Hollywood loves a good disaster movie and one of the more popular sub-genres of this is the post-apocalyptic film, where heroes must survive in a topsy-turvy world after some natural or man-made disaster. In the case of Damnation Alley they decided to adapt a novel by science fiction author Roger Zelazny, a book that dealt with…
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Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983) – Review
In the 80s Road Warrior rip-offs almost became a genre of their own with such titles as Battle Truck, Hell Comes to Frogtown, and Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn littering the cinema landscape, but today’s entry is easily one of the most blatant.
Planet of the Vampires (1965) – Review
A distress beacon brings a group of astronauts to an alien world where they discover a derelict spacecraft and its dead and calcified giant crew. When the astronauts start being picked off one by one the true horror of their situation begins to be realized.
Predestination (2014) – Review
“What if I could put him in front of you, the man that ruined your life. If I guaranteed you’d get away with it would you kill him?” With that cryptic question, one of the better movies dealing with time travel begins.
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) – Review
When one thinks of Hammer Films, images of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing stalking gothic hallways leap to mind. Hammer Films’ first dabble in horror was actually way back in 1955 with The Quatermass Xperiment, a fantastic horror/science fiction hybrid that captured and terrified audiences of the time.