The Faculty (1998)
Dec 16, 1999Alien Body Snatchers Take Over a High School
Robert Rodriguez directs from a script by Scream writer Kevin Williamson. This wittily deconstructs the 1950s alien body snatchers film by way of The Breakfast Club
Jordana Brewster
D.E.B.S. (2004)
Jun 19, 2005Lesbian Charlie's Angels Parody
An extremely witty parody of Charlie's Angels (that also tapps the whole Austin Powers spy spoof fad). This amusingly rewrites the tv show in terms of lesbian attraction
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
Oct 21, 2007Backwoods Brutality
Prequel to the 2003 Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, which sets out to tell the origin story of the cannibal family. New director Jonathan Liebesman pushes the gore and sadism to Torture Porn extremes
Random Acts of Violence (2019)
Aug 21, 2020Comic-Book Artist Imitated by a Serial Killer
Actor Jay Baruchel directs a film in which a comic-book artist bases a graphic novel on a true-life serial killer only to find that the killer has returned and is imitating his work
Fast & Furious 9 (2021)
Jul 29, 2024Action Film
The Fast and the Furious series has escalated from films about illegal street racing to essentially superhero films involving ridiculous stunt work that defies the laws of physics. This takes the characters into orbit
Simulant (2023)
Apr 28, 2024Rogue Androids
Another in the spate of recent A.I. films of the 2010s/20s. Here one can buy android replacements for one’s late spouse but someone is hacking and causing them to go rogue
Heart Eyes (2025)
Aug 1, 2025Slasher/Romantic Comedy
This is a film that manages to be both a slasher film and a romantic comedy, two genres that do not at all seem to go together but are made to with undeniably appealing results