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Angel Heart (1987)

Rating: ★★★★

Jun 8, 1999Film Noir/Pact with The Devil

Dazzling mash-up of 1940s film noir and the horror genre. One of the most beautifully filmed of all horror films, Alan Parker creates a bygone world with a visual sensuality that constantly edges over into the fantastic

Director: Alan Parker

Actors: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Elliott Keener, …

Category: Horror

8 June 199917 October 2025 by Roog

Deepstar Six (1989)

Rating: ★★

Dec 8, 2001Monster Underwater

Entertainingly cheesy monster underwater film from Friday the 13th director Sean S. Cunningham. One of several such Aliens located underwater films that came out the same year that James Cameron made The Abyss

Director: Sean S. Cunningham

Actors: Greg Evigan, Miguel Ferrer, Nancy Everhard, Cindy Pickett, …

Category: Science Fiction

8 December 200111 January 2026 by Roog

Total Recall (1990)

Rating: ★★

Jun 18, 2005Virtual Memories/Reality Bender/Action

Adaptation of a Philip K. Dick story is killed by being turned into an Arnold Schwarzenegger action vehicle and by director Paul Verhoeven's burying the reality bending subtleties of the story under bludgeoning ultra-violence

Director: Paul Verhoeven

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Rachel Ticotin, Ronny Cox, …

Category: Science Fiction

18 June 20056 July 2022 by Roog

Jacob’s Ladder (1990)

Rating: ★★

Nov 21, 2003Deathdream

Adrian Lyne became one of the most visually exciting directors of the 1980s. Here he makes an afterlife film that swings between moments of greatness and a script that seems very confused about what is happening

Director: Adrian Lyne

Actors: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven, …

Category: Horror

21 November 20036 July 2022 by Roog

Repossessed (1990)

Rating: ★

May 9, 1999Exorcist Spoof

This wants to conduct an Airplane styled parody of The Exorcist to which extent it conducts the coup of casting a grown-up Linda Blair

Director: Bob Logan

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Linda Blair, Anthony Starke, Ned Beatty, …

Category: Horror

9 May 199913 October 2023 by Roog

Basic Instinct (1992)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 14, 2000Psycho-Sexual Thriller

This slick eroticised thriller was a huge success and made the career of Sharon Stone. The absurd plot bears no resemblance to human motivation but Paul Verhoeven makes an undeniably provocative and entertaining package

Director: Paul Verhoeven

Actors: Sharon Stone, Michael Douglas, Jeanne Tripplehorn, George Dzundza, …

Category: Horror

14 August 200029 October 2019 by Roog

Stargate (1994)

Rating: ★★★½

Apr 26, 2001Intergalactic Portal/Planetary Adventure

The first of Roland Emmerich's special effects epics. Emmerich rehashes Erich von Daniken's Ancient Astronauts theories but casts it as a planetary adventure on an epic canvas with surprisingly entertaining results

Director: Roland Emmerich

Actors: James Spader, Kurt Russell, Jaye Davidson, Mili Avital, …

Category: Science Fiction

26 April 20019 April 2022 by Roog