Cannibalismravenous-19991999Film about the soldiers at a fort on the American frontier who have descended to cannibalism. A good set-up falls apart due to a comedy treatment
Feb 4, 2001Near Future Fleapit Hotel Murder Mystery
Near Future Fleapit Hotel Murder Mysterymillion-dollar-hotel-20002000Wim Wenders film from a story idea by U2's Bono set around the down-and-outs at a fleapit hotel slightly into the future. The film circles around a cast of eccentrics without ever really coming together
Apr 1, 2003Enigmatic Alien Planet/Ghosts of Memory
Enigmatic Alien Planet/Ghosts of Memorysolaris-20022002Steven Soderbergh's English-language remake of Andrei Tarkovsky's epic SF film. Soderbergh trims Tarkovsky's long-windedness and makes the plot tighter, more intimate but this still emerges as a lesser version than the original
Animation/Team of Occult Superheroesjustice-league-dark-20172017We are familiar with the Justice League but this gives us an alternate League whose members have supernatural abilities or are versed in dealing with the occult.
Serial Killerhouse-that-jack-built-20182018Lars von Trier, who I would argue is the best director at work in the world, makes a film about a serial killer. The results, as you might expect from von Trier, are outrageous, blackly funny and challengingly provocative
Imprisonment Thriller/Ghostly Telephoneblack-phone-20212021Scott Derrickson delivers an eerie film from a Joe Hill story about a child who is abducted and imprisoned by a serial killer but then receives message from beyond the grave on an old telephone.
Small Town's Deadly Halloween Rundark-harvest-20232023David Slade seemed a promising directorial name several years ago with works like the charged Hard Candy, before making Twilight films and being lost in tv. Here he returns with a film set around a small town’s deadly Halloween rituals
Hauntings/Ghostly Telephone Callsblack-phone-2-20252025Scott Derrickson makes a sequel to his earlier hit The Black Phone. The original was a modest but self-contained story, whereas this has to do some work before coming out as an original and effective follow-up