Snow White (2001)
Jun 29, 2008Fairy-Tale
Caroline Thompson, a regular Tim Burton scriptwriter, directs a uniquely revisionist version of the fairytale in which she digs in to explain the origins of many of the familiar aspects of the story
Vera Farmiga
15 Minutes (2001)
Mar 9, 2001Media-Obsessed Psychos
Thriller about two killers who become inspired by tabloid tv and decide to sell tapes of their crimes to tv. This becomes a heavy-handed, tub-beating rant of disgust against modern media
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Nov 8, 2004Brainwashed Assassin/Political Thriller
Remake of the classic Cold War thriller from Jonathan Demme that has been updated for the era of George W. Bush
Joshua (2007)
Dec 15, 2007Psycho Child
Another variant on the evil child theme, this suffers from far too mannered an approach where you keep waiting for it to pull back and sink its teeth into something shocking
Orphan (2009)
Sep 12, 2009Evil Child
Another variant on the evil child film featuring a maliciously psychopathic Isabelle Fuhrman
The Vintner’s Luck (2009)
Aug 10, 2010Angel Aids Winemaker
Whale Rider director Niki Caro makes an uneven film about a 19th Century peasant who is inspired to make wine by an angel
Source Code (2011)
Mar 13, 2011Timeloop/Parallel Universes
The second film from Duncan Jones, this places Jake Gyllenhaal through a Groundhog Day scenario as he is forced to relive the same eight minutes in order to find who planted a bomb on a train
The Conjuring (2013)
Jul 19, 2013Haunting/Possession/"True Story"
Supposedly based on a true story. A film that feels written entirely by cliches taken from every other haunting and exorcism film, but you cannot deny that director James Wan generates a more than fair degree of spooky atmosphere
The Conjuring 2 (2016)
Jun 19, 2016Haunting/Possession/"True Story"
If you want a genuinely scary spook show that will make you jump out of your seat, you would not go wrong with this. On the other hand, the Conjuring films with their claims to true stories of peddle superstition and fabricate most of their so-called facts
The Nun (2018)
Jan 19, 2019Possessed Nun
Another spinoff from The Conjuring films. James Wan is one of the finest horror directors of the 2010s but has had difficulty imparting his skills to the directors of the films he has produced. This feels like a fairground haunted house show of tedious and repetitive pop-up shocks that runs free of any connection to a plot
Captive State (2019)
Jun 9, 2019The Resistance Against an Alien Invasion
A highly politicised films that takes place several years after an alien invasion and concerns the resistance against them. However, the aliens feature very little and the film resembles more of a 'hood drama
Godzilla, King of the Monsters (2019)
Aug 24, 2019Giant Monster Bash
Follow-up to the 2014 US-made Godzilla. This introduces other monsters from the Japanese series and tries to create a shared universe. But when the film is all massively-scaled mass destruction, it seems hard to root for the monsters
Annabelle Comes Home (2019)
Sep 27, 2019Sinister Doll
James Wan is one of the finest directors currently at work in the horror genre. The produced by James Wan credit is a less enthusiastic prospect and had consisted of total dogs spinning off more popular works.
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)
Jun 12, 2021Possession/“True Story”
The third of the Conjuring films, this lacks the presence of James Wan in the director’s seat while peddling an even more highly dubious Based on a True story claim regarding a demonic possession
The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025)
Oct 18, 2025Paranormal Investigators/“True Story”
Another supposedly true story from the casebook of the psychic investigator frauds Ed and Lorraine Warren. James Wan’s first two entries were eerily haunting; by now, the constant profusion of effect becomes overkill that produces no results at all