Schizopolis (1996)
Sep 29, 2021Surreal Satire
One of the most obscure films in the oeuvre of Steven Soderbergh, a strange and head-scratchingly surreal satire of workplace and domestic life
David Jensen
The Mist (2007)
May 25, 2009Creatures in the Fog/Stephen King Adaptation
Frank Darabont delivers one of the best Stephen King adaptations where the story of people at siege in a supermarket from unseen creatures in a mystery fog outside becomes a study in fear and prejudice. With one of the great unforgettable endings
The Reaping (2007)
May 5, 2007Modern-Day Biblical Plagues
Reasonable budgeted film about a series of Biblical plagues being visited upon a rural Louisiana town. An interesting set up that flounders amid a confused script
Creature (2011)
Dec 31, 2011Alligator Man
An enthusiastic B movie that takes its ridiculous premise of a group of friends encountering an alligator man lurking in the backwoods Louisiana swamps far too seriously for its own good
Seconds Apart (2011)
Aug 18, 2012Evil Psychic Twins
A wonderfully cool film about malevolent twins with psychic abilities. that is an astonishingly assured effort where the various set-pieces come with the confidence of a director who has been working in the genre for years
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012)
Mar 23, 2013Super-Soldiers/Action/Identity Bender
Sixth entry in the series, this throws out all the themes the previous sequels operated by and feels like a Universal Soldier film written by Philip K. Dick with utterly fascinating results. John Hyams hits in with a brutal intensity that shows he is one of the most exciting up and coming action directors
Alien Tornado (2012)
Nov 21, 2019Disaster Movie/Extraterrestrial Tornado
Another cheap Syfy Channel disaster movie. With the sheer amount of these films, many have been straining to come up novelty threats - you cannot deny the idea of a tornado of alien origin holds your attention
The Last Exorcism Part II (2013)
Mar 9, 2013Possession Film
Sequel to the sleeper 2010 Found Footage hit. Alas, this is a sequel that understands almost nothing about what made the first film so original and is just a possession film that comes utterly by the numbers
Midnight Special (2016)
Apr 9, 2016Gifted Otherworldly Child
This feels like a reworking of late 70s/early 80s sf films like Starman and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Much of the film is based around a series of amazing happenings but its crucial failure as science-fiction is the lack of explanations for why these are happening