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LIST OF ALL TITLES A-B The Ratings: – Terrible, The Worst – Disappointingly Poor – Mediocre – Fair But Not Great – Very Good – A Masterpiece Title Director/Year Theme Rating A Aachi & Ssipak Jo Beom-jin 2006 Demented Korean Anime ½ Abbott and Costello Go to Mars Charles Lamont 1953 Two Idiots Go to Venus Abbott and Costello Meet Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Charles Lamont 1953 Two Idiots Meet Dr Jekyll Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein Charles T. Barton 1948 Two Idiots Meet the Monsters Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man Charles Lamont 1951 Two Idiots Meet the Invisible Man Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy Charles Lamont 1955 Two Idiots Meet the Mummy Ab-Normal Beauty Oxide Pang 2004 Girl’s Fetish with Death The Abominable Dr Phibes Robert Fuest 1971 Disfigued Madman’s Revenge The Abominable Snowman Val Guest 1957 Search for the Yeti The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas (Val Guest, 1957). Refer to The Abominable Snowman. Abraxas: Guardian of the Universe Damian Lee 1992 Intergalactic Cop Hunts Criminal on Earth The Absent-Minded Professor Robert Stevenson 1961 Anti-Gravity Rubber/Disney Comedy Absolution Anthony Page 1981 Catholic Boys’ Boarding School Psycho-Thriller ½ The Abyss James Cameron 1989 Alien Encounter Underwater Access Code Mark Sobel 1984 Conspiracy Thriller/Computer Surveillance Accion Mutante Alex de la Iglesia 1993 Future Mutant Terrorists/Gonzo Comedy ½ Ace Drummond Ford Beebe, Clifford Smith 1936 Serial/Flying Ace Hero Aces Go Places 4: You Only Die Twice Ringo Lam 1986 Hong Kong Slapstick Action The Acid House Paul McGuigan 1998 Irvine Welsh Anthology/Bizarre Transformations ½ The Addams Family Barry Sonnenfeld 1991 Kinky Perverse Family ½ Addams Family Reunion Dave Payne 1998 Kinky Perverse Family Addams Family Values Barry Sonnenfeld 1993 Kinky Perverse Family ½ Addicted to Murder Kevin J. Lindenmuth 1995 Vampire/Serial Killer Addicted to Murder: Tainted Blood Kevin J. Lindenmuth 1998 Modern Vampires The Addiction Abel Ferrara 1994 Nihilist Vampire ½ Adrenalin: Fear the Rush Albert Pyun 1996 Near Future Action/Cops Pursue Deadly Infectee ½ Adventures in Dinosaur City Brett Thompson 1991 Kids Trapped Inside a Dinosaur TV Show The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Terry Gilliam 1989 World’s Greatest Liar’s Adventures The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension W.D. Richter 1984 Funky Hero vs Alien Invaders Adventures of Captain Marvel John English, William Witney 1941 Comic-Book Superhero/Serial The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland Gary Halvorson 1999 Children’s Film/Small Furry Creature’s Adventures The Adventures of a Gnome Gnamed Gnorm (Stan Winston, 1992). Refer to Upworld. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad James Algar, Clyde Geronimi & Jack Kinney 1949 Disney Animation Anthology The Adventures of Pinocchio Steve Barron 1996 Living Puppet Boy ½ The Adventures of Pluto Nash Ron Underwood 2002 Lunar Comedy-Thriller The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle Des McAnuff 2000 Cartoon Characters Enter the Real World The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D Robert Rodriguez 2005 Gonzo Children’s Planetary Adventure The Adventures of Taura: Prison Ship Star Slammer Fred Olen Ray 1986 Interstellar Women in Prison Film Aeon Flux Karyn Kusama 2005 Dystopian Future/TV Series Remake Afraid of the Dark Mark Peploe 1992 Psycho-Thriller/Reversal of Perception After Alice Paul Marcus 1999 Clairvoyant/Serial Killer Thriller After Life Hirokazu Kore-eda 1998 The Afterlife L’Age d’Or Luis Buñuel 1930 Surrealism Agent Cody 2 Banks: Destination London Kevin Allen 2004 Teenage Spy Comedy Agent Cody Banks Harald Zwart 2003 Teenage Spy Comedy Agency George Kaczendar 1979 Subliminal Advertising Brainwashing Thriller A.I. Steven Spielberg 2001 Android Boy’s Quest ½ Airplane II: The Sequel Ken Finkleman 1982 Disaster Movie & SF Spoof Airwolf Donald P. Bellisario 1985 Hi-Tech Helicopter Akira Katsuhiro Otomo 1987 Anime/Psychic Powers Amok Aladdin Ron Clements, John Musker 1992 Disney Animation/Arabian Nights Adventure Aladdin and the King of Thieves Tad Stones 1996 Disney Animation/Arabian Nights Adventure ½ Alakazam the Great Osamu Tezuka, Taiji Yabushita 1961 Mischievous Monkey’s Adventures/Animation Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (Geoffrey Sax, 2006). Refer to Stormbreaker. Alice Jan Svankmajer 1988 Surreal Alice in Wonderland Adaptation Alice Woody Allen 1990 Modernized Alice in Wonderland A.li.ce Kenichi Maejima 1999 Anime/Dystopian Future/Time Travel Alice in Wonderland Norman McLeod 1933 Alice in Wonderland Adaptation Alice in Wonderland Various 1951 Disney Animation/Alice in Wonderland Adaptation Alice Sweet Alice (Alfred Sole, 1976). Refer to Communion. Alice Through the Looking Glass Andrea Presciani, Richard Slapczynski 1987 Animation/Alice in Wonderland