Eric Christmas Archives

Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

Rating: ★★★½

Jul 28, 2026Limbless Soldier Hallucinates

Classic anti-war film with Timothy Bottoms as a limbless, sightless soldier in a hospital bed as his mind wanders between hallucinations, visions of the afterlife and attempts to communicate with the medical staff

Director: Dalton Trumbo

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland, Diane Varsi, …

Category: Fantasy

28 July 202628 July 2026 by Roog

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 8, 1999Genre Spoof

One of the original genre parodies, a very silly and amateurish film that also manages to be occasionally quite funny. Three sequels and an animated tv series followed

Director: John De Bello

Actors: David Miller, Rock Pearce, Eric Christmas, pearce

Category: Science Fiction

8 July 199920 November 2025 by Roog

The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 2, 2001Time Travel Experiment Amok

Based on a non-fiction, fringe science book that makes claims that the US Navy conducted experiments that turned a ship invisible during WWII, this spins the idea out into a modest time travel story

Director: Stewart Raffill

Actors: Michael Paré, Nancy Allen, Bobby Di Cicco, Eric Christmas, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 July 20015 December 2024 by Roog

All Of Me (1984)

Rating: ★★★★

Jul 3, 1999Bodyswap Comedy

One of Steve Martin’s finest works, a variant of the bodyswap comedy in which he finds himself sharing his body with Lily Tomlin. Martin's on-screen contortions are side-splitting

Director: Carl Reiner

Actors: Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Victoria Tennant, Richard Libertini, …

Category: Fantasy

3 July 19993 December 2021 by Roog

Whispers (1990)

Rating: ★★

May 15, 2001Disturbed Twins/Dean R. Koontz Adaptation

Dean R. Koontz adaptation in which Victoria Tennant kills an attacker only for him to be found alive again and return to attack her, involving her in a complex web involving Satanism, vampirism and twins

Director: Douglas Jackson

Actors: Victoria Tennant, Chris Sarandon, Jean Le Clerc, Eric Christmas, …

Category: Horror

15 May 200118 June 2025 by Roog

Ed and His Dead Mother (1993)

Rating: ★★★

May 22, 2001Zombified Mother Comedy

A very eccentric comedy in which momma's boy Steve Buscemi accepts a deal from a strange salesman to resurrect his beloved mother (Miriam Margolyes) from the dead

Director: Jonathan Wacks

Actors: Steve Buscemi, Miriam Margolyes, John Glover, Ned Beatty, …

Category: Fantasy

22 May 200130 January 2026 by Roog

Almost Dead (1994)

Rating: ★

Mar 31, 1999Haunting

This a dull ghost story in which Shannen Doherty plays a parapsychological researcher who believes she is seeing the ghost of her mother everywhere

Director: Ruben Preuss

Actors: Shannen Doherty, Costas Mandylor, Eric Christmas, John Diehl, …

Category: Horror

31 March 199915 November 2025 by Roog

MouseHunt (1997)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 17, 2000Men vs an Intelligent Mouse

The directorial debut of Gore Verbinski, this harnesses Babe-styled animatronics to essentially create a live-action Tom and Jerry cartoon with two comic villains being outwitted by a seemingly unkillable mouse

Director: Gore Verbinski

Actors: Nathan Lane, Lee Evans, Christopher Walken, Eric Christmas, …

Category: Fantasy

17 December 200021 March 2026 by Roog