Dirty Weekend (1992)
Feb 15, 2003Woman Takes Revenge on Men
Enjoyably sordid Michael Winner film in which Lia Williams is an woman who starts to eliminate the abusive men in her life. As to be expected with Winner, this gets trashy in quick course
Sean Pertwee
Event Horizon (1997)
Jun 29, 2008Haunted Spaceship
Paul W.S. Anderson puts together a well-produced and atmospheric copy of Alien, However, this also comes with a premise - spaceship returns after travelling through Hell - that is nonsensical
Talos the Mummy (1998)
Jan 2, 2001Revived Mummy
This was part of a late 90s spate of revival of the mummy movie. This effort from Highlander director Russell Mulcahy revives the genre with a modern arsenal of effects
Soldier (1998)
Apr 29, 1999Programmed Soldier Becomes Self-Aware
Kurt Russell gives a fine performance as a programmed soldier who discovers emotions but under Paul W.S. Anderson the rest of the big-budgeted film collapses into over-inflated cliches
Equilibrium (2002)
Mar 10, 2004Dystopia
While Kurt Wimmer's film with Christian Bale as an enforcer in a dystopian future attained some acclaim when it came out, it feels like it is comprised of a collage of cliches borrowed from every other dystopian film
Dog Soldiers (2002)
May 23, 2003Soldiers vs Werewolves
The first film from Neil Marshall. Essentially a version of Walter Hill’s Southern Comfort but with soldiers being hunted by werewolves instead of Cajuns. Marshall directs with a satisfying ferocity.
The Prophecy: Uprising (2005)
Feb 5, 2025War Between Angels
The fourth of The Prophecy films about war between angels, the first to be made without Christopher Walken with Sean Pertwee as a detective in Bucharest who is drawn in
Wilderness (2006)
Feb 2, 2007Human Hunting/Bare Hands Survivalism
Tough brutal British film where a group of youth offenders are hunted while on a wilderness survival course on an island
Doomsday (2008)
Nov 22, 2008Plague Ravaged Future Wasteland/Action
Immensely satisfying film from Neil Marshall set in a walled-off, post-pandemic Scotland where he seems to have set out to pay homage to sf/action films like Escape from New York and Mad Max 2
Mutant Chronicles (2008)
Dec 31, 2008Future War With the Mutants
Long-planned project that creates an interesting future scenario, epic action, an array of Dirty Dozen characters but emerges as surprisingly trivial
Ultramarines (2010)
Jul 10, 2011Animation/Wargame Adaptation/Space Marines vs Demonic Forces
Animated film based on the popular fantasy wargame. The set-up is a fascinating mix of SF and mediaeval religion but the plot rehashes Aliens without much payoff and the animation is B-budget
Alien Uprising (2012)
Apr 2, 2014Alien Invasion
Low-budget British alien invasion film shot in a hyperkinetic style using as many social collapse cliches as possible. Jean-Claude Van Damme turns up to deliver explanations for everything
The Seasoning House (2012)
May 9, 2014East European Sex Slavery
This starts out as a socially conscious drama about East European sex slavery. As directed by a makeup effects artist, the film seems to tepidly avoid the raw and brutal impact the material holds, before finally revealing its true nature as an imprisonment and revenge horror
Howl (2015)
Sep 2, 2016Werewolf on a Train
We had Snakes of a Plane; by the same token, this could have titled ‘Werewolf on a Train', although plays itself seriously the whole way. This is a model of effectiveness that delivers constant contained tension
The Reckoning (2020)
Mar 7, 2021Witch Persecutions
A few years ago, Neil Marshall seemed a major genre director on the rise with The Descent. Here he returns with a film about the historic witch persecutions
The Invitation (2022)
Sep 24, 2022Sinister Family Secrets/Vampire Film
A woman discovers she is related to an aristocratic family but sinister secrets lurk. The film hangs on a big twist that is extremely obvious to anyone who has seen enough horror films