Connor Paolo Archives

Stake Land (2010)

Rating: ★★★★

Sep 8, 2011Post-Apocalyptic World of Vampires

Strong and highly original film that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by vampires. This has more the feel of a zombie film or an existential Western but does some highly original things with its ideas

Director: Jim Mickle

Actors: Nick Damici, Connor Paolo, Danielle Harris, Kelly McGillis, …

Category: Horror

8 September 201111 February 2022 by Roog

Friend Request (2016)

Rating: ★

Jan 30, 2017Supernatural Retribution Via Social Media

Another in the spate of social media horror films, this is a blatant copy of Unfriended, albeit mashed up with Ring to create the idea of a cursed newsfeed. This is also the lamest of the bunch

Director: Simon Verhoeven

Actors: Alycia Debnam-Carey, William Moseley, Connor Paolo, Liesl Ahlers, …

Category: Horror

30 January 201723 October 2025 by Roog

Stake Land II (2016)

Rating: ★★

May 8, 2017Post-Apocalyptic World of Vampires

Stake Land, set in a beautifully wintry post-holocaust world where vampires had taken over, one of the best films from Glass Eye Pix. This is a sequel that reunites most of the same elements from the original but fails to ignite them as memorably as the first film did

Director: Dan Berk, Robert Olsen

Actors: Connor Paolo, Nick Damici, Laura Abramsen, A.C. Peterson, …

Category: Horror

8 May 201728 May 2023 by Roog

A Creature Was Stirring (2023)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 22, 2025Mother Keeps Her Daughter Confined to Prevent Her Becoming a Monster

An interestingly strange and undeniably different film where two teens break into a house at Christmas time to find a mother who keeps her daughter confined lest the creature inside her get free

Director: Damien LeVeck

Actors: Chrissy Metz, Scout Taylor-Compton, Annalise Basso, Connor Paolo

Category: Horror

22 December 202522 December 2025 by Roog