A vibrantly colorful sword and sorcery mishmash that reunited the director (Nathan Juran) with the two stars (Mathews and Thatcher) from The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Jack the Giant Killer should appeal to the same fans, although the stop motion effects were by Howard A. Anderson instead of Harryhausen, and it's a sore spot.

Wildly nonlinear, totally renegade, and nothing that makes any cognitive sense to anyone who doesn't love cinema, Night Pulse is both brilliant and frustratingly overlong and loose at the seams.

With a great sense of time and place, this film works as both a nostalgia piece and as an examination of growing up and dealing with isolation and mental illness.

Good special effects, humor that works (mostly), an upgraded look for Swamp Thing, bodacious babes (Monique Gabrielle has a supporting role), and a rousing score by Chuck Cirino all boost this comic book adventure to solid cult status.

Strange, sexy, and spooky, the film should appeal to fans of Hammer-style horror movies of yore, and it's rare that a new spook film manages to scare up a good reaction from me, but this one hit all the right buttons for me.

This is a cruel, ugly piece of work that I neither found entertaining or of any value, and it's a blight on the genre.

A personal favorite, Joe Versus the Volcano is a true original. There never has been - and nor will there ever be - a movie quite like it.