Joe Dante

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

After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.

Dir. Joe Dante · With Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan

Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, Jack Putter, Tuck must convince Jack to find his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Maxwell, to help him extract Tuck and his ship and re-enlarge them before his oxygen runs out.

Dir. Joe Dante · With Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan

An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"—and one original story, "Time Out."

Dir. John Landis, Joe Dante, Steven Spielberg, George Miller · With Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Scatman Crothers

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

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.

Dir. Joe Dante · With John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton

When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.

Dir. Joe Dante · With Gregory Smith, Kirsten Dunst, Denis Leary

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

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

A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings.

Dir. Mick Garris, Alejandro Brugués, Joe Dante, Ryuhei Kitamura, David Slade · With Mickey Rourke, Sarah Elizabeth Withers, Elizabeth Reaser

Province of Burgos, northern Spain, October 2015. A group of fans undertake the titanic task of restoring the location of the last scene of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the mythical spaghetti western directed by Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone in 1966.

Dir. Guillermo de Oliveira · With David Alba, Sergio García, Diego Montero

Centered on a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment.

Dir. Peter Horton, Carl Gottlieb, John Landis, Robert K. Weiss, Joe Dante · With Arsenio Hall, Donald F. Muhich, Monique Gabrielle

After moving into a new neighbourhood, brothers Dane & Lucas and their neighbour Julie discover a bottomless hole in the basement of their home. They find that once the hole is exposed, evil is unleashed. With strange shadows lurking around every corner and nightmares coming to life, they are forced to come face to face with their darkest fears to put an end to the mystery of THE HOLE.

Dir. Joe Dante · With Chris Massoglia, Nathan Gamble, Haley Bennett

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

Fed up with all the attention going to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck quits Hollywood, teams up with recently-fired stuntman Damien Drake Jr. and embarks on a round-the-world adventure, along with Bugs and The VP of Warner Bros. Their mission? Find Damien's father, and the missing blue diamond... and stay one step ahead of The Acme Corp., who wants the diamond for their own purposes.

Dir. Joe Dante · With Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Steve Martin