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viva django (1968)

aka Preparati la bara! Django Sees Red. Django, Prepare a Coffin. Get the Coffin Ready.
"I've only one thing left, hate."
Django (Terence Hill) is left for dead when a gold shipment he is guarding is ambushed. Whilst plotting his revenge he comes up with a novel way of recruiting a gang of his own. He becomes a hangman, saving innocent men, and sets them against the gang that tried to kill him. Unfortunately, whilst saving the wife of one of his men, the husband decides he would rather keep some of the gold for himself...
whilst not a patch on the original Django, this still trots along nicely, with enough variants and twists to keep the viewer happy.

the man who could cheat death (1956)

"What is death that it should be feared so much?"
Dr. Bonner (Anton Diffring) has found a way to live forever, but to do so necessitates regular human gland transplants, and when a woman who has modeled for him goes missing, people start to get suspicious about his ever youthful appearance.
A remake of 'The Man in Half Moon Street' that gathers together a number of Hammer stars, including Christopher Lee, in a rare outing as the hero, and Hazel Court as the damsel in distress. Much talk, and little action renders this a lesser, though still entertaining Hammer.

the funhouse (1981)

"We witnessed a murder man, they are gonna try and kill us."
When four teenagers stay overnight in a carnival fun-house, they inadvertently see a murder, and are subsequently stalked by the killer and his dad.
Fun stalk and slash, that takes a while to get going, but is never flags.

halloween II (1981)

"You don't know what death is."
Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) arrives in the nick of time to save Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) from her brother, but having emptied 6 bullets into him, Michael disappears. Meanwhile Laurie is rushed to hospital. I wonder where Michael will head? Yep - the hospital!
Continuing on directly from the first film, this sequel launches straight into the action, but just doesn't match the suspense of the first.