The Mouse That Roared (1959)
Feb 2, 1999The World's Smallest Country Invades the USA
Peter Sellers comedy where the smallest country in the world invades the USA and ends up accidentally winning
Stanley Mann
The Collector (1965)
Apr 3, 2001Obsession and Abduction/Comedy-Thriller
Adaptation of a John Fowles novel where shy Terence Stamp makes object of his affections Samantha Eggar a prisoner so she can love him. Made not long after Psycho, this tries similar but becomes more of an Odd Couple comedy
Tam-Lin (1971)
Apr 27, 2016Modern-Day Queen of the Fairies
The only film ever directed by actor Roddy McDowall. Based on a folktale, it is the story of two lovers trying to escape when one is in thrall to the Queen of the Fairies. McDowall creates a lush film that is oddly ponderous and non-fantastical but what a cast he assembles
Theater of Blood (1973)
Nov 5, 2000Mad Shakespearean Actor's Revenge
Following on from the success of the Dr Phibes films, Vincent Price is cast as a mad Shakespearean actor who employs comically grotesque deaths from Shakespeare's plays to kill his critics
Damien: Omen II (1978)
Jul 11, 2001Teenage Anti-Christ/The Omen Sequel
The first of the sequels to The Omen, this follows Damien through his teenage years as he comes into his powers. Mostly though, the film seems to exist to stage more bizarre novelty death scenes
The Silent Flute (1978)
Jun 19, 2000Zen Quest
Bizarre Bruce Lee conceived conceived martial arts film, a bizarre allegorical work of philosophy steeped in inscrutable Zen epigrams
Meteor (1979)
Jan 2, 2013Meteor Collision/Disaster Movie
An effort from the heyday of the 1970s disaster movie that was a big flop when it came out. Widely ridiculed for its bad special effects, it is a film I am partially prepared to defend, it setting aside the usual soap opera dramatics of these films to make an interesting parable about Cold War tensions. It also prefigures Armageddon with its plot of trying to divert a meteor on a collision course with Earth
Conan the Destroyer (1984)
May 31, 2001Sword and Sorcery
This sequel to Conan the Barbarian makes the mistake of watering the primal brutalism down to a PG rating and what results ends up being a pedestrian comic-book adventure
Firestarter (1984)
Jul 29, 2002Pyrokinesis/Stephen King Adaptation
Adaptation of the Stephen King novel with Drew Barrymore giving a fantastic performance as a young girl with pyrokinetic powers on the run from a sinister government agency