Paul Koslo Archives

The Omega Man (1971)

Rating: ★★

Jun 29, 2012Last Man on Earth vs Mutants/I Am Legend Adaptation

The second film version of I Am Legend, this rewrites the book's vampires as mutants and abandons its mood of paranoia for a fantasy of hippie utopia and Charlton Heston in square-jawed action hero mode

Director: Boris Sagal

Actors: Charlton Heston, Rosalind Cash, Anthony Zerbe, Paul Koslo, …

Category: Science Fiction

29 June 201222 September 2025 by Roog

The Laughing Policeman (1973)

Rating: ★★

Sep 4, 2001Detective Thriller/Serial Killer

A gritty US-made adaptation of a Swedish thriller with Walter Matthau and Bruce Dern as detectives investigating a machine-gun murder spree aboard a bus

Director: Stuart Rosenberg

Actors: Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett Jr, Anthony Zerbe, …

Category: Horror

4 September 20013 July 2026 by Roog

Robot Jox (1990)

Rating: ★★★

Mar 7, 2003Future Gladiatorial Combat with Transformer Robots

Stuart Gordon, the cult director of Re-Animator, turns his hand to making a live-action Transformers film way back before anybody had ever head the name Michael Bay

Director: Stuart Gordon

Actors: Gary Graham, Anne-Marie Johnson, Paul Koslo, Michael Alldredge, …

Category: Science Fiction

7 March 200317 July 2022 by Roog

Solar Crisis (1990)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 1, 2015Space Mission

Ambitious SF film about a space expedition to save the Sun, this bombed at the time but is not uninteresting

Director: Richard C. Sarafian

Actors: Tim Matheson, Charlton Heston, Jack Palance, Corin Nemec, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 June 201519 March 2025 by Roog

Xtro II: The Second Encounter (1991)

Rating: ★★

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

Director: Harry Bromley Davenport

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, Tara Buckman, Paul Koslo, Nicholas Lea, …

Category: Science Fiction

28 November 201820 November 2024 by Roog

Project: Shadowchaser (1992)

Rating: ★

Feb 6, 2000Android Terrorist

Completely ridiculous mix of The Terminator and Die Hard where, for no clear reason, an android terrorist decides to take hostages in an office building and the FBI’s only hope is a cryogenically unfrozen football player

Director: John Eyres

Actors: Martin Kove, Meg Foster, Frank Zagarino, Paul Koslo, …

Category: Science Fiction

6 February 20009 October 2025 by Roog

Judge and Jury (1996)

Rating: ★

Mar 2, 1999Executed Killer Returns

A ridiculous supernatural action film where a madly overacting David Keith plays an executed killer returned from the dead to seek revenge against cop Martin Kove

Director: John Eyres

Actors: David Keith, Martin Kove, Paul Koslo, Thomas Ian Nicholas

Category: Horror

2 March 199916 May 2026 by Roog

Downdraft (1996)

Rating: ★★½

Mar 24, 1999Amok AI/Nuclear Threat/Action

Modest and conceptually packed B-budget action film in which a motley team are sent to break into a bunker that has been hijacked by a scientist who is threatening to fire nuclear missiles

Director: Michael Mazo

Actors: Vincent Spano, Kate Vernon, John Novak, Paul Koslo, …

Category: Science Fiction

24 March 199924 January 2026 by Roog

Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010)

Rating: ★★★½

Jun 2, 2011Filipino Exploitation Cinema Documentary

A documentary about the US exploitation film industry in the Philippines in the 1970s filled with mind-boggling anecdotes that uncover a wild west of unregulated filmmaking

Director: Mark Hartley

Actors: Carmen Argenziano, Allan Arkush, Andrea Cagan, Colleen Camp, …

Category: Horror

2 June 20111 August 2026 by Roog