Os Emissários de Khalôm [The Emissaries of Khalom] (1988)

It is always a pleasant surprise when you stumble across a science fiction film you’ve never heard of before. But it is an even greater one when that forgotten film proves to be quite good. In truth, I wasn’t expecting much from this one: it was nothing more than a unfamiliar name in a long […]

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Alien Species (1998)

“Coming Soon: Alien Species 2 – The Invasion” “Interactive Movies.” It was one of those things that came and went fairly quickly. It probably would have been more accurate to call them videogames with filmed inserts, but that didn’t sound sexy enough, I guess. They were supposed to be like playing a movie. That is, […]

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Santo el Enmascarado de Plata vs ‘La invasión de los marcianos’ [Santo vs. the Martian Invasion] (1967)

A spaceship full of buff Mexican wrestlers from Mars show up to conquer our planet, but fortunately, we’ve got the legendary Santo, aka, the Silver Mask on our side! I grew up in the Eighties, when the whole WWF wrestling thing was at its peak, and I have never understood the appeal of wrestling. And […]

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Psychon Invaders (2006)

All right, I am abandoning any pretense of being an impartial reviewer. Yee Haw! Now I love — with all the passion of the five-year old me that still burns in my heart — movies with spaceships, and aliens and large model cities which get blown up. Throw in a lot of energetic practical effects […]

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Freeze (2022)

As I pointed out in my review of Gods of the Deep, Charlie Steeds has directed a lot of horror films in his very short career — thirteen feature-length films since 2018, to be precise. He’s made all these films on minimal budgets and without studio support, and seems to get better and more sophisticated […]

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