Lance Guest Archives

Halloween II (1981)

Rating: ★★½

Feb 1, 2002Slasher Film

The first sequel to Halloween, with Michael Myers pursuing Jamie Lee Curtis through a hospital. John Carpenter's suspense is replaced by slasher hackery but in retrospect this is a lot better than the subsequent sequels

Director: Rick Rosenthal

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Lance Guest, Charles Cyphers, …

Category: Horror

1 February 200210 March 2026 by Roog

The Last Starfighter (1984)

Rating: ★

Jun 20, 2002Videogame Junkie Joins Intergalactic War

One of the sillier films made in the aftermath of Star Wars. It is recycling third hand cliches and reduces these to simplistic fantasies of military heroism for the videogame generation

Director: Nick Castle

Actors: Lance Guest, Dan O'Herlihy, Robert Preston, Catherine Mary Stewart, …

Category: Science Fiction

20 June 20023 July 2026 by Roog

Jaws: The Revenge (1987)

Rating: ★

Feb 26, 2001Killer Shark

The widely ridiculed fourth Jaws film. This is at least better than the third film, having one of two okay shark attack scenes but the melodramatics are drawn out and tedious

Director: Joseph Sargent

Actors: Lorraine Gary, Michael Caine, Lance Guest, Mario Van Peebles, …

Category: Horror

26 February 200128 May 2026 by Roog

Flu Bird Horror (2008)

Rating: ★★

May 30, 2013Mutant Bird Attacks

The Bird Flu Epidemic was a brief panic over an influenza outbreak that infected humans; this seems to little concern the film that blows it up into a horde of large mutant birds that attack humans

Director: Leigh Scott

Actors: Lance Guest, Sarah Butler, Jonathon Trent, Clare Carey, …

Category: Horror

30 May 20138 February 2026 by Roog

Late Phases (2014)

Rating: ★★★½

Mar 21, 2016Werewolf in a Retirement Village

A highly original treatment of werewolf themes that begins with the unique premise of ‘Werewolf in a Retirement Village' and features a hero who is an aging blind man

Director: Adrian Garcia Bogliano

Actors: Nick Damici, Ethan Embry, Tom Noonan, Lance Guest, …

Category: Horror

21 March 201621 June 2026 by Roog

In Search of Tomorrow: A Journey Through ’80s Sci-Fi Cinema (2022)

Rating: ★★½

Sep 25, 2022Documentary About 1980s SF Films

A documentary that comes with great affection for the SF films of the 1980s and covers these, along with interviews with key people, although leaves quite a number of blank spots in works it does not cover

Director: David Weiner

Actors: Nancy Allen, Melody Anderson, Adrienne Barbeau, Shane Black, …

Category: Science Fiction

25 September 202216 April 2026 by Roog