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The War of the Colossal Beast Movie Review
This sequel to The Amazing Colossal Man finds the seventy-foot Colonel Manning even angrier at the attempts to kill him than he was in the first film.
War of the Gargantuas Movie Review
Tokyo is once again the boxing ring for giant monsters. This time, instead of pseudo-dinosaurs, we have a not-so-jolly green giant called the gargantua. The green meanie emerges from the ocean to save a ship from a rubbery giant octopus before eating the crew (and spitting out their clothes afterwards). Suave American scientist-type Russ Tamblyn speculates on whether the beast is the…
War of the Robots Movie Review
A dying alien civilization kidnaps two brilliant Earth scientists in the hope that they'll help it survive.
War of the Wizards Movie Review
Low-budget sci-fi thriller about an alien woman with supernatural powers who comes to take over the Earth.
War Games Movie Review
Teen computer hacker, thinking that he's sneaking an advance look at a new line of video games, breaks into the U.S. missile-defense system and challenges it to a bout of Global Thermonuclear Warfare.
Warlords Movie Review
Clone soldier David Carradine and his organic computer (an ugly jive-talking head) join with a scrappy girl and battle mutant hordes in a post-apocalyptic desert.
Warlords of the t Century (21s) Movie Review
Bandit gang speed around the galaxy in an indestructible battle cruiser.
Warlords (3000) Movie Review
In the future, Earth is a barren wasteland ravaged by raging electrical storms.
Warning from Space Movie Review
Aliens visit Earth to warn of impending cosmic doom.
Warrior of the Lost World Movie Review
Ginty and his talking motorcycle must destroy the evil Omega Force, who tyrannically rule the world of the postnuke future et cetera, et cetera.
The Wasp Woman Movie Review
Director Roger Corman is at it again, this time dishing up the tale of a female cosmetics mogul (Susan Cabot) who unwisely tests a beauty-potion made of wasp enzymes on herself. As a result, she starts moonlighting as a hokey-looking wasp-headed fiend. That'll teach her! Anthony Eisley is her prospective boyfriend, who unfortunately seems to prefer her assistant Barboura Morri…
Waterworld Movie Review
The Man From Atlantis meets Mad Max. Industry knives sharpened with glee before release, with some insiders calling this luck-impaired project “Fishtar” and “Kevin's Gate.” With an estimated $150 million budget, the film must look to overseas sales and secondary markets to make any money. Most of the budget does seem to have ended up on screen, which makes…
Wavelength Movie Review
Predating all the ‘Alien Autopsy’ tomfoolery by a good decade, this has rocker Robert Carra-dine's psychic girlfriend picking up hypersonic distress signals – sounds like whales – from childlike aliens, recovered from a UFO crash site and kept on ice in a secret government base beneath the Hollywood hills (script takes pains to make that geographic novelty quite plausible).
Waxwork 2: Lost in Time Movie Review
Sequel to the ostensibly non-sf Waxwork, in which monsters in an infamous waxworks museum turned out to be real.
Weird Science Movie Review
One of the stranger and more amusing of John Hughes’ ‘80s teen comedies.
Welcome Back Mr. Fox Movie Review
An award-winning science-fiction short wherein an obnoxious movie producer cheats death by being cryogenically frozen, and then wakes up years later no wiser for the experience.
Wes Craven Presents Mind Ripper Movie Review
Yet another Alien-type rip-off in which a secret government experiment to produce self-healing super soldiers goes awry. The mad scientists who created the beast become trapped in an abandoned nuclear site, and must kill the creature. The scientists are picked off one by one with the usual gross special effects. Lance Henriksen (once again in material far below his worth) plays the g…
Westworld Movie Review
Michael Crichton wrote and directed this story of Delos, an adult vacation resort of the future which offers the opportunity to live in various fantasy worlds where guests’ every need and fantasy are serviced by lifelike robots. James Brolin and Richard Benjamin are businessmen who choose the western fantasy world. When an electrical malfunction occurs, the robots begin to go berserk, and t…
What Waits Below Movie Review
A scientific expedition encounters a lost race living in caves in South America.
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth Movie Review
When One Million Years B.C. ruled the box office, the Brits cranked out a few additional lively prehistoric fantasies.
When Worlds Collide Movie Review
Another planet is found to be rushing inevitably towards Earth. Luckily, a companion planet will likely arrive in time to take Earth's place. A select group of people attempt to escape in a spaceship; others try to maneuver their way on board. Oscar-quality special effects and plot make up for some cheesy acting and bad writing. The only movie spaceship to be launched from a ramp rather tha…
Where Time Began Movie Review
The discovery of a strange manuscript of a scientist's journey to the center of the Earth leads to the decision to recreate the dangerous mission.
