Ashok Amritraj Archives

School Spirit (1985)

Rating: ★

Mar 11, 2026Teen Comes Back from the Afterlife to Get Laid Comedy

In the vein of frat house comedies of the era like Animal House and Porky's, this is an embarrassingly cringey film about a teen who is killed while trying to get laid and insists on lingering about to finish the job

Director: Alan Holleb

Actors: Tom Nolan, Elizabeth Foxx, John Finnegan, Larry Linville, …

Category: Fantasy

11 March 202611 March 2026 by Roog

Virtual Combat (1995)

Rating: ★

May 5, 2001Virtual Characters Come to Life/Action

Completely ridiculous martial arts SF film with Don ‘The Dragon’ Wilson as a future cop fighting a videogame character incarnated in the real world

Director: Andrew Stevens

Actors: Don 'The Dragon' Wilson, Athena Massey, Michael Dorn, Turhan Bey, …

Category: Science Fiction

5 May 200121 January 2020 by Roog

Night Hunter (1996)

Rating: ★★

Apr 21, 2008Action/Vampire Hunter

Low-budget action film with Don 'The Dragon' Wilson hunting vampires. Routine as both action and vampire film.

Director: Rick Jacobson

Actors: Don 'The Dragon' Wilson, Nicholas Guest, Sid Sham, Maria Ford, …

Category: Horror

21 April 200825 June 2022 by Roog

Jungle Boy (1996)

Rating: ★½

May 25, 2008Jungle Boy

A fairly blatant copy of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book stories - even more so of the then recent 1994 live-action Disney remake - all having been conducted on a B-budget

Director: Allan A. Goldstein

Actors: Asif Mohammed Seth, Lee Moreno, David Fox, Jeremy Roberts, …

Category: Fantasy

25 May 200816 May 2026 by Roog

Black Thunder (1998)

Rating: ★★

Nov 21, 2003Hi-Tech Fighter Plane Theft/Action

Low-budget action film that blatantly rehshes the plot of Firefox with Michael Dudikoff as a pilot recruited to go into enemy territory and steal back a hi-tech plane

Director: Rick Jacobson

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, Michael Cavanaugh, Gary Hudson, Frederic Forrest, …

Category: Science Fiction

21 November 20036 July 2021 by Roog

Freedom Strike (1998)

Rating: ★

Nov 18, 2007Action Film/Advanced Weaponry

Michael Dudikoff-starring action film about the use of advanced technology during a Middle Eastern war as Syrian terrorists hijack and threaten to fire US nuclear missles

Director: Jerry P. Jacobs

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, Tone-Loc, Felicity Waterman, Nicolas Coster, …

Category: Science Fiction

18 November 200723 October 2025 by Roog

Prophet (1999)

Rating: ★½

Feb 24, 2011Action/Psychic Powers

Fred Olen Ray and Don 'The Dragon' Wilson combine forces on a low-budget action film about psychic powers. The action scenes are competent but the film lacking in the script department

Director: Ed Raymond, Fred Olen Ray

Actors: Don 'The Dragon' Wilson, Paul Michael Robinson, Barbara Steele, Arthur Roberts, …

Category: Science Fiction

24 February 201123 December 2021 by Roog

Death Sentence (2007)

Rating: ★★★½

Nov 23, 2008Vigilante Film

Although the character names have been changed, this is based on the book sequel to Death Wish. Saw director James Wan goes for broke on the grim vigilantism and turns in an immensely satisfying work

Director: James Wan

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Garrett Hedlund, Kelly Preston, Aisha Tyler, …

Category: Horror

23 November 20089 October 2025 by Roog

Premonition (2007)

Rating: ★★

Sep 1, 2007Clairvoyant Visions

Weepie drama in which Sandra Bullock becomes unstuck in time flipping back and forward with the foreknowledge that her husband Julian McMahon will befall a tragedy

Director: Mennan Yapo

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon, Nia Long, Peter Stormare, …

Category: Fantasy

1 September 200718 November 2025 by Roog

Asylum (2008)

Rating: ★★

Mar 9, 2023Sinister Former Asylum

From the director of Snakes on a Plane, a film about a co-ed university dormitory that used to be an asylum where students find that former horrors still lurk

Director: David R. Ellis

Actors: Sarah Roemer, Jake Muxworthy, Travis Van Winkle, Cody Kasch, …

Category: Horror

9 March 202320 November 2025 by Roog

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)

Rating: ★★

Apr 30, 2010Videogame Adaptation

Sequel to the 1994 Street Fighter film based on the videogame, this provides the wall-to-wall action that the first film needed but falls down with a wimpily miscast heroine

Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak

Actors: Kristin Kreuk, Neal McDonough, Chris Klein, Robin Shou, …

Category: Fantasy

30 April 201015 August 2025 by Roog

Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2010)

Rating: ★★

Aug 24, 2011Supernatural Private Investigator

US film adaptation of a cult Italian comic-book about a private eye who investigates the supernatural, this comes out like a weak episode of tv's Angel where a potential worthwhile idea descends to lame humour

Director: Kevin Munroe

Actors: Brandon Routh, Sam Huntington, Anita Briem, Taye Diggs, …

Category: Horror

24 August 201115 October 2025 by Roog

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012)

Rating: ★

Mar 8, 2012Comic-Book Avenger/Demonic Superhero

Ridiculous sequel to the Marvel Comics adaptation with an indifferently written script assembled from cliches, forgettable action scenes and Nicolas Cage giving one of his silliest performances in ages

Director: Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Ciaran Hinds, Idris Elba, Violante Placido, …

Category: Fantasy

8 March 201215 October 2024 by Roog

Prey (2019)

Rating: ★

Oct 11, 2019Desert Island Horrors

Franck Khalfoun, a former Alexandre Aja associate, who has made the quite reasonable likes of P2 and the remake of Maniac, directs a desert island survival story where the jungle lurks with horrors

Director: Franck Khalfoun

Actors: Logan Miller, Kristine Froseth

Category: Horror

11 October 20199 February 2025 by Roog