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Monday, June 5, 2017

Enemy Territory (1987)
















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There are places you don't go at night, places even the cops avoid. Where ganglaw rules and terror reigns. Tenements and tower blocks, concrete slums and subways. This is Enemy Territory. Towering above the ghetto, stands one block, taller than the rest, cut off from the outside world and ruled by the most feared gang of all...The Vampires. Two men are trapped at the top of the building. The only escape is down. But The Vampires are in the basement and they're coming up the stairs. The lifts are out of order and darkness is falling....

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Caged In Paradiso (1990)





















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Paradiso is a patch of land in a shark infested sea, a high tech prison whose only walls are a laser-armed satellite, and a hell-hole where criminal is king and the only law is survival. Irene Cara plays Eva, a woman whose love for her husband Eric leads her to follow him when he is sentenced to this modern Devil's Island.

Once there and separated from him, she faces the unimaginable horror of isolation on an island populated by men who have become beasts. After joining a tribe of women who have banded together for self-protection, she discovers the strength of her own resources. Her reunion with Eric unexpectedly complicates her new life and leads to a startling climax as open warfare engulfs this hell-on-earth.

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Busted Up (1986)



















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Earl Bird is fighting to save his neighborhood, his family, and himself from the tightening grip of hoodlums who threaten to overpower his world. He's been a "round ring" boxer to support and raise his daughter, the only tender spot in his life. Aside from her, nothing else has ever meant much to Bird. But now, even she isn't safe from the corrupt local frontman who is systematically squeezing the local tenants out of their homes and business.