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Si Barnes

Ever since his older brothers tricked him into watching films that induced nights, weeks or months of bad dreams, Si has loved watching scary films. Over the years, the nightmares have become less frequent whereas his passion for the spooky has only grown stronger. When he’s not watching horror films, he can be found teaching music to children or writing about food on his blog: http://howcanyoueatthatcrap.tumblr.com.

Film Review: Underwater (2020)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A crew of oceanic researchers working for a deep sea drilling company try to get to safety after a mysterious earthquake devastates their deepwater research and drilling facility located at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. REVIEW: Underwater, directed by William Eubank, concerns Norah Price (played by Kristen Stewart) and a group of engineers as they escape a drilling station in the …

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Film Review: American Conjuring (2016)

SYNOPSIS: A family moves into an abandoned orphanage and they soon learn that their charming orphanage has a disturbing history and are convinced they aren’t alone. REVIEW: American Conjuring, directed by Dan Walton and Dan Zachary, finds a family of four moving into a spooky, old orphanage with a sinister past.  It’s really not long before the past starts making …

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Film Review: Case 347 (2020)

SYNOPSIS: CASE 347 follows psychologist and UFO skeptic, Dr. Mia Jansen (Maya Stojan), and a team of documentary filmmakers who believe that alien abduction claims are forms of “mass hysteria”. This is their footage: REVIEW: The paranormal is of great interest to me and I love reading about hauntings and strange occurrences. One area that has never quite instilled the …

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Film Review: Tentacles (1977)

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A mutated giant octopus wreaks havoc on a California seaside community. REVIEW: A nightmare begins for the small, coastal town of Ocean Beach when a baby disappears and a sailor washes up, stripped of his flesh. Something is lurking in those murky waters and it appears to have something to do with the digging of a deep …

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Film Review: Afterdeath (2015)

Rate This Movie SUMMARY: Five young people wake up dead. Washed up by the tide they scramble to an abandoned beach house, soon realising that the perpetual night and blasts of pain suggest this is some version of hell. Between in-fighting and attacks by a demonic shadow creature, they recall the collapse of the nightclub that brought them here – …

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Film Review: Wolf Warrior (2015)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A Chinese special force soldier with extraordinary marksmanship is confronted by a group of deadly foreign mercenaries who are hired to assassinate him by a vicious drug lord. REVIEW: Titles can be incredibly confusing things as they conjure up all kinds of mental images that lead to films either living up to expectation, surpassing them or …

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