Incubus (1965)
Jan 19, 2001Village of Demonic Temptresses
The novelty of the only film ever made in Esperanto with a young William Shatner as a man who comes across a village of demonic temptresses
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Sole Survivor (1970)
Sep 3, 2024Deathdream
One of the most original variants on the deathdream film where pilots crashed in the desert come to the realisation they are dead
The People (1972)
Sep 27, 2023Town of Alien Refugees
Quite magical Francis Ford Coppola produced film about a schoolteacher who discovers she had taken a position in a town of alien refugees
The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973)
Jan 7, 2006Haunted Airplane
TV movie that combines the mid-air disaster film of Airport with the 1970s occult fad with a line-up of name actors dealing with druidic stones that exude evil in the midst of a plane flight
The Devil’s Rain (1975)
Sep 29, 2001Satanist Cult
Big-budget Satanism film that came out during the mid-70s occult film fad, this promptly collapses into a bad movie through many unintentionally absurd touches and a nonsensical screenplay
Mysteries of the Gods (1976)
Sep 9, 2021Ancient Astronauts/Erich von Daniken Documentary
William Shatner-hosted documentary based on the works of pseudo-science author Erich von Daniken and his claims that various archaeological mysteries were created by alien visitors
Star Trek – The Motion Picture (1979)
Jun 18, 2000AI Encounter
Long-awaited revival of the tv series on the big screen. While this has a mixed fan reception, it is well worth re-evaluation. It is the only one of the Trek films that reaches for epic, mind-expanding places to find something of a 2001: A Space Odyssey
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Aug 31, 2002Intergalactic Adventures
Second of the Star Trek films, usually regarded as the fan favourite because of its often moving character focus on themes of life, death and aging. Ricardo Montalban makes a grandly theatrical villain and the film gets some great suspense out of space war sequences
Visiting Hours (1982)
Jan 9, 2015Slasher Film
Taut and effective effort from the heyday of the slasher film, one of several films on the theme of a woman newscaster being stalked by a psycho. A young Michael Ironside goes to town on the role of the psycho and plays to the gallery with nastily effective results
Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
May 9, 1999Disaster Movie & SF Spoof
Airplane was a parody of the disaster movie that proved a hit. This was a sequel that expands the action aboard the space shuttle and contains many SF in-jokes but to generally lesser effect
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
Aug 17, 2000Intergalactic Adventures
Leonard Nimoy steps into the director's chair of the third Star Trek film and his doing marks the shift of the films from intergalactic adventuring into the regulars engaged in a safe, easy set of adventures playing to fan audiences
The Voyage Home: Star Trek IV (1986)
Jul 17, 2002Time Travel Back to the Present
Fourth of the original Star Trek films jumps on board the popularity of time travel themes following Back to the Future to have the regulars time travel back to the present for a series of amiable, easy comic encounters
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
Aug 31, 2002Intergalactic Adventures
William Shatner tries to emulate the success had by Leonard Nimoy in directing a Star Trek film but falls on his face, badly overstressing the comedy elements and delivering the worst of the Classic Trek films
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Jul 20, 2000Intergalactic Adventures
The last of the classic Star Trek films. Nicholas Meyer, who made the last good Trek film The Wrath of Khan, returns to give the characters a moving send off, while the plot that reenacts the fall of the Berlin Wall with the Klingons gives the films a political immediacy that was missing since the tv series
Star Trek: Generations (1994)
Sep 11, 2000Intergalactic Adventures
The first of the Star Trek: The Next Generation films is an odd affair that seems like a routine episode of the series that accidentally gained a big-screen budget. This crosses over with Classic Trek where William Shatner mugs his way through a grand old airing of Captain Kirk
Free Enterprise (1998)
Dec 20, 2000The Lives of SF Fans
Two SF fans encounter real-life idol William Shatner. A film that writes about fandom knowingly and comes with an hilarious series of in-jokes and asides
