Patrick Bauchau Archives

Phenomena (1985)

Rating: ★★★½

Sep 3, 1999Giallo Thriller/Insect Telepathy

Another of Dario Argento's giallo thrillers filled with all his trademark artily extravagant deaths. At the centre of the film is a teenage Jennifer Connelly who can psychically communicate with insects

Director: Dario Argento

Actors: Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Daria Nicolodi, Dalila Di Lazzaro, …

Category: Horror

3 September 199925 February 2026 by Roog

The Rapture (1991)

Rating: ★★★★

Feb 26, 1999The Biblical End of the World

Remarkable film with Mimi Rogers as a grieving widow who is drawn into the certainty that the Biblical Rapture is about to occur

Director: Michael Tolkin

Actors: Mimi Rogers, David Duchovny, Will Patton, Patrick Bauchau, …

Category: Fantasy

26 February 199921 February 2025 by Roog

Serpent’s Lair (1995)

Rating: ★

May 11, 2015Demonic Seductress

A supernatural version of Fatal Attraction where Jeff Fahey is lured into an affair with a neighbour who is a succubus

Director: Jeffrey Reiner

Actors: Jeff Fahey, Lisa B., Heather Medway, Patrick Bauchau, …

Category: Horror

11 May 201511 March 2025 by Roog

Vampires: The Turning (2005)

Rating: ★½

Feb 21, 2013Vampire Wars

Supposedly a second sequel to John Carpenter's Vampires but of little connection otherwise, this is a film of uneven effect about warring vampire clans in Thailand

Director: Marty Weiss

Actors: Colin Egglesfield, Stephanie Chao, Patrick Bauchau, Roger Yuan

Category: Horror

21 February 20134 April 2024 by Roog

Karla (2006)

Rating: ★★

Sep 9, 2007True-Life Serial Killers

Film based on true-life serial killing couple Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. This could have been another Monster but it feels like a film that played everything safe in terms of its content

Director: Joel Bender

Actors: Laura Prepon, Misha Collins, Patrick Bauchau, Tess Harper, …

Category: Horror

9 September 20077 June 2026 by Roog

Chrysalis (2007)

Rating: ★★

Mar 8, 2008Cyberpunk Film

French Cyberpunk film with a detective investigating the murder of an illegal immigrant girl and finding a blackmarket in stolen and transplanted memories

Director: Julien Leclercq

Actors: Albert Dupontel, Marie Guillard, Marthe Keller, Melanie Thierry, …

Category: Science Fiction

8 March 200829 September 2025 by Roog

2012 (2009)

Rating: ★★½

Nov 14, 2009The End of the World/Disaster Movie

Roland Emmerich mass destruction spectacle loosely based around the supposed Mayan prophecies about the end of the world in 2012. Mostly just an excuse for massively scaled disaster sequences.

Director: Roland Emmerich

Actors: John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, …

Category: Science Fiction

14 November 20095 July 2026 by Roog

Big Ass Spider! (2013)

Rating: ★★

Mar 28, 2014Giant Spider

Giant spider film that seems to be aiming for the same gonzo territory the killer shark film has of recent. Instead we get an average B movie with some good effects and a line of comic banter that falls flat in the delivery

Director: Mike Mendez

Actors: Greg Grunberg, Lombardo Boyar, Ray Wise, Patrick Bauchau, …

Category: Science Fiction

28 March 201410 January 2026 by Roog

Amnesiac (2014)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 12, 2019Imprisonment Thriller

Michael Polish is one of the underrated American directors. Here an amnesiac Wes Bentley wakes up a prisoner of a wonderfully chilling Kate Bosworth who insists that she is his wife

Director: Michael Polish

Actors: Wes Bentley, Kate Bosworth, Shashawnee Hall, Richard Riehl, …

Category: Horror

12 November 201917 November 2025 by Roog

Mega Shark vs Kolossus (2015)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 25, 2020Giant Monsters

The fourth of The Asylum's Mega Shark films and the best of the series where they get the balance of tongue-in-cheek absurdity just right and the low-budget effects prove surprisingly good

Director: Christopher Douglas-Olen Ray

Actors: Illeana Douglas, Amy Rider, Ed Derutier, Tara Price, …

Category: Science Fiction

25 February 202025 June 2021 by Roog