John Landis, a list by MDatum CTVN

7.6

/42047/

76

/1504/

72

/673/

4.0

/115411/

89

/53/

88

/1757/

74

/7/

3.5

age 6+

The Muppets gather to watch their newly-finished big-budget rich-and-famous feature film: a talent agent persuades Kermit the Frog to leave the swamp to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there, he meets a bear, a pig, a whatever (his future muppet crew), and some special celebrity guest stars, while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!

80

7.4

/135240/

74

/3350/

69

/1618/

3.4

/104692/

91

/54/

89

/6403/

79

/13/

4.0

age 17+

At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.

77

7.5

/180482/

76

/6722/

72

/3548/

3.6

/140367/

87

/53/

85

/3021/

69

/11/

3.5

age 15+

A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

77

7.5

/771528/

75

/27983/

73

/15966/

3.9

/1940074/

93

/276/

82

/59410/

83

/41/

2.5

age 11+

Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock. In the meantime, Parker still can't act on his feelings for Mary Jane Watson, a girl he's loved since childhood. A certain anger begins to brew in his best friend Harry Osborn as well...

76

7.9

/227246/

79

/8322/

77

/4454/

4.0

/270326/

71

/91/

92

/10454/

60

/12/

3.0

age 16+

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.

73

7.6

/57767/

77

/1450/

73

/776/

3.7

/21728/

79

/24/

88

/1290/

50

/6/

A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.

72

7.2

/2975/

72

/195/

69

/54/

3.5

/5215/

91

/66/

81

/10/

72

/17/

2.0

Using previously unheard audiotapes recorded shortly after John Belushi’s death, director R.J. Cutler’s documentary feature examines the too-short life of the once-in-a-generation talent who captured the hearts and funny bones of devoted audiences.

72

6.9

/24076/

71

/845/

65

/409/

3.6

/43747/

85

/27/

76

/1055/

64

/9/

3.0

age 6+

When the Muppets graduate from Danhurst College, they take their song-filled senior revue to New York City, only to learn that it isn't easy to find a producer who's willing to back a show starring a frog and a pig. Of course, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy won't take no for an answer, launching a search for someone to take them to Broadway.

72

7.5

/132771/

74

/4376/

73

/2616/

3.8

/281934/

89

/65/

85

/4212/

55

/15/

2.0

age 16+

American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. After retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon begins experiencing disturbing changes to his body and mind.

71

7.2

/2668/

72

/255/

66

/66/

3.5

/4164/

87

/63/

69

/32/

74

/18/

2.5

A look at the history of the American comedy publication and production company, National Lampoon, from its beginning in the 1970s to 2010, featuring rare and never before seen footage, this is the mind boggling story of The National Lampoon from its subversive and electrifying beginnings, to rebirth as an unlikely Hollywood heavyweight, and beyond. A humour empire like no other, the impact of the magazines irreverent, often shocking, sensibility was nothing short of seismic: this is an institution whose (drunk stoned brilliant) alumni left their fingerprints all over popular culture. Both insanely great and breathtakingly innovative, The National Lampoon created the foundation of modern comic sensibility by setting the bar in comedy impossibly high.

69

6.9

/3800/

75

/320/

68

/32/

3.3

/9226/

62

/7/

3.0

age 15+

From teen comedian to Hollywood legend, Eddie Murphy revisits his extraordinary showbiz ride with raw honesty and humor.

75

68

7.3

/8977/

73

/164/

69

/206/

3.7

/4472/

80

/5/

82

/123/

Bruno is a former paper mill worker who has been unemployed for three years. Concluding that there is too much competition in his line of work, he decides to eliminate his competition permanently.

66

6.4

/21507/

66

/640/

61

/349/

3.1

/16610/

83

/35/

66

/751/

61

/10/

A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung-fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films, mafia films, and the fear that somebody is watching you on the other side of the TV.

66

6.4

/73968/

65

/2385/

64

/1462/

3.4

/76311/

80

/159/

60

/1537/

65

/15/

Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.

65

6.2

/33532/

65

/1066/

61

/532/

3.3

/39216/

83

/63/

63

/1421/

58

/14/

In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. Frankenstein, the mysterious returning champion, has become America's hero, but this time he has a passenger from the underground resistance.

79

63

7.7

/1421/

75

/79/

73

/38/

3.6

/2123/

91

/22/

87

/74/

78

/9/

The troubled fraternal relationship between songwriters Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman, the Oscar and Grammy-winning Sherman Brothers, famous for the iconic hits they wrote for Disney.

70

62

6.3

/5214/

66

/343/

67

/435/

3.5

/12675/

95

/20/

62

/7/

73

/8/

age 17+

To escape his life of crime, a Paris drug dealer takes on one last job involving Spain, unhinged gangsters, his longtime crush and his scheming mother.

70

61

7.1

/2774/

70

/150/

67

/64/

3.4

/2941/

75

/8/

71

/99/

This documentary explores the hidden history of the American Exploitation Film. The movie digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.S. cinema and unearths the shameless and occasionally shocking origins of this popular entertainment.

