Peter Friedman Archives

Christmas Evil (1980)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 25, 2016Psycho Santa/Christmas Slasher

One of the original Psycho Santa films. Usually pegged as another Christmas slasher film, rather what we have is a film that draws us into a disturbed headspace that operates on a unique fairytale morality about punishing the naughty

Director: Lewis Jackson

Actors: Brandon Maggart, Jeffrey DeMunn, Dianne Hull, Peter Friedman

Category: Horror

25 December 20165 January 2026 by Roog

The Seventh Sign (1988)

Rating: ★★

Feb 12, 2005The Biblical End of the World

A much more elevated version of an Omen-styled Biblical End Times film with Demi Moore worried if her child can save the world

Director: Carl Schultz

Actors: Demi Moore, Michael Biehn, Jurgen Prochnow, Peter Friedman, …

Category: Horror

12 February 200522 November 2024 by Roog

Single White Female (1992)

Rating: ★★

Jul 20, 2000Psycho Roommate

Part of the late 1980s/early 90s spate of post-Fatal Attraction psycho-thrillers featuring deranged women stalkers. A creepy Jennifer Jason Leigh moves into Bridget Fonda's apartment and then turns obsessive

Director: Barbet Schroeder

Actors: Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Steven Weber, Stephen Tobolowsky, …

Category: Horror

20 July 200010 September 2020 by Roog

Paycheck (2003)

Rating: ★★

Apr 6, 2004Precognition/Action Film/Philip K. Dick Adaptation

This Philip K. Dick adaptation has a great premise – Ben Affleck is an engineer with a blanked memory blanked only to find he has left himself clues from the future of things that are starting to come true. Alas, this is reduced to an action vehicle in the hands of John Woo

Director: John Woo

Actors: Ben Affleck, Uma Thurman, Aaron Eckhart, Colm Feore, …

Category: Science Fiction

6 April 200431 January 2025 by Roog