Reviews
Xtro II: The Second Encounter (1991)
Entertaining little sci-fi/horror hybrid
This movie is fun from start to finish. The idea of a rescue team being trapped inside a top secret government research lab that has unleashed an alien creature from another dimension is fun. Paul Koslo from Omega Man, Tara Buckman from B.J. and the Bear and Jan-Michael Vincent from numerous b movies lead the cast as the scientists who developed the device that opens the doorway. Jan being brought back after being forced to retire because he destroyed the last facility that the device was used in and once again opened a doorway allowing alien creatures to escape!! Nicholas Lea is the young LT. of the rescue team, an early chance to see the man who would become Krycek on the X-Files. The cast continues to drop off trying to stop the creature from escaping. The effects are o.k. but there is one very good death of a rescue team member by the alien through a wall. Overall the story is entertaining.
The Norliss Tapes (1973)
great idea for a purposed series that never appeared
what a creepy little movie. this shows why Dan Curtis was so big a writer/producer in the 1960/70's. Roy Thinnes is excellent as the investigator. I can remember playing the Norliss tapes with my G.I. Joes and making a car out of a box for David Norliss to drive. When is this movies going to come out on DVD?
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Good sharks.....hungry sharks
I really liked the characters and cared if they lived or died...and the fx/cgi was very good. Maybe I just love shark movies,but we have needed a good one for a while and this was it. And for once the bad person/persons payed for their tampering with mother nature.