Originally telecast October 4, 1986, Really Weird Tales was meant to be a satirical spin on the old Twilight Zone series. SCTV regulars John Candy, Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara and Joe Flaherty head the cast of this 90-minute comedy anthology. The tenor of the project can be gauged by the first playlet, "All's Well That Ends Strange," the story ...
At Sword's Point is about the sons of Dumas' Three Musketeers--one of those "sons" being of the female persuasion, played by Maureen O'Hara. As the swash-buckling daughter of Athos, O'Hara joins the offspring of Aramis and Porthos, portrayed respectively by Dan O'Herlihy and Alan Hale Jr., as well as the bouncing boy of D'Artagnan, played by ...
The sublimely derivative Blindside stirs up a modicum of tension. The principal character is a onetime surveillance expert, who after purchasing a motel can't resist the temptation of spying on his guests. No, there's no shower stabbing here, but there isa brutal murder. Before long, our peeping-tom protagonist is up to his chin in drug-traffic ...
In this action-packed martial arts outing, a crazed criminal (Andrew Dice Clay) abducts the finalists and the hostess (Shannon Tweed) from the Miss Galaxy Beauty Contest in hopes of receiving a huge fortune in diamonds. During the abduction, the crook and his gang ruthlessly massacre a dozen innocent bystanders. Unfortunately for the crook, he ...
Deep within the soundproofed confines of his secluded country home, an upstanding police officer harbors a dark secret in director Paul Lynch's tense tale of unjust imprisonment and unhinged madness. On the surface, Lieutenant Krebs (Dennis Hopper) is a respected law enforcement officer with close ties to his community. A glance into Krebs' ...
This first-season Next Generation episode finds Captain Picard facing a dilemma previously encountered some nine decades earlier by Captain Kirk and the original Enterprise crew. An insidious mind-altering disease, which prompted the crew of another starship to commit mass suicide, wends its way aboard the Enterprise . Before long, Lt. Geordi ...
When Sharon (Shannon Tweed) foils a robbery attempt at an art gallery, she gets more adventure than she bargained for. Suddenly she's thrown into a plot hatched by a terrorist (Lance Henriksen) to auction off a supply of Nazi nerve gas in this tense action thriller. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Responding to a distress call from the cargo ship USS Lantree , the Enterprise comes upon a space vessel whose crew has contracted a strange degenerative disease. In as much as the dead crew members all appear to be 80 years old, it doesn't take long to deduce the nature of the disease. Risking the possibility of prematurely aging himself, ...
The Enterprise rushes to the aid of the planet Penthara Four, which has just been struck by an asteroid. The mission is closely supervised by unexpected visitor Rasmussen, who claims to be a historian from the 26th century. Hoping to seek advice from his futuristic guest, Captain Picard is forced to violate a Prime Directive, an act that has ...
Odo angrily tries to evict an old Bajoran enemy (Stephen James Carver). When the man later turns up dead in the holosuite, Odo is assigned to investigate, only to fall under suspicion when his own testimony incriminates himself. Meanwhile, Keiko tries to set up a school on Deep Space Nine, but does she intend to preach the Bajorian party line? ...
Shortly after O'Brien is assigned to service the food replicators, Deep Space Nine falls victim to a mysterious and fatal virus. O'Brien, of course, is not responsible; the virus, long dormant, had been placed in the station's system years earlier to disable the Cardassians. Kira races against time to find an antidote, her task made doubly ...
Alien criminal Rao Vantika (James Harper) is brought on board Deep Space Nine by security officer Ty Kajada (Caitlin Brown). When Rao dies en route to prison, it seems as though everyone's troubles are over. But Ty warns that the danger has just begun; Rao's consciousness lives on in the body of an unwitting DS9 crew member. Initially airing ...
Crash-landing on a tiny moon, Sisko, Kira, Bashir, and Kai Opaka find themselves smack in the middle of a penal colony and an ongoing war. The combatants are the Ennis and their centuries-old enemies, the Nol-Ennis. The catch: none of the soldiers can ever be killed, dooming the opponents to a conflict that may well last for all eternity. Scripted ...
The USA Network may have been a relatively new service in 1989, but it wasn't above trotting out an old reliable plot device in the made-for-cable movie Murder by Night. Robert Urich stars as a murder witness who is clunked over the head by the killer. When he comes to, he can remember none of the details of the murder. By and by, he becomes ...
This low-budget, tongue-in-cheek horror film of the slasher genre -- which had recently been popularized by Halloween (1978) -- stars that film's lead, Jamie Lee Curtis, as Kim Hammond, a prom queen who becomes a scream queen. Six years ago, a little girl was taunted by four classmates and fell to her death from an abandoned schoolhouse. The ...
In this made-for-cable TV movie, an attractive woman leaves her small-town life hoping to make it as a model. However, her success earns her more admiration than she bargained for when a deranged killer begins murdering her male friends. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
Jovana (Milena Dravic) is a cross-country runner training for the Olympics with the help of a kindly priest. She meets a poor man on one of her journeys but falls for his black brother-in-law, a worker at the local crematorium. The worker is killed by his jealous brother-in-law and the first man is sentenced to death, but the woman continues her ...
The curiously neglected A Dream to Believe (aka Flying) can be summed up as a distaff Rocky. Olivia D'Abo is starred as a teen-aged girl who dreams of becoming a top gymnast. Human, emotional and financial roadblocks do not dissuade D'Abo, nor do her own severe physical shortcomings. You can see the ending come a mile away, but there'll still be ...
Planet Earth has been rendered inhabitable due to decades of toxic pollution and ecological disaster, and as a brave team of scientists venture out into space in search of a new home, they discover that the only habitable planet in range is home to a carnivorous, man-eating mutant. Mankind has abused their planet beyond the point of no repair, and ...
In this violent actioner, the gentle Morris family moves into a peaceful mountain community to find a quieter, safer way of life. Unfortunately, they soon discover that the town in totally controlled by a clan of fiendish thugs, the Cullens, who welcome the new family by savaging the mother, tormenting the father and beating up the girl friend of ...
Leslie Nielsen guest stars as Sgt. Buck Frobisher, a legendary Canadian mountie who is idolized by our hero Benton Fraser (Paul Gross). Frobisher's daughter Julie (Cali Timmins) solicits Fraser's help when Buck disappears from view, one week shy of retirement. Resurfacing in Chicago, an uncharacteristically frightened-looking Frobisher reveals ...
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