Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla isn’t much, but that still puts it miles above its predecessors. The aliens are now space apes, in human form, naturally. The big news is that Godzilla has just one opponent. That’s shaking things up. It is a laser-shooting mechanical Godzilla, so fearsome that the real lizard only stands a chance with
In the years since Godzilla was trapped in ice, M-Force, made up of humans and vinyl-wearing mutants, has protected the world from the threat of giant monsters with sophisticated sci-fi weapons, wire-fu, and posing–lots and lots of posing. When a 1200-year-old “fossil” of a giant cyborg is discovered, mutant good-guy Ôzaki is assigned to bodyguard
Sinbad (Kerwin Mathews) happens upon the island of Colossa, where the magician Sokurah (Torin Thatcher) is running from a giant cyclops. Sinbad rescues Sokurah, but the sorcerer drops a magic lamp containing a genie (Richard Eyer). When Sokurah can get no help in returning to the island, he secretly shrinks Sinbad’s fiancée, Princess Parisa (Kathryn
Drunken moonshiner Lem is out for his daily otter poaching run in the swamp when he is attacked by a vicious-looking Hefty bag. No one believes his story, except the Hefty bag, which kills him a few scenes later. Things then switch over to sweaty hillbilly Dave (Bruno VeSota) and his hot, white-trash wife, Liz-Baby
A nuclear bomb test in the arctic (ummmm…in the arctic? Why are they testing a bomb in the arctic?), awakens a dinosaur that’s been frozen for a hundred million years. Nuclear physicist Tom Nesbitt (Paul Christian) sees the creature, but no one believes him. When several ships are sunk, paleontologist Thurgood Elson (Cecil Kellaway) and his beautiful assistant
A meteorite hits in a wooded area near a “typical” 1950s town. It carried a small amorphous blob that attacks an old man’s hand and begins to dissolve it. Teenagers Steve Andrews (Steve McQueen) and Jane Martin (Aneta Corsaut) find the man and take him to the local doctor. The blob grows, devouring the old man, the
A homeless man, investigating a meteorite, is attacked by a small, amoeba-like blob that begins to dissolve his hand. High school football star Paul Taylor (Donovan Leitch) and cheerleader Meg Penny (Shawnee Smith), along with teen bad-boy Brian Flagg (Kevin Dillon) take him to the hospital. When he dies, along with others, Flagg is blamed,
In exchange for the promise of resurrection of his dead lover, (Arnold Schwarzenegger) agrees to undertake a quest to retrieve a horn that will be used to wake a sleeping god. Conan is accompanied by the thief Malak (Tracey Walter), the wizard Akiro (Mako), the warrior-woman Zula (Grace Jones), the queens guard Bombaata (Wilt Chamberlain),
Lord Hanabasa assures his two children that recent earthquakes are not to be feared as their good god will protect them. The common villagers have a different view, gathering to perform a ceremony to keep an evil spirit locked away in a giant statue. Samanosuke, the traitorous Chamberlain, takes advantage of the confusion to murder
Daimajin Strikes Again: A wounded woodsman returns to his village, explaining that a warlord had captured the missing men and forced them into hard labor building a fort. Only he had escaped by crossing the god’s mountain. With the coming snow, the local lord cannot send troops. Someone must travel to the compound, over the
Daimajin Return of Daimajin Daimajin Strikes Again Daimajin: Lord Hanabasa assures his two children that recent earthquakes are not to be feared as their good god will protect them. The common villagers have a different view, gathering to perform a ceremony to keep an evil spirit locked away in a giant statue. Samanosuke, the traitorous
A miss-matched group, including roguish John Finnegan (Treat Williams), his sidekick Joey (Kevin J. O’Connor), a beautiful jewel thief (Famke Janssen), a ruthless business man, and a band of mercenaries, are trapped on a disabled luxury liner with a giant sea monster. They have a lot of guns and the monster has a lot of