Starship Troopers (1997)
Jul 29, 2010War with Aliens
Travesty of Robert Heinlein's classic SF novel from Paul Verhoeven. Heinlein's philosophical argument for militarism is junked in favour of blackly comic mindless violence
Casper Van Dien
Tarzan and the Lost City (1998)
Nov 28, 2004Jungle Hero
A German-made Tarzan film that resurrects most of the adventure film tropes to negligible effect. As Tarzan, Caspar Van Dien looks like an Ivy League college student in the jungle.
Modern Vampires (1998)
Apr 7, 2001Vampires
Richard Elfman film about chic vampires who have become an elite living in Hollywood. Despite promise and some interesting ideas, this is ruined by an atrociously overacting cast
Shark Attack (1999)
May 28, 2014Killer Shark Film
Killer shark from the 1990s heyday. This works passably as the B movie it is intended as, while the last third turns into the schlockily absurd with the insertion of two different corrupt conspiracy elements and action movie chases
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Jan 4, 2000Headless Horseman Killings
Tim Burton adapts the classic Washington Irving ghost story, although throws most of it out, to make his own beautifully designed period piece spearheaded by another eccentric Johnny Depp performance
The Omega Code (1999)
Jul 5, 2002Christian Anti-Christ Film
The Omen and imitators had been exploiting Biblical End Times prophecies for years but this is one that approaches it from a Christian perspective. The film also started a wave of serious faith-based films that employed name actors in order to carry them to crossover audiences
Thrill Seekers (1999)
May 31, 2010Time Travel
A throwaway direct-to-dvd release about time travellers come back to view famous disasters that rises above low expectations to develop an occasionally interesting plot
Python (2000)
Apr 17, 2010Giant Snake Amok
One of the more likeable among the 2000s fad for low-budget CGI monster movies, aided considerably by a sense of humour and a line-up of oddball characters
Danger Beneath the Sea (2001)
Jan 11, 2009Submarine Thriller/Nuclear Threat
A video-released submarine drama that is a blatant copy of Crimson Tide with a crew unsure whether to launch a nuclear strike. This is competently made if every move feels spelled out in advance
Dracula 3000 (2004)
Aug 18, 2014Dracula on a Spaceship
There is undeniable interest to the idea of Dracula in the future but all we get is a standard Alien copy with Dracula on a spaceship. The acting and dialogue frequently enters into the absurd
The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb (2006)
Sep 1, 2007Egyptian Archaeology Adventure
TV mini-series that turns the discovery of Tutankamun's tomb into an Indiana Jones adventure. But everything is played with a constant barrage of one-liners and action sequences so silly you can't take any of the show seriously
The Pact (2012)
Jun 29, 2013Haunting 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
500 MPH Storm (2013)
May 1, 2014Superstorm Disaster Movie
Another cheap Syfy Channel disaster movie about a superstorm created by an amok weather control experiment. The shoddy CGI effects and cliched pieces of canned drama fly thick
Sleeping Beauty (2014)
Aug 19, 2016Fairytale Adventure/The Asylum Mockbuster
In the early 2010s, we had a series of fairytales rewritten as dark adult fantasies; The Asylum served up their own cheap copies – this was their version of Maleficent. Directed by actor Casper Van Dien, this not uninterestingly plays out as a fantasy adventure that follows the prince's attempts to enter the castle
Sharktopus vs Whalewolf (2015)
May 25, 2023Giant Hybrid Monsters
Third of the Sharktopus films from Roger Corman, an entry in the series that is making no longer making any effort to take itself seriously
Avengers Grimm (2015)
Jan 24, 2016Team-Up Between Fairytale Princesses
The Asylum's response to Avengers: Age of Ultron. Not having their own superheroes, they have ingeniously created an adventure involving various fairytale princesses - a great idea that befalls miserable execution
June (2015)
May 18, 2017Devil Child
A Devil Child variant with a couple finding that June, the foster child they take on becomes possessed by an entity and develops incredible psychic powers when upset. The main problem with the film is the lack of coherent explanation for what is happening
Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars (2017)
Nov 24, 2017War with Aliens/Anime
The fifth of the films in the series begun with Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers. The best of the series was the previous entry Starship Troopers: Invasion where they turned it over to anime director Shinji Aramaki. This is a sequel to that, although the same mix fails to work again
Star Raiders: The Adventures of Saber Raine (2017)
Aug 7, 2019Space Opera
Space opera (or more correctly planetary adventure) conducted on a low-budget where you can see the filmmakers are making a clear effort to go way above and beyond the resources to hand
G-Loc (2020)
Oct 24, 2024Space Journey
SF film with Stephen Moyer as a spaceship survivor who boards a ship with the crew mysteriously dead and becomes caught up in interplanetary politicking
Mad Heidi (2022)
Aug 25, 2023Gonzo Swiss Exploitation Film
The famous children’s character gets a sarcastic puncturing in this amusingly gonzo OTT exploitation take
Hunt Club (2022)
Jun 11, 2024Men Hunt Women
A variation on The Most Dangerous Game that comes with a nasty feminist agenda where women are hunted by men who feel a disappearing sense of entitlement
The Most Dangerous Game (2022)
Feb 26, 2023Sportsman Hunts Human Game
A new version about the classic human bloodsports film where a group of shipwreckees are hunted across an island by a mad aristocrat
The Flood (2023)
Mar 3, 2025Alligators Invade a Flooded Jail
This is essentially Assault on Precinct 13, which has a mix of police and criminals at siege inside a jail, but where the attacking street gangs are replaced by alligators. Far better than the B movie you assume