Kenneth Welsh Archives

Phobia (1980)

Rating: ★

Sep 4, 2014Psychotherapy Psycho-Thriller

The great John Huston, the director of The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen and other classics, directs a psychotherapy psycho-thriller. Alas the thriller essentials slip entirely through Huston's hands and he delivers an utterly plodding and unsuspenseful work

Director: John Huston

Actors: Paul Michael Glaser, John Colicos, Susan Hogan, David Bolt, …

Category: Horror

4 September 20143 September 2025 by Roog

Of Unknown Origin (1983)

Rating: ★★★½

May 20, 2011Man vs an Intelligent Rat

Underrated film with Peter Weller as a Wall Street banker who has his life overturned in trying to deal with a tenacious, seemingly hyper-intelligent rat that invades his home

Director: George Pan Cosmatos

Actors: Peter Weller, Shannon Tweed, Jennifer Dale, Louis Del Grande, …

Category: Horror

20 May 20118 April 2026 by Roog

Habitat (1997)

Rating: ★

Sep 14, 2002Human-Plant Mutations

Baffling mix of teen drama and eco-SF film set in an ozone depleted future with Tcheky Karyo engaged in a series of human-plant mutations that transform him into a swarm of insects

Director: Renee Daalder

Actors: Balthazar Getty, Alice Krige, Tchecky Karyo, Laura Harris, …

Category: Science Fiction

14 September 200210 March 2026 by Roog

The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000)

Rating: ★

Feb 4, 2026Sherlock Holmes Film/Ghostly Dog Mystery

Another adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes quasi-supernatural mystery. This is also one of the worst ever thanks to the wildly over-acted, scenery chewing performance from Matt Frewer, badly miscast as Holmes

Director: Rodney Gibbons

Actors: Matt Frewer, Kenneth Welsh, Jason London, Robin Wilcock, …

Category: Horror

4 February 20264 February 2026 by Roog

Matthew Blackheart (2002)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 31, 2002Monster Hunter

Film about a monster hunter from the 1940s thawed out in the present-day. This appears to have been made as a tv pilot

Director: Erik Canuel

Actors: Robert Bogue, Christopher Heyerdahl, Jay Baruchel, John Novak, …

Category: Horror

31 December 200228 March 2023 by Roog

The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire (2002)

Rating: ★

Apr 2, 2006Sherlock Holmes Mystery

One of a series of cheap Canadian-made made Sherlock Holmes tv movies featuring a wildly overacting Matt Frewer who makes possibly the worst screen Holmes ever

Director: Rodney Gibbons

Actors: Matt Frewer, Kenneth Welsh, Neville Edwards, Michel Perron, …

Category: Horror

2 April 20066 October 2025 by Roog

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 1, 2004New Ice Age/Environmental Disaster Movie

In another of his big budget disaster spectacles, Roland Emmerich embraces environmental concerns about Global Warming. Here he (unscientifically) imagines the abrupt onset of a new Ice Age worldwide

Director: Roland Emmerich

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Sela Ward, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 June 200426 January 2026 by Roog

The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)

Rating: ★

Nov 13, 2005Demonic Possession/"True Story"

This became a big sensation with its claims to be on the true account of an exorcism even if director Scott Derrickson alters what actually happened to the point of complete fiction. The rest just rehashes cliches from The Exorcist

Director: Scott Derrickson

Actors: Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Jennifer Carpenter, Campbell Scott, …

Category: Horror

13 November 200519 March 2026 by Roog

The Fog (2005)

Rating: ½

May 5, 2007Vengeful Ghosts

One of the worst among the 2000s fad for remakes of 70s/80s horror films. John Carpenter’s 1980 original has been transformed into a teen horror film where the spookiness collapses into frequently ridiculous shock effects

Director: Rupert Wainwright

Actors: Tom Welling, Maggie Grace, Selma Blair, DeRay Davis, …

Category: Horror

5 May 200715 February 2026 by Roog

Category 7: The End of the World (2005)

Rating: ★★½

May 5, 2007Superstorms/Disaster Mini-Series

Sequel to the tv mini-series Category 6: Day of Destruction ups the scale of the super-storm but is also better constructed as a disaster movie

Director: Dick Lowry

Actors: Gina Gershon, Randy Quaid, Shannen Doherty, Cameron Daddo, …

Category: Science Fiction

5 May 200731 March 2020 by Roog

The Covenant (2006)

Rating: ★

Oct 21, 2007Teen Male Witches

Ridiculous film from the perpetually awful Renny Harlin about teen male witches that feels like a gender-swapped version of The Craft cast with pretty boys and directed amid absurdly overblown effects

Director: Renny Harlin

Actors: Steven Strait, Laura Ramsey, Sebastian Stan, Toby Hemingway, …

Category: Horror

21 October 20077 October 2025 by Roog

Survival of the Dead (2009)

Rating: ★★★½

Jul 30, 2010Zombies

George Romero's sixth and final zombie film where he writes characters and a script with much more of a richness of theme than he did in the last two entries

Director: George A. Romero

Actors: Alan Van Sprang, Kenneth Welsh, Richard Fitzpatrick, Athena Karkanis, …

Category: Horror

30 July 20105 December 2021 by Roog

The Void (2016)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 16, 2017Hospital of Horrors/H.P. Lovecraft Homage

In his follow-up to Manborg, Steven Kostanski abandons the affectionate homages to 1980s video-released genre films he has specialised in so far. A homage to the works of H.P. Lovecraft, this should be seen for the utterly wild and outlandish makeup effects that Kostanski delivers

Director: Jeremy Gillespie, Steven Kostanski

Actors: Aaron Poole, Kenneth Welsh, Daniel Fathers, Kathleen Munroe, …

Category: Horror

16 April 201728 November 2024 by Roog

Awakening the Zodiac (2017)

Rating: ★★

Nov 13, 2017Hunting the Zodiac Killer in the Present Day

This comes with a great hook – a couple buy up the contents of a defaulted storage locker only to find film reels taken by The Zodiac Killer, leading them on a pursuit of his identity

Director: Jonathan Wright

Actors: Shane West, Leslie Bibb, Matt Craven, Nicholas Campbell, …

Category: Horror

13 November 201725 October 2025 by Roog