Honorable (mostly) Mention Now there’s a rare piece of truth in Advertising. I know it is hard to believe, but this poster sums up Terminal Entry with uncanny accuracy. After all, right up front, we have soldiers and explosions. Then, in the center a giant computer screen. And looming over that… A kid in […]
Read more "Terminal Entry (1987)"I suppose it was inevitable. Lately, I’ve reviewed quite a few Hacker films. Most of these are, frankly, borderline science fiction at best, although it is often hard to figure out where the reality ends and the science fiction begins — or whether they have any solid connection to reality, no matter how believable they […]
Read more ".com for Murder (2002)"(aka, Creature dagli abissi) It’s a hallucination. It has to be. It’s the only explanation I can find that makes any sense. No, I’m not talking about the absurdities of Plankton’s overloaded plot, or the scenes which cannot be forced to make any sort of logical sense. I’m talking about the existence of this film. […]
Read more "Plankton [Creatures from the Abyss] (1994)"“If you can’t say it, go see it!” Let’s face it: the idea of watching a film with a title like The Hidan of Maukbeiangjow is somewhat daunting. Even if it did get retitled The Invasion of the Girl Snatchers. So daunting, in fact, that they had to address it in the original trailer: In […]
Read more "The Hidan of Maukbeiangjow [The Invasion of the Girl Snatchers] (1973)"(aka, LA BESTIAS NO SE MIRAN AL ESPEJO, BEASTS DON’T LOOK AT THEMSELVES IN A MIRROR) Out on the fringes of the film world lurk a few strange little films whose very survival is almost as hard to explain as the fact that they even exist in the first place. This is one of them. […]
Read more "Memoria (1976)"The operative word here is “cheap.” You can tell it from the film quality (although I suppose it probably doesn’t help that the available copies all seem to be VHS rips); the cast of unknowns; the prevalence of location shooting; the plain, white rooms in so many indoors scenes; and the very fake looking weapons. […]
Read more "Cybernator (1991)"Some films leave you stuck forever with an image you know you will never get out of your brain. In Terrifying T-Rex, that moment comes fairly early in the film, when the enormously, ummmmm, “Body Positive” star of the film suddenly strips off her clothes and takes a shower. Revealing several acres of bare, flabby […]
Read more "Terrifying T-Rex (2022)"Here’s another potent reminder of why I’ve always loved Soviet era Science Fiction films. Now I’ll admit that part of the reason is the same reason I’ve always loved foreign made Science Fiction Movies: that they are often free of the old cliches which infect so much of our own output. While it is true […]
Read more "Pokhishcheniye charodeya [The Kidnapping of a Wizard] (1989)"(aka, Pleasure Planet, Lunar Madness) [Spoilers Ahead] Who knew the future had Eighties’ Girl Bands? Not to mention big hair, wild New Wave fashions and an incredible club scene. Look, some of these movies, you look at them and wonder, what were they thinking? There’s an interesting movie here somewhere, but it just didn’t get […]
Read more "Vicious Lips (1986)"(aka, Out of Thin Air, Thin Air) When you are number 3, you have to try weirder. At least that seems to be the case with this odd little film. Now, when it came to British Horror films of the Fifties, Sixties and early Seventies, Hammer was king, although Amicus wasn’t far behind. And then […]
Read more "Invasion of the Body Stealers [The Body Stealers] (1969)"
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