Teenage Caveman (1958)
May 12, 2004Post-Holocaust Cavemen
Roger Corman film that sets out to exploit the teenage themed fad of the late 1950s, offering up a caveman drama that comes with a surprise SF twist
Robert Vaughn
The Spy With My Face (1965)
Jan 12, 2015The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Film/Spy Film
The second of the feature films repackaged from the tv series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., one of the better copies of the James Bond spy fad of the 1960s. Despite the low conceptual horizons of a tv episode, this plays itself with a splendidly droll tongue-in-cheek panache
One of Our Spies is Missing (1966)
Feb 26, 2015The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Film/Spy Film
The third cinematically released film repackaged from episodes of the cultish 1960s spy tv series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. Despite a scattershot plot that doglegs all over the place, the film is made with a wonderfully droll sense of humour that makes it undeniably appealing
One Spy Too Many (1966)
Apr 19, 2017The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Film/Spy Film
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. tv series was construed as lighter take on the James Bond films. This, the third theatrical film recut from tv episodes, is one of the most entertaining, creating a memorable super-villain and almost entirely consisting of over-the-top death traps and action set-pieces
The Spy in the Green Hat (1967)
Jun 2, 2020The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Film/Spy Film
The fifth of the theatrically released films based on tv's The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. This is one of the more overtly comic films with an entertainingly madcap plot that has Napoleon Solo forced into a shotgun wedding and Jack Palance as a mad winemaker attempting to divert the Gulf Stream
The Karate Killers (1967)
Mar 13, 2024Man from U.N.C.L.E./Spy Film
One of the appealingly colourful theatrical films spun off from The Man from U.N.C.L.E., although surprisingly given the title this is not a martial arts film
How to Steal the World (1968)
Apr 1, 2005The The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Film/Spy Film
The eight and last of the films recut from episodes of tv's The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. This starts to show the strain of trying to make what were originally designed as tv episodes work as feature films
The Mind of Mr. Soames (1969)
May 31, 2016Man Awakens with the Man of a Child
This comes with a great premise – a man is woken from a coma for the first time and is forced to deal with the world with the mind of a newborn infant. A clear attempt to copy Charly, this would be a great vehicle for a modern character actor but suffers from stodgy unimaginative handling
Demon Seed (1977)
Feb 15, 2000Computer Wants to Have Sex
Adaptation of an early Dean R. Koontz novel about an A.I who imprisons a woman in her own home with the intention of impregnating her. A variant on Rosemary’s Baby conducted far more tastefully than you might think
Starship Invasions (1977)
Oct 1, 2001UFO Invasion
Christopher Lee called this his worst film. Contrarily it is a ridiculously entertaining effort about a war between telepathic aliens in UFOs from beneath the Bermuda Triangle.
Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
Jan 15, 2011Space Opera
Roger Corman jumps aboard the Star Wars fad and offers up a version of The Seven Samurai/The Magnificent Seven located in space. Corman has thrown a reasonable budget at the film for once and it emerges as colourfully enjoyable
Hangar 18 (1980)
Dec 24, 2002Crashed UFO
In the aftermath of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, this was made by a company specialising in sensationalistic tabloid documentaries. Spielberg's light show is dropped in favour of conspiratorial government coverup view of UFOs
Superman III (1983)
Dec 16, 2000Comic-Book Superhero
The nadir of the Christopher Reeve Superman films, one where the desire to add a comedy element in the form of Richard Pryor overtakes and wrecks what is already a random and unfocused plot
Black Moon Rising (1986)
Aug 4, 2000Techno-Thriller/Hi-Tech Car Theft
Made from an old John Carpenter script, this is a reasonable action film starring Tommy Lee Jones as a professional thief who is tasked with stealing a hi-tech car
Transylvania Twist (1989)
Apr 23, 2020Horror Parody
A Roger Corman produced horror parody that conducts send ups of most of the horror icons of the 1980s - Freddy Krueger, Pinhead, Michael Meyers etc - without being particularly funny
Joe’s Apartment (1996)
Apr 27, 2013Singing Cockroaches
Bizarrely off-the-wall film where Jerry O’Connell gets an apartment in New York City and finds he is sharing it with singing cockroaches
The Sender (1997)
Jul 22, 2000Alien Visitor/Psychic Powers/Action
Action film with Michael Madsen and a mystery alien woman fighting a government coverup of UFOs to retrieve his abducted daughter
Pootie Tang in “Sine Your Pitty on the Runy Kine” (2001)
Jan 26, 2001Funky Incomprehensible Superhero
Film based on a Saturday Night Life sketch with Lance Crouther as a superhero who speaks a nonsense babble