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Film Review: The Neon Demon (2016)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After Jesse, a callow and unsophisticated teenage girl, finds herself in Los Angeles at the behest of an amateur fashion photographer she met online, other people higher up the modeling world food chain begin to take a distressingly omnivorous notice of her unripe purity. REVIEW: Inspired by Roger Vadim’s Et Mourir de Plaisir (USA, Blood and …

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Film Review: Australiens (2014)

SYNOPSIS: When aliens from Uranus attack Australia, it’s up to Andi Gibson, along with friends and family, to defend the country and send the invaders back to where they came from. REVIEW: Rita Artmann plays Andi Gibson, a die-hard proselytizer concerning the existence of aliens, as well as being the head-banging lead singer of the forehead-slapping punk band, Titanium Turtle; …

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Film Review: Killer Piñata (2015)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In lieu of unionizing labor, the angry spirit of an abused, and very much dead, factory worker takes possession of a piñata in order to turn the tables on a cold, uncaring world filled with people-on-piñata violence. REVIEW: With this release, it looks like director Stephen Tramontana has finally bounced back from his rather public tussle …

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Film Review: The Pack (2015)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In Australia’s outback, a family struggles to keep the wolves from the door when a bank tries to foreclose on their land; but it soon becomes clear the family has even bigger problems when a pack of vicious dogs literally arrives at their door – and they’re looking for something to eat. REVIEW: The film begins …

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Film Review: Krampus The Christmas Devil Returns (2016)

SYNOPSIS: Five years after the murder of his wife and disappearance of his daughter, former police officer Jeremy Duffin is brought back to help in the hunt for a yuletide monster that punishes children that have been “naughty.” As the monster becomes more erratic and unpredictable, Jeremy learns the truth about the disappearance of his daughter and the fate that …

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Film Review: Two Front Teeth (2006)

SYNOPSIS: It’s the night before Christmas and Gabe Snow, a tabloid writer haunted by the Ghosts of Christmas past, is investigating a Yuletide conspiracy – and what he discovers during that investigation will turn his Christmas blood-red. REVIEW: Two Front Teeth is Jamie Nash’s horror/comedy contribution to the passing Holiday parade. Released in 2006, it stars John Francis Wolf as …

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