When movies decide to try and pull off a mash up, the results, by definition, are usually a mixed bag. Sometimes the fusing together of
Tag: 2000s
Shaft
Back in 1971, Shaft was one of leading lights of Blaxploitation cinema, but you kinda feel that the continuing adventures of the black private dick
Stardust
Once upon a time, Matthew Vaughan was chiefly known as Guy Ritchie’s producer, but one day he plopped himself into the director’s chair with the
The Final Destination
Whether by design or by fate, Final Destination arguably had one of the neatest horror concepts of the noughties. Essentially a slasher movie where the
The Omen
If you’re going to take the time to retool a stone cold classic of 70’s, dread inducing horror, you’d better have a damn good reason
Poseidon
Proving that it wasn’t just horror movies that got noticeably shiny remakes during the noughties is Wolfgang Peterson’s redo of the classic 70’s sinky ship
Once Upon A Time In Mexico
Robert Rodriguez is the very definition of a ‘busy bee’ considering all the shit he seems to have on his plate all the time.Since he
Poultrygeist: Night Of The Chicken Dead
For decades Troma has prided themselves on making their particular brand of anti-PC, trash epics and unleashing them on an unsuspecting world with all the
Survival Of The Dead
It’s a sad fact of cinema that a director’s final film usually isn’t their best and this goes doubley true for the Splat Pack of
Final Destination 3
Considering how many people manage to tumble through the cracks of Death’s design, it’s a small wonder that Death itself hasn’t taken time off for
Final Destination 2
“Faster, more intense” may be a term far more notorious for George Lucas’ directing style but it’s also a fitting description for a horror sequel’s
Resident Evil: Extinction
Long before Zack Snyder’s much ballyhooed Army Of The Dead placed the ravenous undead in the sand wastes of Las Vegas Nevada, the third installment
Final Destination
Following in the deep, deep furrow ploughed in the horror genre by the wildly successful, teen-centric Scream movies, Hollywood dutifully continued putting out movies that
Saw
Any of you out there snorting in derision at the 5-star rating I’ve decided to heap upon James Wan’s legendarily grimy debut needs to to
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
After squeezing out the lacklustre (yet depressingly profitable) videogame adaptation Resident Evil, Paul W.S. Anderson decided to move onto pastures new when the temptation to
2012
During his long career as Hollywood’s go to disaster artist, Roland Emmerich has probably toppled more landmarks than the entire Kaiju cast of Destroy All
Van Helsing
Back in 1999, Stephen Sommers updated a genuine horror classic and raised The Mummy from it’s metaphorical sarcophagus thanks to Brendan Frasier’s innate likeability, a
Doomsday
After his exemplary first couple of movies, my expectations for Neil Marshall’s third film, Doomsday, was higher than Snoop Dogg. I mean, could you blame
Saw VI
After the rather drab fifth installment, it seemed like the relentless, annual, murder-machine known as the Saw franchise had finally come to a screeching, grinding
Resident Evil
Thanks to the extraordinarily low benchmark for the world of video game adaptations, the Resident Evil franchise is king. A rambling, oddly plotted series of
