Valley girl Valerie (Geena Davis) is having a bad week: first she catches her fiance with another woman, then she breaks a nail, then furry aliens land in her swimming pool. What more could go wrong? When the aliens are temporarily stranded, she decides to make amends by giving them a head-to-toe makeover with the help of her hairdresser, Julie “I Like ‘Em Big and Stupi…
“If it lands in our nation's capital uninvited, we don't meet it with tea and cookies.” Hugh Marlowe, the jerk who turned in Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still, is a scientist who establishes contact with the survivors of a dying race of aliens looking to colonize our planet.
Man-eating giant mutant…well, if you can't tell what it is from the title, there's no hope for you.
Edward's (Johnny Depp) a young man created by a loony scientist (Vincent Price), who dies before he can attach hands to his boy-creature. Then the boy is rescued from his lonely existence outside of suburbia by an ingratiating Avon lady. With scissors in place of hands, Edward has more trouble fitting into suburbia than would most new kids on the block, and he st…
Despite its terminal-ly cute ending, this “fairy tale for computers” manages to generate a mild paranoid buzz for anyone who has ever been on the down side of a mainframe. Lenny Von Dohlen stars as Miles, an architect whose life is gradually taken over by Edgar, his home computer which (don't ask) develops feelings of its own and tries to sabotage Miles’ b…
Insurance claims investigator Rod Cameron looks into the death of a Hollywood starlet and discovers an exclusive therapy center dedicated to hypnotism.
In a monochromatic, post-holocaust future, a detective tracks down a serial killer of young girls.
Cyborg escapes from the evil scientist who created him, then recruits a handful of adventurers for an assault on the madman's fortress before he can take over the world via time travel.
Rock Hudson looks uncomfortable as a scientist who salvages a human fetus, treating it with genetic serum that creates a fully mature, intelligent, beautiful test-tube woman (Barbara Carrera) in a matter of days.
A group of enormous, nuclear, unfriendly ants stalk a real estate dealer and prospective buyers of undeveloped oceanfront property.
In the second film of George Lucas’ trilogy, the characters become more firmly set. Luke continues his training–now with the wonderful Yoda (created by Frank Oz); Han and Leia begin to sort things out; Lando Calrissian enters the story; Darth Vader becomes creepier and more important. The stop-motion and creature effects are terrific, but the real key is the never-a-dul…
Life on an unhappy Australian farm is made even more miserable by sudden, deadly flyovers by (unseen) extraterrestrials.
A coffee machine explodes, sending a man through a window and into a neon sign, where he is electrocuted.
Made at the height of the none-too-brief underwater monster fad that Hollywood went through, this one's actually not bad.
A moralistic space opera in which two pilots from warring planets, one an Earthling, the other an asexual reptilian “Drac,” crashland on a barren planet and are forced to work together to survive. Eventually a strange friendship develops between them. The message gets a bit heavy handed at times, but fortunately never slows down the compelling story. Plus, Louis Gossett, Jr., makes o…
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Young archaeologists uncover horror in a state forest.
Two lovers flee galactic villain Auriclon (most likely his glitter-filled beard scared them).
Once you accept the premise – that Manhattan, one of the most expensive pieces of real estate on the planet, would be turned into a big jail – you've got a fine sf shoot-'em-up.
As Red Chinese blow up Earth (probably with a bicycle pump; such is the budget), a co-ed crew of astronauts rocket toward an uncertain future in deep space.
Give the makers of this cheapie Z-movie a bone for having the chutzpah to set their Mad Max variant almost entirely within the confines of one crummy apartment building! Brutal slimeballs rule a mad, sadistic world in the post-apocalyptic future.
Reprising their roles as intelligent, English-speaking apes from a future Earth society, Roddy McDowall and Kim Hunter flee their world before it's destroyed, and travel back in time to present-day America. In L.A. they become the subjects of a relentless search by the fearful population, much like humans Charlton Heston and James Franciscus were targeted for experimentation and destruction…
In the tradition of The Twilight Zone, Vincent Price introduces five short thrillers featuring time travel, aliens, and telepathy.
A young man is given the amazing power of extra-sensory perception.
Spielberg's exquisite enchantment, one of the most popular films in history, portrays a limpid-eyed alien stranded on Earth and his special bonding relationship with the young children who find and try to conceal him from grownup authorities. A modern fairy tale providing warmth, humor, and sheer wonder, this was conceived as a second chapter for “Night Skies,” a much-discusse…
Hell knows no fury like a cutting-edge android-girl on the warpath.
Peter Cushing returns as Baron Frankenstein in the third Hammer Frankenstein film. Not dead (just chilling), the monster-man is found by the mad doctor, and who decides that even a cold monster is better than no monster. Back in the lab, the Baron puts the beast on defrost. Unfortunately, the ice-ing on the cake is that being frozen alive made the monster-brain dormant. Enter a suppo…
Fading movie queen takes an experimental drug to restore her youthful beauty, but side effects turn her into a giant silverfish, or something.
Stylized, brooding vision of the life of King Arthur and his knights of the roundtable as seen by director John Boorman. This one is all Boorman; in fact, it's the best Boorman. When Arthur removes the sword Excalibur from the stone, he fulfills a prophecy and becomes the “boy king.” His goal, to unite the land, will not be easy, particularly in his early dimwit state. But nev…
What if, in the middle of E.T., Spielberg's classic alien suddenly took off his mask and revealed…Mork from Ork? That's more or less what happens to this delicate, promising sci-fi tale that takes a galactic detour into gonzo comedy. In a reworking of This Island Earth, three boys are prompted by mysterious dreams to build a circuit that turns a scrapped carnival ride into rea…
The Exterminator and his mercenary girlfriend battle with nuclear mutants over the last remaining tanks of purified water on Earth.
John Ashley stars in this gory uncredited remake of the 1957 low-budget sci-fi Invasion of the Saucermen.
Long before The X-Files, Italian filmmakers spread the gospel of paranoia to flying saucer believers with this low-budget yarn of a photographer who gets pictures of a UFO as his model is abducted (she returns as a basket case).