Samuel Z. Arkoff
1) The trip
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When TV commercial director Paul Groves suffers a crisis due to a crumbling marriage and stagnating career, he begins to experiment with LSD to free himself artistically.
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Criterion collection volume 770
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"At once tongue in cheek and scary as hell, Dressed to Kill revolves around the grisly murder of a woman in Manhattan and how her psychiatrist, her brainiac teenage son, and the prostitute who witnessed the crime try to piece together what happened while the killer remains at large"--Container.
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During World War I, American Colonel Flynn O'Flynn, his daughter Rosa, and English poacher Sebastian Oldsmith attempt to smuggle a fortune in ivory out of East Africa. To make it past the German occupying forces, they must work together to destroy a warship that is awaiting repair just off the coast of Zanzibar. Based on the best-selling novel by Wilbur Smith.
5) Slaughter
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Slaughter, an ex-Green Beret Captain from Cleveland, takes on the Mexican gangsters who killed his parents. He then finds himself the pawn of Federal agents who are also after the mob.
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"Following a shipwreck, crewman Andrew Braddock (York) washes up on a mysterious island ruled by the seemingly benevolent Dr. Moreau (Lancaster). Braddock will learn that this "man of science" has been testing a serum on the island animals which is able to transform them into near-human beings. As the deranged doctor slips ever closer to insanity, Braddock's plans to escape the island along with Maria (Carrera), another of the doctor's guests, is...
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1964 version: While the plague rages outside in a small Italian province, a Satan-worshipping princes stays confined to his castle with his aristocratic guests. Inside, all is revelry and cruelty, until during the great masque which crowns the entertainments, the "Red Death" enters the dance and the guests, one by one, succumb to the plague.
1990 version: A lovely photographer winds up in a Bavarian castle at a "Masque of the Red Death" hosted by...
12) Fireball 500
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Fireball 500: Stock car racer Dave Owens plays into the hands of whiskey runners by agreeing to drive in a cross-country road race. He is assisted by Jane Harris and Sonny Leander Fox. Soon Dave and Sonny begin a friendly rivalry for Jane.
Thunder Alley: Stock car racer Tommy Callahan is forced to join Pete Madsen's thrill circus after his blackouts cause a fatal accident and he gets thrown off the circuit. He shows Pete's daughter Francie and her...
13) Beach party
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Beach party: Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are at the beach studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones.
Bikini beach: Millionaire Harvey Huntington Honeywagon III tries to prove to his colleague Vivian Clements that his chimp, Clyde,...
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Beach blanket bingo: A motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane. She is managed by Bullets, who hires sky-diving surfers Steve and Bonnie from Big Drop for a publicity stunt. With the usual gang of kids and a mermaid named Lorelei.
How to stuff a wild bikini: Frankie is away on naval-reserve duty in Tahiti and doesn't trust Dee Dee to stay faithful, so he hires Bwana, a witch doctor, to help. Bwana conjures up a floating...
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Comedy of Terrors: The Hinchley and Trumbull Funeral Parlor is on the verge of financial ruin. Hinchley, 92 years old and senile, had entrusted the business to his lazy, drunken son-in-law, Trumbull. To make matters worse, their landlord is now threatening to evict them. Forced to act, Trumbull devises a murderous scheme that will drum up new "customers" and pay back his landlord at the same time
Raven: Based on the poem by Edgar Allan Poe. Craven...
17) Blacula
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Blacula: African Prince Manuwalde, introduced to Count Dracula at a party, pleads for the Count's assistance in freeing his people from the slave trade. Dracula is so incensed at the request he vampirizes, curses, and imprisons Manuwalde in a coffin in the dungeon. Two hundred years later the contents of Castle Dracula are bought and shipped back to the US by antique dealers. Among these is Manuwalde's coffin. He is accidentally set free when this...