Parallel World Love Story (2019)
Japanese film that has overtones of Sliding Doors as a man finds he leads two different parallel lives
The Loch Ness Horror (2023)
A low-budget Loch Ness Monster film, which bizarrely enough turns into an Alien-copy part way through
Planetquake (2024)
B-budget disaster movie from The Asylum with people trying to halt a vast ring of earthquakes that have been triggered around the world
Earthtastrophe (2016)
Syfy Channel disaster movie where Earth is suddenly transported into another Solar System and an improbable time travel is sought to reverse this
It Lives Inside (2023)
A US-made film from an East Indian director who draws on his cultural background in the story of a girl haunted by a demon from Hindu myth
Subservience (2024)
Another android gone amok film with former sex symbol Megan Fox cast as an android nanny who starts defying her programming
Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)
A return to the Final Destination franchise after fourteen years, this comes with an undeniable sense of humour, producing a series of highly entertaining despatches to make the best entry in the series so far
The Assessment (2024)
An hilariously black, deadpan film set in a future as a couple undergo assessment for whether they are fit to be parents. This involves Alicia Vikander moving into the house and play-acting being a child with absolutely chaotic effect
The Mighty Gorga (1969)
A copycat of King Kong made on a budget of about $1.98 and featuring some pitiful giant ape effects
Empire of the Apes (2013)
When 20th Century Fox began their Planet of the Apes reboot series, director Mark Polonia quickly jumped in with his own Z-budget mockbuster take. Several sequels followed
The Holy Virgin Versus the Evil Dead (1991)
Hong Kong horror/fantasy that appropriates the Evil Dead name for a wild plot about the manifestation of an ancient deity
Swarmed (2005)
Formula Syfy Channel killer bug film about a horde of deadly genetically tinkered wasps amok in a small town
Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (1977)
A 1970s Animals Attack film as deadly tarantula spiders take over a small town
Incantation (2022)
The most successful Taiwanese horror film of all time, a Found Footage film about paranormal investigators who witness a ritual and are afterwards haunted by it
Dick Dynamite: 1944 (2023)
A gonzo parody of WWII heroics a la Inglourious Basterds with the addition of Nazi zombies, over-the-top splatter and some decidedly non-PC humour, this proves an enormously entertainingly comic-book of a film
The Shrouds (2024)
At age 81, David Cronenberg is still on great form with this perversely fascinating work about the development of a technology that places cameras inside graves to observe corpses as they decay, before leaping off into typical Cronenberg themes and a parody of conspiracy theories
Clown in a Cornfield (2025)
The killer clown film has become its own genre niche since the remake of It, offering assorted wacky genre mash-ups. This is a better budgeted entry than usual from the director of the cult Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Incoming (2018)
An action film set aboard the International Space Station, which has been converted into a prison to house terrorists, who proceed to hijack it
Box: Metaphor (2023)
Australian film about a future where people are imprisoned inside shipping containers, this suggests it is going to be something like another Cube
The House That Vanished (1973)
Spanish director Jose Larraz gained a small cult reputation for his work amidst the 1970s Anglo-horror cycle. This is a psycho film where a model is stalked after witnessing a murder
Skinwalker Ranch (2013)
A reasonably effective and spooky Found Footage film set around the unexplained phenomena at the real-life Skinwalker Ranch
A Werewolf in England (2020)
Director Charlie Steeds creates a modest film set in 19th Century England about people at an inn as it comes under attack by werewolves
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (2024)
Martin Scorsese produces and narrates a documentary about the directing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Predator: Killer of Killers (2025)
The Predator series continues. Dan Trachtenberg, the director of Prey, makes an animated offering that features encounters between human and Predator in three different eras of history
Until Dawn (2025)
