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Foundational Cinema

Month: March 2015

Logan’s Run (1976)

In the year 2274, a faction of the human race, following global war and other apparent catastrophes that have ravaged the Earth, live together in a giant domed city, completely sealed off from the outside world. Here, in this bubbled…

Curtains (1983)

Because of the success of John Carpenter’s 1978 classic ‘Halloween’ the next decade would be forever inspired and cashing in on the success of the slasher picture. And thus we have 1983’s little known ‘Curtains’ Stars Samantha Eggar, John Vernon…

Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991)

L.A. cop Chris Kenner (Dolph Lundgren) styles himself as a modern-day samurai. He was raised in Japan, making him an expert in their culture, and as a child he witnessed the murder of his parents by a sword- wielding man…

Iron Eagle (1986)

I am astounded at the number of people who put down “teen” movies such as this and THE WRAITH, including Mr. Maltin, while obviously not understanding the genre itself and how it works – they must have grown too old…

Tobor the Great (1954)

Watch this one with child-like eyes and you’ll have a great time. Tobor (‘robot’ spelled backwards) is the invention of an elderly scientific genius who develops a robot to serve as the pilot for dangerous space flights in place of…

The Boogens (1981)

A group of four mine surveyors are hired to explore a long abandoned silver mine to see if whether or not it is worth reopening. Two of the men, along with a girlfriend and her best friend, rent a secluded…

The Deadly Mantis (1957)

The Deadly Mantis starts as a Volcano erupts somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere which has an opposite reaction as a Glacier melts in the Northern Hemisphere releasing a huge Praying Mantis from it’s icy rest place, after it thaws out…

The Crawling Eye (1958)

The Trollenberg Terroris set in the Swiss village of Trollenberg where several climbers have mysterious disappeared while climbing th Trollenberg mountain with one being found dead after having been decapitated. A nearby research observatory run by cosmic ray scientist Professor…

City of the Living Dead (1980)

Lucio Fulci is a horror icon. He may not be as well known to many film goers in North America as his iconic status was cemented some twenty years ago, but if you like films by Wes Craven and M….

The Quiet Earth (1985)

The movie usually begins the same: a lone hero awakens and starts his day as usual. But there’s a catch when he realizes that he is the last man alive. Fruitlessly, he scours the land for others only to find…

Hangar 18 (1980)

Not as bad as it looks now some 25 years after it’s release. “Hanger 18” is the first major motion picture to bring on the screen the Eric Van Daniken hypothesis from his best selling book “Chariots of the Gods”…

Cannibal Apocalypse (1980

This is a movie that follows a lot of the conventions of a zombie movie, the main difference being that instead of being dead, these flesh-eaters are alive, just taken over by a virus that turns them into deranged cannibals….