1986’s Eliminators plays like somebody dumped a box of mismatched action figures on the floor, yelled “movie!” and started filming. Imagine if a sleep-deprived screenwriter watched The Time Machine, Robocop and an Indiana Jones film back-to-back, then rewrote them all in one delirious weekend with a $15 budget and a stack of VHS tapes from…
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Curse of the Faceless Man (1958) – Review
From the ashes of Pompeii rises a terror unlike any other—an immortal gladiator, entombed for centuries, now walking the earth once more. Curse of the Faceless Man trades the familiar Egyptian mummy wrappings for volcanic stone, giving audiences a lumbering relic whose face is as blank as his fate is sealed. Equal parts menace and…
The Six Million Dollar Man (1973) – From Book to Screen
In 1972 writer Martin Caidin wrote a speculative science fiction story called Cyborg, where astronaut and test pilot Steve Austin loses an eye, one arm, and both legs after a disastrous crash during a test flight but with advanced cybernetics, they are then able to replace them with bionic ones.