Dr Giggles (1992)
Jan 2, 2000Psycho Medic
A darkly funny take on the slasher film with Larry Drake standing out in a memorable performance as the title mad doctor. This delivers more medical novelty deaths and bad puns than one believed possible
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Timecop (1994)
Aug 17, 2003Time Police
Film featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme as a temporal police officer. While you expect another time travel action film, this has quite a deal more sophistication in the scripting department than you expect
The Mask (1994)
Sep 11, 2004Zany Comic-Book Superhero
Comic-book adaptation featuring a ballistically OTT Jim Carrey who becomes a zany figure of chaos whenever he puts on a mask. The film has been designed to emulate cartoon physics but its lack of any grounding reality proves annoying
Barb Wire (1996)
Nov 21, 2003Anarchic Future/Leather-Clad Bimbo
Enjoyably silly comic-book adaptation with a pneumatically-inflated Pamela Anderson playing the titular bounty hunter in an anarchic future. You cannot complain that this is a film that delivers exactly what it promises
Mystery Men (1999)
Aug 7, 1999Bumbling Superheroes Comedy
A superhero parody about a group of reject superheroes with useless powers. Despite moments of amusement, this fails to quite come off
Virus (1999)
May 2, 1999Lethal Alien Bio-Machine
This has the novelty of a monster that is an evolving fusion of machinery and organics. While it is all directed with much noise and fury, it is ultimately no more than another copy of Alien
Hellboy (2004)
Jul 5, 2004Demon Superhero/Comic-Book Adaptation
The first of Guillermo Del Toro's adaptations of Mike Mignola's comic-book about a demon superhero. Not as good as the sequel, the film's ace in the hole proves to be Ron Perlman in the title role
Son of the Mask (2005)
Sep 16, 2005The Mask Sequel
Sequel to the Jim Carrey starring The Mask with Jamie Kennedy taking over in a film that was regarded as one of the worst sequels of all time
30 Days of Night (2007)
Feb 3, 2008Small Town in Alaska Overrun by Vampires
Solid vampire film produced by Sam Raimi about a small Alaskan town that suddenly finds itself besieged by vampires who have come because of the month of night
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
Oct 9, 2008Demon Superhero/Comic-Book Adaptation
In the second and the best of his two Hellboy films, Guillermo Del Toro expands the first out with an amazing menagerie of eccentric and offbeat creatures, while Ron Perlman is again on winning form in the title role
R.I.P.D. (2013)
Jul 20, 2013Afterlife Police Force
This feels like someone has simply copied the idea of a secretive law enforcement agency from and substituted the dead escaped from Hell for aliens. The two have remarkably similar story arcs, although this is far more goofily entertaining that the absurdly overblown slapstick that overtook the Men in Black sequels
Hellboy (2019)
Jul 19, 2019Demon Superhero/Comic-Book Adaptation
Reboot of the Hellboy series comes from the promising name of Neil Marshall but is also made by Millennium Films who have a habit of buying up previously successful properties and churning out cheaper spinoffs
R.I.P.D. 2: Rise of the Damned (2022)
Jul 23, 2023Afterlife Police Force
A sequel to R.I.P.D. that tells an origin story of how the sheriff character played by Jeff Bridges in the original became an afterlife enforcement officer
Hellboy: The Crooked Man (2024)
Oct 18, 2024Demon Superhero/Comic-Book Adaptation
After a disastrous reboot of the Hellboy franchise, Millennium Media get it right by employing the comic’s creator on script, taking the series into wildly creative directions with Hellboy up against Appalachian folk horrors