Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End (2024)
Big-budgeted Spanish-made zombie film based on a best-selling book
Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025)
The seventh of the Jurassic Park/World films and receives a shot in the arm from new director Gareth Edwards
War of the Worlds (2025)
An adaptation of H.G. Wells’ classic alien invasion novel modernised into the era of mass data surveillance, social media and Amazon delivery drivers
Psychic Experiment (2010)
A film overstuffed with mad ideas and genre cameos about psychic experiments that have unleashed a series of other-dimensional entities
The Rizen: Possession (2019)
Sequel to the earlier The Rizen with the group of people trapped inside a labyrinth of Lovecraftian horrors
Emmanuelle in Space: First Contact (1994)
The original Emmanuelle was the memoir of the sexual dalliances of a bored wife in Thailand. Here she is now abducted by aliens for further encounters
A Beginners Guide to Snuff (2016)
A comedy about two wannabe brothers who try to enter a horror movie competition by making their own snuff movie, only for everything to start going wrong
When I Consume You (2021)
Perry Blackshear makes another of his kitchen sink works about a handicapped brother and his sister’s possible ghost fighting a demonic figure
Werewolves (2024)
A werewolf film with an original idea and a furious action movie sensibility
28 Years Later … (2025)
28 Days Later was the work that started the modern zombie film revival. Twenty-three years later, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland make a third film
The Life of Chuck (2024)
A Mike Flanagan adaptation of a Stephen King story that has been receiving a great deal of acclaim
Shark Girl (2024)
A Gonzo Killer Shark film about a social media influencer bitten by a radioactive shark who becomes a shark-human hybrid
Megalodon: The Frenzy (2023)
The third of The Asylum’s trilogy of films about giant prehistoric sharks
Timeslip (1955)
British quota quickie with a fascinating central idea of a scientist who has slipped several seconds out of phase in time
Bluebeard (2009)
Catherine Breillat, known for her full-on explorations of sexuality, takes on an adaptation of the French fairytale about a multiple wife murderer
Assassin 33 A.D. (2020)
A faith-based film that comes with a great hook where a time-traveller seeks to go back and kill Jesus, eliminating Christianity from history
Ash (2025)
The rapper Flying Lotus directs a copy of Alien with a ship crew being hunted by an alien nasty on a hostile planet
Death of a Unicorn (2025)
A film about the modern discovery of a unicorn, this seems designed to shatter any cutsie notions about unicorns
Heart Eyes (2025)
A film that manages to be both a slasher film and a romantic comedy with undeniably appealing results
Croczilla (2012)
Among the spate of giant crocodile amok films, this is an entry in the genre from China, featuring some surprisingly good CGI effects
Supercroc (2007)
USA. 2007. Crew Director – Scott Harper, Screenplay – Steve Bevilacqua, Story/Producer – David Michael Latt, Photography – Steven Parker, Music – Eliza Swenson, Visual Effects – Sharper Effects, Production Design – John Karyus. Production Company – The Asylum. Cast Cynthia Rose Hall (Private Celia Perez), Matthew Blashaw (Captain Joe Lynch), Kim Little (Dr Leah […]
Bad Johnson (2014)
A comedy where a man’s penis gains a separate life of its own
Kamikaze 1989 (1982)
A detective thriller set in a near-future Germany. Celebrated arthouse director Rainer Werner Fassbinder plays the investigating detective
Lowlifes (2024)
This starts out seeming like it is going to be a regular Backwoods Brutality films before expectations are abruptly turned on their head
Hotspring Sharkattack (2024)
A Japanese entry in the Gonzo Killer Shark film fad with sharks invading a hot springs and emerging out of hot tubs
How to Train Your Dragon (2025)
With Disney having remade most of their animated catalogue in live-action, other studios are now getting in on the act
M3gan 2.0 (2025)
Sequel to the killer doll film that is a much better work than its predecessor
Nasty Rabbit (1964)
A legendarily awful spy movie where assorted characters run around a ranch in ethnic disguise trying to find a rabbit that contains a deadly virus
The Flame Barrier (1958)
An odd mix of 1950s alien invasion film and low-budget jungle adventure concerning explorers encountering a glowing amorphous blob in the jungle
Life After Flash (2017)
A documentary about the making of the 1980 Flash Gordon and following the career of its star Sam J. Jones afterwards
Berlin Syndrome (2017)
Strong and worthwhile variant on the imprisonment thriller where a tourist in Berlin meets a guy who is made a prisoner in his apartment
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023)
Droll Quebec-made vampire comedy about a vampire girl who cannot bring herself to kill and a suicidal teenager who becomes her willing victim
Lilo & Stitch (2025)
The Disney live-action remake machine continues with this version of the hit 2002 animated film about a cuddly malevolent alien creature
The Old Guard 2 (2025)
The Old Guard about a team of immortal mercenaries was a hit when it was released a few years ago. Now most of the principals reunite for a sequel
The Tank (2023)
A New Zealand-made monster movie where a venture down into an old water tank succeeds in disturbing an amphibian creature
