Watchers II (1990)
Aug 28, 2024Intelligent Dog Hunted by a Monster
The first of three sequels to the Dean R. Koontz adaptation about an intelligent dog, although for each sequel producer Roger Corman has just remade the book
John Brancato
The Unborn (1991)
Jul 24, 2024Sinister Pregnancy
Roger Corman produced film where Brooke Adams realises that something sinister might be happening with her pregnancy
Mindwarp (1992)
Jun 21, 2004Post-Holocaust/Virtual Reality
One of three films produced by Fangoria magazine, this takes place in a post-holocaust wasteland of crazies and is certainly gore-drenched but unfortunately only churns cliches
Severed Ties (1992)
Aug 20, 2005Scientist's Disembodied Arms on the Loose
Film with a mad scientist creating an army of disembodied arms, this could have been a demented classic but just emerges as cheap
The Net (1995)
Oct 31, 2001Cyber-Thriller
Film that tried to jump aboard the newly arrived paradigm of the internet but is mostly a cliched thriller about Sandra Bullock trying to recover her erased identity
The Game (1997)
Nov 18, 2007Reality Games
David Fincher film in which businessman Michael Douglas is wound into a conspiracy that makes him doubt everything around him. Fincher creates paranoia but the story eventually becomes an improbably contrived house of cards
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Jul 22, 2003Time-Travelling Killer Androids
After the highs of James Cameron’s first two Terminator films, this was a crashing disappointment. Schwarzenegger is back but his performance has become self-parody and the uninspired action sequences are accompanied by some terrible effects
Catwoman (2004)
Oct 4, 2004Comic-Book Superheroine
The long-planned Halle Berry-starring Catwoman movie proved a widely ridiculed bomb. The film throws out the comic-book Catwoman and instead opts for an approach the frequently collapses into the risible
Primeval (2007)
Apr 19, 2009Giant Killer Crocodile
One of several killer crocodile films that came out in 2007. This has some big-budget CGI effects but is otherwise cliched and was overshadowed by better entries from the same year like Rogue and Black Water (*)
Surrogates (2009)
Nov 2, 2009Future Where People Inhabit Avatar Bodies
Interesting conceptual SF film where the populace of the future inhabit a series of perfect avatar bodies. Despite a few logical quibbles with the premise, this does a good job in exploring the idea of such a world
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Jun 6, 2009War Against the Machines
The fourth Terminator film is slightly better than you would expect of something directed by the empty-headed McG. There are some undeniably spectacular action sequences, although the film still stands too much in the shadow of what has gone before