Someone’s Watching Me (1978)
Sep 23, 2007Stalker Psycho-Thriller
One of the lesser known John Carpenter films, a tv movie in which Lauren Hutton is stalked by a neighbour spying on her from the apartment building opposite
Adrienne Barbeau
The Fog (1980)
Aug 25, 2002Vengeful Ghosts
John Carpenter’s immediate successor to Halloween is a suspenseful and scary ghost story about undead sailors descending on a small town in a fog bank, even if the narrative logic holding everything together is thin
Escape from New York (1981)
Jul 5, 2002Action/New York as a Future Prison
One of the key films from John Carpenter with Kurt Russell giving his best ever performance, a slick exciting action film that imagines a future Manhattan Island having been transformed into a lawless prison
Swamp Thing (1982)
Dec 16, 2000Mutant Superhero/Comic-Book Adaptation
Wes Craven makes a film based on the DC Comics character but reduces the mood of the original to something cartoonish. One of Craven's worst films
Creepshow (1982)
Jul 6, 2000Horror Anthology
Stephen King and George Romero collaborate on a horror anthology made as homage to the EC Comics, telling five tales that replicate the blacker-than-black sense of humour (and even the visual look) of the comic-book with hilarious results
The Next One (1984)
May 8, 2001Mysterious Visitor
A very strange film where widow Adrienne Barbeau finds an amnesiac Keir Dullea on a Greek island who shows mysterious abilities and may have come from the future
Bridge Across Time (1985)
Dec 18, 2019Jack the Ripper Resurrected in the Modern Day
Film made just before the centenary of the Jack the Ripper killings that imagines the Ripper being resurrected at the site where London Bridge has been relocated in Arizona
Open House (1987)
Jun 20, 2000Radio Talkback Slasher
Shabby entry in the slasher genre with a radio talkback host receiving calls from a killer who is slaughtering female realtors
Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1989)
Jun 18, 2013Jungle Adventure Parody
The film that Bill Maher would prefer to forget. Beyond the deliberately absurd title, this is an amusing spoof of the jungle adventure and contains a far cleverer degree of wit than you expect
Two Evil Eyes (1990)
Feb 15, 2001Edgar Allan Poe Anthology
George Romero and Dario Argento collaborate on an anthology, each adapting an Edgar Allan Poe tale. Either director leaves you with high expectations but the results are very mixed
The Convent (2000)
Nov 4, 2000Splatter Comedy/Zombie Nuns
Early Mike Mendez film that quickly abandons being a standard venture into a haunted convent and launches into an entertainingly over-the-top splatter show filled with zombified nuns
Tales of Halloween (2015)
Dec 14, 2015Anthology of Halloween Horror Stories
An anthology of Halloween-themed horror tales, all from different genre directors, including some interesting high-profile names. The results are uneven with the film providing a couple of amusing segments but nothing truly standout
Death House (2017)
Jun 30, 2019Asylum of Insane Killers Unleashed
This comes with the winning idea of being conceived as a horror version of The Expendables bringing back an amazing line-up of horror actors from principally the 80s. Alas, the film itself as an incoherent mess
Exorcism at 60,000 Feet (2020)
Jul 31, 2020Exorcism on an Airplane/Bad Taste Comedy
A possession film set on an airplane. This sets out to parody exorcism movie cliches but makes a beeline for outrageous bad taste humour. It does include a great cast of genre regulars
In Search of Tomorrow: A Journey Through ’80s Sci-Fi Cinema (2022)
Sep 25, 2022Documentary About 1980s SF Films
A documentary that comes with great affection for the SF films of the 1980s and covers these, along with interviews with key people, although leaves quite a number of blank spots in works it does not cover
Watchmen: Chapter I (2024)
Aug 23, 2024Animation/Comic-Book Superheroes
An animated adaptation of Alan Moore’s classic, genre defining comic-book, this is the most faithful treatment to date
Watchmen: Chapter II (2024)
Dec 6, 2024Animation/Comic-Book Superheroes
The second part of DC Universe Animated Original Movies’ adaptation of Alan Moore's classic graphic novel, the most faithful screen adaptation yet