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From Beyond (1986) IMDb TMDB NeoDB WikiData
From Beyond
director: Stuart Gordon actor: Jeffrey Combs / Barbara Crampton
other title: From beyond - Terrore dall'ignoto / A Criatura que Veio do Além
The Resonator, a powerful machine that can control the sixth sense, has killed its creator and sent his associate into an insane asylum. When a psychiatrist becomes determined to continue the experiment, she unwittingly opens the door to a hostile parallel universe.
The Vast of Night (2019) TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
The Vast of Night
director: Andrew Patterson actor: Sierra McCormick / Jake Horowitz
other title: L'immensità della notte / A Vastidão da Noite
At the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history of their small town.
Death Race 2000 (1975) TMDB KevGa-NeoDB WikiData IMDb
Death Race 2000
director: Paul Bartel actor: David Carradine / Simone Griffeth
other title: Anno 2000 - La corsa della morte / Dødsrace 2000
In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. Frankenstein, the mysterious returning champion, has become America's hero, but this time he has a passenger from the underground resistance.
Galaxy of Terror (1981) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Galaxy of Terror
director: Bruce D. Clark actor: Edward Albert / Erin Moran
other title: Il pianeta del terrore / Planet des Schreckens
As a lone spaceship proceeds on its long voyage across space, the crew are surprised to encounter a strange pyramid form. Surprise turns to horror as one by one, they discover that their darkest nightmares are all starting to become real. The pyramid has to be behind it all somehow, but how can they save themselves from its influence?
Tobor the Great (1954) NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
Tobor the Great
director: Lee Sholem actor: Charles Drake / Karin Booth
other title: Tobor - Il re dei robot / Le maitre du monde
To avoid the life-threatening dangers of manned space exploration, Professor Nordstrom creates highly advanced form of artificial intelligence capable of piloting a starship to other worlds. In order to transmit alien data, the extraordinary robot is infused with a powerful telepathic device that enables it to instantly read and even feel emotions. Danger strikes when a sinister band of covert agents kidnaps Gadge, the professor's 10-year-old grandson. But Gadge has a powerful ally. For he has developed a psychic, emotional bond with his grandfather's robot. And now Gadge's captors must suffer the wrath of his protective friend. They must face a mechanical monstrosity bent on a killing rampage of revenge and destruction.
Devil Girl from Mars (1954) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Devil Girl from Mars
director: David MacDonald actor: Patricia Laffan / Hugh McDermott
other title: La martienne diabolique / La diabla de Marte
Eight people at a remote Scottish inn find themselves confronted by a woman from Mars, who has landed her flying saucer for repairs but intends to soon conquer the Earth and enslave its men for breeding purposes.
Inception (2010) NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban
Inception
8.5 (64 ratings) director: Christopher Nolan actor: Leonardo DiCaprio / Joseph Gordon-Levitt
other title: A Origem / Origen
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
Food of the Gods II (1989) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Food of the Gods II
director: Damian Lee actor: Paul Coufos / Lisa Schrage
other title: Denti assassini / Die Stunde der Ratte
A growth hormone experiment gets out of hand, when the the resulting giant man-eating rats escape, reaking havoc on the unsuspecting campus. Much blood-letting follows.
Forbidden Planet (1956) TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban
Forbidden Planet
8.4 (5 ratings) director: Fred M. Wilcox actor: Walter Pidgeon / Anne Francis
other title: Il pianeta proibito / Kampen på dødskloden
Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty years. They find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.
Godzilla: Final Wars (2004) TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
ゴジラ ファイナルウォーズ
director: Ryuhei Kitamura actor: Masahiro Matsuoka / Rei Kikukawa
other title: Gojira - Final Wars / Godzilla: Final wars
Humanity finally rids themselves of Godzilla, imprisoning him in an icy tomb in the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to lay waste to Earth's cities. Overwhelmed, humanity is seemingly saved by a race of benevolent aliens known as Xiliens. But not all is what it seems with these bizarre visitors. If humanity wishes to survive, they must reluctantly resurrect their most hated enemy, Godzilla.
Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster
director: Robert Gaffney actor: Marilyn Hanold / James Karen
other title: Frankenstein contre le monstre de l'espace / Frankenstein contra el monstruo del espacio
When an atomic war on Mars destroys the planet's women, it's up to Martian Princess Marcuzan and her right-hand man Dr. Nadir to travel to earth and kidnap women for new breeding stock. Landing in Puerto Rico, they shoot down a NASA space capsule manned by an android. With his electronic brain damaged, the android terrorizes the island while the Martians raid beaches and pool parties
The Food of the Gods (1976) TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Food of the Gods
director: Bert I. Gordon actor: Marjoe Gortner / Pamela Franklin
other title: Il cibo degli dei / A Praga dos Deuses
Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Looking for help, Morgan stumbles across a barn inhabited by an enormous killer chicken. After doing some exploring, they discover the entire island is crawling with animals that have somehow grown to giant size. The most dangerous of all of these, however, are the rats, who are mobilizing to do battle with the human intruders.
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022) TMDB
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
director: John Rice / Albert Calleros actor: Mike Judge / Andrea Savage
other title: Beavis & Butt-Head alla conquista dell'Universo / Beavis et Butt-head se font l'Univers
In 1998, Beavis and Butt-Head are sentenced to Space Camp by a “creative” judge. Their obsession with a docking simulator (huh huh) leads to a trip on the Space Shuttle, with predictably disastrous results. After going through a black hole, they re-emerge in our time, where they look for love, misuse iPhones, and are hunted by the Deep State. Spoiler: They don’t score.
The Angry Red Planet (1959) WikiData IMDb NeoDB TMDB
The Angry Red Planet
director: Ib Melchior actor: Gerald Mohr / Naura Hayden
other title: Marte Distruggerà la Terra! / Den vrede planet
The first manned flight to Mars returns after having been out of communications since it had arrived on Mars. What would it reveal?
Sept. 22, 2025 watched
A movie that, like a great artist, steals from others (The Blob, Godzilla, Forbidden Planet etc). But great art, it ain't.

