QUATERMASS AND THE PIT
The highlight of the Nigel Kneale scripted Quatermass film series, a triumph of intelligence and imagination that juxtaposes Lovecraftian horror, alien invasion, telekinesis, astral projection and mass psychosis
UNDER THE SKIN
A visual stunner whose technical brilliance can’t mask the fact that the proceedings are rambling and fatally undernourished from a narrative standpoint
FORBIDDEN WORLD
The second of Roger Corman’s early eighties ALIEN rip-offs, and makes the first, 1981’s middling GALAXY OF TERROR, look like a masterpiece in comparison
GALAXY OF TERROR
GALAXY OF TERROR isn’t the best of the many ALIEN wannabes, but it is the most outrageous—and, hence, the most fun
LASERBLAST: The Movie
A dude finds an alien laser gun, shoots a bunch of people and blows a lot of things up. Yes, that about sums up LASERBLAST!
TRIBULATION 99
The ultimate conspiracy movie, a mind-roasting collage of found footage documenting CIA intervention in South America during the 1980s, presented as a nutty account of an alien invasion
THEY LIVE
Despite its flaws—and it does contain some fairly grievous ones—John Carpenter’s THEY LIVE is a witty, perceptive and impossible-to-forget concoction
1000 AIRPLANES ON THE ROOF at 25
A multi-media stage drama that’s been described as “part Freud, part Kafka and part Steven Spielberg,”
DEADLY SPAWN
A 3 A.M. movie for sure, but definitely an above average specimen, this is a no-budget monster mash from the early eighties that mixes gore and laughs in the manner of BASKET CASE and THE EVIL DEAD
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
When dealing with a five decade multi-film phenomenon, it pays to go back to where it all started