With headmistress Fritton (Alastair Sim) in jail, the older girls of St. Trinian’s concern themselves with marrying a rich Prince. Since he wants to see the girls before choosing one, Flash Harry (George Cole) and the girls rig a contest to win a trip to Europe, and blackmail a jewel thief on the run (Lionel Jeffries)
Teenager Marti Malone (Gabrielle Anwar), her stepmother Carol (Meg Tilly), and stepbrother Andy (Reilly Murphy) travel with her EPA inspector father (Terry Kinney) while he tours military bases. There’s something wrong at the latest one. The soldiers are too emotionless, and Andy begins to fear his preschool class where all the children draw the same
Resurrecting the genre, Body Heat took Noir style and mood, and brought it up to date. Without the censors, it could express what the earlier films had to hide: sexuality and unpunished immorality. Its rich reds and sickly yellows portrayed corruption better than the silver screen ever managed.
A child, Willy, kills his mother’s abusive boyfriend as his sister, Lacey, watches in a mirror. Years later, Lacey (Suzanna Love), suffering psychological damage from the event, breaks a mirror that releases the spirit of the boyfriend, and the killings begin. Here, in one film, is everything that went wrong with horror in the ’80s. It’s poorly
An ex-mental patient (Jeffrey Donovan) takes a writer (Stephen Barker Turner), his pregnant co-writer (Tristine Skyler), a Wiccain (Erica Leerhsen), and a goth chick (Kim Director) on a tour of Blair Witch sites. After a drunken night camping in the woods, they awaken to find their cameras and notes destroyed, and the pregnant woman has
The fearless knight, Vlad (Gary Oldman), returns home from protecting Christendom to find his wife dead. Cursing God, he becomes a vampire. Four hundred years later, he decides to move to London and finds his dead wife reincarnated as Mina Murray (Winona Ryder). Opposing him are members of polite society including the vampire expert, Van
One hundred years ago, the youthful vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing (Rhett Giles) killed Dracula, but failed to protect his wife from a lesser vampire prince, Sebastien (Andreas Beckett). This caused Van Helsing to make a deal with the Church, making him immortal as long as a vampire prince survives. Since that time, he has
The vampires have decided to join human society and become just another racial group. However, murder disrupts the political system and a mix matched pair of police, one vampire (Adrian Paul), one human (Bokeem Woodbine), must solve the crimes. An astonishingly bad film. Now why do the vampires want to join this future society that’s
The Bennets go Bollywood (well, faux Bollywood as this movie was produced in the West), with bright colors, singing, and dancing, but it’s a fairly straight rendition of the story from the novel. The advantage of the modern Indian setting is that the important old-style English sensibilities (marriage is vital, status is paramount, etc.) are
The Monster (Boris Karloff), having survived the fire at the mill, wanders the nearby forest, hunted by villagers, until he meets a blind hermit (O.P. Heggie), who treats him well and teaches him to speak. Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) also survived the fire, but weakened, and is being nursed back to health, both physically and
Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) and Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) are back, not just to re-animate the dead, but to create new life. As if there weren’t enough problems inherent in that, the evil Dr. Hill (David Gale) is also back, along with a pack of zombies. Quick Review: How did these boys get jobs at the