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by Peter Nielsen This week, ladies and gentlemen, I’ve found an obscure little sci-fi thriller for you. I’ll bet most of you haven’t even heard of it, much less actually seen it. It’s an extremely low-budget movie, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it has to be a bad one, right? In this case, however… . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Movie Reviews: The Killings At Outpost Zeta (1980) Share
by Peter Nielsen At the start of the movie we see a plane landing! Along with the rest of the passengers, Major Paul Hackett emerges. He’s played by an actor I’ve always liked, namely Michael Ironside from Top Gun and Total Recall for instance. What then follows is an assembly of a highly trained . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Movie Review: Extreme Prejudice (1987) Share
by Peter Nielsen Barney and Peyton are two normal high school boys who are about to have their everyday lives shaken up a little bit by a science-project gone wrong. Barney is experimenting with some sort of growth formula for plants and he also has two mice he uses in different experiments. Nothing harmful, . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Movie Review: Zapped! (1982) Share
by Peter Nielsen The small desert town, Brooks, in Arizona is being ”terrorized” by Packard Walsh and his gang of misfits. Well, it’s mostly the younger population being bullied, I suppose, since we don’t really see any of the “older” people getting harassed. They’re forced to participate in car-races where the winner gets the . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Movie Review: The Wraith (1986) Share
by Peter Nielsen In the not too distant future most of the ”boring” daily chores are taken care of by robots in all shapes and sizes. Everything from cooking and cleaning in your home, to helping out and making life simpler in offices and factories. Ok, so robots in factories isn’t exactly science fiction . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Movie Review: Runaway (1986) Share
by Peter Nielsen Firewalker starts with the two adventurers Max and Leo roaring over the desert-dunes in their jeep. They’re chased by, what appears to be drunken local pirates in dune buggies shooting wildly at them. When they also start throwing grenades, things get kind of frantic. Leo keeps telling Max to turn left, and . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Movie Review: Firewalker (1986) Share
by Peter Nielsen Ok, first of all… Why the hell haven’t I seen this movie before? I’m not kidding! I’ve never laid eyes on it prior to watching it the other night! Almost unheard of, I know, considering the fact that this is a pretty decent slasher-flick with great make-up effects! But let’s not . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Movie Review: The Prowler (1981) Share
by Peter Nielsen Welcome to a future where there are no individual countries anymore. Everything is instead run by large corporations. They in turn, are run by powerful executives who basically decide everything. And by everything… I mean everything! I guess you could say that the game of Rollerball is invented to appease the . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Movie Review: Rollerball (1975) Share
by Peter Nielsen Vietnam, 1972. Soldiers are running through water-soaked fields desperately trying to escape the enemy-fire ripping them apart. Helicopters swoop in as saving angels, but they too get caught in the crossfire. Those few that make it onboard try in vain to reach their comrades, but as the enemy-fire grows too intense . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Movie Review: Uncommon Valor (1983) Share
by Peter Nielsen ”Howdy! I’m gonna separate your head from your shoulders. Hope you don’t mind none.” Caleb Colton is on the prowl, looking for someone to seduce for the night. He spots Mae and is instantly taken in by her beauty and feels almost compelled to talk to her. It’s like he’s drawn . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Movie Review: Near Dark (1987) Share
by Peter Nielsen High Road To China was released in Sweden in the latter part of ’83, so I was 15 years old at the time. I watched it at our local theater, “Folkan”, here in Klippan, which sadly closed down in 1992 and a year later, the building that housed the theater burned . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Movie Review: High Road To China (1983) Share
by Peter Nielsen Let’s go back in time, shall we? (Pun intended!) Let’s go waaayy back in time. I must have been 15-years-old, maybe 16, and me and my best friend Michael had just rented Timerider. I’ve stated this before, but we DID rent a LOT of movies back then and this one would . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Movie Review: Timerider (1982) Share
by Peter Nielsen This one I watched in the theater during its initial release, together with a very good friend of mine. Not Michael from England this time though, but another good friend. I remember walking out of the theater thinking: “Damn, this was actually pretty good!” It’s a straight-forward action movie with a . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Movie Review: Harley Davidson and The Marlboro Man (1991) Share
by Peter Nielsen ”Hi. Ed Ramsey from Delos. If there’s anyone who doesn’t know what Delos is, well, as we’ve always said: Delos is the vacation of the future, today. At Delos, you get your choice of the vacation you want. There’s Medieval World, Roman World and, of course, Westworld.” Wouldn’t you want to . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Movie Reviews: Westworld (1973) Share
by Peter Nielsen We’re aboard a large cruise-ship, it’s night-time and there’s a party going on. It’s apparently a dress-up party because everyone is wearing costumes. The trip is nearing its end, so everybody is having a good time, except for the captain. It is also his last trip, because the company has seen . . . → Read More: Peter’s Retro Movie Reviews: Death Ship (1980) Share |
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