Wrong (2012)

Wrong (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★
Gonzo Surrealism

Quentin Dupieux’s follow-up to the hilariously culty Rubber, an absurdist film about a man setting out to find his missing dog. You keep expecting something as mind-bendingly hilarious as Rubber but this is more of a mild amusement in the David Lynch-ian deadpan surrealist vein

Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Wreck-It Ralph (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★★
Disney Animation/The Secret Lives of Videogame Characters

One of the best Disney animated films in ages. Has the winning concept of the secret lives of the characters inside videogames. Imagine Tron by way of Toy Story. The animators have clever fun with the idea, while the film creates a character arc that become the strength of the film

Wrath of the Titans (2012)

Wrath of the Titans (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
Greek Mythology Adventure

Sequel to the Clash of the Titans remake. Much the same as before except with bigger monsters and more explosions … flash and spectacle that washes over you with all the substance of the light from a disco ball

Would You Rather (2012)

Would You Rather (2012) poster
Rating: ★½
Deadly Party Game

The old party game about choosing between two difficult decisions is spun out into a rather lame attempt to make another Saw. Given a generic commercial handling, the film fails to get inside the psychological tension of its life and death decisions

Wolf Children (2012)

Wolf Children (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★★
Anime/Werewolf Children

Mamoru Hosoda proves himself as one of the major directors in anime with this tender, lovely and enormously affecting work about a mother raising two werewolf children.

When Time Becomes a Woman (2012)

When Times Becomes a Woman (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★½
Conversation Between the Last Two People on Earth

How interesting can a film be that consists of nothing more than two people talking? The answer is surprisingly good. Boasting that it is Jordan’s first SF film, this produces an extraordinary series of conceptual reversal twists while never venturing beyond being a man and a woman talking on a beach

A Werewolf Boy (2012)

A Werewolf Boy (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
South Korean Feral Werewolf Boy Love Story

Despite the title, this South Korean film is less a werewolf story than it is a love story about a feral child. The film seems overburdened by the need to pitch the film to the teen demographic and play the violins and heartstrings as a Twilight wannabe

The Watch (2012)

The Watch (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
Neighbourhood 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

War of the Worlds: Goliath (2012)

War of the Worlds: Goliath (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★
H.G. Wells Sequel/Steampunk Alternate History

Sequel to the H.G. Wells novel that imagines a fascinating alternate history that might have occurred following the Martian invasion. The clear appeal has been creating a series of scenes showing humanity tackling invading tripods in giant Steampunk manned robots

V/H/S (2012)

V/H/S (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★
Anthology of Found Footage Horror Tales

An anthology of five short Found Footage horror films each from a different director. As with any anthology these are variable in tone but are on the whole mostly effective and contain a number of alternately unearthly and spooky moments

Vanishing Waves (2012)

Vanishing Waves (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★
Journey Into Dreamscapes

Acclaimed Lithuanian film involving a venture into a person’s dreamscape a la The Cell and Inception. Some nicely cool visuals, a strong character arc and some potentially edgy sexual content but the film still remains in the shadow of Inception without quite finding enough original ideas

Vampire Dog (2012)

Vampire Dog (2012) poster
Rating:
Children's Film/Cute Vampire Dog

This may quite possibly be the worst vampire film ever made – a children’s film about a boy and a cute vampire dog. Being a children’s film, the vampire dog is not allowed to drink blood so has to have a ravenous hunger for red jelly! The slapstick is excruciating and the film painful on every level

Upside Down (2012)

Upside Down (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★
Two Worlds with Gravity in Opposing Directions

The frustration of a film that has a scientifically nonsensical premise – two planets where gravity is oriented in opposing directions – that is also surprisingly imaginatively made. This creates some genuinely amazing visuals and designs of the two worlds and showing the people on them interacting

Up There (2012)

Up There (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★½
Afterlife Comedy

Rather appealing British comedy set in an afterlife that is conceived as a dreary world of social services agencies and encounter groups. A frequently extremely black and funny but eventually charming film that gets lit up by the eccentricity of its performances

Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012)

Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★
Super-Soldiers/Action/Identity Bender

Sixth entry in the series, this throws out all the themes the previous sequels operated by and feels like a Universal Soldier film written by Philip K. Dick with utterly fascinating results. John Hyams hits in with a brutal intensity that shows he is one of the most exciting up and coming action directors

Underworld: Awakening (2012)

Underworld: Awakening (2012) poster
Rating: ★½
Vampire-Werewolf War

Yet another entry that nobody asked for in a conceptually threadbare series that nobody seems to like … passably better than the last two sequels due to some ok action moves but still empty-headed in terms of ideas

The Unbroken (2012)

The Unbroken (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
Ghost Story

Film about a woman who moves into a new apartment and is haunted by a little ghost boy. Follows the plotting for the ghost story genre to a completely tried and true formula and with wholly unremarkable results

2-Headed Shark Attack (2012)

2-Headed Shark Attack (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★
Giant Shark Amok

This is a killer shark film that is not taking itself too seriously. In their pursuit for the most absurd monster movie title, The Asylum have managed to get the balance of cheap effects and tongue-in-cheek treatment down near perfectly. The first in a series from The Asylum where each sequel added more heads.

The 25th Reich (2012)

The 25th Reich (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★
Time Travel, UFOs and Nazi-Ruled Alternate Future

Time travel, Nazis in UFOs and a Nazi-ruled alternate timeline, giant robot spiders – ok, I’m sold. A surprisingly good little film where the fact that this is also made on a low budget and with a good deal of conceptual constraint makes it all the more creative an effort

Total Recall (2012)

Total Recall (2012) poster
Rating: ★★½
Virtual Memories/Reality Bender/Action

I was never a particular fan of the Schwarzenegger original and this improves on it somewhat. This is far better conceived as an action film with some amazing Cyberpunk designs. On the other hand, the two decades interim has made the story’s Philip K. Dick-ian reality bendings seem commonplace

Toad Road (2012)

Toad Road (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
Drug Taking/Journey Along Pathway to Hell

Indie film that seems a mix of A Field in England and The Picnic at Hanging Rock. The first half contains some very realistic scenes of people getting wasted on drugs but the second as characters set out along a path in the woods that leads to Hell proves frustratingly elusive

To Rome with Love (2012)

To Rome With Love (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★
Quartet of Rome-Set Comedy Tales

Another film amid Woody Allen’s European renaissance, four tales all set around the gorgeously shot location of Rome. The stories are on the slight side and it is lesser Allen but there is great casting and moments where Allen is on good form

A Thousand Words (2012)

A Thousand Words (2012) poster
Rating:
Man Has a Thousand Words Before He Dies Comedy

Eddie Murphy’s presence is not enough to lift the lame premise of this comedy where he is given a curse where he has a thousand words to say before he dies … a film that has a soggy marshmallow heart rather than one that lets Murphy loose to do what he does best

The Thompsons (2012)

The Thompsons (2012) poster
Rating: ★½
Family of Vampires

The Hamiltons was an unusual film about a strange family who were eventually revealed to be vampires. By the time of this sequel, all the interesting elements of the original have been eliminated and all that we have is a film of tired poses that fails to add anything to the overworked vampire genre

Thanatomorphose (2012)

Thanatomorphose (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★★
Girl's Physical Decay

Low-budget film about a girl who starts to find bruises on her body that progress until every part of her body is rotting and falling apart. A minimalist film where everything other than the slow observation of the girl’s physical decay has been stripped away – with incredibly raw effect

Thale (2012)

Thale (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★
Mysterious Girl/Mythic Creature

Fascinating Norwegian film about the discovery of a mysterious girl who it gradually becomes apparent is not human … The first 20 minutes are a superb piece of scene-setting but the rest of the film consists of not much more than people sitting around a cellar waiting for something to happen

Terror of Dracula (2012)

