Joe Anderson Archives

The Ruins (2008)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 25, 2009Killer Plants

One film that defies the dictum that there has yet to be a decent killer plant film, this does a reasonable job of developing out tension in its story of teens encountering malevolent flora at a South American pyramid

Director: Carter Smith

Actors: Jonathan Tucker, Jena Malone, Laura Ramsey, Shawn Ashmore, …

Category: Horror

25 June 200911 June 2023 by Roog

The Crazies (2010)

Rating: ★★

Mar 9, 2010Madness Inducing Biospill

George Romero's underrated classic gets a makeover amid the 00/10s fad for remakes of 70s/80s horror films. Alas, Romero's modest classic about a madness-inducing biospill has a big-budget thrown to emerge as just another zombie film

Director: Breck Eisner

Actors: Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Anderson, Danielle Panabaker, …

Category: Horror

9 March 201014 January 2026 by Roog

Breaking Dawn Part Two (2012)

Rating: ★★

Nov 16, 2012Twilight Sequel/Vampire Romance

Perhaps the best thing about this is that the Twilight saga is finally ended. This provides a moderately spectacular showdown but also wraps its plotlines up with absurd deus ex machina wimp outs and an infuriating twist ending

Director: Bill Condon

Actors: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Michael Sheen, …

Category: Horror

16 November 201211 December 2025 by Roog

Horns (2013)

Rating: ★★

Dec 6, 2014Man Grows a Set of Devil Horns

An Alexandra Aja adaptation of a Joe Hill novel that comes with a diabolical glee as Daniel Radcliffe develops a set of devil horns and finds everyone confessing their deepest secrets to him

Director: Alexandre Aja

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Max Minghella, Joe Anderson, Juno Temple, …

Category: Fantasy

6 December 201426 December 2025 by Roog

Abattoir (2016)

Rating: ★

Dec 9, 2016Sinister Small Town/Collector of Murder Rooms

Darren Lynn Bousman is the director most associated with the Saw sequels and its Torture Porn excesses. His other films have been lacking. This comes with one of the most off the wall premises one has seen

Director: Darren Lynn Bousman

Actors: Jessica Lowndes, Joe Anderson, Dayton Callie, Lin Shaye, …

Category: Horror

9 December 201624 October 2025 by Roog

Hangman (2017)

Rating: ★

Jan 8, 2018Serial Killer Thriller

A dreary revival of the 1990s serial killer thriller. The surprise for a work that has no ambition beyond cable filler is that it has attracted a name like Al Pacino who mugs and showboats through the worst performance of his career

Director: Johnny Martin

Actors: Al Pacino, Karl Urban, Brittany Snow, Sarah Shahi, …

Category: Horror

8 January 201810 March 2026 by Roog

The Reckoning (2020)

Rating: ★

Mar 7, 2021Witch Persecutions

A few years ago, Neil Marshall seemed a major genre director on the rise with The Descent. Here he returns with a film about the historic witch persecutions

Director: Neil Marshall

Actors: Charlotte Kirk, Sean Pertwee, Steve Waddington, Joe Anderson, …

Category: Horror

7 March 202111 March 2026 by Roog

The Devil Conspiracy (2022)

Rating: ★★

Jan 1, 2024Theft of the Shroud of Turin/Clone Body for The Devil

This has an insane plot about Satanists stealing the Shroud of Turin to clone a body to incarnate The Devil and a priest possessed by the archangel Michael wading into action with a glowing sword

Director: Nathan Frankowski

Actors: Alice Orr-Ewing, Joe Doyle, James Faulkner, Eveline Hall, …

Category: Horror

1 January 202427 January 2026 by Roog