Forbin is the designer of an incredibly sophisticated computer that will run all of America's nuclear defenses. Shortly after being turned on, it detects th find out more...

Transfer (1966), Cronenberg's first film, is a surreal sketch of a doctor and his patient. From the Drain (1967) finds two men in a bathtub, which may be part of a centre for veterans of a future war. Stereo (1969), Cronenberg's first official feature film, stunningly shot in monochrome, concerns telepaths at the Institute for Erotic Enquiry where patients undergo tests by Dr. Luther Stringfellow. In Crimes of the Future (1970) Cronenberg worked in colour and with a find out more...

A strange, beautiful film. We watch mother and son as they go about their peculiar daily routine, and we see a dead child in the ocean. It's unnerving and, somehow, everything seems eerily sexual, too. Then we are invited to go underwater where we get a closer look at the strange story science and earth have to tell. There are only mothers and sons in this coastal town. There is routine and control - but who is in control and what happens if someone starts to ask que find out more...

After American nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean several ships are sunk in mysterious circumstances. The Japanese authorities close in on the nearby Odo Island where natives relate tales of a devastating monster whom they call 'Gojira'. find out more...

A radioactive octopus and a gallant Navy Captain take part in a desperate pursuit across the Pacific ocean, until the eight-armed mutant mollusk discovers how to survive on land. find out more...

A 'Leatherface' type murderer who wears other people's faces, kills at an all-night horror-thon at an old theatre put on by a bunch of film students. Maggie, the lead character, believes it's really Lanyard Gates, a crazed film maker who killed his family live on stage fifteen years ago. And now he's back to kill his daughter, Sara, who is believed to really be Maggie. 

 

Superlative horror that blends great diy special effects, cinephilia and frights with aplomb. AN find out more...

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In the near future man faces an environmental doom that is actually not of his making, the sun is dying. It is decided that the only solution to the crisis is to send a space ship deep into the solar system and detonate a massive nuclear device that has the potential to reignite the golden globe. Following in the failed footsteps of a previous crew the mismatched cosmonauts soon begin to fall foul of the cruel, unfathomless nature of space. 'Sunshine' is a feast for the eyes and, for three quart find out more...

Journalists at the London Daily Express investigate reports of strange phenomena occurring all over the world; flooding in the Sahara, unseasonable blizzards in New York, violent tornadoes in the Soviet Union. The investigation leads to the discovery of a cover-up and the revelation that nuclear explosions have altered the Earth's orbit, its destination THE SUN! As the temperature rockets, water becomes scarce and mass hysteria breaks out. The only solution is a radical one, the detonation of fu find out more...

A scientist finds himself left alone in the world after a scientific experiment goes wrong. The story turns into romance, then drama, after he discovers first a woman then another man still alive, and then thriller as they realise that the experiment still has a harvest to reap. Superb. find out more...