Released to theaters in 1981, it took until 2006 to see "Looker" released on DVD. I saw the movie when it was originally released, but I must have slept through most of it because the only thing I remembered was the "looker gun".

Looker, starring Albert Finney (of too many movies to name), Susan Dey (Partridge Family, L.A. Law, others), James Coburn (way too many movies) and more, this is the story of an evil pre-modern computer research company. A plastic surgeon becomes suspicious when his clients start dying weeks after he fixes their features to exacting specifications. The research company, using an advanced optical gun, hypnotizes the victims and causes them to have accidents that look like suicides. Once they discover the plastic surgeon (Finney) is on to them, they try to take him out of the picture. It all backfires and the hero gets the girl in another classic story from Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, Sphere, Coma, Westworld, The Andromeda Strain, others). I couldn't find a trailer, but I did find other clips. Here's a clipped scene followed by a deleted scene:

The Lost Boys is one of the best horror comedies I have ever had the pleasure of watching. The tag line is: Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It's fun to be a vampire.

It's not quite a comedy but it's not quite a horror movie either. The Lost Boys features Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Kiefer Sutherland, and other familiar faces. The plot: After moving to a new town, two brothers are convinced that the area is frequented by vampires. They become involved with those vampires, as well as some vampire hunters.

Check out the trailer:

I'm not a horror movie fan, but Slither is not really a horror movie. It's part comedy, part horror, part science fiction. The characters act in a way people in the real world act, not the way you'd expect movie characters to act.

The movie pays homage to other horror and science fiction movies that you'd recognize almost immediately in this movie. Needless to say, I enjoyed this movie. I found myself thoroughly entertained all the way through to the end of it.

Slither stars Nathan Fillion, Don Thompson, Elizabeth Banks, Gregg Henry and others. Enjoy a short trailer: