Jose Prendes Archives

The Haunting of Winchester House (2009)

Rating: ★★

Jul 14, 2015Haunted House

One of the tatty ghost stories made by The Asylum, sold with the association of famous haunted locations or murders. Minor moments of interest if you are prepared to wade through the over-hyped shocks

Director: Mark Atkins

Category: Horror

14 July 20153 November 2025 by Roog

Hansel & Gretel (2013)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 6, 2019Fairytale Horror Adaptation

Amid the 2010s spate of fairytales rewritten as dark adult fantasies, The Asylum made their cheap mockbuster copies. From the director of Sharknado, this is Hansel and Gretel by way of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Director: Anthony C. Ferrante

Actors: Dee Wallace, Stephanie Greco, Brent Lydic

Category: Fantasy, Horror

6 November 201929 October 2025 by Roog

Mega Shark vs Mecha Shark (2014)

Rating: ★★

Jan 27, 2017Giant Shark vs Giant Robot Shark

Third in The Asylum's series of Mega Shark films where they borrow the Godzilla series' idea of Mecha-Godzilla and pit the Mega Shark against a robot copy of itself. Here the Mega Shark series is starting to approach the entertaining silliness of their Sharknado films but still flounder amid tatty effects

Director: Emile Edwin Smith

Actors: Christopher Judge, Elisabeth Röhm, Matt Lagan, Paul B. Anderson, …

Category: Science Fiction

27 January 20177 January 2025 by Roog

Hansel vs Gretel (2015)

Rating: ★

Dec 30, 2019Modernised Fairytale

Sequel to The Asylum's spendidly grotesque Hansel & Gretel, this pits the two characters against one another for contrived reasons to justify its title but is just cheaply made

Director: Ben Demaree

Actors: Brent Lydic, Jhey Castles

Category: Fantasy

30 December 201929 October 2025 by Roog