Renegade General Pembroke (Steven Grives) calls dishonorably discharged officer Lt. Peter Doyle (Jeremy Callaghan) back to active duty, claiming he is the only man capable of leading a team to a secret government installation in order to disarm a nuclear bomb. Joining Doyle is Pembroke-loyalist and nuclear specialist, Lt. Joyce Darwin (Marjean Holden). Once underway,
Faithless, and therefore unhappy, astronomer, Dr. Eleanor Arroway (Jodie Foster), searches for years for signs of extraterrestrial life. Along the way, she is thwarted by shortsighted scientist Dr. David Drumlin (Tom Skerritt), and she meets man-of-faith, Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey), who will later become an advisor to Bill Clinton. Finally, she discovers a broadcast from space
A horde of fuzzy, little balls, with razor-sharp teeth, descend upon a small rural town, eating everything and everyone they meet. With the Brown family trapped in their home, things only get worse when intergalactic bounty hunters land. Among killer hand-puppet films, Critters is one of the best. You didn’t even know there was a category
A neglectful father (John Calvin), returning from a vacation with his daughter, Annie (Aimee Brooks), accidentally brings âcritterâ eggs back to his low-rent apartment complex. Though Aimee was warned about the monsters from bizarre alien-hunter Charlie McFadden (Don Keith Opper), she doesnât believe until the critters start attacking. Then it is up to her and
After a Martian probe stops transmitting, lead scientist David Fielding (Kent Taylor) takes off a few days to try and save his crumbling marriage. Gathered in the small house on the grounds of a huge, abandoned estate, David, his wife Clair (Marie Windsor), and their two kids attempt to enjoy a belated Christmas and New
A meteor shower brings twin disasters: light that causes blindness in anyone who sees it, and carnivorous walking plants called triffids. Seaman Bill Masen (Howard Keel), hospitalized due to eye surgery, awakens to find civilization has fallen. Mason, along with Susan (Janina Faye), a sighted child he finds in a train crash, travel, searching for a
The light from a mysterious meteor shower blinds everyone who sees it, causing civilization to collapse. Bill Masen (John Duttine), who was undergoing eye treatment on that night, is one of the few who can see. He finds Jo (Emma Relph), a sighted woman, and they plan their survival. However, they are captured and separated by a large
Space scientist Dr. Russell A. Marvin (Hugh Marlowe) and his new wife Carol (Joan Taylor) see a flying saucer on their way to a rocket test facility. They say nothing, lacking proof, but soon another saucer appears, destroying the compound. Unable to convince the military of the danger, Marvin contacts the aliens, and finds he
During a war between humans and the alien Drac, two pilots, human Willis Davidge (Dennis Quaid) and Drac Jeriba ‘Jerry’ Shigan (Louis Gossett Jr.) crash on a barren world. The two enemies must work together to survive. An embarrassment to science fiction, Enemy Mine starts as an after school special, switches to a weepy, and ends
A meteorite hits the Arizona desert, carrying simple, one celled aliens that have the ability to evolve billions of time faster than life on Earth. Community college teacher, Harry Block (Orlando Jones), and his biology teacher/ex-government scientist friend, Ira Kane (David Duchovny), investigate, and figure this is their ticket to bigger things. However, General Russell Woodman
Six students (Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, Shawn Hatosy, Laura Harris, Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall) observe that the faculty members of their high school (including Salma Hayek, Famke Janssen, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Patrick, and Jon Stewart) are changing, and deduce that they have become infected by alien parasites. Screenwriter Kevin Williamson (Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3,
A logging crew, led by Mike Rogers (Robert Patrick), returns from a job claiming that one of them, Travis Walton (D.B. Sweeney) was killed by a bolt from a UFO. Lieutenant Frank Watters (James Garner) thinks it’s a case of murder. Quick Review: Those wacky aliens are at it again, kidnapping rednecks to carry 0ut