T-Force Movie Review
Title refers to a Terminator squad of law enforcement robots in the near future.
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Tarantula Movie Review
I know a spider that swallowed a cow….
A Taste for Flesh and Blood Movie Review
A monster from outer space comes to Earth and is delighted with the easy pickings for his insatiable appetite.
TV on Tape: Tales of Tomorrow Movie Review
These tales of yesterday were an early and fairly successful sf anthology series that aired on ABC from 1951 to 1956. Its first episodes, based on Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, starred Thomas Mitchell with Leslie Nielsen in a supporting role. Other entries were based on magazine stories and original teleplays. Surviving episodes of this creaky but historical series we…
Teen Alien Movie Review
On Halloween night some kids explore a spooky old house with the reputation of being haunted.
Teenage Caveman Movie Review
After I Was a Teenage Werewolf and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, intrepid American International Pictures further mined the youth market with – what else – Teenage Caveman. Robert Vaughn stars as “The Boy” (he would later become “The Man”…from U.N.C.L.E., that is), who defies his elders by venturing from his clan's desolate terr…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie Movie Review
Although a bit more rambunctious, this is a very close adaptation of Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's surprise hit self-published comic-book series. Four sewer-dwelling turtles that have turned into warrior ninja mutants due to radiation exposure take it upon themselves to rid the city of crime and pizza. Aided by television reporter April O'Neil and their ninja master, Splinter the R…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze Movie Review
Amphibious pizza-devouring mutants search for the toxic waste that turned them into marketable martial-artist ecologically correct kid idols.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 Movie Review
Check it out dudes; the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles hit 17th century Japan to rescue loyal friend, reporter April O'Neil (Paige Turco). Plenty of smoothly executed, blood-free martial arts moves keep the pace rolling, while the turtles battle an evil lord and English pirates. Meanwhile, old pal Casey Jones (Elias Koteas) babysits the samurais sent to New York in…
Teenagers from Outer Space Movie Review
“Thrill-crazed space kids blasting the flesh off humans!” So screamed the ads for this sadly neglected contender in the Golden Turkey sweepstakes. A flying saucer unloads a rowdy pack of aliens who carry disintegrating ray guns (that look suspiciously like Buck Rogers cap pistols) and unleash on the unsuspecting populace a giant Gargon (or, as we call it on this …
TekWar Movie Review
It's 2044, and society is plagued by “Tek,” an illegal, addictive microchip that creates powerful virtual-reality fantasies.
h Victim (10t) Movie Review
Sci-fi cult film set in the 21st century has Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress pursuing one another in a futuristic society where legalized murder is used as the means of population control.
Terminal Impact Movie Review
Two independent federal marshals find themselves battling indestructible, hi-tech soldiers when they investigate the disappearance of a television news reporter.
The Terminal Man Movie Review
A slick, visually compelling adaptation of the Michael Crichton novel.
The Terminator Movie Review
Futuristic cyborg is sent to present-day Earth.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day Movie Review
He said he'd be back and he is, programmed to protect the boy who will be mankind's postnuke resistance leader. But the T-1000, a shape-changing, ultimate killing machine, is also on the boy's trail. Twice the mayhem, five times the special effects, ten times the budget of the first, but without Arnold it'd be half the movie. The word hasn't been invented to desc…
Terror Beneath the Sea Movie Review
A mad scientist wants to rule the world with his cyborgs.
Terror Is a Man Movie Review
A mad scientist attempts to turn a panther into a man on a secluded island.
Terror of Mechagodzilla Movie Review
It's monster vs. machine in the heavyweight battle of the universe as a huge mechanical Godzilla built by aliens is pitted against the real thing.
The Terror Within Movie Review
Reptilian mutants hit the streets searching for human women to breed with.
The Terror Within 2 Movie Review
In a world destroyed by biological warfare, a warrior and the woman he rescued traverse the badlands occupied by hideous mutants.
Terrornauts Movie Review
When man begins space exploration, Earth is attacked by aliens.
Test Tube Teens from the Year (2000) Movie Review
This is a throwback to the mid-'60s.
