The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Jun 3, 2001Alienated Alien Visitor
Nicolas Roeg's film featuring David Bowie as an alienated alien visitor to Earth, a film that is equal amounts brilliance and pretentious distractions
Candy Clark
Q – The Winged Serpent (1982)
Aug 14, 2000Monster Movie
Larry Cohen is a cult director and this, which concerns a Quetzalcoatl bird amok in New York City, is the best of his films, peppered with side-splitting dialogue and Michael Moriarty giving the performance of a lifetime
Blue Thunder (1983)
Sep 15, 1999Hi-Tech Helicopter Theft/Action
Dan O'Bannon scripted film about a hi-tech helicopter, this crackles with great writing and some immensely exciting aerial action scenes from director John Badham
Amityville 3-D (1983)
Aug 7, 1999Haunted House
This was the third of the Amityville films, released amid the early 1980s 3D revival. Nothing more than the usual except for various things popping out of the screen
Cat’s Eye (1985)
Jan 4, 2000Stephen King Anthology
An anthology of three Stephen King stories, this comes out with extremely variable results where what were originally a series of tight and mordant tales end up strangely overblown
The Blob (1988)
Aug 6, 2000Monster Movie
The original 1958 The Blob gets a full makeover via some sensational state-of-the-art animatronics and makeup effects with impressive results. A much superior work to the original in all ways
Cherry Falls (2000)
Jul 16, 2009Slasher Film
Witty and rather funny slasher film in which the killer targets virgins in a community. The genre's usual tropes about the chaste girl surviving are turned on their head in rather hilarious ways
Zodiac (2007)
May 27, 2007True Life Serial Killer
David Fincher's gripping investigation into the unsolved true-life Zodiac Killer case. Fincher's stagings are exacting and the mystery he builds intensely absorbing