Raggedy Man (1981)
Sep 2, 1999WWII Smalltown Romance/Hick Psychos
Beautifully shot Sissy Spacek starring work of American nostalgia set in rural 1940s Texas that takes a turn into Southern Gothic in its last quarter
Eric Roberts
Star 80 (1983)
Apr 30, 1999Real-Life Playmate Murder
Bob Fosse's riveting biopic of murdered Playmate Dorothy Stratten with Eric Roberts giving his best performance ever
The Ambulance (1990)
Apr 8, 1999Mysterious Ambulance/Sinister Medical Experiments
One of the last directorial outings from cult director Larry Cohen. Comic-book artist Eric Roberts is wound up in trying to trace a mysterious ambulance that is abducting women into illicit experiments
Voyage (1993)
Jul 6, 1999Yachtboard Psycho-Thriller
Psycho-thriller set aboard a yacht as a couple invite old friends Eric Roberts and Connie Nielsen to join them only to find they have sinister intent
Sensation (1994)
Apr 19, 1999Psychometry/Erotic Thriller
Kari Wuhrer stars in a tawdry erotic thriller as an art student who gains clairvoyant abilities and gets caught up in solving a murder
The Nature of the Beast (1995)
Apr 6, 2003Road Movie Psycho-Thriller
From Jeepers Creepers director Victor Salva, a gripping road movie thriller that owes somewhat to The Hitcher with a series of psychological games between Lance Henriksen and hitcher Eric Roberts where we can never be sure what is what
Past Perfect (1996)
Dec 12, 2004Assassins from the Future/Action
SF action film with Eric Roberts as a future cop travelling through time trying to stop kids before they become criminals
The Prophecy II (1998)
Nov 16, 2000War Between Angels
An okay sequel to the angel wars film The Prophecy, the first of several. As in the previous film, a returning Christopher Walken steals the show and gets all the best lines
Wolves of Wall Street (2002)
Dec 6, 2023Werewolf Stockbrokers
Way before The Wolf of Wall Street, we had this David DeCoteau film about werewolf stockbrokers
Six: The Mark Unleashed (2004)
Mar 12, 2025Biblical End Times/Antichrist Dystopia
Christian work about the Biblical End Times set in a dystopia where everyone is forced to accept the Mark of the Beast. Starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, no less!
DOA: Dead or Alive (2006)
Nov 10, 2006Videogame Adaptation/Combat Tournament
Videogame adaptation that emerges as a conceptual combination of Charlie’s Angels (2000) – a trio of girls, in kickass poses and jaw-droppingly scanty costumery – and Mortal Kombat
The Dark Knight (2008)
Jul 18, 2008Comic-Book Superhero
Christopher Nolan brought the cinematic Batman franchise back to life with Batman Begins and here expands it into something amazing. The show is capped off by Heath Leder's towering Academy Award winning performance as The Joker
Ligeia (2009)
Jan 14, 2012Modernised Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation
Modernised adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story. Poe might be turning in his grave with visits to fetish clubs added to the mix but mostly the film befalls a low-budget and tepid delivery
The Steam Experiment (2009)
Jul 9, 2015Imprisonment Thriller
This offers one of the more original twists on the Saw set-up – Val Kilmer plays a professor who imprisons a group of people in a steam room slowly turning the temperature up as a protest against global warming.
