Man-Thing (2005)
Sep 9, 2007Marvel Comics Adaptation/Creature in the Swamps
The bastard child among the spate of pre-MCU Marvel Comics adaptations during the mid-2000s, a film based on their swamp-dweller that throws out most of the comic-book
Rachael Taylor
See No Evil (2006)
Feb 25, 2015Slasher Film
Modern slasher film where the sole note of distinction is the wrestler known as Kane cast as the hulking killer. Outside of a moderate level of brutality in the despatches, there is little here that stands out from the genre's cliches in any way
Transformers (2007)
Jul 3, 2007Live-Action Transformer Robots
Michael Bay takes on the 1980s toy phenomenon, turning it into a massive blockbuster filled with copious mass destruction and machines beating the metal crap out of each other
Shutter (2008)
Mar 29, 2008Haunted Photographs
An English-language remake of a Thai horror film about haunted photographs. Another by-the-numbers remake that is a pale shadow of its original
Ghost Machine (2009)
Apr 14, 2013Malevolent Spirit Manifests Inside Virtual Reality
A Virtual Reality/horror film about a malevolent spirit incarnated inside a videogame. This churns all the Virtual Reality cliches as though nothing had changed since the tide of shabby 1990s Lawnmower Man copies
The Darkest Hour (2011)
Jan 20, 2012Alien Invasion
An alien invasion film set in Moscow. This is nothing more than a special effects vehicle about how the culturally self-absorbed twentysomething computer geeks and party girls save the world
ARQ (2016)
Oct 20, 2017Timeloop
Another variant on the Groundhog Day theme with characters trapped in a timeloop. This come with an SF rationale and contains the plot in a single location while spinning each repeat through some smart twists