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Jun 8, 2017 · At any rate, it’s a fascinating tidbit to come from a fairly obscure B-movie. I’m all about The Rift . It has its problems and it’s not quite as good as Juan Piquer Simón’s previous ...
Jul 26, 1990 · The Rift: Directed by Juan Piquer Simón. With Jack Scalia, R. Lee Ermey, Ray Wise, Deborah Adair. Siren II, a submarine under the command of Capt. Phillips, ventures into the deep on a mission to recover the missing Siren I.
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- Action, Adventure, Horror
- Juan Piquer Simón
- 1990-07-26
Nov 27, 2020 · Spoiler-free trailer for a charming B underwater movie The Rift AKA Endless Descent. After an experimental submarine goes missing near the Dannekin rift, an experienced crew is sent to find...
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- Subversive Rabbit
- The Night Flier
- Space Truckers
- Circuitry Man
- Abraxas, Guardian of The Universe
- The Rift
- Carnosaur
- Spaced Invaders
- Nemesis
- Class of 1999
- Hardware
Made for $ 1 million, The Night Flier adapts a short story by horror master Stephen Kingand concerns reporters investigating murders taking place on airfields. The reporters eventually realize the murders are being committed by a vampire posing as an airline pilot. Released first on HBO then theatrically where it bombed, The Night Flierwas initiall...
Director Stuart Gordon has created some renowned cult classics like Re-Animator and From Beyond, and Space Truckers deserves that same distinction. Dennis Hopperplays a space trucker who agrees to transport a shipment to Earth. Unfortunately, the cargo turns out to be killer robots that begin to attack the crew. Co-starring Stephen Dorff, Space Tru...
Based on a short film the director made in film school, Circuitry Mantakes place in a post-apocalyptic future where pollution has driven humans underground and a woman tries to smuggle pleasure-giving computer chips to New York while being pursued by a cyborg named Plughead (Vernon Wells). Circuitry Man overcomes its low-budget with an ambitious pr...
Released theatrically only in Canada, Abraxasstars former Wrestler/Governor Jesse Ventura as an intergalactic police officer who travels to Earth in order to track down his partner who has come to impregnate a woman. As a B-movie, Abraxas falls into the so-bad-its-good category because, while the dialogue and scenes can be awkward, the special effe...
The Rift joins a swath of underwater monster movies that dominated the late 1980s like The Abyss, Leviathan, and DeepStar Six. Unfortunately, in terms of budget, The Riftwas made for a fraction of what those films cost. In the film, a submarine attempts to track down another missing submarine, and in doing so, find seaweed that is producing mutant ...
Produced by B-movie master Roger Corman, Carnosaur was produced to cash in on sure-to-be-a- hit Jurassic Park's marketing campaign and even features Laura Dern's mother Diane Ladd as the lead. In the film, a scientist plans to wipe out humanity with a virus and replace them with dinosaurs. Compared toJurassic Park's $63 million budget, Carnosaurwas...
For a B-movie, Spaced Invaders has a very inspired and clever premise. The film is based on the panic caused by Orson Welles' 1938 War Of The Worldsbroadcast that made New Jersey citizens believe they were actually under attack by Martians. RELATED: 10 Greatest Alien Invasion Movies, According To IMDb Taking place in present-day 1990, the infamous ...
In the 1980s and 90s, director Albert Pyun made a lot of low-budget sci-fi movies that went straight to video, including the original Captain America movie. In order to even make Nemesis, Puyn had to agreeto cast a french kickboxer named Oliver Gruner as the lead. In Nemesis, a cyborg bounty hunter tries to stop a plan to replace world leaders with...
Class Of 1999 is a quasi-sequel to director Mark L. Lester's Class of 1984, which was about school gangs. The follow-up takes place in the not-so-distant future of 1999 where school gangs are rampant so robot teachers are brought in to get things under control. However, like in Westworld, this backfires and the school becomes a battle zone between ...
Made for $1.5 million, Hardwaretakes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where a scavenger (Dylan McDermott) buys a robot head for his girlfriend for Christmas so she can use it in one of her sculptures, however, the head comes alive and attempts to rebuild itself. Unlike most low-budget B-movies where audiences can sense the film's lack of funds...
Apr 26, 2024 · The Rift (aka Endless Descent) is a B-horror movie from 1990, directed by Juan Piquer Simón who also directed movies like Pieces (1982) and Slugs (1988). There were a lot of underwater horror and thriller movies released around this time, most notably The Abyss from 1989, which was also one of the very few of these that became a box-office hit.
The Rift is considered a "B" movie. Reviewers noted the lack of originality in its plot, but praised the film for providing action-packed entertainment on a limited budget.
Mar 9, 1990 · The Rift is considered a "B" movie. Reviewers noted the lack of originality in its plot, but praised the film for providing action-packed entertainment on a limited budget.
