the Space Monster Dagora Movie Review
Gangsters with incredibly silly voices tangle with a giant, slimy, pulsating whatsit from space that eats diamonds.
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Daleks—Invasion Earth A.D. (2150 ) Movie Review
A slightly more ambitious sequel to Dr.
Damnation Alley Movie Review
After a chilling World War III introduction, this post-Apocalypse film slides downhill quickly.
Danger: Diabolik Movie Review
Supercool ‘60s-style tongue-in-cheek thriller with loads of psychedelia, as many toys as a James Bond flick, fast cars, mini skirts, and more. But, unlike Bond, Diabolik is on the wrong side of the law. The title character even has a underground lair equipped with computers, an enormous rotating circular bed, and the coolest see-through showers ever. Diabolik (John Phillip Law)…
The Dark Movie Review
The titular bogeyman from outer space looks a little like James Arness’ killer carrot in The Thing, with long hair and turn-signal eyes that emit laser beams.
The Dark Backward Movie Review
Marty Malt (Judd Nelson) is having a bad day; in fact he's having a bad life.
The Dark Crystal Movie Review
The Muppets go Tolkien in this ambitious epic from Jim Henson.
Dark Side of the Moon Movie Review
Astronauts aboard a space shuttle on a routine mission to the far side of Earth's moon are bedeviled by a force that feeds on human emotion and consumes the soul.
Dark Star Movie Review
John Carpenter's directorial debut is a low-budget, sci-fi satire that focuses on a group of scientists whose mission is to destroy unstable planets.
Dark Universe Movie Review
An alien terror wants to conquer the Earth and make its inhabitants their new food source.
Darkman Movie Review
Campy horror filmmaker Sam Raimi took the traditional gothic disfigured-man-seeks-revenge premise, mixed it with high-tech details, and turned the monster into a superhero.
Darkman 2: The Return of Durant Movie Review
The first direct-to-video sequel continues the adventures of disfigured scientist Peyton West-lake (now played by Arnold Vosloo), still conducting liquid-skin research in hopes of permanently repairing his hideous exterior.
Darkman 3: Die Darkman Die Movie Review
Peyton Westlake, the Darkman, is one unhappy scientist, made miserable through two previous films by his scarred, skull-like visage and spiritual agony.
D.A.R.Y.L. Movie Review
Boy found by the side of the road is too polite, too honest, and too smart.
The Day After Movie Review
A powerful drama which graphically depicts the nuclear bombing of a Midwestern city and the after-effects on the survivors.
The Day It Came to Earth Movie Review
Completely silly and unbelievable sci-fi flick has meteor crashing into the watery grave of a mobster.
Day of the Triffids Movie Review
The majority of Earth's population is blinded by a meteor shower.
And What a Day It Was Movie Review
“In nature's scheme of things, there are certain plants which are carnivorous – or eating plants.
The Day the Earth Caught Fire Movie Review
“World saved.” “World doomed.” Which headline will be correct after the Earth is knocked out of its orbit and hurtles toward the sun? Leo McKern stars as the gruff science reporter who discovers the catastrophe after investigating the sudden floods, cyclones, and mysterious mists that arise in the wake of simultaneous nuclear testing at the North and South Poles by the Americans and Russians.
The Day the Earth Stood Still Movie Review
The first big-budget sf feature of the ‘50s has aged gracefully. Michael Rennie stars as the alien Klaatu, who arrives in D.C. to warn Earth's leaders that our planet faces obliteration should they not halt atomic testing. His invitation to live in peace with “the other planets” is met with fear and hysteria. He escapes hospital confinement and takes a room in a boardin…
The Day the Sky Exploded Movie Review
Sci-fi disaster drama doesn't live up to the grandiose title, as a runaway rocket ship hits the sun, unleashing an asteroid shower that threatens Earth with tidal waves, earthquakes, heat waves, and terrible dialogue.
Day the World Ended Movie Review
This was exploitation film guru Roger Corman's first science-fiction movie. Five survivors of a nuclear holocaust stumble onto a desert ranch house fortress owned by a survivalist (Paul Birch) and his daughter (Lori Nelson). Animosity quickly develops between the “good” survivors (Birch, Nelson, and wholesome Richard Denning) and the &…
Day Time Ended Movie Review
Glowing UFOs streaking across the sky, an alien mechanical device with long menacing appendages, and dinosaurs battling in the front yard are only some of the bizarre phenomena witnessed by a family whose desert dream home slips around in the time continuum.
