Prototype X29A (1992)
Jan 25, 2003Post-Holocaust Cyborg Wars
This is a standard 90s direct-to-video SF/action film about warring cyborgs in a burned-out future. This has borrowed most of its moves from other films. Not a lot happens
Phillip Roth
Apex (1994)
Jun 20, 1999War with Robots/Alternate Timelines
Passable B-budget 1990s direct-to-video sf/action film about robots and humans warring across time that develops out an interesting plot about a changed timeline
Digital Man (1995)
Jun 20, 1999Amok Android
Fairly average 90s SF/action video release about soldiers hunting an amok military android before realising the androids have also infiltrated their troupe
Python (2000)
Apr 17, 2010Giant Snake Amok
One of the more likeable among the 2000s fad for low-budget CGI monster movies, this is aided considerably by a sense of humour and a line-up of oddball characters
New Alcatraz (2002)
Sep 21, 2010Future Prison/Giant Snake Amok
Gimmicky B-budget film about a hi-tech future prison built at the South Pole. Thus has been thrown together with a giant snake amok plot. A passably routine effort
Warnings (2003)
May 21, 2015Crop Circles and Alien Invasion
A blatant copy of M. Night Shyamalan's Signs even down to the near-identical title and a similar plot about crop circles appearing on a farm presaging an alien invasion
Boa vs Python (2004)
Jun 24, 2007Giant Snakes Amok
A giant CGI snake film that promptly heads into bad movie stakes through a combination of ridiculous dialogue and absurd posturing of its cast
Morlocks (2011)
Mar 5, 2012Mutant Monsters/Time Portal
Not as you might assume an adaptation of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine but another cheap and tatty Syfy Channel production that grafts Wells' Morlocks onto the formula for their typical monster movie
Rage of the Yeti (2011)
Nov 19, 2014Yeti Monster Movie
Typical Syfy Channel monster movie directed by actor David Hewlett. Hewlett seems to be taking little of the film seriously, while the two lead characters are played as strung-out thrill-seeking skateboarders
Super Tanker (2011)
Apr 20, 2022Disaster Movie/Super-Container of Antimatter
Syfy Channel disaster movie about the efforts to dispose of a container of antimatter being carried on board a tanker, where things proceed to go wrong
Jet Stream (2013)
Aug 11, 2015Disaster Movie/Weather Control Experiment Amok
A Syfy Channel disaster movie. Between the formula dramatics and cheap effects, this is better than expected, having a sense of humour and a more original hero than most of its kind
Crystal Skulls (2014)
Sep 22, 2015Alien Artefacts/Disaster Movie
Syfy Channel film that mashes the disaster movie together with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The result is peculiarly unsatisfying either as disaster movie or the tomb raiding adventure we expect
Firequake (2014)
Apr 26, 2016Disaster Movie
A Syfy Channel disaster movie that follows the formula with little variation about a geo-engineering project to tap clean energy from the Earth that goes amok creating firequakes
Roboshark (2015)
May 2, 2016Robot Shark Amok
Another in the fad for deliberately ridiculous shark movies following in the wake of Sharknado. With immensely entertaining regard, this offers up sharks invading Starbucks, swimming through malls, eating Bill Gates and even going on Twitter
The Car: Road to Revenge (2019)
Jul 7, 2019Possessed Car
The Car concerning a possessed car is one of the forgotten films of the 1970s. Why it has produced a sequel 42 years later is a scratch of the head. Not that the two films even resemble one another
Doom: Annihilation (2019)
Oct 6, 2019Videogame Adaptation/Labyrinth of Monsters
This was the second film based based on the Doom game and actually does a far better job of getting the essence of the game and paying fanservice to its elements than the earlier 2005 film did
An American in Austen (2024)
May 26, 2024Modern Girl Transported Back Into Pride and Prejudice
A modern girl pining for the perfect man is transported back into the world of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice where she ends up disrupting the story