Look, I know there were a lot of these. After all, the video market had created a huge demand for new science fiction movies, and as a result you didn’t have to look too far to find a cyberpunk action movie at your local Mom and Pop video rental place. There must have been dozens […]
Read more "Replikator (1994)"(aka, The New Gladiators) Okay, this one caught me off guard. You have to remember that this is an Italian Science Fiction film from the Eighties, when their film industry was busy churning out lots of Star Wars rip-offs, Mad Max rip-offs and Alien rip-offs. Made with very little money, international casts who couldn’t even […]
Read more "I guerrieri dell’anno 2072 [Warriors of the Year 2072] (1984)"This one was a dry run for Richard Stanley’s legendary and very punk cyberpunk cult film, Hardware. Although I’ll warn you: it is a very different film from Hardware, even if the similarities are there. And rather obvious. However, I do need to warn you about one important detail: it isn’t a story about fighting […]
Read more "Incidents in an Expanding Universe (1985)"It can be so hard to tell whether a zombie film is science fiction or not. Take The Return of the Living Dead: we have the usual government secret weapon, we have barrels full of zombies, and the usual accidental release. But this time around, those darn zombies don’t seem to have any physical constraints […]
Read more "The Return of the Living Dead (1985)"The general opinion on this one is that it is pretty terrible. I honestly don’t understand why. It may not be brilliant, or what anyone expected, but it is a pretty decent thriller film, even if it must have cost a ton of money for all the special effects that went into it. Now I […]
Read more "Hollow Man (2000)"“The sky above Neo-Berlin has the color of a broken television.” A city, wrapped in darkness and smoke and drenched by eternal rain. Against this dark, grey background, we see blinking lights, dingy, badly lit signs in strange languages, and flying cars. It’s like it’s the Eighties once again and we’ve wandered into the one […]
Read more "Attack of the Cyber Octopuses (2017)"(aka, Health Warning, Mr. Digital) Look, this one is odd verging on inexplicable. It’s a Hong Kong chopsockey, dystopian science fiction film. With Nazis. And mind control. And lots and lots of fighting. Which you probably guessed. Nor do we have any good copies of this film (which, again, is so common with these Eighties […]
Read more "Da lui toi [ Flash Future Kung Fu] (1983)"James Cameron once described Gunhed as one of his favorite B-Movies. I have to agree with that assessment. Yeah, I know a lot of people out there have called this one terrible, or claim that they can’t understand the plot. Frankly, that puzzles me, as it seems to be a mostly straightforward sort of affair: […]
Read more "Ganheddo [Gunhed] (1989)"There is a steadily growing sub-genre of the post-Apocalyptic film centered around groups of survivors hiding in a shelter together. One could point at A Quiet Place as one of the more successful examples although it isn’t quite as confined as most of them (or perhaps one might say that the family’s confinement isn’t purely physical). […]
Read more "Hidden (2015)"Look, there are some things that bother you so much that you have to say them right out: There is one thing no hard core special forces officer will do. Not ever. It’s a question of discipline and morale. Commissioned officers do NOT enter into sexual relationships with enlisted men in their chain of command. […]
Read more "Alien Uprising (2008)"
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