400 years after most of the human race was wiped out by a virus, the last people on earth live in Bregna, an utopian city ruled by scientist Trevor Goodchild (Marton Csokas). Although everything is beautiful, people are depressed for unknown reasons, and citizens disappear without explanation, so rebels (known as Monicans) send their finest agent,
Shortly after the events of Aliens, Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) crash-lands on a prison planet, along with an alien. The all-male prisoners, led by Dillon (Charles Dutton), have found religion and don’t want a female bringing temptation. She’s left with only the doctor (Charles Dance) to talk to, until the killings begin. The first three Alien
Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is rescued and brought out of suspended animation fifty-seven years after the events of Alien. Since then, a colony has been established on the planet where the alien eggs were found. When contact is lost with the colonists, a group of space marines (Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton, William Hope, Jenette Goldstein, Al Matthews, Lance
Astronauts, including Ivan Hood (Bruce Campbell) and Kelly (Renee O’Connor), return from a forty-year mission and find alien insectoids have taken over. Humans are used as slave labor and it is up Ivan to lead a revolt. Written, directed, produced, and acted by ex-Xena people, Alien Apocalypse has the feel of those New Zealand TV
Ex-SETI cryptologist Julian Rome (James Spader) travels to Antarctica when Grisham (Carl Lewis), the communications officer at a research facility, discovers an object of likely extraterrestrial origin putting out a strong radio signal. Stationed at the lab is Julian’s ex-lover (Janine Eser), and the obnoxious Michael Straub (John Lynch). Now here is one of those odd
In a secret, underground, government laboratory, a mad scientist (John Savage) uses an alien rock to combine 100 different strands of predator DNA to make a monster that then gets loose and kills most of the lab personnel. A military team lead by the assassin Talon (Michelle Goh), is sent in by a high ranking
Three years after the landing of an alien spacecraft, the “Newcomers” have begun to integrate into American society, much like immigrants before them. After his partner is killed during a shootout with Newcomers in “Slag Town,” an alien ghetto, Detective Sykes (James Caan) requests Sam Francisco (Mandy Patinkin), the first alien to be made a
The alien Kulku demand eight million humans or they will destroy the planet. The world governments cave in and the U.S. has a lottery to decide who will be sacrificed. Stephen Chase (Brad Johnson) sets out to save his daughter, who has been selected. Quick Review: The scene of the destruction of a town looks good and
After a nuclear war, the remaining, now-sterile humans are kept in camps by androids. Mary is still fertile, and she must take her fetus to a ship sailing for Europe. She is hunted by a killer android but protected by a barbarian kick boxer. What is it about cyborgs and martial arts? When I make a killer cyborg,
American expatriate painter Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) is picked up by a wealthy divorcĂ©e (Nina Foch). She becomes his patron, with an eye to becoming his lover, but he falls for Lise (Leslie Caron), an anonymous young shop girl. However, she has a secret: She’s engaged to a successful singer (Georges GuĂ©tary) who also happens to
Two American students, David Kessler and Jack Goodman, (David Naughton, Griffin Dunne) are attacked by a werewolf while walking through the English moors. David survives, but starts having violent dreams and hallucinations of the mutilated Jack, warning him that he is a werewolf. Comedy is almost always a good idea, and it’s so hard to
American Andy (Tom Everett Scott), Brad (Vince Vieluf), and Chris (Phil Buckman) visit Paris and find French girl, Serafine (Julie Delpy), about to commit suicide by jumping from the Eiffel Tower. Andy saves her, not knowing she is a werewolf. Invited to a party where the guests are meant to be dinner by her less well-meaning pack mates,