Van Helsing (2004)
May 12, 2004Monster Hunter/Famous Monster Bash
Stephen Sommers conducts a big-budget rehash of a 1940s Universal monster bash. A film so overloaded with CGI bombast and general overkill it becomes utterly absurd.
Will Kemp
Mindhunters (2004)
Feb 26, 2007Serial Killer Thriller
Serial killer thriller from the perpetually terrible Renny Harlin. A variant on Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians, it promptly collapses into ludicrous plotting and an even more ridiculous string of deaths
Petals on the Wind (2014)
Feb 12, 2016Flowers in the Attic Sequel
Sequel to the Lifetime channel adaptation of Virginia C. Andrews' Flowers in the Attic. Andrews' prolific output of Gothic melodramas are really the horror equivalent of daytime soap operas. Though marginally better, this drowns in the same stultifying blandness as its predecessor
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power (2015)
Mar 13, 2015Sword and Sorcery
Fourth entry in the eminently forgettable sword-and-sorcery series, this heads down into bad movie stakes by writing a series of grating quips over everything, while the action scenes exist in the realm of unbelievability that show that nobody is treating anything with the slightest seriousness
Slumber (2017)
Feb 2, 2022Sleep Demon
Another of the recent films on the topic of sleep paralysis that one watches with the hope that it might do some justice to the topic