Dead End Drive-In Movie Review
In a surreal, grim future a man is trapped at a drive-in theatre-cum-concentration camp, where the government incarcerates undesirables.
Dead Man Walking Movie Review
In a post-holocaust future, half the population has been stricken with a deadly disease (whose exact nature remains undescribed) and so-what attitudes abound.
Dead Space Movie Review
Dead space lay between the ears of whoever thought we needed this remake of 1982's Forbidden World.
Dead Weekend Movie Review
Alien is detected in town, so the government's psycho paramilitary riot squad clears out citizens and begins enthusiastically shooting whoever's left.
Dead Zone Movie Review
With the exception of a few sequences, this one at first seems like director David Cronenberg selling out in order to make a movie for a big studio. But who cares? This is a great adaptation of the Stephen King thriller. Christopher Walken is given the gift of psychic powers following a near-fatal (and quite spectacular) accident and subsequent five-year-long coma. Regaining consciou…
Deadlock Movie Review
Rutger Hauer and Mimi Rogers star as inmates in a prison of the future.
Deadlock 2 Movie Review
Same basic plot as in the first TV movie.
Deadly Harvest Movie Review
Scientists’ worst fears have been realized – due to ecological abuse and over-development of the land, food has become extremely scarce.
The Deadly Mantis Movie Review
After an opening explains the U.S. military's Distant Early Warning Line in the manner of a government training film, that hardware tracks a giant prehistoric praying mantis released from an iceberg via volcanic eruption (hey, it could happen).
Deadly Weapon Movie Review
Producer Charles Band raided his own Laserblast from 10 years earlier for this rather nerdish wish fulfillment, when 15-year-old geek Rodney Eastman finds a secret anti-matter weapon conveniently fallen off a military transport.
Death Machine Movie Review
Exec uncovers questionable scientific project at weapons technology company and the scientist in charge decides to get even by testing his death machine, which works by sensing fear, in corporate headquarters.
Death of the Incredible Hulk Movie Review
Scientist David Banner's new job just may provide the clues for stopping his transformation into the monstrous Incredible Hulk.
Death Race (2000) Movie Review
In the 21st century, a leather-suited David Carradine is the defending champion of the nationally televised Transcontinental Death Race, in which participants score points for running over pedestrians.
Death Sport Movie Review
This followup to Roger Corman's Death Race 2000 could have used more of that film's freewheeling spirit and black humor. David Carradine and former Playboy Playmate of the Year and legendary B-movie queen Claudia Jennings star as “Ranger Guides” who are pursued across the post-nuclear wilderness by motorcycle-riding “Statesmen” who want them for gladiatori…
Death Watch Movie Review
This provocative drama unwittingly anticipated the abuses of today's tabloid talk shows.
Temporal Anomalies Movie Review
It's a good idea to stamp expiration dates on food, medicine, and unexposed film – but not so prudent with sf. Even well-told genre tales tend to lose their luster if their predictions are tied down to a specific year that has come and gone. The big exception is George Orwell's 1984, which, although meant as a commentary on society in 1948, even today remains a potent warning,…
Deep Red Movie Review
The clever opening toys with perceptions of scale, revealing that an incredible alien spaceship zooming to Earth is about the size of a splinter.
Deep Space Movie Review
“A UFO? What's that, some kind of foreign car?” says the exceptionally stupid cop hero of this Alien ripoff.
Deepstar Six Movie Review
While James Cameron's epic The Abyss was still in production, various cheapo filmmakers raced to have their own undersea sci-fi creature features in cinemas first.
Def-Con 4 Movie Review
Three astronauts watch helplessly as a nuclear holocaust devastates Earth below, then return to the planet's surface to try to start civilization again.
Delicatessen Movie Review
Set in post-apocalyptic 21st-century Paris, this hilarious debut from directors Jean-Marie Jeunot and Marc Caro focuses on the lives of the oddball tenants over a butcher shop. Although there is a famine, the butcher shop is always stocked with fresh meat…and the building does seem to go through quite a few tenants. Part comedy, part horror, part romance, this film merges a cacophony of sig…
Deluge Movie Review
Tidal waves causd by earthquakes have destroyed most of New York (though some may think this is no great loss) in this early sci-fi pic.
