Stan Helsing: A Parody (2009)
Nov 2, 2009Horror Parody
Film from one of the producers of Scary Movie that heads for the same lowbrow comedy routines while spoofing 80s horror films
Ben Cotton
30 Days of Night: Dark Days (2010)
Dec 15, 2021Vampire Hunters
Sequel to the modestly effective Alaskan-set vampire film 30 Days of Night, this holds up surprisingly well for something that gives all indication of being a throwaway video sequel
Messages Deleted (2010)
Dec 22, 2020Screenwriter Taunted by a Killer
In his last ever produced screenplay, cult director Larry Cohen turns in a wonderfully playful script with Matthew Lillard as a screenwriting lecturer harassed by a killer only to find real-life doesn't obey the same rules that screenplays do
Seeds of Destruction (2011)
Mar 26, 2014Massive Runaway Plant Roots
Cheap Syfy Channel CGI disaster spectacle about runaway plant roots – from the Garden of Eden, no less – growing to endanger the entire planet. Utterly formulaic and seeming to consist of no more than canned pieces of cliche action
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (2012)
Dec 21, 2013Space Opera/Web Series Prequel
Web-series/film prequel to the 2003-9 revival of Battlestar Galactica with a rookie Commander Adama arriving aboard the Galactica. Easily one the best of the Galactica spinoff films to date
The Unseen (2016)
Oct 17, 2016Man Slowly Starts to Become Invisible
Modestly effective effort about a man whose body is slowly fading away and becoming invisible. A film carried by some fine effects sequences, this derives its frisson from the gradual revelation of what is happening but loses it when the mundane subplots take over in the second half