Director: David Noel Bourke
Writer: David Noel Bourke
Release year: 2009
Heads or Tails
Johnny (Tao Hildebrand) and Nina (Laura Bach) are quite the happily married couple. He’s a smalltime drug dealer with an unhealthy addiction to the goods. She’s a former-prostitute turned actress. Or so she told him. Johnny has big dreams of his own. Nina has plans of her own too. This can’t go right, can it?
Director: Bernard Rose
Writers: Matthew Jacobs based on a novel by Catherine Storr
Release Year: 1988
We are such stuff as dreams are made on.
Young Anna Madden (Charlotte Burke) pisses off her teacher (Jane Bertish) and goes home sick. In her delirium, she begins drawing a picture of a house that works its way into her dreams. As her illness gets worse and worse, her mother (Glenne Headly) worries a great deal, but more worrying for the audience are her dreams of a boy Marc (Elliott Spiers). These dreams turn out to have some substance as Anna’s doctor – Dr. Sarah Nicols (Gemma Jones) – also has a patient named ‘Marc’ who’s getting worse….
Director: Don Chaffey
Writers: Malcolm Marmorstein based on a story by Seton I. Miller & S.S. Field
Release Year: 1977
A dragon terrorizes a seaside town.
Pete (Sean Marshall) is an orphan who has been bought by the Gogans – an evil family of hillbillies – who are ruled by the more evil mother Lena (Shelley Winters). Since he finds redneckery less than appealing, he runs away with a monstrous dragon named ‘Elliott’ (voiced by Charlie Callas). He’s taken in by a kind lighthouse keeper Nora (Helen Reddy) and her drunken father Lampie (Mickey Rooney) and finds that the town is not really as tolerant of his lifestyle as it seems at first….
Director: Jalmari Helander
Writers: Jalmari Helander, Juuso Helander, Petri Jokiranta and Sami Parkkinen
Release year: 2010
‘The Thing’ meets ‘A Christmas Story’, far far North…
I think it’s safe to assume we have a new and very strong contender for the title of greatest Christmas themed horror movie ever made. Although it has to be said that the Finnish treat ‘Rare Exports’ is not exactly your average conventional holiday slasher like, say, ‘Black Christmas’ (1977) or ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’ (1984). Nope, instead this is a hugely original and imaginative mixture between dark fantasy and pitch-black comedy, spiced with some horror elements. (more…)
Director: Phil Tucker
Writer: Wyott Ordung
Release Year: 1953
At what point on the graph do ‘must’ and ‘cannot’ meet?
Little Johnny (Gregory Moffett) and his ‘family’ have to battle with one of the least convincing alien invaders of all time … the ROBOT MONSTER! The ROBOT MONSTER! invades the Earth and destroys almost all life with his CALCINATOR DEATH RAY! – which uses stock footage of fighting dinosaurs from One Million B.C. among others – leaving only Johnny and his family as well as some off-camera people who die later in another stock footage extravaganza. This collection of people are humanity’s last hope to avoid extinction, but really if that’s the best Earth has to look forward to they might as well just up and die…..
