Showing posts with label Sci-Fi. Show all posts
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Thursday, January 13, 2011

The City of Lost Children

The City of Lost Children

Actors: Ron Perlman , Dominique Pinon , Jean-Claude Dreyfus , Rufus , Daniel Emilfork , Mapi Galán , Serge Merlin , Ticky Holgado , Pierre-Quentin Faesch , Joseph Lucien , Odile Mallet , Judith Vittet , Briac Barthélémy , Mireille Mossé , Geneviève Brunet
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet Marc Caro
IMDB Rate: 7.8 out of 10 (25211 votes)
Plot Summary:Krank (Daniel Emilfork), who cannot dream, kidnaps young children to steal their dreams. One (Ron Perlman), a former whale hunter who is as strong as a horse, sets forth to search for Denree, his little brother who was kidnapped by Kranks men. Helped by young Miette (Judith Vittet), he soon arrives in La Cite des Enfants Perdus (The City of Lost Children).

The Bed Sitting Room

The Bed Sitting Room

Actors: Michael Hordern , Ralph Richardson , Roy Kinnear , Mona Washbourne , Dandy Nichols , Spike Milligan , Frank Thornton , Peter Cook , Ronald Fraser , Rita Tushingham , Arthur Lowe , Dudley Moore , Richard Warwick , Harry Secombe , Jimmy Edwards
Director: Richard Lester
IMDB Rate: 6.3 out of 10 (638 votes)
Plot Summary:Set in post-nuclear-holocaust England, where a handful of bizarre characters struggle on with their lives in the ruins, amongst endless heaps of ash, piles of broken crockery and brick, muddy plains, and heaps of dentures and old boots. Patriotically singing God Save Mrs. Etheyl Shroake, Long Live Mrs. Etheyl Shroake, they wander through this surrealistic landscape, forever being warned by the police to keep moving, and prone to the occasional mutation into a parrot, cupboard, or even, yes, a bed sitting room with No Wogs scrawled in the grime on its windows. In particular, this story revolves around the odd love story of a girl who lives with her parents in one compartment of a London Underground train, the commuter in the next compartment, and the doctor they meet after returning above ground in search of a nurse for the heavily pregnant girl.

Tobor the Great

Tobor the Great

Actors: William Schallert , Steven Geray , Peter Brocco , Charles Drake , Taylor Holmes , Hal Baylor , Lyle Talbot , Emmett Vogan , Robert Shayne , Henry Kulky , Billy Chapin , Norman Field , Franz Roehn , Karin Booth , Alan Reynolds
Director: Lee Sholem
IMDB Rate: 4.8 out of 10 (163 votes)
Plot Summary:As projected here, a thinly-disguised NASA, working with nuclear rockets, is ready for manned flights in the mid-fifties...but Dr. Ralph Harrison doesnt think so, and resigns in protest. Colleague Prof. Nordstrom promptly enlists his aid in developing an alternative robot Spaceman! Naturally, foreign spies are keenly interested... Uses documentary footage of early space research.

Killers from Space

Killers from Space

Actors: Peter Graves , Frank Gerstle , James Seay , Shepard Menken , Jack Daly , Ben Welden , Steve Pendleton , Robert Roark , Lester Dorr , Mark Scott , Burt Wenland , Barbara Bestar , Ruth Bennett , Ron Kennedy , John Frederick
Director: W. Lee Wilder
IMDB Rate: 2.6 out of 10 (884 votes)
Plot Summary:Atomic scientistpilot Doug Martin is missing after his plane crashes on an reconnaissance mission after a nuclear test. Miraculously appearing unhurt at the base later, he is given sodium amethol, but authorities are skeptical of his story that he was captured by aliens determined to conquer the Earth with giant monsters and insects. Martin vows to use existing technology to destroy them.

