Death Race 2000 (1975)

Death Race 2000 (1975)
Rating: ★★★
Aug 6, 2000Future Road Race/Black Comedy
Satiric hit produced by Roger Corman, a spoof of Rollerball, with David Carradine as a driver in a futuristic road race where points are won by running down pedestrians. Also featuring a young unknown Sylvester Stallone

Trick or Treats (1982)

Trick or Treats (1982)
Rating: ★★
Aug 22, 2017Slasher Film
From the heyday of the slasher film, an effort about a babysitter stalked by an escaped maniac on Halloween Night, which draws great influence from classics of the era such as Halloween and When a Stranger Calls. Nothing standout but what a great supporting cast

The Warrior and the Sorceress (1984)

The Warrior and the Sorceress (1984)
Rating: ★★
Dec 8, 2015Sword and Sorcery
One of the spate of sword and sorcery films that came out during this period, marginally better than most. The plot is a blatant copy of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo where a swordsman (David Carradine) sets two rival gang factions in a town against one another

Nightfall (2000)

Nightfall (2000)
Rating:
Dec 8, 2013Isaac Asimov Adaptation
Isaac Asimov's Nightfall, about a planet surrounded by six suns that only experiences nightfall once every thousand years, is considered the No 1 classic science-fiction short story. On film, it has alas befallen two impoverished versions from Roger Corman of which this was the second