Circle Line (2023)
A quite good monster movie from Singapore about people trapped in an underground railway line being hunted by a monster
Nightmare Sisters (1988)
An 80s Scream Queen film featuring Linnea Quigley, Brinke Stevens and Michelle Bauer as sorority girls who become possessed. From director David DeCoteau
Natural City (2003)
Wrongly referred to as an adaptation of the original Philip K. Dick’s
24 Hours to Live (2017)
An action film variant on the thriller D.O.A. where Ethan Hawke is resurrected from the dead and has 24 hours to bring down a corrupt corporation
Cinderella’s Revenge (2024)
Another horror version of Cinderella where she gets to stab people with the glass slipper
Cinderella’s Curse (2024)
In the same vein as Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, a horror version of Cinderella
Thunderbolts* (2025)
The latest offering from the MCU was one of the lowest grossing, but it a good deal more likeable than many recent entries
Bring Her Back (2025)
Australia’s Philippou Brothers who made the word of mouth hit Talk to Me return with this equally creepy film with Sally Hawkins as a sinister foster mother
Linkeroever (2008)
A Belgian film about a girl who moves in with her boyfriend and uncovers sinister secrets as she investigates the disappearance of the previous tenant
Jug Face (2013)
A very odd Folk Horror film set among two backwoods hillbilly families whose lives are dominated by a pit in the woods they worship
Cathy’s Curse (1977)
From the great era of Canuxploitation, an entertainingly ridiculous film about a possessed child wreaking psychic havoc against those who are mean to her
666: The Child (2006)
An early mockbuster from The Asylum that came out the same day as The Omen remake, this conducts a blatant copy of The Omen on a low-budget
Asterix and Obelix Vs. Cesar (1999)
The first of the live-action films based on famous comic-books set in the Roman period, starring Gerard Depardieu who seems born to play the part of Obelix
Tune Into the Future (2020)
A documentary about Hugo Gernsback, the man who coined the term science-fiction and shaped the genre in its infancy
Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms (2023)
Billed as the Chinese Lord of the Rings, this is an historical fantasy film that tries to out-Hollywood Hollywood and looks stunningly epic in scale
The Ritual (2025)
A film based on what is said to be the most well-documented exorcism in US history. Al Pacino plays the exorcist
Long Distance (2024)
SF film with Anthony Ramos as survivor of a crashed ship who must make a journey across a hostile planet to find another survivor while low on oxygen
To the Solitary Me Who Loved You (2022)
Multiverse films are all the in-thing in superhero films right now. This anime is a treatment of multiverse themes far away from superheroics that works beautifully in its sophistication of ideas
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 solution 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, this one comes with an undeniable sense of humour, producing some of the most entertaining despatches
The Assessment (2024)
n hilariously black and deadpan film set in a future as a couple undergo assessment for whether they are fit to be parents
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 take
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 that 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 a new technology that places cameras inside graves
Clown in a Cornfield (2025)
A killer clown offering 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 contains, this suggests it is going to be something like another Cube
The House That Vanished (1973)
Director Jose Larraz has gained a small cult reputation. 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 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 with an animated offering that features encounters between human and Predator in three different historical eras
Until Dawn (2025)
Adaptation of the popular videogame where a group of characters are caught in a timeloop and resurrected to face horrors
Alpha Girls (2013)
A blatant copy of The Craft about occult rites 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)
One of the last films that Bruce Willis made. 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 other works concerning the quest for the Fountain of Youth
Assimilate (2019)
An alien body snatchers film, shot partially as Found Footage where teens shooting a video discover people in their town are being replaced
Black Noise (2023)
A team of mercenaries arrive on an island to find everybody has been turned to dust and a mysterious sound 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, this conducts a not bad homage to the 1980s slasher film
Archenemy (2020)
An interestingly odd film in which homeless man Joe Manganiello’s claims to being a superhero 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
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 victims
First Born (1988)
Standout mini-series that updates old mad scientist clichés with scientific realism as scientist Charles Dance creates a human/gorilla hybrid child
Haunting of the Queen Mary (2023)
A ghost story that takes place between two eras set aboard the real-life cruise liner Queen Mary
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