The Supernaturals (1986)
Aug 3, 2000Civil War Zombies
The first film on the theme of zombies from the American Civil War. Not too badly made and with an unusual cast line-up including Nichelle Nichols as a drill sergeant
Joel Soisson
Trick or Treat (1986)
May 28, 2003Undead Heavy Metaller
Film about a heavy metal star resurrected from the dead. This sets out spoofing fundamentalist paranoias about backwards masking but soon ends up all over the place and fails to take itself serously
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)
Sep 6, 1999Time-Travelling Slackers
A quirky hit that jumped aboard the 1980s popularity of time travel themes and laid into them with an appealingly offbeat eccentricity. The film that propelled Keanu Reeves onto become a star
Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1992)
Feb 25, 2002Disfigured Psycho Cop
The third of the Maniac Cop films had production problems and now feels more like a regular slasher film, although is still boosted by a characteristically witty Larry Cohen script
The Prophecy (1995)
Mar 18, 1999War Between Angels
Standout film about angels warring on Earth that dispenses with any cutsie depiction of angels. Several sequels followed.
Phantoms (1998)
Jan 25, 2003Evil Force Takes Over a Small Town/Dean R. Koontz Adaptation
One of the best and most underrated Dean R. Koontz adaptations, which creates eerie atmosphere out a town where the residents have disappeared due to what is revealed as a uniquely different creature
The Prophecy II (1998)
Nov 16, 2000War Between Angels
An okay sequel to the angel wars film The Prophecy, the first of several. As in the previous film, a returning Christopher Walken steals the show and gets all the best lines
The Prophecy 3: The Ascent (2000)
May 1, 2001War Between Angels
The third of the Prophecy films with Christopher Walken as the angel Gabriel. This time the wry humour and interplay of ideas of the other films feels more thinly drawn
Dracula 2000 (2000)
Dec 22, 2000Dracula in the Modern Day
An interesting attempt to bring Dracula into the modern day - the film that Dracula A.D. 1972 should have been. An unknown Gerard Butler makes a captivatingly magnetic Dracula
Hellraiser: Inferno (2000)
Sep 16, 2000Sadomasochistic Demon
Fifth and best of Hellraiser sequels after Clive Barker bowed out. Scott Derrickson made his directorial debut here and infuses the series with some of the wild imagery and perverse darkness that Barker gave the original
Highlander: Endgame (2000)
Sep 3, 2000Immortal Combat
The fourth Highlander film sets out to merge the film and tv series, bringing together Christopher Lambert and Adrian Paul. This only produces a continuity nightmare that is a headache trying to follow
Mimic 2 (2001)
Aug 2, 2001Evolved Insect Monster
This was the first of two sequels to Guillermo Del Toro's intelligent insect film Mimic, although this has now becomes more of a regular and unexceptional monster movie
Dracula II: Ascension (2003)
Sep 17, 2012Dracula in the Modern Day
The first of two sequels to Dracula 2000. This is based around the idea of trying to scientifically examine a vampire's body, sort of a vampire film by way of CSI
Dracula III: Legacy (2005)
Oct 22, 2019Dracula in the Modern Day
The second of two video-released sequels to Dracula 2000, this takes place with more of an action emphasis and features vampire hunters tracking Dracula across rebel-torn future Europe
Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005)
Sep 8, 2020Sadomasochistic Demons
The eighth of the Hellraiser films. By now a long way from Clive Barker's original vision and no more than a haunted house story where the Cenobites occasionally turn up. With a young unknown Henry Cavill
The Prophecy: Uprising (2005)
Feb 5, 2025War Between Angels
The fourth of The Prophecy films about war between angels, the first to be made without Christopher Walken with Sean Pertwee as a detective in Bucharest who is drawn in
Hollow Man II (2006)
Jul 11, 2007Invisible Maniac
Utterly generic sequel to Paul Verhoeven's invisible man film Hollow Man. This one has been so cheaply made that it even recycles its effects from the first film
Pulse (2006)
Oct 21, 2007Soul-Sucking Creatures from the Internet
As part of the mid-00s fad for English-language remakes of Japanese horror films, Kiyoshi Kuroawa's unfathomable but undeniably creepy internet horror is reworked as a standard teen film
Feast (2006)
Apr 21, 2008Monster Movie
A smartly funny monster movie with various people at siege in a bar and under attack by creatures. This takes great delight in puncturing the cliches of the genre. Two sequels followed.
Pulse 2 (2008)
Jul 8, 2026Soul-Sucking Creatures from the Internet
This was the first of two sequels to the Wes Craven scripted Pulse, the English language version of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s intensely spooky film about ghosts from the internet
Hellraiser: Revelations (2011)
Nov 17, 2011Sadomasochistic Demons
The ninth of the films, made cheaply to extend copyright on the series and publicly pilloried by Clive Barker. For all that, it is one sequel that gets Barker's original theme about the quest for forbidden pleasures right
Piranha 3DD (2012)
May 26, 2012Killer Fish
Sequel to the Piranha remake. Much the same as before but up one cup size. Well not really, the sequel is more like a joke that was funny the first time that becomes belaboured in the retelling