Ian Abercrombie Archives

Catacombs (1988)

Rating: ★★

Jul 9, 2019Evil Stirs Beneath a Monastery

An almost quite good film from Charles and Albert Band's Empire Productions about imprisoned evil stirring beneath a monastery. The build-up is well done and the film only falters at a weak ending

Director: David Schmoeller

Actors: Timothy Van Patten, Ian Abercrombie, Vernon Dobtcheff

Category: Horror

9 July 201927 March 2024 by Roog

Puppetmaster III: Toulon’s Revenge (1991)

Rating: ★★

Jan 26, 2003Puppetmaster & Toys vs Nazis

The third of Full Moon's Puppet Master films, this is a prequel that explores Andre Toulon's origins in Nazi Germany

Director: David DeCoteau

Actors: Guy Rolfe, Richard Lynch, Ian Abercrombie, Aron Eisenberg, …

Category: Horror

26 January 200313 April 2021 by Roog

Army of Darkness (1992)

Rating: ★★

Jun 5, 2000Evil Dead Sequel/War with the Dead/Horror Comedy

Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell make their third Evil Dead film. The series hit a peak with the delirious balance of horror and comedy in the second film but here the comedy over-balances and becomes too broad

Director: Sam Raimi

Actors: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert, Ian Abercrombie, …

Category: Horror

5 June 200019 November 2025 by Roog

Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000 (1994)

Rating: ★

Apr 7, 2021Time Travellers from a Future Where Sex is Banned

Charles Band film directed by David DeCoteau, a lame softcore comedy where two guys travel back from a future where sex is outlawed and end up in a girl’s boarding school

Director: David DeCoteau

Actors: Morgan Fairchild, Brian Bremer, Ian Abercrombie

Category: Science Fiction

7 April 202121 July 2023 by Roog

Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman (2000)

Rating: ★★

Oct 8, 2025Killer Mutant Snowman

Jack Frost, not to be confused with the Michael Keaton film of the same name, was an amusing horror comedy about a killer mutant snowman. This is a sequel that takes Jack to a beach resort in Hawaii

Director: Michael Cooney

Actors: Christopher Allport, Scott MacDonald, Marsha Clark, David Allen Brooks, …

Category: Horror

8 October 202513 November 2025 by Roog

Inland Empire (2006)

Rating: ★★

Aug 17, 2007Surrealism

David Lynch's last theatrical films and probably the most divided of Lynch's films. Another delve into cryptic surrealism that arrives at no clear plot destinations or clues about what is going on

Director: David Lynch

Actors: Laura Dern, Justin Theroux, Jeremy Irons, Harry Dean Stanton, …

Category: Fantasy

17 August 200720 April 2026 by Roog

Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties (2006)

Rating: ★

Nov 10, 2006Lazy Talking Cat

Where the first live-action Garfield film approximated the original comic-strip and its focus on a cat delivering sarcastic lines, this sequel pitches everything down to the level of an inane children's film

Director: Tim Hill

Actors: Breckin Meyer, Billy Connolly, Bill Murray, Jennifer Love Hewitt, …

Category: Fantasy

10 November 200625 October 2025 by Roog

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)

Rating: ★★

Oct 9, 2008Space Opera/Animation

Theatrical spinoff from the Star Wars prequels, released to introduce the popular animated series. This shows it is time for George Lucas to move beyond recycling something that was successful three decades ago

Director: Dave Filoni

Actors: Matt Lanter, Christopher Lee, James Arnold Taylor, Nika Futterman, …

Category: Science Fiction

9 October 200830 July 2026 by Roog

Rango (2011)

Rating: ★★★★

Mar 13, 2011Animation/Talking Animal Western Homage

Gore Verbinski makes an eccentrically different animated homage to the Western, all cast with talking animals. The animation comes from Industrial Light and Magic and is quite unlike any other animated film.

Director: Gore Verbinski

Actors: Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Ned Beatty, Alfred Molina, …

Category: Fantasy

13 March 201121 February 2025 by Roog