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Runaway (1984) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Runaway
director: Michael Crichton actor: Tom Selleck / Cynthia Rhodes
other title: Døden løber løbsk / Runaway - Spinnen des Todes
In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.
Gappa, the Triphibian Monster (1967) NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
大巨獣ガッパ
director: Haruyasu Noguchi actor: Tamio Kawachi / Yōko Yamamoto
other title: Gappa - Il mostro che minaccia il mondo / Gappa - Invasion der fliegenden Bestien
An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside. The natives warn the foreigners to leave the hatching alone, but they don't listen and take it back to a zoo in Japan. Soon after, moma and papa Gappa start smashing Tokyo looking for their kidnapped child.
June 15, 2026 watched
Big budget kaiju movie full of tropes, but maybe originated some of them?

Watched in #MonsterMiru watch party on Mastodon after #Monsterdon
Kaiju WatchParty 1960s MonsterMiru Japan
In the Year 2889 (1969) TMDB IMDb WikiData
In the Year 2889
director: Larry Buchanan actor: Paul Petersen / Quinn O'Hara
other title: En el año 2889
The last seven survivors of a nuclear war barricade themselves against the outside world. Beyond a dense mist, other survivors, radiated and mutant, grow hungry.
June 15, 2026 watched
Dull, absurd but not the fun kind, and never even comes close to the year 1989, let alone 2889.

Watched in #Monsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
SciFi WatchParty HorrorSciFi Monsterdon 1960s
The Giant Claw (1957) TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Giant Claw
director: Fred F. Sears actor: Jeff Morrow / Mara Corday
other title: Il mostro dei cieli / O Ataque Vem do Polo
Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant turkey-like bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.
Gus (1976) NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
Gus
director: Vincent McEveety actor: Ed Asner / Don Knotts
other title: Uno strano campione di football
The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard field goals!) they start winning, and move up in the rankings, Hurrah! The competition isn't so happy.
Heaven and Hell (1980) TMDB IMDb WikiData
第三类打斗
director: Chang Cheh actor: Li Yi-Min / David Chiang Da-Wei
other title: 第三类打斗
When a fallen angel descends to the Earth on a mission to storm the underworld, a love shared between angels and humans offers telling testament to the power of a lucky ghost. In the battle that follows, both the living and the dead will discover that a war waged in hell could have consequences that resound forever.
June 14, 2026 watched
Crazier than a sackful of flying monkeys, Chang Cheh gives us a gorgeously-shot, mind-blowingly absurd fantasy moving through Heaven, Hell & Earth.

Watched in the #KungFuSat watch party on Mastodon
KungFuSat HongKong WatchParty
Outbreak (1995) Douban TMDB NeoDB KevGa-NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Outbreak
director: Wolfgang Petersen actor: Dustin Hoffman / Rene Russo
other title: Virus letale / Outbreak - Fora de Controlo
A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col. Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.
Navy Seals (1990) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Navy Seals
director: Lewis Teague actor: Charlie Sheen / Michael Biehn
other title: Navy Seals - Pagati per morire / Elitesoldaterne
During a rescue mission, a team of Navy Seals discovers that a terrorist group has access to deadly, US-built Stinger missiles and must set out to locate and destroy them before they can be used.
June 12, 2026 watched
The Quatermass Conclusion (1979) IMDb WikiData
The Quatermass Conclusion
director: Piers Haggard actor: John Mills / Barbara Kellerman
other title: Quatermass Conclusion - La Terra esplode / Quatermass Conclusion: La Terra esplode
Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties, Quatermass is set in a near future in which large numbers of young people are joining a cult, the “Planet People”, and gathering at ancient sites, believing they will be transported to a better life on another planet.
June 9, 2026 watched
I just don't think I ever gave a toss about the characters, the plot or the outcome.