Film Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland William Sterling 1972 Alice in Wonderland Adaptation ½ Alien Ridley Scott 1979 Alien Nasty Alien3 David Fincher 1992 Alien Sequel Alien Abduction Eric Forsberg 2005 Hospital for Alien Abductees The Alien Agenda: Endangered Species Various 1997 Alien Takeover Anthology The Alien Agenda: Out of the Darkness Kevin J. Lindenmuth, Mick McCleery 1996 Alien Takeover Anthology ½ The Alien Agenda: Under the Skin Kevin J. Lindenmuth, Tom Vollman 1997 Alien Takeover Anthology Alien Arsenal Julian Breen 1999 Power-Suit Superhero Kids Alien Cargo Mark Haber 1999 Paranoia-Inducing Alien Virus Alien Encounters (Ed Hunt, 1977). Refer to Starship Invasions. Alien Express Turi Meyer 2005 Alien Nasties on a Train The Alien Factor Donald M. Dohler 1978 Alien Monsters Alien from L.A. Albert Pyun 1988 Gonzo Adventures Underground Alien from the Deep Antonio Margheriti 1989 Alien Monster Alien Nation Graham Baker 1988 Human-Alien Buddy Cop Film Alien Peacemaker (Kevin S. Tenney, 1990). Refer to Peacemaker. Alien Wars (Ed Hunt, 1977). Refer to Starship Invasions. Aliens James Cameron 1986 Alien Sequel Alison’s Birthday Ian Coughlan 1979 Occult Conspiracy All Dogs Go to Heaven Don Bluth 1989 Animation/Dog Conman in the Afterlife ½  All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 Paul Sabella 1996 Animation/Dogs from the Afterlife The All New Adventures of Laurel Hardy in “For Love or Mummy” John Cherry, Larry Harmon 1999 Two Idiots vs a Mummy All Of Me Carl Reiner 1984 Bodyswap Comedy All That Jazz Bob Fosse 1979 Dance Choreographer’s Self-Analysis/Angel of Death Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold Gary Nelson 1986 Lost City Adventure ½ Allegro Non Troppo Bruno Bozzetto 1978 Fantasia Spoof/Animation Alligator Lewis Teague 1980 Giant Alligator The Alligator People Roy Del Ruth 1959 Alligator-Human Hybrids Almost an Angel John Cornell 1990 Man Believes He is an Angel Comedy Almost Dead Ruben Preuss 1993 Haunting Alone in the Dark Jack Sholder 1982 Slasher/Escaped Madmen Alone in the Dark Uwe Boll 2005 Videogame Adaptation/Monsters ½ Alone with a Stranger Peter Liapis 2000 Evil Twin Psycho-Thriller Alphaville Jean-Luc Godard 1965 French New Wave/Intergalactic Detective Altered Eduardo Sanchez 2006 Captured Alien ½ Altered States Ken Russell 1980 Drug Trips/Reversion to Caveman/The Meaning of Life Alvin and the Chipmunks Tim Hill 2007 Singing Chipmunks Always Steven Spielberg 1989 Man Becomes a Guardian Angel The Amazing Captain Nemo Alex March 1978 Captain Nemo’s Modern Day Adventures The Amazing Mr Blunden Lionel Jeffries 1972 Children’s Ghost Story/Time Travel The Amazing Spiderman (E.W. Swackhamer, 1977). Refer to Spider-Man. The Amazing Transparent Man Edgar G. Ulmer 1960 Invisible Man Amazon Women on the Moon Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horten, John Landis, Robert K. Weiss 1987 Anthology of Comedy Skits & Genre Parodies Ambition Scott D. Goldstein 1991 Writer Manipulates Serial Killer The Ambulance Larry Cohen 1990 Mysterious Ambulance/Sinister Medical Experiments America 3000 David Engelbach 1987 Gonzo Post-Holocaust Film ½ The American Astronaut Cory McAbee 2001 Surreal Musical Space Western American Cyborg: Steel Warrior Boaz Davidson 1992 Post-Holocaust Cyborgs American Gothic John Hough 1987 Family of Psychos An American Haunting Courtney Solomon 2005 “True” 19th Century Haunting American Movie: The Making of Northwestern Sarah Price, Chris Smith 1999 Documentary About Making of Amateur Horror Film The American Nightmare Adam Simon 2000 Horror Cinema Documentary American Perfekt Paul Chart 1997 Road Movie Psycho-Thriller American Psycho Mary Harron 2000 Yuppie Psycho American Psycho II: All American Girl Morgan J. Freeman 2002 Psycho University Student American Shaolin (Lau Chung Wei, 1994). Refer to Treasure Hunt. An American Tail Don Bluth 1986 Animation/Immigrant Talking Mice ½ An American Tail: Fievel Goes West Phil Nibbelink, Simon Wells 1991 Animation/Talking Mice Adventures An American Werewolf in London John Landis 1981 Modern Werewolf Americathon Neil Israel 1979 Future Telethon/1970s Satire ½ The Amityville Curse Tom Berry 1989 Haunted House ½ The Amityville Horror Stuart Rosenberg 1979 Haunted House/“True Story” The Amityville Horror Andrew Douglas 2005 Haunted House/“True Story” Amityville: The Return (Richard Flesicher, 1983). Refer to Amityville 3-D. Amityville II: The Possession Damiano Damiani 1982 Haunted House/Possession Amityville 3-D Richard Fleischer 1983 Haunted House Amityville 1992: It’s About Time Tony Randel 1992 Malevolent Clock ½ Among the Living Stuart Heisler 1941 Mentally Disturbed Twin Anaconda Luis Llosa 1997 Giant Snake Anaconda 2 (David & Scott Hillenbrand, 1999). Refer to King Cobra. Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid Dwight Little 2004 Giant Snakes Anastasia Don Bluth, Gary Goldman 1997 Animation/Russian Royals ½ Anatomie Stefan Ruzowitsky 2000 Illicit Medical Experiments/Secret Society Anatomie 2 Stefan Ruzowitsky 2003 Illicit Medical Experiments Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy David DeCoteau 2000 Revived Aztec Mummy ... And Now the Screaming Starts! Roy Ward Baker 1973 Haunted House/Supernatural Retribution And Then There Were None Peter Collinson 1974 Agatha Christie Murder Mystery/Stalker And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird Tony Cookson 1991 Children’s Father Reincarnates in a Robot Body Android Aaron Lipstadt 1982 Android Gains Self-Awareness The Andromeda Strain Robert Wise 1971 Virus from Space ½ The Andromeda Strain Mikael Salomon 2008 Virus from Space Andy Warhol’s Dracula Paul Morrissey 1973 Splatter Dracula Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein Paul Morrissey 1973 Splatter Frankenstein Angel Robert Vincent O’Neil 1984 Teenage Hooker vs a Psycho Angel Dust Ishii Sogo 1994 Japanese Serial Killer Thriller ½ Angel Heart Alan Parker 1987 Film Noir/Pact with The Devil The Angel Levine Jan Kadar 1970 Dubious Angel Angel of the Night Shaky Gonzalez 1998 Vampire Angel of Vengeance (Abel Ferrara, 1980). Refer to Ms 45. Angel on My Shoulder Archie Mayo 1946 Man Returns From Hell to Do the Devil’s Mischief Angels in America Mike Nichols 2003 Surreal AIDS Drama/Angelic Visitations Angels in the Outfield Clarence Brown 1951 Angels Aid Baseball Team ½ Angels in the Outfield William Dear 1994 Angels Aid Baseball Team ½ The Angry Red Planet Ib Melchior 1959 Mission to Mars Anguish Bigas Luna 1987 Meta-Fictional Slasher Film ½ The Animal Luke Greenfield 2001 Man with Animal Body Parts Comedy Animal Farm Joy Batchelor, John Halas 1954 Animation/Talking Animal Social Satire Animalympics Steven Lisberger 1979 Animation/Talking Animal Olympics Anna M. Michel Spinosa 2007 Female Stalker ½ Anna to the Infinite Power Robert Wiemer 1982 Child Genius/Cloning The Ant Bully John A. Davis 2006 Animation/Boy Reduced to Ant Size ½ Antitrust Peter Howitt 2001 IT Industry Thriller Antz Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson 1998 Animation/Talking Ants The Apartment Complex Tobe Hooper 1999 Weird Apartment Dwellers Apartment Zero Martin Donovan 1988 Sinister Roommate/Weird Psychological Games ½ A.P.E. Paul Leder 1976 Giant Ape The Ape William Nigh 1940 Mad Scientist The Ape Man William Beaudine 1943 Mad Scientist Becomes Ape Man Apex Phillip J. Roth 1994 War with Robots/Alternate Timelines ½ Apocalypto Mel Gibson 2006 Mayan Culture Adventure Apollo 13 Ron Howard 1995 Real-Life Space Mission Disaster ½ Apparition (Nick Willing, 1997). Refer to Photographing Fairies. Appleseed Katsuyoshi Katsuyama 1988 Anime/Future Anti-Terrorist Squad Appleseed Ex Machina Shinji Aramaki 2007 Anime/Future Anti-Terrorist Squad The Appointment Lindsay C. Vickers 1982 Precognitive Dream ½ April Fool’s Day Fred Walton 1986 Slasher April Fool’s Day (George Dugdale, Mark Ezra & Peter Litten, 1986). Refer to Slaughter High. Apt Pupil Bryan Singer 1998 Nazi War Criminal Gives Lessons in Evil Aquamarine Elizabeth Allen 2006 Mermaid Teen Romantic Comedy ½ Arabian Adventure Kevin Connor 1979 Arabian Nights Adventure Arabian Knight (Richard Williams, 1994). Refer to The Thief and the Cobbler. Arabian Nights Pier Paolo Pasolini 1974 Tales of Arabian Nights Arabian Nights Steve Barron 2000 Tales of Arabian Nights Arachnophobia Frank Marshall 1990 Spider Takeover Arcade Albert Pyun 1994 Malevolent Virtual Reality Game The Aristo Cats Wolfgang Reitherman 1970 Disney Animation/Talking Animals ½ Armageddon Michael Bay 1998 Asteroid Collision/Action Army (Damon Santostefano, 1992). Refer to Severed Ties. Army of Darkness Sam Raimi 1992 Evil Dead Sequel/War with the Dead/Horror Comedy Around the World Under the Sea Andrew Marton 1966 Submarine Adventures ½ The Arrival David Schmoeller 1990 Alien Vampire Parasite The Arrival David Twohy 1996 Alien Infiltration and Takeover ½ The Arrival II (Kevin S. Tenney, 1998). Refer to The Second Arrival. Arsenic and Old Lace Frank Capra 1944 Grand Guignol Comedy/Murderous Old Ladies ½ The Art of Dying Wings Hauser 1991 Snuff Filmmaker Arthur and the Invisibles Luc Besson 2006 Miniature Magical World Arthur 2: On the Rocks Bud Yorkin 1988 Alcoholic Millionaire Comedy/Ghost Butler Artificial Lies Rodney Gibbons 1999 Psycho-Thriller As Time Goes By Barry Peak 1987 Gonzo Time Travel The Asphyx Peter Newbrook 1972 Capturing the Spirit of Death ½ The Assassination of Richard Nixon Niels Mueller 2004 True Life Psycho ½ Assault on Precinct 13 John Carpenter 1976 Urban Siege Assault on Precinct 13 Jean-François Richet 2005 Urban Siege Asterix in Britain Pino van Lamsweerde 1985 Animation/Comic-Book Character ½ Asterix vs Caesar Gaetan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi 1985 Animation/Comic-Book Character The Astounding She-Monster Ronnie Ashcroft 1958 Female Alien Invader The Astral Factor (John Florea, 1984). Refer to Invisible Strangler. The Astronaut’s Wife Rand Ravich 1999 Alien Possession Asunder Tim Reid 1998 Psycho Stalker Asylum Roy Ward Baker 1972 Horror Anthology At the Earth’s