Nick Mancuso Archives

Nightwing (1979)

Rating: ★★

Jan 11, 2006Killer Vampire Bats

Adaptation of a Martin Cruz Smith novel about an Indian reservation under attack by hordes of vampire bats. The Nature Amok theme suffers terrible effects and plays subordinate to a polemic about the state of the modern Indian

Director: Arthur Hiller

Actors: Nick Mancuso, David Warner, Kathryn Harrold, Steven Macht, …

Category: Horror

11 January 200620 January 2025 by Roog

Death Ship (1980)

Rating: ★★

Sep 21, 2011Ghost Ship

Film about a ghost ship haunted by Nazi atrocities. This gives the impression it was made to highlight a series of novelty deaths styled after the then-recent hit of The Omen

Director: Alvin Rakoff

Actors: George Kennedy, Richard Crenna, Sally Ann Howes, Nick Mancuso, …

Category: Horror

21 September 20119 October 2025 by Roog

Past Perfect (1996)

Rating: ★★

Dec 12, 2004Assassins from the Future/Action

SF action film with Eric Roberts as a future cop travelling through time trying to stop kids before they become criminals

Director: Jonathan Heap

Actors: Eric Roberts, Nick Mancuso, Laurie Holden, Saul Rubinek, …

Category: Science Fiction

12 December 200430 April 2023 by Roog

Marquis de Sade (1996)

Rating: ★★

Dec 31, 1996Marquis De Sade Biopic

A biopic of the Marquis de Sade that is not uninteresting but suffers from being produced by Roger Corman on one of his usual B-budgets

Director: Gwyneth Gibby

Actors: Nick Mancuso, John Rhys-Davies, Janet Gunn

Category: Horror

31 December 199616 October 2023 by Roog

Misbegotten (1997)

Rating: ★★★½

Dec 3, 2000Psycho Sperm Donor

From a Larry Cohen script, a side-splitting effort with Kevin Dillon as a psychopathic sperm donor who forcibly intrudes into the life of his baby's mother

Director: Mark L. Lester

Actors: Kevin Dillon, Lysette Anthony, Nick Mancuso, Matthew Walker, …

Category: Horror

3 December 200022 December 2020 by Roog

Revelation (1999)

Rating: ★★

Oct 9, 2003The Anti-Christ in Virtual Reality

The second in a series of Biblical End Times films from Canada's faith-based Cloud Ten Pictures, this offers the peculiarity of the Anti-Christ appearing in Virtual Reality

Director: Andre van Heerden

Actors: Jeff Fahey, Carol Alt, Nick Mancuso, Tony Nappo, Leigh Lewis

Category: Fantasy

9 October 200328 February 2025 by Roog

Tribulation (2000)

Rating: ★

Feb 26, 2007Christian End Times/Anti-Christ Dystopia

The third in a series of Biblical End Times films withGary Busey as a decent cop who wakes up in a future ruled by the Anti-Christ. The heavy-handed slinging of Bible verses makes this hard-going for anyone who is not a believer, while the conspiratorial tone frequently verges on nuttiness

Director: Andre van Heerden

Actors: Gary Busey, Margot Kidder, Nick Mancuso, Howie Mandel, …

Category: Fantasy

26 February 200730 July 2024 by Roog