TAG: The Assassination Game (1982)
Mar 29, 2008Psycho in a Campus Mock Killing Game
Film based on the popular campus mock killing game where one player snaps and starts to kill for real. Featuring the screen debut of Linda Hamilton
Linda Hamilton
Children of the Corn (1984)
Jun 5, 2000Pagan Child Cult/Stephen King Adaptation
A fifteen page Stephen King story about a patricidal child cult has spawned this film, nine sequels and a remake. Not a very good film, this is stuck with padding a very slight original out to a full-length film
The Terminator (1984)
Dec 16, 2003Time-Travelling Killer Android
One of the 2-3 most influential SF films since 1980. James Cameron creates a barrelling powerhouse of a film, all lorded over by Arnold Schwarzenegger as the relentless killer machine in the role that defined his career
Black Moon Rising (1986)
Aug 4, 2000Techno-Thriller/Hi-Tech Car Theft
Made from an old John Carpenter script, this is a reasonable action film starring Tommy Lee Jones as a professional thief who is tasked with stealing a hi-tech car
King Kong Lives (1986)
Jun 9, 2002Giant Ape
Everybody hated the 1976 remake of King Kong but Dino de Laurentiis has the chutzpah to produce a sequel and the results are absolutely awful, full of scenes guaranteed to have an audience rolling in the aisle
Mr Destiny (1990)
Feb 3, 2000Angel Presents an Alternate Life Pathway
A variant on It's a Wonderful Life where James Belushi gets to live the life he never did due to missing a key baseball homerun
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Dec 16, 2003Time-Travelling Killer Androids
The first sequel to The Terminator where James Cameron returns with the biggest budget for a film at the time. Cameron harnesses then top-drawer CGI technology to create one of the most original nemeses in any SF film
Bailey’s Mistake (2001)
Jun 6, 2009Magical Realism
Strange Disney tv movie in which widow Linda Hamilton moves to a small town where the people seem able to do magic
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
Jan 25, 2020Time-Travelling Killer Androids
The sixth Terminator film that boasts the return of both James Cameron and Linda Hamilton to the franchise. After the troughs of Terminator: Genisys, this makes one forget about the last three sequels
Osiris (2025)
Feb 15, 2026Alien Abduction/Warfare
Soldiers in the middle of a warzone are abducted by aliens and wake up aboard an alien facility. An interesting set up that dissolves into massive amounts of artillery fire and action