Lauren Ashley Carter Archives

The Prodigies (2011)

Rating: ★★½

Mar 2, 2012Animation/Psychic Powered Kids Go Amok

French animated film about a group of kids with psychic powers going amok. Is okay at what it does but had much of its thunder stolen by the more recent and more spectacular Chronicle

Director: Antoine Charreyron

Actors: Lauren Carter, Lauren Ashley Carter, Ogie Banks, J.B. Blanc, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 March 201214 February 2025 by Roog

The Woman (2011)

Rating: ★★★★

Jul 25, 2011Uncivilised Wild Woman/Sadism and Brutality

Lucky McKee's highly controversial film about a family man who makes a feral woman prisoner is out-there, takes-no-prisoners horror. Forget the kneejerk reactions, this is brutal, highly original and with a whiplash sense of dark humour

Director: Lucky McKee

Actors: Sean Bridgers, Pollyanna McIntosh, Angela Bettis, Zach Rand, …

Category: Horror

25 July 201130 May 2022 by Roog

Jug Face (2013)

Rating: ★★½

Jul 10, 2025Backwoods Folk Horror

A very odd Folk Horror film set among two backwoods hillbilly families whose lives are dominated by a pit in the woods they worship

Director: Chad Crawford Kinkle

Actors: Lauren Ashley Carter, Sean Bridgers, Larry Fessenden, Sean Young, …

Category: Horror

10 July 202513 November 2025 by Roog

The Mind’s Eye (2015)

Rating: ★★

Jul 31, 2017Psychic Powers

Homage to David Cronenberg's Scanners, albeit produced on an even cheaper budget than any of the sequels. Where the film almost redeems itself is when it goes to town with the various head-exploding effects

Director: Joe Begos

Actors: Graham Skipper, Lauren Ashley Carter, Larry Fessenden, Noah Segan, …

Category: Science Fiction

31 July 201723 March 2025 by Roog

Darling (2015)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 12, 2016Girl's Fraying Sanity/Haunted Apartment

One of the films from the most promising Mickey Keating. Darling owes a great deal of debt to Roman Polanski's Repulsion but Keating very effectively drags us into a disturbed mental space

Director: Mickey Keating

Actors: Lauren Ashley Carter, Brian Morvant, Sean Young

Category: Horror

12 September 201615 January 2026 by Roog