The Kiss (1988)
Apr 6, 2004Sinister Aunt
Hilariously nonsensical horror film with Joanna Pacula as a sinister aunt. The plot throws in laughable novelty effects, including a killer cat, absurdly overwrought symbolism and some voodoo rationale
Meredith Salenger
Dream a Little Dream (1989)
Nov 6, 2024Bodyswap Film
One of the forgotten entries in the mid-1980s spate of bodyswap comedies where elderly Jason Robards finds himself in teenager Corey Feldman’s body. This suffers from a very confused script
Village of the Damned (1995)
Jun 22, 2002Telepathic Alien Children
Director John Carpenter did amazing things with his remake of The Thing but was not able to replicate such with his remake of Village of the Damned, which misses the taut atmosphere of the 1960 film
Lake Placid (1999)
Jul 21, 1999Giant Killer Crocodile
David E. Kelley, better known as a high-profile tv producer, turns his hand to writing a killer crocodile film, although the result never ends up satisfying either as a monster movie or the jokey tone Kelley wants to take
The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019)
Sep 8, 2019Animation/Talking Animals
Illumination's The Secret Life of Pets came with a winning concept - a Garfield like series of wry observations on humanity by pets - and this is one amongst the current plague of animated sequels that emerges equally likably