Creepy and surprisingly smart sci-fi miniseries. Advanced aliens, known as Visitors, land their saucers on Earth in the spirit of friendship, or so they claim. But their humanlike appearance is a facade; hiding their reptilian faces behind fake skin masks, the Visitors basically want to consume Earth's resources, including fillet of Homo sapiens. The first half of this two-parter is sf in t…
Followup to the popular miniseries V, centering on the intrigue among the human underground resistance fighting those man-eating lizards from outer space, who have effectively conquered humanity through economic and cultural imperialism more so than death rays.
The genesis of this idea – cowboys vs. dinosaurs – goes back to a 1942 unproduced project by Willis O'Brien, the man who created King Kong.
Loads of cheap but juicy special effects and enough boobs for the most demanding T&A aficionado. Three ultra-ugly aliens grow breasts and transform themselves into gorgeous babes in order to perpetrate an intergalactic drug smuggling caper. The drug they need is a derivative of the “life” essence of men, giving the three (Theresa Lynn, Leslie Glass, and “60 Foot …
A chemical experiment near a small island in the Japanese archipelago disturbs a prehistoric monster beneath the water.
In this, the third film featuring Christopher Lee as the evil Fu Manchu, the evil doctor is back in his native China, where he forms an alliance with the Mafia.
After a rocky start, this one wobbles along for 90 minutes and collapses at a weak conclusion.
When the planet Venus collides with an ice asteroid the resulting transformation makes the planet capable of sustaining human life.
Director David Cronenberg continues his exploration of both the evolution and the deterioration of the flesh. Cable programmer (James Woods) becomes hooked on the pirate TV show Videodrome, which delivers loads of real sex, real torture, and real murder. Along with the fun, the show is having an effect on his love life (with Deborah “Blondie” Harry), genet…
In some ways, this British production is another take on the Invasion of the Body Snatchers theme – infiltration by aliens who are like us but not like us. It can also be seen an early example of post-World War II generational conflicts. But forget interpretations. This is simply one of the best sf thrillers ever made. When an English village is subjected to a mysterious event, several unus…
What a yawner! The quiet town of Midwich, California, has been enveloped by a strange force that impregnates the local women. The albino children born of this incident have disturbing telepathic powers that they display through their bright orange and red eyes – supposedly precipitating a plot to take control. The characters have no personalities, the dialogue is sloppy and stilted, the plo…
“Hey, those are my ducks!” You can't blame Tommy Kirk for getting so excited. These web-footed behemoths shaking their tail-feathers on the dance floor have ingested size-enhancing “goop.” Beau Bridges and some bad teens looking for kicks steal the stuff, “zoom to supersize” (scream the ads) and take over the town, imposing curfew on t…
This Canadian pic seems like a prototype for the Robocop series, right down to an elaborate cyborg costume designed by Stan Winston's studio.
The Vips are modern-day descendants of superbeings about to become legends in their own times.
If the Project Shadowchaser series leaves you hungry for yet more Canadian sci-fi Die Hard ripoffs, you are welcome to this mongrel, sort of a Die Hard Drive in which a ham villain leads his multicultural gang (they look like the Village People with guns) to take over a research lab and steal a ‘biological’ computer virus.
Parker Barnes, an ex-cop with a tragic past, is sprung from his unjust imprisonment when he agrees to help capture computer-generated killer Sid 6.7. Sid has escaped from cyberspace with the help of his mad-scientist creator, and goes on a murderous rampage in 1997 Los Angeles. This virtual-reality bad guy has a personality composed of some 200 serial killers and criminal minds (including t…
After nuclear war and plague destroy civilization, a small group of people gather in Antarctica and struggle with determination to carry on life.
Cheap, chintzy spoof in which a stupid ‘50s teenager discovers that his neighbors, an uptight married couple named Lubbock and Exeter (hardy har har) are malevolent aliens in human form.
The extravagantly talentless Pia Zadora is Dee-Dee, a small-town girl who yearns to be a singer.
Before he capsized the Poseidon and lit the Towering Inferno, Irwin Allen, the master of disaster, made his very best film. Take the plunge with the intrepid crew of the Seaview, an experimental atomic submarine that is put to the ultimate test when the Earth is endangered by a burning radiation belt. Walter Pid-geon stars as Admiral Harriman Nelson, whom the crew comes to doubt his sanity when he…
Astronauts journey to Venus, where they discover a race of gorgeous, telepathic women led by Mamie Van Doren who wear sea-shell bikinis and worship a pterodactyl. This was the third film to incorporate footage from the (much better) Russian science-fiction film Planeta Burg (Planet of Storms), and the second one by Roger Corman (his 1965 Voyage to the Prehistoric…
In the year 2020, an expedition to Venus is forced to deal with dinosaurs and other perils.