Chris Kattan Archives

House on Haunted Hill (1999)

Rating: ★★★

Oct 31, 1999Haunted House

The announcement of the remake of The Haunting was followed by this remake of the 1959 William Castle film, which turns out far more unpretentious and altogether more fun than the bloated flop of The Haunting

Director: William Malone

Actors: Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Peter Gallagher, Ali Larter, …

Category: Horror

31 October 19992 March 2026 by Roog

Monkeybone (2001)

Rating: ★★½

Feb 23, 2001Cartoonist in the Afterlife

Henry Selick's first venture into live-action in which Brendan Fraser becomes trapped in a bizarre afterlife while a mischievous monkey steals his body

Director: Henry Selick

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, John Turturro, Chris Kattan, …

Category: Fantasy

23 February 200113 October 2023 by Roog

Undercover Brother (2002)

Rating: ★★½

Nov 24, 2002Blaxploitation Spoof

Conceived in the aftermath of the Austin Powers films, this is a rather funny parody of the Blaxploitation film from Spike Lee's cousin Malcolm D. Lee

Director: Malcolm D. Lee

Actors: Eddie Griffin, Denise Richards, Chris Kattan, Neil Patrick Harris, …

Category: Science Fiction

24 November 200221 July 2021 by Roog

Santa’s Slay (2005)

Rating: ★★

Dec 22, 2023Demonic Santa Claus

Christmas horror film with wrestler Bill Goldberg playing a demonic version of Santa Claus

Director: David Steiman

Actors: Bill Goldberg, Douglas Smith, Emilie de Ravin, Robert Culp, …

Category: Horror

22 December 202322 December 2023 by Roog

The Year Without a Santa Claus (2006)

Rating: ½

Nov 18, 2007Christmas Film

Dull live-action tv remake of the Rankin-Bass stop-motion animated Christmas special

Director: Ron Underwood

Actors: John Goodman, Chris Kattan, Eddie Griffin, Ethan Suplee, …

Category: Fantasy

18 November 200717 June 2025 by Roog

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (2007)

Rating: ★

Jun 18, 2009Gonzo Animation

Film spinoff of the cult animated tv show. This feels like a film overtaken by the effort of trying to be surrealistic, wacky, scatological etc more than it is ever a film that creates gag that are funny

Director: Dave Willis, Matt Maiellaro

Actors: Carey Means, Dana Snyder, Dave Willis, Mike Schatz, …

Category: Fantasy

18 June 200921 September 2019 by Roog

Delgo (2008)

Rating: ★★

Jan 15, 2014Animation/Fantasy World

This attempted to do something different to the usual formula US kiddie animation film and creates its own fantasy world. Unfortunately, while the ambition is admirable, the film flopped badly

Director: Jason F. Maurer, Marc F. Adler

Actors: Freddie Prinze Jr, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Anne Bancroft, Val Kilmer, …

Category: Fantasy

15 January 201417 January 2026 by Roog

Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)

Rating: ★★

Jan 23, 2016Animation/Famous Monsters Comedy

I had little enthusiasm for this, I tend to like my classic monsters serious rather than defanged - these Hotel Transylvania films are so watered down, Dracula doesn't even get to drink blood

Director: Genndy Tartakovsky

Actors: Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Asher Blinkoff, …

Category: Fantasy

23 January 20162 November 2025 by Roog

Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (2017)

Rating: ★

Aug 19, 2017Storms of Sharks/Deliberately Bad Film

By this point, the Sharknado series has gone from an amusingly tongue-in-cheek original to a series that is widely signalling that it is not taking anything that happens remotely seriously

Director: Anthony C. Ferrante

Actors: Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Cassie Scerbo, Billy Barrett, …

Category: Horror

19 August 20178 July 2026 by Roog