Ronny Cox Archives

Deliverance (1972)

Rating: ★★★★

Jan 21, 2000Backwoods Brutality

Harrowing wilderness survival film from John Boorman about four men on a trip downriver that fall afoul of hillbillies. A classic that was highly influential on the formation of the Backwoods Brutality genre.

Director: John Boorman

Actors: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox

Category: Horror

21 January 20009 February 2025 by Roog

The Car (1977)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 2, 2001Possessed Car

Someone seems to have had the idea of combining Steven Spielberg's killer truck film Duel with The Exorcist to produce an absurdly entertaining film about a possessed car

Director: Elliot Silverstein

Actors: James Brolin, Ronny Cox, Kathleen Lloyd, John Marley, …

Category: Horror

2 November 200122 March 2020 by Roog

The Beast Within (1982)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 26, 2000Human-Monster Transformation

Modest entry among the early 1980s fad for air bladder transformation effects with Paul Clemens transforming into a cicada creature. Philippe Mora creates some solid directorial set-pieces

Director: Philippe Mora

Actors: Paul Clemens, Ronny Cox, Bibi Besch, Logan Ramsey, …

Category: Horror

26 August 200014 August 2025 by Roog

RoboCop (1987)

Rating: ★★★½

Jan 16, 2005Cyborg Cop

A popular hit that spins the cyborg cop theme through a Cyberpunk future, while director Paul Verhoeven piles on excesses of violence and black humour. A darkly funny satire of Reaganite America, this is an entertainingly slick comic-book of a movie

Director: Paul Verhoeven

Actors: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferrer, …

Category: Science Fiction

16 January 200523 November 2024 by Roog

Captain America (1990)

Rating: ★

Aug 7, 2002Comic-Book Superhero

Cheap and fairly terrible adaptation of the Marvel Comics superhero from low-budget director Albert Pyun. The superheroics look impoverished and Matt Salinger makes a dopey-looking Steve Rogers

Director: Albert Pyun

Actors: Matt Salinger, Scott Paulin, Ronny Cox, Francesca Neri, …

Category: Science Fiction

7 August 200221 March 2020 by Roog

Total Recall (1990)

Rating: ★★

Jun 18, 2005Virtual Memories/Reality Bender/Action

Adaptation of a Philip K. Dick story is killed by being turned into an Arnold Schwarzenegger action vehicle and by director Paul Verhoeven's burying the reality bending subtleties of the story under bludgeoning ultra-violence

Director: Paul Verhoeven

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Rachel Ticotin, Ronny Cox, …

Category: Science Fiction

18 June 20056 July 2022 by Roog

Scissors (1991)

Rating: ★★★½

Jun 19, 2001Imprisonment Psycho-Thriller

Impressive psycho-thriller from Frank De Felitta that plays out with the silent logic of a nightmare as a young unknown Sharon Stone finds herself a prisoner in an apartment

Director: Frank De Felitta

Actors: Sharon Stone, Steve Railsback, Ronny Cox

Category: Horror

19 June 200122 November 2019 by Roog

Imagine That (2009)

Rating: ★★

Mar 3, 2010Stock Predictions from a Child's Invisible Companions

Eddie Murphy in another of the lame flops that marked his career in the 2000s where he plays a stockbroker who gets stock tips from his daughter's imaginary companion

Director: Karey Kirkpatrick

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden Church, Ronny Cox, Nicole Ari Parker, …

Category: Fantasy

3 March 201015 April 2026 by Roog

Age of Dinosaurs (2013)

Rating: ★★½

Mar 10, 2021Genetically-Engineered Dinosaurs Amok

A ,odestly effective Jurassic Park copy from The Asylum with genetically-revived dinosaurs loose in L.A. and featuring better than usual effects

Director: Joseph J. Lawson

Actors: Treat Williams, Ronny Cox, Jillian Rose Reed, Jose Rosete, …

Category: Science Fiction

10 March 20216 November 2025 by Roog

The Car: Road to Revenge (2019)

Rating: ★

Jul 7, 2019Possessed Car

The Car concerning a possessed car is one of the forgotten films of the 1970s. Why it has produced a sequel 42 years later is a scratch of the head. Not that the two films even resemble one another

Director: G.J. Echternkamp

Actors: Grant Bowler, Kathleen Munroe, Jamie Bamber, Martin Hancock, …

Category: Horror, Science Fiction

7 July 20196 October 2025 by Roog