Demolition Man Movie Review
Sf shoot-'em-up meets all the demands of the genre – lots of fights and macho posturing, gunfire and/or shattering glass at least every seven minutes, an explosion or two in between, car chases and cartoon characterizations – and those are all plugged into a script that has surprisingly witty moments. As a cop and a criminal transported to the near future, Stallone and …
Demon City Shinjuku Movie Review
In the near future the evil Levih Rah has created a “Demon City” surrounded by a moat in the heart of Tokyo, where he commands his army of thugs and monsters.
Demon of Paradise Movie Review
Dynamite fishing off the coast of Hawaii unleashes a homicidal marine lizard-man on a resort island.
Demon Seed Movie Review
Early entry in the computer-gone-nuts sub-genre, based on a Dean R.
Destination Moon Movie Review
American scientists and engineers finance their own moon rocket, despite government interference. Story of man's first lunar voyage was so influential that it not only set the format for almost every space travel film for the next 15 years (for example, one crew member must be from Brooklyn), but it also probably gave NASA a few ideas. Contains Chesley Bonstell's famous…
Destination Moonbase Alpha Movie Review
In the 21st century, an explosion has destroyed half the moon, causing it to break away from the Earth's orbit.
Destination Saturn Movie Review
Buck Rogers awakens from suspended animation in the twenty-fifth century.
Destroy All Monsters Movie Review
The ultimate Japanese monster bash! Aliens from the planet Kilaak take control of Godzilla and his monstrous colleagues, who've been incarcerated on a remote island. Various monsters are dispatched to destroy different Earth cities (Godzilla is sent to New York, apparently to give Tokyo a rest). Adding insult to injury, the Kilaakians send three-headed Ghidrah in to take care …
Destroy All Planets Movie Review
Aliens whose spaceships turn into giant flying squids are attacking Earth.
Devil Girl from Mars Movie Review
Sexy female from Mars, clad in a black vinyl skirt, arrives at a small Scottish inn with her very large, clumsy robot to announce that a Martian feminist revolution has occurred.
Monster Die Die! Movie Review
A young man (Nick Adams) visits his fiancee's family home, even though everyone in the neighboring village advises him against it. He finds his prospective father-in-law is a reclusive, wheelchair-bound scientist (Boris Karloff) who's been fooling around with a radioactive meteorite in his laboratory. As a result, he's got a greenhouse full of mutan…
Digital Man Movie Review
Umpteenth post-apocalyptic sf action movie is about an army patrol composed of humans and cyborgs (who think they are human) on the trail of the titular Matthias Hues, a super-cyborg who totes a quintuple-barreled rocket gun.
Dinosaur Island Movie Review
Five U.S. soldiers survive a plane crash on an island where huge-breasted ladies dwell without males and, despite their Amazonian ferocity, remain at the mercy of hungry prehistoric dinosaurs that roam the place.
Dinosaurus! Movie Review
A nasty Tyrannosaurus Rex and a gentle bron-tosaurus and apeman appear for some reason on an island.
Disaster at Silo 7 Movie Review
When the engine of a Titan missile goes on the fritz, the Air Force tries to prevent a nuclear disaster.
Doc Savage Movie Review
Dr. Clark Savage, Jr., and “The Amazing Five” fight a murderous villain who plans to take over the world. Based on the long series of pulp novels by Kenneth Robeson, the plotline loosely follows the initial entry The Man of Bronze, while incorporating several ideas from other stories. This is almost sure to disappoint fans of the pulp series, as a camp approach is taken, but most of …
Dr. Alien Movie Review
A 1950s-style bulbous-headed alien assumes the delectable form of Judy Landers and, posing as an Earth scientist, turns a dorky college freshman into a sex-addicted stud whose skull sprouts a wriggly, phallic stalk of flesh whenever he gets aroused by the ubiquitous large-bosomed coeds.
Dr. Cyclops Movie Review
The famous early Technicolor fantasia about a mad scientist miniaturizing a group of explorers who happen upon his jungle lab.
