In 1989, a low budget science fiction/horror film was released, it was called Moontrap and starred genre icons Walter Koenig and Bruce Campbell. Then, thirty years later, director Robert Dyke and writer Tex Ragsdale decided to make a sequel…or remake…or something, and I’m pretty sure that neither of these two gentlemen had any idea what…
Tag: science fiction
Moontrap (1989) – Review
Blending horror and science fiction dates back to almost the beginning of cinema — with such outings as the 1910 silent version of Frankenstein — but sci-fi horror movies to do with outer space really kicked into gear with films like It Came From Outer Space and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and then hit their peak…
Dollman (1991) – Review
Science fiction stories about tiny protagonists have been around for quite some time; Universal Pictures adapted Richard Matheson’s story of a man shrunken due to exposure to a radioactive cloud into the classic film The Incredible Shrinking Man and, of course, Disney’s popular Honey I Shrunk the Kids dealt with the classic idea of a…
The Fantastic Journey (1977) – Review
In 1977, producer Bruce Lansbury brought to the small screen a show called The Fantastic Journey, a startling tale about a small group of people trapped on a mysterious island — decades before J.J. Abrams would conjure up his series Lost — and though this particular series didn’t even manage a full season, thanks to the…
The Wandering Earth (2019) – Review
I’ll make no bones about disaster films being a genre I’m particularly fond of — something about national landmarks exploding or massive tidal waves engulfing whole cities being a great backdrop for both action and drama — and Hollywood has done much to fulfill audiences’ desire to see such massive catastrophes in all their glory….