The film adaptation of the popular videogame where a group of characters enter a lodge where they become caught in a timeloop where they face horrors and are killed and then resurrected to face them again
Alpha Girls (2013)
A blatant copy of The Craft where a new girl gets wound up into occult rites going on in a sorority house. Featuring porn star Ron Jeremy as a Catholic priest
Tentacles (1977)
One of the more absurd of the Animals Attack films that sought to cash in on the success of Jaws concerning a giant octopus on the attack
You Can’t Kill Stephen King (2012)
You have to admit the title gets your attention but this is otherwise a slasher film of sorts about a group in search of Stephen King’s home
Apex (2021)
Another of the last films that Bruce Willis made before his mental deterioration forced him to retire. A variation on The Most Dangerous Game where Bruce plays a bad-ass facing hunters with his bare hands
A Million Days (2023)
Ambitious and yet contained film set on the eve of a space mission where the commander realises that the A.I. has started going wildly off-book
Sinners (2025)
Ryan Coogler of Black Panther fame makes a smart and intelligent vampire film set in the American South during the 1930s
Fountain of Youth (2025)
Guy Ritchie makes an adventure film that pays homage to Indiana Jones and a host of other works concerning the quest for the Fountain of Youth. A superficial film killed by its constantly distracting flip banter
Assimilate (2019)
A body snatchers film, shot partially as Found Footage where teens shooting a video make the discovery that people in their town are being replaced
Black Noise (2023)
A team of mercenaries arrive on an island on a retrieval mission only to find everybody has been turned to dust and a mysterious piercing noise that causes them to hallucinate
The Last Train (1999)
A mini-series where a group of people aboard a train go into suspended animation and emerge to find a devastated world
Miracle in Milan (1951)
One of the classics of the Italian Neo-Realist period, a charming whimsy about homeless people who built a shantytown
Wildling (2018)
Bel Powley gives a great performance as a wild child introduced to civilisation for the first time before it is discovered she is a wildling creature
Monolith (2022)
The title monolith is a cheat, this is however a creepy Australian film about a series of ultra-mysterious objects
A Minecraft Movie (2025)
A live-action film based on the popular Minecraft videogame with Jack Black and Jason Momoa venturing into a brick-based otherworld
Fear Street: Prom Queen (2025)
Follow-up to the R.L. Stine-based Fear Street films of a couple of years back, this conducts a not bad homage to the 1980s slasher film and gets the period setting right
Archenemy (2020)
An interestingly odd film where a videographer looking for a story investigates homeless man Joe Manganiello’s claims to being a superhero, which may or may not be true
Code 8: Part II (2024)
The Canadian-made Code 8 was one of the few non-comic book adapted superhero films of recent years. This is a sequel where a bigger budget has been afforded to the superheroics
Ferpect Crime (2004)
A black comedy from Alex de la Iglesia about murder and rivalry in a department store, where the killer becomes advised by the ghost of those he has killed
First Born (1988)
Standout tv mini-series that updates old mad scientist clichés into the era of Jane Goodall as scientist Charles Dance creates a human/gorilla hybrid child and tries to raise it
Haunting of the Queen Mary (2023)
A ghost story that takes place between two eras set aboard the real-life cruise liner Queen Mary, this conducts a variant on the ghost ship story with some reasonable effect
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee (2024)
A documentary about horror legend Christopher Lee covering his life and principal films
Snow White (2025)
The live-action remake of Disney’s Snow White comes surrounded by controversy
Jackpot! (2024)
Like a comedy version of The Purge, where a future California lottery awards the winner millions if they can avoid every other person trying to kill them
The Last Shark (1981)
An Italian exploitation copy of Jaws that has the reputation as the film that was such a blatant ripoff that Universal sued to stop its release
Red Water (2003)
B killer shark films where environmentalists, oil rig workers and drug dealers converge on a Louisiana river where a shark lurks
Iron Girl: Ultimate Weapon (2015)
Japanese film about a cyborg-enhanced bounty hunter chick. Sort of like RoboCop but played with a softcore focus