Rating: ★★
Dracula Adaptation

An obscure Canadian film that ambitiously attempts to conduct an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula on a low-budget. This introduces some elements of the story that other versions ignore, cuts some and expands other. Not uninteresting but the budget eventually gets in the way

Ted (2012)

Ted (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★
Foul-Mouthed Teddy Bear

Comedy about a foul-mouthed talking teddy bear. This gets its laughs from much scatological, decidedly non-PC humour that occasionally manages to be funny, especially when it comes to some of the 80s pop culture jokes

The Tall Man (2012)

The Tall Man (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★½
Child Abducting Boogeymen/Conceptual Reversal Twister

Pascal Laugier returns with this fascinating effort about a small town subject to child abductions by a possible boogieman. A film that is as blatantly manipulative as it is ingenious in its way-out twists and turns where everything we assume is going on at the outset is eventually turned completely on its head

Taichi Zero (2012)

Taichi Zero (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
Wu Xia Film

From the high-profile release this had, I was expecting it to be a Wu Xia epic – instead we get what feels like a martial arts film by way of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World where instead of amazing us with the fight scenes the director seems in love with self-conscious cuteness of his own visuals

Taichi Hero (2012)

Taichi Hero (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
Wu Xia Film

Sequel to Stephen Fung’s Taichi Zero. The first film was distractingly self-conscious and hyper-active; by contrast, this is much less so, allowing it to settle down and start being the fantastic martial arts film it sets out to be. Even so, classic Wu Xia directors leave everything Fung does for dead

Superman vs. The Elite (2012)

Superman vs. The Elite (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
Comic-Book Superhero/Animation

This adapts What’s So Funny About Truth, Justice and the American Way?, the highly acclaimed graphic novel that was written as a response to 9/11. Unfortunately, I am not sure condensing the story into a 76 animated film fully does justice to the complex debate of the original

The Suicide Shop (2012)

The Suicide Shop (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★
Animation/Black Comedy

French animated film that is about as far from children’s entertainment as it is possible to get – a mordantly dark comedy that operates in similar territory to The Addams Family in its tale of a family that operates a shop selling items of despatch to the suicidally minded

Strippers vs. Werewolves (2012)

Strippers vs. Werewolves (2012) poster
Rating:
British Werewolf Comedy

Probably the next logical move after Zombie Strippers! Alas, where we should have had a fast, funny and sarcastic genre entry, the humour in this British entry becomes painfully belaboured in its constant unfunny efforts to get laughs

Storage 24 (2012)

Storage 24 (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
Alien Monster in a Storage Locker

British effort that proves to be no more than another copy of Alien – set in a warehouse of storage lockers. The film never consists of anything beyond a crashingly ordinary regurgitation of the moves used by an endless number of Alien copies

Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012)

Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★
War with Aliens/Anime

The importation of anime director Shinji Aramaki to helm the latest Starship Troopers film provides dazzling animation and hardware, along with some hard, furious military action that easily outstrips all the other films. On the other hand, the film never goes beyond being about soldiers shooting up bugs

Space Milkshake (2012)

Space Milkshake (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
Space Station Comedy

The title and the description of a space station crew dealing with a mutating runner duck gives the expectation of something wacky – what we get is more like a variant on Dark Star, a comedy set around the boredom of life on a space station and a 1970s era episode of Doctor Who

Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)

Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
Adult Fairytale Adaptation/Epic Fantasy

The second of 2012’s Snow White films after Mirror Mirror, this turns the fairytale into an epic fantasy. Well produced but ultimately a film that lacks anything unique nor pushes far enough into the dark fantasy it promises to be

Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever (2012)

Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
Documentary About the Slasher Film

A documentary about the slasher film, which interviews various directors and actors behind the films about the genre’s origins and rules

The Sleeper (2012)

Rating:
Slasher Film

Not to be confused with the Woody Allen film, this is a modern slasher film that pays homage to its 1980s counterparts – in particular, the sorority house slasher as a maniac who deep-breathes down the phone stalks assorted co-eds. Unexceptional in all regards

