Do you like tournament movies, the kind with a bunch of fighters from around the world taking on one another with different styles until only the last fighter remains? You know, like Bloodsport? Then you might end up enjoying this goofy period piece written by, starring, and directed by Jean-Claude Van Damme. An old man … Continue reading The Quest (1996)
I enjoy a good 1950s scifi B-movie. Or a bad one, for that matter. In the last couple of decades, we've seen an interesting wave of nostalgia for older horror in the indie scene, going all the way back to the silent film era with Andrew Leman's adaptation of The Call of Cthulhu. Of these, … Continue reading The Giant Spider (2013)
Thank God for Troma. Monster in the Closet is a spoof on 1950s monster movies and their extreme straitlaced paranoia. A monster comes out of closets and attacks residents in a small California community a little north of San Francisco. A young man who desperately wants to become a journalist gets the story as a … Continue reading Monster in the Closet (1986)
The movie Westworld had a sequel, only instead of killer robots in a theme park, it's about killer robots in a theme park...with nonsensical dream sequences, an evil corporation replacing world leaders with robots, and eyeglasses that would make Elton John giddy. Oh, and a lot of talk about sex with robots because why not? … Continue reading Futureworld (1976)
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