Honorable Mention (Well, the novel it’s based on is more or less science fiction…) Stanislaw Lem is perhaps the best know science fiction writer who emerged from behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. What is perhaps the most curious aspect of his career — at least from out perspective here in the West […]
Read more "Sledztwo [The Investigation](1974)"Recipe for disaster: Take the dinosaur footage from Planet of the Dinosaurs — no one will mind, it is public domain — and combine it with some footage you shot near your home on VHS with a camcorder. And, of course, make only the most minimal effort to integrate the dinosaur footage into your magnum […]
Read more "Galaxy of the Dinosaurs (1992)"“A steamy psycho-sci fi thriller about madness and mind control” The blurb on Summer of Secrets VHS case truly deserves some sort of award. After all, almost every word in that statement is wrong. It is a little more difficult to explain exactly what Summer of Secrets is about — although that is largely because […]
Read more "Summer of Secrets (1976)"It’s all Tim Kincaid’s fault. I mean, Robot Holocaust is an amazingly stupid post-apocalyptic movie, full of the weird and eccentric, complete with sock puppet monsters, the world’s most annoying robot pal, and a girl with an incredibly heavy Bronx accent trying to sound like an Italian countess. Mutant Hunt, his second science fiction film, […]
Read more "Breeders (1986)"(aka, Galax) An Eighties romance movie about a robot? I know what you are thinking, but we’re not talking about Electric Dreams. Even if it did come out in 1984. Nor does it seem likely that either film influenced the other. After all, not only did they both came out the same year, but one […]
Read more "Galax, omul papusa [Galax Man-Doll] (1984)"Some of the best genre films around these days are coming out of Russia. It’s not that the American market does not produce its share of “B” science fiction, but the problem has been that most of these are SyFy Channel originals or direct to video, and have been made cheaply without any real passion […]
Read more "Skvoz vremya [Forgotten Experiment] (2023)"(Literal translation: The Lady from Beyond Nowhere) A one-hit wonder? That is what George Langelaan appears to be here in the States. After all, the French born Science Fiction writer is best remembered for one short story — or, at least, for the movie versions of that story. That story was “The Fly.” Within two […]
Read more "La Dame d’outre-nulle part (1965)"Yes, it’s true. There are times when I watch something totally random. This is particularly true when I walk into the library and find something I’ve never heard of on the new video shelf. Now I’ll admit that many of these random picks have been, well… Let’s be honest about it: disastrous. But occasionally they […]
Read more "57 Seconds (2023)"Let’s be honest here: Hollywood thinks animation is just for kids. And that it should all be 3-D computer animated so it looks exactly like Pixar. Well, that last one is gradually giving way as we’ve seen a few American films, like the latest Puss in Boots sequel, The Last Wish, which actually have their […]
Read more "Mars Express (2023)"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 […]
Read more "Os Emissários de Khalôm [The Emissaries of Khalom] (1988)"
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