Subgenre Sampler
Science Slip: 117 Films to Buy & Rent
- Forever Young (1993)
- Dir. Steve Miner
Feat. Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis
- 1930s test pilot Mel Gibson loses his great love and volunteers for a cryogenics experiment. Fast forward fifty years, enter Jamie Lee Curtis and son…
- Jurassic Park (1993)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum…
- All–time world box–office champ will be most remembered for the breakthrough computer effects that bring the Dinos to astonishing life.…
- Body Parts (1992)
- Dir. Eric Red
Feat. Jeff Fahey
- Criminal psychologist Jeff Fahey loses his arm in a car accident and becomes the recipient of an homicidal donor arm! Unsettling thriller soon takes…
- Freejack (1992)
- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Anthony Hopkins
- Champion race driver Emilio Estevez is rescued from death and beamed into 2009 where he soon sets about kicking the totalitarian asses of both Mick…
- Lawnmower Man, The (1992)
- Dir. Brett Leonard
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Jeff Fahey, Jenny Wright
- Tech–head Pierce Brosnan unwittingly transforms his simple–minded gardener into a megalomaniac. This first feature to explore 'Virtual…
- Love Potion No. 9 (1992)
- Dir. Dale Launer
Feat. Sandra Bullock, Tate Donovan, Dale Midkiff
- Hokey rom–com following a lonely biochemist who discovers a "love potion" that can cause those around him to be hopelessly attracted to him.
- Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. John Hurt, Raul Julia, Bridget Fonda
- John Hurt stars as a 21st century scientist who is thrown back to 19th century England, where Frankenstein's creature and other famous Brits run…
- Brain Dead (1989)
- Dir. Adam Simon
Feat. Bill Pullman, Bill Paxton, Bud Cort
- Long unreleased in New Zealand (which possibly explains why Peter Jackson also claimed the title), this arrives a bit of a lost gem from the halcyon…
- Juvenatrix (1988)
- Dir. Brian Thomas Jones
Feat. Vivian Lanko, John Mackay, James Hogue
- Aging woman commissions 'youth serum', with horrible side–effects. True 80s schlock.
- Monkey Shines (1988)
- Dir. George Romero
Feat. Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil
- A first–rate thriller about an invalid who loses control over his pet monkey that has been subjected to cerebral experiments. Intelligent…