Michael Berryman Archives

The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 27, 2003Backroads Brutality

The second film from Wes Craven, a classic in the 1970s Backwoods Brutality cycle with a family stranded in the desert as they come under attack from a family of cannibals lurking in the hills

Director: Wes Craven

Actors: Dee Wallace, Michael Berryman, Robert Houston, Virginia Vincent, …

Category: Horror

27 February 200324 February 2026 by Roog

Deadly Blessing (1981)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 6, 2001Religious Cult Killings

An early Wes Craven film about a series of killings among an Amish-like cult led by Ernest Borgnine. Craven's eerie dream horrors sit alongside a confusing script

Director: Wes Craven

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Maren Jensen, Sharon Stone, Jeff East, …

Category: Horror

6 November 20019 October 2025 by Roog

Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984)

Rating: ★

Feb 4, 2016Alien Visitors Musical Comedy

Forgotten 1980s obscurity about aliens come to Earth in search of rock music that feels like someone attempted to conduct a version of Grease for the Star Wars crowd. Filled with utterly excruciating slapstick humour and bland songs from bands that nobody has heard from again

Director: James Fargo

Actors: Pia Zadora, Craig Sheffer, Ruth Gordon, Michael Berryman, …

Category: Science Fiction

4 February 201625 October 2024 by Roog

The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1985)

Rating: ★

Mar 18, 2003Backroads Brutality

Wes Craven makes a sequel to his earlier Backwoods Brutality classic but the result is a mess that is all over the place and counts as one of Craven's worst films

Director: Wes Craven

Actors: Janus Blythe, Michael Berryman, Willard Pugh, Colleen Riley, …

Category: Horror

18 March 20033 November 2025 by Roog

Teenage Exorcist (1991)

Rating: ★★

Apr 30, 2024Possession Comedy

Written by and starring 80s Scream Queen Brinke Stevens, this offers an occasionally amusing comedy take on the possession and exorcism film

Director: Grant Austin Waldman

Actors: Brinke Stevens, Jay Richardson, Eddie Deezen, Robert Quarry, …

Category: Horror

30 April 202414 November 2025 by Roog

The Guyver (1991)

Rating: ★★

Jun 14, 2003Power-Suit Superhero

US-made live-action adaptation of a popular manga/anime about a power-suit superhero. Directed by two makeup effects artists mostly as a vehicle for their creature creations

Director: Screaming Mad George, Steve Wang

Actors: Mark Hamill, Vivian Wu, Jeffrey Combs, Jack Armstrong, …

Category: Science Fiction

14 June 20031 April 2021 by Roog

The Devil’s Rejects (2005)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 13, 2005Family of Psychos

Rob Zombie's sequel to House of 1000 Corpses and altogether a far more polished film, probably Zombie's best. On the other hand, Zombie's nihilistic worldview and sympathy for the psychopaths does take one aback.

Director: Rob Zombie

Actors: Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie, William Forsythe, …

Category: Horror

13 November 200527 January 2026 by Roog

Brutal (2007)

Rating: ★

Feb 4, 2013Psycho Film

Tedious psycho film that only seems slung together to feature a series of nasty dispatches. Features some incredibly bad writing and maybe one of the most ridiculous pieces of serial killer motivation ever devised

Director: Ethan Wiley

Actors: Jeffrey Combs, Eric Lange, Michael Berryman, Whitney Anderson

Category: Horror

4 February 201310 March 2020 by Roog

Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (2007)

Rating: ★★

Dec 21, 2009True Life Killer/Necrophile

Film based on the exploits of necrophile killer Ed Gein that throws the facts up in the air and essentially makes up its own story, while the role is miscast with a hulking Kane Hodder

Director: Michael Feifer

Actors: Kane Hodder, Shawn Hoffman, Priscilla Barnes, Tim Oman, …

Category: Horror

21 December 200924 October 2025 by Roog

The Evil Within (2017)

Rating: ★★★★

Jun 18, 2017Evil Mirror Doppelganger

The story of the drug-addicted heir Andrew Getty determined to be a filmmaker is almost as fascinating as the one film he made before his death. The film is an extraordinary work, filled with jaw-dropping surrealistic imagery

Director: Andrew Getty

Actors: Frederick Koehler, Sean Patrick Flanery, Dina Meyer, Kim Darby, …

Category: Horror

18 June 201731 January 2026 by Roog

Death House (2017)

Rating: ★

Jun 30, 2019Asylum of Insane Killers Unleashed

This comes with the winning idea of being conceived as a horror version of The Expendables bringing back an amazing line-up of horror actors from principally the 80s. Alas, the film itself as an incoherent mess

Director: B. Harrison Smith

Actors: Cornet Palm, Cody Longo, Dee Wallace, Kane Hodder, …

Category: Horror

30 June 201917 January 2026 by Roog