Watched in #MondayActionMovie on Mastodon.
Quatermass UK 1970s SciFi
Class of 1999 II: The Substitute (1994) IMDb WikiData
Class of 1999 II: The Substitute
other title: Classe 1999 II - Il supplente / Die Klasse von 1999 Teil 2
In the original movie, the cyborg-teachers were all destroyed. Well that's what we thought, but there's one more rogue military robot out there determined to clean up the education system.
Class of 1999 (1990) IMDb WikiData
Class of 1999
director: Mark L. Lester actor: Bradley Gregg / Traci Lind
other title: Classe 1999 / Curso de 1999
The time is in the future and the youth gang violence is so high that the areas around some schools have become "free-fire zones", into which not even the police will venture. When Miles Langford, the head of Kennedy High School, decides to take his school back from the gangs, robotics specialist Dr. Robert Forrest provides "tactical education units". These are amazingly human-like androids that have been programmed to teach and are supplied with devastatingly effective solutions to discipline problems. So when the violent, out-of-control students of Kennedy High report for class tomorrow, they're going to get a real education... in staying alive!
Godzilla (1954) KevGa-NeoDB TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Bangumi Douban
ゴジラ
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Akira Takarada / Momoko Kôchi
other title: O Monstro do Oceano Pacífico / Godzilla, Japón bajo el terror del monstruo
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.
June 8, 2026 watched
Surprisingly serious and dark origin for a franchise that has taken varying paths over the years.

Watched in #ReMonsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
WatchParty Kaiju Japan Monster Tokusatsu
Class of 1984 (1982) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Class of 1984
director: Mark L. Lester actor: Perry King / Tim Van Patten
other title: Os Donos do Amanhã / Classe 1984
Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business.
Kung Fu Stuntmen (2021) Douban IMDb WikiData NeoDB
龍虎武師
director: Wei Junzi actor: Tsui Hark / Yuen Woo-Ping
other title: 龍虎武師
A new documentary film revisits the golden age of kung fu stuntmen and action directors in Hong Kong during the 1960s-'80s, exploring their pain and struggles. The documentary is a tribute to kung fu stuntmen. “They risked their lives for stunts,” said kung fu choreographer Yuen Bin. In their heyday, these stuntmen and choreographers presented the best, most creative and most complicated kung fu fight sequences anywhere in the world, creating stunts that looked seemingly impossible.
The Stepford Wives (1975) NeoDB IMDb KevGa-NeoDB TMDB Douban
The Stepford Wives
director: Bryan Forbes actor: Katharine Ross / Paula Prentiss
other title: La fabbrica delle mogli / Dukke-kvinderne
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
June 6, 2026 watched
Still scarily relevant. Perhaps even more so now as we approach the technological capability & many men don't seem any more accepting of women as real people with their own minds.

Watched at some point decades ago, rewatched in the #FridayThrillerClub watch party on Mastodon.
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Serial Mom (1994) TMDB Douban WikiData NeoDB IMDb
Serial Mom
8.8 (5 ratings) director: John Waters actor: Kathleen Turner / Sam Waterston
other title: La signora ammazzatutti / Masse-mor
Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics.
Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992) WikiData NeoDB IMDb TMDB
Waxwork II: Lost in Time
other title: Waxwork 2 - Bentornati al museo delle cere / Spaceshift
The survivors of the first Waxwork must use a portal through time to defeat the evil that has followed them and turned their lives upside down.
June 1, 2026 watched
Riffs on multiple films & genres, veering from slapstick to homage. Gets bogged down for too long in mediaeval fantasy before picking up pace again. Somehow managed to get a ream of cameos ranging from Bruce Campbell to John Ireland.

Closes with a hiphop theme, as was de rigeur for early 90s Hollywood, but this one's a banger from the L.A. Posse. Suck it, hataz!

Watched in #MonsterMiru watch party after #Monsterdon on Mastodon.
Horror 1990s Comedy Parody HorrorSciFi
Seedpeople (1992) IMDb WikiData
Seedpeople
director: Peter Manoogian actor: Sam Hennings / Andrea Roth
other title: Seedpeople: Alla Radice del Male / Sway
The citizens of Comet Valley are being taken over by seeds from an alien plant that has taken root there. A sheriff investigates the strange goings-on.
June 1, 2026 watched
Low quality clone of Invasion of the Body Snatchers set in 90s Denim Valley, brought to you by Charles Band & Full Moon Pictures.

Watched in #Monsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
Horror FullMoon 1990s Monsterdon SciFi