battle beyond the stars (1980)

"OK, what's the big idea?"
The planet Akir is threatened by the tyrant Sador (John Saxon). In desperation the elders send Shad (Richard Thomas), to seek out someone who help them fight to save their planet. He returns with a ragtag bunch of mercenaries (inc Robert Vaughn, Sybil Danning, & George Peppard).
A not particularly interesting and spaced out version of the Seven Samurai,

the iron rose (1973)

aka La Rose de Fer.
A young couple (Françoise Pascal & Hugues Quester) go for a romantic day out, and after spending a day exploring an old cemetery, and each other, they realise too late that night is coming and they are lost. As darkness envelopes them, their fears begin to rise.
Languid, dreamy and not remotely suspenseful thriller.

millennium (1989)

"This is not the end."
Bill Smith (Kris Kristofferson) is a air crash investigator, who stumbles on a time traveling paradox called Louise (Cheryl Ladd), opening up a whole load of issues...
Hokum, that doesn't truly grab your attention.

hospital massacre (1981)

Aka Be My Valentine, or Else...X-Ray. XRay.
"Somebody's trying to play a con job on you."
Susan Jeremy (Barbi Benton) is stalked by a maniac out to avenge a childhood Valentine's Day humiliation, after she While turns up at hospital for a routine check-up.
Over the top and predictable slasher, but good for gorehounds in need of a laugh, as the 'dr' stalks the least populated hospital I have ever seen.

the pit (1981)

Aka Teddy.
"He seems to have great trouble getting some friends."
Jaime (Sammy Snyders) a weird and solitary boy finds a pit full of creatures who love young flesh, and uses them to take revenge on all who tormented him.
A film that doesn't know what it wants to be, a dark and brooding drama, or straight up comedy/creature feature, and thus fails on all counts.

the terror beneath the sea (1966)

aka Kaitei daisensô. Battle Beneath the Sea. The Great Undersea War. Water Cyborgs.
"He developed the theory of processed man."
Two reporters Ken & Jenny (Sonny Chiba & Peggy Neal) are reporting on a guided missile test, when they think they spot a strange creature. The Navy seem to want to cover it up, and on further investigation they find a race of fish-men living under the sea...
Fast paced adventure, that surpasses its obvious faults.

the rats (2002)

"You know, you live in the city, you gonna have rats!"
Susan Costello (Mädchen Amick) is the Operations manager at the upmarket Garson's department store in Manhattan. Unfortunately she is about to find out that the shop is about to be overrun my a colony of rats. Can anyone stop them? Enter Jack Carver (Vincent Spano), rodent killer extreme...
Surprisingly entertaining.

duel (1971)

"That's sick man, that's sick."
A salesman, David Mann (Dennis Weaver), gets stuck behind a slow moving oil tanker, and offends the driver by overtaking...from then on the trucker doggedly menaces and pursues him.
Spielburg's early offering taps into urban paranoia, with a visual flare.

the hostage (1956)

Aka A Place of Execution.
"I'm just giving you a chance to help us."
The President of a South American country is about to execute a revolutionary when he finds out his daughter has been kidnapped in London. The demands state that they will kill her if the execution goes ahead. The pressure is on for Scotland Yard to find her, and they lean on pilot Bill Trailer (Ron Randell). He is without an alibi, and is thus forced to investigate to clear his name.
Overly talky would be thriller.

barracuda (1978)

Aka The Lucifer Project.
"There was nothing left but his head."
Palm Cove is a small town with a local businessman taking shortcuts and dumping hazardous chemicals into the sea. Unfortunately the town starts being terrorized by deadly Barracudas. Could there be some sort of correlation?
Following on from Jaws, this starts as one of its many copycat films, but then diverges into a big business conspiracy thriller.

don't panic chaps (1959)

"We don't want to be killed, and I doubt you do either."
1943, a British troop of soldiers (inc George Cole & Harry Fowler) are sent to a remote Aegean island and encounter a garrison of German's soldiers (inc Dennis Price). Both sides come to a truce and peacefully co-exist, but then the beautiful Elsa (Nadja Regin) is washed up on shore...
Charming farce, though one that will not tax your brain or funny bone too much.

master of the flying guillotine (1976)

aka Du bi quan wang da po xue di zi.
"I intend to kill every one armed man here."
After his students are killed by the One Armed Boxer, a vengeful and blind Kung Fu expert vows to behead every one armed man he comes across, until he meets the one armed boxer he is after.
Sequel to The One Armed Boxer, adds the novelty of a flying guillotine into the mix.

