A tough, maverick Texas cop (Dolph Lundgren) embarks on a one-way ride to Nosebleed City when he attempts to track down a malevolent alien drug czar who kills his victims by sucking their brains. Highlights include the big alien's main weapon, a device that shoots laser-sharp CDs, and his title greeting, which he uses every time he meets someone to catch them off guard (…
A vintage thriller about a race of monstrous aliens who try to conquer Earth by turning themselves into duplicates of human beings.
Aliens who look just like old-fashioned gangsters land near Pleasantville, USA, and make a deal with a couple of human criminals to rule the world.
Space pirates in the far future steal blocks of ice to fill the needs of a thirsty galaxy.
A frozen caveman is brought back to life, and proceeds to experience some rather severe culture shock.
Director Peter Fonda's sober-sided cautionary tale is about time travel, government repression, and ecological disaster.
Ambitious but ultimately limited attempt at dramatizing the famous short-story anthology by Ray Bradbury. Young drifter meets obsessed wanderer Rod Steiger, searching for a mystery woman (Claire Bloom, at the time Steiger's wife) who, before dematerializing, tattooed him head to foot. Uncanny tattoo designs inspire three narratives with the same three actors: “The Veldt…
Mix of animation and live-action in this post-nuclear wasteland tale never quite works.
A photographer with a vivid imagination dreams he murders a woman he doesn't know, and when that very same dream girl enters his life (and bed), the stud shutterbug faces an etiquette quandary: haven't they met before? The ultimate solution qualifies this as a sci-fi pic, though it's generally a drowsy erotic thriller.
Bill Bixby is a scientist who achieves superhuman strength after he is exposed to a massive dose of gamma rays.
The beefy green mutant is back and this time he wages war against a Viking named Thor.
Two transformations change an astronaut's life after his return to Earth. First, his skin starts to melt, then he displays cannibalistic tendencies. Hard to swallow. An intended tribute to ‘50s sci-fi shockers like First Man into Space and The Amazing Colossal Man, this one misses a prime opportunity for some campy, over-the-top gory fun by instead sticking to a dull plot, with most …
Divers are trapped in an underwater cave when volcanic eruptions begin.
By any standard, an sf masterpiece. Adapted by Richard Matheson from his own novel, the film is a philosophical thriller about Robert Scott Carey (Grant Williams) who is exposed to a radioactive mist and begins to slowly shrink. Why? That's not really the question. Each new size means that everyday objects take on sinister meaning, and he must fight for his life in an increasi…
A good-natured spoof of The Incredible Shrinking Man, with some inoffensive social satire.
Lon Chaney, electrocuted for murder and bank robbery, is brought back to life by a scientist.
In this, the third and last (?) Indiana Jones adventure, the fearless archaeologist is once again up against the Nazis in a race to find the Holy Grail.
Daredevil archaeologist Indiana Jones is back. This time he's on the trail of the legendary Ankara Stone and a ruthless cult that has enslaved hundreds of children. More gore (this is the one where the cult leader gets his kicks pulling beating hearts out of living bodies) and violence than the original; Kate Cap-shaw's whining character is an irritant, lacking the fres…
The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV show, with its cheesy monsters and hyper-kinetic fight sequences, owes a lot to this outrageous Hong Kong production.
A space pilot (Dennis Quaid) is miniaturized for an experimental journey through the body of a lab rabbit (a la Fantastic Voyage) and is accidentally injected into a nebbishy supermarket clerk (Martin Short), and together they nab some bad guys and get the girl. Although Short's brand of physical slapstick gets a little tiresome, he and the exaspera…
The old sci-fi premise – aliens in our midst – was briefly brought to life in this ABC series, which has endured with cult status and a recent TV movie update. January 1967 saw the Quinn Martin-produced series debut, as architect David Vincent (Roy Thinnes) made a wrong turn down an empty country road and witnessed the landing of an alien spacecraft. At least, he thinks…
A heroic adventurer battles mutant punks in post-apocalyptic world to keep the unsullied ‘Interzone’ region free from despoiling.
Half-baked thriller about crew on an isolated oil rig in Antarctica who, while drilling, unearth a nasty creature that goes around terrorizing the frost-bitten men and occasional stray woman.
Follows the story of three people who have unexplained lapses of time in their lives which they eventually believe are connected to visits by aliens.
When one group of soldiers inexplicably massacres another, a reporter for a sleazy tabloid is sent to uncover (or to invent) a story about UFOs and Martians.
Famous but dated sci-fi fave about a little boy who sees a flying saucer bury itself behind his house.
