Dick Miller’s Typical Vibe
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Dick Miller has 20 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 2010s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Terminator.
Recurring themes

Fright Night
1985
Comedy · Horror

Waxwork
1988
Horror · Comedy

The Lair of the White Worm
1988
Horror · Comedy

Ghoulies II
1987
Horror · Comedy

Basket Case 2
1990
Horror · Comedy

Ice Cream Man
1995
Comedy · Horror

Leprechaun 2
1994
Comedy · Horror

Bride of Chucky
1998
Horror · Comedy

The Terminator
1984 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Max · Included

Gremlins
1984 · Movie · Actor
Top 9%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
1993 · Movie · Voice
Top 29%Max · Included

The Little Shop of Horrors
1960 · Movie · Actor
Top 32%Prime Video · Included

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
1963 · Movie · Actor
Top 33%MGM+ · Included

A Bucket of Blood
1959 · Movie · Actor
Top 41%Prime Video · Included

In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?
Dir. James Cameron · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton

Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom

After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.
Dir. Joe Dante · With Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton

Ex-soldier Frank Brayker is the guardian of an ancient key that can unlock tremendous evil; the sinister Collector is a demon who wants the key so he can initiate the apocalypse. On the run from wicked mercenaries for almost 90 years, Brayker finally stops in at a boarding house in New Mexico where — with the help of its residents — he plans to face off against the Collector and his band of ghouls, preventing them from ever seizing the key.
Dir. Ernest R. Dickerson · With Billy Zane, William Sadler, Jada Pinkett Smith

In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies.
Dir. Fred Dekker · With Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow

When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray, who much prefers drinking beer, reading his newspaper and watching a ball game on the tube expected to spend his vacation.
Dir. Joe Dante · With Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher

Andrea Beaumont leaves her father to return to Gotham, rekindling an old romance with Bruce Wayne. At the same time, a mysterious figure begins to hunt down Gotham's criminals, wrongly implicating Batman in the murders. Now on the run from the law, Batman must find and stop the culprit, while also navigating his relationship with Andrea.
Dir. Bruce Timm, Eric Radomski · With Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany, Hart Bochner

Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He creates a new plant that not only talks but cannot survive without human flesh and blood.
Dir. Roger Corman · With Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles

A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences.
Dir. Roger Corman · With Ray Milland, Diana Van der Vlis, Harold J. Stone
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational fear of premature burial consumes him.
Dir. Roger Corman · With Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Richard Ney

Nerdy Walter Paisley, a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla, by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate pieces using the same artistic process.
Dir. Roger Corman · With Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Antony Carbone

Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!
Dir. Joe Dante · With Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover

An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Liza Minnelli, Robert De Niro, Lionel Stander

When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
Dir. Joe Dante · With Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy

Middle schooler Ben spends his free time watching sci-fi films, playing video games and reading comic books. Surprisingly, his affinity for all things fantastical yields a real result – when he has a vivid dream about technology, his prodigy best friend Wolfgang manages to create a working spacecraft. Joined by their buddy Darren, the boys take off into outer space and encounter some very odd extraterrestrial life.
Dir. Joe Dante · With Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson

A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.
Dir. Allan Arkush · With P. J. Soles, Vincent Van Patten, Clint Howard
Lt. Andre Duvalier awakens on a beach to the sight of a strange woman who leads him to the gothic, towering castle that serves as home to an eerie baron.
Dir. Roger Corman · With Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight
Before horror enthusiast Max can break things off with his girlfriend Evelyn she dies in a bus accident. In time, Max meets another woman only to have Evelyn resurface as a zombie ready to resume their relationship.
Dir. Joe Dante · With Anton Yelchin, Ashley Greene, Alexandra Daddario
After his wife leaves him, a disillusioned director dives into the drug scene, trying anything his friend suggests.
Dir. Roger Corman · With Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern
Four sexy young girls are to clean an old house for the new owners. They get delivered an old book full of magic incantations, and while reading it they accidentally bring a cartoon character to life. The cartoon character likes the blood of young girls...
Dir. Fred Olen Ray · With David Carradine, Monique Gabrielle, Arte Johnson
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