Nightbreed (1990)

Nightbreed (1990)

[9] Nightbreed is a bad movie. But it's also one of my favorite movies. Allow me to explain. The film, directed by Clive Barker and based on his book Cabal, wants to be a sprawling horror-fantasy epic for the ages. The complicated…
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)

Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)

[5] Writer/director Wes Craven returns to the franchise he started, providing a unique coda to the original series of seven Nightmare on Elm Street movies. New Nightmare gives us a glimpse of the meta-awareness that would be foundational to Craven's later Scream…
Last of the Dogmen (1995)

Last of the Dogmen (1995)

[7] After escaped convicts are found slaughtered in the wilderness, a bounty hunter (Tom Berenger) and an anthropology professor (Barbara Hershey) travel deep into the Montana mountains to confirm a nagging suspicion that a tribe of Cheyenne 'Dogmen' have survived in isolation,…
The Guardian (1990)

The Guardian (1990)

[6] New parents (Dwier Brown and Carey Lowell) unwittingly welcome evil into their lives when they hire a British nanny (Jenny Seagrove) who plans to feed their baby to a tree monster in the woods. The Guardian may suffer from a muddled,…
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

[6] Saturday Night Live alum Mike Myers (Wayne's World) stars as Austin Powers, an over-the-top British agent and flirtatious womanizer from the 1960s, who pursues his mortal enemy, Dr. Evil (also Myers) into cryogenic sleep for thirty years. Now, in the late…
Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

[3] I guess we were lucky to get five good Freddy movies before the franchise finally shit the bed. In Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, there's only one remaining teenager (Shon Greenblatt) in the neighborhood and Freddy uses him to gain access…
The Saint (1997)

The Saint (1997)

[6] Val Kilmer and Elisabeth Shue star in this spy thriller adaptation of a British television show, based on a book series by Leslie Charteris. Kilmer plays Simon Templar, a rogue thief who uses technology and clever disguises to rob from the…
Lake Placid (1999)

Lake Placid (1999)

[7] Bridget Fonda and Bill Pullman star in this good old fashioned creature feature about a 30-foot crocodile that begins weeding out the population of a lakeside Maine community. The script is from TV titan David E. Kelly (Boston Legal, Ally McBeal,…
The Jackal (1997)

The Jackal (1997)

[4] Bruce Willis and Richard Gere co-star in this wobbly, underwhelming thriller about an imprisoned IRA fighter (Gere) who helps the FBI hunt down a mysterious assassin known as 'The Jackal' (Willis) before he kills a high-profile political target at the behest…
Executive Decision (1996)

Executive Decision (1996)

[5] Kurt Russell headlines this derivative action thriller about an intelligence officer who joins a commando team on a mission to board a hijacked airliner before it delivers a deadly payload. The cast is Executive Decision's greatest asset. Russell carries the piece,…