sinister feeling.
From the get go, one settles into believing that this will be man against a more sinister toxic annihilation.
Slaughter Studios starts as an actor named Justin is shot & killed on the set of his latest film, was it an accident or something more sinister?
The real Romania as the landscape for the story was awesome, it added to the sinister aspect of the plot.
Hollywood is always a sinister setting, even for a comedy and "The Dying Gaul" is no exception.
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