The Cellar (1989)
Nov 11, 2020Native American Demon
A low-budget 1980s film where a family buy a house in the desert only to find that there is a Native American demon imprisoned in the cellar
Patrick Kilpatrick
Death Warrant (1990)
Nov 6, 1999Prison Action/Organ Harvesting/Serial Killer
A Jean-Claude Van Damme action vehicle set in a prison that becomes an interestingly stylised realm in a wild plot featuring serial killers and organ harvesting schemes
Class of 1999 (1990)
Nov 1, 2005Killer Android Schoolteachers
Mark L. Lester's follow-up to his earlier The Class of 1982 about a teacher forced to adopt vigilante actions in a lawless classroom. In the interim, The Terminator came out and this now has killer android schoolteachers
The Stand (1994)
Jul 1, 2019Showdown Between the Forces of Good and Evil After the Collapse of Civilisation/Stephen King Adaptation
The Stand is regarded as Stephen King's best novel, an epic that depicts the final showdown between good and evil in the aftermath of civilisation. The mini-series adaptation was alas placed into the ham fists of one of King's worst adapters. Mick Garris
Scanner Cop II: Volkin’s Revenge (1995)
Aug 20, 2003Psychic Powers
The fourth and last of a series of low-budget sequels to David Cronenberg's Scanners, also the worst of the bunch featuring a series of absurd head-exploding effects
Minority Report (2002)
Jul 15, 2002Future Precognitive Police Force
Steven Spielberg takes on Philip K. Dick in a much grittier film than he usually makes. In the strong and intelligent script, Tom Cruise is an officer on a police force that predicts crime before it happens only to then be hunted by his own side
Parasomnia (2008)
Jun 2, 2015Girl With Sleeping Sickness/Dream-Invading Serial Killer
William Malone, the director of House on Haunted Hill remake, makes an interestingly different film about a girl who has spent most of her life asleep being pursued by a genius killer who invades her dreams