6 Degrees of Hell (2012)

6 Degrees of Hell (2012) poster
Rating:
Haunted Halloween House of Horrors

A horror film set around a haunted house attraction that is made with near-total amateurishness. The film seems to have multiple plots happening all at once and becomes impossible trying to figure out what is happening

Silent Night (2012)

Silent Night (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
Christmas Slasher Film/Psycho Santa

This is a very loose and somewhat desultory remake of Silent Night, Deadly Night that seems to imagine it is being far more hardcore and controversy defying than it is

Silent Hill: Revelation (2012)

Silent Hill: Revelation (2012) poster
Rating:
Videogame Adaptation/Sinister Otherworldly Town

Dull and unimaginative Silent Hill sequel that only revisits what went before. The first film had an unsettling and uncanny otherworldly atmosphere but in being made for 3D, the sequel reduced it no more than pop-up Clive Barker

Sightseers (2012)

Sightseers (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★½
Tourists on a Killing Spree/Black Comedy

The third film from Ben Wheatley who here makes a black comedy about two tourists on a murder spree, eliminating those they don’t like. A film that digs into British class and provincial small-mindedness with scabrous regard

7 Below (2012)

7 Below (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
Haunted Happenings

Modest name cast, including a highly entertaining Val Kilmer, in a film about a group of strangers brought together at a mysterious backwoods house

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
End of the World Romantic Comedy

The End of the World seems the least likely backdrop for a romantic comedy. Newcomer Lorene Scafaria seems less interested in depicting social collapse than in making an insipid romcom road movie with two leads who fail to strike up any connection

The Seasoning House (2012)

The Seasoning House (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
East European Sex Slavery

This starts out as a socially conscious drama about East European sex slavery. As directed by a makeup effects artist, the film seems to tepidly avoid the raw and brutal impact the material holds, before finally revealing its true nature as an imprisonment and revenge horror

The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption (2012)

The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
Sword and Sorcery

The best of an otherwise lightweight, throwaway series. Roel Reiné directs some good action scenes, even if the hackneyed plotting never lets the show rise to anything more than average

Sand Sharks (2012)

Sand Sharks (2012) poster
Rating: ★★½
Gonzo Killer Shark Film

This was made just before Sharknado turned the killer shark film into something deliberately ridiculous and is an entertainingly tongue-in-cheek B movie that has a perfect sense of its own limitations

Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)

Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★½
Possible Time Machine

Quirky indie film about a possibly deluded man who advertises for a time travel companion. The actuality of the time travel element is kept ambiguous and this plays out as a relationship drama that overflows with charm and freshness

Sadako 3D (2012)

Sadako 3D (2012) poster
Rating:
Ring Sequel/Japanese Ghost Story

The original Ring was a classic, an eerie ghost story that was a success that spawned a series of copies right around the Asian region. Here the Ring cycle has been rebooted in a heavy letdown that abandons all of the creepy atmospherics of the original for a series of pop-up CGI effects

Rufus (2012)

Rufus (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★
Smalltown Vampire

Not that the title gives you any reason to expect it but this is actually a vampire film, one of the rare entries in a genre that is looking very anemic these days. An original and quite interesting smalltown take that resembles George Romero’s Martin and Let the Right One In

Ruby Sparks (2012)

Ruby Sparks (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★
Writer Brings His Ideal Woman to Life

The Little Miss Sunshine directors follow their hit up with a film about a writer who brings his ideal woman to life. Scriptwriter Zoe Kazan sparkles in the title role but the film never pushes its central concept too much beyond being a quirkily sweet indie romance

Room 237: Being An Inquiry Into The Shining in 9 Parts (2012)

Room 237: Being an Inquiry Into The Shining in 9 Parts (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★★
Documentary About the Hidden Meanings in The Shining

Documentary where people offer up various crackpot theories about the hidden meanings of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Fascinating in a bizarre freakshow way, an undeniable cult film in the making

