American journalist Larry Stanford (Peter Dyneley), on assignment in Tokyo, is given an experimental injection by obsessed, amoral scientist Dr. Robert Suzuki (Tetsu Nakamura). The drug brings out Standford’s baser instincts, and he abandons his wife (Jane Hylton) and takes to excessive drinking and sleeping with local prostitutes that Suzuki supplies. Suzuki sends his mistress
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)
Picked up in the arctic by an exploration ship, Victor Frankenstein (Kenneth Brannagh) tells his tragic story—how he fell in love with his stepsister, Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter), how his mother died a bloody death during childbirth, how he went to school to become a doctor, and how, in his quest to end death, he
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Neo (Keanu Reeves), Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) continue to fight the machines. Now, with the machines staging a final assault on Zion, the last human city, Neo visits The Oracle (Gloria Foster) and learns he must return to “the source” to end the war. To do so, he will have to deal
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
With the machines attacking Zion, Captain Niobe (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), must rush back to the city with the last functional EMP weapon. Neo (Keanu Reeves), and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) head for the machine city where Neo will discover his destiny. And the Agent Smith clones have taken over The Matrix. The
Millennium (1989)
Bill Smith (Kris Kristofferson), an airplane crash investigator, is perplexed to find Nobel Prize winning scientist Arnold Mayer (Daniel J. Travanti) at a recent crash site, as well as several anomalies in the wreckage. He also meets Louise Baltimore (Cheryl Ladd), an attractive, but bizarre flight attendant. What he doesn’t know is that Louise is
The Monster Maker (1944)
At a piano recital by the accomplished Anthony Lawrence (Ralph Morgan), Mad scientist Dr. Igor Markoff (J. Carrol Naish) spies Lawrence’s daughter (Wanda McKay). Obsessed with her similarity to his dead wife, he injects Lawrence with the disfiguring acromegaly disease as leverage to force her to marry him. Quick Review: One of the more distasteful
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Night of the Creeps (1986)
In the late ’50s, alien parasites turn a person into murderous zombie. Over 25 years later, two nerds, Chris Romero and J.C. Hooper (Jason Lively, Steve Marshall), in an attempt to join a fraternity, accidentally free the zombie from a cryogenic chamber, unleashing hordes of parasites and then, hordes of zombies on the hapless college.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
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
Omega Doom (1997)
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,
On the Beach (1959)
The only survivors of a nuclear war are residents of Australia and the crew of an American submarine that was submerged when the bombs went off. With only months left before the fallout arrives, those left try and deal with their inevitable deaths. Moira Davidson (Ava Gardner), a pleasant alcoholic, starts a relationship with the
Path of Destruction (2005)
A cloud of nanobots escape from an oil platform controlled by corrupt businessman, Roy Stark (David Keith), and floats with a storm, devouring everything it touches. Blamed for the destruction of the platform as an eco-terrorist, ex-reporter Katherine Stern (Danica McKellar) seeks out theoretical climatologist Nathan McCain (Chris Pratt) to help clear her name and