When I watch one of the SciFi (now “Syfy”) network’s collection of “originals.” the first question i ask is, “which movie are they ripping off this time?” Yeah, we know they do make the odd film or two which is actually original. But that’s a lot like finding a rare coin in your pocket change. […]
Read more "Bugs (2003)"Explanations. Let’s face it, they’re always a problem. I mean, some giant beast goes stomping through your neighborhood and the next thing you know, everyone wants to know where it came from. What a nuisance. A lot of B Monster Movies have run aground on this problem, whether they tried too hard, or couldn’t be […]
Read more "Python (2000)"Now the story is that the huge ratings of Bruce Campbell’s excellent SciFi Original, Terminal Invasion, came as such a shock to the Network that Bruce persuaded them to let him direct a movie he’d written, an absurd horror comedy called Man With the Screaming Brain. Whatever the case, is is a strange and improbable […]
Read more "Man with the Screaming Brain (2005)"Yes, we’ve seen this one before. At least, pieces of it. Little pieces of it. Lots of little pieces of it. Lots and lots of very familiar bits and pieces. Not that they were ever quite in this order before. But what the heck, it’s fun anyway. Now, before you risk watching this one, you […]
Read more "Star Runners (2009)"It’s almost enough to make you want to cry. Here’s a SciFi Network movie from the days when they were still orthographically correct, which is as entertaining a “B” movie as you could ask for. What’s more, it was even made specifically for the network and wasn’t — like some of their better offerings — […]
Read more "Terminal Invasion (2002)"This one was far better than I expected. On the face of it, one expects Night Feeders to be just another ultra cheap made-on-a shoestring-with-help-from-the-neighbors sort of horror film. We’ve seen a lot of those, and it doesn’t appear to fall too far from the formula. A group of friends go out into the woods […]
Read more "Night Feeders (2006)"It wasn’t until I’d seen this one the whole way through that I realized how much it was like a certain 1992 SF movie starring Emilio Estevez. Certainly, the ending is the same. Which is funny because any short description would make these two sound completely different. This one was a TV movie which ran on the […]
Read more "Johnny 2.0 (1997)"(aka Gen-X Cops 2, Gen-X Cops 2: Metal Mayhem, Jackie Chan Presents: Metal Mayhem) This is one of my all-time favorite Guilty Pleasure movies. Now, a true guilty pleasure movie is one where we know that what we are watching is not a good movie, and yet we love it far more, flaws and all, than many good […]
Read more "Te jing xin ren lei 2 [Gen-Y Cops] (2000)"Back in 2000, the SciFi Network (yes, they spelled it right back then) had a short-lived short film show called Exposure. It showed a mixture of SF, horror, fantasy and experimental films. It was one of those shows I always taped because of the large amount of padding – and because there really weren’t a lot of good SF […]
Read more "Plug (1998)"
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