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,
Zane Zaminski (Charlie Sheen), an obsessive astronomer who doesn’t pay enough attention to his girlfriend, detects a transmission that he’s sure comes from an alien intelligence. He’s quickly fired, but he won’t give up searching and is soon on to a secret that could mean his life. Quick Review: Directed by David Twohy (Pitch Black,
In a dreary future world, the illegal, virtual reality, shoot-them-up game, Avalon, flourishes, with the best players able to make a living from it. However, there are dangers, and some players do not come out of the game, leaving them in permanent vegetative states. Ash (Malgorzata Foremniak), is a solo player, who has little contact with
Industrialist Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) brings a mixed team of scientists and guards, led by Lex Woods (Sanaa Lathan), to investigate an ancient pyramid buried under the ice of Antarctica. The pyramid is a combat ring where young predators come to prove themselves against aliens, and the humans are showing up when a new
The vicious, corporately-governed Pychlos rule Earth and are stripping it of its resources. The few remaining humans are either slaves or live in primitive tribal groups. Security Chief Terl (John Travolta) concocts a plan to use the “man-animals” for secret mining to enrich himself, but he is not prepared for Jonnie Goodboy Tyler (Barry Pepper), who will
In this second sequel to Re-Animator, Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs), in jail since the last film, is still secretly carrying out his research. He believes he has found a way to return reason to the corpses he re-animates. When a new prison doctor (Jason Barry) brings some of West’s old reagent into the prison, it’s time to
A meteorite hits in a wooded area near a “typical” 1950s town. It carried a small amorphous blob that attacks an old man’s hand and begins to dissolve it. Teenagers Steve Andrews (Steve McQueen) and Jane Martin (Aneta Corsaut) find the man and take him to the local doctor. The blob grows, devouring the old man, the
A homeless man, investigating a meteorite, is attacked by a small, amoeba-like blob that begins to dissolve his hand. High school football star Paul Taylor (Donovan Leitch) and cheerleader Meg Penny (Shawnee Smith), along with teen bad-boy Brian Flagg (Kevin Dillon) take him to the hospital. When he dies, along with others, Flagg is blamed,
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
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
Four children, Evan, Andrea, Lenny, and Tommy, have a horrendous childhood filled with murder, molestation, mental breakdowns, and general cruelty. Evan (Ashton Kutcher) blacks out during many of the worst moments. As a college student, he finds that he can go back in time to the blacked out periods, and “fix” the past, but each