Forensic Science Movie Reviews

Its the worst of them all. Its extremely boring, low-budget and cheesy. Not enough of anything, or robocop or any kind of action worth remembering or even watching. Flether potrayl of Robocop was very bland; all i saw from him were facial expression like something was stinky in his suit no jerky movements or imposing presence of Peter Weller's robocop. I wasted my money and time on this one. Long live the first two theraticals movies.
Its time to bury robocop for good, once and for all

This the first instalment of the Robocop mini-series, and I admit its the worst of the four. Of course since the next three are so good being worst isn't so bad. Yea, its made for TV but its good for a made for TV movie. It has the classic flash back seen in everything Robocop and we meet new characters and see some old ones all grown up such as Robo's son. Yea the character of Done Machine looks corny as heck, but his persona makes more since than some of the guys I could name and he doesn't play too big of a role anyway. This is a good made for TV movie that doesn't work if you compare it to three orginal movies. Just remember this is a part one of four movie so its a step up movie. This one is three stars for a made for TV movie and the rest of the mini-series can go from 4 to 5. I just hope they come out quicker than this one did. You should buy for no other reason than its part one of what will most likely be the last Robocop videos made.

I got RoboCop last night. I watched it and thought there were too many flashbacks in it before Murphy got shipped into Metro South in the First film. Robo wasn't seen enough i thought. Also a huge thing I felt was missing was the extra features. Like the Audio Commentary and the Behind the scenes documentary. The trailer advertises all 4 parts, But they only put part 1 out. Where is the other 3 parts. I will prohahly watch this often. However they should of released a box set of this instead of a empty disc. No one seems to be carrying this DVD either in the stores. I had to special order mine. Let's face it, the RoboCop franchise needs some major improvements. So I'd reccommend this to any RoboCop fan, but not the average moviegoer.

Okay. To be honest I expect more from a DVD. Digitally enhanced this is not. Very poor picture quality. It looks like it was copied from a VHS tape on EP mode that had lemonade spilled on it and sat in the sun.

Any way the movie: I grew up when the Aleins series was out. I was scared of that. This scared me more than that. It was extermly creepy. (Watching it alone in the dark did not help) This crab when exposed to radition, grows big with a hunger to boot. Nothing like that tang of human flesh. But it get worse. You know you are what you eat? The same is true for this guy. This monstor has access to the thoughts of all his victims. And he used mental thought patterns to "call" his next victim. Only it uses the voices is of past victims. Way beyond scary. I get the willies just writing the review! Like a sick to your stomach scary! Once you get past the ripples in the video in the beginning, the image quality improves significantly. Maybe it's the child in me that was scared, my earlist memory is a dream when a giant crab was trying to get me. Brrrr! (Maybe I saw this movie as a kid or something!

The other reviews you will read about this unfortunate edition are all too true, and expose a basic problem with the releasing studio. Psychotronic films such as this often mean the difference between a studio making and losing money. The profits they engender help a studio make prestige films; in the case of Allied Artists, its Monogram subsidy frequently financed films such as "Friendly Persuasion." Yet, when it comes time to release these much-loved B's on video and DVD, we manage to get the worst prints for the highest prices. The murkiness and darkness of the print is worthy of the kind shown on a shoestring UHF station. It's almost as if they are thinking since horror/sci-fi fans will watch films like these, they are missing a few brain parts and will settle for anything, no matter what the quality. They wouldn't dare do that with a "Cabaret," so why do it here?

And the real shame in this case is that "Attack of the Crab Monsters" was Roger Corman at his absolute best. Done way before the French declared him a genius, thus ruining his product, The picture is a combination of weird acting and papier mache monsters, with an almost incomprehensible plot to drive the action. A group of scientists arrives at a desolate Pacific island, only to find the group that preceeded them is missing. As the action unfold we discover that a bunch of ordinary crabs has been enlarged by radiation and are intent on destroying the island. (Why, we don't know.) Worse, they like us for dinner as well as we like them, but they also have the ability to ingest the intelligence of those on whom they munch. After a war of survival, humanity wins when Russell Johnson (the Professor from "Gilligan's Island) sacrifices himself to save the hero and heroine and make the world once again safe for seafood. From watching the movie it is obvious the crabs go best with cheese and that if it happened today, humanity would have nothing to worry about because the monsters would end up as "Giant Crab Battle" on the "Iron Chef" show.

