Conchata Ferrell Archives

Freeway (1996)

Rating: ★★★½

Jun 30, 2010Modernised Little Red Riding Hood/Juvenile Delinquent Drama

Matthew Bright's extraordinary modernisation/trashing of Little Red Riding Hood who becomes Reese Witherspoon's juvenile delinquent who goes hitchhiking and is targeted by serial killer Kiefer Sutherland

Director: Matthew Bright

Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Dan Hedaya, Wolfgang Bodison, …

Category: Fantasy

30 June 201010 December 2025 by Roog

Touch (1997)

Rating: ★★

Apr 7, 1999Faith Healer

Paul Schrader adapts an Elmore Leonard novel about a youth who suddenly becomes sought by various parties when it is discovered he has miracle healing powers but the results never quite come off

Director: Paul Schrader

Actors: Bridget Fonda, Skeet Ulrich, Christopher Walken, Tom Arnold, …

Category: Fantasy

7 April 19995 May 2025 by Roog

Modern Vampires (1998)

Rating: ★★

Apr 7, 2001Vampires

Richard Elfman film about chic vampires who have become an elite living in Hollywood. Despite promise and some interesting ideas, this is ruined by an atrociously overacting cast

Director: Richard Elfman

Actors: Casper Van Dien, Rod Steiger, Kim Cattrall, Natasha Gregson Wagner, …

Category: Horror

7 April 200110 December 2025 by Roog

K-PAX (2001)

Rating: ★★

Oct 26, 2001Alien Visitor in a Psychiatric Institution

Kevin Spacey is a mysterious patient in a psychiatric institution who makes possibly true claims to be an alien. An uncredited ripoff of the far superior Man Facing Southeast

Director: Iain Softley

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack, David Patrick Kelly, …

Category: Science Fiction

26 October 20017 June 2026 by Roog

Frankenweenie (2012)

Rating: ★★

Nov 28, 2012Universal Frankenstein Homage/Boy Resurrects Dog/Stop-Motion Animation

Tim Burton's stop-motion animated expansion of his 1982 short film has a winning concept – a parody of the Universal Frankenstein films with a teenage boy resurrecting his dog

Director: Tim Burton

Actors: Charlie Tahan, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau, …

Category: Horror

28 November 201223 October 2025 by Roog

Krampus (2015)

Rating: ★★

Dec 12, 2015Christmas Horror Film

Drawing on the Teutonic traditions of the anti-Santa, this gleefully wades into anti-Christmas spirit. Although never as much as it promises to be, it does astonish at a major studio releasing such a dark film right on Christmas season

Director: Michael Dougherty

Actors: Adam Scott, Toni Collette, David Koechner, Allison Tolman, …

Category: Horror

12 December 201514 June 2026 by Roog