Joe Chappelle Archives

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)

Rating: ★

Nov 1, 1999Slasher Film

The sixth of the Halloween films, the fifth with Michael Myers. By now John Carpenter's original eerie suspense has been reduced to crude slasher movie payoffs. This tries to add some nonsense about druidic cults

Director: Joe Chappelle

Actors: Donald Pleasence, Paul Rudd, Kim Darby, Mitchell Ryan

Category: Horror

1 November 199922 October 2021 by Roog

Phantoms (1998)

Rating: ★★★★

Jan 25, 2003Evil Force Takes Over a Small Town/Dean R. Koontz Adaptation

One of the best and most underrated Dean R. Koontz adaptations, which creates eerie atmosphere out a town where the residents have disappeared due to what is revealed as a uniquely different creature

Director: Joe Chappelle

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Joanna Going, Rose McGowan, Liev Schreiber, …

Category: Horror

25 January 200316 April 2020 by Roog

Vlad the Impaler (2000)

Rating: ★★

Dec 6, 2002The Historical Dracula

Film based on the historic tyrant that gave the world the name Dracula, this ends up being too sympathetic and loses credibility when it tries to tie in vampire mythology

Director: Joe Chappelle

Actors: Rudolf Martin, Jane March, Peter Weller, Roger Daltrey, …

Category: Horror

6 December 20029 November 2021 by Roog