59

5.5

/15461/

60

/1072/

57

/521/

2.7

/18779/

77

/53/

43

/150/

64

/5/

2.5

Ten stories from horror's top directors. Ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and the devil delight in terrorizing unsuspecting residents of a suburban neighborhood on Halloween night. This creepy anthology combines classic Halloween tales with the stuff of nightmares.

73

58

7.3

/1868/

72

/89/

65

/51/

3.5

/1997/

88

/8/

73

/68/

In the final decades of the 20th century, the Philippines was a country where low-budget exploitation-film producers were free to make nearly any kind of movie they wanted, any way they pleased. It was a country with extremely lax labor regulations and a very permissive attitude towards cultural expression. As a result, it became a hotbed for the production of cheapie movies. Their history and the genre itself are detailed in this breezy, nostalgic documentary.

81

57

7.9

/1874/

76

/236/

85

/92/

3.7

/4351/

93

/12/

Forty years after the release of Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller,’ the best-selling album of all-time, director Nelson George takes fans back in time to the making of a pop masterpiece, featuring never-before-seen footage and candid interviews.

76

55

7.5

/1405/

74

/100/

74

/39/

3.6

/1863/

92

/12/

72

/26/

There’s only one person who so accurately personifies movie magic in the history of film, and that man is special effects maestro Ray Harryhausen. Focusing on the man behind the landmark effects on films like Clash Of The Titans, One Million Years B.C., Jason And The Argonauts and many more, this in-depth film features interviews with the great man himself, and with an array of animators and directors influenced by his work including Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, Nick Park, Terry Gilliam, James Cameron and Steven Spielberg. The film also features unseen footage of tests and experiments recently uncovered.

55

53

5.6

/6724/

58

/399/

54

/169/

2.7

/5975/

55

/34/

A popular and beautiful politician plans to expose the evil-doings of a multinational corporation. Hoping to silence her, the corporation's top executives decide to hire the most incompetent detective they can find to act as her bodyguard.

51

6.4

/14618/

67

/385/

65

/319/

3.2

/11782/

40

/25/

49

/144/

41

/11/

1.0

Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.

51

6.3

/21818/

63

/377/

62

/359/

3.0

/7095/

30

/30/

42

/222/

45

/23/

2.0

A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.

74

50

7.6

/1419/

72

/65/

67

/23/

3.6

/1288/

83

/6/

79

/73/

The documentary consists of tape of Don's show (never been filmed before), interviews with Don's contemporaries, (Steve Lawrence, Bob Newhart, Debbie Reynolds, etc.), established comedians (Billy Crystal, Rosanna Barr, Robin Williams, Chris Rock, etc.) and young comedians (Jeff Atoll, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman, etc.).

69

50

7.2

/2033/

66

/39/

68

/37/

3.5

/1218/

67

/6/

74

/71/

An examination into the nature of 1960's-70's horror films, the involved artists, and how they reflected contemporary society.

76

48

7.5

/627/

73

/26/

63

/21/

3.6

/2264/

100

/35/

85

/18/

66

/6/

A feature-length documentary focusing on the acclaimed work and eclectic career of maverick filmmaker Larry Cohen, writer-director of "Black Caesar," "It's Alive," "God Told Me To," "Q," "The Stuff," and many more.

79

48

7.4

/1174/

75

/42/

73

/39/

3.7

/2309/

100

/13/

83

/4/

The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two films, released two of his most celebrated films and produced four plays and a TV movie while juggling with a complicated private life.

48

5.8

/38571/

61

/1049/

58

/664/

2.6

/29048/

39

/28/

48

/845/

34

/7/

1.5

In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

47

5.4

/26542/

60

/845/

60

/592/

2.8

/25922/

29

/17/

32

/597/

38

/12/

Charles Brady and his mother, Mary, are the last of a dying breed whose needs are not of this world. They are Sleepwalkers - able to stay alive only by feeding on the life-force of the innocent, but destined to roam the earth, avoiding discovery while searching for their next victim. That search takes them to the sleepy little town of Travis, Indiana, where beautiful teenager Tanya Robertson is about to become an unwilling pawn in their nightmarish fight for survival.

46

5.4

/37488/

59

/1779/

56

/1018/

2.6

/40567/

33

/27/

30

/553/

40

/5/

2.0

The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar lives in harmony with a group of humans. Gorilla General Aldo tries to cause an ape civil war and a community of human mutants who live beneath a destroyed city try to conquer those whom they perceive as enemies. All leading to the finale.

53

46

5.4

/3797/

57

/114/

55

/64/

3.1

/6188/

31

/13/

63

/120/

A twisted teenage prostitute and an equally deranged vicious killer manage to escape from the pen and embark on a non-stop orgy of violence and debauchery, all while hoping to make it across the border into Mexico in order to seek refuge with the mysterious Sister Gomez.

46

5.4

/10814/

55

/438/

56

/284/

2.6

/13744/

29

/7/

33

/229/

When he hears talk radio host Fran Ambrose discussing the topic of matricide, Norman calls in under a false name to tell his story.

