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Category Archives: Film Reviews
Film Review: Prison (1988)
SYNOPSIS:
The evil spirit of an executed convict terrorizes (and kills) the prisoners and guards alike at the recently reopened prison where he was put to death years ago. Why is he killing everyone that he comes into contact with and how does the cruel (and mentally unstable) warden of the prison have ties to his past? Is he simply killing because he just gets a kick out of it or is he doing… More
Film Review: Piranha Part 2: The Spawning (1981)
A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.
REVIEW:
I love watching the early films of what are to become legendary directors both good (Peter Jackson’s “Meet the Feebles”, or Ridley Scott’s “Alien”) and bad (Michael Mann’s “The Keep”.) “Piranha Part Two:… More
Film Review: Sledgehammer (1983)
SYNOPSIS:
A young boy murders his mother and her lover with a hammer. Ten years later, a wave of teenage murders plagues the same area.
REVIEW:
The early 80′s saw a wave of horror films produced by filmmakers working with no budget and a camcorder. These efforts, called “Shot-on-Video (SOV) movies”, favored buckets of blood over coherent storytelling and were intended for home video release. David A. Prior’s 1983 chiller Sledgehammer is the second… More
Film Review: Boy Wonder (2010)
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A young Brooklyn boy witnesses the brutal murder of his mother and grows up obsessed with finding her killer. Thus begins his life as a quiet, straight-A student by day and a self-appointed hero at night. But what is a real hero? And who decides what is right or wrong? As the boundaries blur, Sean’s dual life wears on his psyche and his two worlds careen dangerously close to colliding. Like a graphic… More
Film Review: Mortuary (1983)
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Convinced that her father’s death was not accidental, a beautiful girl decides to investigate to find out the truth, aided by her boyfriend. Her sleuthing draws her to a local mortuary, where many secrets will be revealed.
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Director – Howard Avedis
Starring – Mary Beth McDonough, David Wallace, Bill Paxton, Lynda Day George
From low-budget producer and director Howard Avedis comes this serviceable if not somewhat strange horror movie from the… More
Film Review: Rogue River (2012)
You can’t outrun family
REVIEW:
From the opening scene, director Jourdan McClure had completely grasped the audience’s attention with a tattered and blood covered protagonist putting a gun to her head. As the scene fades to black, a single gunshot is heard and the audience feels as if they are in for a gruesome ride.
Mara, Michelle Page (Miss Congeniality 2), is driving to where her father had taken her many times in her… More
Film Review: Beyond Evil (1980)
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An architect and his wife moves into a house with a bloody past and a 100 year old ghost, who possesses the wife.
REVIEW:
Director – Herb Freed
Starring – John Saxon, Lynda Day George, Michael Dante
Sometimes there is nothing like a good haunted house movie. This subgenre is filled with classics and of course some not so classics. I think it would be safe to say that Beyond Evil… More
Film Review: Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster (1971)
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From Earth’s pollution a new monster is spawned. Hedorah, the smog monster, destroys Japan and fights Godzilla while spewing his poisonous gas to further the damage.
REVIEW:
“Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster” was a 1971 release that made its way thru the theatre circuit. The film is titled under its original Asian title as “Godzilla vs Hedorah”.Hedorah is the name given to the freaky tadpole creature that originates out of the pollution… More
Film Review: Take Shelter (2011)
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Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
REVIEW:
It’s not a big surprise to start seeing more films based around apocalyptic videos. In fact, you might say we are in the heart of the storm when it comes to historical time periods for this sort of thing. Because I take a great interest… More
Film Review: Amphibious 3D (2010)
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Marine biologist Skylar Shane hires an expat charter boat captain, Jack Bowman, to help her find prehistoric life form samples in the north Sumatran Sea. During the expedition, they run into some of Jacks freinds, a gang of smugglers headquartered on a fishing platform in the middle of the sea.
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“Amphibious 3D” is the latest effort from cult horror maestro, Brian Yuzna. Yuzna is known for… More
Film Review: The Woman in Black (2012)
A young lawyer travels to a remote village to organize a recently deceased client’s papers, where he discovers the ghost of a scorned woman set on vengeance.
REVIEW
Daniel Radcliffe stars in his first breakaway performance since his days of Harry Potter magic wrangling as lawyer Arthur Kipps. Based on a Susan Hill novel, this Hammer Film production takes an old school approach in this rather haunting and scary new film release for 2012.… More
Film Review: Chronicle (2012)
Three high school friends gain superpowers after making an incredible discovery. Soon, though, they find their lives spinning out of control and their bond tested as they embrace their darker sides.
REVIEW:
Found footage style cam has gotten inventive. “Chronicle” is the latest in this style that while using the trademark “carry-a-camera-around” look and feel is actually a bigger budget extravaganza. “Chronicle” manages to instill a sense of super heroism, action, and scifi into… More
Film Review: The Human Centipede Part 2: Full Sequence (2011)
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Tom Six’s internationally controversial follow-up to the original cult smash, The Human Centipede: Full Sequence ups the ante with a brute force unparalleled in motion pictures today. Inspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter, disturbed loner Martin dreams of creating a 12-person centipede and sets out to realize his sick fantasy.
Film Review: The Other Hell (1981)
Nuns become possessed by the Devil and lust after the abbot!