Hopefully, the complaints of loyal customers will spur the DVD producers to give us a cleaner copy.

FROM THE VIDEO CASSETTE:
A group of scientists are stranded on a mysterious island where they have come in search of a previous expedition. Their mission is to report the effects of nuclear testing near by has caused in the areas marine and animal life. What they find is more than they bargained for, giant intelligent crabs with the ability to absorb the memories of those whom they eat.

This is truly a Roger Corman movie. Russell Johnson make a habit of being stranded on islands (the Professor in "Gilligan's Island) And the monsters are quite cute. I wonder if the crab monsters prefer Alaskan Kings and that is why they only have governors. They have a strange diet of brains and radio tubes. The consumed people, become part of the crab, like what happened with the plant in "Little Shop of Horrors"

If you really like atomic bugs, then after this watch "Them!"

This film is no classic but it is a fun one i remember as a kid. I saw it late night of course and enjoyed it then and i have seen it since and realize that you should take it as it is and not look for extreme quality acting but if you are a sci fi fan and enjoy old flicks then you will have fun with this one. Break out the popcorn and gather the kids for a good viewing.

Phantom Planet is a generally-overlooked but thoroughly enjoyable slice of early-60s SF cheese. Not really good enough to be a "good movie," not really bad enough to achieve Trash status; but I could watch this one every six months without getting tired of it. Dean Fredericks in the lead makes a quite unappealing, unsympathetic 'hero,' lending a strange atmosphere to the movie right off the bat. Francis X. Bushman (the silent Ben Hur) and Anthony Dexter (fallen far from 1951's Valentino) lend kitsch appeal, and Coleen Gray and Dolores Faith, as the 'mute girl,' provide potential love interest for drippy Fredericks. If you watch this with the mindset of a 10-year-old there's lots of fun and clever ideas and effects: the shrinking thing, passable outer space/rocketship sequences, the disintegrator floor panels and duel of death, the flaming Solarite death ships, etc. And the sad sack monster, played by clumsy giant-for-hire Richard Kiel ('Jaws'), has to be one of the most lovably moth-eaten, pathetically unthreatening creations to grace any B-flick; kind of Paul Blaisdell-meets-Harry Thomas at the thrift store. You could probably suspend your disbelief and really enjoy this movie on a comic book level, or have a few friends over and laugh yourselves silly. Highly recommended.
For long-time fans of this movie, Image's DVD delivers a fine print of the film: sharp and detailed, great tonal scale, virtually spotless save for some very light speckling and a rare blemished frame. You'll never need to worry about upgrading from this one. It blows my VHS TV prints right off the map. Unfortunately, there is no trailer for the feature, and the only other 'extra' is the chapter stops. There are five trailers included in an 'easter egg,' but they're the same ones as on every other Image release. Considering all the movies in their catalog, they could dish out a few new ones already! A minor gripe though, and if you love this movie you'll want this disc anyway.

Today the film looks corny,but back in the early 1960's it was a great picture to see.Especially if you are ten years old and with a big imagination.You must remember that this movie came out just when the space race was on.not a bad picture when you went to the theater on a saturday for 35 cents and saw a double feature.And you could stay all day and see it again and again.

This film is no classic but it is a fun one i remember as a kid. I saw it late night of course and enjoyed it then and i have seen it since and realize that you should take it as it is and not look for extreme quality acting but if you are a sci fi fan and enjoy old flicks then you will have fun with this one. Break out the popcorn and gather the kids for a good viewing.

