The Martian Chronicles (1980)

Posted by monsterhunter Under All Reviews, Science Fiction on Sunday Feb 28, 2010

What was NBC thinking? A three part science fiction miniseries that didn’t feature space battles and evil aliens? That instead focused on Rock Hudson and Bernie Casey debating the philosophical implications of colonizing Mars? And ended up making the case against our exporting our culture everywhere we went? And more shockingly, featured The Night Stalker’s Darren McGavin in a cowboy outfit and a silly wavy-haired wig? Read More

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Mars Needs Women (1967)

Posted by monsterhunter Under All Reviews, Midnite Movies, Science Fiction, Teens on Saturday Feb 27, 2010

The details are almost too terrifying to report: a $25,000 budget, a two week shooting schedule, Tommy Kirk, and a TV movie. That in a nutshell is what we have with Mars Needs Women, a movie that can’t hide the low budget, low star power, and the low wattage script that it suffers from throughout. Read More

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Mission Stardust (1967)

Posted by monsterhunter Under All Reviews, Italian Cinema, Science Fiction on Saturday Feb 27, 2010

Mission Stardust is an out of this world space race of bad plotting, deliriously inept special effects, and characters who seem intent on proving to one another which one of them is the stupidest. That interstellar stud Perry Rhodan ended up getting a nice dose of space booty at the end of the film while evil kingpin Arkin found himself chucked out an airlock merely proves that in life, it’s only results that matter. Read More

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Malice@Doll (2000)

Posted by monsterhunter Under All Reviews, Anime, Apocalypse, Japanese Cinema, Science Fiction, Sleaze on Tuesday Feb 23, 2010

In the great tradition of other prostitute robot doll movies like Pinnochio, a whorebot is raped by a monster which causes her to become a real live woman! Read More

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Logan’s Run (1976)

Posted by monsterhunter Under All Reviews, Apocalypse, Science Fiction on Tuesday Feb 16, 2010

Logan (Michael York) is a Sandman. You can tell he’s a Sandman because of the outfit he wears. It’s black with a big silver stripe running across the middle of the chest. In this nightmarish future, it surely instills abject fear into all rebellion-prone citizens, but in our sensible present, it just looks like a pit crew member’s outfit at the Daytona 500! Read More

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Last Woman on Earth (1960)

Posted by monsterhunter Under All Reviews, Apocalypse, Roger Corman, Science Fiction on Thursday Jan 28, 2010

It probably shouldn’t come as any surprise to us that the last woman on Earth turns out to be a two-timing hussy, but who could have predicted that the last two men on Earth would end up beating each other up with fish? Truly, this is a world gone mad. Read More

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Karate Cop (1991)

Posted by monsterhunter Under Action, All Reviews, Apocalypse, Martial Arts, Science Fiction on Saturday Jan 2, 2010

Omega Cop is back! And this time he’s Karate Cop! Why? Because that’s the title of the movie! Ron Marchini, the short, stocky guy with large ears who in Omega Cop played the last of the Special Police on a planet suffering from the Greenhouse Effect, again plays John Travis in a post-apocalyptic tale of a guy obsessed with his hat! Read More

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Omega Cop (1990)

Posted by monsterhunter Under Action, All Reviews, Apocalypse, Martial Arts, Science Fiction on Saturday Jan 2, 2010

If your mom has told once, she’s told you a thousand times: do not steal Omega Cop’s hat! A group of thugs learn that lesson the hard way during one of the seminal moments of this first Omega Cop adventure! Read More

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Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962)

Posted by monsterhunter Under All Reviews, Midnite Movies, Science Fiction on Saturday Jan 2, 2010

With Journey to the Seventh Planet, we are in the far flung past of 2001 where everything is just peachy now that the United Nations runs the world. So now that this socialist paradise has finally been forced upon us, what do they squander all our precious resources on? A manned mission to explore Uranus! Read More

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Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969)

Posted by monsterhunter Under All Reviews, British Cinema, Science Fiction on Saturday Jan 2, 2010

The future will be one of loud shirts, go go boots, and swinging bachelor pads that look like they were left over from an Italian sex comedy. At least that’s what I got out of this movie. I know, it sounds like Utopia to me, too! Read More

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