Planet of the Vampires (1965)

Planet of the Vampires (1965)

The twin spaceships, Argos and Galliot (or Gallard or Galliod…) are investigating a strange, fog covered planet when a 40-G  force pulls them down to the surface.  Captain Mark Markary (Barry Sullivan) remains conscious, but his crew is knocked out.  When they awaken, they attack  each other, but Markary subdues them and they return to

Predator (1987)

Predator (1987)

Major ‘Dutch’ Schaeffer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and his commandos (Jesse Ventura, Bill Duke, Sonny Landham, Richard Chaves, Shane Black), along with CIA agent George Dillon (Carl Weathers), are sent deep into a South American jungle to rescue hostages.  What they find is a previous team of soldiers skinned, and an extraterrestrial hunter. One of the iconic

Predator 2 (1990)

Predator 2 (1990)

Near-future L.A. is in the midst of a drug war, and a predator has chosen this urban jungle as the site for his hunt.  Police Lieutenant Mike Harrigan (Danny Glover) and his team (Rubén Blades,  Maria Conchita Alonso, Bill Paxton) are stuck in the middle.  As Mike Harrigan tries to stop this invisible killer, he

Project: Metalbeast (1995)

Project: Metalbeast (1995)

In 1974, a secret operation brings back werewolf blood from Eastern Europe.  One of the agents injects himself with it, becoming a lycanthrope, but is shot with silver bullets and frozen by his boss (Barry Bostwick).  In present day, Doctor Anne De Carlo (Kim Delaney) and a team of scientists researching artificial metal blood, are

The Puppet Masters (1994)

The Puppet Masters (1994)

A team of secret agents, led by Andrew Nivens (Donald Sutherland), and including his gun-toting son, Sam (Eric Thal), and NASA exobiologiest, Mary Sefton (Julie Warner), investigate a UFO in rural Iowa. They discover alien “slugs” have invaded, possessing humans by latching onto their backs. Unless they are stopped, they will take over the world.

Quatermass 2 (1957)

Quatermass 2 (1957)

With his moon rocket project’s funding cut, a distraught Professor Quatermass’s (Brian Donlevy) finds mysterious meteorites, a victim burned by an unknown substance, and his domed moon station constructed near the site of a destroyed town. It all means that something is wrong, and the source is outer space. When he tries to alert the authorities, he

The Quatermass Conclusion (1979)

The Quatermass Conclusion (1979)

Society is falling apart, with a majority of youths either joining violent gangs or roaming the countryside as part of new age cults.  Those who are older are callous, accepting the disintegration of the cities with a shrug.  In this setting, retired rocket scientist  Bernard Quatermass (John Mills) comes to London in search of his

Quatermass and the Pit (1967)

Quatermass and the Pit (1967)

After a subway construction crew discovers the bones of ancient humans, and then a metal object, Col. Breen (Julian Glover) is called in to defuse what they assume is a left over, WWII, German, V-type bomb.  But rocket scientist Bernard Quatermass (Andrew Keir) thinks the device is of extraterrestrial origin, and working with anthropologist Mathew

The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)

The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)

Professor Bernard Quatermass’s (Brian Donlevy) experimental rocket crashes in a field in the English countryside. Quatermass, along with a representative of the Ministry of Defense (Lionel Jeffries) rushes to the site to find two of the astronauts have vanished and the third, Victor Carroon (Richard Wordsworth), is hurt in an inexplicable way and unable to speak. Dismissing

Quintet (1979)

Quintet (1979)

Essex (Paul Newman) and his pregnant lover travel across the frozen wastes to an ancient city where he hopes to find work. Instead, she is murdered, along with Essex’s brother. Essex seeks out the murderers, and tries to determine how the killings tie into the game Quintet, which the inhabitants of the ice-covered city play

Re-Animator (1985)

Re-Animator (1985)

Star med student Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) gets a new room-mate, mad scientist Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs).  Herbert has the ability to bring the dead back to life, sort of, and if his experiments go well, he’ll be able to do so much more.  Is it his fault that the hospital is full of zombies?

Replicant (2001)

Replicant (2001)

To test a secret government anti-terrorist cloning program, scientists make a “replicant” of The Torch (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a serial killer.  Recently retired police detective, Jack Riley (Michael Rooker), who worked on The Torch case, is hired to try out the clone and hunt down the killer. Some movies would benefit from never pretending to