Gabrielle Rose Archives

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

Sisters (2006)

Rating: ★

Nov 4, 2009Siamese Twins Psycho-Thriller

Disappointing remake of Brian De Palma's 1973 Siamese twins psycho-thriller that changes many elements and crucially lacks De Palma's stylistic showmanship

Director: Douglas Buck

Actors: Chloe Sevigny, Lou Doillon, Stephen Rea, Dallas Roberts, …

Category: Horror

4 November 200914 March 2025 by Roog

Beneath (2007)

Rating: ★

Apr 11, 2017Smalltown Secrets

Girl returns to her hometown after many years, encounters family secrets, ghostly figures, clairvoyant visions. The film holds interest for a time as you try to figure out what is going on but eventually proves a letdown

Director: Dagen Merrill

Actors: Nora Zehetner, Matthew Settle, Gabrielle Rose, Warren Christie, …

Category: Horror

11 April 201727 November 2025 by Roog

Lost Boys: The Tribe (2008)

Rating: ★

Jul 17, 2009Surfer Vampires

After 21 years, this was the first of two sequel to The Lost Boys, featuring return performances from Corey Feldman and Corey Haim and, yes, surfer vampires

Director: P.J. Pesce

Actors: Tad Hilgenbrinck, Angus Sutherland, Corey Feldman, Autumn Reeser, …

Category: Horror

17 July 200928 June 2026 by Roog

Grace (2009)

Rating: ★★★★

Aug 30, 2012Nightmare Baby

A disturbingly effective story of a mother who gives birth to a baby that is not human. An immensely assured directorial debut that eschews cliche horror effect and becomes a chilling study in psychological disintegration

Director: Paul Solet

Actors: Jordan Ladd, Samantha Ferris, Gabrielle Rose, Malcolm Stewart, …

Category: Horror

30 August 20121 March 2026 by Roog

Repeaters (2010)

Rating: ★★★

Oct 11, 2010Timeloop

Groundhog Day with drug addicts – a familiar timeloop scenario that makes for a reasonable story about redemption and reconciliation

Director: Carl Bessai

Actors: Dustin Milligan, Amanda Crew, Benjamin Ratner, Alexia Fast, …

Category: Fantasy

11 October 20105 May 2022 by Roog

The Devout (2015)

Rating: ★★

Oct 16, 2015Man's Daughter May Be a Reincarnated Astronaut

The bizarre story of a man who believes his young daughter is the reincarnation of a NASA astronaut. The film makes great claim that it is based on a true story but fails to make a compelling argument for its case

Director: Connor Gaston

Actors: Charlie Carrick, Ali Liebert, Olivia Martin, Gabrielle Rose, …

Category: Fantasy

16 October 201516 October 2025 by Roog

The Stand (2020-2021)

Rating: ★

Mar 5, 2021Showdown Between the Forces of Good and Evil After the Collapse of Civilisation/Stephen King Adaptation

The Stand is in my opinion Stephen King’s greatest book. The question is whether this new mini-series version will improve on the laughably failed 1994 version

Director: Bridget Savage Cole, Chris Fisher, Danielle Krudy, Josh Boone, Tucker Gates, Vincenzo Natali

Actors: James Marsden, Alexander Skarsgård, Amber Heard, Whoopi Goldberg, …

Category: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction

5 March 202128 March 2022 by Roog

Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 28, 2025Precognition/Descendants of a Doomed Survivor

A return to the Final Destination franchise after fourteen years, this comes with an undeniable sense of humour, producing a series of highly entertaining despatches to make the best entry in the series so far

Director: Adam Stein, Zach Lipovsky

Actors: Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Richard Harmon, Rya Kihlshedt, Teo Briones, …

Category: Horror

28 June 202510 May 2026 by Roog