Welcome to the Forbidden World, where science is dangerous, aliens are juicy, and every woman is either a scientist, a seductress, or both, usually while standing next to a fog machine and covered in baby oil. This 1982 cult classic is what happens when you mix Alien, Barbarella, and a 13-year-old boy’s imagination, all under…
Category: Reviews
Galaxy of Terror (1981) – Review
A doomed crew. A haunted planet. And the most awkward worm-related death scene in B-movie history. Step into a sci-fi nightmare where your fears kill you…not to mention your fashion sense as well. Brought to you by Roger Corman, intergalactic king of “What did I just watch?”
Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) – Review
There have been several films that have “borrowed” from Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, the most notable being The Magnificent Seven by Preston Sturges, but I doubt even Kurosawa could have dreamed someone would take his premise and re-imagine it with aliens, laser battles and a spaceship with large breasts.
Galaxina (1980) – Review
There once was a glittery artifact from the golden era of late-70s, early-80s sci-fi spoofs — a low-budget, tongue-in-cheek movie that tried to riff on Star Wars, Star Trek, and Barbarella all at once, a film that somehow ended up feeling like a stoned Saturday morning cartoon for adults. This artifact would be, of course,…
The Batman vs. Dracula (2005) – Review
In the crowded world of Batman adaptations, The Batman vs. Dracula stakes (pun intended) its claim as one of the more bizarre, yet surprisingly effective, entries. Released in 2005 and spun off from The Batman animated series, this direct-to-video movie takes the Dark Knight into full-on horror territory — and it works way better than…