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Title: Alien Nation
Year: 1988
Rating: R
Director: Graham Baker
Cast: James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp, Kevyn Major Howard
In a near future in which aliens live and work among us, Detective Matt Sykes investigates the death of his partner with the help of a ‘Newcomer,’ and uncovers the aliens’ biggest secret.
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Title: Runaway
Year: 1984
Rating: PG-13
Director: Michael Crichton
Cast: Tom Selleck, Gene Simmons, Cynthia Rhodes, Kirstie Alley
Police Sergeant Jack Ramsay, a specialist in the pacification of robots that have run amok, must defeat a psychopathic robotocist on a mechanized killing spree.
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. . . to the late eighties and every weekend on HBO you’d see an [...]
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Title: The Black Hole
Year: 1979
Rating: PG
Director: Gary Nelson
Cast: Maximillian Schell, Robert Forster, Joesph Bottoms, Yvette Mimieux, Anthony Perkins, Ernest Borgnine, Roddy McDowall (voice)
The explorers of the USS Palomino stumble upon the long lost hulk of the USS Cygnus, parked at a stable point beyond a Black Hole. But the Cygnus is not truly dead, though [...]
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Title: Dragonslayer
Year: 1981
Rating: PG
Director: Matthew Robbins
Cast: Peter MacNicol, Caitlin Clarke, Ralph Richardson, John Hallam, Peter Eyre, Sydney Bromley
Apprentice wizard Galen Bradwarden takes on the quest of his dead master to free a fantasy Dark Age kingdom from the predation of an ancient dragon.
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. . . to six year old me getting a [...]
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Title: An American Werewolf in London
Year: 1981
Rating: R
Director: John Landis
Cast: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine
An American student backpacking through England is attacked and infected by a werewolf. In love with his nurse and haunted by his dead friend, he must come to terms with what he has become — and accept that [...]
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Title: Big Trouble in Little China
Year: 1986
Rating: PG-13
Director: John Carpenter
Cast: Kurt Russell, Dennis Dun, Kim Cattrall, James Hong, Victor Wong
Cocky trucker Jack Burton takes on the forces of Chinese Black Magic in the form of a 2,000 year old malignant spirit and his demonic servants. Gang fights, kidnapping, and dueling sorcerers are just a taste [...]
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Title: Krull
Year: 1983
Rating: PG
Director: Peter Yates
Cast: Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Freddie Jones, Alun Armstrong, Liam Neeson, Francesca Annis, Robbie Coltrane
Newly-minted King Colwyn must rescue his Princess from an evil invader that threatens to destroy his planet in this dark fantasy with scifi trappings. With the aid of a band of rogues, a cyclops, a wizard, [...]
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Title: Highlander
Year: 1986
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Rating: R
Cast: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, Roxanne Hart
Immortal warriors battle through the centuries until only one remains. The story of one such warrior, Connor Macleod, a Scottish Highlander, is told both in contemporary New York and various historical periods.
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. . . to me sitting in my [...]
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