Cavegirl (1985)
Nov 22, 2008Nerd Time Travels Back to Prehistory Comedy
Witless and inane comedy in which nerdy high school student Daniel Roebuck is thrown back in time to the Stone Age where he romances cavegirl Cindy Ann Thompson
Daniel Roebuck
River’s Edge (1986)
May 5, 2003Disaffected Teens/Disturbed Psychology
The rare example of a sociological horror film concerning a teenager who kills his girlfriend and how his peers seem unconcerned. Filled with great performances, this is a film with a chilling nihilism that puts its finger on a 1980s youth generation with no seeming future ahead
Dudes (1987)
Oct 16, 1999Punk Road Movie/Modern Western/Ghost Cowboy
From director Penelope Spheeries, this is an almost unclassifiable oddity. As three punks set out in a search of a better life, this becomes a road movie and Western homage (with ghost cowboys)
The Cold Equations (1996)
Dec 2, 2007Tough Moral Choices on a Space Mission
Film adaptation of a classic SF short story about a pilot having to make tough choices about a stowaway on a space mission. The story gets mangled in the need to expand it to feature length
Final Destination (2000)
Mar 19, 2000Precognition/Doomed Air Crash Survivors
This spins the old plot about a clairvoyant dream of an airline disaster out as a teen horror film based around a series of bizarre novelty deaths. This became the first in a franchise of popular horror films.
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
Aug 14, 2004Elvis vs the Mummy in a Retirement Home
This sounds more like a tabloid headline "Elvis and JFK vs a mummy in a retirement home" than it does a film. It is however a work of considerable ingenuity from Phantasm series director Don Coscarelli
Agent Cody Banks (2003)
Oct 9, 2003Teenage Spy Comedy
Another in the spy parodies that emerged following Austin Powers. Frankie Muniz is a high school teenager who is recruited as a spy. a mildly amusing set-up that is delivered with surprisingly little wit
Agent Cody 2 Banks: Destination London (2004)
May 12, 2004Teenage Spy Comedy
A sequel to the teen spy comedy. This moves the action to England but amplifies everything else into inanely loud and noisy slapstick action
Trail of the Screaming Forehead (2007)
Aug 13, 20091950s SF Parody/Invading Alien Foreheads
From Larry Blamire, a deliberately ridiculous spoof of the 1950s alien invasion film. Blamire's dialogue and the deadpan with which everybody plays is frequently hilarious
Dark and Stormy Night (2009)
Jun 13, 2013Old Dark House Parody
Larry Blamire, a director who specialises in genre parodies, takes on the Old Dark House thriller. Not quite up there with Blamire's funniest films, nevertheless, the film conducts some amusing spoofs of the form
Halloween II (2009)
Jan 3, 2010Slasher Film
Rob Zombie's follow-up to his 2007 Halloween remake is a better film and comes closer to what the previous film should have been. That said, his approach is still based on callous brutality than John Carpenter's eerie suspense
In/Sight (2011)
Mar 2, 2017Clairvoyance Thriller
There are few fantastic themes more tired than the clairvoyant thriller – a standard murder mystery where the detective just intuits all their deductions psychically. Apart from a couple of interesting twists, this is no different
John Dies at the End (2012)
Nov 13, 2012Reality-Expanding Drugs/Gonzo Supernatural Investigators
Phantasm series director Don Coscarelli returns with this mind-expanding effort that seems a conceptual collision between Donnie Darko, Limitless, a slacker version of Supernatural and Marvel Comics' Dr Strange. Maybe the best mind-tripping fun it is possible to have without the use of illegal substances
At the Devil’s Door (2014)
Apr 3, 2015Diabolic Pacts and Impregnation
The second film from The Pact director Nicholas McCarthy. What is happening is kept deliberately vague and elliptical – as you are trying to piece everything together, McCarthy manages to pull some incredibly eerie jolts
Phantasm: Ravager (2016)
Nov 13, 2016Dream Horrors/Other-Dimensional Grave Robbers
Phantasm was a cult hit with its eerie otherworldly dream horrors. It spawned four sequels of which this is probably the last given that Angus Scrimm died earlier this year. The series peaked a couple of films ago and here the regulars pander to a comfortable familiarity without adding anything new to the mix
31 (2016)
Sep 25, 2016Human Hunting Survival Game
Rob Zombie featuring people abducted and forced to play in a deathsport game. This is largely a re-run of House of 1000 Corpses, while both films in turn draw heavily on The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. As always, Rob Zombie has a following but also switches large swathes of his audience off
The Munsters (2022)
Sep 30, 2022Family of Monsters/TV Series Remake
Rob Zombie conducts a big-screen remake of The Munsters and surprisingly enough makes his best film yet
Colonials (2023)
Aug 8, 2024Colonist Return to Post-Apocalyptic Earth
A low-budget film with some very accomplished effects that takes place in a devastated future as a Martian colonist returns to find what has happened to Earth