Dick Miller
Richard Miller (December 25, 1928 – January 30, 2019) was an American character actor who appeared in more than 180 films, including many produced by Roger Corman. He later appeared in the films of directors who began their careers with Corman, including Joe Dante, James... Read full bio →
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The Adventures of Biffle and Shooster
Feature compilation of four Biffle and Shooster comedy shorts--"The Biffle Murder Case," "Imitation of Wife," "Schmo Boat" and "Bride of Finklestein"--plus five additional songs and sketches.
That Guy Dick Miller
That Guy Dick Miller is the incredible true story of the wannabe-writer, turned accidental character-actor.
Burying the Ex
Before horror enthusiast Max can break things off with his girlfriend Evelyn she dies in a bus accident. In time, Max meets another woman only to have Evelyn resurface as a zombie ready to resume their relationship.
Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel
Chronicles the six-decade (so far) career of the U.S. film industry's most diverse, dogged and resourceful low-budget producer-director-entrepeneur, painting the soft-spoken Roger Corman as an indie cinema trailbrazer as well as an extraordinary conduit for new talent.
Machete Maidens Unleashed!
A fast moving odyssey into the subterranean world of the rarely explored province of Filipino genre filmmaking.
The Hole
A pair of brothers stumble upon a mysterious hole in their basement that leads to the darkest corridors of their fears and nightmares.
Trail of the Screaming Forehead
A small town infestation of crawling alien foreheads that begin attaching to people and taking them over collides with a scientist's experiments to extract foreheadazine and things go horribly horribly wrong.
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck team up with an aspiring stuntman and a studio executive in order to rescue the stuntman's missing father and locate a mythical diamond before the head of a major conglomerate uses it for his own wicked deeds.
Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies
A look at several legendary 'exploitation' film-makers from the golden days of drive-in movies, and how they had a lasting effect on the movie landscape in general.
Route 666
A federal witness runs away and a team of government agents track him down, but when they take a shortcut on the return trip, they're attacked by zombies.
Small Soldiers
When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.
The Second Civil War
When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho defies the president and closes the state's border.
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
High-level demons collect low-level demons as warriors in attempt to obtain a key containing the blood of Christ. The key is guarded by immortal warriors called Demon Knights.
Shake, Rattle and Rock!
As the rock 'n' roll craze sweeps across America, a rebellious young woman sets out to prove the new fad is here to stay. She and her friend start their own band and open a hoppin' nightclub where the local teens can hang out.
Runaway Daughters
Angie, Mary and Laura are tired of the same old 50s suburbia routine. The 3 guy-crazy girlfriends take to the road in a stolen car, trying to track down one of their ex-lovers before he leaves for the Navy, ending up in a heap of trouble.
Midnight Runaround
Bounty hunter Jack Walsh heads for a small rural community in Oklahoma to bring back a young bail jumper, only to discover that the entire town has united to defend the young man.
Matinee
A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalises on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Batman is wrongly implicated in a series of murders of mob bosses actually committed by a new vigilante assassin.
Evil Toons
Four sexy young girls are to clean an old house for the new owners. They get delivered an old book full of magic incantations, and while reading it they accidentally bring a cartoon character to life. The cartoon character likes the blood of young girls...
Amityville 1992: It's About Time
A hot-shot architect returns home from his latest business trip with a surprise: an ornate old clock rescued out of a soon-to-be-demolished mansion in Amityville, New York, that brings about a seemingly unstoppable demonic force.
Motorama
A ten year-old boy runs away from his abusive parents, steals a Mustang, and pursues a promotional card game sold at gas stations.
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Gremlins 2 is the sequel to the extremely successful horror comedy from 1984 about small furry monsters who cheerfully cause terror and fear to humans.
Under the Boardwalk
It is the final weekend of summer and a group of Californian teenagers are looking forward to an upcoming surf contest.
The 'Burbs
An overstressed suburbanite and his paramilitaric neighbor struggle to prove their paranoid theory that the new family in town is a front for a cannibalistic cult.
Ghost Writer
A writer moves into a Malibu beach house, and comes up against the ghost of an actress who supposedly had committed suicide there 30 years previously, but had been murdered by her boyfriend. The ghost asks the writer's help in proving her boyfriend the killer.
Far from Home
A teenage girl and her father driving cross-country become stranded when their car runs out of gas in a remote Nevada desert town and they're forced to stay in a dilapidated trailer park where a serial killer lurks.
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
When her great aunt dies famed horror hostess Elvira heads for the uptight new England town to Falwell to claim her inheritance of a haunted house a witches cookbook and a punk rock poodle. But once the stuffy locals get an eyeful of the scream queens ample assets all hell busts out & breaks loose.
