Emmanuelle Vaugier Archives

Ripper: Letter from Hell (2001)

Rating: ★★

Sep 3, 2005Modern-Day Jack the Ripper Killings

This has a promising set-up – a series of Jack the Ripper copycat killings taking place in a modern criminology class – that turns out as no more than a standard slasher film

Director: John Eyres

Actors: A.J. Cook, Bruce Payne, Jurgen Prochnow, Danielle Evangelista, …

Category: Horror

3 September 200513 November 2024 by Roog

Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell (2001)

Rating: ½

Mar 5, 2014Evil Wish-Granting Djinn

The Wishmaster series was a franchise based around a series of novelty effects wherein a malevolent djinn turned wishes against the wisher. This third entry is the utter nadir of the series where the novelty effects have been cheaply produced and the wishes indifferently conceived

Director: Chris Angel

Actors: A.J. Cook, Jason Connery, Tobias Mehler, Louisette Geiss, …

Category: Horror

5 March 201423 July 2019 by Roog

Cerberus (2005)

Rating: ★½

Nov 18, 2007Mythological Monster

Cerberus, the three-headed dog that guards the entrance to Hades in Greek myth, is appropriated to become the focus of a standard md-00s CGI monster movie

Director: John Terlesky

Actors: Greg Evigan, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Sebastian Spence

Category: Horror

18 November 200731 December 2025 by Roog

Saw II (2005)

Rating: ★★

Nov 13, 2005Killer's Sadistic Games

The first sequel to the sleeper success of Saw where Darren Lynn Bousman inherits the director's chair but delivers a film that lacks the torturous suspense that James Wan gave the original

Director: Darren Lynn Bousman

Actors: Donnie Wahlberg, Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Franky G, …

Category: Horror

13 November 200517 April 2025 by Roog

Far Cry (2008)

Rating: ★

Mar 9, 2011Videogame Adaptation/Super-Soldiers Amok

One of the worst of Uwe Boll's videogame adaptations. This consists of action sequences slung together with random indifference and badly mismatched casting

Director: Uwe Boll

Actors: Til Schweiger, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Udo Kier, Chris Coppola, …

Category: Science Fiction

9 March 20111 February 2026 by Roog

Mirrors 2 (2010)

Rating: ★½

Sep 1, 2021Haunted Mirrors

A sequel to Alexandre Aja’s Mirrors that abandons most of the basics of the first film and strips everything down to a series of gory, novelty deaths

Director: Victor Garcia

Actors: Nick Stahl, Emmanuelle Vaugier, William Katt, Lawrence Turner, …

Category: Horror

1 September 202112 September 2024 by Roog

Killer Mountain (2011)

Rating: ★★

Jan 12, 2016Monsters on a Mountainside

You would not be mistaken for passing this over as a regular mountaineering drama – and indeed, that's how half of the film transpires. Then however it starts to get weird and introduces everything from monsters to Shangri-La and Ancient Astronauts on the mountainside

Director: Sheldon Wilson

Actors: Aaron Douglas, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Andrew Airlie, Paul Campbell, …

Category: Science Fiction

12 January 201622 July 2019 by Roog