Judgment Day (1998)
Coming out the same year as Deep Impact and Armageddon, this was an oncoming asteroid collision film that has been bizarrely crosshatched with a ‘hood drama
All Fun & Games (2023)
Teenagers in Salem are forced to play a game where their lives are forfeit and they become possessed by a cursed knife dating from the witch trials
In My Mother’s Skin (2023)
An extremely good Filipino film about a family abandoned at the end of WWII where the only recourse seems to be the children trusting a malevolent fairy
The Ugly Stepsister (2025)
An adult and frequently horrific retelling of the Cinderella story from the Ugly Stepsister’s point-of-view
Black Eyed Susan (2024)
From the extraordinary and underrated Scooter McCrae, a dark and very disturbing film about the development of a sex robot for men who like to beat and abuse women
History of the Occult (2020)
Argentinean horror film about a tv interview with a black magician where things then proceed to start going wrong. Shot in a dense black-and-white and claustrophobic mock-up of an older tv show
Pussy Cake (2021)
An Argentinean film where the four members of a girl rock band are forced to deal with a zombie outbreak
Tykho Moon (1996)
Film from Enki Bilal, a celebrated comic-book creator in France, about the noirish goings-on and in-politics on a lunar colony
OK Connery (1967)
With the success of the James Bond films in the 1960s, someone had the idea of casting Sean Connery’s younger brother Neil in a spy film
Frankenstein Legacy (2024)
One of the spate of Frankenstein films to emerge in the 2023-4 period, this conducts an ambitious period-set follow-up to the original Mary Shelley story on a low budget
The Moon (2023)
Solid South Korean attempt to copy Gravity and The Martian with the attempts to rescue an astronaut who becomes stranded on The Moon
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On (2021)
This is the most charming animated (in this case stop-motion animated) film in years, a mockumentary about the life of a tiny talking shell
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever (2023)
Nightwatch about the paranoia of a morgue attendant on the night shift was a festival hit. After 29 years, the principals reunite for a sequel
The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell (2006)
A gonzo post holocaust film that was put out under the National Lampoon label. Beyond having a great title, this represents as close to near-total ineptitude in filmmaking as it is possible to get
Steampunk Samurai Biker Chick (2012)
I must admit to being drawn in by the title, but this proves to be a massive cheat. What we get is a painfully cheap future action film
Countess Dracula’s Orgy of Blood (2004)
Donald F. Glut is famous as a genre historian and novelist. Here he directs an erotic vampire film. Despite the title, Count Dracula doesn’t feature much but we get Paul Naschy in one of his few English language films
Blood on Melies’ Moon (2016)
Luigi Cozzi’s return to screens after 26 years, a head-scratchingly bizarre effort overloaded with ideas about parallel worlds, cosmic journeys and homage to the early cinema of Georges Melies and others
Grimcutty (2022)
A film about Grimcutty, a boogeyman that lurks inside an internet meme and thrives on causing parental fears. This sits on the edge of being almost interesting
Acid (2023)
A harsh and urgent French-made catastrophe film about a family trying to survive and get to safety with the appearance of a sudden cloud of deadly acid rain
The Woman in the Yard (2025)
Blumhouse film with Danielle Deadwyler and family having to deal with the ominous threat of a mystery woman in black veil who simply sits in their yard
The Devil and the Daylong Brothers (2025)
An indescribable, completely insane Southern road movie about soul collectors. Somewhere between The Dukes of Hazzard as redone by Guy Ritchie or Quentin Tarantino and the Southern blues film Crossroads
Killer Book Club (2023)
A Spanish slasher film reminiscent of I Know What You Did Last Summer where a clown-masked killer eliminates their way through members of a book club
The Elderly (2022)
Quite creepy Spanish film where the elderly everywhere without any explanation begin to act disturbed and turn on the young
Corbin Nash (2018)
Film about a tough guy detective settling into the destined role of a monster hunter. With lots of dark streetwise urgency and Corey Feldman proving unexpectedly entertaining in drag as the lead vampire
