La Jetee Movie Review
One of the greatest film shorts of all time, and the inspiration for the 1995 Terry Gilliam sci-fi thriller 12 Monkeys.
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Land of Doom Movie Review
Amazon chick named Harmony teams up reluctantly with a warrior in battle against minions of a punk muscleman in a metallic mask – as if one of the villains of the World Wrestling Federation survived the nuclear holocaust.
The Land that Time Forgot Movie Review
WWI veteran Bowen Tyler, a beautiful woman, and their German enemies are stranded in the land of Caprona, which is filled with phoney-looking dinosaurs and cave-people.
The Land Unknown Movie Review
A Naval helicopter is forced down in a tropical land of prehistoric terror, complete with ferocious creatures from the Mesozoic Era.
Laserblast Movie Review
Prolific low-budget producer Charles Band first gained genre attention (little of it positive) with this drive-in hybrid of Carrie and Close Encounters in which an abused wimp gets revenge when he finds a powerful laser gun dropped by dinosaur-like aliens.
Last Chase Movie Review
Famed race car driver becomes a vocal dissenter against the sterile society that has emerged, in this drama set in the near future.
Last Days of Planet Earth Movie Review
More interesting as a societal symptom than entertainment, this Japanese doomsday movie focuses on scientists and their families who witness a build-up of pollution responsible for giant mutant slugs, marauding bats, freak weather conditions, birth defects, and other environmental calamities.
The Last Man on Earth Movie Review
Richard Matheson's compelling novel I Am Legend has been the uncredited inspiration for many zombie/plague/end-of-the-world films and sort-of actually made into two movies: this one, and the 1971 The Omega Man. Vincent Price plays The Last Man on Earth, lone survivor of a plague which first kills, and then zombifies its victims. On one of his daytime zombie hunts, Price comes …
The Last Starfighter Movie Review
The outer-space scenes in this warm-hearted adventure aren't nearly as interesting as the Starlight Starbright Trailer Court where the beginning is set.
Last War Movie Review
After World War III, continued tensions between the United States and Russia triggers Armageddon. Made by Toho Studios in 1961 during a period in which several films were made dealing with global destruction via atomic weapons, but not released in the U.S. (directly to TV) until ‘68. The difference in this one is in its viewpoint from the unique perspective of the only country…
The Last Woman on Earth Movie Review
Two men vie for the affections of the sole surviving woman after a vague and unexplained disaster of vast proportions.
Lathe of Heaven Movie Review
In a near-future world, young George Orr visits a psychologist complaining that his dreams can alter and mold the real world. The ambitious shrink tries hypnosis to use the awesome superpower on a grand scale and cure mankind's many ills. Unfortunately, Orr's dreams have disastrous consequences – a demand for peace between all nations is realized via alien invasion – an…
The Lawless Land Movie Review
Post-holocaust America is ruled by a tyrant.
The Lawnmower Man Movie Review
Scientist Pierce Brosnan uses a dim-witted gardener named Jobe (Jeff Fahey, in a fright wig) to test his virtual-reality computer techniques for enhancing intelligence.
Lawnmower Man 2: Jobe's War Movie Review
Since just about everything and everyone had been blown up at end of the first film, this one's less a sequel than a cinematic videogame.
Legend Movie Review
A colorful, unabashedly Tolkienesque fantasy full of unicorns, magic swamps, bumbling dwarves, and rainbows.
Leviathan Movie Review
A motley crew of ocean-floor miners unwarily open a scuttled Soviet sub and are exposed to a failed genetic experiment that turns humans into insatiable, regenerating fish-creatures.
Lifeforce Movie Review
The most common complaint about this Tobe Hooper effort used to be that it moved too fast. The recent release of the European cut solves that problem (if it was one) by delivering 20 more minutes of story. Everything you'd ever want in a sci-fi/horror film is here. Haley's comet, the space shuttle, a gigantic spaceship, exploding bodies, apocalyptic zombie mob sc…
Lifepod Movie Review
A group of intergalactic travelers is forced to evacuate a luxury space liner when a mad computer sabotages the ship.
Lifepod Movie Review
Loose adaptation of Hitchcock's 1944 Lifeboat begins at a full run with the explosion of an interplanetary cruise ship.
Light Years Movie Review
Garish animated fantasy epic about an idyllic land suddenly beset by evil mutations and death rays.
Link Movie Review
Primatologist Terence Stamp conducts his behavioral experiments in the remote English countryside assisted by Link, an ex-circus chimp (played by an orangutan) trained to act just like a butler.
Liquid Sky Movie Review
Androgynous bisexual model (Anne Carlisle) living in Manhattan attracts a miniature UFO, which lands atop her penthouse.
Lobster Man from Mars Movie Review
When a rich movie producer (Tony Curtis) learns from his accountant that he must produce a flop as a tax writeoff, he buys and promotes the titular homemade sci-fi movie from a young Ed Wood type.
Lock ‘n’ Load Movie Review
Colorado production rises above its shoestring budget.
Logan's Run Movie Review
In the 23rd century, a hedonistic society exists in a huge bubble and people are only allowed to live to the age of 30, at which point they are expected to participate in ritual public suicide. Michael York plays a “Sandman,” a sort of cop assigned to track down and assassinate “Runners” – those that try to escape and live past 30. The central government sends hi…
Looker Movie Review
Models being digitized for computer-generated TV commercials are systematically murdered.
TV on Tape: Lost in Space Movie Review
One of the golden rules of storytelling is that a good yarn is a good yarn, no matter how the storyteller might change or update it. For Lost in Space, producer Irwin Allen took Swiss Family Robinson to the space age, thrilling ‘60s TV audiences with the adventures of a futuristic but all-American family marooned on an alien planet. Guy Williams and perpetual TV-mom June Lockhart were the p…
Lords of the Deep Movie Review
Producer Roger Corman puts in a cameo appearance (as a treacherous company boss, of all things) in this cheapie about underwater technicians trapped on the ocean floor with a menacing race of manta-like aliens.
The Lost Continent Movie Review
An expedition searching for a lost rocket on a jungle island discovers dinosaurs and other extinct creatures.
The Lost Empire Movie Review
Three bountiful and powerful women team up to battle the evil Dr.
The Lost Missile Movie Review
A lost, alien missile circles the Earth, causing overheating and destruction on the planet's surface.
Lost Planet Airmen Movie Review
The planet is Earth, so it's not lost; and there's only one airman, a scientist in a jet backpack and metal mask who fights the evil genius killing eminent scientists.
Lost Was the Key Movie Review
This is gotta be the most in-depth video on a single alien abduction.
The Lost World Movie Review
A zoology professor (Wallace Beery) leads a group on a South American expedition in search of the “lost world,” an inaccessible plateau where dinosaurs roam in this silent film.
The Lost World Movie Review
Land of the Lost/Jurassic Park themes, based on the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Lucifer Complex Movie Review
Nazi doctors are cloning exact duplicates of such world leaders as the Pope and the President of the United States on a remote South American island in the year 1996.