Daveigh Chase Archives

Donnie Darko (2001)

Rating: ★★

Oct 28, 2001Troubled Teen's Precognitive Visions

A thoroughly overrated cult classic. A baffling mixture of precognition, time travel, sinister talking bunnies and 1980s satire. What this doesn't do is ever fall together into a coherent explanation about what is going on

Director: Richard Kelly

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mary McDonnell, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze, …

Category: Fantasy

28 October 200120 January 2026 by Roog

Lilo & Stitch (2002)

Rating: ★★★

Oct 19, 2002Disney Animation/Malevolent Alien Creature

Likeable Disney animated film about a young misfit Hawaiian girl who befriends an unruly alien creature. This has a good deal of oddball energy and humour that makes it rather appealing

Director: Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois

Actors: Daveigh Chase, Chris Sanders, Tia Carrere, David Ogden Stiers, …

Category: Science Fiction

19 October 200227 June 2026 by Roog

The Ring (2002)

Rating: ★★★★

Mar 18, 2003Cursed Videotape/Japanese Horror Remake

This is the English-language version of the Japanese horror Ring and actually a much better and far spookier film, where the new script gives the story more depth

Director: Gore Verbinski

Actors: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox, David Dorfman, …

Category: Horror

18 March 200321 March 2026 by Roog

Stitch! The Movie (2003)

Rating: ★½

Jun 19, 2010Disney Animation Sequel

Cheaply made video-released sequel to Lilo & Stitch, which is only a rehash but does surprisingly reunite all the voice talents

Director: Bobs Gannaway, Tony Craig

Actors: Daveigh Chase, Chris Sanders, David Ogden Stiers, Jeff Bennett, …

Category: Science Fiction

19 June 20102 August 2023 by Roog

S. Darko (2009)

Rating: ★

Apr 3, 2010Donnie Darko Sequel

This is a wholly unnecessary sequel to Donnie Darko, featuring the same bafflingly inexplicable time-blurring things happening to his sister but without the same culty weirdness

Director: Chris Fisher

Actors: Daveigh Chase, Briana Evigan, Ed Westwick, Jackson Rathbone, …

Category: Fantasy

3 April 201022 April 2026 by Roog

Jack Goes Home (2016)

Rating: ★★

Mar 31, 2017Weird/Disturbing Journey Back Home

Actor Thomas Dekker directs a film in which Rory Culkin travels home for a funeral and finds disturbing revelations about his past. This circles around weird happenings without going anywhere

Director: Thomas Dekker

Actors: Rory Culkin, Lin Shaye, Daveigh Chase, Louis Hunter, …

Category: Horror

31 March 201724 June 2026 by Roog