Panic in the Year Zero! Movie Review
Ray Milland doubled as actor/director on this one, generally considered to be the best of his five efforts.
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TV on Tape: The Outer Limits Movie Review
They called it “The Control Voice.” The racket coming from your television set became suddenly stilled, the picture reduced to a wavering line, while a matter-of-fact voice icily informed you that “We are taking control of your television set.” At that instant, the thought that you might have the ability to change the channel were instantly erased. You really had no cho…
Parasite Movie Review
A small town is beset by gross parasites that infest human hosts.
Peacemaker Movie Review
Two manlike, virtually indestructible aliens rampage through the city.
The People Movie Review
A young teacher takes a job in a small town and finds out that her students have telepathic powers and other strange qualities.
The People that Time Forgot Movie Review
A totally unnecessary sequel to The Land that Time Forgot, based, once again, on an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel. Compared to this adaptation, Burroughs’ no-frills pulp fiction reads like Tolstoy. A rescue team returns to the lost land of Caprona to rescue Bowen Tyler, who was abandoned the end of The Land that Time Forgot. This time, in addition to the rubbery, unconvincing dinosaurs and fra…
People Who Own the Dark Movie Review
A group of wealthy men and a coterie of call girls are having an orgy in the basement of an old home when a nuclear war breaks out.
The Phantom Creeps Movie Review
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The Phantom Empire Movie Review
So you think you've seen it all with computer-generated dinosaurs and liquid-metal Terminators? Bah! No true fan should turn down a chance to watch truly one of the weirdest of the vintage serials. Bad guys want to force singing cowboy Gene Autry off his ranch so they can mine a secret radium depost. Meanwhile 25,000 feet underground, the ‘Scientific City’ of Murania, an advan…
Phantom from Space Movie Review
An invisible alien lands on Earth, begins killing people, and is pursued by a pair of scientists.
The Phantom from Leagues (10,000) Movie Review
Slimy sea monster attacks swimmers and fishermen; investigating oceanographer pretends not to notice monster is hand puppet.
The Phantom Planet Movie Review
An astronaut crashlands on an asteroid and discovers a race of tiny people living there.
Phase 4 Movie Review
Sole directorial effort from Saul Bass (eminent screen title designer who helped bring off the shower scene in Psycho) is a bizarre, visionary chiller of common ants suddenly endowed by extraterrestrial force with mass-intelligence. When they conquer a patch of Arizona countryside, a pair of scientists in a high-tech domed lab try to destroy the environmental menace. The humans have …
The Philadelphia Experiment Movie Review
If you're into conspiracies, this one really happened (at least the first part of the story). In 1943, the U.S. destroyer Eldridge was involved in a WWII experiment to make it radar invisible. Not only did the Eldridge disappear from the radar screens, it completely vanished! Now for the second part: two of the sailors from the vessel reappear in the year 1984 and as they try …
Philadelphia Experiment 2 Movie Review
David Herdeg, the surviving time-transplanted sailor from the original Philadelphia Experiment, is alive and well in 1993 until he begins to experience the same molecular displacement that had destroyed his fellow tar ten years ago. In a nearby top-secret military lab, a mad scientist (Gerritt Graham) is conducting another experiment. Unknown to everyone, the goal of this experiment …
Phoenix the Warrior Movie Review
Sometime in the future, female savages battle each other for control of the now ravaged Earth, and take long nude showers under waterfalls.
The Pink Chiquitas Movie Review
Abysmal Canadian sci-fi spoof about a tough detective arriving in the town of Beamsville, where a living meteorite (its purring vocals courtesy of Eartha Kitt, who never appears onscreen) has transformed the local women into glam-bitch harlots.
