Shelly Varod Archives

Morlocks (2011)

Rating: ★

Mar 5, 2012Mutant Monsters/Time Portal

Not as you might assume an adaptation of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine but another cheap and tatty Syfy Channel production that grafts Wells' Morlocks onto the formula for their typical monster movie

Director: Matt Codd

Actors: David Hewlett, Christina Cole, Robert Picardo, Lincoln Frager, …

Category: Science Fiction

5 March 20122 July 2019 by Roog

Spiders (2013)

Rating: ★★½

Apr 16, 2013Giant Spiders

When you approach this in terms of exactly what it promises to be - a revival of the good old B movie standard of the giant spider film - this proves absurdly entertaining and with some surprisingly good CGI spider effects

Director: Tibor Takacs

Actors: Patrick Muldoon, Christa Campbell, William Hope, Sydney Sweeney, …

Category: Science Fiction

16 April 201321 March 2025 by Roog

In the Name of the King 3 (2014)

Rating: ½

Dec 12, 2014Epic Fantasy Adventure

A Uwe Boll film that feels as though he didn't cared about what he was making. You'd have to go back to the Italian sword-and-sorcery films of the 1980s to find a more shoddy work of epic fantasy

Director: Uwe Boll

Actors: Dominic Purcell, Ralitsa Paskaleva, Daria Simeonova, Marian Valev, …

Category: Fantasy

12 December 201416 April 2026 by Roog