Manufacturer: Fabulous Films Ltd.
Starring: Paul Darrow, Michael Keating, Jan Chappell, Josette Simon, Steve Pacey
Directed By: David Maloney

Let's be honest: this should be titled Wretched Excess' Frankenstein. Swooping, wild, bloody, and energetic, this is bad moviemaking from the best, which makes it all the more loveable. Kenneth Branagh plays Victor Frankenstein, a man so obsessed with conquering death that he decides to create life. What he gets, after a protoplasmic mud wrestle, is a Mean Streets monster (Robert De Niro) ...

Manufacturer: 4 Front Video
Starring: Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Hulce, Aidan Quinn
Directed By: Kenneth Branagh

Roger Corman produced this shameless Jaws rip-off at the height of the "nature gone wild" boom of American cinema and struck B-movie gold. Scripted by John Sayles and directed by Joe Dante, this tongue-in-cheek thriller stars Bradford Dillman (doing his best Rip Torn impression) as an antisocial mountain man and Heather Menzies as a rookie detective who race a school of mutant piranha down ...

Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Starring: Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn, Dick Miller
Directed By: Joe Dante

Here's the pitch for Small Soldiers: "It's like Toy Story but these toys that come to life really kick butt!" That's essentially it for this breezy popcorn flick. In a very smart first 10 minutes, new toy-company owner Denis Leary tells his crew he wants toys "that play back". Hence the small soldiers land in Anytown, USA and the loner kid Alan (Gregory Smith) opens them up before ...

Manufacturer: 4 Front Video
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Gregory Smith, David Cross, Jay Mohr, Alexandra Wilson
Directed By: Joe Dante

Manufacturer: 4 Front Video
Starring: John Tate

"I have a bad feeling about this," says the young Obi-Wan Kenobi (played by Ewan McGregor) in Star Wars: Episode I, The Phantom Menace as he steps off a spaceship and into the most anticipated cinematic event ... well, ever. He might as well be speaking for the legions of fans of the original episodes in the Star Wars saga who can't help but secretly ask themselves: sure, this is ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, Pernilla August
Directed By: George Lucas

Arguably the finest movie of its kind, Terminator 2: Judgment Day captured Arnold Schwarzenegger at the very apex of his Hollywood celebrity and James Cameron at the peak of his perfectionist directorial powers. Nothing the star did subsequently measured up to his iconic performance here, spouting legendary catchphrases and wielding weaponry with unparalleled cool; and while the director ...

Manufacturer: 4 Front Video
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick, Earl Boen
Directed By: James Cameron

Manufacturer: Prism Leisure
Starring: Don 'The Dragon' Wilson, Richard Norton, Stacie Foster, Joseph Ruskin, John Aprea
Directed By: Richard Pepin

In Paul Verhoeven's appropriately shallow Hollow Man, Kevin Bacon plays a bad-boy egotistical scientist who heads up a double-secret government team experimenting with turning life-forms invisible. How do we know he's a bad boy? Because he (a) wears a leather overcoat, (b) compares himself to God, (c) drives a sports car and (d) spies on his comely next-door neighbour while eating Twinkies. ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue, Josh Brolin, Kim Dickens, Greg Grunberg
Directed By: Paul Verhoeven

Manufacturer: Prism Leisure Corporation
Starring: Charles Adler, Shûko Akune, Jack Angel, Michael Bell, Gregg Berger
Directed By: Don Jurwich