Plan from Outer Space (9 ) Movie Review
You are interested in the unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable. That is why you are reading this book. And that is why Plan 9 from Outer Space has over the years become the unanimous choice as “the worst film of all time.” It is one of two films that secured Ed Wood's “reputation.” Everything you've heard about this movie is true: Bela Lugosi died a …
Planet Earth Movie Review
One of Gene Roddenberry's numerous aborted projects after cancellation of the classic Star Trek, this postnuke feature-length TV pilot is a remake of 1973's Genesis II and was itself redone later as Strange New World. By the year 2133, John Saxon, in suspended animation since 1979, is revived and working for Pax, the city that survived the ‘Great Conflict’ unscathed and…
Planet of Blood Movie Review
Space opera about an female alien vampire (Florence Marly) discovered in a derelict spaceship on Mars by a rescue team.
Planet of Dinosaurs Movie Review
Spaceship crashes on an uncharted, prehistoric planet, and the human survivors must put aside their considerable squabbles about what to do next to fight for their lives against hungry, Earth-style dinosaurs.
Planet of the Apes Movie Review
Astronaut Charleton Heston crashlands on a planet in the future (3978 A.D.) where apes are masters and humans are merely brute animals. Superior science fiction with sociological implications. Heston delivers one of his more plausible performances, and superb ape makeup creates realistic pseudo-simians of Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, and James Daly. The …
Planet of the Vampires Movie Review
Atmospheric, low-budget, sci-fi horror at its best. Dan O'Bannon has admitted that this Mario Bava gem was one of his main influences while writing Alien. Responding to a SOS from the planet Aura, the spaceship Argos crash-lands on a set previously used for a Italian sword-and-sandal not-quite epic. The landscape is loaded with other wrecked space hulks including the SOSer. The bodies insid…
Planet on the Prowl Movie Review
A fiery planet causes earthly disasters, so a troop of wily astronauts try to destroy it with the latest technology.
Planeta Burg Movie Review
A classic Soviet sci-fi flick about a space exploration team landing on Venus.
Planets Against Us Movie Review
Science-fiction tale of escaped alien humanoid robots who take refuge on Earth, but whose touch is fatal.
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man 2 Movie Review
Like most sequels, this one's about half as good as the original.
The Power Within Movie Review
An electrified stuntman finds he can send electrical shocks from his hands and becomes the victim of a kidnapping plot.
Prayer of the Rollerboys Movie Review
Violent, futuristic, funky action as Corey Haim infiltrates a criminal militia of syncopated roller-blading neo-Nazi youth (references to The Turner Diaries abound) with plans for nationwide domination via narco-terrorism.
Predator Movie Review
Schwarzenegger leads a team of soldier-of-fortune types with big muscles and big weapons into the Central American jungles to rescue hostages.
Predator 2 Movie Review
Tough cop Danny Glover takes time away from battling drug dealers to deal with malicious extraterrestrial who exterminated Arnold's band of commandos in the original.
Prehistoric Women Movie Review
A tribe of prehistoric women look for husbands the old-fashioned way – they drag them back to their caves from the jungle.
Primal Impulse Movie Review
An astronaut, stranded on the moon because of a sinister experimental double-cross, unleashes a mental scream which possesses a young woman's mind back on Earth.
Primal Scream Movie Review
Valiant but utterly disjointed attempt to do a hard-boiled sci-fi detective tale like Blade Runner on a budget that wouldn't buy birdseed for the Maltese Falcon.
TV on Tape: The Prisoner Movie Review
The Prisoner was a very special kind of science-fiction show. Although it took place in a strange, otherworldly place that sometimes seems to be in the future, it wasn't about aliens or spaceships or time machines. It owed more to Kafka than Heinlein. The story of a secret agent who resigns his post and is abducted to a strange place called the Village, it created a cult following still goi…
The Princess Bride Movie Review
Director Rob Reiner scores again with this take on the basic fairy tale formula that masterfully works as both a spoof and the real thing. Crammed wittily with all the cliches, this adventurously irreverent love story centers around a beautiful maiden and her young swain as they battle the evils of the mythical kingdom of Florin. Great dueling scenes, scary beasts (especially the “Ro…
Prison Planet Movie Review
Political rebel of the future gets himself arrested and sent to the infamous Prison Planet, in search of a rightful ruler exiled there long before.
