Showing posts with label 90's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 90's. Show all posts

Monday, October 28, 2019

Movie Review: "Bride of Chucky" (1998)

Director: Ronny Yu
Year: 1998
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 29 minutes

Tiffany, Charles Lee Ray's girlfriend, finds the dismembered remains of Chucky, reassembles himand brings him back to life. After an argument, Chucky sticks Tiffany in a doll of her own, and now, they are both desperate to find new hosts.

Friday, October 25, 2019

Movie Review: "Child's Play 3" (1991)

Director: Jack Bender
Year: 1991
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Chucky is reborn once again and seeks out a now-teenaged Andy Barclay to transfer his soul. With a new body, Chucky can choose a new, more naive target, and he finds just that in the much younger Tyler.


Thursday, October 24, 2019

Movie Review: "Child's Play 2" (1990)

Director: John Lafia
Year: 1991
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 24 minutes

Andy Barclay's mom is put in a mental institution after the Chucky doll incident. Andy must also undergo psychiatric treatment and is subsequently placed in foster care. Meanwhile, the Good Guy toy company must cover up the disaster they had with Chucky, so they reconstruct the doll to prove he was just a toy. They were wrong. 


Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Movie Review: "Wes Craven's New Nightmare" (1994)

Director: Wes Craven
Year: 1994
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 52 minutes

As director Wes Craven begins to work on a new film, actress Heather Langenkamp, who played Nancy in the original "A Nightmare on Elm Street," starts to believe that Freddy Kruger has left the silver screen and has entered the real world and is now targeting her and her family. 


Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Movie Review: "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare" (1991)

Director: Rachel Talalay
Year: 1991
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 29 minutes

For the past decade, Freddy Kruger has been wreaking havoc on Springwood, the town where his spirit is trapped. Freddy has killed all of the kids in Springwood except for one boy, who he hopes he can use to lead him to more victims outside of town.


Saturday, October 12, 2019

Movie Review: "Bad Moon" (1996)

Movie poster for Morgan Creek Entertainment and Warner Bros. 1996 horror film Bad Moon, starring Mariel Hemingway, Mason Gamble, Michael Paré, Ken Pogue, and Hrothgar Mathews
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Director: Eric Red
Year: 1996
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 20 minutes

A researcher named Ted was recently attacked by a werewolf and has been infected. Shortly after, he visits his family, hoping that the loving environment will help him combat his affliction. The family dog, however, knows better and is on constant watch to protect his family from uncle Ted.


Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Movie Review: "The Mangler" (1995)

Director: Tobe Hooper
Year: 1995
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 46 minutes

A cop investigates a series of deaths at a commercial laundry business as workers keep getting injured and killed by the company's flatwork ironer that has been dubbed "The Mangler."


Monday, October 7, 2019

Movie Review: "Graveyard Shift" (1990)

Director: Ralph S. Singleton
Year: 1990
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 29 minutes

A drifter takes a job at a textile factory that has hostile working conditions, an abusive boss, and a rat infestation. As if that wasn't bad enough, there is also a man-eating monster living in the basement.

Saturday, October 5, 2019

Movie Review: "Misery" (1990)

Director: Rob Reiner
Year: 1990
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 47 minutes

After a horrible car accident, a writer wakes up to find himself in the home of his biggest fan. Things are okay at first as she helps nurse him back to healthbut the more time that passes and the longer he stays in her home, the more he realizes she has no intention of ever letting him leave.


Thursday, October 3, 2019

Movie Review: "The Night Flier" (1997)

Director: Mark Pavia
Year: 1997
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 34 minutes

A tabloid reporter investigates a series of bizarre murders said to be committed by a pilot that no one has yet been able to catch.


Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Movie Review: "Thinner" (1996)

Movie poster for the 1996 horror film Stephen King's Thinner, starring Robert John Burke, Joe Mantegna, Lucinda Jenney, and Bethany Joy Lenz
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Director: Tom Holland
Year: 1996
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 33 minutes

An obese lawyer named Billy Halleck is cursed by an elderly gypsy man to become thinner after Billy gets off scot-free for running over the gypsy's daughter.


Monday, May 13, 2019

Movie Review: "Hot Shots!" (1991)

Director: Jim Abrahams
Year: 1991
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 1 hour, 24 minutes

A skilled fighter pilot haunted by the memory of his father's failure is recruited to lead a mission into Iraq in the hopes that his instability will lead to abject failure and allow a weapons manufacturer to receive a big contract for new fighter jets.

Thursday, May 9, 2019

Movie Review: "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" (1997)

Director: Jay Roach
Year: 1997
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 1 hour, 29 minutes

A British secret agent from the swinging '60s named Austin Powers was placed in cryogenic stasis in case his talents and prowess as a spy were ever needed in the future. Powers gets thawed out in the '90s to take on his arch nemesis, Dr. Evil. These two enemies soon find out the world has changed a lot in the 30 years that they have been "on ice."


Saturday, February 23, 2019

Movie Review: "Shakespeare in Love" (1998)

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Director: John Madden
Year: 1998
Rating: R
Running Time: 2 hours, 3 minutes

While struggling with writer's block, William Shakespeare finds the inspiration to write one of the most famous romantic tragedies in his own relationship with a star-crossed lover, a wellborn woman who is arranged to marry a nobleman.

Friday, February 22, 2019

Movie Review: "Forrest Gump" (1994)

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Director: Robert Zemeckis
Year: 1994
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 2 hours, 22 minutes

A simple man from Alabama leads a wondrous, almost unbelievable life.

Saturday, February 2, 2019

Movie Review: "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991)

Director: Jonathan Demme
Year: 1991
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 58 minutes

A student at the FBI Academy is asked to interview imprisoned serial killer Hannibal Lecter in the hopes that he can offer insight into the Buffalo Bill case where a serial killer abducts women and skins them.

Thursday, December 20, 2018

Movie Review: "The Preacher's Wife" (1996)

Director: Penny Marshall
Year: 1996
Rating: PG
Running Time: 2 hours, 3 minutes

An angel comes to earth to help a preacher and his wife who have prayed for aid during the holiday season as the mounting stress of a church that is falling apart and other community issues cause this preacher to neglect what is really important in his life.

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Movie Review: "Dick Tracy" (1990)

Director: Warren Beatty
Year: 1990
Rating: PG
Running Time: 1 hour, 45 minutes

Detective Dick Tracy tries to bring down mob boss Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice, who has consolidated all criminal activity in the city under one umbrella controlled by him.

Saturday, November 17, 2018

Movie Review: "From Dusk Till Dawn" (1996)

Director: Robert Rodriguez
Year: 1996
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 48 minutes

A pair of criminals takes a vacationing family hostage to escape into Mexico where they plan to meet their partner at a trucker bar. This bar turns out to be a vampire haven, and now the criminals and the kidnapped family are left fighting for their lives.


Thursday, November 8, 2018

Movie Review: "Village of the Damned" (1995)

Director: John Carpenter
Year: 1995
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 39 minutes

One day, in the small town of Midwich, a strange phenomenon causes all the people within its community to pass out without warning. When they wake up hours later, most of the women of childbearing age are pregnant. When their children are born, it's clear they aren't fully human as they have special powers that threaten all the people of Midwich...and possibly even the world.