Angel III: The Final Chapter
Molly Stewart is now a successful freelance photographer in New York, and after seeing a familiar woman at an art gallery, begins to suspect that she might be her long missing mother. Following her trail to Los Angeles, Molly finds herself in the center of a major crime syndicate who will stop at nothing to execute their diabolical plans.
Project X
A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the mysterious "Project X". Getting to know the chimps fairly well, he begins to suspect there is more to the secret project than he is being told.
Innerspace
A hapless store clerk must foil criminals to save the life of the man who, miniaturized in a secret experiment, was accidentally injected into him.
Amazon Women on the Moon
A series of short sketches, most of which parody late-night television and the low-budget movies one often finds there. Other skits include a man being attacked by his apartment, a funeral hosted by classic comedians and a teen-age boy's big night turning into a nightmare.
Night of the Creeps
In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies.
Chopping Mall
Eight teenagers are trapped after hours in a high tech shopping mall and pursued by three murderous security robots out of control.
Explorers
Middle schooler Ben spends his free time watching sci-fi films, playing video games and reading comic books. Surprisingly, his affinity for all things fantastical yields a real result – when he has a vivid dream about technology, his prodigy best friend Wolfgang manages to create a working spacecraft.
After Hours
A bored, buttoned up button down word processor (Griffin Dunne) sets out on a late-night date. He's about to become the punchline of a giant cosmic joke.
V: The Final Battle
A small group of human resistance fighters fight a desperate guerilla war against the genocidal extra-terrestrials who dominate Earth.
The Terminator
In the year 2029, the rulers of Earth, to ensure their success, decide to reshape the future by changing the past. They send The Terminator back in time to the year 1984 to destroy the mother of a future rebel leader - Sarah Connor, who doesn't realize the awesome role her unborn child will play in the decades to come.
Swing Shift
In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, she takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way. The two soon become firm friends and with the other girls become increasingly expert workers.
Gremlins
Gremlins is a horror comedy film from 1984. A tiny furry animal turns into a monster on Christmas Eve causing a small town fear and chaos. This is the first of two very successful Gremlins films.
Twilight Zone: The Movie
An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"—and one original story, "Time Out."
Space Raiders
A futuristic, sensitive tale of adventure and confrontation when a 10 year old boy is accidentally kidnapped by a spaceship filled with a motley crew of space pirates.
Heart Like a Wheel
Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her family life, she perseveres in her dream.
Get Crazy
Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year's 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe. Wolfe's assistants Neil Allen and Willie Loman find romance while trying to save the drugs, violence, and rock and roll from Beverly's schemes.
All the Right Moves
Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could crush the player's dreams
White Dog
A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that's been raised to kill Black people.
The Aftermath
An astronaut battles mutant cannibals after returning from space to find Earth ravaged by nuclear and biological war.
Movie Madness
A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.
The Howling
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
Heartbeeps
Heartbeeps stars Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters as domestic robots who fall in love and run off together.
Used Cars
When elderly Luke Fuchs (Jack Warden), owner of the struggling New Deal Used Car lot dies of a heart attack, hot-shot salesman (and aspiring senator) Rudy Russo (Kurt Russell), decides to save the property from falling into the hands of Luke's ruthless younger brother and used-car rival Roy L. Fuchs (also Warden).
The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood
Xaviera Hollander has to navigate some sleazy studio politics to see the production of the film version of her memoirs.
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype
An ugly, misshapen podiatrist ingests a formula made by a colleague and turns into a handsome, devil-may-care (but violent) ladies' man.
The Lady in Red
A farm girl's life turns upside down after she moves to Chicago and becomes trapped in a vicious cycle of prostitution and crime.
Rock 'n' Roll High School
A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.
1941
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.
Piranha
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
If they missed Beatles' first appearance in the U.S.A. they would hate themselves for the rest of their lives! So six young girls from New Jersey set off even though they don't have tickets for the show! The journey is full of surprises and misfortunes but the young ladies are determined to reach their idols.
Corvette Summer
Ken loves to design and build exotic cars. When the High School shop class project car, a fully tricked out dream Corvette, is stolen, he begins searching for it. His search leads him to Las Vegas, where Vanessa, a teenaged prostitute wannabe, helps him try to track it down.
New York, New York
Mr. Billion
A fortuneless auto mechanic inherits a billion dollar financial empire when his uncle dies. However, there is one stipulation. In order to claim his fortune he must arrive in San Francisco within twenty days, and along the way there are a number of people who want to "share" his wealth.
Vigilante Force
After oil is found in a small town and the local factory is shut down, violent crime skyrockets. A young man has had enough and calls in his older brother, a cynical Vietnam vet, who cleans the streets but then tries to take over the town.
Hollywood Boulevard
A young woman arrives in Hollywood to try her luck as an actress. An incompetent agent hooks her up with a production company which specializes in low budget B-movie fair, plagued by strange deadly accidents.
Cannonball!
Racing across the country from L.A. to New York, a plethora of exotic cars carries contestants hoping to win a huge sum.
White Line Fever
An independent trucker with a pregnant wife fights cargo crooks and the big shot they work for.
Death Race 2000
In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons.
Darktown Strutters
When a prominent abortion clinic owner goes missing along with a string of other black community leaders, her singing daughter and her fellow female biker gang members investigate.
Crazy Mama
Melba Stokes, her mother Sheba and daughter Cheryl embark on a crime spree after their California beauty parlor is repossessed. Their destination is Arkansas, where the three generations of women want to reclaim the family farm.
Capone
The story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years. Unusually, briefly covering the years after Capone was imprisoned.
Truck Turner
Truck Turner and his partner Jerry, who make their living as bounty hunters in Los Angeles, are hired to hunt down Gator, a pimp who has skipped bail.
Summer School Teachers
A trio of naive, but eager young Midwestern women go to California to teach summer school classes at Regency High School: Perky and willful Conklin T. starts up and coaches an all-female football team, stuffy chemistry teacher Sally Hanson manages to loosen up after she falls hard for a surly juvenile delinquent student, and pert and liberated…
Candy Stripe Nurses
Young, sexy nurses and their hospital adventures: free-loving Sandy tries to cure a rock star of his sexual problems, uptight Dianne has an affair with a druggie star college basketball player all while trying to expose another doctor's malpractice, and juvenile delinquent Marisa has an affair with an accused man, in turn also trying to prove…
Big Bad Mama
Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.
The Young Nurses
Sexy young nurses administer a special kind of therapy on their daily rounds as they battle a drug ring operating outside the hospital.
The Slams
Rival prison factions surround a Los Angeles convict who has $1.5 million stashed on the outside.
Night Call Nurses
The sweet and perky Barbara, the sunny Janis, and the responsible Sandra are a trio of young and attractive nurses who work in the psych ward at a hospital. The threesome really have their hands full dealing with nutty patients, creepy stalkers, and black revolutionaries
The Grissom Gang
Violent crime caper set in 1930s Kansas in which a gang kidnap an heiress and attempt to recover a ransom. However, the scheme is jeopardised when the leader falls in love with their beautiful captive.
The Legend of Lylah Clare
A dictatorial film director (Finch) hires an unknown actress (Novak) to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
Targets
An elderly horror-film star who, while making a personal appearance at a drive-in theatre, confronts a psychotic Vietnam veteran who has turned into a mass-murdering sniper.
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.
The Dirty Dozen
Classic World War II action drama about a group of 12 American military prisoners, who are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.
The Wild Angels
The "Angels", a San Pedro motorcycle gang, party their way through the Coachella Valley while searching for a bike stolen from them by Mexicans, clashing with police along the way.
X
The story concerns Dr James Xavier, ably portrayed by Ray Milland. He has invented a serum for improving human vision. When his funding is cut he proceeds to experiment on himself -- with horrifying results.
The Terror
Lt. Andre Duvalier awakens on a beach to the sight of a strange woman who leads him to the gothic, towering castle that serves as home to an eerie baron.
The Premature Burial
Based on Edgar Allan Poe's story about a cataleptic Englishman obsessed with the fear of being buried alive.
Atlas
Evil king Praximedes convinces superhero Atlas to fight for him, but Atlas eventually sees the king's true nature and turns against him.
The Little Shop of Horrors
Black comedy about a young man who creates a carnivorous plant and must kill in order to feed it.
A Bucket of Blood
A dimwitted busboy at a beatnik cafe passes off a cat he accidentally killed and covered in plaster as a sculpture, prompting a demand for more art that compels him to commit murders.
War of the Satellites
An "unknown force" declares war against planet Earth when the United Nations disobeys warnings to cease and desist in its attempts at assembling the first satellite in the atmosphere.
The Undead
Two psychics place a prostitute under hypnosis in order to learn about her past-life experiences. When they unwittingly send her back in time, she finds herself in the Middle Ages, suspected of being a witch and on the verge of being executed.
Rock All Night
Cloud Nine, the local teen hangout, has been taken over by a pair of escaped killers, who hold the local teens hostage. The bartender realizes it's up to him to save the kids.
Not of This Earth
An alien agent from the distant planet Davana is sent to Earth via a high-tech matter transporter. There, he terrorizes Southern California in an attempt to acquire blood for his dying race, the result of a devastating nuclear war.
It Conquered the World
An alien from Venus tries to take over the world with the help of a disillusioned human scientist, as his wife, his best friend and the friend's wife try to intervene.