Syfy Channel Archives

Earthsea (2004)

Rating: ★

Jun 21, 2006Epic Fantasy/Apprentice Wizard

This TV mini-series adaptation of the Ursula Le Guin books is an insult. This was quickly mounted on the back of the success of The Lord of the Rings films but feels like tv filler that has zero affinity for Le Guin's richly cultured world

Director: Robert Lieberman

Actors: Shawn Ashmore, Kristin Kreuk, Isabella Rossellini, Danny Glover, …

Category: Fantasy

21 June 200612 February 2026 by Roog

Tin Man (2007)

Rating: ★★★½

Jan 19, 2008Modernised Wizard of Oz

Nick Willing conducts the first of his SF revampings of popular tales. Here The Wizard of Oz is reworked into a Steampunk fantasy with some startling reinterpetations of the familiar characters

Director: Nick Willing

Actors: Zooey Deschanel, Alan Cumming, Neal McDonough, Kathleen Robertson, …

Category: Fantasy, Science Fiction

19 January 20088 July 2026 by Roog

Beyond Loch Ness (2008)

Rating: ★★

Nov 16, 2023Loch Ness Monster/Dinosaur Film

This offers the novelty of a Loch Ness monster film that takes place in Canada! This is otherwise a routine monster of the era made for the Syfy Channel

Director: Paul Ziller

Actors: Brian Krause, Niall Matter, Carrie Genzel, Don S. Davis, …

Category: Horror, Science Fiction

16 November 202327 November 2025 by Roog

Lost City Raiders (2008)

Rating: ★★

Nov 26, 2025Tomb Raiding Adventures in a Drowned Future

A conceptually peculiar mix of Indiana Jones and Waterworld about tomb raiding adventures in a drowned future and the quest for Moses’s staff to turn back the rising waters

Director: Jean de Segonzac

Actors: Ian Somerhalder, James Brolin, Ben Cross, Jamie Thomas King, …

Category: Science Fiction

26 November 202528 June 2026 by Roog

The Lost Future (2010)

Rating: ★★

Mar 6, 2012Post-Holocaust Cavemen

This feels like a remake of the Roger Corman post-holocaust cavemen cheapie Teenage Caveman. It cannot escape that at heart it is never more than a B movie about caveman fighting mutants

Director: Mikael Salomon

Actors: Sean Bean, Corey Sevier, Sam Claflin, Annabelle Wallis, …

Category: Science Fiction

6 March 201228 July 2026 by Roog

Red: Werewolf Hunter (2010)

Rating: ★

Jun 16, 2013Werewolf Film

Syfy Channel film that seems to offer the intriguing premise of a Modernised Little Red Riding Hood but only deals with this in the vaguest ways. Otherwise this is a standard werewolf film and contains maybe the crappiest CGI wolf transformation scenes ever

Director: Sheldon Wilson

Actors: Felicia Day, Kavan Smith, Stephen McHattie, Greg Bryk, …

Category: Fantasy

16 June 201314 December 2021 by Roog

Seeds of Destruction (2011)

Rating: ★

Mar 26, 2014Massive Runaway Plant Roots

Cheap Syfy Channel CGI disaster spectacle about runaway plant roots – from the Garden of Eden, no less – growing to endanger the entire planet. Utterly formulaic and seeming to consist of no more than canned pieces of cliche action

Director: Paul Ziller

Actors: Adrian Pasdar, Stefanie von Pfetten, Jesse Moss, Luisa D'Oliveira, …

Category: Science Fiction

26 March 201424 June 2025 by Roog

Earth’s Final Hours (2011)

Rating: ★★

Aug 19, 2012End of the World/Disaster Movie

Another Syfy Channel low-budget disaster film. This creates a fascinating if scientifically dubious end of the world premise about a white hole but spends the show on the routine stuff of car chases and gunfights

Director: W.D. Hogan

Actors: Robert Knepper, Cameron Bright, Roark Critchlow, Michael Kopsa, …

Category: Science Fiction

19 August 201230 January 2026 by Roog

The Philadelphia Experiment (2012)

Rating: ★★

Jun 4, 2013Time Travel Experiment Amok

This Syfy Channel production can't seem to decide if it is a sequel or a remake of the 1984 film. Michael Paré turn up in both versions but goes from being the hero to a menacing heavy. The original had its moments but this is generic and routine in all ways

Director: Paul Ziller

Actors: Nicholas Lea, Gina Holden, Emilie Ullerup, Ryan Robbins, …

Category: Science Fiction

4 June 201324 November 2019 by Roog

Witchslayer Gretl (2012)

Rating: ★★

Mar 17, 2022Faiirytale Adaptation

A low-budget film that prefigures the big-budget Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters in turning the fairytale brother and sister into witchslayers in a generic fantasy adventure plot

Director: Mario Azzopardi

Actors: Shannen Doherty, Paul McGillion, Emilie Ullerup, Sarain Boylan

Category: Fantasy

17 March 202227 March 2026 by Roog

Arachnoquake (2012)

Rating: ★★

Jun 22, 2017Giant Fire-Breathing Spiders

Giant fire-breathing spiders invade New Orleans. A passably entertaining film of its type made for the Syfy Channel with effects that are above-average and it taking itself seriously

Director: Griff Furst

Actors: Bug Hall, Edward Furlong, Tracey Gold, Ethan Phillips, …

Category: Science Fiction

22 June 201719 November 2025 by Roog

Stonados (2013)

Rating: ★

Nov 17, 2015Disaster Movie/Tornado of Explosive Boulders

Another cheap Syfy Channel disaster movie – this one featuring a tornado that rains boulders that explode upon landing. Everything runs to the usual formula plotting and cheap CGI effects of these types of movies

Director: Jason Bourque

Actors: Paul Johansson, Sebastian Spence, Miranda Frigon, Jessica McLeod, …

Category: Science Fiction

17 November 201524 December 2021 by Roog