Stories by @zacharyoxford

Guns Akimbo (1999)

Miles is a video game developer who inadvertently becomes the next participant in a real-life death match that streams online. While Miles soon excels at running away from everything, that won't help him outlast Nix, a killer at the top of her game.

Gamer (1989)

An expert gamer creates Kable, an avatar of a human being that must cheat death in the world of gaming. However, in order to survive and find his freedom, he strives to fight the deadliest battles.

Enemy at the Gates (1981)

Russian sniper, Vasily Zaytsev, kills Nazi German soldiers one by one during the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942-1943. German Major Konig is ordered to slay Vasily to restore Adolf Hitler's honour.

Push (1999)

Two young Americans with special abilities must race to find a girl in Hong Kong before a shadowy government organisation called Division does.

Marvel Fantastic Four (2022)

Four astronauts gain extraordinary powers like invisibility and stretchability after being hit by cosmic radiation. Now, their biggest challenge is Victor Von Doom, an evil doctor.

Marvel's Legion of Monsters (2027)

The first version of the Legion of Monsters were united by chance to investigate the appearance of a strange being called the Starseed. Although the being was benevolent, Morbius, the Living Vampire and the Werewolf by Night were overcome by their hungers and attacked it. The Ghost Rider intervened, as the Starseed was unable to overcome his fear of the Man-Thing and was burned by it. The dying Starseed attempted to cure the Legion of their monstrous forms, but was too weak and died minutes later. Tired of fighting, and disappointed in their actions, the team split up, although they barely acknowledged even being a team in the first place.

The Gunman (2006)

Terrier, an assassin, kills the minister of mining in Congo before going into hiding. Years later, he returns to Congo as a charity worker, unaware that he is the target of a hit squad.

Pompeii (2003)

Milo, a slave turned gladiator, falls in love with Cassia. Things take a turn when she is betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator and he has to fight against time to save her.

PAUL VERHOEVEN’S CRUSADE (1995)

The action opens with peasant thief Hagen (Schwarzenegger) being sentenced to death for the illicit raiding of a corrupt clergyman’s goods. Having been thrown in jail just as the Pope himself arrives to drum up support for a Crusade to the Holy Land, Hagen escapes the noose by staging an apparent miracle. Realising, from the reaction of the awestruck peasant masses, Hagen’s value as a promotional tool, the bloodthirsty pontiff enlists the convict on Christendom’s quest for Middle Eastern domination. Add to the mix the evil Count Emmich (Gary Sinise), who just so happens to be Hagen’s half-brother and is also intent on erasing his less Royal sibling from the family heraldry. Their first clash occurs in the Middle East before the unfortunate ex-prisoner is dragged into slavery and sold to Saracen Warriors. Whilst in the Holy Land he experiences his Road-to-Damascus moment (couldn’t resist), realising the Muslims in Jerusalem are a moderate people, keen to avert the onslaught of bellicose Christian invaders. It is here that Hagen also meets Leila (Jennifer Conelly), an alluring Saracen princess whom he tries to save from an uncertain fate as the city teeters on the brink of bloody devastation.

The Foreigner (1997)

Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love -- his teenage daughter -- dies in a senseless act of politically motivated terrorism. His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers.

24 Hours to Live (2002)

After a mercenary dies in a brutal firefight, a new regenerative surgery gives him a second chance at life and another shot at redemption.

The Little Things (2001)

A burned-out deputy sheriff with an eye for detail teams with a detective to reel in a wily serial killer.

Marvel Kingpin (2024)

Wilson Fisk began his life as a poor child in New York City, bullied by his classmates due to his obesity. Fisk began training himself in physical combat, using his new-found strength to form a gang of his former tormentors that terrorized the surrounding neighborhoods. He was eventually discovered by mob boss Don Rigoletto, who hired him as a bodyguard, and Fisk worked his way up until he became Rigoletto's right-hand man. He then turned on his mentor, eliminating him and taking control of his men and business interests, before expanding his new empire until he had become one of of the most powerful figures in New York's criminal underworld, earning the name "Kingpin".

Angel Has Fallen (1999)

Mike Banning, a secret service agent, is assigned to protect the US president. Things take a turn when Mike is falsely accused of carrying an attack on the president while on a fishing trip.

London Has Fallen (1996)

Mike, a Secret Service agent, must find a way to escape with his team when Barkawi, a terrorist, attacks all the world leaders attending the funeral of the British Prime Minister, James Wilson.

Altered Carbon (1988)

More than 300 years in the future, society has been transformed by new technology, leading to human bodies being interchangeable and death no longer being permanent. Takeshi Kovacs is the only surviving soldier of a group of elite interstellar warriors who were defeated in an uprising against the new world order. His mind was imprisoned for centuries until impossibly wealthy businessman Laurens Bancroft offers him the chance to live again. Kovacs will have to do something for Bancroft, though, if he wants to be resurrected. Bancroft's request of Kovacs is to solve a murder -- Bancroft's. "Altered Carbon" is based on Richard K. Morgan's cyberpunk noir novel of the same name.

Doom (1985)

A team of space marines known as the Rapid Response Tactical Squad, led by Sarge,is sent to a science facility on Mars after somebody reports a security breach. There, they learn that the alert came after a test subject, a mass murderer purposefully injected with alien DNA, broke free and began killing people. Dr. Grimm, who is related to team member Reaper minforms them all that the chromosome can mutate humans into monsters -- and is highly infectious.

Doomsday (1988)

Eden Sinclair and her team of specialists are sent to a zombie-ravaged Scotland to retrieve a cure for a virus known as Reaper which is threatening to wipe away humanity.

Death Race (1998)

Warden Hennessey offers Jensen and other prisoners a chance to compete in a car race and earn their freedom. Millions watch as criminals with life sentences race armoured cars to earn freedom.

Monster Hunter (1990)

Behind our world, there is another -- a world of dangerous and powerful monsters that rule their domain with deadly ferocity. When Lt. Artemis and her loyal soldiers are transported from our world to the new one, the unflappable lieutenant receives the shock of her life. In a desperate battle for survival against enormous enemies with incredible powers and unstoppable, terrifying attacks, Artemis teams up with a mysterious hunter who has found a way to fight back.