United Artists Archives

The Bat Whispers (1930)

Rating: ★★★★

Feb 1, 2001Old Dark House Comedy-Thriller

Sound remake of the silent Old Dark House classic The Bat. This retains the original's extraordinary visuals, including use of a mobile camera, something that was groundbreaking technology for the time in ways that still astonish today

Director: Roland West

Actors: Chester Morris, Una Merkel, Maude Eburne, Gustav von Seyffertitz, …

Category: Horror

1 February 200112 August 2025 by Roog

Heaven Only Knows (1947)

Rating: ★★½

Feb 2, 2003Angel Visits Out West

A 1940s light fantasy with Robert Cummings as an angel comes down in a Western town to help bad guy outlaw Brian Donlevy redeem his ways

Director: Albert S. Rogell

Actors: Robert Cummings, Brian Donlevy, Marjorie Reynolds, Bill Goodwin, …

Category: Fantasy

2 February 200330 October 2025 by Roog

Red Planet Mars (1952)

Rating: ★

Jan 11, 2002Radio Messages from God on Mars

One of the most bizarre of 1950s Communist Fear films in which humanity begins to receive radio message from God on Mars. The film's politics are hysterical today.

Director: Harry Horner

Actors: Peter Graves, Marvin Miller, Morris Ankrum

Category: Science Fiction

11 January 200230 September 2020 by Roog

The Magic Sword (1962)

Rating: ★★½

Aug 16, 2000Heroic Fantasy Adventure

One of the better films from B-budget dircetor Bert I. Gordon, a fantasy adventure where Gordon produces some decent effects

Director: Bert I. Gordon

Actors: Gary Lockwood, Basil Rathbone, Estelle Winwood, Anne Helm, …

Category: Fantasy

16 August 200015 April 2021 by Roog

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

Rating: ★★

Sep 7, 2000Fantastical Flying Car/Musical

Adaptation of a children's book by James Bond creator Ian Fleming concerning a magical flying car. This is clearly trying to be another Mary Poppins and has been mounted as a lavish musical

Director: Kenneth Hughes

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Gert Frobe, Lionel Jeffries, …

Category: Fantasy

7 September 200029 September 2025 by Roog

Rollerball (1975)

Rating: ★★½

Feb 2, 2001Future Ultra-Violent Sport

Classic work of dystopian SF set in a future where an ultra-violent sport has been created to pacify the masses

Director: Norman Jewison

Actors: James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams, John Beck, Moses Gunn, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 February 20012 May 2024 by Roog

Burnt Offerings (1976)

Rating: ★★

Jun 4, 2000Parasitic House

A theatrical film directed by 1970s genre tv producer Dan Curtis. This has the intriguing idea of a house that acts as a psychic vampire. In all other respects, this plays out as a standard haunted house story

Director: Dan Curtis

Actors: Oliver Reed, Karen Black, Bette Davis, Lee Harcourt Montgomery, …

Category: Horror

4 June 200016 December 2025 by Roog

Carrie (1976)

Rating: ★★★★

Jun 6, 2000Telekinetic Teen's Revenge/Stephen King Adaptation

The very first Stephen King adaptation, a hit that made King's name. Brian De Palma directs with flamboyant visuals that make you gasp but the film would be nothing without its amazing central performances from Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie

Director: Brian De Palma

Actors: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, John Travolta, Nancy Allen, …

Category: Horror

6 June 20007 November 2025 by Roog

Audrey Rose (1977)

Rating: ★★

Jan 6, 2001Reincarnation/Courtroom Drama

Big serious film about reincarnation that places the arguments for into a courtroom setting. Director Robert Wise and a young Anthony Hopkins fail to do much with a talk-heavy script

Director: Robert Wise

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Marsha Mason, Susan Swift, John Beck, …

Category: Horror

6 January 200120 November 2025 by Roog

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Rating: ★★★★½

Jun 25, 2010Alien Duplication and Takeover

An excellent remake of the Cold War classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The original has now been smartly retooled for the 1970s and slots right into the Me Generation era with paranoia perfectly intact

Director: Philip Kaufman

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Veronica Cartwright, …

Category: Science Fiction

25 June 201022 April 2026 by Roog

The Tin Drum (1979)

Rating: ★★★½

May 8, 2004Boy Who Refuses to Grow Up/Nazi Allegory

Volker Schlondorff's adaptation of Gunther Grass's darkly funny book about a young boy in Nazi Germany who refuses to grow up

Director: Volker Schlondorff

Actors: David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Charles Aznavour

Category: Fantasy

8 May 200424 November 2021 by Roog

Motel Hell (1980)

