In ancient times, a war between the forces of light and darkness ended in a truce. The Night Watch was given authority to keep evil in its place (and the Day Watch polices “good”). Anton (Konstantin Khabensky) is an “other,” a person with supernatural powers. After meeting with a witch in order to harm the fetus of his
A girl (Heather Langenkamp) discovers her nightmares are being shared by her friends, and that those friends are dying. She must find a way to stop the killer (Robert Englund) in her dreams before she is murdered too. Quick Review: I remembered this being better than it is. I saw it when it first came
or The Walsh family move into Nancy’s house—from the first film. Teenager Jesse Walsh (Mark Patton) begins to have nightmares of Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), and people start dying. Only his new girlfriend, Lisa (Kim Myers), can save him from being taken over by Freddy’s spirit. What the hell happened? Even with its flaws, A
Freddy (Robert Englund) is back (yes, again), this time using the dreams of Alice Johnson’s unborn child to attack her and her friends. To stop him, Alice must release the ghost of Freddy’s mother. Quick Review: Yup, he came back after he was absolutely and unequivocally dead…again. It’s hard to get too involved in these
A wealthy young Scotsman invites eight of his friends (including Paris Hilton) to his estate. A snowstorm maroons them, but that isn’t a problem until one of them reads from a strange book, freeing an evil ghost to possess and kill. I like the idea of a spirit that leaps bodies whenever its host is
Winston Smith (John Hurt) is a clerk at the Ministry of Truth in the totalitarian state of Oceania. His job is to “correct” old newspapers to bring them into line with current reality. His every move is watched and controlled by Big Brother, the absolute leader. But Winston knows nothing of reality. He doesn’t know
Raving, French anthropologist Jean-Claude Pommier (Pierce Brosnan) is carried into an emergency room where he manages to bite Dr. Eileen Flax (Lesley-Anne Down) before dying. Flax now has Pommier’s memories of the last week. She experiences his arrival in town with his wife, and his discovery of a vicious street gang that turns out to
A vampire (Martin Kemp) must get Charlotte (Alyssa Milano), the reincarnation of his lost love, to join him or he will die. But Charlotte is a repressed girl with a boyfriend, Chris (Harrison Pruett) , and the vampire only has three days. A stripped-down version of the standard vampire story, Embrace of the Vampire exists
When the office proofreading drudge (Carol Kane) accidentally electrocutes an unpleasant co-worker and things get better, she starts taking out the rest of her colleagues on purpose. Quick Review: Because Office Killer was directed by famed art photographer Cindy Sherman, there is an urge to look at it as a meaningful statement about post-modern feminism
A severe storm drives first Philip and Margaret Waverton and their friend Roger Penderel (Raymond Massey, Gloria Stuart, and Melvyn Douglas), and then wealthy Sir William Porterhouse and dancehall girl Gladys Perkins (Charles Laughton and Lilian Bond), to ask for shelter in an old dark house. They are ungraciously greeted by prim Horace Femm (Ernest
Long after a great war that wiped out human civilization, a robot named Omega Doom (Rutger Hauer) enters a nearly empty town where an uneasy peace is kept by the remaining robot gangs, the Roms and the Droids. Omega Doom meets with Zed (Shannon Whirry), the Droid leader, and Blackheart (Tina Cote), the Rom leader,
Ambassador Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck) secretly adopts a baby to replace his wife’s (Lee Remick) stillborn child. Five years later, people begin to die around the child and Thorn teams with photographer Keith Jennings (David Warner) to discover who the child really is. It’s been copied in so many ways over the years that it feels