The People That Time Forgot (1977)
Apr 21, 2008Prehistoric Lost World
The third in the trilogy of Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptations with Doug McClure. This has much imagination despite the special effects often not being up to the task
Sarah Douglas
Superman II (1980)
Dec 16, 2000Comic-Book Superhero
Shot back-to-back with the first Christopher Reeve film, this then became a mess behind the scenes. The end result emerges fairly well with the show dominated by the magnificent Phantom Zones villains and giving depth to the Superman-Lois relationship
Conan the Destroyer (1984)
May 31, 2001Sword and Sorcery
This sequel to Conan the Barbarian makes the mistake of watering the primal brutalism down to a PG rating and what results ends up being a pedestrian comic-book adventure
V: The Final Battle (1984)
May 4, 2009Alien Invasion
Follow-up to the popular V mini-series, this is an absurd melodrama that is made up of incredibly bad science-fiction writing and directed with zero plausibility
Solarbabies (1986)
Jan 20, 2005Post-Holocaust Teen Sports Team
Embarrassingly bad Mel Brooks produced film that seems to have been conceived in terms of conducting a juvenile Mad Max film on rollerskates and throwing SF cliches about without any coherent script
The Return of Swamp Thing (1989)
Jul 6, 2000Comic-Book Mutant Superhero
Wes Craven’s adaptation of DC’s Swamp Thing was not a very good film. This sequel has been handed over to prolific B-budget hack Jim Wynorski who shows he is unable to take any of it seriously
The Art of Dying (1991)
Jul 5, 2002Snuff Filmmaker
Actor Wings Hauser directs and stars in a film in which he plays a detective pursuing a killer who is luring teenage runaways into making snuff films
Puppetmaster III: Toulon’s Revenge (1991)
Jan 26, 2003Puppetmaster & Toys vs Nazis
The third of Full Moon's Puppet Master films, this is a prequel that explores Andre Toulon's origins in Nazi Germany
Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time (1991)
Apr 6, 2002The Beastmaster Comes to L.A.
Excruciating sequel to The Beastmaster that transports Marc Singer's Dar to contemporary L.A. The whole film is wrecked by an attitude that seems unable to take the proceedings seriously.
Return of the Living Dead III (1993)
Oct 31, 2008Zombie Girlfriend
Brian Yuzna's entry is the only worthwhile effort among the sequels to Dan O'Bannon's Return of the Living Deadwhere Yuzna adds an original plot about a zombie girlfriend and the film is spiked with perverse imagery
Voodoo (1995)
Mar 23, 2010Voodoo Fraternity
A low-budget film where Corey Feldman is a university student who signs into an oddball fraternity only to find that it practices voodoo rites and he has signed away his soul
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006)
Dec 15, 2013Comic-Book Superhero
The original version of Superman II became mired in problems over the firing of director Richard Donner. After the rediscovery of the original footage, Donner was able to go offer up a restored version. Seeing the storylines the way they were meant to be and Marlon Brando's original scenes as Jor-el make for a work that is superior in every way
Strippers vs. Werewolves (2012)
Mar 2, 2013British Werewolf Comedy
Probably the next logical move after Zombie Strippers! Alas, where we should have had a fast, funny and sarcastic genre entry, the humour in this British entry becomes painfully belaboured in its constant unfunny efforts to get laughs
In Search of Tomorrow: A Journey Through ’80s Sci-Fi Cinema (2022)
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