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Dan Kappa

An Australian comedian, raised on 80s action flicks and raunchy British comedies, Dan watched his first horror at age 12 and never looked back. An avid fan of the gory, the quirky, the twisted and the comical, Dan enjoys nothing more than a warm cup of coffee and a severed head (or two) bouncing on his TV screen. Favourite films: Army of Darkness, Tucker & Dale vs Evil, Dead Alive and Bambi.

Film Review: Fatale (2020)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After a one-night stand, a successful married man finds himself entangled in a cunning police detective’s latest investigation. REVIEW: Derrick Tyler (Michael Ealy) is a successful self-made LA sports agent with fancy cars and a fancy home. Everything is going well for him, except his marriage, so when Derrick goes on a Vegas trip with the …

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Film Review: Synchronic (2019)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two New Orleans paramedics’ lives are ripped apart after they encounter a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects. REVIEW: Genre cinema specialists, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead helm another genre mashing foray with Synchronic, a film about friendship, loss, life, drugs and time travel. SOME SPOILERS AHEAD: New Orleans …

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Film Review: 8ight After (2020)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After discovering a secret box in the wall of her house, a demonic presence begins terrorizing a YouTuber, at 8 after 1:00am every night REVIEW: CCTV/Found Footage horror was a novel idea once. For a brief moment in its life-span, this sub-genre was the golden child of Horror and breathed new life into it, even making …

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Film Review: Haunting of the Mary Celeste (2020)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A research team trying to prove supernatural theories about a crew’s disappearance on the merchant ship “the Mary Celeste”, discover more than they anticipated. REVIEW: Based on an actual legend, the Mary Celeste was an American merchant brigantine discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872. It was found slightly disheveled but in a …

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Film Review: Freaky (2020)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After swapping bodies with a deranged serial killer, a young girl in high school discovers she has less than 24 hours before the change becomes permanent. REVIEW: There’s been countless iterations of the Body Swap trope. It’s a basic setup with limitless potential. Show your two characters’ lives, swap them up, shenanigans ensue, they learn about …

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Film Review: No Escape (2020)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A social media personality travels with his friends to Moscow to capture new content for his successful VLOG. Always pushing the limits and catering to a growing audience, they enter a cold world of mystery, excess, and danger. REVIEW: A story needs to have characters that are relatable to the viewer. Likeable to them, so they …

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Film Review: Spell (2020)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A man crash lands in rural Appalachia and awakens in the attic of a traditional Hoodoo practitioner. He desperately tries to break free from her dark magic and save his family from a sinister ritual before the rise of the blood moon. REVIEW: Marquis (Omari Hardwick) is making every effort to be the man his father …

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Film Review: Fear Pharm (2020)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Four people enter a corn maze for Halloween and are picked off one by one by the twisted family who own the scare attraction. REVIEW: A family who kills together stays together Well, that’s the case with Fear Pharm, a film who puts the PH in farm. I was immediately surprised by the production value. This …

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Film Review: The Dead Ones (2019)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: While serving detention for a horrific incident, four students are locked in a school and hunted by a gang dressed as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. While fighting to survive, each student must confront past traumas. REVIEW: I was always told patience is a virtue, and this saying holds true for The Dead Ones. The …

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Film Review: Host (2020)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Six friends hire a medium to hold a seance via Zoom during lockdown, but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong. REVIEW: I’ll be honest, when I saw that Host takes place in COVID lockdown and is based off a painfully realistic Zoom call, I was dying to slam my …

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