White Dwarf Movie Review
Confusing made-for-TV sci-fi/fantasy adventure finds edgy Manhattan internist Driscoll Rampart (Neal McDonough) serving his residency on Rusta, a war-torn planet located in a white-dwarf star system. The planet is divided into two hemispheres, one in perpetual darkness and the other in constant light. Rampart learns the ropes from mystical doc Akada (Paul Winfield…
Who Framed Roger Rabbit Movie Review
Technically marvelous, cinematically hilarious, eye-popping combination of cartoon and live action create a Hollywood of the 1940s where cartoon characters are real and a repressed minority working in films. A ‘toon-hating detective (Bob Hoskins) is hired to uncover the unfaithful wife of 2-D star Roger, and instead uncovers a conspiracy to wipe out all ‘toons. Kathleen…
Wicked City Movie Review
Based on the Japanese comic strip by Hideyuki Kikuchi, but looking more like a remake of the anime of the same name, Wicked City delivers the now-expected doses of over-the-top Hong Kong-style action, special effects, and outrageous stunts.
Wild in the Streets Movie Review
“If you're over 30, you'd better forget it….” So goes the theme song to this chilling black comedy that puts a paranoid spin on youthful rebellion. Christopher Jones stars as rock idol Max Frost, who uses his influence with the young (not to mention L.S.D. dumped in Washington, D.C.’s water supply) to get the voting age lowered to 14 and hims…
Wild Palms Movie Review
No, the plot makes virtually no sense, but a series of striking images – none more surprising than the rhino in the swimming pool – make up for a lot. In 2007 Los Angeles, Harry (James Belushi) takes a job at a TV station that offers virtual reality programming to viewers, but this isn't benign technology. And what is the resistance up to? Dana Delany is stuck in…
The Hound Salutes: Claude Rains Movie Review
Claude Rains will always be remembered for one brilliant role, the “poor corrupt official” Capt. Louis Renault in Casablanca. But in his long and distinguished career as one of Hollywood's best character actors (and leading men) he also played key roles in science-fiction, horror, and fantasy films. His screen debut was in one of the all-time sf greats, The Invis…
Wild Planet Wild Movie Review
2015: A spaced idiocy.
The Wild World of Batwoman Movie Review
A campy cult film in which Batwoman (Katherine Victor, who earlier starred in director Jerry Warren's truly wretched Teenage Zombies) and a bevy of Bat Girls are pitted against an evil doctor in order to find the prototype of an atomic hearing aid/nuclear bomb.
Willow Movie Review
A blockbuster fantasy epic which seems intent on cramming together everything from the story of Moses in the Rushes to “Snow White,” complete with dwarves. Willow is the little Nelwyn (sort of like a hobbit, but even shorter) who finds the lost baby Daikini and is assigned the task of returning her safely to her people. It seems the girl is actually a sacred infant who …
A Wind Named Amnesia Movie Review
A strange amnesia wind sweeps away all of mankind's knowledge and human civilization vanishes.
Wired to Kill Movie Review
In a wrecked future world (what, again?), two whiz-kid teens seek justice for their parents’ murder by building a remote-controlled erector set programmed for revenge.
Witch Hunt Movie Review
Dennis Hopper takes over for Fred Ward as private dick H.
The Wizard of Speed and Time Movie Review
Ambitious, self-taught young movie f/x master is hired by a greedy producer to jazz up a TV show with his gags and gadgets. But he doesn't know the same exec has vowed to stop him at all costs to win a backstage bet. Mike Jittlov, a true special-effects expert, plays himself in this personally financed all-ages comedy that brims with inside jokes, soapbox satire, self-indulgence, and…
Mexican Wrestling Superheroes Movie Review
There are those who will tell you that professional wrestling and cinematic fantasy aren't that far apart. Aside from the issue of how “real” pro-wrestling is, both it and fantasy films involve the viewer in a larger-than-life world, where conflicts are at once both simpler and vastly more complex than they are in day-to-day life. B oth are about heroes and villains. Of course…
Wizards Movie Review
After a nuclear war, Earth has turned into a medieval fantasy world full of fairies and monsters.
Woman in the Moon Movie Review
Assorted people embark on a trip to the moon and discover water, and an atmosphere, as well as gold.
Women of the Prehistoric Planet Movie Review
The members of a space rescue mission face the usual deadly perils on a strange planet, including a “giant” spider and lizards, and very unrealistic man-eating plants.
World Gone Wild Movie Review
Action yarn about a post-apocalyptic world of the future where an evil cult leader brainwashes his disciples.
Wrestling Women Vs. the Aztec Ape Movie Review
An unclassifiable epic of brawny beauties versus a brawnier beast.
Wrestling Women Vs. the Aztec Mummy Movie Review
The Golden Rubi and her sister, two Mexican female wrestlers, go up against Xochitl, an ancient Aztec wrestler who has inconveniently returned to life.
TV on Tape: The X-Files Movie Review
The X-Files surprised everyone by becoming a cult hit for Fox TV, and then growing into a solid ratings winner with a larger audience. The network that had been known for comedy, both good and trashy, suddenly had a sciencefiction hit on its hands. T he show's premise is simple but inventive, and loose enough to give writers a wide range of subjects. Fox Mulder (David Duchovny)…