Phantom Planet is a generally-overlooked but thoroughly enjoyable slice of early-60s SF cheese. Not really good enough to be a "good movie," not really bad enough to achieve Trash status; but I could watch this one every six months without getting tired of it. Dean Fredericks in the lead makes a quite unappealing, unsympathetic 'hero,' lending a strange atmosphere to the movie right off the bat. Francis X. Bushman (the silent Ben Hur) and Anthony Dexter (fallen far from 1951's Valentino) lend kitsch appeal, and Coleen Gray and Dolores Faith, as the 'mute girl,' provide potential love interest for drippy Fredericks. If you watch this with the mindset of a 10-year-old there's lots of fun and clever ideas and effects: the shrinking thing, passable outer space/rocketship sequences, the disintegrator floor panels and duel of death, the flaming Solarite death ships, etc. And the sad sack monster, played by clumsy giant-for-hire Richard Kiel ('Jaws'), has to be one of the most lovably moth-eaten, pathetically unthreatening creations to grace any B-flick; kind of Paul Blaisdell-meets-Harry Thomas at the thrift store. You could probably suspend your disbelief and really enjoy this movie on a comic book level, or have a few friends over and laugh yourselves silly. Highly recommended.
For long-time fans of this movie, Image's DVD delivers a fine print of the film: sharp and detailed, great tonal scale, virtually spotless save for some very light speckling and a rare blemished frame. You'll never need to worry about upgrading from this one. It blows my VHS TV prints right off the map. Unfortunately, there is no trailer for the feature, and the only other 'extra' is the chapter stops. There are five trailers included in an 'easter egg,' but they're the same ones as on every other Image release. Considering all the movies in their catalog, they could dish out a few new ones already! A minor gripe though, and if you love this movie you'll want this disc anyway.

Today the film looks corny,but back in the early 1960's it was a great picture to see.Especially if you are ten years old and with a big imagination.You must remember that this movie came out just when the space race was on.not a bad picture when you went to the theater on a saturday for 35 cents and saw a double feature.And you could stay all day and see it again and again.

well i really wasn't expecting much , definely a D- movie good in spots but never a great one at that . the effects are cool in places , but if you're looking for a real horror movie then go somewhere else the actress that plays the doctor so much more capable of better roles then this sorry one, i wish they would have spend more time on it,starts off cool then loses steam.

P.S. if you just want to see snakes moving around then rent it.

If you've seen the 1995 movie "Outbreak" this movie will seem very similar to you. Instead a cute little monkey spreading the virus, we get snakes instead. The film's main star Treat Williams plays a doctor in small town that is going though a number of snake bites. What Treat Williams does not know is these are government bred snakes which escaped from a top sceret government lab in the mid-1990. To add to this mess Willaims character is going though some marial problems.

The miltary eventually seals off the town and wants to blow it up(along with the people not sick). But Treat Williams saves the day. If you've seen "Outbreak" you've seen this movie before!

The DVD is is widescreen and has a trailer and scene selection . this movie was a little bit better than Treat Williams last movie with Fox "Extreme Limits". It is rated PG-13 for swearing,violence and some hospital scenes.

Rent this movie first before you buy it! If you are a fan of Treat Williams you might like this movie!

Sure, it is very similar to Wolfgang Petersen's Outbreak, about deadly virus carried by rattlesnakes. But the stars, Treat Williams and Mary Page Keller make this movie fairly entertaining. Director Fred Olen ray provides a great audio commentary throughout the movie that is very informative and entertaining. The DVD itself is OK. Sharp and clear picture and quite good Dolby 5.1. Too bad, Fox charges way too high for this B movie DVD but it worths at least a rental.

I Would not recomend buying this movie. Very misleading not much nudity and this is NOT A PORN.

Save the anticipation and just burn [your money]. The whole dvd is a camera set up at a photo shoot.......the lamest DVD is have ever seen.

This video is a bit different than others - it takes you on magazine shoots of well-known adult magazine models. There are shoots featuring girls alone and girl-on-girl shoots, and interviews with the girls. It gives you a chance to see what goes on and also shows lots of footage of beatiful women posing for their shoots.

If that is what you are interested in seeing, this is the perfect DVD. If not, then you're in the wrong category.

This is a serious affront to the true Fanny Hill. This had very little nudity as one might hope. I was very discontent with the purchase of this dvd. I would not recommend this to anyone. The true Fanny Hill was a great and true skin flick. This is nothing but camera jumping and seen skipping. I AM NOT AT ALL THRILLED BY THIS NUMBER!

This Something Weird Video double feature of producer David F. Friedman's nudies "The Notorious Daughter of Fanny Hill" and "The Head Mistress" is something of a letdown, saved only by Friedman's commentary on both movies. "Fanny Hill" features Stacey Walker in the title role, and while she's a riveting screen prescence, her face and body alone are not enough to make this movie compelling viewing for 70 minutes. The thin narrative is ideal for porn, but not enough to sustain this tease of movie. Even Friedman notes that this "audaciously adult" movie would only get a PG-13 rating if released today. Like most movies of this type, the acting is second rate at best and anachronisms abound (I don't think ball point pens and polyester negligees were too common in the Victorian era). For what it is though, the production values are above average.