Dangerous Worry Dolls

Dangerous Worry Dolls

Actors: Jessica Morris , Meredith McClain
Director: Charles Band
IMDB Rate: 3 out of 10 (86 votes)
Plot Summary:What happens when you are brought up in a trailer with a mom as a meth addict? You end up in Juvie thats what! Poor Eva has had a rough life and makes a mistake ending up at a horrible juvenile detention center. She becomes the immediate target for the bullies but she refuses to be their bitch. Carl the security guard is a total snake in the grass that gets his kicks by raping chicks! One day Eva is enjoying a much needed visit from her daughter and she gives her worry dolls to tell her worries to so she can feel better and have some faith. Eva has a surprise visit from Carl that night and when she is returned to her bunk she gets out those tiny dolls and gives them each a name from her inside worries. Carl is one of the people on that list and I couldnt wait to see what would happen to him....

Hollow Man II

Hollow Man II

Actors: Christian Slater , Sonya Salomaa , Laura Regan , Colin Lawrence , Peter Facinelli , William MacDonald , John Shaw , David McIlwraith , Jessica Harmon , Nolan Gerard Funk , Sarah Deakins , David Abbott , Zara Taylor , Terri Anne Welyki , Hamish Cameron
Director: Claudio Fäh
IMDB Rate: 4.5 out of 10 (3639 votes)
Plot Summary:In Seattle, after the mysterious death of the scientist Dr. Devin Villiers, Detective Frank Turner and his partner Det. Lisa Martinez are assigned to protect Devins colleague Dr. Maggie Dalton. Lisa is killed while protecting Maggie, and Frank presses her to tell what is happening. She discloses that a veteran soldier called Michael Griffin was submitted to an experiment with the objective of creating the ultimate national security weapon, an undetectable soldier. However, the experiment failed, with horrible side effects due to the damage to the cells caused by the radiation. Michael is chasing Maggie to get the necessary buffer to survive.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Invasion of the Star Creatures

Invasion of the Star Creatures

Actors: Robert Ball , Mark Thompson , Richard Adams , Gloria Victor , Frankie Ray , Jim Almanzer , Lenore Bond , Trustin Howard , Allen Dailey , Anton Arnold , Mark Ferris , Joseph Martin , Dolores Reed , Sid Kane , Anton von Stralen
Director: Bruno VeSota
IMDB Rate: 2.5 out of 10 (145 votes)
Plot Summary:A pair of comical soldiers (Robert Ball and Frankie Ray) investigate a mysterious crater in an atomic detonation area and discover several beautiful alien vixens (Dolores Reed and Gloria Victor) who plan to conquer the world using an army of vegetable monsters.

Invasion of the Bee Girls

Invasion of the Bee Girls

Actors: William Smith , Cliff Emmich , Ben Hammer , Victoria Vetri , Beverly Powers , Wright King , William Keller , Anitra Ford , Al Bordighi , Katie Saylor , Andre Philippe , Cliff Osmond , Tom Pittman , Sid Kaiser , Anna Aries
Director: Denis Sanders
IMDB Rate: 5 out of 10 (736 votes)
Plot Summary:In the small town of Peckham, California, many men die for excessive effort during sexual intercourse. When a scientist from the Brandt research laboratory is found dead in a motel, the government sends Agent Neil Agar (William Smith) to investigate the mysterious deaths. He suspects that the deaths may be related to some experiments of Dr. Susan Harris (Anitra Ford), who is researching bees in the Brandt facility.

Altered States

Altered States

Actors: William Hurt , Drew Barrymore , Bob Balaban , Blair Brown , Francis X. McCarthy , Charles Haid , Jack Murdock , Evan Richards , Dori Brenner , Deborah Baltzell , Charles White-Eagle , Miguel Godreau , Megan Jeffers , Peter Brandon , Thaao Penghlis
Director: Ken Russell
IMDB Rate: 6.6 out of 10 (8430 votes)
Plot Summary:An American researching different states of consciousness with the aid of mind altering drugs and an isolation chamber begins to experience disturbing physical changes in his body that point toward an evolutionary regression.

