Charles S. Dutton Archives

Alien<sup>3</sup> (1992)

Rating: ★★★★

Jun 4, 1999Alien Sequel

Third of the Alien films, a directorial debut for David Fincher. A better film than was perceived at the time, this explores new character depths, while Fincher imprints his own visual style on the film

Director: David Fincher

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Charles Dance, Charles S. Dutton, Brian Glover, …

Category: Science Fiction

4 June 199911 November 2025 by Roog

Surviving the Game (1994)

Rating: ★★

Aug 20, 2003Human Hunting for Sport

Blatant copy of Jean-Claude Van Damme's Hard Target and both in turn from The Most Dangerous Game. Here Ice-T is a homeless man forced to flee hunters and survive with his bare hands.

Director: Ernest Dickerson

Actors: Ice-T, Rutger Hauer, Gary Busey, John C. McGinley, …

Category: Horror

20 August 200320 November 2025 by Roog

Mimic (1997)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 15, 1999Evolved Insects

This was the second film from Guillermo Del Toro, a modest and quite good Alien copy with Mira Sorvino hunting evolved insects in the New York subway tunnels

Director: Guillermo Del Toro

Actors: Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Charles S. Dutton, Alexander Goodwin, …

Category: Science Fiction

15 June 199921 November 2025 by Roog

D-Tox (2002)

Rating: ★★

Sep 14, 2002Rehab Psycho-Thriller

Thriller where Sylvester Stallone is a detective who goes into alcoholic rehab after his wife is killed by a serial killer only to realise that the killer is posing as one of the attendees

Director: Jim Gillespie

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Charles S. Dutton, Polly Walker, Christopher Fulford, …

Category: Horror

14 September 200214 January 2026 by Roog

Gothika (2003)

Rating: ★★

Feb 23, 2004Asylum Haunting

Halle Berry is a psychiatrist who comes around to find she has been incarcerated in her own asylum only to then find it is haunted. An improbably contrived set up with some jumps

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz

Actors: Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr, Penelope Cruz, John Carroll Lynch, …

Category: Horror

23 February 20041 March 2026 by Roog

Secret Window (2004)

Rating: ★★★½

Apr 19, 2004Sinister Stranger/Stephen King Adaptation

Stephen King adaptation with Johnny Depp as a writer in a cabin in the woods harassed by mysterious stranger John Turturro. Screenwriter David Koepp directs a marvellously chill Turturro with lots of twisty surprises

Director: David Koepp

Actors: Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello, Charles S. Dutton, …

Category: Horror

19 April 200423 June 2020 by Roog

Legion (2010)

Rating: ★

Dec 31, 2010War Between Angels

An absurd film where angels conduct a war on Earth amid much gunfire and creature effects

Director: Scott Stewart

Actors: Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Adrianne Palicki, Lucas Black, …

Category: Horror

31 December 201030 November 2023 by Roog

Android Cop (2014)

Rating: ★★½

May 18, 2014Cop and Android Partner/The Asylum Mockbuster

An Asylum mockbuster intended to come out at the same time as the RoboCop remake. Okay low-budget action and use of Cyberpunk tropes where the film's saving grace is a sense of humour

Director: Mark Atkins

Actors: Michael Jai White, Randy Wayne, Kadeem Hardison, Charles S. Dutton, …

Category: Science Fiction

18 May 201418 November 2025 by Roog