Lance Henriksen

The Right Stuff (1983)

The Right Stuff (1983)
Rating: ★★★½
Aug 26, 2002Story of the True Life Space Mission
Philip Kaufman's adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s book about the astronauts of the Mercury Space Program comes out halfway between admiration of the sheer ballsiness of the astronauts and buying into the flag-waving nationalism the Space Race represented.
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The Terminator (1984)

The Terminator (1984)
Rating: ★★★★
Dec 16, 2003Time-Travelling Killer Android
One of the 2-3 most influential SF films since 1980 and the work that almost any killer android story draws its template. James Cameron creates a barrelling powerhouse of a film, all lorded over by Arnold Schwarzenegger as the relentless killer machine in the role that defined his career
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The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)

The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)
Rating: ★★
Sep 5, 2012Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation/Inquisition Horrors
Stuart Gordon's adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story gets full marks for being set during the Spanish Inquisition. On the other hand, Gordon's unserious splatter heavy approach and a campy performance from Lance Henriksen deflates the material
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Hard Target (1993)

Hard Target (1993)
Rating: ★★★
Apr 4, 2000Human Hunting for Sport/Action
John Woo made his US debut with this Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle, which is essentially an urban version of The Most Dangerous Game. Woo’s stylised action set-ups give a slight script a dynamism that blows his contemporaries away
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The Nature of the Beast (1995)

The Nature of the Beast (1995)
Rating: ★★★★
Apr 6, 2003Road Movie Psycho-Thriller
From Jeepers Creepers director Victor Salva, a gripping road movie thriller that owes somewhat to The Hitcher with a series of psychological games between Lance Henriksen and hitcher Eric Roberts where we can never be sure what is what
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Tarzan (1999)

Tarzan (1999)
Rating: ★★★½
Nov 6, 2012Jungle Hero/Disney Animation
This Disney animated adaptation treats the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel with surprising respect and faithfulness for the most part where the addition of talking animals even works for it. Fun and with a great deal of creative energy, one of the better films from the 90s Disney renaissance
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The Mangler 2 (2001)

The Mangler 2 (2001)
Rating: ½
Mar 12, 2011Artificially Intelligent Computer Virus Amok
Tobe Hooper's The Mangler was one of the worst of all Stephen King adaptations and this is modern sequel generating of the worst order where the Mangler now becomes an A.I. and a computer virus
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AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)

AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)
Rating: ★★
Oct 4, 2004Alien/Predator Series' Crossover
Beginning as fan mill speculation, 20th Century Fox finally brought their Alien and Predator franchises together on the screen here. The result is an okay effort in the hands of Paul W.S. Anderson, even if it never has the grueling intensity of the early entries in either series
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One Point 0 (2004)

One Point 0 (2004)
Rating: ★★
Dec 31, 2004Strange Apartment Neighbours/Reality Blurrings and Paranoia
This travels into very similar places to Roman Polanski’s The Tenant – a paranoid tale about a man surrounded by very strange apartment neighbours. Apart from adding some reality blurring SF twists to the mix, this does little more than churn cliches
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Superman: Brainiac Attacks (2006)

Superman: Brainiac Attacks (2006)
Rating: ★★
Apr 6, 2016Comic-Book Superhero/Animation
Spinoff of the 1990s animated Superman tv series, made as tie in for Bryan Singer's Superman Returns Some good action, negligible use of the characters unlike the DC Universe Animated Original Movies that began the following year, at best a routine episode of the tv series
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The Witches of Oz (2011)

The Witches of Oz (2011)
Rating: ★
Jun 2, 2014Wizard of Oz Sequel/Modernisation
Sequel/modernisation (it is confusing what) to The Wizard of Oz relocated in New York. This tv mini-series may be the cheapest work ever served up bearing the Oz name and flounders amid the shabbiness of its effects and utter lack of magic its director conjures
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Harbinger Down (2015)

Harbinger Down (2015)
Rating: ★★★
Mar 6, 2016Shapechanging Mutant Nasty
After being hired by The Thing remake and having his work replaced by CGI, makeup effects artist Alec Gillis made his own homage. With modest resources, he does a far better job of capturing the outlandishness of the original
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The Sector (2016)

The Sector (2016)
Rating: ★★
Aug 3, 2017Alternate World Criminal
Variant on the alternate world hopping theme where a bounty hunter finds the person he is pursuing is an alternate world criminal. The film's budget is way too low to do any justice to either the theme or the setting after the collapse of civilisation
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Mom & Dad (2017)

Mom & Dad (2017)
Rating: ★★★
Mar 4, 2018Mass Insanity Where Parents Try to Kill Their Children
A captivating variant on the mass insanity film where parents are frenziedly driven to kill their children. As the murderous father, Nicolas Cage gives a performance where he lets all stops go, while director Brian Taylor, formerly one half of Neveldine/Taylor, makes a rather watchable film
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The Artifice Girl (2022)

The Artifice Girl (2022)
Rating: ★★★★
Mar 1, 2024Artificially Intelligent Program
One of the best of the recent spate of artificial intelligence films. A programmer creates an A.I. for the purpose of trapping sexual predators on the internet only to be faced with ethical questions about what he has created
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