Prison (1987)
Oct 9, 2003Haunted Prison
An early film from Renny Harlin made for Charles Band concerning a haunted prison. Features an unknown Viggo Mortensen in one of his earliest roles
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A Nightmare on Elm Street IV: The Dream Master (1988)
Sep 14, 2002Dream-Invading Boogey Man
Fourth of the A Nightmare on Elm Street films. Under Renny Harlin's hand, the unworldly atmosphere of Wes Craven's original is replaced by moments of incredible silliness
Blast from the Past (1999)
May 6, 1999Out of the Nuclear Fallout Shelter Comedy
A comedy with the amusing premise where Brendan Fraser is raised in a nuclear fallout shelter since the Cuban Missile Crisis and emerges into the present for the first time, mistaking it for a post-apocalyptic world
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Jul 31, 1999Genetically-Engineered Killer Sharks
A killer shark film by way of Jurassic Park. The perpetually terrible Renny Harlin creates something almost watchable that vies between moments of tension and the entertainingly absurd
Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)
Nov 17, 2004Demonic Possession
Prequel to The Exorcist concerning the young Father Merrin. Production company Morgan Creek dumped Paul Schrader’s original version of the film and brought in the perpetually terrible Renny Harlin to make something scarier but Harlin’s pop-effects remain tepid
Mindhunters (2004)
Feb 26, 2007Serial Killer Thriller
Serial killer thriller from the perpetually terrible Renny Harlin. A variant on Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians, it promptly collapses into ludicrous plotting and an even more ridiculous string of deaths
The Covenant (2006)
Oct 21, 2007Teen Male Witches
Ridiculous film from the perpetually awful Renny Harlin about teen male witches that feels like a gender-swapped version of The Craft cast with pretty boys and directed amid absurdly overblown effects
The Dyatlov Pass Incident (2013)
Aug 29, 2023Unexplained Mystery/Found Footage
The Dyatlov Pass Incident has gained a fascination as an unexplained mystery. Here Renny Harlin makes a Found Footage film that heads for full on conspiracy theory explanations
The Legend of Hercules (2014)
Jun 21, 2014Greek Myth
Renny Harlin, the director of a great many empty-headed action films, takes on the Greek myth and delivers a Hercules film that feels like it has been directed after too many watchings of 300
The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024)
Jun 15, 2024Home Invasion and Brutality
The Strangers was one the sleeper hits of the 2000s. This is the first chapter in a three film reboot. On the minus side, it has been handed over to Renny Harlin, who should be on any worst directors list
The Strangers: Chapter 2 (2025)
Oct 24, 2025Mysterious Masked Killers
The Strangers was an incredibly eerie home invasion story that has become a modern classic. This is the second chapter in a trilogy of reboot films that have been handed over to the perpetually terrible Renny Harlin
The Strangers: Chapter 3 (2026)
Mar 13, 2026Mysterious Masked Killers
The concluding chapter in a desultory trilogy of films based on the eerie home invasion classic The Strangers. The surprise is that this ends up being the best of the three films
Deep Water (2026)
Jul 26, 2026Stranded in a Sea of Sharks
The perpetually terrible Renny Harlin makes a halfway watchable film about the survivors of a plane crash at sea trying to stay alive as the sinking plane is surrounded by sharks