"The Head Mistress" is cheaper and tackier, but a lot more entertaining. The movie opens with 1960s women pretending to be 17th century schoolgirls enjoying a topless picnic--as 17th century schoolgirls are wont to do--drinking punch out of plastic cups and munching cookies off Chinet plates. From there, we move on to the sex scenes, which are more explicit than what you'd see in "Fanny Hill," but not by much. Imagine a man pinning a naked woman to the bed while she suffers an epileptic seizure and you get the idea. The head mistress herself, the ample-bodied Marsha Jordan, is in "the twilight world," i.e. she's an insatiable lesbian. Marsha nuzzles the tummies of her naked charges while they lie there staring vacantly. Marsha even whips one of the mischievous minxes, and she still doesn't get much of a reaction. She gets more response from a plant in a scene that employs high school play calibre special effects. To distract you from this fact, Marsha Jordan keeps her breasts bared. The hypnotic power of Marsha's nipples can only sustain a movie for so long, though. For the last ten minutes of the movie I kept checking the clock. Like "Fanny Hill," this one's more interesting viewed with Friedman's commentary.

Like other Something Weird DVDs, there are trailers and short subjects included with the extras. This DVD includes trailers for other Friedman-produced and Fanny Hill-themed movies ("Brand of Shame," "Fanny Hill and the Red Barron," "The Lustful Turk," etc.), a Stacey Walker short and a brief bit of video from when SWV raided Friedman's movie vault. The trailers and the Stacey Walker short ("But Charlie, I Never Played Volleyball") are amusing, but the movie vault raid is a viewing experience akin to watching a video of someone else's vacation.

This series of "weird" films is very hit and miss and this is unfortunately the latter. I can't even remember what it's about but I can advise against buying it.

Probably not the best review you've read but if I had read this I would have saved myself a few dollars and that's good enough for me.

It stinks, and there isn't much more that you can say about this film, which reminds me of a badly filmed skin-flick with all the sex scenes deleted. We're talking grade Z actors, script, production values, and direction--and the sell-by date on the package expired a couple of decades ago.

The story, such as it: the Martians (who look suspicious like men with a Spandex fetish) have run out of women, so they nip next door in a spaceship that looks like an over-decorated pie pan to borrow a few. Now, it happens that the ones they want lack brains, beauty, and God knows they lack acting talent, so you'd think Earth would be glad to see them go. But no, Earth gets offended; the Martians decide to take 'em anyway; hostilities ensue. Whoop-De-Doo.

Now, there are bad movies that are fun to watch. But MARS WANTS WOMEN is not one of them: it won't take you ten minutes to realize that you would have been better off using your dollar bills for toilet paper than spending them on this flick. If you don't believe me, then at least rent the darn thing before you buy it--but either way, don't say you weren't warned.

Of all the bad Larry Buchanan movies ever made, this is one. And, sadly enough, this may be his best.

Martians Tommy Kirk and Company, in vacuformed bodysuits with "boing" antennae, announce to the Pentagon that Mars needs women. When America refuses to cooperate by providing a few suitable single females, Kirk and Crew baldly state that they will simply do their own informal poll and take some girls on the sly. The Secretary of State informs the public that Martian kidnappers are on the move, and creates a think-tank to deal with the problem. One of the think-tank's members, space geneticist Yvonne Craig, falls into Kirk's sights as a perfect inductee for the Martian breeding program - and, unaware that Kirk is in fact one of the Martians she is working against, she falls for him while he is in undercover guise.

This is one of the weirdest movies ever made. It isn't a comedy, nor does it try to be one. That it isn't good goes without saying - but it's really not that bad, either. Strangely enough, the script would actually have worked, if given a halfway decent production. It's all played serious as a heart attack, and only the incredibly cheap production values, drastically overused stock-footage padding, and a lack of rehearsal that make the performances come off as first dress night at the local community theater kill it. It's got virtually no entertainment value, and yet the seriousness with which the story is undertaken almost hypnotically holds your attention. It's sometimes amusing - and even interesting - in spite of itself.

It really is a cheap ... though, recommended only for unusually thorough sci-fi cinema buffs.

I am a fan of SF B-movies but this is a rather dull one. I tried hard to keep my eyes open . If, then it's only worth because of the X-15 and other airplanes stock footages and of (Batgirl) Yvonne Craig. At least the DVD is a bargain.

