I couldn't help but feel incredulous when both my daughters vouched for the quality of this movie and insisted we all watch it together. But I'd recently forced them to watch THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, so I owed them one.

Turns out their reports of giant attacking electrical plugs, planets made of ice cream and talking sharks were not exaggerated.

There's something beautiful about the Robert Rodriguez narrative of selling his body to science just to make his first…

Released the same year as (in fact, within a week of) John Frankenheimer's PROPHECY, Arthur Hiller's NIGHTWING is also an outdoorsy environmental revenge horror movie JAWS knock-off where an Italian actor playing a rebellious, hotheaded Native American teams up with a skinny woman and a scientist-type played by an actor from the OMEN franchise to stop a series of animal attacks. What sets NIGHTWING apart is that its swarm of bubonic plague-carrying killer bats is manifested by the ghost of…