Wizards of the Lost Kingdom (1984)
Jul 19, 2013Sword and Sorcery
A painfully cheap entry in the 1980s fad for sword and sorcery films.
Concorde
Sorority House Massacre (1986)
Aug 9, 2016Slasher Film
A Roger Corman produced slasher film, which spawned two sequels. The plot draws heavily on Halloween and comes with all the usual scenes of co-eds being stalked by a maniac escaped from an asylum
Stripped to Kill (1987)
Mar 25, 2016Undercover in a Strip Club Psycho-Thriller
The very first film with the plot of a woman cop going undercover in a strip club. The police procedural plot and psycho element takes a very clear backseat to the stripper set-pieces, some of which are imaginatively staged. On the plus side, the film is directed by a woman
Slumber Party Massacre II (1987)
Mar 6, 2015Slasher Film
The Slumber Party Massacre was an mundane and unmemorable slasher entry; this is a nonsensical sequel that tries to turn it into a copy of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Contains some of the bizarrely ridiculous scenes to ever take part in any slasher film of the era
Watchers (1988)
May 31, 2001Intelligent Dog/Dean R. Koontz Adaptation
Dean R. Koontz adaptation in which Corey Haim adopts an unusually intelligent dog unaware it is part of a genetically engineered killing machine. Produced by Roger Corman who spun out a series of sequels.
Crime Zone (1989)
Jun 20, 2002Dystopian Future
A low-budget SF-action film produced by Roger Corman with David Carradine as a police chief in a dystopian future who becomes wound up in the lives of two young lovers on the run
Transylvania Twist (1989)
Apr 23, 2020Horror Parody
A Roger Corman produced horror parody that conducts send ups of most of the horror icons of the 1980s - Freddy Krueger, Pinhead, Michael Meyers etc - without being particularly funny
Masque of Red Death (1989)
Jun 1, 2000Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation
Dull and dreary version of the Edgar Allan Poe story especially when placed in contrast to producer Roger Corman's definitive 1964 version
Streets (1990)
Jun 28, 2002Teenage Runaways vs Psycho Cop
Gritty urban drama with Christina Applegate as a teenage runaway on the mean streets of L.A. harassed by a psycho cop
Brain Dead (1990)
Sep 8, 2000Paranoia and Hallucinations
One of the better 80s attempts to copy A Nightmare on Elm Street from an old Charles Beaumont script in which Bill Pullman is a neurologist who becomes involved in an increasingly wilder series of reality bendings
Watchers II (1990)
Aug 28, 2024Intelligent Dog Hunted by a Monster
The first of three sequels to the Dean R. Koontz adaptation about an intelligent dog, although for each sequel producer Roger Corman has just remade the book
Slumber Party Massacre III (1990)
Feb 15, 2017Slasher Film
Second film to follow-on from The Slumber Party Massacre. While the original was a straight-up slasher film, the second became completely ludicrous as it veered off in trying to copy the A Nightmare on Elm Street films but this returns to the slasher basics for a vigorous workout of the formula
Vampirella (1996)
Feb 27, 2003Comic Book Adaptation/Alien Vampire Heroine
Disappointingly tatty rendering of the famous comic-book strip as a low-budget Roger Corman production. Vampirella is missing her distinctive costume and Talisa Soto comes nowhere near the comic-book character's statuesque voluptuousness
Club Vampire (1997)
Jul 27, 2000Vampires
Set around a secret society of vampires, this is a strong contender for the worst vampire film ever made. It suffers badly from a directorial approach that is unsure if it is taking things seriously
Prophet (1999)
Feb 24, 2011Action/Psychic Powers
Fred Olen Ray and Don 'The Dragon' Wilson combine forces on a low-budget action film about psychic powers. The action scenes are competent but the film lacking in the script department
Nightfall (2000)
Dec 8, 2013Isaac Asimov Adaptation
Isaac Asimov's Nightfall, about a planet surrounded by six suns that only experiences nightfall once every thousand years, is considered the No 1 classic science-fiction short story. On film, it has alas befallen two impoverished versions from Roger Corman of which this was the second