Rating: ★★

May 22, 2005Backwoods Brutality Comedy

Studio-backed attempt to enter the Backwoods Brutality genre ends up as an uncertain black comedy that fails to push the envelope anywhere near what its models do

Director: Kevin Connor

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Nancy Parsons, Paul Linke, Nina Axelrod, …

Category: Horror

22 May 200524 October 2023 by Roog

Jaws of Satan (1981)

Rating: ½

Dec 27, 2016Satanically Empowered Killer Snakes

This seems to have been slung together as a mash-up of Jaws and the 1970s fad for occult films. Ridiculous and badly made on all levels, no more so than the climax with a giant snake conducting a devil worship ceremony

Director: Bob Claver

Actors: Fritz Weaver, Gretchen Corbett, Jon Korkes, Norman Lloyd, …

Category: Horror

27 December 201612 May 2026 by Roog

The Beast Within (1982)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 26, 2000Human-Monster Transformation

Modest entry among the early 1980s fad for air bladder transformation effects with Paul Clemens transforming into a cicada creature. Philippe Mora creates some solid directorial set-pieces

Director: Philippe Mora

Actors: Paul Clemens, Ronny Cox, Bibi Besch, Logan Ramsey, …

Category: Horror

26 August 200014 August 2025 by Roog

Real Men (1987)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 1, 2000Gonzo Spy Film

A really strange comedy where John Ritter is dragged away by Jim Belushi who claims to be a spy supposedly dealing with aliens

Director: Dennis Feldman

Actors: John Ritter, Isa Andersen, Isabella Hoffman, Dyanne Thorne, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 September 200016 June 2023 by Roog

Child’s Play (1988)

Rating: ★★

Jun 8, 2001Possessed Doll

The very first of the Chucky films. At the time, this seemed a very silly and at times ridiculous killer doll film and not the basis of an ongoing series of sequels that have lasted more than three decades

Director: Tom Holland

Actors: Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif, …

Category: Horror

8 June 20019 November 2023 by Roog

Lisa (1989)

Rating: ★★

Aug 31, 2022Prank Callers Call a Serial Killer

Gimmicky thriller about teen girls making prank phone calls who end up calling and then becoming the target of a serial killer

Director: Gary Sherman

Actors: Staci Keanan, Cheryl Ladd, D.W. Moffett, Tanya Fenmore, …

Category: Horror

31 August 202231 August 2022 by Roog

The Horror Show (1989)

Rating: ★★

Feb 1, 2000Executed Killer's Supernatural Revenge

Routine executed killer comes back from the electric chair film made to exploit the success of Wes Craven's Shocker. In some places this was sold as another of the House films

Director: Jim Isaac

Actors: Lance Henriksen, Brion James, Dedee Pfeiffer, Aron Eisenberg

Category: Horror

1 February 20004 November 2025 by Roog

Hackers (1995)

Rating: ★★

May 1, 2004Teenage Computer Hackers

Film that wants to be an expose of the lives of hackers but seems an absurd agglomeration of cliches that stumbles over its own feet trying to establish its counter-culture cool

Director: Iain Softley

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Jonny Lee Miller, Fisher Stevens, Jesse Bradford, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 May 200429 October 2025 by Roog

Lord of Illusions (1995)

Rating: ★★

Mar 18, 2003Occult Detective/War Between Magicians

Clive Braker's third and final outing as a director. Barker is trying to tell an occult detective story but fails to get any of the mood that film noir operates by

Director: Clive Barker

Actors: Scott Bakula, Famke Janssen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Daniel Von Bargen, …

Category: Horror

18 March 200328 June 2026 by Roog

The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)

Rating: ½

May 27, 1999Telekinetic Teen

Misguided attempt to make a sequel to Carrie, this reduces that film's cry of the downtrodden to petty teen bitcheries, while the psychic eruptions are absurd, the complete antithesis of anything Brian De Palma directed

Director: Katt Shea

Actors: Emily Bergl, Amy Irving, Jason London, Dylan Bruno, …

Category: Horror

27 May 199920 October 2023 by Roog

Code 46 (2003)

Rating: ★★★★½

Jun 24, 2007Dystopian Future

A standout Michael Winterbottom film set in a fascinatingly detailed and well conceived future dominated by genetic laws where Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton conduct an illicit affair

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Actors: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Om Puri, Nina Wadia, …

Category: Science Fiction

24 June 20075 January 2026 by Roog

Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 3, 2010Time Travel Comedy

A raucous and vulgar, if at times undeniably funny, comedy where John Cusack and three friends use a hot tub at a resort that causes them to travel back in time to the 1980s.

Director: Steve Pink

Actors: John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, …

Category: Science Fiction

3 April 201020 March 2026 by Roog