The Seduction (1982)
Jun 22, 2002Stalker
Ultra-trashy thriller with Morgan Fairchild as a tv newsreader stalked by next-door neighbour Andrew Stevens where she engages in the title seduction to eliminate him. A really bad film
Colleen Camp
D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
Feb 8, 2005Android Boy
Barret Oliver plays an android boy on the run from his creators who shelters with a human family. This promptly employs all the cliches of the post-E.T. film
Track 29 (1988)
Aug 29, 2001Surrealism
This collaboration between Nicolas Roeg and Dennis Potter results in a mind-boggling blurring of dream, reality, symbolism and sexual obsession. A name cast are allowed their heads and go wild
Wicked Stepmother (1989)
Aug 31, 2001Witch Moves In Comedy
The worst film from the usually great Larry Cohen, an unfunny comedy in which a household is taken over by a witch. Bette Davis quit soon into shooting and is replaced partway through by Barbara Carrera
The Vagrant (1992)
Apr 1, 2021Yuppie Tormented by a Homeless Man
Directorial outing from makeup effects artist Chris Walas who created the Gremlins and Cronenberg's The Fly. This Bill Paxton as a Yuppie who buys a home and is driven paranoid as it keeps being invaded by a vagrant
How to Make a Monster (2001)
Oct 16, 2001Cyborg Suit Amok
Horror movie about computer game designers dealing with a motion-capture suit that has gained life and is trying to kill them. This has nothing in common with the 1950s film beyond the title
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant (2009)
Nov 2, 2009Young Adult/Vampire Wars/Circus of Freaks
Adaptation of a series of Young Adult books that should have emerged as Harry Potter made with the sensibilities of a Tim Burton. But the result fails to come to life in Paul Weitz's hands
Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010)
Jun 2, 2011Filipino Exploitation Cinema Documentary
A documentary about the US exploitation film industry in the Philippines in the 1970s filled with mind-boggling anecdotes that uncover a wild west of ragged, unregulated filmmaking
Psych 9 (2010)
Nov 26, 2014Sinister Happenings in an Abandoned Hospital
Thriller with a heroine working in an abandoned hospital amid sinister happenings that draws substantially on the fine Danish film Nightwatch. Does an okay if familiar job making us constantly doubt everything that happens before arriving at an ending that only confuses
Knock Knock (2015)
Oct 26, 2015Home Invasion by Two Malicious Girls
Eli Roth home invasion thriller where two malicious girls turn family man Keanu Reeves' life upside down. Roth creates a strong opening but hits the peak of the film not too far in and thereafter loses direction
The House With a Clock in Its Walls (2018)
Mar 10, 2019Boy and His Eccentric Warlock Uncle
Eli Roth is a director associated with the Torture Porn cycle and one does a double-take at him making a family-friendly film. The results emerge somewhere between Harry Potter and a Goosebumps film
Monstrous (2022)
Dec 4, 2022Lake Monster
Film in which Christina Ricci fears her son is being drawn to a monster in the lake, this hangs around a very contrived twist ending
5-25-77 (2022)
Mar 3, 2023Filmmakers Autobiography
Forget The Fabelmans, this is a superlative autobiography of a filmmaker and the influence Star Wars had on his life. Neck-deep in fannish enthusiasm for the genre and the love of Super 8 filmmaking
The Deliverance (2024)
Feb 9, 2025Possession Film/“True Story”
Supposedly based on a true story, a possession and exorcism film from filmmaker Lee Daniels about an African-American family undergoing a supernatural assault