Leatherface (2017)

 

A teenage Leatherface escapes from a mental hospital with three other inmates, kidnapping a young nurse and taking her on a road trip from hell, while being pursued by a lawman out for revenge.

Adequately made and well cast, this prequel to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre saga tries hard to come up with an interesting origin story - and fails.

Immortals (2011)

 

Theseus is a mortal man chosen by Zeus to lead the fight against the ruthless King Hyperion, who is on a rampage across Greece to obtain a weapon that can destroy humanity. 

Sensationally exciting visuals meet lackluster storytelling in this star-cast mythological action romp; are there any Gods who would approve?

Maltin*1/2: "Clunky, boring film...There's nothing Olympian about the screenplay or the artificial setting in which all the action takes place. Tarsem, noted for his visual innovations in other films, succumbs to the excesses of CGI here, to minimal effect." 

True Detective, Season 3 (2019)

A macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks and a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods.

Third time round the series continues in expected top quality of production, and again it's the two lead's extraordinary performances that holds the interest; the plot itself develops quite slowly and is construed a bit too complicatedly.

Alone in the Dark (2005)

A detective of the paranormal slowly unravels mysterious events with deadly results.

Trashy horror with all participating lost at sea.

On renewed view: it doesn't get better by watching it again...

Maltin BOMB: "...unintelligible time-waster based on an Atari video game. The opening crwal is dopey and overlong; what follows is mind-numbingly awful. Casting Reid as an anthropologist is like assigning Curly Howard the role of a neurosurgeon."