Dark Castle Entertainment Archives

House on Haunted Hill (1999)

Rating: ★★★

Oct 31, 1999Haunted House

The announcement of the remake of The Haunting was followed by this remake of the 1959 William Castle film, which turns out far more unpretentious and altogether more fun than the bloated flop of The Haunting

Director: William Malone

Actors: Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Peter Gallagher, Ali Larter, …

Category: Horror

31 October 19992 March 2026 by Roog

Thir13en Ghosts (2001)

Rating: ★★

Oct 28, 2001Haunted House

After the success of their remake of House on Haunted Hill, Dark Castle Entertainment remade another William Castle film here, expanding it with a full arsenal of visual and makeup effects

Director: Steve Beck

Actors: Tony Shalhoub, Embeth Davidtz, Matthew Lillard, Shannon Elizabeth, …

Category: Horror

28 October 200120 June 2026 by Roog

Ghost Ship (2002)

Rating: ★★

Feb 27, 2003Haunted Ship

This was a big-budget revival of the ghost ship theme by Dark Castle Entertainment about a salvage crew encountering a ghost vessel. Visual effects tend to trump spooky atmosphere

Director: Steve Beck

Actors: Julianna Margulies, Gabriel Byrne, Desmond Harrington, Ron Eldard, …

Category: Horror

27 February 200325 October 2025 by Roog

Gothika (2003)

Rating: ★★

Feb 23, 2004Asylum Haunting

Halle Berry is a psychiatrist who comes around to find she has been incarcerated in her own asylum only to then find it is haunted. An improbably contrived set up with some jumps

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz

Actors: Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr, Penelope Cruz, John Carroll Lynch, …

Category: Horror

23 February 20041 March 2026 by Roog

House of Wax (2005)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 24, 2005Wax Museum Slasher

Despite borrowing the title, this has the no connection to the 1953 film with Vincent Price as a mad waxworks curator and is a modern slasher film. Nevertheless, director Jaume Collet-Serra does come up with some very inventive dispatches

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra

Actors: Elisha Cuthbert, Paris Hilton, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Van Holt, …

Category: Horror

24 July 200520 March 2026 by Roog

The Reaping (2007)

Rating: ★½

May 5, 2007Modern-Day Biblical Plagues

Reasonable budgeted film about a series of Biblical plagues being visited upon a rural Louisiana town. An interesting set up that flounders amid a confused script

Director: Stephen Hopkins

Actors: Hilary Swank, David Morrissey, Idris Elba, AnnaSophia Robb, …

Category: Horror

5 May 200720 May 2020 by Roog

The Hills Run Red (2009)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 17, 2010Backwoods Brutality

A Backwoods Brutality effort that is somewhat better than usual thanks to a darkly acerbic David J. Schow script that constantly subverts the expectations of the genre

Director: Dave Parker

Actors: Sophie Monk, William Sadler, Tad Hilgenbrinck, Joy McBrinn

Category: Horror

17 April 201020 June 2026 by Roog

Orphan (2009)

Rating: ★★

Sep 12, 2009Evil Child

Another variant on the evil child film featuring a maliciously psychopathic Isabelle Fuhrman

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra

Actors: Vera Farmiga, Isabelle Fuhrman, Peter Sarsgaard, Jimmy Bennett, …

Category: Horror

12 September 200925 April 2023 by Roog

Ninja Assassin (2009)

Rating: ★★★★

Oct 20, 2009Martial Arts

Produced by The Wachowskis who take the opportunity to reinvent the ninja film with the same flamboyant visuals they employed on The Matrix with exhilarating results

Director: James McTeigue

Actors: Rain, Naomie Harris, Sho Kosugi, Ben Miles, Lee Joon, …

Category: Fantasy

20 October 20094 December 2024 by Roog

Splice (2010)

Rating: ★★★

May 22, 2010Genetically-Engineered Creature

A genetically engineered creature film from Vincenzo Natali, this ventures into some fascinating places but ultimately returns to Frankenstein science territory

Director: Vincenzo Natali

Actors: Sarah Polley, Adrien Brody, Delphine Chaneac, David Hewlett, …

Category: Science Fiction

22 May 201016 March 2025 by Roog

The Apparition (2012)

Rating: ★

Aug 24, 2012Haunting

This feels like an amateur film made on a big budget that consists of utterly tepid scares where the director fails to do anything not borrowed from a dozen other ghost stories

Director: Todd Lincoln

Actors: Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan, Tom Felton, Rick Gomez, …

Category: Horror

24 August 201224 November 2025 by Roog

The Factory (2012)

Rating: ★

Jul 24, 2013Serial Killer Thriller

A Dark Horse Entertainment film that traipses through a tired serial killer plot that comes out resembling a weak episode of CSI before a frankly unbelievable twist ending

Director: Morgan O'Neill

Actors: John Cusack, Jennifer Carpenter, Dallas Roberts, Mae Whitman, …

Category: Horror

24 July 201320 June 2026 by Roog

Seance (2021)

Rating: ★★

Aug 15, 2021Girls’ Boarding School Ghost Story

Adam Wingard’s regular scriptwriter Simon Barrett directs a revival of the girls’ boarding school ghost story. I had very high expectations of this

Director: Simon Barrett

Actors: Suki Waterhouse, Ella-Rae Smith, Inanna Sarkis, Marina Stephenson Kerr, …

Category: Horror

15 August 202126 February 2025 by Roog

Orphan: First Kill (2022)

Rating: ★★★

Jan 20, 2023Evil Child

I was fairly ho-hum about the first Orphan but this is a sequel that entirely surprises you

Director: William Brent Bell

Actors: Isabelle Fuhrman, Julia Stiles, Rossif Sutherland, Matthew Finlan, …

Category: Horror

20 January 20239 August 2024 by Roog

Worldbreaker (2025)

Rating: ★★

May 17, 2026World Overrun by Monsters

The greatly underrated Brad Anderson makes a film about a father and daughter trying to survive in a world overrun by monsters. A film that reaches for something epic but lets it fall through its hands

Director: Brad Anderson

Actors: Luke Evans, Milla Jovovich, Billie Boullet, Mila Harris, …

Category: Science Fiction

17 May 202617 May 2026 by Roog