Action Films Part 10 – The Poor
The tenth tier of the action ranking. The expensive failures, the franchise entries nobody needed, and the adaptations that had a good design and nothing to put in it.
Tag: Netflix
Netflix changed how stories get made, bought, and abandoned. This tag collects reviews of Netflix productions and essays on what streaming economics do to storytelling.
2010sThe Babadook (2014)
Jennifer Kent's 2014 Australian grief horror. Essie Davis as widowed mother.
2000sJu-On: The Grudge (2002)
Takashi Shimizu's haunted house horror where a curse spreads from anyone who enters a Tokyo home where a murder occurred. Ju-On: The Grudge is Takashi Shimizu's 2002 Japanese supernatural horror film depicting a curse that spreads from anyone who enters…
2010sKlaus (2019)
A spoiled postman exiled to a frigid island town befriends a reclusive toymaker, and they invent the Santa tradition together. Klaus is Sergio Pablos's 2019 Spanish-British-American animated film depicting a spoiled wealthy postman exiled to a remote frozen island town…
2020sThe Last Dance (2020)
1997-98 championship season as spine. The production runs across ten episodes totaling approximately eight hours.
2020sDon’t Look Up (2021)
Adam McKay's 2021 climate-denial satire. Don't Look Up is Adam McKay's 2021 American satirical science fiction comedy.
1960sThe Haunting (1963)
Robert Wise's 1963 Shirley Jackson adaptation. Hill House through implication instead of effects.
1960sThe Innocents (1961)
Jack Clayton's 1961 Turn of the Screw adaptation. Deborah Kerr as the governess.
1940sRebecca (1940)
Hitchcock's 1940 Daphne du Maurier adaptation. Won Best Picture, Hitchcock's only one.
2020sHavoc (2025)
Gareth Evans's 2025 Tom Hardy Netflix action thriller. Raid director applies established choreography approach to American institutional material.
AdaptationThe Punisher (1989, 2004, 2008)
Three theatrical Punisher films: 1989 Lundgren, 2004 Jane, 2008 Stevenson. The Punisher has been adapted as theatrical film three times across two decades: The Punisher (1989) starring Dolph Lundgren, The Punisher (2004) starring Thomas Jane, and Punisher: War Zone (2008)…
2020sHe’s All That (2021)
Addison Rae casting reflects social media platform commercial framework. He's All That is the 2021 Mark Waters-directed Netflix teen romantic comedy starring Addison Rae as Padgett Sawyer, a high school influencer whose specific social media career suffers public collapse following…