Tetsuo: The Iron Man Movie Review
“Your future is metal!” Weird 16mm live-action Japanese “normal-sized monster movie” about an office worker gradually transformed into a walking metal collection of cables, drills, wires, and gears.
Them! Movie Review
“A horror horde of crawl-and-crush giants clawing out of the Earth from mile-deep catacombs!” Inspired by the success of The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, this was the first and the best of the giant bug movies (no picnic jokes, please). What hath the atomic age wrought? Radiation-enhanced behemoths – or should we say behe-ants – which terrorize New Mexico be…
There's Nothing Out There Movie Review
Seven teenagers spend Spring Break at a secluded mountain cabin, anticipating sex and wild times.
They Movie Review
Guys on a hunting jaunt land their plane in the wilderness to discover that some sort of alien invasion has taken place and they're cut off from humanity.
They Came from Beyond Space Movie Review
Aliens invade the Earth and possess the brains of humans.
They Came from Within Movie Review
What do you get when you cross an aphrodisiac with a venereal disease? Well, if you are director David Cronenberg, you get this nasty little parasitic organism, capable of turning the its host human into a raging sex fiend, and then making an exit that would make an Alien chest-burster proud. Cronenberg's first nearly mainstream film is set in the sterile, clinical setting of the Starliner …
They Live Movie Review
A semi-serious science-fiction spoof about a drifter (a surprisingly solid perf from ex-wrestler Roddy Piper) who accidentally discovers an alien conspiracy.
They Saved Hitler's Brain Movie Review
No, this is not the Pat Buchanan story. Probably must viewing for bad movie connoisseurs, but for those with more sober and rational tastes (and we know you're out there), this infamous golden turkey has little to offer except the ludicrous title and fleeting shots of Der Fuhrer's severed head in a jar and still giving orders ("Mach Schnell!"). The years h…
The Thing Movie Review
One of the best of the Cold War allegories and a potent lesson to those who won't eat their vegetables. Sci-fi classic begins with an alien spacecraft embedded in the Artic ice and the creature (Arness as the killer carrot), discovered by a research team. The critter is accidentally thawed and then wreaks havoc, sucking the life from sled dog and scientist alike. It's a…
The Thing Movie Review
A team of scientists at a remote Antarctic outpost discover a buried spaceship with an unwelcome alien survivor still alive.
Things to Come Movie Review
Groundbreaking (and very loose) adaptation of H.G. Wells’ prophecies, best viewed today as taking place on an alternate world, an Earth that might have been. Narrative begins in 1940 and runs to 2036 to chronicle the travails of Everytown, where the filmmakers depict fictionally for the first time what would soon be tragically real: innocent civilians bombed, gassed, and infec…
This Is Not a Test Movie Review
When news comes of an impending nuclear attack, a state trooper at a roadblock offers sanctuary to passing travellers.
This Island Earth Movie Review
The planet Metaluna is in desperate need of uranium to power its defense against enemy invaders.
Those Fantastic Flying Fools Movie Review
A mad race to be the first on the moon brings hilarious results.
Three Stooges in Orbit Movie Review
Following the release of their classic two-reelers to syndicated television, the Three Stooges enjoyed a resurgence in popularity and were signed for a series of feature films, beginning with Have Rocket Will Travel.
The Three Worlds of Gulliver Movie Review
Colorful version of the Jonathan Swift classic fits in more of the plot than most adaptations, though it softens the author's corrosive satire.
Thunderbirds Are Go Movie Review
A feature film version of Anderson's futuristic British TV series featuring rave electronic marionette faves, the Tracy family.
THX (1138) Movie Review
In the dehumanized world of the future, people live in underground cities run by computer, are force-fed drugs to keep them passive, emotions and sex are forbidden, and people no longer have names – just serial numbers. Robert Duvall is THX 1138. When the computer-matched couple THX 1138 and LUH 3417 discover true love, they attempt to escape their oppressive society in order to be together…
Ticks Movie Review
Killer mutant arachnids terrorize a Northern California campground! A bunch of not-terribly bright backwoods marijuana farmers dump some nasty chemicals into the local water supply.
