Mark L. Lester Archives

Firestarter (1984)

Rating: ★★½

Jul 29, 2002Pyrokinesis/Stephen King Adaptation

The adaptation of the Stephen King novel with Drew Barrymore giving a fantastic performance as a young girl with pyrokinetic powers on the run as she is hunted by a sinister government agency

Director: Mark L. Lester

Actors: Drew Barrymore, George C. Scott, David Keith, Martin Sheen, …

Category: Science Fiction

29 July 20021 February 2026 by Roog

Class of 1999 (1990)

Rating: ★½

Nov 1, 2005Killer Android Schoolteachers

Mark L. Lester's follow-up to his earlier The Class of 1982 about a teacher forced to adopt vigilante actions in a lawless classroom. In the interim, The Terminator came out and this now has killer android schoolteachers

Director: Mark L. Lester

Actors: Stacy Keach, Malcolm McDowell, Pam Grier, Bradley Gregg, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 November 200511 February 2026 by Roog

Misbegotten (1997)

Rating: ★★★½

Dec 3, 2000Psycho Sperm Donor

From a Larry Cohen script, a side-splitting effort with Kevin Dillon as a psychopathic sperm donor who forcibly intrudes into the life of his baby's mother

Director: Mark L. Lester

Actors: Kevin Dillon, Lysette Anthony, Nick Mancuso, Matthew Walker, …

Category: Horror

3 December 200022 December 2020 by Roog

Sacrifice (2000)

Rating: ★★

Sep 9, 2007Escaped Con Hunts Serial Killer

Michael Madsen is a bank robber who makes an escape from jail and goes on the run to track down the serial killer who killed his daughter

Director: Mark L. Lester

Actors: Michael Madsen, Bokeem Woodbine, Deborah Shelton, Joshua Leonard, …

Category: Horror

9 September 20076 March 2025 by Roog

Pterodactyl (2005)

Rating: ★★½

Mar 8, 2008Dinosaurs Amok

Reasonable low-budget revived dinosaur film with not bad CGI effects and an often witty, genre savvy script

Director: Mark L. Lester

Actors: Cameron Daddo, Coolio, Amy Sloan, Mircea Monroe, Steve Braun, …

Category: Science Fiction

8 March 200817 November 2020 by Roog

Wraiths of Roanoke (2007)

Rating: ★★

Apr 25, 2013Unsolved Mystery/ Malevolent Phantoms

B-budget Syfy Channel outing that attempts to answer the true-life Unsolved Mystery of the lost colony at Roanoke. Unfortunately, the film's answers are no more interesting than a bunch of Viking spirits, while the film generates little atmosphere or anything beyond rudimentary historical conviction

Director: Matt Codd

Actors: Adrian Paul, Rhett Giles, Alex McArthur, Frida Farrell, …

Category: Horror

25 April 201310 August 2025 by Roog

Beauty and the Beast (2009)

Rating: ★

Feb 16, 2011Fairytale Adventure

Cheaply made attempt to turn the fairytale into a fantasy adventure where Beauty becomes a kick-ass heroine who joins the Beast in defeating an evil lord and witch

Director: David Lister

Actors: Estella Warren, Rhett Giles, Chris Betts, Damien Garvey

Category: Fantasy

16 February 20113 March 2026 by Roog

Dragonwasps (2012)

Rating: ★★

Mar 11, 2021Giant Fire-Breathing Insects

Typical Syfy Channel creature film with people encountering giant fire-breathing genetically-engineered wasps in the jungles of Belize

Director: Joe Knee

Actors: Corin Nemec, Dominika Julliet, Nikolette Noel, Benjamin Easterday, …

Category: Science Fiction

11 March 202111 March 2021 by Roog

Poseidon Rex (2013)

Rating: ★★

Aug 20, 2015Revived Dinosaur

As formula monster movies go, this stands out from the rest - it takes itself seriously, has a better budget than usual, which allows some luxurious location shooting in Belize, and a better standard of effects

Director: Mark L. Lester

Actors: Brian Krause, Berne Velazquez, Candice Nunes, Philip Coc, …

Category: Science Fiction

20 August 201510 July 2026 by Roog

Hunt Club (2022)

Rating: ★

Jun 11, 2024Men Hunt Women

A variation on The Most Dangerous Game that comes with a nasty feminist agenda where women are hunted by men who feel a disappearing sense of entitlement

Director: Elizabeth Blake-Thomas

Actors: Mena Suvari, Casper Van Dien, Mickey Rourke, Will Peltz, …

Category: Horror

11 June 202420 June 2026 by Roog

Cinderella’s Revenge (2024)

Rating: ★★

Jul 13, 2025Horror Version of Cinderella

A horror version of Cinderella where she gets to stab people with the glass slipper. This also features several modernisms where instead of a pumpkin coach, the fairy godmother conjures up Elon Musk to drive Cinderella to the ball in a Tesla

Director: Andy Edwards

Actors: Lauren Staerck, Natasha Henstridge, Stephanie Lodge, Beatrice Fletcher, …

Category: Fantasy, Horror

13 July 202513 November 2025 by Roog