Return of the Living Dead III (1993)

Return of the Living Dead III (1993)

After Julie (Melinda Clarke) dies in a motorcycle accident, Curt (J. Trevor Edmond), her boyfriend and the son of a military officer (Kent McCord) working on secret experiments, brings her back using the zombie-making chemical from the first two films.  She fights her desire for brains, but in the end zombies are running around in

Revenge of the Creature (1955)

Revenge of the Creature (1955)

Another expedition up the Amazon finds a gill man, subdues it, and takes it to an aquarium.  There it is gawked at by the public and experimented on until it escapes, taking a beautiful graduate student (Lori Nelson) with him. Quick Review: While it is questionable to place Creature from the Black Lagoon as a

Scream and Scream Again (1969)

Scream and Scream Again (1969)

A mad killer is sucking the blood out of young girls.  Simultaneously, an officer in a fascist country is killing everyone in his way, even his superiors, and a jogger is having his limbs amputated in a strange hospital.  Somehow, all of these events are connected to prestigious Dr. Browning (Vincent Price). Playing like an

Shadow Fury (2001)

Shadow Fury (2001)

Dr. Oh, a mad scientist (Pat Morita), creates an obedient, ninja “clone” (Masakatsu Funaki) to kill his ex-colleagues, Dr. Markov (Gregory Vahanian), Dr. Forster (Alexandra Kamp-Groeneveld), and Dr. Hiller (Allan Kolman).  The three hire Mitchell Madsen (Sam Bottoms), an assassin with a bad liver, to stop Oh.  Things become more complicated when the ninja clone

The She-Creature (1956)

The She-Creature (1956)

Dr Lombardi (Chester Morris) uses hypnosis to regress Andrea (Marla English) to her ancient form as a sea creature, which materializes and does Lombardi’s bidding, including commit a series of murders.  Ted Erickson (Lance Fuller), a psychic researcher, believes that Lombardi is responsible for the killings, but doubts Lombardi’s powers.  Police Lieutenant James (Ron Randell)

Son of Frankenstein (1939)

Son of Frankenstein (1939)

Baron Wolf Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone), the son of the late doctor Frankenstein, travels to “Middle Europe,” with his wife Elsa (Josephine Hutchinson) and son Peter (Donnie Dunagan), to take possession of the family castle. Like his father, he is a scientist and experimenter, and he has a fanatical desire to prove that his father was

Species (1995)

Species (1995)

Government Scientists, lead by Xavier Fitch (Ben Kingsley), mix human and alien DNA to create Sil (Michelle Williams), an innocent girl they keep in a clear cage. When she escapes, a team (Michael Madsen, Alfred Molina, Forest Whitaker, Marg Helgenberger) is put together to destroy her. That may be difficult as the suddenly mature Sil (Natasha

Species II (1998)

Species II (1998)

Astronaut Patrick Ross (Justin Lazard) is infected on his way back from Mars with the same alien DNA that had been studied in Species. Now he has an uncontrollable urge to mate and create an army of partial aliens.  Assassin Press Lenox (Michael Madsen), Dr. Laura Baker (Marg Helgenberger), and astronaut Dennis Gamble (Mykelti Williamson) must

Teenage Zombies (1959)

Teenage Zombies (1959)

Swell teenagers Reg, Skip, Julie, and Pam land their boat on a deserted island and become prisoners of a female scientist (Katherine Victor) and her zombies. She is working with a foreign power that plans to use her zombie gas to take over the United States. Luckily, two of their friends won’t give up the search

Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)

Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)

The surviving aliens from the 3rd Planet rebuild Mechagodzilla.  With the aid of a bitter scientist and his android daughter, they gain control of  the giant dinosaur, Titanosaurus, and send both creatures to destroy Tokyo.  Godzilla, in his last appearance as a hero, stomps into town to defeat the bad guys. A direct sequel to

The Vampire Bat (1933)

The Vampire Bat (1933)

After villagers start turning up dead, drained of blood, the burgermeister declares it must be a vampire. Local policeman Karl Brettschneider (Melvyn Douglas) disagrees, looking for a human killer. Only Brettschneider’s girlfriend, Ruth Bertin (Fay Wray) and the greatly respected Dr. Otto von Niemann (Lionel Atwill) have avoided the hysteria. The mob blames feebleminded Herman

Van Helsing (2004)

Van Helsing (2004)

Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) travels to Transylvania to defeat Dracula (Richard Roxburgh).  He joins up with Anna Valerious (Kate Beckinsale), whose family has fought Dracula for centuries, and they find themselves surrounded by vampires, werewolves, the Frankenstein Monster (Shuler Hensley), and assorted other evils. What do you get when you combine exceptionally skilled filmmakers, a