Wrong Turn (2003)
Feb 23, 2004Backwoods Brutality
Passable effort that copies that basics of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre with a group of stranded teens running afoul of an in-bred family
Summit Entertainment
The Brothers Grimm (2005)
Jul 3, 2007Fairy-Tale Authors' Adventures
Probably the least satisfying of Terry Gilliam's films that turns the real-life fairytale authors into scam ghost hunters in an adventure. Purportedly the subject of behind the scenes troubles, the film never quite comes to life on screen
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007)
Oct 19, 2008Backwoods Brutality
A sequel that has been arranged for the sole purpose of serving up a series of gory dispatch set-pieces every few minutes
Knowing (2009)
May 24, 2009Prophecies of Disaster
Alex Proyas seemed a promising genre director during the 1990s. Here Nicolas Cage finds a time capsule that predicts a series of disasters, before the film tangents off into a strange Biblical End of the World scenario
Eclipse (2010)
Jul 4, 2010Twilight Sequel/Vampire Romance
The third of the Twilight films. This extrudes the dramatic irresolution of the last film’s cliffhanger – should Bella marry Edward or does she really love Jacob? – with over-padded momentousness
Furry Vengeance (2010)
May 22, 2010Animals Amok Comedy
Excruciating CGI cute animals film where animals gang up to stop Brendan Fraser redeveloping their forest. Essentially a 1970s Nature's Revenge film by way of the slapstick family-friendly violence of Home Alone
Breaking Dawn Part Two (2012)
Nov 16, 2012Twilight Sequel/Vampire Romance
Perhaps the best thing about this is that the Twilight saga is finally ended. This provides a moderately spectacular showdown but also wraps its plotlines up with absurd deus ex machina wimp outs and an infuriating twist ending
Divergent (2014)
Mar 29, 2014Young Adult Dystopian Future
Designed as a copycat of The Hunger Games, this Young Adult film as a modest hit. The premise is fundamentally implausible as human psychology - and when there's no basic credibility, you cease to care about the contrived dramatics
Insurgent (2015)
Mar 21, 2015Young Adult Dystopian Future
Divergent, the first entry in this Young Adult dystopian series, a poor man's Hunger Games, failed the "I can't hold any suspension of disbelief" test. This offers more of the same, plus lots of random effects sequences
The Shack (2017)
May 29, 2017Man Invited to a Meeting with God
This comes with a fantastic conceptual hook "Man is invited to a meeting with God at a hut in the woods". Alas, what we get is no more than a work of faith-based cinema that drowns in its feelgood Christianity Lite sentiments and appeal to Middle American wholesomeness