Jungle Boy (1996)
May 25, 2008Jungle Boy
A fairly blatant copy of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book stories - even more so of the then recent 1994 live-action Disney remake - all having been conducted on a B-budget
David Fox
2001: A Space Travesty (2000)
Jun 14, 2002Intergalactic Farce
Supposedly an Airplane-styled movie parody that takes on 2001: A Space Odyssey (although this soon gets forgotten), this is one of the most painfully unfunny films ever made
The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
Jul 25, 2004Kitsch Surrealism
The best budgeted of Guy Maddin's films, a renaissance of his familiar kitsch surrealism and silent movie homages
Population / 436 (2006)
Jan 19, 2008Sinister Small Town
Film about a sinister small town where the population must always be kept at the title figure. An interestingly strange scenario suffers from far too laidback direction
Jack Brooks, Monster Slayer (2007)
Jun 3, 2013Horror Comedy
This leads to you expect a horror comedy but spends half its running time in build-up with no comedy or monster slaying, although does deliver on this with an entertaining effects-heavy climax
Mama (2013)
Jan 14, 2013Two Feral Children and Ghostly Companion
A Guillermo Del Toro produced ghost story that fails to go anywhere. The promise of the film's trailer falls apart in the hands of a novice director who blows all of his scares