Adequate but pointless remake of Menzies’ 1953 semi-classic about a body-snatching Martian invasion perceived only by one young boy and a sympathetic school nurse (played by mother and son Karen Black and Hunter Carson).
A hospital opens its doors to an accident victim, and his attractive female visitors don't seem sympathetic to the idea of a long hospital stay.
A cheap spoof of monster movies, as an insectoid projectionist takes over the minds of a movie audience.
Hairy monster from outer space attacks Lapland.
Early in their television career, critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert declared this to be one of their favorite “guilty pleasures” and its reputation was set.
Based on Jack Finney's novel, the definitive take on ‘50s American paranoia and conformity is still one of the most frightening sf movies ever made, a chilling exercise in nightmare dislocation. The infamous “pod people” are just like you and me…only they're not. Everything about the film works right from the small town setting of Santa Mira to the flawles…
The subtlety of Donald Siegel's original gives way to gaudy special effects and self-consciously artsy camera work from director Philip Kaufman.
Aliens are thought to be the captors when sky-divers begin vanishing in mid-air.
Frank Gorshin (Batman’s Riddler) plays the town drunk in this kinda slow sci-fi comedy about bulbous-headed long-fingered aliens who are hassling teenagers at the local lovers lane.
A wrong-headed attempt to make a sf satire on crooked evangelists.
A photographer uncovers an extra terrestrial plot to cause excessive aggression in humans.
A mathematically challenged little boy (“Three? Seventeen? Forty four? A hundred?” he responds to his father's quizzing him on how many 24ths there are in one quarter) is a disappointment to his father, keeper of the super-computer at the Stoneman Mathematical Institute. Dad takes the problem to the massive computer (“He's ten and can'…
Short, cheap, and silly aliens-try-to-take-over-the-Earth flick.
The vintage horror-fest based on H.
Vincent Price stars as the original invisible man's brother.
Left for dead on a safari five years before, Jon Hall seeks revenge against Gale Sondergaard and Lester Matthews, aided by scientist John Carradine who renders Hall invisible.
For a change, this horror film features Bela Lugosi as the hero, fighting Boris Karloff, a scientist who locates a meteor that contains a powerful substance.
“Every scientific fact accepted today once burned as a fantastic find in the mind of someone called mad.
A maniac steals a mad scientist's invisibility formula and uses it on a number of innocent victims.
Continuation of the storyline from the direct-to-video opus Mandroid, and it's starting to look like the Fantastic Four minus two.
Above average comedy about zany professor John Barrymore discovering the secret of invisibility and making luscious model Virginia Bruce transparent.
A wrong-headed remake of the 1933 classic Island of Lost Souls.
A horrifying, highly effective adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau, initially banned in parts of the U.S. because of its disturbing content. Charles Laughton is a mad scientist on a remote tropical island, obsessed with making men out of jungle animals through extensive, painful surgery. The jungle is full of Laughton's half-finished experiments, all of whom are kept i…
First-rate science-fiction chiller about a British island overrun by single-celled creatures with protective shells that suck the bones out of their living prey with slimy tentacles.
Director Terence Fisher's atmospheric style worked for his Hammer Studio gothic horror films, but when it comes to this attempt at scifi, a little more punch was needed.
A giant octopus arises from the depths of the sea to scour San Francisco for human food.
Non-humanoid aliens crash in the Arizona desert and take the form of captured local residents to repair their spacecraft and get away before Earth authorities move in.
Poorly updated cable version of the sci-fi film finds desert dwellers temporarily possessed by shape-shifting aliens, who need the human bodies to rebuild their crashed space ship.
Eccentric scientist Lee Van Cleef makes radio contact with a dying race of intelligent creatures on Venus and, believing he'd be saving mankind from itself, aids the aliens in their invasion of Earth. By the time he finds out that their plans are less than benevolent, it's too late, and only his buddy Peter Graves can stop the invaders. The largely immobile (and goofy looking&…
Sole survivor of a Mars expedition is arrested for the mass slaughter of his colleagues. As he protests his innocence, the real culprit, a big, hungry Martian, stows away aboard the Earth-bound rocket and begins killing crew members en route. An obvious inspiration for Ridley Scott's Alien, though suspense here is more claustrophobic, as the brute pounds its way through hatch after hatch, b…
A memorable cult film about a mutant baby born to a normal Los Angeles couple.
A twisted satire about the fight between good and evil, as a pleasant little alien crash lands and is repeatedly abused by the motley assortment of degenerates he encounters.