Face/Off (1997)
Jun 3, 2005Action/Surgical Identity Exchange
John Woo directed action film where FBI agent John Travolta and terrorist Nicolas Cage end up surgically swapping faces and then taking over the other's identity
Gina Gershon
Demonlover (2002)
Aug 8, 2003Snuff Internet Site/Corporate Espionage Thriller
Corporate thriller in which Connie Nielsen discovers an underground of snuff S&M. This develops a compulsive hold but its pullback to kneejerk moralism is dissatisfying
Category 7: The End of the World (2005)
May 5, 2007Superstorms/Disaster Mini-Series
Sequel to the tv mini-series Category 6: Day of Destruction ups the scale of the super-storm but is also better constructed as a disaster movie
Bad Kids of Crestview Academy (2017)
Apr 17, 2019High School Detention Slasher
Sequel to the sarcastically amusing Bad Kids Go to Hell, which is set at the same school a few years later as someone starts eliminating people in detention
The Little Mermaid (2018)
Sep 23, 2019Mermaid Film
Not the Disney film, this is a live-action film that occasionally has things in common with the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale. Not a work that travels too much out of being a nicely made average film but one that has been conducted on a low-budget with evident care
Thanksgiving (2023)
Dec 31, 2023Slasher Film
Eli Roth’s homage to the slasher film that comes with a dark sense of humour and a series of novelty deaths that rival the best of the 80s slasher heyday
Borderlands (2024)
Sep 14, 2024Videogame Adaptation/Planetary Adventure
Eli Roth adapts the popular videogame and corrals a surprisingly high-profile cast in a knockabout planetary adventure. Alas, that met a very mixed reception and was widely regarded as a bad movie