Prisoners of the Lost Universe Movie Review
Talk-show hostess and her buddy are transported to a hostile universe by a renegade scientist.
The Professor Movie Review
Rare sci-fi thriller featuring a werewolf, an eccentric scientist, and a communist plot.
Programmed to Kill Movie Review
A beautiful terrorist is killed by the CIA and transformed on the operating table into a cyborg assassin, to infiltrate and slay her former comrades.
Project A-ko Movie Review
Set in the near future, this Japanese animated feature, which is intended for adults, concerns teenagers with strange powers, an alien spaceship, and lots of action.
Project: Alien Movie Review
Cattle mutilations, scary abductions, and sightings of strange figures in spacesuits – it's enough to send rival reporters off on a race to blow open a government coverup of what seems like attacks by beings from space.
Project: Genesis Movie Review
Stagebound, indecipherable low-budget sf from Canada involves a drug-smuggling star pilot shot down on an uninhabited planet.
Project Metalbeast: DNA Overload Movie Review
A CIA agent, cryogenically frozen for 10 years, becomes the guinea pig when a group of scientists decide to unthaw him for a DNA experiment involving living metallic skin.
Project Moon Base Movie Review
Espionage runs rampant on a spaceship headed by a female officer.
Project: Nightmare Movie Review
Project Touchstone, to test the endurance of astronauts in space flights, is run by a HAL-9000 style computer that naturally goes haywire and takes over a patch of the countryside.
Project Shadowchaser (3000) Movie Review
Derelict craft suddenly collides with a Mars-orbiting space station, forcing the crew of overacting idiots to contend with a visitor, an evil, shape-changing, deformed robot.
Project X Movie Review
Bemused Air Force pilot gets a strange assignment – training lab chimpanzees to pilot planes in a computerized flight simulator.
Prototype Movie Review
Intelligent TV pic is the kinder, gentler side of the Frankenstein legend.
American Giant Monsters Movie Review
The 1950s were, among other things, the decade of technology. The fledgling science of nuclear energy was seen as mankind's savior; magazines of the period looked forward to a day when every household would be virtually run by the friendly atom. But there was a darker side to this dream, and the science-fiction movies popular at the time helped visualize it. The ‘50s were a golden ag…
Prototype X (29A) Movie Review
In 2057's desolate, lawless Los Angeles, a research scientist conducting experiments on a crippled ex-soldier uses an embargoed cyborg suit to enable her patient to walk again.
PSI Factor Movie Review
Civilian NASA researcher observes and records signals from planet Sirius B.
The Psychotronic Man Movie Review
An innocent man suddenly finds he possesses amazing and dangerous powers, enabling him to control outside events with a thought.
Pulse Movie Review
Fear of technology pervades this low-voltage thriller in which electricity goes awry, causing common appliances and other household devices to super-charge, malfunction, and threaten their owners.
The Puma Man Movie Review
Alton inherits his family's ancient Incan UFO power to become Puma Man, a superdork in a peasant frock who makes catlike swatting motions as he pounces on the flunkies of bad guy Dr.
The Punisher Movie Review
Marvel Comics anti-hero The Punisher is brought to life in this filmed-in-Australia tale of both justice and revenge.
The Puppet Masters Movie Review
Government official (Donald Sutherland) discovers that aliens are taking over the bodies of humans and if he doesn't find a way to stop the parasites they'll soon rule the Earth.
The Purple Monster Strikes Movie Review
Serial authority Donald F. Glut declares The Purple Monster Strikes as the last great Republic serial and he's right; it was all down-hill after this, the first and best of Republic's three Martian-invasion chapter plays. The red planet's emissary, a humanoid in a purple-colored scaly suit and played by cowboy star Roy Barcroft, comes to Earth to kill the human inventor of a r…
Purple People Eater Movie Review
The alien of the title descends to earth to mix with young girls and rock ‘n’ roll.