The Rift (1990)
Dec 28, 2004Submarine Encounters Monsters Underwater
A cheap submarine adventure/underwater monster encounter from Spanish director Juan Pique Simon that was intended as a copy of James Cameron’s The Abyss
R. Lee Ermey
Body Snatchers (1993)
Feb 12, 2002Invasion of the Body Snatchers Remake
Abel Ferrara's remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is an overlooked film that settles in with an undeniable creepiness that is just as effective as the earlier versions. The metaphor for the pod people is more diffuse in this one but that does not mitigate the film's effect
Se7en (1995)
Feb 15, 2001Serial Killer Thriller
Classic serial killer film from David Fincher, a superb effort from the casting to a script that seems weighted by the moral ills of the 20th Century to the unforgettable twist ending
The Frighteners (1996)
Dec 6, 2000Medium vs Ghostly Serial Killer Comedy
Before The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson flopped badly with this ghost comedy. Jackson allows his obsession with perfecting the visual effects technology to take over the film at the expense of the film and provides little that is funny
The Sender (1997)
Jul 22, 2000Alien Visitor/Psychic Powers/Action
Action film with Michael Madsen and a mystery alien woman fighting a government coverup of UFOs to retrieve his abducted daughter
Switchback (1997)
Jun 22, 1999Psycho-Thriller
Directorial debut from the Die Hard scriptwriter Jeb Stuart is a solid thriller but the film was a surprise flop despite bringing together an impressive cast
The Apartment Complex (1999)
Jan 21, 2001Apartment Building of Weird Tenants
Tobe Hooper makes a film where Chad Lowe becomes the supervisor an apartment building filled with strange tenants. However, Hooper misses the intended black comedy tone by a mile
Megiddo (2001)
Jul 4, 2004The Biblical End of the World
Sequel to the Biblical End Times/Antichrist film The Omega Code, this dispenses with preaching faith but still slips into absurdity
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
Jan 27, 2004Backwoods Brutality
A remake of Tobe Hooper's landmark classic that presaged a host of inferior 70s/80s horror remakes throughout the 2000s/10s. What we have is now a different film although not entirely an uninteresting one
Willard (2003)
May 12, 2004Man Befriends Rats
James Wong and Glen Morgan, the duo behind Final Destination, remake the 1971 film about a man and his rats. However, this is set in a stylised 1940s world with a caricatured performance from Crispin Glover that causes the film to lack any credibility
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
Oct 21, 2007Backwoods Brutality
Prequel to the 2003 Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, which sets out to tell the origin story of the cannibal family. New director Jonathan Liebesman pushes the gore and sadism to Torture Porn extremes
Solstice (2008)
Apr 26, 2017Haunting
Daniel Myrick, one of the co-directors of The Blair Witch Project, conducts a remake of a Danish-Swedish ghost story, relocating it to Lousiana. Myrick does nothing remarkable with the material, even at the twist ending, largely treading in the safety of antebellum cliches
Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010)
Jun 2, 2011Filipino Exploitation Cinema Documentary
Documentary about the US exploitation film industry in the Philippines in the 1970s filled with mind-boggling anecdotes that uncover a wild west of ragged, unregulated filmmaking
The Watch (2012)
Aug 3, 2012Neighbourhood Watch vs Alien Invaders Comedy
An uninspired comedy about a neighbourhood watch encountering alien invaders that falls somewhere between Ghostbusters and The ‘Burbs. The film's virtues lie less in the weak premise than in the director allowing the stars to freely improvise with occasionally funny results