One-Armed Boxer (1972)

Aka Du bei chuan wang. The Chinese Professionals.
"Never fight for the sake of fighting."
Following an altercation with another martial arts school, Yu Tien Lung's (Yu Wang) academy and master are wiped out. He escapes the carnage, but not before loosing an arm. Brooding and in hiding, he considers himself responsible, and vows vengeance. To do so he has to undergo a painful procedure and learn the art of one-arm boxing to exact revenge on the evil Chao (Yeh Tien).
Entertaining fight sequences added to an interesting story.

zatoichi vs the flying guillotine (1972)

Aka The Blind Swordman's Revenge. Mang jian xue di zi.
"Leave the girl here."
Zatoichi (Lung Sheng) has to defend himself against a fighter determined to become number one in the world.
A fake Zatoichi, done on a shoestring budget and without any of the originals class.

serpent's lair (1995)

"I'm not after your marriage, I'm not after your life. I'm talking about sex!"
A young couple, Tom and Alex (Jeff Fahey & Heather Medway) buy up an apartment going cheap as the last owner killed himself there. Their first visitor is a female black cat, who makes her displeasure of Alex plain to see, and Tom starts to be plagued with dreams of a seductive woman called Lilith (Lisa Barbuscia).
A cut price Rosemary's Baby.

kill her gently (1957)

"You knew all along. That's why you picked us up!"
Motorist Jeff Martin (Griffith Jones) stops to help two men (Marc Lawrence & George Mikell) who say their motorbike has broken down. They are in fact escaped convicts, who Martin decides to hire to murder his wife (Maureen Connell), in turn for helping them escape.
Low budget but gripping thriller.

breaking point (1961)

Aka The Great Armored Car Swindle.
"He prints stamps or something in the city."
Eric Winlatter (Peter Reynolds) is a manager at a printing company, and is heavily in debt. So when a middle-eastern country hires them to produce their bank notes, the penniless Winlatter is easy to reel in by the crooked Peter de Savory (Brian Cobby), in an attempt to destabalise the country.
Routine crime drama, with romantic side plot that adds nothing to the story, slight as it is.

you're only young twice (1952)

"I'll talk to him in the morning."
At the oldest College in Scotland, one with ancient traditions and ways of working, Ada Shore (Diane Hart) arrives, and is mistaken for the Principle's new secretary. Once installed her quirky ways start to shake up the establishment and its staff...
Unfunny, which is a problem when it is billed as a comedy, but does include early performances of Ronnie Corbett and Charles Hawtrey.

around the world under the sea (1966)

"I want no part of it!"
Frightened about climate change, and the effects it is having on the world, the US govt decides to use a newly developed 'hydronaught', with a top notch crew (inc Lloyd Bridges, David McCallum, & Shirley Eaton), to travel the world oceans, and plant early warning sensors on the ocean.
Campy underwater adventure film, that seems to be an amalgam of many other better films.

bone tomahawk (2015)

"There's a situation, serious."
A couple of bushwhackers come across a tribe of cannibals, and one escapes to a nearby town. Unfortunately they follow him, and drag him back to their lair along with three others. The sheriff (Kurt Russell), pursues them with a cowboy (Patrick Wilson), a deputy (Richard Jenkins) and a gunslinger (Matthew Fox), vowing to rescue the group.
A fine, if slow moving blending of genres, as the men journey towards their bloody fate.

barbados quest (1955)

Aka Murder On Approval.
"I'm depending on you Tom."
An American millionaire purchases a rare stamp in London but immediately suspects the stamp to be counterfeit, and hires detective Tom Martin (Tom Conway) to make inquiries. Martin, assisted by reformed crook Barney Wilson (Michael Balfour), learns the real stamp is in the possession of Lady Hawksley, and it is her dodgy nephew who sold the stamp, but Martin cannot get Lady Hawksley (Grace Arnold) to show him the stamp to confirm that counterfeiting has gone on or not.
Tom Conway reprises his suave detective in this slow-moving yarn.

bordello Of blood (1996)

Aka Dead Easy. Tales from the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood.
"Chill baby!"
Caleb Verdoux (Corey Feldman) is a no good punk who goes missing, much to the consternation of his sister Katherine (Erika Eleniak). She hires a P.I. (Dennis Miller) to find him which leads them to a brothel headed by Lilith (Angie Everhart) but Katherine has trouble believing that Lilith is the head of a vampire cult. As does her boss evangelist Reverend Current (Chris Sarandon).
Comedy horror, that has a fine line in quips and gore.