A megalomaniac corporate chairman has Jobe (Matt Frewer), miraculously surviving his apparent demise in the first film, solving the last problems with the powerful Chiron chip so that he can take over the world. But Jobe is actually working for himself so that he can become a new messiah. It is left to the creator
Hired to determine if there is life after death, Lionel Barrett (Clive Revill), a physicist and psychic researcher, Ann (Gayle Hunnicutt), his wife, and two mediums, Florence Tanner (Pamela Franklin) and Benjamin Franklin Fischer (Roddy McDowall), investigate the extremely haunted “Hell House.” A by-the-numbers retread of the standard ghost story, The Legend of Hell House
Don Alejandro de la Vega’s (Antonio Banderas) unwillingness to retire from being Zorro strains his marriage to Elena (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and his relationship with his son, Joaquin (Adrian Alonso). After receiving divorce papers, things get even worse, as a group of gunmen pressure locals to sell their land, a huge explosion rocks the woods, and
Smalltime racetrack hustler, the Lemon Drop Kid (Bob Hope) must raise $10,000 before Christmas to pay back a gangster. He tricks the lesser criminals of New York city into gathering the money for him as street-corner Santas. If there is a valid complaint against Bob Hope’s comedy shtick, it’s that it is repetitious. He told more-or-less
Innocent Lila (Cheryl Smith), raised by the local preacher (Richard Blackburn), receives a letter stating that her gangster father is dying and wants to see her to gain her forgiveness, but she must come alone. The letter was actually composed by Lemora (Lesley Gilb), a vampire, who controls the town of Asteroth and is holding
A Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) has his gold stolen and he is stuck in a crate for ten years due to the power of a four leaf clover. After Tory Reding (Jennifer Aniston) and her father move into the house, a childlike house painter frees the Leprechaun who will kill everyone between him and his gold. This
One thousand years ago, the Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) was cheated out of his bride. Now, he has come for the descendent of that long ago girl. Ah, that’s a bit better. The Leprechaun series started in the depths, but part 2 is entertaining, if nothing to get excited about. It really isn’t a sequel. Sure, it has Warwick Davis
This sixth installment of the Leprechaun franchise has a group of poor twenty-somethings from “tha Hood” finding the Leprechaun’s gold under a building site. They spend the gold and try to work out their relationships while the Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) kills anyone between him and his coins. Quick Review: Six Leprechaun movies. I never thought when I
A beautiful, female, space vampire (Mathilda May) and two lesser males are brought to Earth by a space shuttle that was studying Halley’s Comet. The vampires escape and steal the lifeforce from most of the citizens of London, changing them into zombies. An SAS officers (Peter Firth) and a survivor from the shuttle (Steve Railsback) attempt to
In 2274, humans live decadent lives in an enclosed city. To keep the population consistent, everyone is killed at age thirty in an elaborate ceremony called Carousel. The few who try to escape this death, by “running,” are hunted down by executioners known as sandmen. Logan (Michael York) is a sandman with four more years to live. The
A group of twenty-something dance-clubbers decide to play with a makeshift Ouija board, summoning a djinn that possess one of them. The fire spirit is soon killing them, one by one. Well, it’s British. That’s about the only thing that makes the randomly titled Long Time Dead stand out. In this standard, slow, talky, Teen Slasher, the deaths
Thirteen years ago, Philip Swann (Kevin J. O’Connor) and three other members of a cult killed their leader, Nix (Daniel von Bargen), and buried him with a mask to contain his powers. In the present, Swan is a Las Vegas illusionist, hiding his real magic. But he is scared. Swan’s wife, Dorothea (Famke Janssen), hires