Man in the Attic (1953)
Jun 6, 2001Jack the Ripper Thriller
The fourth film version of The Lodger with Jack Palance as a boarder that a family believe might be Jack the Ripper. This has neither the style or melodrama of the previous versions
Jack Palance
Torture Garden (1967)
Jun 28, 2002Horror Anthology
Following the success of Dr Terror's House of Horrors, this was the second of Amicus's trademark horror anthologies with Burgess Meredith as a carnival barker showing people their fates
The Spy in the Green Hat (1967)
Jun 2, 2020The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Film/Spy Film
The fifth of the theatrically released films based on tv's The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. This is one of the more overtly comic films with an entertainingly madcap plot that has Napoleon Solo forced into a shotgun wedding and Jack Palance as a mad winemaker attempting to divert the Gulf Stream
Dracula (1974)
Jan 30, 2001Dracula Adaptation
TV movie version of Bram Stoker's book that was released to theatres in some places. Richard Matheson's script brings back many aspects of the book that are dropped by other productions but the film suffers the fatal miscasting of Jack Palance in the title role
Welcome to Blood City (1977)
Jul 31, 2000Western Simulation in Virtual Reality
Clearly influenced by the original Westworld, this is an interesting film about people waking up inside a computer-simulated Western town. Without realising it, this was the very first film to depict Virtual Reality
The Shape of Things to Come (1979)
Jul 5, 2002Space Opera
Shoddy low-budget Canadian-made attempt to jump aboard the Star Wars fad, this promotes itself as a bogus sequel to the H.G. Wells classic
Hawk the Slayer (1980)
Jan 25, 2003Sword and Sorcery
British-made sword and sorcery adventure in the early 80s fantasy cycle. This suffers from a cheap and impoverished budget that makes everything look tatty
Without Warning (1980)
Oct 28, 2015Alien Sportsman Hunts Human Game
One of the first copies of Alien, this essentially acts as a slasher movie but with an alien instead of a hockey-masked killer. It also manages to predict the essentials of Predator in many ways. A B-movie but the cast list makes for eye-opening reading today
Alone in the Dark (1982)
May 6, 1999Slasher Parody/Escaped Madmen
Horror film in which a group of maniacs escape from an asylum set out to track down the new psychiatrist. This starts with tongue amusingly planted in cheek and contains a great cast line-up
Gor (1987)
Aug 20, 2005Barbarian Planet
Cannon Films adaptation of John Norman's series of books. The books come with heavy BDSM content but this is a planetary adventure about a professor transported to become a hero on a barbarian planet
Batman (1989)
Mar 26, 2000Comic-Book Superhero
Tim Burton borrows from the dark brooding graphic novels of the era and gives us a beautiful, stunningly designed film that digs deep into the psychological recesses of the masks and funny faces
Solar Crisis (1990)
Jun 1, 2015Space Mission
Ambitious SF film about a space expedition to save the Sun, this bombed at the time but is not uninteresting
Cyborg<sup>2</sup>: Glass Shadow (1993)
Apr 6, 1999Cyberpunk
Sequel that abandons that mindless chop suey of Albert Pyun's Cyborg and reconstructs it into a halfway reasonable Cyberpunk film. A then unknown Angelina Jolie plays the cyborg
The Swan Princess (1994)
Jun 22, 2000Animated Fairy-Tale
Nicely animated film from Richard Rich that tells the story of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake in which a princess is turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer
Talking to Heaven (2002)
Jun 18, 2015True-Life Medium Biopic
A Hallmark tv mini-series based on the life of the supposed true-life medium James Van Praagh