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
Tag: 2000s
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
Saw V
At the insane rate the Saw movies were being put out (one a year since 2004!!), it’s frankly amazing the series’ level of quality didn’t
Saw IV
Another year saw yet another entry from the number one series to stagger bloodied and traumatised from the taboo-humping genre known as Tourture Porn (although
Saw III
After the release of Saw II had established puppet wielding sadist Jigsaw as the hot horror hero, the minds behind the franchise seemed to have
Saw II
It may sound a little odd to say, but a franchise sometimes really doesn’t start until the second movie appears. Now, before you point out
Hannibal Rising
Even the most ardent Anthony Hopkins/Hannibal Lecter fan who have to agree that the serial killing psychiatrist was oddly long in the tooth and noticably
Snakes On A Plane
In 2006, Hollywood learned a valuable lesson when it came to the peculiar marketing of reptile crammed airplane thriller, Snakes On A Plane and that’s
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The prominent sci-fi author Phillip K. Dick has been blessed with some of the greatest adaptations a writer could ever hope to nab. While inevitably
The Legend Of Zorro
Back in 1998, the previous Zorro nimbly dived into cinemas, slicing his initial into virtually everything he could find in Martin Campbell’s stonking resurrection of
Slither
I genuinely believe that if more movies were like Slither, James Gunn’s glorious pastiche of 50’s monster movies given a hilarious blast of punk rock
Diary Of The Dead
The late, great George Romero was more than capable at trying his hand at all kinds of horror, but the man will forever be linked
Cloverfield
I remember the first time I saw Cloverfield like it was yesterday… As I holed up in a sizable screen in Leicester Square for a
King Kong
In many ways, selecting Peter Jackson to helm a remake of King Kong is a no brainer. Fresh from changing cinema history after realising JRR
Catwoman
We currently live in a time where a female character can headline a superhero movie pretty much like it’s a normal, everyday thing. Wonder Woman,
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Hurtling out of a pitch black crawl space somewhere in Spain to sink it’s teeth into the overpopulated genres of the zombie film and the
Knowing
The legendary A-bomb of the acting community, Nicolas Cage has regularky marked his career with different phases over the years like the changing of a
Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
After remaining dormant for over twenty years, it seemed that the half-life of the Toxic Avenger had burned out thanks to it’s two sequels that
