Lifeforce (1985)
May 25, 2003Soul-Sucking Alien Vampires
Tobe Hooper's space vampires film divides audiences and was a flop. You have to applaud its wild ambitious conceptual grasp even if it bites off more ideas than it is ever coherently presents
Peter Firth
Born of Fire (1986)
Aug 6, 2000Islamic Mystical Apocalypse
The world's first Islamic horror film? A film filled with a constant profusion of weird imagery but otherwise baffllingly incomprehensible
Burndown (1989)
Apr 8, 1999Radioactive Killer/Nuclear Accident
Obscure and little seen thriller where a Florida sheriff deals with a series of radioactive murder victims where all clues seem to lead to an abandoned nuclear power plant
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Jun 28, 2002Tom Clancy Techno-Thriller/Advanced Submarine
The first and best Tom Clancy adaptation about a hi-tech Soviet submarine whose captain goes rogue. Director John McTiernan conducts the undersea maneuverings with gripping tension
Mighty Joe Young (1998)
Jun 2, 1999Giant Ape
The original Mighty Joe Young was a wonderfully underrated giant ape film. This is a remake conducted in the post-Jurassic Park era that adds CGI but holds none of the magic of the original
Chill Factor (1999)
Sep 6, 1999Action Chase/Chemical Weapons
An inane action film that sets out to copy Speed with Skeet Ulrich and a motormouth Cuba Gooding Jr forced to drive an ice cream truck filled with chemical weapons