Death Machine (1995)
Feb 27, 2003Killer Robot
One really good killer robot film, featuring a lethal non-humanoid machine and directed with a ferociity that resembles the best of James Cameron. This has similarities to Hardware that came out earlier
Richard Brake
Batman Begins (2005)
Jun 15, 2005Comic-Book Superhero
After Joel Schumacher killed off the cinematic Batman franchise, Christopher Nolan successfully revives it, bringing back the dark, psychologically brooding superhero and telling a Batman origin story
Doom (2005)
Oct 31, 2005Videogame Adaptation/Labyrinth of Monsters
Disappointing film version of the videogame. The film seems to either miss or water down the principal appeals of the game, although you do get Dwayne Johnson (still billed as The Rock) as the bad guy
Hannibal Rising (2007)
Feb 26, 2007Hannibal Lecter Origin Story
Building on the successes of the Hannibal Lecter films, this is a prequel that goes back sets out to tell an origin story of how the young teenage Hannibal came to be who he was during World War II
Outpost (2007)
Sep 27, 2014Nazi Zombies
Above average revival of the Nazi zombie concept in a film that has spawned two sequels. The plot of soldiers venturing into an old bunker is conducted with tight, lean suspense and some undeniably gory dispatches
The Incident (2011)
Mar 20, 2018Trapped in an Asylum for the Criminally Insane During a Powercut
From an early script by S. Craig Zahler, later the director of Bone Tomahawk and Riot in Cell Block 99, this is an incredibly brutal and harrowing work about a group of cooks trapped inside an asylum for the criminally insane during a power cut. A greatly overlooked film
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
Mandy (2018)
Feb 24, 2019Man's Revenge Trail Against a Cult
Nicolas Cage goes all Death Wish and slaughters a cult that murdered his wife. A regular revenge film is transformed by director Panos Cosmatos into something bizarrely primal with a thunderously over-emphatic score and blood red lighting scheme
Perfect Skin (2018)
Feb 8, 2021Girl Imprisoned by a Psycho Tattooist
Thriller in which a girl is abducted and imprisoned by a mad tattooist who wants to use her body as a work of art
3 from Hell (2019)
Oct 20, 2019Family of Psychos
Rob Zombie is back,, making the third in his trilogy of Firefly films following House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects. It is all fairly much the same as before where Zombie's sympathies are cleanly with the family of psychopaths and their murderous rampage.
Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020)
Nov 8, 2020Monster Movie
After thirty years, the Tremors series has held up much better than most other monster series. This is the seventh and what would seem to be the last of the films
Arthur & Merlin: Knights of Camelot (2020)
Jul 8, 2021Arthurian Legends Adventure
A B-budget venture into the Arthurian Legends that never much finds the rich myth of the cycle and emerges as just a routine fantasy adventure
Off Season (2021)
Nov 27, 2023Ghostly Small Town
From the increasingly underrated Mickey Keating, a film about a ghostly small town where Keating creates an incredibly eerie and haunted atmosphere
Vesper (2022)
Jun 3, 2023Environmentally Devastated Future
Visually extraordinary film set in an environmentally devastated future, this place enormous creativity into depicting a strange, very alien world
R.I.P.D. 2: Rise of the Damned (2022)
Jul 23, 2023Afterlife Police Force
A sequel to R.I.P.D. that tells an origin story of how the sheriff character played by Jeff Bridges in the original became an afterlife enforcement officer
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
Barbarian (2022)
Nov 4, 2022Sinister AirBNB
The directorial debut of Zach Cregger that received great word-of-mouth. A film that shifts points-of-views to tell the story of people discovering a horrible secret in the basement of an AirBNB
The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024)
Jun 15, 2024Home Invasion and Brutality
The Strangers was one the sleeper hits of the 2000s. This is the first chapter in a three film reboot. On the minus side, it has been handed over to Renny Harlin, who should be on any worst directors list
The Strangers: Chapter 2 (2025)
Oct 24, 2025Mysterious Masked Killers
The Strangers was an incredibly eerie home invasion story that has become a modern classic. This is the second chapter in a trilogy of reboot films that have been handed over to the perpetually terrible Renny Harlin
The Strangers: Chapter 3 (2026)
Mar 13, 2026Mysterious Masked Killers
The concluding chapter in a desultory trilogy of films based on the eerie home invasion classic The Strangers. The surprise is that this ends up being the best of the three films