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Quiet Earth, The (1985): Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge; New Zealand's best attempt yet at the sci–fi genre. Bruno Lawrence wakes one morning to find himself apparently the only person left on earth.…
Re-Animator (1985): Dir. Stuart Gordon
Feat. Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton; Essential splatter comedy takes gore levels to a (then) new extreme. Rebel science student Herbert West invents a serum that brings the dead back to…
Stuff, The (1985): Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Garrett Morris; Witty consumerist parable from low–budget maestro Larry Cohen about a new dessert product, which turns out to be lethal. Call it…
Dead Zone, The (1983): Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Brooke Adams…; A dynamite thriller based on one of Stephen King's best stories. Christopher Walken plays a clairvoyant, who after helping police with homicide…
Death Warmed Up (1983): Dir. David Blyth
Feat. Michael Hurst; Hell–bent on exacting revenge on a loony scientist, Michael Hurst leads his friends to a secret island where toxic abominations run riot. This…
Man With Two Brains, The (1983): Dir. Carl Reiner
Feat. Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner; Steve Martin plays a surgeon who frustrated with his wicked, overbearing wife (Kathleen Turner), falls in love with a…
Tron (1982): Dir. Steve Lisberger
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner…; Jeff Bridges becomes trapped in an alternative computer universe where he is forced to combat evil pac–men and corporate corruption. Made at…
Hand, The (1981): Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Michael Caine; Michael Caine stars in this early Oliver Stone mess (still suffering from shell–shock?) as a cartoonist whose severed hand goes about murdering…
Incredible Shrinking Woman, The (1981): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty…; Fitfully amusing comedy mines the considerable talents of Lily Tomlin in the role of a housewife accidentally shrunk by her husband. Considerably…
Altered States (1980): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. William Hurt, Blair Brown; William Hurt plays a scientist with a penchant for mind exploration in his starring debut. Russell's overly talky but fascinating film has found a…

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