Randall Emmett Archives

The Wicker Man (2006)

Rating: ★

Nov 18, 2007Pagan Religion

The 1973 version of The Wicker Man is a cult classic; this is one of the worst remakes of all time that gets nothing about the original right, blunts its themes about religion and tosses in crude shocks and killings

Director: Neil LaBute

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Molly Parker, Leelee Sobieski, …

Category: Horror

18 November 200726 March 2026 by Roog

Borderland (2007)

Rating: ★★½

Sep 2, 2015Tourists Preyed Upon by Santeria Cult

A blatant copy of Hostel wherein a trio of students cross the Mexican border and fall prey to a Santeria cult. Despite its derivativeness in the plot department, this emerges as a brutal and fairly well made film

Director: Zev Berman

Actors: Brian Presley, Sean Astin, Jake Muxworthy, Rider Strong, …

Category: Horror

2 September 201510 December 2025 by Roog

Day of the Dead (2008)

Rating: ★

Oct 19, 2008Zombies

A remake of George Romero's third and most underrated zombie film, This came out as part of the 2000s revival of the genre but majorly miscalculates the original and emerges as wrong in just about every way

Director: Steve Miner

Actors: Mena Suvari, Ving Rhames, Annalynne McCord, Nick Cannon, …

Category: Horror

19 October 200815 January 2026 by Roog

The Frozen Ground (2013)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 23, 2022True-Life Serial Killer

A film based on true-life serial killer Robert Hansen who would fly girls out into the Alaskan wilderness and then hunt them. Nicolas Cage is the dogged detective up against John Cusack as the killer

Director: Scott Walker

Actors: Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, Vanessa Hudgens, Kevin Dunn, …

Category: Horror

23 November 20222 July 2026 by Roog

Boss Level (2020)

Rating: ★★★

Mar 20, 2021Timeloop/Action Film

You don’t think the mix of cartoonishly over-the-top action and a Groundhog Day timeloop scenario would work but this proves your assumptions wrong in highly entertaining ways

Director: Joe Carnahan

Actors: Frank Grillo, Mel Gibson, Naomi Watts, Michelle Yeoh, …

Category: Science Fiction

20 March 202117 November 2025 by Roog