Tag Archives: 1995

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An awkward seventh-grader struggles to cope with inattentive parents, snobbish class-mates, a smart older brother, an attractive younger sister and her own insecurities in suburban New Jersey.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A computer programmer stumbles upon a conspiracy, putting her life and the lives of those around her in great danger. REVIEW: 1995, If you were around during that era, you fully well know that America was in our digital infancy. To give you some perspective, Google would not emerge until 1998. The idea of digital protection …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Suspecting that his childhood friend, a professional boxer, is having an affair with his fiancee, a businessman starts training rigorously himself in order to take him down. REVIEW: Shin’ya Tsukamoto continues to explore the themes of metamorphosis, love and urban alienation in his 1995 boxing drama Tokyo Fist. It may not take the bodily transformations quite …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A police officer tries to stop an industrial mangler that seems to have a mind of its own that is responsible for the deaths of several people. REVIEW: While a lot of people hate The Mangler I have always sort of dug it for some odd reason that I can’t quite figure out. Yeah, I’ll admit …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive, compete against each other over a gambling empire, and over a fast living and fast loving socialite. REVIEW: Director Martin Scorsese is a directing legend like no other. If there is one thing that arrives …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A small town’s women give birth to unfriendly alien children posing as humans. REVIEW: John Carpenter was, is, and always will be one of cinema’s greatest auteurs of horror and sci-fi. If you take the time to look over his resume, the hits far out-weigh the misses. In fact, I wouldn’t say he actually has any …

SYNOPSIS: A young girl, alone on a private island with her incestuous, domineering father decides to escape her confinement. An unhappy housewife, trapped in a loveless marriage with her unresponsive husband and an overbearing mother-in-law wants out of her dreary existence. The twosome join up to escape their previous lives so they can start afresh together. REVIEW: Rafureshia (aka Sukebe-zuma: …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Soldiers attempting to negotiate the end to a long-running war discover the robots they built to assassinate enemy combatants have gained sentience and are plotting against both sides

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Independent film from 1995 that “Tokyo Gore Police” is based on. Nishimura’s debut film. REVIEW: The rather oddly titled Anatomia Extinction is an avant-garde horror/sci-fi hybrid by the director/special effects artist Yoshihiro Nishimura. A precursor to Tokyo Gore Police (2008), it is a bizarre trip of giallo like beauty and gross out body horror, all tied in …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Unscrupulous archaeologists try to take advantage of an outbreak of lycanthropy prompted by the discovery of a werewolf skeleton in the Arizona desert. REVIEW: You know you’re in for a treat (to use the term loosely)  when a movie you have to review was once in an episode of the original Mystery Science Theater 3000. After …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “Sirius 6B – year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only – to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms. But man’s greatest weapon has continued to evolve without …

Rate This Movie   SYNOPSIS: A New York philosophy grad student turns into a vampire after getting bitten by one, and then tries to come to terms with her new lifestyle and frequent craving for human blood. REVIEW: In 1995, Abel Ferrara, the man who unleashed the likes of Driller Killer, Bad Lieutenant and King of New York upon us, …

SYNOPSIS: Nomi, a young drifter, arrives in Las Vegas to become a dancer and soon sets about clawing and pushing her way to become the top of the Vegas showgirls.

  SYNOPSIS: In the year of 2008, war and sickness have overtaken the planet. The deranged government declares single women a threat to the human race. Singles women are imprisoned. The corrupt warden is determined to keep the prisoners locked up. REVIEW: Watching the 1995 movie Run Like Hell is not something that should be taken lightly. In fact, it …

SYNOPSIS: This is another look at the occult as inspired by Roger Corman and his view of the dark side. Jealous witch Erica uses her powers to influence her unwitting husband Larry and his colleagues, who all work for a big law firm. REVIEW: Within five minutes of Sorceress, directed by Jim Wynorski (Sorority House Massacre II) you will know …