Carmen Argenziano Archives

Punishment Park (1971)

Rating: ★★★★

Feb 2, 2010Dystopian Future Survival Run

From Peter Watkins, a remarkably stark and brutal film set in a near-future USA where political prisoners are allowed to run for freedom through the desert while hunted by law enforcement officials

Director: Peter Watkins

Actors: Carmen Argenziano, Stan Armstead, Katherine Quittner

Category: Science Fiction

2 February 20101 November 2025 by Roog

Another entry from the slasher heyday, appropriating a holiday as title. This is fairly tatty as the lowered standards of the slasher genre go, although the cast contains some interesting names in retrospect

Director: Herb Freed

Actors: Christopher George, Patch McKenzie, Michael Pataki, Carmen Argenziano, …

Category: Horror

16 June 201626 October 2025 by Roog

Starchaser: The Legend of Orin (1985)

Rating: ★★½

Feb 2, 2001Animation/Space Opera

The first animated film in 3D, a blatant copy of Star Wars that proves occasionally engaging

Director: Steven Hahn

Actors: Joe Colligan, Carmen Argenziano, Anthony de Longis, Les Tremayne

Category: Science Fiction

2 February 20019 June 2023 by Roog

Final Combination (1994)

Rating: ★

Nov 10, 2003Serial Killer Thriller

Thriller with Michael Madsen as a detective searching boxing clubs for a serial killer. This has one of the most inanely ridiculous scripts one has seen in some time

Director: Nigel Dick

Actors: Michael Madsen, Lisa Bonet, Gary Stretch, Carmen Argenziano, …

Category: Horror

10 November 200316 December 2025 by Roog

Hellraiser: Inferno (2000)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 16, 2000Sadomasochistic Demon

Fifth and best of Hellraiser sequels after Clive Barker bowed out. Scott Derrickson made his directorial debut here and infuses the series with some of the wild imagery and perverse darkness that Barker gave the original

Director: Scott Derrickson

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Doug Bradley, Nicholas Turturro, James Remar, …

Category: Horror

16 September 200011 July 2026 by Roog

Identity (2003)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 11, 2003Remote Motel Psycho-Thriller

John Cusack leads a star cast line-up in what appears to be a slasher where a group of people gathered at a motel are being killed by someone among their number. Big conceptual twists then ensue

Director: James Mangold

Actors: John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, John Hawkes, …

Category: Horror

11 September 200311 April 2026 by Roog

Meteor (2009)

Rating: ★★

Jul 2, 2024Impending Meteor Collision

Disaster TV mini-series where assorted well-known faces fight through the chaos to prevent an impending meteor strike

Director: Ernie Barbarash

Actors: Marla Sokoloff, Christopher Lloyd, Jason Alexander, Billy Campbell, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 July 202413 November 2025 by Roog

Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010)

Rating: ★★★½

Jun 2, 2011Filipino Exploitation Cinema Documentary

A documentary about the US exploitation film industry in the Philippines in the 1970s filled with mind-boggling anecdotes that uncover a wild west of unregulated filmmaking

Director: Mark Hartley

Actors: Carmen Argenziano, Allan Arkush, Andrea Cagan, Colleen Camp, …

Category: Horror

2 June 20111 August 2026 by Roog

Singularity (2017)

Rating: ★

Nov 26, 2017Giant Robots Obliterate Humanity

John Cusack as a super-villain unleashing an army of giant robots against humanity – what's not to like? Well maybe the entire film, which fails to leave no Machines Amok cliche unturned. Cusack gives a performance through gritted teeth no doubt at the atrocious dialogue he has to utter

Director: Robert Kouba

Actors: John Cusack, Julian Schaffner, Jeannine Wacker, Carmen Argenziano, …

Category: Science Fiction

26 November 201725 October 2024 by Roog

Future World (2018)

Rating: ★★

Mar 3, 2019Post-Holocaust/Android on a Quest for Meaning

James Franco co-directed effort about an android on a quest across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Franco draws on cliches established by the Mad Max films and only makes an Albert Pyun film with pretensions

Director: Bruce Thierry Cheung, James Franco

Actors: Suki Waterhouse, James Franco, Jeffrey Wahlberg, Margarita Levieva, …

Category: Science Fiction

3 March 201913 February 2026 by Roog