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…
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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,…
Carnosaur (1993) – Review
When a hot property is in the wings, one that looks be a potential blockbuster, it’s a sure bet that legendary B-movie producer Roger Corman will be thinking on how to capitalize on such a product with a cheap quickie of his own, thus when Steven Spielberg was in the midst of making his adaptation…
It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) – Review
If a plot consisting of a group of astronauts landing on an alien world that soon find themselves being stalked through their ship by a strange creature sounds a little familiar it’s because Dan O’Bannon, the screenwriter of the Ridley Scott science fiction classic Alien, was clearly a fan of this low-budget 50s entry in…
Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness (2015) – Review
The Scooby gang is no novice when it comes to science fiction, as they’ve encountered actual aliens in Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders and battled computer simulations in Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, but for Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness, our plucky heroes leave the safety of Earth and venture off into space in one of…