Shorts (2009)
Oct 20, 2009Magic Wishing Stone
Another of Robert Rodriguez's children's films about the wacky chaos caused by the discovery of a magic wishing stone. Nothing earth-shattering but Rodriguez has a lot of fun with the visual absurdities
Image Nation Abu Dhabi
The Crazies (2010)
Mar 9, 2010Madness Inducing Biospill
George Romero's underrated classic gets a makeover amid the 00/10s fad for remakes of 70s/80s horror films. Alas, Romero's modest classic about a madness-inducing biospill has a big-budget thrown to emerge as just another zombie film
Furry Vengeance (2010)
May 22, 2010Animals Amok Comedy
Excruciating CGI cute animals film where animals gang up to stop Brendan Fraser redeveloping their forest. Essentially a 1970s Nature's Revenge film by way of the slapstick family-friendly violence of Home Alone
Contagion (2011)
Sep 9, 2011Plague Outbreak
Steven Soderbergh turns to making a plague outbreak film that uncannily predicted a great deal of what happened when Covid-19 struck. A reasonable star cast line-up suborn themselves to a cool sober script
Djinn (2013)
Feb 4, 2015Islamic Horror Film/Haunted Apartment Block
Tobe Hooper's career since 1990 felt like a slide down into talentless amateurism. In his last film, Hooper tries to create an Islamic horror film, shooting and casting in the Middle East but slips into hackwork
The Circle (2017)
Jul 16, 2017Online Mass Surveillance Thriller
Hollywood tries to make a big message film about online mass surveillance but renders anodyne straw arguments. Meanwhile, back in the real world you cannot help but think things the film depicts things might happen very different
Prey (2019)
Oct 11, 2019Desert Island Horrors
Franck Khalfoun, a former Alexandre Aja associate, who has made the quite reasonable likes of P2 and the remake of Maniac, directs a desert island survival story where the jungle lurks with horrors
Late Night With the Devil (2023)
May 4, 2024Demonic Possession Live on TV
This conducts a perfect simulation of a 1970s tv talkshow with David Dastmalchian as a host who tries to expose/debunk a demonic possession before things go wrong live on air
Hokum (2026)
Jun 13, 2026Haunted Hotel
Irish director Damian McCarthy impressed a good deal with Oddity. In his equally spooky follow-up, writer Adam Scott travels to a hotel in Ireland only to become trapped in a haunted suite