The Killer Inside Me (1976)
May 6, 2001Psycho Sheriff
The original film version of the Jim Thompson novel with Stacy Keach as a charismatic and well-liked sheriff's deputy who harbors a psychopathic side
Stacy Keach
Slave of the Cannibal God (1978)
Jun 19, 2000Italian Cannibal Film
Another entry in the notorious Italian cannibal genre of the 70s. As with most of this genre, the film delights in pushing everything to gore-drenched extremes
The Ninth Configuration (1979)
Nov 4, 2000Military Asylum Black Comedy
The directorial debut of William Peter Blatty, the writer of The Exorcist, a strange and unclassifiable black comedy set in a military asylum. Imagine One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest directed by Robert Altman
Roadgames (1981)
Jul 17, 2009Road Movie Psycho-Thriller
Superb Australian psycho-thriller with Stacy Keach as a truck driver who believes he has seen a killer on the highway. Director Richard Franklin creates a series of astonishing set-pieces.
Class of 1999 (1990)
Nov 1, 2005Killer Android Schoolteachers
Mark L. Lester makes a follow-up to his earlier The Class of 1982 about a teacher forced to adopt vigilante actions in a stand against a lawless classroom. In the interim, The Terminator came out and this now has killer android schoolteachers
Body Bags (1993)
Sep 7, 2013Horror Anthology
A pilot for a never sold horror anthology tv series featuring John Carpenter as a pun-cracking narrator. The two Carpenter directed episodes have some tension, while Tobe Hooper's third episode has a clumsy heavy-handedness
Escape from L.A. (1996)
Sep 11, 2003Action/Los Angeles as a Future Prison
John Carpenter’s sequel to Escape from New York falls too much in the shadow of its predecessor, nevertheless has some effective moments of its own, with Carpenter in particular creating a satiric future
Fear Runs Silent (1999)
Nov 21, 2014Backwoods Horrors
Backwoods horror that starts well, keeping its menace ambiguous but collapses into a mishmash of pretensions and amateurish symbolism
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008)
Aug 6, 2019Australian Exploitation Cinema Documentary
Hilarious and entertaining documentary about the Australian exploitation film that flourished between the late 1970s and 80s. The film delves into an arena of forgotten films and tells their stories with a great deal of detail
Meteor (2009)
Jul 2, 2024Impending Meteor Collision
Disaster TV mini-series where assorted well-known faces fight through the chaos to prevent an impending meteor strike
The Bourne Legacy (2012)
Aug 9, 2012Spy Action Film
A reboot of the Jason Bourne series with Jeremy Renner replacing Matt Damon. The exhiliratingly kinetic action scenes are watered down, while the plot lacks the same focus. The first of the series to enter genre territory however
World of Cars: Planes (2013)
Aug 10, 2013Disney Animation/Talking Aircraft
A spinoff from Pixar's Cars series (although is not in itself a Pixar film but comes from Disney) that sets out to do the same with anthropomorphic planes. Amiable, even likeable but more a wannabe that seems like it is trying to be than actually hits the cleverness and creative heights of Pixar
Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014)
Jul 20, 2014Disney Animation/Talking Aircraft
The second of Disney’s spinoffs from Pixar’s Cars films featuring talking anthropomorphic planes. Like the first film, this is amiable and occasionally cute but lightweight. This is beginning to feel like a franchise that is spinning out thinning ideas solely for its own sake
Cell (2016)
Jul 16, 2016Stephen King Adaptation/Cellphone Zombies
Adaptation of the Stephen King novel about zombies created by a cellphone signal. Critically panned but this kicks in with a sensational opening scene and overspills with more fascinating ideas than it has room to deal with