In the year 2026, an ancient portal was discovered in the Nevada desert.  Affectionately labeled “The Ark”, the portal led scientists to Mars, to the remains of a long forgotten, alien civilization.  The Olduvai Research Facility was created on the surface of Mars to facilitate the study of this long dead culture, but some things won’t stay dead.  Now, something sinister has awoken on the surface of Mars, infecting the station with an evil as old as time.  Willing to do whatever it takes to contain the situation, it’s up to the military’s Rapid Response Tactical Squad (RRTS) to investigate but their mission is about to go straight to Hell, literally.

If you like movies with big guns, if you’re addicted to muzzle flashes, if you love to see military commandos kicking the asses of slimy, bottom-feeding demons, then Doom is the movie for you!

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The Falburn Academy–Does it really exist? Read on and we’ll find out together!

Set in 1965, at a secluded, woods-bound all-girls school named the Falburn Academy, we meet Heather Fasulo (Agnes Bruckner) and her parents Sam and Alice (Bruce Campbell and Emma Campbell respectively — no relation) as they travel to drop off their troubled daughter at her new school away from home. What none of the Fasulo’s know is that the Falburn Academy has a mysterious and horrific past, one drenched in black-magic…and blood. And Heather is soon going to find out that the past will always come back to haunt.

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A convoluted love quadrangle is the impetus for this movie and even though there are four people involved in a quadrangle (quad means four, come on, keep up with me) there’s not enough humanity involved to save this film. I laughed a lot and that wasn’t because the movie was funny.

Set in Bulgaria, Man With the Screaming Brain focuses on William Cole (Bruce Campbell) the wealthiest CEO of any pharmaceutical company in the world.  He’s come to Bulgaria to diversify his company through an investment in a mass-transit subway system.  Jackie (Antoinette Byron) his wife who accompanies him is emotionally estranged from William.  While William is at a meeting, she gets friendly with Yegor (Vladimir Kolev), a local cab driver who promises to show her “everything” she requires.  Upon William’s return to the hotel, he meets Tatoya (Tamara Gorski), the chambermaid, and attempts to be as ingratiating as Jackie with less than successful, near fatal results.  Degenerating into a thinly veiled revenge story, William Cole in conjunction with a portion of Yegor’s gray matter (transplanted into William through the intervention of a mad scientist named Ivan Ivanovich Ivanof (Stacy Keach)), must track down their mutual killer and set things right.

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God Bless the indomitable spirit of Bruce Campbell and his undying tenacity to take on even the most pointless script and present it with dignity and aplomb.   I think he single handedly keeps the B movie industry alive and Alien Apocalypse can use all the help he can muster.

Life seems bleak in the futuristic wasteland that earth has become.  Decimated by war, civilization as we know it has collapsed and the surviving people of earth have been enslaved to work for the “Mites”, our new alien overlords.  We follow the story of a handful of astronauts who return to this unfortunate turn of events after finishing the “Probe Mission”, a 40 year journey into space.

Bruce Campbell plays Dr. Ivan Hood, the osteopath (chiropractor) of the mission who’s quick with a zippy comeback and dreams of taking the world by storm as possibly the only remaining doctor.  Renee O’connor of Xena: Warrior Princess fame plays Alex, another astronaut on the mission and Dr. Ivan Hood’s love interest.   The returning heroes of the Probe Mission are quickly indoctrinated into this new alien regime and forced into slave labour by the Mites and those humans (bounty hunters) who traitorously work alongside them.  Thus, the stage is set. Should they accept their fate and toil away into ultimate oblivion, or can Dr. Ivan Hood and the lovely Alex summon up the courage to lead the revolt against the invaders and bring freedom to the planet?
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Repo! Is set in a dark and distant future where an epidemic of organ failures is wiping out humanity.  Rotti Largo (Paul Sorvino) is the brilliant businessman behind GeneCo, a biotech industrial complex which supplies artificial organs to the disease ravaged world. Rotti is a driven man, a ruthless man, a heartbroken man. His betrothed, Marni (Sarah Power) leaves him for Nathan Wallace (Anthony Stewart Head of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame), a medical doctor. She marries him and quickly becomes pregnant with Shilo (Alexa Vega). But tragedy strikes the Wallace household.  Marni becomes deathly ill before she is able to deliver Shilo. In a desperate attempt to save them both, Nathan works feverishly to find a cure. Alas, it seems that fate has not had its pound of flesh yet and the cure actually poisons Marni instead.  Nathan, with no time to lose, takes Marni to his home operating theatre and cuts Shilo from the womb, killing Marni in the process.

Rotti, never wasting an opportunity, saves Nathan from a murder charge in return for a few small favours. Using his medical knowledge, Nathan must become the Repo Man and repossess organs from transplant recipients who have become deficient in their payments to GeneCo. So the musical begins…
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