Doctor Faustus Movie Review
Christopher Marlowe's 16th-century morality play, brilliantly rendered and filmed. Aged scholar Faustus bargains away his soul to the Devil for youth, adventure, and a meeting with Helen of Troy ("Was this the face that launched a thousand ships…?"). Richard Burton's stentorian tones provide oratorical fireworks, whilst among the spectacle is an enjoyable sequenc…
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine Movie Review
Price spoofs his image for the umpteenth time as a San Francisco mad scientist who uses gorgeous female robots to seduce the wealthy and powerful in a scheme to take over the world.
Doctor Mordrid: Master of the Unknown Movie Review
Two immensely powerful sorcerers from the 4th dimension cross over into our world with very different missions – one wants to destroy the Earth, one wants to save it.
Doctor Satan's Robot Movie Review
Art is long and life is short, and if you haven't time to watch the 15-episode Republic serial Mysterious Doctor Satan in full-length video reissue, this feature condensation will do.
Dr. Strange Movie Review
A made-for-television pilot based upon the Marvel Comics character who, with the help of a sorcerer, practices witchcraft in order to fight evil.
or Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Movie Review
It's the end of the world as we know it in Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy that is undimmed by the collapse of the “evil empire.” Sterling Hayden stars as cigar-chomping General Jack Ripper, who is convinced of a Communist conspiracy to sap “our precious bodily fluids” and orders American bombers to attack Russia. George C. Scott is in his element a…
TV on Tape: Doctor Who Movie Review
In the late ‘70s, American science-fiction fans began hearing a lot about a strange British television show called Doctor Who. Pictures in sf magazines showed a tall man with a mop of curly hair and an apparently endless scarf, usually standing beside what looked like a blue telephone booth. This fellow was pretty far removed from the conventional American science-fiction hero, who, from Ca…
Doctor Who and the Daleks Movie Review
A silly feature adapted from the popular BBC series, with Peter Cushing playing the Doctor as an absent-minded old (human) inventor.
Doctor X Movie Review
Something weird is going on at Dr.
Dog Soldier: Shadows of the Past Movie Review
The CIA has discovered a cure for AIDS in this animated Japanese feature.
Doin’ Time on Planet Earth Movie Review
Adolescent boy feels out of place amid his obnoxious family and tacky suburban community.
Donovan's Brain Movie Review
Curt Siodmak's novel is the basis for this McCarthy-era brain-control thriller.
Dragon Fury Movie Review
Evil dictator tries to conquer what remains of America in the year 2099–a world peopled by barbarians and victims of a deadly plague.
Dragonfight Movie Review
In the near future, multinational corporations rule the world and vie for supremacy through gladiator combat (apparently execs go to business school to be Masters of Barbarian Administration).
Dragonslayer Movie Review
An excellent medieval fantasy about a sorcerer's apprentice who suddenly finds himself called upon to save his country from a fire-breathing, virgin-eating dragon named Vermithrax.
Dreamscape Movie Review
A doctor teaches a young psychic Dennis Quaid how to enter into other people's dreams in order to end their nightmares–but what if a rival psychic is causing those nightmares? The President of the United States (Eddie Albert) is the victim, suffering visions of nuclear holocaust designed to push him over the edge, and the hero enters the sleeping chief executive's dreams to try and undo the damage.
Dune Movie Review
Auteur of the bizarre David Lynch directed this science-fiction epic based on the Frank Herbert novel of the same name. A stellar cast, good special effects, and sweeping desert vistas lift the film above a somewhat muddled script. In the year 10,991, a group of noble houses struggle for control of the universe. Among political and religious intrigue, the key to absolute power is control of the mi…
Dune Warriors Movie Review
Future Earth is a parched planet, where civilized people are terrorized by water-seeking bandits.
Dungeonmaster Movie Review
You can't fault low-budget fantasy producer Charles Band for lack of ambition: this omnibus from his Italy-based Empire studio consists of seven segments, each by a different director in a different genre. Plot concerns a jealous Devil (Richard Moll) deciding to pit his occult powers against computer jock Jeffrey Byron and his portable micro XCALIBR8. Thus, in a series of cont…
Duplicates Movie Review
Gregory Harrison and Kim Greist are a married couple whose young son has disappeared.
Dust Devil Movie Review
Three travelers find themselves in Africa's vast Namibia desert: a policeman (Zakes Mokae), a woman on the run (Chelsea Field), and her abusive husband.