Night of the Creeps (1986)
Dec 13, 2002Alien Slugs/Resurrection of the Dead/Genre Homage
Alien body snatchers comedy that feels less like a film than an extended fanboy in-joke
Fred Dekker
House (1986)
Sep 2, 2003Haunted House/Horror Comedy
Amiably silly haunted house film with William Katt fighting rubbery pop-up monsters. This doesn't take itself too seriously. A minor hit that produced three sequels.
The Monster Squad (1987)
May 24, 2015Kids vs the Famous Monsters
Rather charming effort where the Famous Monsters – Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster, the Wolf Man, The Mummy, The Creature – are revived and pitted against a group of kids. The film has a great deal of affection for the originals and the encounters are delightful
Ricochet (1991)
Jan 6, 2003Ex-Con's Revenge
This rehashes Cape Fear, remade by Martin Scorsese the same year, with Denzel Washington as an upstanding lawyer whose life is torn apart by vengeful ex-con John Lithgow. A frequently ludicrous script is made worse by Russell Mulcahy's overwrought direction
If Looks Could Kill (1991)
May 23, 2003Teenage Spy/Spy Spoof
Way back before Austin Powers, the James Bond/spy movie parody began here with this silly effort in which teenager Richard Grieco is propelled into an international spy caper
RoboCop 3 (1993)
Jul 1, 2000Cyborg Cop
The third Robocop film killed the series off with a disastrous decision to go for a PG rating and pair Robocop with a cute kid
The Predator (2018)
Jan 26, 2019Alien Huntsman Comes to Earth
Shane Black, a writer-director with a reasonable cult following, makes the sixth Predator film (he also appeared as an actor in the original). Black shakes the series up, introduces a number of new ideas and makes an okay entry