Patrick Bauchau Archives

Phenomena (1985)

Rating: ★★★½

Sep 3, 1999Giallo Thriller/Insect Telepathy

Another of Dario Argento's giallo thrillers filled with all his trademark artily extravagant deaths. At the centre of the film is a teenage Jennifer Connelly who can psychically communicate with insects

Director: Dario Argento

Actors: Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Daria Nicolodi, Dalila Di Lazzaro, …

Category: Horror

3 September 19997 January 2024 by Roog

The Rapture (1991)

Rating: ★★★★

Feb 26, 1999The Biblical End of the World

Remarkable film with Mimi Rogers as a grieving widow who is drawn into the certainty that the Biblical Rapture is about to occur

Director: Michael Tolkin

Actors: Mimi Rogers, David Duchovny, Will Patton, Patrick Bauchau, …

Category: Fantasy

26 February 199921 February 2025 by Roog

Serpent’s Lair (1995)

Rating: ★

May 11, 2015Demonic Seductress

A supernatural version of Fatal Attraction where Jeff Fahey is lured into an affair with a neighbour who is a succubus

Director: Jeffrey Reiner

Actors: Jeff Fahey, Lisa B., Heather Medway, Patrick Bauchau, …

Category: Horror

11 May 201511 March 2025 by Roog

Vampires: The Turning (2005)

Rating: ★½

Feb 21, 2013Vampire Wars

Supposedly a second sequel to John Carpenter's Vampires but of little connection otherwise, this is a film of uneven effect about warring vampire clans in Thailand

Director: Marty Weiss

Actors: Colin Egglesfield, Stephanie Chao, Patrick Bauchau, Roger Yuan

Category: Horror

21 February 20134 April 2024 by Roog

Karla (2006)

Rating: ★★

Sep 9, 2007True-Life Serial Killers

Film based on true-life serial killing couple Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. This could have been another Monster but it feels like a film that played everything safe in terms of its content and fear of lawsuits such that all we end up with is watered down

Director: Joel Bender

Actors: Laura Prepon, Misha Collins, Patrick Bauchau, Tess Harper, …

Category: Horror

9 September 200716 July 2022 by Roog

Chrysalis (2007)

Rating: ★★

Mar 8, 2008Cyberpunk Film

French Cyberpunk film with a detective investigating the murder of an illegal immigrant girl and finding a blackmarket in stolen and transplanted memories

Director: Julien Leclercq

Actors: Albert Dupontel, Marie Guillard, Marthe Keller, Melanie Thierry, …

Category: Science Fiction

8 March 200829 September 2025 by Roog

2012 (2009)

Rating: ★★½

Nov 14, 2009The End of the World/Disaster Movie

Roland Emmerich mass destruction spectacle loosely based around the supposed Mayan prophecies about the end of the world. Mostly just an excuse for massively scaled disaster sequences.

Director: Roland Emmerich

Actors: John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, …

Category: Science Fiction

14 November 200910 November 2019 by Roog

Big Ass Spider! (2013)

Rating: ★★

Mar 28, 2014Giant Spider

Giant spider film that seems to be aiming for the same gonzo territory the killer shark film has of recent. Instead we get an average B movie with some good effects and a line of comic banter that falls flat in the delivery

Director: Mike Mendez

Actors: Greg Grunberg, Lombardo Boyar, Ray Wise, Patrick Bauchau, …

Category: Science Fiction

28 March 201427 November 2025 by Roog

Amnesiac (2014)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 12, 2019Imprisonment Thriller

Michael Polish is one of the underrated American directors. Here an amnesiac Wes Bentley wakes up a prisoner of a wonderfully chilling Kate Bosworth who insists that she is his wife

Director: Michael Polish

Actors: Wes Bentley, Kate Bosworth, Shashawnee Hall, Richard Riehl, …

Category: Horror

12 November 201917 November 2025 by Roog

Mega Shark vs Kolossus (2015)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 25, 2020Giant Monsters

The fourth of The Asylum's Mega Shark films and the best of the series where they get the balance of tongue-in-cheek absurdity just right and the low-budget effects prove surprisingly good

Director: Christopher Douglas-Olen Ray

Actors: Illeana Douglas, Amy Rider, Ed Derutier, Tara Price, …

Category: Science Fiction

25 February 202025 June 2021 by Roog