Rocco Sisto Archives

Scream for Help (1984)

Rating: ★

Feb 1, 2012Psycho-Thriller/Slasher Film

Often wrongly pegged as a slasher film, this is more of a 1940s psycho-thriller with slasher sensibilities. The notorious Michael Winner directs with typically crude and unsophisticated effect

Director: Michael Winner

Actors: Rachael Kelly, David Allen Brooks, Rocco Sisto, Corey Parker

Category: Horror

1 February 201214 February 2023 by Roog

Red Riding Hood (1987)

Rating: ★★

Jul 17, 2009Fairy-Tale

One of the cheap fairytale adaptations that Cannon Films made during the 1980s

Director: Adam Brooks

Actors: Craig T. Nelson, Amelia Shankley, Isabella Rossellini, Rocco Sisto

Category: Fantasy

17 July 200920 November 2024 by Roog

Me and Him (1988)

Rating: ★

Feb 9, 2023Man and His Talking Penis Comedy

A comedy in which Griffin Dunne’s penis begins talking to him. Contrary to expectation, most of the film is PG-13 but some of the films attitudes and unfunny routines are fairly mind-boggling

Director: Doris Dörrie

Actors: Griffin Dunne, Ellen Greene, Carey Lowell, Craig T. Nelson, …

Category: Fantasy

9 February 202318 January 2026 by Roog

The American Astronaut (2001)

Rating: ★★

Oct 6, 2001Gonzo Musical Space Western

Genre-bending film that mixes B movie space opera cliches with rock'n'roll and a David Lynch-ian sense of surrealism. Interesting but the film left me scratching my head trying to get a handle on it

Director: Cory McAbee

Actors: Cory McAbee, Rocco Sisto, Gregory Russell Cook, Annie Golden, …

Category: Science Fiction

6 October 200115 August 2019 by Roog

The Alphabet Killer (2008)

Rating: ★

Aug 7, 2011Search for a True-Life Serial Killer

This claims to be based on an unsolved true-life serial killer case from the 1970s, although dumps all but a handful of facts in favour of a B-movie thriller plot about a detective with mental illness

Director: Rob Schmidt

Actors: Eliza Dushku, Cary Elwes, Timothy Hutton, Michael Ironside, …

Category: Horror

7 August 20117 September 2023 by Roog