It! The Terror from Beyond Space

It! The Terror from Beyond Space

Actors: Dabbs Greer , Paul Langton , Marshall Thompson , Richard Benedict , Shirley Patterson , Robert Bice , Ray Corrigan , Ann Doran , Kim Spalding , Richard Hervey , Thom Carney
Director: Edward L. Cahn
IMDB Rate: 6 out of 10 (1433 votes)
Plot Summary:In 1973, the first manned expedition to Mars is marooned by the time a rescue mission arrives, there is only one survivor the leader, Col. Edward Carruthers, who appears to have murdered the others! According to Carruthers, an unknown life form killed his comrades during a sandstorm. But the skeptical rescuers little suspect that it has stowed away for the voyage back to Earth...

The Alligator People

The Alligator People

Actors: Lon Chaney Jr. , George Macready , Bruce Bennett , Frieda Inescort , Douglas Kennedy , Beverly Garland , Richard Crane
Director: Roy Del Ruth
IMDB Rate: 5 out of 10 (521 votes)
Plot Summary:A newlywed couple sit in a train. The husband receives a frantic telegram. He gets off at a station to make a phone call, the train pulls away without him on it, and thats the last his wife sees of him. Years later after a long search she finally tracks him down on his familys southern estate where she discovers that a failed medical treatment has turned him into an alligator mutant.

Tin Man

Tin Man

Actors: Alan Cumming , Richard Dreyfuss , Callum Keith Rennie , Kevin McNulty , Zooey Deschanel , Blu Mankuma , Neal McDonough , Jason Schombing , Kathleen Robertson , Raoul Trujillo , Karin Konoval , Alexia Fast , Brenna O'Brien , Andrew Wheeler , Andrew Francis , Cainan Wiebe , Ted Whittall , R. Nelson Brown , Gwynyth Walsh , Shawn MacDonald , Craig Veroni , Donny James Lucas , Dan Payne , Tara Wilson , Marilyn Norry , Tinsel Korey , Leah Gibson , Doug Abrahams , Jake D. Smith , Garvin Cross , Rachel Pattee , Anna Galvin , Sean Campbell , Richard Howland , Ian A. Wallace , Alexis Llewellyn , Lucia Walters , Baxter , Nickolas Baric , Grace Wheeler , James Ashcroft , Michael Roselli , Alison Araya , Ingrid Tesch , Madison Bell , Carmen Aguirre , Michasha Armstrong , Connor Dunn , Colin Heath
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IMDB Rate: 7.1 out of 10 (6209 votes)
Plot Summary:A re-imagining of L. Frank Baums classic The Wizard of Oz.

Altered

Altered

Actors: James Gammon , Brad William Henke , Joe Unger , Adam Kaufman , Michael C. Williams , Paul McCarthy-Boyington , Misty Rosas , Phil Stevenson , Matt McCann , Shea Elmore , Catherine Mangan , Eduardo Sánchez , Klaus Heesch , John William Wright
Director: Eduardo Sánchez
IMDB Rate: 5.9 out of 10 (3022 votes)
Plot Summary:Fifteen years ago, five men were abducted by aliens. Only four returned. Now, these same four men have managed to capture one of the creatures who killed their friend and ruined their lives. Its time for payback but payback swings both ways.

The Hideous Sun Demon

The Hideous Sun Demon

Actors: Robert Clarke , William White , Robert Garry , Bill Currie , Peter Similuk , Helen Joseph , Patrick Whyte , Del Courtney , Patricia Manning , Donna King , Darryl Westbrook , Fred La Porta , Richard Cassarino , Nan Peterson , Xandra Conkling
Director: Robert Clarke Tom Boutross
IMDB Rate: 2.8 out of 10 (495 votes)
Plot Summary:After exposure to radiation, an atomic research scientist finds himself changing into a murderous, lizard-like creature every time he is exposed to sunlight.

Sky Blue aka Wonderful Days

Sky Blue aka Wonderful Days

Actors: Cathy Cavadini , Marc Worden
Director: Moon-saeng Kim
IMDB Rate: 6.8 out of 10 (3271 votes)
Plot Summary:In the future, after the human civilization ended by war and pollution, only those few people who had the power and technology escaped the disaster. Those people built the last human city of Ecoban. As its energy source is the pollutant, the people of Ecoban plan to destroy the inhabitants of Marr to get more pollutant. Standing against Ecoban is a young man who wants only to clear the skies of the clouds to show the wonderful heavens to the girl he loves.