Robot & Frank (2012)

Robot & Frank (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★½
Aging Burglar Befriends a Robot

Surprisingly warm and genteel story about the relationship between an aging cat burglar and a robot. For once, no cliches about robots becoming intelligent or discovering feelings but simply a credible piece extrapolated from contemporary robotics

Rise of the Zombies (2012)

Rise of the Zombies (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
Zombie Film

The Asylum have not delved into the zombie film as much as they have the gonzo killer shark, which they practically invented. This is one occasion on which they did and is unexpectedly a serious film with a reasonable name cast (including Danny Trejo as a zombie)

Rise of the Guardians (2012)

Rise of the Guardians (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
Animation/Team-Up Between Imaginary Characters

The concept – sort of akin to but with various imaginary beings (Santa, Jack Frost, The Easter Bunny, The Tooth Fairy etc) teaming up in an adventure – has a mild amusement to it but the film itself feels like an utterly processed piece of modern animated children’s movie formula

Resolution (2012)

Resolution (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★
Mysterious Backwoods Happenings

Starting out as a gritty intervention drama, for some time this is not even a horror film. In the background are suggestions of increasingly more disturbed happenings until the film becomes something eerily cryptic – sort of The Evil Dead by way of The Picnic at Hanging Rock

Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)

Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
Videogame Adaptation/Complex of Zombies and Mutants

Another unnecessary entry in a creativity-handicapped series, the continuing popularity of which is baffles. This shuffles through the familiar moves, brings back several familiar characters but only leaves me asking why I have invested some nine hours of time following this series

Red Lights (2012)

Red Lights (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★½
Psychic Debunkers

Strong, well-written film from Buried director Rodrigo Cortes about investigators of psychic frauds encountering a possibly real example. This takes a welcomely sceptical, rationalist perspective, has a great cast and fine build-up but alas falls apart in a lame twist ending

Red Dawn (2012)

Red Dawn (2012) poster
Rating:
North Korean Invasion of the USA

The idea of remaking John Milus’s ridiculous 1984 survivalist fantasy about a Communist invasion of the USA maybe counts as one of the most absurdly unnecessary of all remakes. The film laughably tries to deal with the absence of a Soviet Union by creating a boogeyman out of North Korea

[Rec]3: Genesis (2012)

[Rec]3 Genesis (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★
Zombie Outbreak at a Wedding

Third entry in the hit Spanish Found Footage series. Not the origin story it promises to be, is the one entry in the series that decides to have fun. The Found Footage look is abandoned soon in, nevertheless it turns out the gore-drenched goods and is peopled with a range of amusingly eccentric characters

The Raven (2012)

The Raven (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
Edgar Allan Poe vs a Serial Killer

This has the great idea of pitting Edgar Allan Poe against a serial killer imitating his stories but instead produces a desultory murder mystery that has done only the most cursory reading about Poe and is ill-informed about the historical period

Prometheus Trap (2012)

Prometheus Trap (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
Space Expedition/Timeloop

Low-budget film that was clearly trying to ride on the coattails of Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel Prometheus. This tells an almost interesting story about a timeloop and gets full marks for winding in the Greek myth of Prometheus

The Possession (2012)

The Possession (2012) poster
Rating:
Occult Box/Possession

Based on the urban legend surrounding a dybbuk box that turned up on an EBay auction, although the film throws this out to conduct an utterly generic possession story. Despite the novelty of drawing on Judaic mythology, the film still trades in the same tired cliches as the Christian exorcism film

The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)

The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★
Aardman Animation/Gonzo Pirate Adventure

Amiable effort from England’s Aardman Animations that doesn’t quite scale the heights of their other films but still has an entertainingly nonsensical charm that is far more enjoyable than most Hollywood competition

Piranhaconda (2012)

