Simon Boyes Archives

Broken (2006)

Rating: ★★★★

May 25, 2008Abduction and Torture

Highly effective British venture into the Torture Porn fad made not long after the successes of Saw and Hostel. A brutal and harrowing tale about women kept prisoner in the woods that travels to some grim and gore-drenched extremes

Director: Adam Mason, Simon Boyes

Actors: Nadja Brand, Eric Colvin

Category: Horror

25 May 20084 January 2025 by Roog

The Devil’s Chair (2006)

Rating: ★★★

Mar 9, 2011Demonic Portal in an Abandoned Asylum

Solid offering from the increasingly underrated Adam Mason that takes more than a few leaves from Hellraiser with a ghostsbusting team investigating occult happenings in an abandoned asylum

Director: Adam Mason

Actors: Andrew Howard, David Gant, Louise Griffiths, Matt Berry, …

Category: Horror

9 March 20112 December 2024 by Roog

Blood River (2009)

Rating: ★★½

Nov 8, 2018Sinister Hitchhiker/Divine Judgement

An interesting little film from Adam Mason that starts out seeming a variant on The Hitcher with Andrew Howard as a drifter taunting a couple on a desert highway before morphing into something very strange

Director: Adam Mason

Actors: Andrew Howard, Ian Duncan, Tess Panzer, Sarah Essex

Category: Horror

8 November 20185 December 2025 by Roog

Dark Island (2010)

Rating: ★

Jul 3, 2010Mysterious Island/Toxic Cloud Amok

This feels like a mockbuster thrown together to exploit the popularity of the tv series Lost concerning an island haunted by a sinister cloud of smoke. The scenario quickly collapses into absurdity.

Director: Niko Pueringer, Sam Gorski

Actors: Jai Koutrae, Victoria Floro, Zero Kazama, Robert O'Brien, …

Category: Science Fiction

3 July 201015 January 2026 by Roog

Luster (2010)

Rating: ★★

Jan 22, 2015Man at War With His Split Personality

British director Adam Mason has been a rising name of note in recent years. Here he makes a Jekyll and Hyde story with Andrew Howard as a mild-mannered man at war with his own evil half

Director: Adam Mason

Actors: Andrew Howard, Tess Panzer, Xander Berkeley, Billy Burke, …

Category: Horror

22 January 201530 June 2026 by Roog

Songbird (2020)

Rating: ★★

Sep 26, 2021Plague-Ridden Future

Film shot during the pandemic lockdown from Michael Bay’s production company set in a future where Covid has become even more virulent

Director: Adam Mason

Actors: K.J. Apa, Peter Stormare, Demi Moore, Craig Robinson, …

Category: Science Fiction

26 September 20211 August 2023 by Roog

Crimson (2020)

Rating: ★★

Feb 24, 2025Found Footage/Killer Clowns

A film based around real-life YouTube influencer Brian 'Faze Rug' Awadis as he buys a new mansion only to move in and find his neighbours are an alley of sinister clowns

Director: Gregory Plotkin

Actors: Brian “Faze Rug” Awadis, Anthony Jabro, Noah Rojas, Vanessa Lyon, …

Category: Horror

24 February 202516 December 2025 by Roog

Play Dead (2022)

Rating: ★

Feb 11, 2024Sinister Happenings at the Morgue

Bailee Madison takes a drug that fakes death and wakes up at the morgue – only to discover that coroner Jerry O’Connell is running an organ harvesting operation

Director: Patrick Lussier

Actors: Bailee Madison, Jerry O'Connell, Anthony Turpel, Chris Lee, …

Category: Horror

11 February 202411 February 2024 by Roog