Actor Kim Coates (1959)

The fantasy horror drama TV show, Van Helsing (2016–2021), features Kelly Overton as the lead character. The inspiration for the show comes from Zenescope Entertainment’s graphic novel series, Helsing. It takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, where Vanessa Van Helsing, a descendant of Abraham Van Helsing, awakens after her presumed death. She discovers that it has been three years since the eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera and vampires now control humanity due to the lack of sunlight caused by the ash. Vanessa possesses a unique blood composition that can turn vampires back into humans, making her ...

Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010), an action horror film written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, is the second installment in the series to be helmed by Anderson. Alice and her clones launch an attack on Umbrella HQ in Tokyo, wiping out all members except for Albert Wesker who manages to escape in a tiltrotor plane. He sets off a bomb that creates a massive sinkhole, as the real Alice, who had already boarded the plane, attempts to eliminate him. However, he injects her with an anti-virus that strips her of her superhuman abilities. It is then revealed that Wesker has ...

Silent Hill (2006) is a horror flick helmed by director Christophe Gans and penned by writer Roger Avary. The film is based on the video game series of the same name from Konami. Rose Da Silva and her spouse Christopher are troubled by their adopted daughter Sharon’s frequent sleepwalking and disturbing nightmares about Silent Hill, a deserted town in West Virginia that was abandoned decades ago due to a raging coal fire. In search of answers, Rose takes Sharon on a journey to Silent Hill, but their encounter with police officer Cybil Bennett at a gas station raises ...

The Island (2005) is an American science fiction thriller film, directed and co-produced by Michael Bay based on a story by Tredwell-Owen. On July 19, 2019, residents of a secluded compound, including Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta, are governed by strict rules as they believe the outside world is no longer habitable except for one pathogen-free island. In this dystopian setting, a lottery determines who gets to leave the compound and live on the island each week. However, Lincoln begins experiencing dreams that he knows are not his own memories. When Dr. Merrick, ...

Open Range (2003) is a film set in Montana during the late 1800s. It was directed and co-produced by Kevin Costner, with a screenplay by Craig Storper based on the novel The Open Range Men by Lauran Paine. The story follows ‘Boss’ Spearman and his hired hands, Charley Waite, Mose, and Button, as they drive a herd of cattle across the country. While Boss is an experienced rancher, Charley carries heavy guilt from his time as a soldier in the Civil War. When Boss sends Mose to nearby Harmonville for ...

Black Hawk Down (2001) is a war film directed and produced by Ridley Scott, co-produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and written by Ken Nolan. Based on journalist Mark Bowden’s 1999 book of the same name, it revolves around the events of 1992 when the United Nations Security Council authorized a military operation with a peacekeeping mandate in southern Somalia during the civil war and famine. However, tensions arise between UNOSOM II and Mogadishu’s militia loyal to ...

Waterworld (1995) is an American post-apocalyptic action film directed by Kevin Reynolds and co-written by Peter Rader and David Twohy. In the year 2500, rising sea levels have submerged every continent on Earth, leaving only rugged, floating communities known as atolls for human civilization to survive on. Many believe in the existence of a mythical ‘Dryland’ somewhere in the vast ocean, but others dismiss it as mere legend. The Mariner, a lone wanderer, arrives at an atoll on his trimaran with a valuable ...