Piranhaconda (2012) poster
Rating:
Giant Hybrid Snake

Amid the spate of deliberately ridiculous monster movies of the 2010s, we have also seen a fad for absurd hybrid creatures. In actuality, the piranhaconda is just a giant snake – and served by some incredibly bad effects in this negligible effort from B-budget hack Jim Wynorski

The Philadelphia Experiment (2012)

The Philadelphia Experiment (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
Time Travel Experiment Amok

This Syfy Channel production can’t seem to decide if it is a sequel or a remake of the 1984 film. Michael Paré turn up in both versions but goes from being the hero to a menacing heavy. The original had its moments but this is generic and routine in all ways

Persistence of Vision (2012)

Persistence of Vision (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★
Documentary About the Making of The Thief and the Cobbler

A fascinating documentary about animator Richard Williams that principally focuses on the tragic failure of Williams’s lifework The Thief and the Cobbler, which would have been the most ambitious hand drawn film ever made

Pegasus vs. Chimera (2012)

Pegasus vs. Chimera (2012) poster
Rating: ★½
Fantasy Adventure

One of the numerous ‘vs’ films that came out after Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus, this is actually a B-budget fantasy adventure made for cable. This is not particularly bad, just routine and uninspired on all counts where the budget cramps any of its imaginative horizons

Patient Zero (2012)

Patient Zero (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
Madness-Inducing Virus Released at a Laboratory

This comes with a good premise – people must escape from a biological containment facility after the release of a virus that turns the infected homicidal. Essentially a low-budget version of The Crazies, this is a film that would have been improved by a studio budget

ParaNorman (2012)

ParaNorman (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★
Stop-Motion Animated Children's Film/Kid Sees Dead People

Stop-motion animated children’s film from Laika that demonstrates a willingness to be scary. The film starts to move out of the amiably likeable after around the halfway point when it begins to play a number of horror tropes against expectation to deliver a reasonable message about fear and prejudice

Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)

Paranormal Activity 4 (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
Haunting Found Footage Film

The Paranormal Activity series has had a better run than most horror franchises up until now but the cracks are starting to show through here. This feels like it is straining to find some new way to do the familiar moves but fails to provide anything unexpected or original

The Pact (2012)

The Pact (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★
Haunting and Serial Killer

Modestly effective film about a haunted suburban house. Debuting director Nicholas McCarthy produces a number of accomplished and eerie scares that stand him as a promising new name. The film weakens in the last act when trying to tie everything together with an improbable rationale

Outpost: Black Sun (2012)

Outpost: Black Sun (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
Nazi Zombies

Outpost was a solid and reasonably effective rehashing of the Nazi zombie theme; this was the first of two sequels. The first had a formula that seems difficult to mess up but this does – it’s over half the film before we get zombies after which we get Just the Same As Before and little more

Oƨombie (2012)

Osombie (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
Osama bin Laden as a Zombie

This surely takes the cake amid the fad for wacky zombie films in which Osama bin Laden is resurrected as a zombie. Imagine a mash-up between Zero Dark Thirty and a zombie film

The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)

The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) poster
Rating:
Magic Child Appears Out of the Garden

On one level, this sets out to be a warm-hearted fantasy about the appearance of a magic child to a childless couple. On another possibly unintentional level, it is a rather unlikeable film about how two parents continually force a child to conform to the social expectations of those around them

No One Lives (2012)

No One Lives (2012) poster
Rating: ★★
Psycho Film

This second English-language film from Japan’s Ryuhei Kitamura came with a good deal of promising advance buzz but upon being seen emerges as a strictly average psycho film that never offers anything outstanding in terms of twists or suspense, nor pushes its audience in any way

Nazis at the Center of the Earth (2012)

Nazis at the Center of the Earth (2012) poster
Rating: ★★★½
Nazis Under the Polar Icecap/Hitler with a Robot Body/Mad Science

Hands down the best film ever produced by The Asylum. How could one not like an entertainingly madcap concoction that features mad scientists, zombie stormtroopers, Nazi UFOs and Adolf Hitler preserved as a head in a jar attached to a robot body?