Vampirella (1996)

Vampirella (1996)
Rating:
Feb 27, 2003Comic Book Adaptation/Alien Vampire Heroine
Disappointingly tatty rendering of the famous comic-book strip as a low-budget Roger Corman production. Vampirella is missing her distinctive costume and Talisa Soto comes nowhere near the comic-book character's statuesque voluptuousness

Chain of Command (2000)

Chain of Command (2000)
Rating: ★★★
Apr 19, 2007Action/Hijacking of Presidential Nuclear Codes
Halfway reasonable action film in which US President Roy Scheider is taken hostage by Taiwanese terrorists who want to use the nuclear launch codes against China. The surprise about the film is how political it is willing to get

Mongolian Death Worm (2010)

Mongolian Death Worm (2010)
Rating:
Oct 4, 2016Giant Worms
Another low-budget monster movie for the Syfy Channel. Between Sean Patrick Flanery's unconvincing adventurer hero and the filmmaker's failure to even vaguely approximate what Mongolia or its locals look like, this quickly slides down into a tatty, indifferently made copy of Tremors

Stonehenge Apocalypse (2010)

Stonehenge Apocalypse (2010)
Rating:
Nov 13, 2010Disaster Movie/Stonehenge Triggers the End of the World
Cheaply made Syfy Channel attempt to copy Roland Emmerich's 2012 that jumps aboard wacky Erich von Daniken nuttiness but fails to create a worthy End of the World drama due to cut-price effects

Seeds of Destruction (2011)

Seeds of Destruction (2011)
Rating:
Mar 26, 2014Massive Runaway Plant Roots
Cheap Syfy Channel CGI disaster spectacle about runaway plant roots – from the Garden of Eden, no less – growing to endanger the entire planet. Utterly formulaic and seeming to consist of no more than canned pieces of cliche action

I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance is Mine (2015)

I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance is Mine (2015)
Rating: ★★
Dec 20, 2015Female Vigilante
These I Spit on Your Grave films have considerable brutal effect. On the other hand, by the time of this second sequel to a remake, it does seem exploitative watching the heroine being abused again because the previous films made money