Time After Time Movie Review
In Victorian London, circa 1893, H. G. Wells (whom filmmakers love to portray as an eccentric inventor, rather than the novelist and historian he was in real life) is experimenting with his time machine. He discovers the machine has been used by an associate (who turns out to be Jack the Ripper) to travel to San Francisco and wreck havoc in 1979. Wells follows to stop a…
Time Bandits Movie Review
Director Terry Gilliam's first non-Monty Python film still features several Python alumni.
Time Fighters Movie Review
A time machine has the ability to travel at the speed of light from prehistoric times to the distant future.
The Time Guardian Movie Review
A time-traveling city from the 40th century arrives in the Australian desert in 1988, pursued by killer cyborgs (looking a lot like Star Trek’s fave menace, the Borg).
The Time Machine Movie Review
Film version of H.G.
Time Machine Movie Review
Sunn Classics, the company that did all those UFO and Noah's Ark documentaries in the ‘70s, was responsible for this inferior adaptation of the H.G.
Time Runner Movie Review
It's 2022, and the Earth is being used as target practice by alien invaders.
Time Trackers Movie Review
A Roger Corman cheapie about a race through time, from present-day New York to medieval England, to recover a time machine before it alters the course of history.
The Time Travelers Movie Review
A group of scientists discover and pass through a porthole leading to Earth's post-Armageddon future where they encounter tribes of nasty mutants. The last remnants of humanity use androids (who with their featureless, noseless faces look faintly menacing in their own right) as slave labor to build a spaceship to escape the dying planet. Sensing (correctly) that …
Time Troopers Movie Review
Austrian-made tale set in another one of those post-nuke societies, where special police must execute anyone who has used up their allotted energy ration, whether they're ready to die or not.
Time Walker Movie Review
An archaeologist unearths King Tut's coffin in California.
Timecop Movie Review
Terminator rip-off is fodder for Van Damme followers with lots of action and good special effects (you weren't expecting acting too). In 2004, time travel has been perfected (despite gaping logical inconsistencies far too numerous to mention or care about). Due to the potential for misuse, a special Time Enforcement police unit has been established to prevent evi…
Timemaster Movie Review
Orphaned 12-year-old Jesse (Jesse Cameron-Glickenhaus, the director's son, to nobody's surprise) knows his parents are alive in another time.
Timerider Movie Review
Your basic dirtbike/sf/western finds an intellectually challenged motorcycle rider stuck in 1877 (he never quite figures out why he gets blank stares when he asks to use the phone).
Timestalkers Movie Review
A college professor's infatuation with a young woman is complicated by their pursuit of a criminal from the 26th century into the past.
Tobor the Great Movie Review
Silly, overly juvenile vintage sci fi about a boy, his inventor grandfather, and their pride and joy, Tobor the Robot.
Total Recall Movie Review
Mind-bending sci-fi adventure set in the 21st century, when Earth's citizens have fictionalized memories implanted to grant them adventures they couldn't afford to experience. Restless construction worker Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) undergoes the procedure to exorcize his fixation with the Mars mining colony, but something goes wrong. It seems he really was a secret a…
Toward the Terra Movie Review
In the distant future mankind is forced to evacuate Earth and settles on the planet Atarakusha.
Trancers Movie Review
A psycho zombie cult of the future goes back in time to 1985 to meddle with fate.
Trancers 2: The Return of Jack Deth Movie Review
Fatigued followup sees Jack Deth, stranded in 20th-century L.A., in action again when another outbreak of Trancers occurs (inadequately explained, of course).
Trancers 3: Deth Lives Movie Review
Third film of the Trancers series actually explains what Trancers are in the first place.
Trancers 4: Jack of Swords Movie Review
Crazily inconsistent series on time-traveling cop Jack Deth now thrusts its hapless hero into a medieval dimension (reflecting more than anything else producer Charles Band moving his outfit to Romania) where Trancers rule, literally, as vampiric nobles feeding on the peasantry.
Trancers 5: Sudden Deth Movie Review
Filmed simultaneously with Trancers 4, this is supposedly the final chapter of Jack Deth's saga.
