Michael Eklund

House of the Dead (2003)

House of the Dead (2003)
Rating: ★½
Feb 17, 2006Zombies/Videogame Adaptation
The first of Uwe Boll's videogame adaptations and the beginning of his bad director reputation. Ignoring much of the game's canon, this is a zombie film by the numbers. Nevertheless, it was at the forefront of zombie film revival of the 2000s
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Messages Deleted (2010)

Messages Deleted (2010)
Rating: ★★★
Dec 22, 2020Screenwriter Taunted by a Killer
In his last ever produced screenplay, cult director Larry Cohen turns in a wonderfully playful script with Matthew Lillard as a screenwriting lecturer harassed by a killer only to find real-life doesn't obey the same rules that screenplays do
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Assault on Wall Street (2013)

Assault on Wall Street (2013)
Rating: ★★
Mar 1, 2014Man Goes on a Shooting Rampage Against Bankers
Uwe Boll makes a big issue film about the subprime mortgage crisis. The film is packed by Boll with messages but comes down to being a variant on Death Wish with its blue-collar hero on a shooting rampage against bankers
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See No Evil 2 (2014)

See No Evil 2 (2014)
Rating: ★★½
Mar 23, 2015Slasher Film
The Soska Sisters make a sequel to the 2006 slasher film. You cannot help but think that a sequel to such an average film is the sisters batting well below their capabilities. The surprise is that in their hands the result follows such traditional genre patterns
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Into the Forest (2015)

Into the Forest (2015)
Rating: ★★★
Oct 21, 2015Catastrophic Worldwide Powercut
Modest and effectively told story about a catastrophic countrywide powercut – rather than the depiction of a widespread apocalypse, almost the whole of the film is a character-driven piece focused around two sisters on their own in a cabin in the woods
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Zoom (2015)

Zoom (2015)
Rating: ★★★★
Dec 9, 2017Series of Nested Meta-Fictional Tales
This nominally tells three slice-of-life tales but in each the principal character is creating a book or film about one of the other characters. This becomes a meta-fiction of considerable cleverness as we see how the problems of one character end up reflected in the other character's story
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