We need to make one thing perfectly clear right from the start: This film has nothing to do with Edward D. Wood, Jr., and his most famous film, Plan 9 from Outer Space. Instead, it is a very strange little comedy from Trent Harris, an oddball Salt Lake City director who has a bit of […]
Read more "Plan 10 from Outer Space (1995)"Life is strange. I Married a Monster from Outer Space, despite its rather silly title, is one of the better films of the Fifties Sci Fi cycle: it offers not flying saucers attacking, or creatures on the loose, but something more intimate: paranoia, alienation, the fear of insanity, and that unsettling feeling married people have […]
Read more "I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)"Honorable Mention Apparently the Hacker movie is alive and, if not exactly well, is at least still breathing. Although that is only one of several threads in this complex little film. I’ve written extensively about the Polonia Brothers, the twins from Wellsboro, Pa., who’ve made dozens of films — mostly horror — for very minimal […]
Read more "Smart House (2023)"A long time ago in Mexico, a young filmmaker named Robert Rodriguez made his first film — a tiny Indie production which cost him the princely sum of seven thousand dollars. Mind you, that was back in 1992, when money was worth a lot more than it is now. But it was the way he […]
Read more "Red 11 (2018)"I suppose the Eighties were the decade of the celebrity director. At the time any new young director who made a movie that sent the film critics into loud hosannas of praise could be declared one of the future cinematic masters of the universe. Not that it worked out all that well for most of […]
Read more "Making Mr. Right (1987)"This is one of those films that is really two films. On the one hand, we have a lot of dinosaurs. This is a very low budget sort of film, dangerously close to a fan film, and the dinosaurs, as a result look very primitive. And I will concede that I absolutely love bad dinosaur […]
Read more "Dinosaur Valley Girls (1996)"Honorable Mention I’ve avoided this one for a long time. It wasn’t my thing at the time it came out, with its tale of attractive young scientists going further than man was supposed to go. Nor was I as much into Horror as I am now. Nor did the basic situation appeal to me that […]
Read more "Flatliners (1990)"Now we all know what happens when you build a super powerful A.I: It suddenly becomes fully sentient and decides that the only way to make the world a perfect place is to kill all the humans. Unfortunately, however, the people who design these systems apparently aren’t aware of this. They obviously have never watched […]
Read more "Robotapocalypse [Robot Apocalypse] (2021)"I’ll admit it: I’ve watched my shared of post-Apocalyptic cyborg movies, but I’ve never seen one with a plot this complex. And, yes, post-Apocalyptic cyborg movies often do have rather complex plots. But offhand I can’t remember another one where it takes half an hour just to introduce all the major characters. It also has […]
Read more "Prototype X29A [Prototype] (1992)"Some of you may recall my review of Face/Off, where I suggested that John Woo was deliberately making the most John Woo of John Woo movies he could make to the point where it was almost a parody of all things John Woo. However, with Paycheck, you have to wonder if someone in Hollywood told […]
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