This is a fabulous IMAX movie about Motion Simulators. It would be of great interest to those who do 3D Computer Graphics programming, and looking for some great project idea for their course.

Thrill Ride The Science of Fun is a movie made for the IMAX theater, focusing on thrill rides. This is a boring, uninteresting film that gives a one-sided view of today's thrill rides. The producers of Thrill Ride think that the only type of thrill rides available today are motion simulators, and they are convinced that simulators are able to live up to real thrill rides, and may someday be the only type of thrill ride available. 32 out of 40 minutes are spent covering simulator rides. Unfortunately, this film was made in 1997, and a lot of new technology has since come on the market, leaving older, relatively low-tech attractions on this film. I am not one who enjoys motion simulators most of the time. This film spends a lot of time explaining how high-tech and very good quality computer-generated images are created and used. Of course, in 1997 technology was not that advanced, so the images they're talking about lack the realism of today's CGI. 5 minutes is spent on explaining how simulators for full size airplanes and jets work. I want thrill rides, not airplane sims! A portion of the film is hosted by a crazy old farmer/miner whose accent, attitude, and antics are completely unentertaining. The majority of thrill rides are roller coasters, not simulators, yet this film spends only 8 minutes on coasters and droptowers. Included are POV footage on Kumba and Montu, and Big Shot droptower in Las Vegas, as well as some rare footage from the old movie "This is Cinerama" featuring the defunct wood coaster from New York's defunct Rockaway Playland. Unfortunately, especially in the case of Cinerama, the entire ride is not shown, only a portion. I really wanted to see more of the Cinerama coaster, considering how it is impossible to ride it in reality. This video gets one point for two reasons. First, the minute or two of Cinerama POV footage was interesting (just not long enough). Second, the video offers a behind-the-scenes look at Back To The Future, the ride, from Universal Studios. This was also interesting. Unfortunately, about 80% of this video is sleep-inducing and uninteresting. All in all, I do not recommend buying Thrill Ride - it is a boring disappointment.

This movie was great but not really about roller coasters. They were more focused on simulators and computerized graphics.It is probably alot more thrilling to see in the Omni Theatre.All in all,it is a fun and interesting movie to watch.

This is a fabulous IMAX movie about Motion Simulators. It would be of great interest to those who do 3D Computer Graphics programming, and looking for some great project idea for their course.

Thrill Ride The Science of Fun is a movie made for the IMAX theater, focusing on thrill rides. This is a boring, uninteresting film that gives a one-sided view of today's thrill rides. The producers of Thrill Ride think that the only type of thrill rides available today are motion simulators, and they are convinced that simulators are able to live up to real thrill rides, and may someday be the only type of thrill ride available. 32 out of 40 minutes are spent covering simulator rides. Unfortunately, this film was made in 1997, and a lot of new technology has since come on the market, leaving older, relatively low-tech attractions on this film. I am not one who enjoys motion simulators most of the time. This film spends a lot of time explaining how high-tech and very good quality computer-generated images are created and used. Of course, in 1997 technology was not that advanced, so the images they're talking about lack the realism of today's CGI. 5 minutes is spent on explaining how simulators for full size airplanes and jets work. I want thrill rides, not airplane sims! A portion of the film is hosted by a crazy old farmer/miner whose accent, attitude, and antics are completely unentertaining. The majority of thrill rides are roller coasters, not simulators, yet this film spends only 8 minutes on coasters and droptowers. Included are POV footage on Kumba and Montu, and Big Shot droptower in Las Vegas, as well as some rare footage from the old movie "This is Cinerama" featuring the defunct wood coaster from New York's defunct Rockaway Playland. Unfortunately, especially in the case of Cinerama, the entire ride is not shown, only a portion. I really wanted to see more of the Cinerama coaster, considering how it is impossible to ride it in reality. This video gets one point for two reasons. First, the minute or two of Cinerama POV footage was interesting (just not long enough). Second, the video offers a behind-the-scenes look at Back To The Future, the ride, from Universal Studios. This was also interesting. Unfortunately, about 80% of this video is sleep-inducing and uninteresting. All in all, I do not recommend buying Thrill Ride - it is a boring disappointment.

This movie was great but not really about roller coasters. They were more focused on simulators and computerized graphics.It is probably alot more thrilling to see in the Omni Theatre.All in all,it is a fun and interesting movie to watch.