81

44

7.5

/736/

74

/9/

78

/15/

3.5

/807/

100

/6/

89

/34/

Chronicles the last great American showman, filmmaker William Castle, a master of ballyhoo who became a brand name in movie horror with his outrageous audience participation gimmicks.

57

44

5.5

/2193/

58

/61/

56

/65/

2.9

/3418/

75

/8/

45

/27/

A quiet suburb in Southern California is terrorized by a mysterious murderous monster living in a cave. As the bodies pile up -- with incriminating banana peels always near by the crime scene -- a group of teens stumble on the guilty party: a 20-million-year-old Schlockthropus, an ape-like creature with a sense of the absurd.

48

44

4.7

/6356/

57

/197/

48

/198/

2.4

/2683/

44

/91/

Rookie FBI agent Jo Dee Foster has been assigned to work on the case of the Psycho Killer, a psycho killer who has psycho-killed over 120 people. But to learn more about the Psycho Killer, Jo is forced to meet Dr. Animal Cannibal Pizza, a famous doctor turned cannibal who ate pizzas with human body parts. Meanwhile, Jo's girlfriend Jane Wine has just stolen $400,000 in cash from her money-hungry boss, Mr. Laurel, so she and Jo can be happy, but gets lost in a horrible storm, caused mostly by a special effects crew behind her car, and stops at the Cemetery Motel, where the owner, Antonio Motel, is dominated by his insane mother.

78

43

7.4

/625/

69

/22/

77

/13/

3.5

/732/

95

/82/

87

/6457/

Documentary showcasing the work of prominent film directors in the horror genre. Featuring interviews with the directors, behind the scenes footage and clips from popular horror films, and hosted by Bruce Campbell, star of The Evil Dead (1981).

41

5.4

/1873/

56

/45/

51

/20/

3.0

/273/

24

/34/

31

/29/

33

/23/

1.0

age 16+

Mystery about an ex-prizefighter who embarks on a journey to find 13 missing diamonds

80

41

8.1

/1190/

73

/35/

89

/25/

3.9

/1551/

Featuring interviews with director John Landis, make-up artist Rick Baker, and the King of Pop himself, Making Michael Jackson's Thriller takes you on a behind-the-scenes journey from pre-production to shooting on the ghoulish graveyard set of Michael Jackson's legendary music video and short film.

84

36

8.5

/528/

77

/8/

89

/12/

3.7

/271/

92

/13/

91

/26/

Michael Jackson shows you his home videos.

46

36

4.9

/3409/

55

/72/

47

/81/

3.1

/6444/

18

/40/

A young man learns that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before his birth, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.

45

35

4.9

/3052/

57

/126/

49

/69/

2.5

/1610/

22

/52/

Aaron Quicksilver is a mysterious storyteller whose listeners invariably end up as the subjects of his gruesome, grisly tales. He tells a new bride stranded on a desert highway a horrifying account of a set of carnivorous toy teeth, then entrains a pickpocket with the spine chilling story of an army of murderous, disembodied hands.

48

33

5.1

/2306/

62

/212/

58

/57/

2.5

/755/

25

/8/

78

/18/

12

/5/

age 13+

Nick Pearson is a life-long bachelor who is finally settling down. On the brink of his wedding he is surprised to find he has a 13 year old son who has come to find his him through the help of a psychic. The problem is Nick can't stand kids and would happily send the boy back to live with his biological mother, except that no one has any clue who that might be. Having nowhere to turn Nick must hit the road with the boy and the neurotic, inept psychic to track down dozens of his disgraced ex-flings to whom he must ask the awkward question - with very mixed results.

69

32

7.2

/545/

74

/51/

75

/15/

3.5

/1172/

Popcorn

55

/84/

Aristocratic Italian roots, a close family connection to James Bond novelist Ian Fleming, wartime experiences in the British and Finnish military, post-war Nazi-hunting adventures and a side career as a heavy metal rock singer. And one of the most iconic actors of all time.

70

32

7.3

/606/

65

/29/

73

/22/

3.5

/586/

72

/95/

The story of how one Pittsburgh boy’s fascination with monsters drove him to the very top of the Hollywood food chain. In 1989, Greg Nicotero, much to his parents’ chagrin, quit medical school and headed for Hollywood to pursue a dream of making monsters. Together with gore masters Howard Berger and Robert Kurtzman, Nicotero went on to create KNB EFX Group, one of the most prolific makeup effects studios in the world. After twenty years as the “go to guy” for the world’s most successful horror/sci-fi films, Greg Nicotero is the first one directors like Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez call.

73

31

7.6

/481/

71

/18/

70

/6/

3.6

/1746/

91

/23/

62

/2/

Beginning just before his debut as Frankenstein’s creation, this documentary compellingly explores the life and legacy of a cinema legend, presenting a perceptive history of the genre he personified. Karloff's films were long derided as hokum and attacked by censors, but his phenomenal popularity and pervasive influence endures, inspiring some of our greatest actors and directors into the 21st Century – among them Guillermo Del Toro, Ron Perlman, Roger Corman, and John Landis, all of whom and many more contribute their personal insights and anecdotes.

45

29

5.1

/2659/

47

/77/

49

/68/

2.7

/726/