Desmond Harrington Archives

The Hole (2001)

Rating: ★★

Nov 1, 2002Imprisonment and Subjective Truth Psycho-Thriller

British psycho-thriller about teenagers trapped inside a bunker. This does an interesting mid-film twist to offer an entirely different version of the story but never rises above the middle-of-the-road

Director: Nick Hamm

Actors: Thora Birch, Keira Knightley, Desmond Harrington, Embeth Davidtz, …

Category: Horror

1 November 20028 April 2026 by Roog

Taken (2002)

Rating: ★★★½

Aug 7, 2008UFOs and Alien Abductions

TV mini-series in ten two-hour parts that deals with UFOs, covering several generations from the 1940s to the present. An interesting take on UFO encounters with the benefit of some phenomenal performances

Director: Breck Eisner, Bryan Spicer, Felix Alcala, Jeff Woolnough, Jeremy Kagan, John Fawcett, Michael Katleman, Sergio Mimica-Gezzan, Tobe Hooper

Actors: Dakota Fanning, Joel Gretsch, Emily Bergl, Heather Donahue, …

Category: Science Fiction

7 August 20088 August 2026 by Roog

Ghost Ship (2002)

Rating: ★★

Feb 27, 2003Haunted Ship

This was a big-budget revival of the ghost ship theme by Dark Castle Entertainment about a salvage crew encountering a ghost vessel. Visual effects tend to trump spooky atmosphere

Director: Steve Beck

Actors: Julianna Margulies, Gabriel Byrne, Desmond Harrington, Ron Eldard, …

Category: Horror

27 February 200325 October 2025 by Roog

Wrong Turn (2003)

Rating: ★★

Feb 23, 2004Backwoods Brutality

Passable effort that copies that basics of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre with a group of stranded teens running afoul of an in-bred family

Director: Rob Schmidt

Actors: Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, …

Category: Horror

23 February 200419 March 2021 by Roog

Love Object (2003)

Rating: ★★

Mar 12, 2026Man’s Twisted Relationship with a Sex Doll

This could be Lars and the Real Girl the horror version where a sex doll comes to life (maybe?) and makes Desmond Harrington’s life a misery. A film that becomes quite twisted

Director: Robert Parigi

Actors: Desmond Harrington, Melissa Sagemiller, Udo Kier, Rip Torn, …

Category: Horror

12 March 202629 June 2026 by Roog

The Neon Demon (2016)

Rating: ★★★½

Jul 3, 2016Horror Film in the L.A. Modelling World

Nicolas Winding Refn makes a horror film set in the L.A. modelling world. A film of hypnotic surfaces that glitter with a troubling undertow, the result is like Valley of the Dolls as remade by Dario Argento

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn

Actors: Elle Fanning, Jena Malone, Karl Glusman, Bella Heathcoate, …

Category: Horror

3 July 201617 January 2025 by Roog