Watched in #Monsterdon #WatchParty on Mastodon
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Spaceballs (1987) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Spaceballs
6.5 (8 ratings) director: Mel Brooks actor: Mel Brooks / John Candy
other title: Balle spaziali / Spaceballs - Rumnødderne
When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts Lone Starr wise to the power of "The Schwartz." Can he master it in time to save the day?
Sept. 19, 2025 watched
A level or three below Brooks' other parodies like Blazing Saddles, but still with some funny moments.

(Re)watched in #Comedon #WatchParty on Mastodon
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Tank Girl (1995) NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
Tank Girl
director: Rachel Talalay actor: Lori Petty / Naomi Watts
other title: Tank Girl - Detonando o Futuro
After a comet disrupts the rain cycle of Earth, the planet has become a desolate, barren desert by the year 2033. With resources scarce, Kesslee, head of the powerful and evil Water & Power Corporation, the de facto government, has taken control of the water supply. Unwilling to cower under Kesslee's tyrannical rule, a pair of outlaws known as Tank Girl and Jet Girl rise up, joining the mysterious rebel Rippers to destroy the corrupt system.
Equalizer 2000 (1988) NeoDB WikiData IMDb
Equalizer 2000
director: Cirio H. Santiago actor: 理查德·诺顿 / Corinne Wahl
other title: Defender 2000 / 废土战士
In a bleak, postnuclear future world, warring factions struggle to claim the Equalizer 2000, the one weapon powerful enough to guarantee survival.
Aug. 15, 2025 watched
Directed by Roger Corman protégé Santiago, who brought us flicks like the Filipino Blaxploitation women in prison movie The Muthers. And multiple Mad Max 2 ripoffs. (About 2 a year in the 80s and 90s?)

This one seems to have every single outdoor scene take place in the same quarry (except for the world's crappiest canyon car jump?), just shot from different angles.

Slade (Norton) builds the world's most redundant assault rifle with like 6 barrels, which automagically wipes the floor against all opponents.

If they had put one tenth of the effort into the story as they did the (pretty awesome) action, it might have been half-way decent.
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