Glen Morgan Archives

The Boys Next Door (1985)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 26, 2022Teens on a Killing Spree

This caused quite a shock when it came out, a Penelope Spheeris film with Charlie Sheen and Maxwell Caulfield as two teenagers who feel they have no future and go on a killing spree in Los Angeles

Director: Penelope Spheeris

Actors: Maxwell Caulfield, Charlie Sheen, Christopher McDonald, Patti D'Arbanville, …

Category: Horror

26 July 202228 December 2025 by Roog

Final Destination (2000)

Rating: ★★

Mar 19, 2000Precognition/Doomed Air Crash Survivors

This spins the old plot about a clairvoyant dream of an airline disaster out as a teen horror film based around a series of bizarre novelty deaths. This became the first in a franchise of popular horror films.

Director: James Wong

Actors: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Seann William Scott, Chad E. Donella, …

Category: Horror

19 March 20001 February 2026 by Roog

The One (2001)

Rating: ★★

Nov 2, 2001Alternative Universe Hopping Action

Promising idea of an alternate world-hopping film from James Wong, this spends too much time copying moves from The Matrix and lets most of its possibilities pass by

Director: James Wong

Actors: Jet Li, Delroy Lindo, Carla Gugino, Jason Statham, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 November 200116 December 2021 by Roog

Willard (2003)

Rating: ★★

May 12, 2004Man Befriends Rats

James Wong and Glen Morgan, the duo behind Final Destination, remake the 1971 film about a man and his rats. However, this is set in a stylised 1940s world with a caricatured performance from Crispin Glover that causes the film to lack any credibility

Director: Glen Morgan

Actors: Crispin Glover, R. Lee Ermey, Laura Elena Harring, Jackie Burroughs, …

Category: Horror

12 May 200416 December 2021 by Roog

Black Christmas (2006)

Rating: ★★

Dec 14, 2008Girl's Dormitory Slasher

Another in the mid-2000s fad for 1970s remakes. This revives what has been cited as the first slasher film but throws most of the original out and turns the rest into a gore-drenched slasher film

Director: Glen Morgan

Actors: Katie Cassidy, Kristen Cloke, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michelle Trachtenberg, …

Category: Horror

14 December 200824 December 2025 by Roog

Final Destination 3 (2006)

Rating: ★★

Jun 21, 2006Precognition/Doomed Rollercoaster Crash Survivors

The original creative team behind the Final Destination series, James Wong and Glen Morgan, return for this sequel but only provide a routine series of bizarre novelty deaths following the premonition of a rollercoaster disaster

Director: James Wong

Actors: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman, Kris Lemche, Amanda Crew, …

Category: Horror

21 June 20061 February 2026 by Roog