Classic SciFi scifi, horror and fantasy movies and TV shows released this week
Backdrop for True Detective
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An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.

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Backdrop for Colony
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In the near future a family must make difficult decisions as they balance staying together with trying to survive. They live in Los Angeles, which has been occupied by a force of outside intruders. W...

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Backdrop for The Last of Us
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Twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed, Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job so...

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Backdrop for Batman
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Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where...

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Backdrop for Inspector Morse
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Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well...

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Backdrop for 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
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An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.

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Backdrop for The Outsider
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When an insidious supernatural force edges its way into a seemingly straightforward investigation into the gruesome murder of a young boy, it leads a seasoned cop and an unorthodox investigator to que...

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Backdrop for The Invaders
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The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them, for him it began one lost night on a lonely country ro...

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Backdrop for Dragnet
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Police Detective Sgt. Joe Friday and his partners investigate crimes in Los Angeles.

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Backdrop for The Book of Eli
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A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.

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Backdrop for Underworld: Evolution
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As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the Death Dealers (an elite vampire special forces unit that hunts werewolves), and Michael, the werewolf hybrid, wo...

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Backdrop for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
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The series picks up four years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with John and Sarah Connor trying to stay under-the-radar from the government, as they plot to destroy the computer networ...

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Backdrop for Virus
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When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.

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Backdrop for DeepStar Six
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The crew of an experimental underwater nuclear base are forced to struggle for their lives when their explorations disturb a creature who threatens to destroy their base.

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Backdrop for Return of the Living Dead Part II
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A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains.

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Backdrop for Supernova
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Set in the 22nd century, when a battered salvage ship sends out a distress signal, the seasoned crew of the rescue hospital ship Nova-17 responds. What they find is a black hole--that threatens to des...

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Backdrop for Shadow of a Doubt
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Just when Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Newton, is feeling especially frustrated by the lack of excitement in her small town in California, she receives wonderful news: Her uncle and namesake, Charlie Oakley, i...

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Backdrop for The Night Stalker
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Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak ta...

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Backdrop for The Relic
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A homicide detective teams up with an evolutionary biologist to hunt a giant creature that is killing people in a Chicago museum.

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Backdrop for Turbulence
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On a flight transporting dangerous convicts, murderer Ryan Weaver manages to break free and cause complete chaos throughout the plane. As various people on board fall victim to Weaver, it is ultimatel...

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Backdrop for Children of the Damned
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Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.

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Backdrop for Son of Frankenstein
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One of the sons of Frankenstein finds his father's monster in a coma and revives him, only to find out he is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.

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Backdrop for Bad Day at Black Rock
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One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.

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Backdrop for The Invisible Man Returns
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The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

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Backdrop for Brighton Rock
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Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly ev...

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Backdrop for Paranoiac
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Simon Ashby is a wealthy psychotic who is is coddled by his aunt in their palatial mansion outside of London. One day, Ashby's long lost brother mysteriously arrives at the house, but events prove tha...

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Backdrop for Sole Survivor
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In 1960, the ruins of an American bomber were found in the Libyan desert, but the remains of the crew were never located. In Guerdon Trueblood's teleplay, the ghosts of a bomber crew hang around their...

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Backdrop for Riders to the Stars
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Three men gamble their lives in space to change the history of the world

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Backdrop for Assault on the Wayne
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The U.S. submarine Anthony Wayne is underway for a top-secret mission. Onboard is a highly classified device that will give the Americans a decided nuclear advantage. The entire mission and the secret...

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Backdrop for King of the Underworld
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Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after...

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Chiller Theatre, WPIX, Channel 11 on Saturday night: a drawing of a swamp with a dead tree in the background plus eerie moaning sounds. Suddenly, a huge claymation hand with six fingers appears while the words "CHILLER" magically grow in clay out of the animated swamp. The six-fingered creature then swallows the letters and when its appetite is satisfied, it lets out a deep and roaring...."CHILLLLLLLERRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!" -- Joe Cascio, DVDDRIVE-IN now at https://zombiesites.com/chiller-theatre/
Although Chiller Theater on WPIX had been a tri-state staple for years, it would bounce around Channel 11’s schedule, sometimes late on Saturday night and other times airing earlier in the evening. TV viewing competition for the Saturday night horror movie crown began in late 1969 with the appearance of Creature Features on WNEW channel 5 in NYC. --- Greg Stevens, DVDDRIVE-IN now at https://zombiesites.com/creature-features/
....not to say that the Channel 5's CREATURE FEATURES or Channel 11's CHILLER weren't pulling their weight. But Channel 9's FRIGHT NIGHT, rarely mentioned or remembered in genre publications or in online discussion groups, was probably responsible for putting the widest range of horror films ever seen on the NY airwaves during its long run from 1973 to 1987. -- Jim Arena, DVDDRIVE-IN now at https://zombiesites.com/fright-night/