Miguel Tejada-Flores Archives

Dudes (1987)

Rating: ★★½

Oct 16, 1999Punk Road Movie/Modern Western/Ghost Cowboy

From director Penelope Spheeries, this is an almost unclassifiable oddity. As three punks set out in a search of a better life, this becomes a road movie and Western homage (with ghost cowboys)

Director: Penelope Spheeris

Actors: Jon Cryer, Daniel Roebuck, Catherine Mary Stewart, Lee Ving, …

Category: Fantasy

16 October 199923 February 2026 by Roog

Sequel to Fright Night, this basically rehashes what went before but introduces Jerry Dandridge's sister. This does come with the benefit of some way-out stylistic effects from director Tommy Lee Wallace

Director: Tommy Lee Wallace

Actors: Roddy McDowall, William Ragsdale, Julie Carmen, Traci Lin, …

Category: Horror

5 September 20029 February 2026 by Roog

Almost Dead (1994)

Rating: ★

Mar 31, 1999Haunting

This a dull ghost story in which Shannen Doherty plays a parapsychological researcher who believes she is seeing the ghost of her mother everywhere

Director: Ruben Preuss

Actors: Shannen Doherty, Costas Mandylor, Eric Christmas, John Diehl, …

Category: Horror

31 March 199915 November 2025 by Roog

Screamers (1995)

Rating: ★★★

Jan 11, 2003Evolved Androids/Planetary Journey/Philip K. Dick Adaptation

Modest and underrated Philip K. Dick adaptation that builds reasonable atmosphere during its journey across a planet and doubt as to who among the party might be one of a breed of evolving androids

Director: Christian Duguay

Actors: Peter Weller, Jennifer Rubin, Andy Lauer, Roy Dupuis, …

Category: Science Fiction

11 January 200310 July 2026 by Roog

Faust: Love of the Damned (2000)

Rating: ★

Apr 4, 2003Comic-Book Adaptation/Demonic Avenger

Brian Yuzna's adaptation of the cult comic-book is a disappointment that has tamed down any of the censorship-pushing controversy the original had and emerges as no more than a standard dark avenging superhero film

Director: Brian Yuzna

Actors: Mark Frost, Jeffrey Combs, Andrew Divoff

Category: Horror

4 April 20031 April 2025 by Roog

Beyond Re-Animator (2003)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 3, 2010Re-Animator Sequel

The second sequel to the cult splatter hit Re-Animator is a superior effort to its predecessor, getting the original's sense of black humour down pat and arriving at a memorably apocalyptic climax

Director: Brian Yuzna

Actors: Jeffrey Combs, Elsa Pataky, Santiago Segura, Lolo Herrero

Category: Horror

3 April 20105 July 2026 by Roog

Rottweiler (2004)

Rating: ★★

Oct 21, 2007Killer Cyborg Dog

Brian Yuzna usually makes well worthwhile films but this one about an escaped prisoner hunted by a killer cyborg dog fails to come together

Director: Brian Yuzna

Actors: William Miller, Paul Naschy, Ivana Baquero, Lluis Homar, …

Category: Science Fiction

21 October 200723 July 2020 by Roog

Swarmed (2005)

Rating: ★★

Jun 24, 2025Killer Wasps

A formula Syfy Channel killer bug film wherein a new experimental insecticide creates a horde of deadly genetically tinkered wasps that run amok through a small town

Director: Paul Ziller

Actors: Michael Shanks, Carol Alt, Richard Chevolleau, Jonathan Malen, …

Category: Horror, Science Fiction

24 June 202510 July 2026 by Roog

Screamers: The Hunting (2009)

Rating: ★½

Jul 17, 2010Evolved Androids/Planetary Survival

Disappointing sequel to the modest original that does little but revisit and re-run the first film's scenario with little to add to it

Director: Sheldon Wilson

Actors: Gina Holden, Lance Henriksen, Greg Bryk, Stephen Amell, …

Category: Science Fiction

17 July 201031 August 2020 by Roog

Frankenstein’s Army (2013)

Rating: ★★★½

Feb 22, 2014Found Footage Frankenstein Film

One has difficulty with the notion of a Found Footage Frankenstein film, although the film does credibly justify this. That said, the film offers up a series of genuinely phantasmagoric and out of this world creations

Director: Richard Raaphorst

Actors: Karel Rodin, Alexander Mercury, Andrei Zayats, Robert Gwilym, …

Category: Horror

22 February 20148 February 2026 by Roog