Marooned (1969)
Jul 9, 2000NASA Space Mission Disaster
Released three months after the Moon Landing, this was a big-budget film depicting a space mission disaster that leaves three astronauts marooned in orbit
Lee Grant
Night Slaves (1970)
Dec 1, 2016Alien Body Snatchers
TV movies of the 1970s can be this unexplored treasure trove of sophisticated and intelligent genre treatments. Case in point being this effort, a variant on a 1950s body snatchers film in which a man with a steel plate in his head discovers that the people of a small town are being taken over at night by aliens
The Swarm (1978)
Feb 18, 2004Killer Bees Amok
Irwin Allen had great success in the 1970s with his disaster movies but this killer bee saga with a cast of big name stars uttering ridiculous dialogue and shabby effects proved a bomb that spelt the death knell for the genre
Damien: Omen II (1978)
Jul 11, 2001Teenage Anti-Christ/The Omen Sequel
The first of the sequels to The Omen, which follows Damien through his teenage years as he comes into his powers. Mostly the film seems to exist to stage novelty death scenes
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
Defending Your Life (1991)
Oct 15, 2001Afterlife Comedy
Albert Brooks directed/starring comedy in which he plays a man in the afterlife on trial, required to defend the dull and ordinary life he led, while romancing Meryl Streep
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Oct 21, 2001Hollywood Noir/Surrealism
David Lynch work of Hollywood noir in which novice actress Naomi Watts (in the role that made her name) is drawn into a surreal idenity blurring mystery. As always with Lynch, this baffling, weird and mesmerising