Brett Leonard Archives

The Dead Pit (1989)

Rating: ★★

Jan 6, 2021Mad Scientist Resurrects the Dead in an Asylum

A typical 80s film with a mad doctor resurrecting the dead in the abandoned wing of an asylum amid gory makeup effects. The first film from Brett Leonard who next went on to make The Lawnmower Man

Director: Brett Leonard

Actors: Cheryl Lawson, Jeremy Slate

Category: Horror

6 January 202128 May 2026 by Roog

The Lawnmower Man (1992)

Rating: ★★

Dec 3, 2000Virtual Reality/Enhanced Intelligence

This has nothing to do with the Stephen King story about a Pan-worshipping lawnmowing service and is a film about Virtual Reality. Harnessing some top-drawer CGI effects of the day, this was influential on subsequent VR films

Director: Brett Leonard

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Jeff Fahey, Jenny Wright, Geoffrey Lewis, …

Category: Science Fiction

3 December 20003 July 2026 by Roog

Virtuosity (1995)

Rating: ½

Jun 20, 2002Android Serial Killer

Director Brett Leonard started the fascination with Virtual Reality off with The Lawnmower Man but shot himself in the foot with this absurd braindead follow-up in which Denzel Washington pursues a madly OTT Russell Crowe as an android serial killer

Director: Brett Leonard

Actors: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Kelly Lynch, William Forsythe, …

Category: Science Fiction

20 June 200217 September 2020 by Roog

Hideaway (1995)

Rating: ★

Apr 17, 2001Psychic Link with a Serial Killer

A Dean R. Koontz adaptation from the director of The Lawnmower Man, this is a numbingly predictable film in which Jeff Goldblum returns from the dead to find he has a psychic link with a serial killer

Director: Brett Leonard

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Alicia Silverstone, Jeremy Sisto, Christine Lahti, …

Category: Horror

17 April 200115 March 2026 by Roog

Feed (2005)

Rating: ★★★½

Jan 19, 2008Feeder Fetishism Psycho-Thriller

The one really good film from Brett Leonard, director of The Lawnmower Man, this delves into the fetish community of feederism and determines to push the material to something provocative

Director: Brett Leonard

Actors: Patrick Thompson, Alex O'Loughlin, Matthew Le Nevez, Jack Thompson, …

Category: Horror

19 January 200814 January 2023 by Roog

Man-Thing (2005)

Rating: ★★

Sep 9, 2007Marvel Comics Adaptation/Creature in the Swamps

The bastard child among the spate of pre-MCU Marvel Comics adaptations during the mid-2000s, a film based on their swamp-dweller that throws out most of the comic-book

Director: Brett Leonard

Actors: Matthew Le Nevez, Jack Thompson, Rachael Taylor, Alex O'Loughlin, …

Category: Horror

9 September 20076 August 2026 by Roog

Highlander: The Source (2007)

Rating: ★

Sep 12, 2009Immortal Quest

The fifth of the Highlander films. It is hard to believe people could actually make a film worse than Highlander II but this is akin to Edward D. Wood Jr on a multi-million dollar budget

Director: Brett Leonard

Actors: Adrian Paul, Peter Wingfield, Cristian Solimeno, Thom Fell, …

Category: Fantasy

12 September 20091 November 2025 by Roog