I Married a Monster (1998)
Oct 31, 2005Alien Duplication and Takeover
Rather tatty remake of I Married a Monster from Outer Space made for tv. This is routine tv filler that has been churned out with little care or feel for the original.
Richard Burgi
Bailey’s Mistake (2001)
Jun 6, 2009Magical Realism
Strange Disney tv movie in which widow Linda Hamilton moves to a small town where the people seem able to do magic
Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2003)
Jun 19, 2005War with Aliens/Alien Body Snatchers
A passable video-released sequel to Starship Troopers the heads more in the direction of a body snatchers film. Directed by stop-motion animator Phil Tippett
Hostel Part II (2007)
Dec 14, 2008Sadism and Torture
Eli Roth's sequel to his earlier hit, this emerges as a pallid copy of its predecessor, having merely changed the sexes of the protagonists and lacking the original's gut-churning impact
Friday the 13th (2009)
Feb 13, 2009Slasher Film
Another 1980s horror remake that had much potential. However, this proves to be just another Friday the 13th film by the numbers, albeit with a bigger budget, and widely misses the mark
The Green Inferno (2013)
Nov 21, 2015Cannibal Film
Eli Roth pays homage to the Italian cannibal films of the 70/80s, the most extreme genre ever put on film. While not uninteresting, rendered on a studio budget and passed uncut by the MPAA, this never touches the raw savagery of the originals
Crystal Skulls (2014)
Sep 22, 2015Alien Artefacts/Disaster Movie
Syfy Channel film that mashes the disaster movie together with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The result is peculiarly unsatisfying either as disaster movie or the tomb raiding adventure we expect
13 Sins (2014)
Jun 5, 2015Game of Deadly and Extreme Challenges
I was very impressed with Daniel Stamm's previous film The Last Exorcism; this was his follow-up – a brutal English-language remake of a Thai film where people are offered the challenge of engaging in increasingly more malicious and extreme acts to win large sums of money