John Gallagher Jr Archives

10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

Rating: ★★★

Mar 19, 2016Trapped in a Survival Shelter/Mysterious Catastrophe

Sequel in name only to Cloverfield, this takes place in a survival shelter where an unspecified catastrophe has happened outside but we cannot be certain what or even if anything at all. Okay but films like Take Shelter and The Divide did this much better

Director: Dan Trachtenberg

Actors: John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr

Category: Science Fiction

19 March 201611 November 2025 by Roog

The Belko Experiment (2016)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 17, 2017Office Employees Trapped in a Deadly Elimination Game

Greg (Wolf Creek) McLean directs from a script by James Gunn. The Office by way of Battle Royale as 80 employees are locked in an office building with orders to eliminate one another

Director: Greg McLean

Actors: John Gallagher Jr, Tony Goldwyn, Adria Arjona, John C. McGinley, …

Category: Horror

17 June 201717 July 2026 by Roog

Hush (2016)

Rating: ★★★½

Jun 26, 2016Deaf Woman Stalked by a Killer

A Mike Flanagan film that keeps you in a state of seat-edge tension. The premise is a simple one – a deaf woman is terrorised by a killer waiting outside her house – but Flanagan delivers it with electrifying effect

Director: Mike Flanagan

Actors: Kate Siegel, John Gallagher Jr, Samantha Sloyan, Michael Trucco, …

Category: Horror

26 June 20162 November 2025 by Roog

Underwater (2020)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 10, 2020Monster Underwater

Throwback to late 80s/early 90s films like The Abyss and Sphere with the crew of a sub-oceanic station fighting off a monster. Generic in plot terms bit directorially this is an intense and claustrophobic ride

Director: William Eubank

Actors: Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, Jessica Henwick, T.J. Miller, …

Category: Science Fiction

10 April 202026 September 2023 by Roog

Come Play (2020)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 7, 2021Sinister Entity from a Child's E-book

This is a surprisingly good film that generates quite a degree of spooky eeriness concerning a child on the autism spectrum and the sinister entity inside his tablet that just wants to be his friend

Director: Jacob Chase

Actors: Azhy Robertson, Gillian Jacobs, John Gallagher Jr, Winslow Fegley, …

Category: Horror

7 February 20217 January 2026 by Roog

I.S.S. (2023)

Rating: ★★★★

Feb 17, 2024International Space Station Drama

A gripping work set aboard the International Space Station where the US and Russian crews are suddenly placed at one another’s throats as war between the two sides breaks out down on Earth

Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite

Actors: Ariana DeBose, Chris Messina, Pilou Asbæk, John Gallagher Jr, …

Category: Science Fiction

17 February 202411 April 2026 by Roog