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A fresh-faced Cranston plays a scientist in a white lab coat, while Marc Singer ( The Beastmaster, V) plays the buff hero. In fact, Dead Space is pretty much a remake of Forbidden World, with yet another monster terrorising the crew of a space craft. The flailing attempts at humour, meanwhile, are something of an acquired taste.Īvailable on: Amazon US (for rent) Dead Space (1991)īryan Cranston! Here’s a crap-tacular space-horror from producer Roger Corman, made in the style of his ’80s Alienrip-offs like Galaxy Of Terrorand Forbidden World. The special effects and designs, which pay loving homage to 50s B-movies, are the main reason to watch Spaced Invaders.

Spaced Invaders (1990)Īn ill-advised sci-fi comedy in which aliens land on Earth at Halloween and are mistaken for trick-or-treaters by the inhabitants of a small town. Is it worth seeing? For a night in, it’s absolutely worth a watch. Actually shot in 1987 but shelved for three years (hence its inclusion here), Robot Jox was a flop on release, but has garnered a cult following since. The script and acting’s the wrong side of campy (a tone Gordon reportedly insisted on), but the Japanese-inspired robots look great and the stop-motion animation is quite adorable. Eventually, he’s coaxed out of retirement for one more fight with his arch-nemesis, Alexander (Joe Koslo). Achilles (Gary Graham) is the west’s finest robot operator – that is, until he has a Tom Cruise-like crisis of confidence when hundreds of spectators are killed during a particularly ferocious battle. In a post-apocalyptic future, wars between nations are settled not by armies and missiles, but by pitting giant robots against each other in gladiatorial matches.

Is it worth seeing? As a glimpse of Emmerich: the early years, just about.Ĭourtesy of Re-Animatordirector Stuart Gordon, here’s America’s proto Pacific Rim.

Some quaint special effects and set design are the few memorable things in this oddly tepid debut from a director now known the world over for his flamboyant destruction of civic buildings. About a group of helicopter pilots hired to protect a space mining colony (yes, really), it nominally stars Malcolm McDowell as the villain, but he’s only really in about five scenes. Moon 44 (1990)īefore he became famous as Hollywood’s new Master of Disaster (taking over from Irwin Allen), Independence Day and 2012director Roland Emmerich made this mid-to-low budget sci-fi oddity. Is it worth seeing? Oh yes – and so too is Stanley’s second film, Dust Devil. Its story, about a military robot putting itself back together and menacing a post-apocalyptic ghetto, is a familiar one, but Stanley gives it real verve – Hardwarehas a stylish, artistic edge that most low-budget genre films of the period sorely lacked. Go back to his debut, Hardware, and you can why see he was such a promising filmmaker. But as the 2014 documentary Lost Soulreveals, his career was unfairly cut short by the infamously nightmarish production of The Island Of Doctor Moreau. It’s sad to think that, at the dawn of the 1990s, Richard Stanley was being hailed as one of Britain’s finest young directors. Is it worth seeing? There are worse ways to spend an evening, put it that way. Look out for Jim Belushi in a small role as a school principal. Jesse “The Body” Ventura stars as intergalactic cop Abraxas, who ends up fighting his rogue ex-partner Secundus (an equally beefy Sven-Ole Thorsen), who’s gone rogue, fathered a child (by touching a woman’s belly and immediately making her pregnant) and hopes to use the offspring as a means of gaining unlimited powers. This, surely, is the best title of any 90s sci-fi film. So here’s a mix of everything from hidden classics to forgettable dreck, with a few films falling somewhere in between… Abraxas: Guardian Of The Universe (1990) We’ve picked 50 live-action films that fit these criteria, and dug them up to see whether they’re still worth watching in the 21st century. Think back to the science fiction cinema of the 1990s, and some of the decade’s biggest box-office hits will immediately spring to mind: The Phantom Menace, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Men In Black, Armageddon, and Terminator 2were all in the top 20 most lucrative films of the era.īut what about the sci-fi films of the 1990s that failed to make even close to the same cultural and financial impact of those big hitters? These are the films this list is devoted to – the flops, the straight-to-video releases, the low-budget and critically-derided.