Core Kevin Connor 1976 Lost World at the Centre of the Earth Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner Zacharias Kunuk 2001 Inuit Legend and Culture L’Atlantide Bob Swaim 1993 Lost City Atlantis, the Lost Continent George Pal 1961 Adventures in Atlantis Atlantis: The Lost Empire Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise 2001 Disney Animation/The Quest for Atlantis The Atomic Kid Leslie H. Martinson 1954 Radioactive Man Comedy ½ The Atomic Submarine Spencer G. Bennet 1959 Submarine Encounters Flying Saucer Attack of the 50 Foot Woman Nathan Hertz 1958 Giantess/Classic Bad Movie Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman Christopher Guest 1993 Giantess ½ Attack of the Giant Horny Gorilla (Paul Leder, 1976). Refer to A.P.E.. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes John De Bello 1978 Genre Spoof Attack of the Monsters Noriaki Yuasa 1969 Japanese Monster Movie Attack of the the Eye Creatures (Larry Buchanan, 1965). Refer to The Eye Creatures. Audition Takashi Miike 1999 Twisted Love Story/Sadism and Torture Audrey Rose Robert Wise 1977 Reincarnation/Courtroom Drama August in the Water Ishii Sogo 1995 Japanese Mystical End of the World ½ The Aurora Encounter Jim McCullough Sr 1985 UFO Encounter in the Old West Austin Powers in Goldmember Jay Roach 2002 Spy Spoof Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery Jay Roach 1997 Spy Spoof ½ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me Jay Roach 1999 Spy Spoof Automatic John Murlowski 1994 Action/Android Hero Avalon Mamoru Oshii 2001 Virtual Reality The Avengers Jeremiah Chechik 1998 Chic Spies/TV Series Remake Avenging Force Sam Firstenberg 1986 Action/Human Hunting for Sport AVP: Alien vs. Predator Paul W.S. Anderson 2004 Alien/Predator Series’ Crossover ½ AVPR: Aliens vs Predator Requiem The Brothers Strause 2007 Alien/Predator Series’ Crossover The Awakening Mike Newell 1980 Revived Mummy Queen The Awful Dr Orloff Jesus Franco 1962 Killer Surgeon The Ax Costa-Gavras 2005 Unemployed Man Eliminates Rival Job Applicants ½ Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life Michael Paxton 1997 SF Writer Documentary B Babe Chris Noonan 1995 Talking Animals Babe: Pig in the City George Miller 1998 Talking Animals Babel Gerard Pullicino 1999 Children’s Film/Millennial Apocalypse Babes in Toyland Jack Donohue 1961 Fairytale Adventures The Baby Ted Post 1972 Demented Lunacy/Man with a Child’s Mind Baby Geniuses Bob Clark 1999 Intelligent Baby Conspiracy The Baby of Macon Peter Greenaway 1993 Miraculous Child/Meta-Fiction Baby – Secret of the Lost Legend B.W.L. Norton  1985 Dinosaur Discovered Back to the Future Robert Zemeckis 1985 Time Travel Back to the Future Part II Robert Zemeckis 1989 Time Travel Back to the Future Part III Robert Zemeckis 1990 Time Travel ½ Bad Blood Mike Newell 1982 True-Life New Zealand Mass Murderer ½ Bad Blood (Leos Carax, 1986). Refer to Mauvais Sang. Bad Channels Ted Nicolaou 1992 Aliens Invade Radio Station Bad Day on the Block (Craig R. Baxley, 1997). Refer to Under Pressure. Bad Dreams Andrew Fleming 1988 Dream Killer Bad Guy Kim Ki-Duk 2001 Sexual Humiliation and Degradation ½ Bad Influence Curtis Hanson 1989 Deadly Friend Psycho-Thriller Bad Moon Eric Red 1996 Werewolf The Bad Seed Mervyn Le Roy 1956 Psychopathic Young Girl ½ Bad Taste Peter Jackson 1988 Splatter Comedy/Alien Invasion Badlands Terrence Malick 1973 True Life Killers on the Run Baise-Moi Virginie Despentes, Coralie Trinh Thi 2000 Two Girls on a Killing Spree The Ballad of Virgil Cane (Earl E. Smith, 1977). Refer to Shadow of Chikara. Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever Kaos 2002 Action/Rival Assassins Showdown Bambi David C. Hand 1942 Disney Animation/Talking Animals Bambi II Brian Pimental 2006 Disney Animation/Talking Animals ½ The Bank Robert Connolly 2001 Stockmarket Prediction Formula The Banker William Webb 1989 Psycho Financier Barb Wire David Hogan 1996 Anarchic Future/Leather-Clad Bimbo Barbarella Roger Vadim 1968 Softcore Space Opera Barbie as The Island Princess Greg Richardson 2007 Animation/Barbie Fairytale Barbie Fairytopia Walter P. Martishius 2004 Animation/Land of Fairies ½ Barbie Fairytopia: Magic of the Rainbow William Lau 2007 Animation/Land of Fairies Barbie of Swan Lake Owen Hurley 2003 Animation/Barbie Enacts Fairytale ½ The Bare Wench Project Jim Wynorski 1999 Softcore Blair Witch Spoof The Barefoot Executive Robert Butler 1971 Precognitive Chimpanzee/Disney Comedy Barnyard Steve Oedekerk 2006 Animation/Talking Animals Baron Blood Mario Bava 1972 Italian Gothic/Sadistic Nobleman Resurrected Bartok the Magnificent Don Bluth, Gary Goldman 1999 Talking Bat’s Adventures/Animation Barton Fink Joel Coen 1991 Writer’s Block/Paranoia Black Comedy Basic Instinct Paul Verhoeven 1992 Psycho-Sexual Thriller Basic Instinct 2 Michael Caton-Jones 2006 Psycho-Sexual Thriller ½ Basket Case Frank Henenlotter 1982 Psychotic Siamese Twin ½ Basket Case 2 Frank Henenlotter 1990 Psychotic Siamese Twin/Gonzo Deformities ½ Basket Case 3 Frank Henenlotter 1991 Psychotic Siamese Twin/Gonzo Deformities The Bat People Jerry Jameson 1973 Bat-Human Hybrid The Bat Whispers Roland West 1930 Old Dark House Comedy-Thriller Batman Lambert Hillyer 1943 Comic-Book Superhero/Serial Batman Leslie H. Martinson 1966 Campy Comic-Book Superhero Batman Tim Burton 1989 Comic-Book Superhero Batman and Mr Freeze: SubZero Boyd Kirkland 1997 Comic-Book Superhero/Animation Batman & Robin Joel Schumacher 1997 Comic-Book Superhero Batman Begins Christopher Nolan 2005 Comic-Book Superhero Batman Forever Joel Schumacher 1995 Comic-Book Superhero Batman: Gotham Knight Various 2008 Compilation of Batman Anime Shorts Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Eric Radomski, Bruce W. Timm 1993 Comic-Book Superhero/Animation Batman Returns Tim Burton 1992 Comic-Book Superhero The Batman Superman Movie: World’s Finest Toshihiko Masuda 1998 Comic-Book Superhero Teamup/Animation Bats Louis Morneau 1999 Killer Bats Batteries Not Included Matthew Robins 1987 Cute Baby UFOs Battle Beneath the Earth Montgomery Tully 1967 Underground Communist Invasion Battle Beyond the Stars Jimmy T. Murakami 1980 Space Opera Battle Beyond the Sun Francis Ford Coppola 1963 Space Expedition/Russian SF Film ½ Battle for the Planet of the Apes J. Lee Thompson 1973 Planet of the Apes Sequel Battle in Outer Space Inoshiro Honda 1961 Alien Invasion/Japanese Space Opera Battle of the Worlds Antonio Margheriti 1961 Mysterious Planet/Italian Space Opera Battle Royale Kinji Fukasaku 2000 Deadly Elimination Game Battle Royale II: Requiem Kenta & Kinji Fukasaku 2003 Deadly Elimination Game Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 Roger Christian 2000 Earth Under Alien Rule Battlestar Galactica Richard A. Colla 1978 Space Opera Battlestar Galactica Michael Rymer 2003 Space Opera Battletruck Harley Cokliss 1982 Post-Holocaust ½ The Beach Girls and the Monster (Jon Hall, 1965). Refer to Monster from the Surf. Beanstalk Michael Paul Davis 1994 Modernized Fairy-Tale The Beast Walerian Borowczyk 1975 Erotic Fairy-Tale The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms Eugene Lourie 1953 Atomically-Revived Dinosaur ½ The Beast in the Cellar James Kelly 1971 Deformed Family Secrets The Beast Must Die Paul Annett 1974 Werewolf Whodunnit ½ The Beast With Five Fingers Robert Florey 1947 Disembodied Hand The Beast Within Philippe Mora 1982 Teen Transforms into a Monster The Beastmaster Don Coscarelli 1982 Sword and Sorcery Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time Sylvio Tabet 1991 The Beastmaster Comes to L.A. Beauties of the Night Rene Clair 1952 Daydreamer’s Fantasies Beauty Ben Bolt 2004 Modernized Beauty and the Beast Beauty and the Beast Jean Cocteau 1946 Fairy-Tale Beauty and the Beast Edward L. Cahn 1961 Fairy-Tale Beauty and the Beast Eugene Marner 1986 Fairy-Tale Beauty and the Beast Kirk Trousdale, Gary Wise 1991 Disney Animation/Fairy-Tale The Bed Sitting Room Richard Lester 1969 Post-Holocaust Absurdist Comedy ½ Bedazzled Stanley Donen 1967 Pact with the Devil/Black Comedy Bedazzled Harold Ramis 2000 Pact with the Devil Comedy Bedknobs and Broomsticks Robert Stevenson 1971 Adventures with Good Witch/Disney Film Bedlam Mark Robson 1946 18th Century Asylum Horrors Bee Movie Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith 2007 Animation/Talking Bees ½ The Bees Alfredo Zacharias 1979 Killer Bee Attack Beetlejuice Tim Burton 1988 Gonzo Afterlife Comedy ½ The Beguiled Donald Siegel 1971 Southern Gothic Behemoth, the Sea Monster (Eugene Lourie, 1958). Refer to The Giant Behemoth. Being John Malkovich Spike Jonze 1999 Portal Into Actor’s Head/Absurdism Being There Hal Ashby 1979 Complete Innocent/Satiric Fable Believe Robert Tinnell 2000 Children’s Ghost Story The Believers John Schlesinger 1987 Santeria Cult Believers Daniel Myrick 2007 UFO Cult Bell Book and Candle Richard Quine 1958 Witch in Love Bells Michael Anderson 1981 Explosive Telephone Calls Beloved Jonathan Demme 1998 African-American Ghost Story Below David Twohy 2002 Haunted Submarine Ben Phil Karlson 1972 Willard Sequel/Rats Amok ½ Beneath the Planet of the Apes Ted Post 1970 Planet of the Apes Sequel/Telepathic Mutants ½ Beowulf Graham Baker 1999 Epic Legend Beowulf Robert Zemeckis 2007 Epic Legend/Animation ½  Beowulf & Grendel Sturla Gunnarsson 2005 Epic Legend Between Worlds (Fritz Lang, 1921). Refer to Destiny. Beware My Brethren (Robert Hartford-Davies, 1971). Refer to The Fiend. Beware, My Lovely Harry Horner 1952 Mentally Disturbed Handyman Psycho-Thriller Beware! The Blob Larry Hagman 1972 The Blob Comedy Sequel Bewitched Nora Ephron 2005 Witch in Love/TV Series Remake Beyond Bedlam Vadim Jean 1994 Dream-Invading Serial Killer Beyond Forgiveness Bob Misiorowski 1994 Action/Organ Legging Beyond Redemption (Chris Angel, 1999). Refer to A Twist of Faith. Beyond the Time Barrier Edgar G. Ulmer 1960 Time Travel to Post-Holocaust Future Beyond the Wall (Fritz Lang, 1921). Refer to Destiny. Bhoot Ramgopal Varma 2003 Bollywood Ghost Story Bicentennial Man Chris Columbus 1999 Robot Becomes Self-Aware Big Penny Marshall 1988 Boy Wakes Up in a Man’s Body Big and Hairy Philip Spink 1998 Bigfoot Joins the School Basketball Team The Big Bus James Frawley 1976 Disaster Movie Parody Big Fish Tim Burton 2003 Tall Tales Big Man on Campus Jeremy Kagan 1986 Modernized Hunchback of Notre Dame Comedy Big Meat Eater Chris Windsor 1982 Bad SF Movie Parody ½ Big Monster on Campus (Mitch Marcus, 1999). Refer to Bolt Neck. Big Top Pee-Wee Randal Kleiser 1988 Overgrown Adolescent’s Absurdist Adventures Big Trouble Barry Sonnenfeld 2002 Nuclear Weapon Comedy Big Trouble in Little China John Carpenter 1986 Martial Arts Fantasy Bigfoot and the Hendersons (William Dear, 1987). Refer to Harry and the Hendersons. Biggles John Hough 1986 Time Travelling WWI Flying Ace Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey Peter Hewitt 1991 Slackers in the Afterlife Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure Stephen Herek 1989 Time-Travelling Slackers ½ Billion Dollar Brain Ken Russell 1967 Spy Film Billion Dollar Threat Barry Shear 1979 Spy Film ½ Billy the Kid Versus Dracula William Beaudine 1965 Dracula Out West Billy’s Holiday Richard Wherrett 1995 Man Possessed by Billie Holliday’s Spirit Bio-Cops Steven Chengmai Wan 2000 Hong Kong Zombie Comedy Bio-Dome Jason Bloom 1996 Enclosed Biosphere Comedy The Bird People in China Takashii Miike 1998 Lost Culture The Birds Alfred Hitchcock 1963 Birds Attack Humanity ½ Birds Do It Andrew Marton 1966 Weightless Man Comedy Birth Jonathan Glazer 2004 Boy Claims to be Reincarnated Husband ½ The Bishop’s Wife Henry Koster 1947 Angelic Intervention The Black Cat Edgar G. Ulmer 1934 Revenge and Satanism ½ The Black Cat Lucio Fulci 1981 Black Cat Murders The Black Cat Luigi Cozzi 1990 Witch’s Ghost ½ The Black Cauldron Ted Berman, Richard Rich 1985 Disney Animation/Sword and Sorcery Black Christmas Bob Clark 1974 Girl’s Dormitory Slasher Black Circle Boys Matthew Carnahan 1997 Teenage Satanists/True Story Black Friday Arthur Lubin 1940 Gangster’s Transplanted Brain The Black Hole Gary Nelson 1979 Lost Spaceship/Mad Scientist/Journey into a Black Hole The Black Hole Tibor Takacs 2006 Black Hole & Electrical Monster Amok Black Knight Gil Junger 2001 Modern Man in Mediaeval Times Comedy Black Magic Woman Deryn Warren 1991 Voodoo Curse Black Mask Daniel Lee 1996 Masked Superhero/Hong Kong Action ½ Black Mask 2: City of Masks Tsui Hark 2002 Masked Superhero/Hong Kong Action Black Moon Rising Harley Cokliss 1985 Techno-Thriller/Hi-Tech Car Theft ½ Black Orpheus Marcel Camus 1959 Modernized Greek Myth Black Rainbow Mike Hodges 1989 Fake Medium’s Abilities Become Real Black Sabbath Mario Bava 1963 Italian Gothic/Horror Anthology The Black Scorpion Edward Ludwig 1957 Giant Scorpions Black Scorpion Jonathan Winfrey 1995 Masked Superheroine Black Scorpion: Ground Zero Jonathan Winfrey 1996 Masked Superheroine Black Sheep Jonathan King 2006 Killer Mutant Sheep ½ Black Sunday Mario Bava 1960 Italian Gothic/Revived Witch’s Revenge Black Thunder Rick Jacobson 1995 Hi-Tech Fighter Plane Theft/Action The Black Widow Spencer G. Bennett, Fred C. Brannon 1947 Serial/Deadly Female Spy ½ Black Widow Bob Rafelson 1986 Femme Fatale Psycho-Thriller ½ Blackbeard’s Ghost Robert Stevenson 1968 Pirate’s Ghost/Disney Comedy Blackeyes Dennis Potter 1989 Character in a Book Comes to Life Blacula William Crain 1972 Blaxploitation Vampire Blade Stephen Norrington 1998 Vampire Hunter Blade II Guillermo Del Toro 2002 Vampire Hunter Blade Runner Ridley Scott 1982 Cyberpunk/Hunt for Escaped Androids Blade Trinity David S. Goyer 2004 Vampire Hunter ½ Blades Thomas R. Rondinella 1989 Killer Lawnmower/Genre Spoof The Blair Witch Project Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez 1999 Backwoods Haunting/Pseudo-Documentary ½ Blankman Mike Binder 1994 Inept Superhero Comedy Blast from the Past Hugh Wilson 1999 Out of the Fallout Shelter Comedy Blast-Off (Don Sharp, 1967). Refer to Jules Verne’s Rocket to the Moon. Bleeders (Peter Svatek, 1996). Refer to Hemoglobin. Bless the Child Chuck Russell 2000 Satanists Pursue Divine Child The Blind Dead (Amando De Ossorio, 1971). Refer to Tombs of the Blind Dead. Blind Obsession Rob Malenfant 2000 Blindness Psycho-Thriller Blind Terror (Richard Fleishcer, 1971). Refer to See No Evil. Blindfold: Acts of Obsession Lawrence Simeone 1993 Psycho-Sexual Thriller/BDSM Blink of an Eye (Bob Misiorowski, 1994). Refer to First Light. Blithe Spirit David Lean 1945 Ghost Comedy The Blob Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr 1958 Alien Monster ½ The Blob Chuck Russell 1988 Monster Movie Blood Charly Cantor 2000 Narcotically Addictive Blood Blood & Donuts Holly Dale 1995 Modern Vampire Blood and Roses Roger Vadim 1960 Lesbian Vampire ½ Blood Beach Jeffrey Bloom 1980 Monster Movie Spoof The Blood Beast Terror Vernon Sewell 1967 Giant Vampire Moth Girl ½ Blood Camp Thatcher (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1983). Refer to Turkey Shoot. The Blood Castle (Vicente Aranda, 1972). Refer to The Blood Spattered Bride. Blood Diner Jackie Kong 1987 Splatter Comedy ½ Blood Dolls Charles Band 1999 Demented Puppetmaster Blood Feast Herschell Gordon Lewis 1963 Splatter Film ½ Blood for Dracula (Paul Morrissey, 1973). Refer to Andy Warhol’s Dracula. Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb Seth Holt 1971 Revived Mummy Queen/Hammer Film ½ The Blood of a Poet Jean Cocteau 1930 Surrealism ½ Blood of Dracula Herbert L. Strock 1957 Teenage Vampire Blood of Frankenstein (Al Adamson, 1971). Refer to Dracula vs Frankenstein. Blood of Ghastly Horror Al Adamson 1972 Monster Amok The Blood of Heroes (David O. Peoples, 1990). Refer to The Salute of the Jugger. Blood of the Innocent (Bob Misiorowski, 1994). Refer to Beyond Forgiveness. Blood of the Werewolf Various 2001 Werewolf Anthology Blood on Satan’s Claw Piers Haggard 1970 17th Century Devil Worship Blood Orgy (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1972). Refer to The Gore Gore Girls. Blood Orgy of the She-Devils Ted V. Mikels 1972 Occultism and Witchcraft Blood Run Boaz Davidson 1994 Psycho-Sexual Thriller ½ The Blood Seekers (Al Adamson, 1971). Refer to Dracula vs Frankenstein. The Blood Spattered Bride Vicente Aranda 1972 Lesbian Vampires ½ Blood Sucking Freaks Joel M. Reed 1976 Sadism and Torture Blood: The Last Vampire Hiroyuki Kitakubo 2000 Anime/Vampire Battles Demons Blood Work Clint Eastwood 2002 Serial Killer Thriller Bloodbath at the House of Death Ray Cameron 1984 Horror Spoof Bloodmoon Alec Mills 1989 Girl’s School Slasher ½ BloodRayne Uwe Boll 2005 Videogame Adaptation/Vampire War Bloodstone: Subspecies II Ted Nicolaou 1993 Vampires Bloodsuckers (Robert Hartford-Davies, 1969). Refer to Incense for the Damned. The Bloodsucking Doll (Michio Yamamoto, 1970). Refer to Legacy of Dracula: The Bloodthirsty Doll. The Bloodthirsty Eyes (Michio Yamamoto, 1971). Refer to Lake of Dracula. Bloody Bird (Michele Soavi, 1987). Refer to StageFright – Aquarius. The Bloody Fiancee (Vicente Aranda, 1972). Refer to The Blood Spattered Bride. Blow Out Brian De Palma 1981 Psycho-Thriller ½ The Blue Bird Walter Lang 1940 Fairy-Tale The Blue Man George Mihalka 1985 Astral Killer Blue Remains Hisaya Takabayashi, Toshifumi Takizawa 2000 Anime/Underwater Post-Holocaust Environmentalism Blue Steel Kathryn Bigelow 1990 Psycho Stalks Rookie Cop Blue Sunshine Jeff Lieberman 1977 LSD Flashbacks Create Psychos Blue Thunder John Badham 1983 Hi-Tech Helicopter Theft/Action Blue Velvet David Lynch 1986 Sadomasochism Blues Brothers 2000 John Landis 1998 Surreal Road Movie Bos vs Python David Flores 2004 Giant Snakes Amok Boarding House Johnn Wintergate 1982 Psychic Killings The Body Jonas McCord 2001 Archaeological Discovery of Christ’s Body ½ Body Double Brian De Palma 1984 Psycho-Sexual Thriller Body Melt Philip Brophy 1993 Gooey Meltdowns Body Parts Eric Red 1991 Possessed Transplant Limb The Body Snatcher Robert Wise 1945 Grave Robbers Body Snatchers Abel Ferrara 1993 Invasion of the Body Snatchers Remake Bogus Norman Jewison 1996 Child’s Invisible Companion The Bogus Witch Project Victor Kargan 2000 Anthology of Blair Witch Spoofs Bolt Neck Mitch Marcus 1999 High School Frankenstein The Bone Collector Phillip Noyce 1999 Serial Killer Thriller Bone Daddy Mario Azzopardi 1998 Serial Killer Thriller Bones Ernest Dickerson 2001 Ghetto Gangster’s Supernatural Retribution ½  Boogeyman Stephen Kay 2005 Childhood Monster The Book of Life Hal Hartley 1998 Second Coming Black Comedy ½ Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 Joe Berlinger 2000 Blair Witch Sequel ½ Born of Fire Jamil Dehlavi 1986 Islamic Mystical Apocalypse The Borrower John McNaughton 1991 Head-Snatching Alien ½ The Borrowers Peter Hewitt 1997 Miniature People Adventures The Boston Strangler Richard Fleischer 1968 True-Life Serial Killer The Bothersome Man Jens Lien 2006 Afterlife Black Comedy Boxing Helena Jennifer Chambers Lynch 1993 Sexual Obsession and Amputation A Boy and His Dog L.Q. Jones 1975 Post-Holocaust The Boy Who Could Fly Nick Castle 1986 Autistic Boy’s Fantasies of Flying ½ The Boy Who Cried Werewolf Nathan Juran 1973 Werewolf ½ The Boy with Green Hair Joseph Losey 1948 Green-Haired Boy/Anti-War Parable The Boys from Brazil Franklin J. Schaffner 1978 Nazi Cloning Experiments The Brain (Freddie Francis, 1962). Refer to The Brain. Brain Dead Adam Simon 1989 Paranoia and Hallucinations/Reality Bender ½ Brain Damage Frank Henenlotter 1987 Addictive Brain Parasite The Brain Eaters Bruno VeSota 1958 Alien Body Snatchers The Brain from Planet Arous Nathan Hertz 1958 Possession by Evil Alien Brain The Brain That Wouldn’t Die Joseph Green 1963 Decapitated Head/Mad Scientist Braindead Peter Jackson 1992 Zombies/Splatter Comedy Brainscan John Flynn 1994 Deadly Virtual Reality Game Brainstorm Douglas Trumbull 1983 Virtual Memory Recording Device BrainWaves Ulli Lommel 1982 Experimental Neurosurgery/Transplanted Memories ½ Bram Stoker’s Dracula Francis Ford Coppola 1992 Dracula