Sharktopus (2010)
Dec 28, 2014Monster Shark-Octopus Hybrid
Amid the fad for deliberately absurd killer shark films viz Sharknado, this surely takes the prize for ridiculousness of conception and delivery – a hybrid creature with the head of a shark and the tentacles of an octopus. I defy you not to burst into laughter at some of the scenes (*)
Chillerama (2011)
Jun 23, 2012Horror Parody Anthology/Drive-In Homage
In the same vein as Grindhouse, four filmmakers have come together to make an anthology of spoof horror films that homage the drive-in tradition. Good taste is left well behind and the results are both outrageous and funny
Revelation Road: The Sea of Glass and Fire (2013)
Mar 29, 2017The Biblical Rapture
Not wishing to insult anyone's beliefs but Christian cinema has produced some really bad films. With such lowered expectations, this Rapture film approaches halfway watchable with a story that somewhat resembles Mad Max 1 about a biker seeking vengeance against a decent man
Assault on Wall Street (2013)
Mar 1, 2014Man Goes on a Shooting Rampage Against Bankers
Uwe Boll makes a big issue film about the subprime mortgage crisis. The film is packed by Boll with messages but comes down to being a variant on Death Wish with its blue-collar hero on a shooting rampage against bankers
Revelation Road: The Beginning of the End (2013)
Feb 23, 2015The Biblical Rapture
One of a number of faith-produced films we have had since the late 90s that concern themselves with the arrival of The Rapture - this one even spawned a trilogy. This is passable if you can palate the relatively light sermonising and at least better written that the Left Behind films
Camp Dread (2014)
May 18, 2015Slasher Film
This pays much homage to the 1980s summer camp slasher film and does a competent re-run of the basics if nothing that turns the genre on its head. On the other hand, it is less interesting when it tries to tap into the reality tv horror fad
L.A. Slasher (2015)
Aug 8, 2017Killer Stalks Hollywood
The idea of a killer targeting all that is talentless in Hollywood has some satiric amusement but this is an incoherent film delivered in a series of MTV visuals by what feels a coke-addled director
Cowboys vs. Dinosaurs (2015)
Feb 8, 2016Dinosaurs Revived in the Present Day
Despite the disappointment that it is not a Western but set modern-day. This enlivens a formula plot quite well and provides dinosaur effects that range between the surprisingly good and the occasionally ropy
The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) (2015)
Jul 13, 2015Prison Warden Surgically Connects Prisoners' Bodies
The first two Human Centipede films are masterpieces of twisted extremes. The third entry goes astray in giving the show over to Dieter Laser in one of the most over-the-top performances ever unleashed
Joker’s Wild (2016)
Apr 24, 2019Theatre Haunted by Killer Clowns
Completely ridiculous killer clown film with a theatre haunted by clowns where nothing makes any sense. Even more absurdly, it becomes a preachy diatribe in favour of the right to gun ownership
The Sector (2016)
Aug 3, 2017Alternate World Criminal
Variant on the alternate world hopping theme where a bounty hunter finds the person he is pursuing is an alternate world criminal. The film's budget is way too low to do any justice to either the theme or the setting after the collapse of civilisation
The Institute (2017)
Jun 9, 2017Sinister 19th Century Asylum/"True Story"
James Franco co-directs and stars as a sinister psychiatrist in a 19th Century asylum who subjects patients to drugs and mind control so they can play in elaborate orgies. Supposedly based on a true-life incident
King Cohen (2017)
Jan 3, 2023Genre Director Documentary
A documentary about cult director Larry Cohen, best known for It's Alive and other works. This is filled with hilariously entertaining stories of his guerrilla film-making methods
Monster Island (2019)
Jun 7, 2021Monster Movie/The Asylum Mockbuster
One of the better mockbusters from The Asylum, timed to come out at the same time as the US Godzilla, King of the Monsters and actually far more modestly enjoyable
A.I. Tales (2019)
Aug 30, 2021Science Fiction Anthology
An anthology of four SF tales, short films from various directors around the world, although surprisingly none that feature Artificial Intelligences
Cross: Rise of the Villains (2019)
Feb 29, 2024Action Team
Third of the Cross films, a more fantastical variant on The Expendables, bringing 90s action actors back out of mothballs to form a team as they face various super-villains in present-day L.A.
Ape vs. Monster (2021)
Sep 8, 2022The Asylum Mockbuster/Giant Animals
The Asylum’s mockbuster version of Godzilla vs Kong that features a giant-sized chimpanzee and gila monster facing off against one another
Megaboa (2021)
Nov 17, 2022Giant Snake
In the vein of their Mega Shark films and Mega Python vs Gatoroid, The Asylum make a monster movie about a giant-sized snake. Cheesy with a B movie competence.
Megalodon: The Frenzy (2023)
Aug 7, 2025Giant Prehistoric Sharks
The third of The Asylum’s trilogy of films about giant prehistoric sharks
Space Sharks (2024)
Mar 28, 2025Gonzo Killer Shark Film
Another in the gonzo killer shark film fad viz Sharknado, a bottom of the barrel effort that concerns lab sharks returned from a space mission mutated