Nightmare Week: Hi Alice, wanna make babies?

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 5: THE DREAM CHILD

1989

Directed by Stephen Hopkins

Written by Leslie Boehm, John Skipp, and Craig Spector

Spoilers: moderate

They're not sending their best

BLOWN AWAY

A bomb-based thriller that's too wacky for its own good, yet, perhaps, not quite wacky enough, Blown Away splits the difference between sobriety and absurdity somewhat awkwardly, if never quite so awkwardly that the good parts (which is to say, the cool parts) wind up lost.

1994

Directed by Stephen Hopkins

Written Jay Roach, John Rice, and Joe Batteer

With Jeff Bridges (Lt. Jimmy Dove), Suzy Amis (Kate), Lloyd Bridges (Max O'Bannon), Forest Whitaker (Officer Anthony Franklin), and Tommy Lee Jones (Ryan Gaerity)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Predator Week, part II: Oh, it's the urban jungle, I get it

PREDATOR 2

Predator 2 never quite justifies its existence, but it mostly earns your attention, and that will have to do.

1990

Directed by Stephen Hopkins

Written by Jim Thomas and John Thomas

With Danny Glover (Lt. Mike Harrigan), Ruben Blades (Danny Archuleta), Maria Conchita Alonso (Leona Cantrell), Bill Paxton (Jerry Lambert), Gary Busey (Peter Keyes), Kevin Peter Hall (a Predator, why is he credited as "the Predator"? the Predator is dead)

Spoiler alert: moderate