Adaptation Bram Stoker’s Legend of the Mummy Jeffrey Obrow 1997 Revived Mummy Bram Stoker’s Legend of the Mummy 2 (David DeCoteau, 2000). Refer to Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy. Bram Stoker’s Shadowbuilder Jamie Dixon 1997 Shadow Demon Brand Upon the Brain! Guy Maddin 2006 Surreal Silent Movie Melodrama ½ The Brave Little Toaster Jerry Rees 1987 Animation/Talking Appliances The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars Robert C. Ramirez 1997 Animation/Talking Appliances The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue Robert C. Ramirez 1997 Animation/Talking Appliances ½ The Brave One Neil Jordan 2007 Female Vigilante Brazil Terry Gilliam 1985 Dystopian Black Comedy Breakfast at the Manchester Morgue (Jorge Grau, 1974). Refer to The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue. Breakfast of Champions Alan Rudolph 1999 Kurt Vonnegut Adaptation Breaking the Sound Barrier (David Lean, 1952). Refer to The Sound Barrier. Breaking the Waves Lars von Trier 1996 Religion and Miracles The Breakthrough Piers Haggard 1993 Exploring the Afterlife The Breed Michael Oblowitz 2001 Detective and Vampire Partner Breeders Tim Kincaid 1986 Aliens Seek Virgins Brenda Starr Robert Ellis Miller 1991 Girl Reporter Comic-Strip Adaptation Brewster McCloud Robert Altman 1971 Gonzo Comedy/Man Builds Wings/Angelic Intervention The Bride Franc Roddam 1985 Frankenstein Film Bride of Chucky Ronnie Yu 1998 Child’s Play Sequel Bride of Frankenstein James Whale 1935 Universal Frankenstein Sequel Bride of Re-Animator Brian Yuzna 1990 Re-Animator Sequel ½ Bride of the Monster Edward D. Wood Jr 1955 Mad Scientist/Classic Bad Movie The Bride with White Hair 2 David Wu 1993 Hong Kong Swordsmen Fantasy The Brides in the Bath Harry Bradbeer 2003 True Life Multiple Wife Murderer The Brides of Dracula Terence Fisher 1960 Hammer Dracula Sequel The Brides of Fu Manchu Don Sharp 1966 Asian Super-Villain Bridge of Dragons Isaac Florentine 1999 Action Film/Atemporal Kingdom Setting Bridge to Nowhere Ian Mune 1986 Backwoods Brutality Bridge to Terabithia Gabor Csupo 2007 Magic World of Childhood Imagination Brigadoon Vincent Minelli 1954 Musical/Timeslipped Village ½ Bringing Out the Dead Martin Scorsese 1999 Urban Hell/Haunted Ambulance Driver Britannia Hospital Lindsay Anderson 1982 Social Satire Broken Simon Boyes, Adam Mason 2006 Abduction and Torture Broken Arrow John Woo 1995 Action/Nuclear Hijacking Bronx Warriors II Enzo G. Castellari 1983 Future Gang Warfare The Brood David Cronenberg 1979 Mutant Children/Radical Psychotherapy ½ Brother Bear Aaron Blaise, Rob Walker 2003 Disney Animation/Man Transformed into a Bear The Brother from Another Planet John Sayles 1984 Black Alien Visitor Comedy ½ Brotherhood of Satan Bernard McEveety 1970 Town of Satanists Brotherhood of the Wolf Christophe Gans 2001 18th Century Beast Hunt The Brothers Grimm Terry Gilliam 2005 Fairy-Tale Authors’ Adventures The Brown Bunny Vincent Gallo 2003 Mumblecore Deathdream Bruce Almighty Tom Shadyac 2003 Man Gains Godlike Powers Comedy Bruiser George A. Romero 2000 Man’s Face Becomes a Blank Mask ½ Bubba Ho-Tep Don Coscarelli 2002 Elvis vs the Mummy in a Retirement Home Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Daniel Haller 1979 Space Opera A Bucket of Blood Roger Corman 1959 Murderous Beatnik Artist/Black Comedy Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fran Rubel Kuzui 1992 Cheerleader Vampire Hunter Bug! Jeannot Szwarc 1975 Intelligent Firestarting Insects A Bug’s Life John Lasseter  1998 Pixar Animation/Talking Insects The Bulldog Breed Robert Asher 1960 Idiot in the Navy/Rocket Launch ½ Bullet Ballet Shinya Tsukamoto 1998 Man’s Obsession with a Gun Bulletproof Monk Paul Hunter 2003 Martial Arts Fantasy Bullshot Dick Clement 1983 British Boy’s Hero Spoof The Bunker Rob Green 2001 WWII German Soldiers vs Supernatural ½ Bunny Lake is Missing Otto Preminger 1965 Missing Child Psycho-Thriller The ’Burbs Joe Dante 1989 Suburban Paranoia Black Comedy Burn, Witch, Burn (Sidney Hayers, 1961). Refer to Night of the Eagle. Burndown James Allen 1989 Radioactive Killer/Nuclear Accident Burned at the Stake (Bert I. Gordon, 1981). Refer to The Coming. The Burning Tony Maylam 1981 Slasher Burnt Offerings Dan Curtis 1976 Parasitic House Bus Takashi Komatsu 1987 Dystopia ½ Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker William Asher 1981 Psycho Stepmother The Butcher Boy Neil Jordan 1997 Disturbed Irish Childhood ½ The Butcher’s Wife Terry Hughes 1991 Magical Realist Romance ½ Butterfly & Sword Chu Yin Ping 1993 Hong Kong Flying Swordsmen Fantasy Butterfly: A Grimm Love Story (Martin Weisz, 2006). Refer to Rohtenburg. The Butterfly Effect Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber 2004 Alternate Timelines ½ The Butterfly Effect 2 John R. Leonetti 2006 Alternate Timelines Butterfly Kiss Michael Winterbottom 1994 Girl Lovers/Killers Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins Tad Stones 2000 Space Hero/Animation Back to Main