Shane West Archives

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 2, 2003Teamup of Characters from Victorian Fiction/Graphic Novel Adaptation

The much hated adaptation of the Alan Moore graphic novels. It is undeniable fun watching the crossover between various fictional Victorian characters, while the production design is amazing

Director: Stephen Norrington

Actors: Sean Connery, Stuart Townsend, Peta Wilson, Shane West, …

Category: Fantasy

2 September 20037 March 2026 by Roog

The Lodger (2009)

Rating: ★★

Dec 13, 2010Modern-Day Jack the Ripper Killings

Fourth version of the tale about a family who believe their boarder might be Jack the Ripper. This is updated to the present and abandons most of the story for a mind-bending pretzel of identity speculations

Director: David Ondaatje

Actors: Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Simon Baker, Donal Logue, …

Category: Horror

13 December 201012 July 2026 by Roog

Red Sands (2009)

Rating: ★★½

Oct 22, 2013US Soldiers in Afghanistan Encounter a Djinn

Essentially a variation on The Keep updated to the contemporary US occupation of Afghanistan. A film that one watches with no high expectation but proves to be a slow burner that eventually develops an eerie atmosphere

Director: Alex Turner

Actors: Shane West, Leonard Roberts, Aldis Hodge, Callum Blue, …

Category: Horror

22 October 201322 April 2026 by Roog

The Presence (2010)

Rating: ★★½

Jan 18, 2013Ghost Story

Ghost story that does an excellent job in creating an incredibly haunted and unusual atmosphere. On the other hand, the film falls apart during the second half where it heads in another direction altogether and leaves one entirely unclear what is going on

Director: Tom Provost

Actors: Mira Sorvino, Shane West, Justin Kirk, Tony Curran, …

Category: Horror

18 January 201327 April 2020 by Roog

Here Alone (2016)

Rating: ★★★½

Oct 11, 2017Survival After a Plague Outbreak/Social Collapse

Beautifully filmed, intimate work about a woman's attempts to eke out survival in the woods in the aftermath of an unspecified apocalypse

Director: Rod Blackhurst

Actors: Lucy Walters, Adam David Thompson, Gina Piersanti, Shane West

Category: Horror

11 October 201714 March 2026 by Roog

Awakening the Zodiac (2017)

Rating: ★★

Nov 13, 2017Hunting the Zodiac Killer in the Present Day

This comes with a great hook – a couple buy up the contents of a defaulted storage locker only to find film reels taken by The Zodiac Killer, leading them on a pursuit of his identity

Director: Jonathan Wright

Actors: Shane West, Leslie Bibb, Matt Craven, Nicholas Campbell, …

Category: Horror

13 November 201725 October 2025 by Roog

Escape the Field (2022)

Rating: ★★

Jan 15, 2023People Trapped in an Endless Cornfield

This comes with a near-identical premise to the Stephen King adaptation In the Tall Grass where a group of people are trapped in an endless cornfield

Director: Emerson Moore

Actors: Jordan Claire Robbins, Theo Rossi, Shane West, Tahirah Sharif, …

Category: Science Fiction

15 January 202319 October 2025 by Roog

Chariot (2022)

Rating: ★★

Sep 28, 2023Surrealism/Strange Hotel

A very strange surrealist film about the strange characters that populate a rundown hotel. Includes reincarnation, alien bug people and John Malkovich as a psychiatrist with red hair in a bow

Director: Adam Sigal

Actors: Thomas Mann, John Malkovich, Rosa Salazar, Scout Taylor-Compton, …

Category: Fantasy

28 September 202326 September 2025 by Roog