The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1980)
May 2, 2023Headless Horseman
A tv movie version of the classic ghost story, the most faithful to date. With a young Jeff Goldblum as Ichabod Crane
Meg Foster
The Emerald Forest (1985)
Feb 26, 2007Amazon Rainforest Drama/Magical Realism
John Boorman film with Powers Boothe searching for his son who has been snatched by Indians in the Amazon. A mystical film, the first to bring issues of deforestation of the Amazon rainforest to public attention
Masters of the Universe (1987)
May 12, 2004Intergalactic Sword-and-Sorcery
Live-action film based on the Mattel toy line and popular animated tv series, starring Dolph Lundgren as He-Man. Given a Cannon Films corner-cutting budget, it emerges as a cheesily absurd Flash Gordon/Conan the Barbarian knockoff
They Live (1988)
Jul 6, 2001Reality-Manipulating Aliens
John Carpenter makes an alien invasion film that works as a biting satire of Reaganomics in which aliens are manipulating reality to increase their profit shares in Earth
Stepfather II (1989)
Jun 8, 2000Psycho Stepfather
Sequel to the hit psycho-thriller. Terry O'Quinn is back and on fine form but this just repeats the original, bumps up the number of killings with extra gore to become no more than a B psycho film
Future Kick (1991)
Jan 19, 2008Cyberpunk Future Action
Cheap Cyberpunk action film that borrows the basics of Cyborg with Don ‘The Dragon’ Wilson as android bounty hunter engaged in stopping corporate skulduggery
Project: Shadowchaser (1992)
Feb 6, 2000Android Terrorist
Completely ridiculous mix of The Terminator and Die Hard where, for no clear reason, an android terrorist decides to take hostages in an office building and the FBI’s only hope is a cryogenically unfrozen football player
Shrunken Heads (1994)
May 5, 2005Disembodied Heads Take Revenge
Another film from Charles Band’s Full Moon Production centred around dolls - in this case, three murdered youths who are resurrected as flying shrunken heads. A film that never quite lives up to the outlandishness of its premise
Oblivion (1994)
Apr 2, 2019Western on an Alien Planet
One of the best films from Full Moon Productions that locates a Western on another planet and manages a perfectly pitched homage to either genre
Space Marines (1995)
Jun 15, 2004Space Opera
Low-budget film that does quite a creditable job on the whole space marines theme
The Lords of Salem (2012)
May 27, 2013Occult Happenings/Witch's Curse
In this homage to the 1970s occult film, Rob Zombie surprises and aims for something different – he tones back the constant posturing shock effect of his earlier films and creates atmosphere. Eventually though, Zombie creates a film that feels coiled to unleash something bad but falters at ever opening the box
31 (2016)
Sep 25, 2016Human Hunting Survival Game
Rob Zombie featuring people abducted and forced to play in a deathsport game. This is largely a re-run of House of 1000 Corpses, while both films in turn draw heavily on The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. As always, Rob Zombie has a following but also switches large swathes of his audience off
Teen Titans: The Judas Contract (2017)
Dec 8, 2017Animation/Comic-Book Superheroes
The Teen Titans get their first solo film in the DC Universe Original Animated Movies. A reasonable adventure based on a classic comic title that works with a good story and characterisation, even if some of it has an adult flavour that makes you wonder who the audience is
Jeepers Creepers 3 (2017)
Dec 17, 2017Monster Movie
Having been promised for a long time, this is the third of Victor Salva's Jeepers Creepers films. Filled with the same unworldly jumps and some interesting twists on what has gone before; that said, this is probably also the slightest of the Jeepers Creepers films
There’s No Such Thing as Vampires (2020)
Oct 31, 2023Backroads Pursuit by a Vampire
A modestly effective indie film with two people fleeing through the desert backroads pursued by a vampire