The Blue Man (1985)
May 7, 2000Astral Killer
Canadian-made horror from the heyday of the VHS era about psychic vampires terrorising people via astral projection in order to steal their bodies
John Novak
Darkman III: Die Darkman Die (1996)
Jun 15, 2008Disfigured Avenging Superhero
This was the second and better of the two video-released sequels to Sam Raimi's Darkman starring Arnold Vosloo in the title role. This adds a much more interestingly complex plot to the mix
Downdraft (1996)
Mar 24, 1999Amok AI/Nuclear Threat/Action
Modest and conceptually packed B-budget action film in which a motley team are sent to break into a bunker that has been hijacked by a scientist who is threatening to fire nuclear missiles
The Phantom of the Megaplex (2000)
Jun 25, 2009Phantom in the Multiplex/Kid's Caper Movie
A Disney Channel film, this has the amusing idea of translating The Phantom of the Opera to a modern multiplex and telling it as a children's story
Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell (2001)
Mar 5, 2014Evil Wish-Granting Djinn
The Wishmaster series was a franchise based around a series of novelty effects wherein a malevolent djinn turned wishes against the wisher. This third entry is the utter nadir of the series
Wishmaster: The Prophecy Fulfilled (2002)
Dec 21, 2011Evil Wish-Granting Djinn
The fourth and final of the Wishmaster films, which by this point had become cheap and tattily made affairs that are pale shadows of the original
Matthew Blackheart (2002)
Dec 31, 2002Monster Hunter
Film about a monster hunter from the 1940s thawed out in the present-day. This appears to have been made as a tv pilot
Dr. Dolittle 3 (2006)
Feb 23, 2008Teenager That Can Speak to Animals
Sequel to the Eddie Murphy Dr Dolittle films without Murphy where the title role is inherited by Kyla Pratt as his teenage daughter. The humour is pitched at an excruciating level of inanity
Thor: Tales of Asgard (2011)
Nov 24, 2012Animation/Marvel Comics Norse God Superhero
Though Marvel Comics have had massive success with their big screen adaptations in the 00s, they have been far less successful with their attempts to spin off animated films. An okay but unexceptional animated prequel released at the same time as the first Thor live-action film