Osmosis Jones (2001)
Aug 10, 2001Talking Germs Inside a Slob's Body
The Farrelly Brothers make a part-animated, part-live action film that is set inside slob Bill Murray's body where the cells and body functions are all talking characters
American Psycho II: All American Girl (2002)
Dec 28, 2004Psycho University Student
A sequel that has almost no connection to the original and has Mila Kunis as a psychopathic student trying to get into a prestigious criminal profiling course
How William Shatner Changed the World (2005)
Feb 16, 2014Documentary About the Influence of Star Trek in the Real World
Beyond the attention-grabbing title, this is a documentary about the influence that Star Trek has had in the real world. A not uninteresting concept wrecked by Shatner's condescending attitude to interview subjects
Over the Hedge (2006)
Jun 21, 2006Animation/Talking Animals
Likeable DreamWorks animated film filled with much slapstick energy about a group of talking animals that venture into a housing estate in search of food
The Wild (2006)
Nov 10, 2006Animation/Talking Zoo Animals
Likeable animated film about a group of zoo animals making an escape that ended up being overshadowed by the similar, more high-profile Madagascar
Fanboys (2008)
Apr 3, 2010The Lives of Star Wars Fans
Affectionately made road trip film about four Star Wars fans on a journey to break into Skywalker Ranch. Packed with lots of witty fannish in-jokes and cameos, this comes out as enjoyable if broad at times
The Captains (2011)
Oct 30, 2012Star Trek Documentary
Documentary where William Shatner interviews the actors who played the captains in the other incarnations of Star Trek. The entire show is hijacked by the Shatner ego as he constantly overrides his interview subjects
Get a Life! (2012)
May 25, 2021Star Trek Fandom Documentary
The William Shatner documentary can be a unique beast. Here he makes a quite reasonable effort to examine what is at the heart of Star Trek fandom
Escape from Planet Earth (2013)
Mar 4, 2013Animation/Aliens Imprisoned at Area 51 Comedy
This is fake SF, an animated film that has no interest in its concept, one that exists solely as a series of pop culture jokes, cutsie supporting characters, thrills and feelgood epiphanies
A Christmas Horror Story (2015)
Dec 25, 2015Anthology of Christmas Horror Stories
An anthology that offers a quartet of Christmas horror stories, including ones of zombified elves and a Krampus monster. The overall effect though is of a slickly made effort that disappears without memorable distinction
For the Love of Spock (2016)
Sep 18, 2016Leonard Nimoy Documentary
Documentary about the life of Leonard Nimoy made for the 50th Anniversary of Star Trek. Directed by Nimoy's son Adam, this is mostly a biography tracing Nimoy's life with some fascinating material showing the evolution of Spock
Range 15 (2016)
Apr 14, 2017Zombie Comedy
This is a crowdourced film made by military veterans who set out with the idea of creating better military characterisations in films. Bizarrely enough, they turn to the zombie comedy to do so and the result is the crassest, most willfully offensive zombie film ever made
The Truth is in the Stars (2017)
Feb 23, 2018Documentary About the Possible Path to Space
The William Shatner documentary is a fascinatingly bizarre beast. This involves Shatner talking to a bunch of scientists and celebrities, before meeting with Stephen Hawking but peculiarly enough seems to have no central thesis or idea about what it is setting out to prove
Batman vs. Two-Face (2017)
Oct 27, 2017Animation/Retro 1960s Batman
Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders, an animated homage to the 1960s Batman tv series reuniting Adam West and Burt Ward, was a quirky delight. This is a sequel in the same vein, although more a case of a joke that tires in the retelling
To Your Last Death (2019)
Nov 20, 2020Animation/Brutal Survival in an Office Building/Alien Game
Animated film that is gore-drenched and certainly not for children. Imagine The Belko Experiment conceived as a videogame where the heroine has to survive an office of people trying to kill her while aliens bet on the outcome
You Can Call Me Bill (2023)
Mar 9, 2025William Shatner Interviewed
Alexandre O. Philippe has made a host of documentaries about film and fandom. Here he sits down with a 91-year-old William Shatner who reflects on his life