Escape Room (2017)
This was debatably the first of three films that came out around the same time with the same title. Here a group find themselves in an escape room facing nasty deaths in each room
Monster Mash (2024)
The Asylum conduct a monster bash – a crossover between the Famous Monsters – and actually do a modest and quite enjoyable job
Stopmotion (2023)
A film about a stop-motion animation filmmaker who descends into a dark and obsessive state of mind
Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
The fourth Captain America film, where Anthony Mackie now takes over the shield and costume. And you really need to have been following MCU continuity to make sense of much of what is going on
In the Lost Lands (2025)
Paul W.S. Anderson adapts a George R.R. Martin fantasy story but somehow still manages to make another Resident Evil copy
I ♥ Robots (2024)
Amateur-looking film set after the robot apocalypse that at least boasts some well-integrated robot effects
Rogue Warrior, Robot Fighter (2016)
A pneumatically inflated heroine fights the machines amid a standard array of space opera and post-apocalyptic future tropes
The Invisible Man (1984)
An adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel conducted as a mini-series from the BBC, this adapts the book with an enormous faithfulness
The Silent Sea (2021)
South Korean tv mini-series about the investigation of a moonbase with illicit experiments and something possibly alien unleashed
Easter Bloody Easter (2024)
An Easter horror film about a small town overrun by a killer jackalope, this plants tongue in cheek and hits a highly amusing horror comedy stride
Elevation (2024)
Quite a good variant on A Quiet Place where humanity is in hiding from monsters that exist below eight thousand feet altitude. This develops some fine seat-edge tension
Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare (2025)
From the people behind Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, this is the horror version of Peter Pan. And good grief, does this go dark with Peter as a child abductor and Tinkerbell who shoots up ‘fairy dust’ through a needle
The Devil’s Tomb (2009)
Jason Connery directs a film that draws upon the basics of The Keep about soldiers venturing into a tomb in Iraq that houses a great evil
The Gauntlet (2013)
Film with people trapped in a mysterious labyrinth, which may be Hell, where they are required to eliminate one another in order to survive. Aka Game of Assassins
Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1927)
One of several silent movie versions of Tarzan, featuring the actor who was Edgar Rice Burroughs’ personal choice for the role
Mirror Mirror (1990)
A 1990s video release, a variant on Carrie where a bullied teen girl enacts vengeance against tormentors with the aid of a cursed mirror
Breach (2020)
Another of the last films made by Bruce Willis, before his retirement. Here Bruce is on form and gives a decent performance. The film is an Alien copy with the crew of a space mission under attack by a parasitic lifeform
Batman Ninja vs Yakuza League (2025)
A sequel to Batman Ninja, which offered an anime treatment of Batman. This gives us a bizarre alternate Yakuza-ruled Japan with versions of the Justice League working for them
Mickey 17 (2025)
Parasite director Bong Joon Ho makes an ambitious SF film with Robert Pattinson as a clone(s) on a planetary colonisation expedition
Woman of the Hour (2023)
Actress Anna Kendrick directs a film based on a true-life serial killer Rodney Alcala who appeared on tv’s The Dating Game
Cocaine Werewolf (2024)
Cocaine Bear seems to have given birth to a mini-genre of films about drug-addicted animals amok. Here regular Z-budget Mark Polonia gives us a cocaine-snorting werewolf
Cocaine Crabs from Outer Space (2022)
Another of the films inspired by Cocaine Bear, this features an invasion by alien crabs that become wired on cocaine. It is hard to tell if this is being deliberately ridiculous or not
Psycho Girls (1986)
The debut of Canadian director Gerard Ciccoritti who should have become more well known, this goes for broke and becomes splendidly deranged
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021)
Kurt Vonnegut was one of the greatest SF writers, whose work crossed over into rare mainstream appeal. This is documentary about his life
2025 Armageddon (2022)
A crossover between all the menaces in The Asylum’s films, which are brought to life as part of an alien invasion plan