The Butcher’s Wife (1991)
Apr 3, 1999Magical Realist Romance
Amiable romantic comedy with Demi Moore as a clairvoyant who dispenses prophetic advice to everybody while caught in her own romantic entanglements
Max Perlich
Sometimes They Come Back … For More (1998)
May 31, 2001Satanic Forces in a Polar Base
The third film adapted from the Stephen King short story, which dispenses with connection to the other films and now concerns occult forces in an Arctic base
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Oct 31, 1999Haunted House
The announcement of the remake of The Haunting was followed by this remake of the 1959 William Castle film, which turns out far more unpretentious and altogether more fun than the bloated flop of The Haunting
Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby (1999)
Aug 7, 2000Modernised Hansel and Gretel/Juvenile Delinquent Drama
Matthew Bright's even better sequel to Freeway where he conducts an outrageous and quite brilliant modernisation of Hansel and Gretel now recast with two juvenile delinquents on the run
The Missing (2003)
Mar 10, 2003Western/American Indian Sorcerer
Ron Howard makes a Western that has some horror overtones featuring an evil Indian sorcerer. In the hands of a classic director like John Ford this could have been an epic work but Howard’s plodding predictability kills interest
Seven Mummies (2006)
Jan 19, 2007Western Ghost Town
Horror film where escaped convicts wander into a Western ghost town where a gold treasure is guarded by mummies
In/Sight (2011)
Mar 2, 2017Clairvoyance Thriller
There are few fantastic themes more tired than the clairvoyant thriller – a standard murder mystery where the detective just intuits all their deductions psychically. Apart from a couple of interesting twists, this is no different