Fries Film Company Archives

Screamers (1995)

Rating: ★★★

Jan 11, 2003Evolved Androids/Planetary Journey/Philip K. Dick Adaptation

Modest and underrated Philip K. Dick adaptation that builds reasonable atmosphere during its journey across a planet and doubt as to who among the party might be one of a breed of evolving androids

Director: Christian Duguay

Actors: Peter Weller, Jennifer Rubin, Andy Lauer, Roy Dupuis, …

Category: Science Fiction

11 January 200310 July 2026 by Roog

Screamers: The Hunting (2009)

Rating: ★½

Jul 17, 2010Evolved Androids/Planetary Survival

Disappointing sequel to the modest original that does little but revisit and re-run the first film's scenario with little to add to it

Director: Sheldon Wilson

Actors: Gina Holden, Lance Henriksen, Greg Bryk, Stephen Amell, …

Category: Science Fiction

17 July 201031 August 2020 by Roog

Petals on the Wind (2014)

Rating: ★

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

Director: Karen Moncrieff

Actors: Rose McIver, Heather Graham, Will Kemp, Ellen Burstyn, …

Category: Horror

12 February 201625 November 2019 by Roog

If There Be Thorns (2015)

Rating: ★

Dec 13, 2018Flowers in the Attic Sequel

The third of the Lifetime Channel’s films based on the Gothic incest melodramas of Virginia C. Andrews that began with Flowers in the Attic. The plotting is absurd and the film feels uninhabited by human beings

Director: Nancy Savoca

Actors: Heather Graham, Rachael Carpani, Jason Lewis, Mason Cook, …

Category: Horror

13 December 201815 April 2026 by Roog