REVIEW:
Ah Satan, that embodiment of all the hatred and evil that resides in the heart of man. Fun fact: Satan was originally depicted in art as being blue since the definition of hell was nothing more than the absence from God, and was therefore assumed to be a cold place. I guess freezing to death just didn’t hold up as a proper… More
Film Review: Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness (1995)
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Misa Kuroi is an adorable high-school girl who arrives at her new school when it is falling under an evil supernatural force. Trying to figure out who’s behind the supernatural attack, Misa also has to deal with assumptions by her fellow classmates that believe she is the one behind it all. Misa and twelve other students are kept late after school hours one day to retake an exam. Then, after sunset, the… More
Film Review: The Taint (2010)
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The water is tainted. The Taint poisons the minds of men. It turns them into raging misogynists: monsters who want nothing more than to crush women’s heads with rocks (or other objects). When society is transformed into a land of sadistic violence and horrible brutality, it is up to Phil O’Ginny and his hot friend, Misandra, to combat the horrible evil that is The Taint. Can they survive a world brimming with… More
Film Review: Star Wars IV: A New Hope (1977)
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“Luke Skywalker stays with his foster aunt and uncle on a farm on Tatooine. He is desperate to get off this planet and get to the Academy like his friends, but his uncle needs him for the next harvest. Meanwhile, an evil emperor has taken over the galaxy, and has constructed a formidable ‘Death Star’ capable of destroying whole planets. Princess Leia, a leader in the resistance movement, acquires plans of the Death… More
Film Review: Don’t Go in the House (1980)
A disturbed young man who was burned as a child by his sadistic mother stalks women with a flamethrower.
REVIEW:
“Don’t Go in the House” has historically been christened a “video nasty,” or a film that was censored and/or banned in the UK in the 1980’s due to it’s graphic nature. Despite its 1980 completion, it was only first shown in Britain in 1987, with heavy cuts. It was finally released uncut in December… More
Film Review: The Skin I Live In (2011)
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A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
REVIEW:
I’ve never been the biggest Pedro Almodovar fan. I haven’t seen a film of his since “Live Flesh” in 1997. The others I have seen were his early collaborations with Antonio Banderas. Now, Banderas… More
Film Review: The Torturer (2008)
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A U.S. Army interrogator talks with his therapist about actions that took place during a specific interrogation that had questionable results.
REVIEW:
Written by Graham Green, Richard Loranger
Directed By Graham Green
Starring: Nichelle Nichols, Andrew W. Walker, Sophia Choi
With a name like “The Torturer” one would think that the subject matter of this movie would be rather obvious. Such is not the case. “The Torturer”… More
Film Review: A Darker Reality (2008)
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A down and dirty crime thriller A Darker Reality follows detective Alex Belasco and his assistant a media savvy personality named Jesse Metcalfe as they try to find a serial killer who targets women known only as “The Ghost”. Violent and brutal this isn’t your mother’s late night cop show and sometimes things just don’t always end the way that you would want them to.
REVIEW:
“I’m getting better at focusing… More
Film Review: Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
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Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult.
Martha has run away from an abusive hippie-like cult where she was living as Marcy May for two years. She turns to her sister and brother-in-law who take her in and want to help her. The problem is Martha is having a hard time separating dreams from reality and when haunting memories… More
Film Review: Frankenstein: Day of the Beast (2011)
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We know the story; we’ve seen the movies. You may think that it’s impossible to have a new approach to Frankenstein… Think again.
REVIEW:
I guess I never really thought much about it until now but I just realized that I’m not much of a “Frankenstein” fan. I’ve seen MANY of the films and I guess nothing really blew me away. Maybe it was because I was so young when… More
Film Review: Chop (2010)
SYNOPSIS:
Lance Reed is forced by a psychotic stranger to confront his duplicitous past. Seeking retribution for a crime, the man forces Lance to reveal his inner most secrets by systematically removing his limbs.
REVIEW:
It’s pretty amazing how great films can somehow just glide under the radar. In a way, it’s sad since some of these films end up going unnoticed. On the plus side, when you do stumble upon… More
Film Review: The Lost Realities of Hog Caller (2011)
SYNOPSIS:
For some reason or another a local news station has decided to search out and find the grind core band Hog Caller. There are many witness’s who have quite a few things to say about the duo of musicians, and most of it is hardly nice at all. It seems the two members of the band have a great appreciation for drugs, devil worship and dead pigs. In what could only be described… More
Film Review: Underground (2011)
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A group of friends fight for their lives against the lethal and ravenous creatures lurking beneath the Earth’s surface. The group finds themselves at the mercy of creatures genetically engineered by the military to be expendable in battle. Though they fought countless battles in Iraq, these friends never knew real fear until they went underground.
REVIEW:
Not many films can pull off the dark and claustrophobic. Many try, few succeed. A… More
Film Review: Scalps (1983)
A group of college students go on an archeological dig at an ancient Indian burial ground (great idea there guys) hoping to find some Native American artifacts. While they are digging around they end up disturbing an evil spirit who wastes no time in possessing one of them. Of course the now possessed student goes on a killing spree, slaughtering his fellow classmates on the dig with him. Will any of them survive or… More
Film Review: Dream House (2011)
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Soon after moving into their seemingly idyllic new home, a family learns of a brutal crime committed against former residents of the dwelling
REVIEW:
One of the horror entries for 2012 hoping to gain box office return by featuring top namers Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, and Naomi Watts, is a psychological thriller by the name of “Dream House”. While it only pulled in half of what the budget costed ($55,000,000), it still… More
Film Review: Retreat (2011)
Kate and Martin escape from personal tragedy to an island retreat. Cut off from the outside world, their attempts to recover are shattered when a Man is washed ashore, with news of airborne killer disease that is sweeping through Europe.
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Film Review: The Wicker Tree (2010)
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Two young missionaries from Texas head to Scotland to educate the Scottish heathens in the way of Christ. They are initially charmed by the locals in the town of Tressock, and agree to become the local Queen of the May and Laddie for the annual town festival. But the couple is not prepared for the frightening consequences of their decision, and the very disturbing secrets they are about to discover about Tressock’s seemingly… More
