Paul Johansson Archives

Carnival of Souls (1998)

Rating: ★

Nov 17, 2000Haunting and Hallucination

Carnival of Souls was rediscovered as a cult classic in the 1980s. Then there was this remake that misses all of the haunted mood of the original in favour of makeup effects jumps and reality blurrings that make no sense

Director: Adam Grossman

Actors: Bobbie Phillips, Larry Miller, Shawnee Smith, Paul Johansson

Category: Horror

17 November 200028 November 2023 by Roog

Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies (1999)

Rating: ★★

Jul 21, 2001Evil Wish-Granting Djinn

The first of the sequels to Wishmaster and better than the ones that would follow, although still not a patch on the imaginative makeup effects in the original

Director: Jack Sholder

Actors: Andrew Divoff, Holly Fields, Paul Johansson, Tom Tiny Lister Jr, …

Category: Horror

21 July 200126 May 2026 by Roog

Stonados (2013)

Rating: ★

Nov 17, 2015Disaster Movie/Tornado of Explosive Boulders

Another cheap Syfy Channel disaster movie – this one featuring a tornado that rains boulders that explode upon landing. Everything runs to the usual formula plotting and cheap CGI effects of these types of movies

Director: Jason Bourque

Actors: Paul Johansson, Sebastian Spence, Miranda Frigon, Jessica McLeod, …

Category: Science Fiction

17 November 201524 December 2021 by Roog