The read
Critics rate it 24 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 88% of the 1,428 1990s comedy movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalizes on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes93%
Critics rate it 24 points higher than audiences do.
341 audience votes
Key crew
- Charles S. HaasScreenplay
- Joe DanteDirector
- Jerry GoldsmithOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- John GoodmanLawrence Woolsey
- Cathy MoriartyRuth Corday / Carole
- Simon FentonGene Loomis
- Omri KatzStan
- Lisa JakubSandra
- Kellie MartinSherry
- Jesse Lee SofferDennis Loomis
- Lucinda JenneyAnne Loomis
- James VillemaireHarvey Starkweather
- Robert PicardoHoward
- Jesse WhiteMr. Spector
- Dick MillerHerb
Stills
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Themes
floridacold warmilitary basefilm in filmcuban missile crisis1960skey westbomb shelterfilm directorteenage protagonist
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