New Eden (1994)
Feb 17, 2003Prison Planet
SF film with Stephen Baldwin sentenced to life on a prison planet where he becomes saviour to a small peaceful community
Michael Bowen
Magnolia (1999)
Dec 31, 1999Interwoven Stories/Unexplained Phenomena
From Paul Thomas Anderson, a series of interlinking stories and character sketches, featuring some great performances. Underlining everything is a fascination with the inexplicable and the works of Charles Fort
Autopsy (2008)
Apr 16, 2017Hospital of Horrors
Horror film conceived around having creepy things happening around a hospital, less so in terms of any rationale. What the film does have in its favour is that it is exxxtremely gory
Deadgirl (2008)
Sep 26, 2018Necrophilia with an Imprisoned Zombie Girl
Amid the overused zombie genre, this hits in with a considerable originality. The story of teenagers who find a zombie girl and keep her imprisoned for sexual purposes soon enters a disturbing headspace
Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (2009)
Jul 24, 2014Deadly Infection
The first sequel to Eli Roth's film, directed by a then unknown Ti West who subsequently tried to have his name removed. The gore effects look cheap and cheesy and the film misses the comedic angle of the original
The Last House on the Left (2009)
Jul 17, 2010Sadism and Revenge
A disappointing remake of the harrowing Wes Craven classic where the violence has been tamed down and the film is entirely missing the irony of the original's savage ending
All Cheerleaders Die (2013)
Sep 14, 2014Resurrected Cheerleaders
Directors Lucky McKee and Chris Sivertson conduct a remake of their earlier film about resurrected cheerleaders. The question might be why – both have demonstrated they can do far better than this
House By the Lake (2017)
Jun 1, 2020Girl's Sinister Imaginary Companion
A strange film about parents who become concerned when their young daughter insists she has an imaginary fish man companion. This arrives at a head-scratchingly WTF ending