Roger Corman's Fantastic Four (1994)
By Tim Knight First things first, the Roger Corman-produced Fantastic Four movie (made in 1994 and never released to the general public) is not a great movie, however - in context - it's not as bad as it could have been. And a mischievous part of me wonders if, in years to come, it may even be considered superior to the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot from Fox and Chronicle's Josh Trank. The 1990's Fantastic Four weaves comic book mythology with some of its own making and opens with college students Reed Richards (Alex Hyde-White) and Victor Von Doom (Joseph Culp) working on a scientific doohickey to drain energy from a passing spatial MacGuffin codenamed Colossus. The experiment goes wrong, the machine explodes and Victor is presumed dead. Then it's ten years later and Reed is a pioneering scientist, planning a space trip to examine the returning Colossus, accompanied by his childhood sweetheart Sue Storm (Rebecca Staab), her hot-headed brother Johnny (Jay Underwood) ...