Teenagers from Outer Space

Teenagers from Outer Space

Actors: King Moody , David Love , Harvey B. Dunn , Frederick Welch , Bill DeLand , Tom Graeff , Gene Sterling , Bryan Grant , Billy Bridges , Carl Dickensen , Helen Sage , Ralph Lowe , James Conklin , Dawn Bender , Sonia Torgeson
Director: Tom Graeff
IMDB Rate: 3.1 out of 10 (1428 votes)
Plot Summary:A young alien (David Love) falls for a pretty teenage Earth girl (Dawn Anderson) and they team up to try to stop the plans of his invading cohorts, who intend to use Earth as a food-breeding ground for giant lobsters from their planet. The invaders, who arrive in a flying saucer, carry deadly ray guns that turn Earth-people into skeletons.

Annihilation Earth

Annihilation Earth

Actors: Luke Goss , Colin Salmon , Marina Sirtis
Director: Nick Lyon
IMDB Rate: 4 out of 10 (148 votes)
Plot Summary:This post-apocalyptic story tells of an attack on a supercollider that puts the planet on a collision course with total destruction, starring Luke Goss (Hellboy II) and Marina Sirtis (Star Trek The Next Generation).

Monday, January 10, 2011

Rats: Night of Terror (Rats - Notte di terrore)

Rats: Night of Terror (Rats - Notte di terrore)

Actors: Richard Raymond , Richard Cross , Janna Ryann , Alex McBride
Director: Bruno Mattei
IMDB Rate: 3 out of 10 (716 votes)
Plot Summary:In the year 2230, 215 years after a nuclear war destroyed the surface of the world, a group of 11 nomatic motorcyclist scavangers arrive in a deserted town searching for food and water, when they are set upon by thousands of flesh-eating, mutant rats. Armed with various assault weapons, flame-throwers, and other sharp objects, the group must co-operate with each other to fight the increasing number of murderous rodents in order to survive the long night.

Returner (Ritana)

Returner (Ritana)

Actors: Anne Suzuki , Dean Harrington , Takeshi Kaneshiro , Kisuke Iida , Yukiko Okamoto , Kirin Kiki , Xiaoqun Zhao , Kazuya Shimizu , Mitsuru Murata , Gorô Kishitani , Masaya Takahashi , Chiharu Kawai
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
IMDB Rate: 6.7 out of 10 (4781 votes)
Plot Summary:After an alien invasion threatens to annihilate the human race, a young Japanese girl, named Milly (Anne Suzuki), travels back in time from 2084 to October 2002, and enlists the reluctant aid of skilled Tokyo gunman, named Miyamoto (Takeshi Kaneshiro), to discover and prevent the start of the war. However, trouble ensues when the two protagonists are forced to deal with a Japanese mafia boss, named Mizoguchi (Goro Kishitani), who is somehow involved in the start of the war by keeping the first alien spaceship and its alien pilot captive, while our two heroes race against the clock to find a way to stop the oncoming destruction from the vengeance-seeking alien invasion fleet on its way to Earth.

Screamers

Screamers

Actors: Peter Weller , Ron White , Leni Parker , Roy Dupuis , Jennifer Rubin , Liliana Komorowska , Andrew Lauer , Jason Cavalier , Bruce Boa , Michael Caloz , Charles Edwin Powell , Tom Berry , Henry Ramer , Sylvain Massé
Director: Christian Duguay
IMDB Rate: 6 out of 10 (8423 votes)
Plot Summary:(SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms But mans greatest weapon has continued to evolve without any human guidance, and now it has devised a new mission to obliterate all life. Col. Hendricksson (Peter Weller) is commander of a handful of Alliance soldiers still alive on Sirius 6B. Betrayed by his own political leaders and disgusted by the atrocities of this never-ending war, Hendricksson decides he must negotiate a separate peace with the New Economic Blocs decimated forces. But to do so, he will have to cross a treacherous wasteland where the deadliest threat comes from the very weapons he helped to create.