Transatlantic Tunnel Movie Review
Semi-wishful 1930s prophecy, set after 1950, about engineer Richard Dix spearheading the construction of a giant undersea tunnel from England to America – that, among other things, will guarantee world peace.
Transformations Movie Review
An interplanetary pilot battles a deadly virus that threatens life throughout the universe.
Trapped in Space Movie Review
Space freighter on a preprogrammed course for Venus collides with a meteor, depleting the oxygen supply.
Tremors Movie Review
Comic sci-fi creature feature has a tiny desert town being attacked by giant man-eating worm-type “Graboids.” Luckily handymen Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward are on the scene to accidentally save the day with the help of guns-R-us couple Michael Gross and Reba McEntire.
Tremors 2: Aftershocks Movie Review
The Graboids have resurfaced and are eating their way through Mexican oil fields.
The Trial of the Incredible Hulk Movie Review
The Hulk returns to battle organized crime and is aided by his blind superhero/lawyer friend Daredevil.
A Trip to the Moon Movie Review
Primitive, but pioneering; this is perhaps the first science-fiction film.
Tripods: The White Mountains Movie Review
Sci-fi thriller about the takeover of Earth by alien tripods.
Tron Movie Review
Computer programmer Jeff Bridges is sucked into the memory banks of a giant mainframe and exists as a warrior in a virtual-reality civilization running parallel to the outside world.
The Trouble with Dick Movie Review
There's plenty of trouble with this adolescent would-be comedy.
Monkeys (12 ) Movie Review
Forty years after a plague wipes out 99 percent of the human population and sends the survivors underground, scientists send prisoner James Cole (Bruce Willis) to the 1990s to investigate the connection between the virus and seriously deranged fanatic Jeffrey Goines (Brad Pitt), whose father happens to be a renowned virologist. Director Terry Gilliam's demented v…
12:01 Movie Review
It's the Groundhog Day premise played for thrills.
Million Miles to Earth (20 ) Movie Review
A spaceship returning from an expedition to Venus crashes on Earth, releasing a fast-growing reptilian beast that rampages throughout Athens.
The Fifth Dimension Movie Review
“You're traveling through another dimension.
Leagues Under the Sea (20,000) Movie Review
From a futuristic submarine, Captain Nemo wages war on the surface world.
The h Day (27t) Movie Review
Despite some outdated philosophy and all-too-obvious preaching about the good and bad guys of the Cold War, this extremely literate film should have most viewers thinking along with the onscreen characters. An alien, piloting one of the spaceships from Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers, gives five mysterious capsules to five Earthlings from five different countries. Only the mind of each human can open…
Twilight Zone: The Movie Movie Review
Four horrific tales are anthologized in this film as a tribute to Rod Sterling and his popular television series. Three of the episodes are based on classic Twilight Zone scripts. “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” is the most genuinely chilling of the group, effectively reworking the original tale of a monster glimpsed on the wing of a plane. “It's a Good Life,” the sto…
TV on Tape: The Twilight Zone Movie Review
Americans first entered The Twilight Zone on October 2, 1959. Nearly four decades later, this “wondrous land whose boundaries are that of the imagination” still haunts us. The series attracted the best writers (Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont) and a roster of stars (Burgess Meredith, Agnes Moorhead, Lee Marvin) and future stars (Robert Redford, J…
Two Lost Worlds Movie Review
A young hero battles monstrous dinosaurs, pirates, and more in this cheapy when he and his shipmates are shipwrecked on an uncharted island.
2001: A Space Odyssey Movie Review
Director Stanley Kubrick and writer Arthur C. Clarke redefined cinematic science fiction with this masterpiece. Dispensing with many conventional narrative techniques, they told the centuries-spanning story through startling (though sometimes opaque) images. Kubrick succeeded in making space travel seem absolutely real and believable. Who cares if the plot makes no sense? The stately…
2010: The Year We Make Contact Movie Review
Even though the sequel doesn't come close to the first film in style or originality, it's still fun if viewed simply as a good potboiler.