Aaron Yoo Archives

Disturbia (2007)

Rating: ★

Apr 19, 2007Suburban Voyeurism Psycho-Thriller

A hackneyed rehash of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window where Shia LaBeouf is a teenager on home detention spying with a pair of binoculars who realises that his neighbour might be a serial killer

Director: D.J. Caruso

Actors: Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Sarah Roemer, Carrie-Anne Moss, …

Category: Horror

19 April 200722 November 2024 by Roog

Gamer (2009)

Rating: ★★

Jan 30, 2010Future Live-Action Videogames

Film somewhere between Counterstrike and The Running Man where convicts are controlled as avatars inside a live-action videogame. A difficult to believe premise that is pumped up with hyper-adrenalised action visuals

Director: Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine

Actors: Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall, Amber Valletta, Logan Lerman, …

Category: Science Fiction

30 January 201025 October 2025 by Roog

Friday the 13th (2009)

Rating: ★½

Feb 13, 2009Slasher Film

Another 1980s horror remake that had much potential. However, this proves to be just another Friday the 13th film by the numbers, albeit with a bigger budget, and widely misses the mark

Director: Marcus Nispel

Actors: Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Derek Mears, Travis Van Winkle, …

Category: Horror

13 February 200923 October 2025 by Roog

Demonic (2015)

Rating: ★

Nov 20, 2015Haunted House/Paranormal Investigators

James Wan has an exemplary track record in one's opinion, you think this would extend to anything he produces. Here all we get are series of tired haunted house cliches before a twist ending that makes no real sense

Director: Will Canon

Actors: Maria Bello, Frank Grillo, Dustin Milligan, Cody Horn, …

Category: Horror

20 November 201517 January 2026 by Roog