Meat Loaf Archives

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Rating: ★★★★

Jun 2, 2002Gender-Bender Rock Musical/Frankenstein Spoof

The No 1 cult film of all time, more a phenomenon than a film, a demented glitter rock homage to mad science cinema and 50s sf films run through with celebration of a gender-bender joie de vivre

Director: Jim Sharman

Actors: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 June 20027 January 2026 by Roog

Spice World (1997)

Rating: ★★

Sep 12, 2009The Spice Girls' Gonzo Escapades

The Spice Girls conduct their own version of The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night, a largely plotless film with them clowning around. Including appearances from aliens.

Director: Bob Spiers

Actors: Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm, Geri Haliwell, …

Category: Science Fiction

12 September 20091 June 2022 by Roog

Outside Ozona (1998)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 23, 2008Road Movie Psycho-Thriller

Thriller following several different people as they drive towards the title Texas town, while a serial killer calls into an all-night radio talkback

Director: J.S. Cardone

Actors: Robert Forster, Kevin Pollak, Penelope Ann Miller, Sherilyn Fenn, …

Category: Horror

23 February 200818 December 2024 by Roog

Fight Club (1999)

Rating: ★★★★★

Oct 20, 1999Brawling Clubs/Anarchist Revolution/Split Personality

David Fincher tackles Chuck Palahniuk's novel about secret brawling clubs. Maybe the only major studio film with an openly anarchist manifesto. Brilliant, incendiary, all over the map plotwise and thoroughly unique

Director: David Fincher

Actors: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, …

Category: Fantasy

20 October 19996 July 2025 by Roog

BloodRayne (2005)

Rating: ★

Mar 29, 2008Videogame Adaptation/Vampire War

Another Uwe Boll's videogame adaptation, this feels slung together from vampire film and sword and sorcery cliches. Among the badly mismatched casting, the most eyebrow raising is Ben Kingsley as the vampire villain

Director: Uwe Boll

Actors: Kristanna Loken, Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Michelle Rodriguez, …

Category: Horror

29 March 200824 June 2026 by Roog

Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny (2006)

Rating: ★★

Mar 26, 2007Rockstars' Gonzo Quest

Film spinoff of the rock parody act headed by Jack Black. This emerges like i>The Blues Brothers recast with Cheech and Chong and delivers some occasionally surreal and amusing gags

Director: Liam Lynch

Actors: Jack Black, Kyle Gass, Paul F. Tompkins, Tim Robbins, …

Category: Fantasy

26 March 20071 June 2022 by Roog

Burning Bright (2010)

Rating: ★★★½

Apr 27, 2017Trapped Inside a House with a Tiger

Film about a girl and her autistic brother trapped inside a house with a tiger, this proves an unexpectedly really good. It avoids the cliches of the Animals Amok genre and derives superb hair-raising tension from the set-up

Director: Carlos Brooks

Actors: Briana Evigan, Garret Dillahunt, Charlie Tahan, Meat Loaf, …

Category: Horror

27 April 201716 December 2025 by Roog

Stage Fright (2014)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 23, 2014Slasher Musical

A slasher musical??? The mind does a double takes trying to process the incongruity of the genre mash-ups. That said, this works exceedingly well – neither compromising on the slasher aspects, yet equally delivering some clever and witty musical numbers

Director: Jerome Sable

Actors: Meat Loaf, Minnie Driver, Allie MacDonald, Douglas Smith, …

Category: Horror

23 June 201412 November 2024 by Roog