The World’s Greatest Athlete (1973)
Oct 19, 2008Disney Comedy/Jungle Boy Super-Athlete
A Disney live-action comedy that puts a Tarzan character on the athletics field for some inspired nonsense
Jan-Michael Vincent
Shadow of the Hawk (1976)
May 12, 2015War Between American Indian Sorcerers
Jan-Michael Vincent plays a young man who is reluctantly drawn in by his Native American grandfather's war against a black sorcerer
Damnation Alley (1977)
Jan 4, 2001Post-Apocalyptic Trek
Disastrous adaptation of the Roger Zelazny novel where the story of a Hell's Angel on a trek across the post-apocalyptic wasteland is recast with a G.I. and a girl and kid along for the journey, plus the addition of giant mutant cockroaches
The Return (1981)
Mar 8, 2011UFO Contact and Cattle Multilations
Influenced by Close Encounters of the Third Kind, this is a strange film about UFOs and cattle mutilations. Explanations are not always clear but the film boasts a great cast
Airwolf (1985)
Jun 1, 1999Hi-Tech Helicopter
The pilot for a tv series that was theatrically released outside of the US. A blatant copy of Blue Thunder, this concerns the hijacking and retrieval of a hi-tech helicopter
Tarzan in Manhattan (1989)
Feb 10, 2026Tarzan Comes to Civilisation Comedy
Comedy take on the Tarzan character with Joe Lara playing Tarzan who comes to New York and promptly proves to be a fish out of water. The filmmakers were likely inspired by the then recent hit of Crocodile Dundee
Xtro II: The Second Encounter (1991)
Nov 28, 2018Other-Dimensional Nasty
Xtro was cheesily ridiculous Alien copy. This is a sequel that bears nothing in common with the original beyond the title. In between the two films, we had Aliens so there is now a plot about soldiers hunting the creature with biiig guns. Nothing bad, just an uninspired rehash of the standard Alien copy