Lucky McKee Archives

All Cheerleaders Die (2001)

Rating: ★★

Oct 1, 2025Resurrected Cheerleaders

The first film of directors Lucky McKee and Chris Sivertson, concerning a troupe of cheerleaders who are killed and resurrected from the dead. The two later returned to conduct a better-budgeted remake

Director: Chris Sivertson, Lucky McKee

Actors: Shelli Merrill, Jesse Hlubik, Jennifer Grant

Category: Horror

1 October 202513 November 2025 by Roog

May (2002)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 1, 2004Gonzo Rejection Story

Almost unclassifiable work from Lucky McKee that plays out as a gonzo love and rejection story featuring an alienated Angela Bettis before an end that tips over into horror

Director: Lucky McKee

Actors: Angela Bettis, Jeremy Sisto, Anna Faris, James Duval, …

Category: Horror

1 June 20045 July 2020 by Roog

The Lost (2005)

Rating: ★★★½

Jul 29, 2007Smalltown Psycho

Chris Sivertson directs a frequently explosive film based on a Jack Ketchum novel that tells the story of a true-life teenage killer and the magnetic sway he held over others

Director: Chris Sivertson

Actors: Marc Senter, Shay Astar, Robin Sydney, Ed Lauter, …

Category: Horror

29 July 200728 July 2026 by Roog

The Woman (2011)

Rating: ★★★★

Jul 25, 2011Uncivilised Wild Woman/Sadism and Brutality

Lucky McKee's highly controversial film about a family man who makes a feral woman prisoner is out-there, takes-no-prisoners horror. Forget the kneejerk reactions, this is brutal, highly original and with a whiplash sense of dark humour

Director: Lucky McKee

Actors: Sean Bridgers, Pollyanna McIntosh, Angela Bettis, Zach Rand, …

Category: Horror

25 July 201130 May 2022 by Roog

All Cheerleaders Die (2013)

Rating: ★★

Sep 14, 2014Resurrected Cheerleaders

Directors Lucky McKee and Chris Sivertson conduct a remake of their earlier film about resurrected cheerleaders. The question might be why – both have demonstrated they can do far better than this

Director: Chris Sivertson, Lucky McKee

Actors: Caitlin Stasey, Sianoa Smit-McPhee, Tom Williamson, Brooke Butler, …

Category: Horror

14 September 20147 November 2025 by Roog

Jug Face (2013)

Rating: ★★½

Jul 10, 2025Backwoods Folk Horror

A very odd Folk Horror film set among two backwoods hillbilly families whose lives are dominated by a pit in the woods they worship

Director: Chad Crawford Kinkle

Actors: Lauren Ashley Carter, Sean Bridgers, Larry Fessenden, Sean Young, …

Category: Horror

10 July 202513 November 2025 by Roog

Tales of Halloween (2015)

Rating: ★★

Dec 14, 2015Anthology of Halloween Horror Stories

An anthology of Halloween-themed horror tales, all from different genre directors, including some interesting high-profile names. The results are uneven with the film providing a couple of amusing segments but nothing truly standout

Director: Adam Gierasch, Andrew Kasch, Axelle Carolyn, Darren Lynn Bousman, Dave Parker, John Skipp, Lucky McKee, Mike Mendez, Neil Marshall, Paul Solet, Ryan Schifrin

Actors: Adrienne Barbeau, Daniel DiMaggio, Austin Falk, Madison Iseman, …

Category: Horror

14 December 20154 April 2025 by Roog

The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot (2018)

Rating: ★★

Mar 15, 2019Aging Assassin's Secret History

Full marks for one of the great deliberately ridiculous titles of all time. The film itself is an oddity that almost seems intended to confound your expectations of it

Director: Robert D. Kryzkowski

Actors: Sam Elliott, Aidan Turner, Caitlin Fitzgerald, Larry Miller, …

Category: Horror

15 March 20192 December 2024 by Roog

Darlin’ (2019)

Rating: ★★

Jul 5, 2020Feral Girl/The Woman Sequel

The Woman was one of the least likely films to ever warrant a sequel. But this is what we get here and directed/written by no less than Pollyanna McIntosh who played The Woman in the original

Director: Pollyanna McIntosh

Actors: Lauryn Canny, Bryan Batt, Pollyanna McIntosh, Nora-Jane Noone, …

Category: Horror

5 July 202020 July 2022 by Roog

Old Man (2022)

Rating: ★★

Feb 5, 2023Tensions Between Two Men in a Cabin in the Woods

Lucky McKee, director of May and The Woman, makes a film about two men meeting at a cabin in the woods where secrets emerge amid psychological tensions between the two

Director: Lucky McKee

Actors: Stephen Lang, Marc Senter, Patch Darragh, Liana Wright-Mark

Category: Fantasy, Horror

5 February 20236 August 2025 by Roog