Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A widow begins to uncover her recently deceased husband’s disturbing secrets REVIEW: David Bruckner is a director who has been gaining momentum over the past decade. Starting with “The Signal”, he has gone on to direct segments in both “V/H/S” and “Southbound” in addition to getting much praise for “The Ritual”. While we anticipate his directorial …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young girl finds solace in her artist father and the ghost of her dead mother. REVIEW: “Separation” is the story of Maggie and Jeff Vahn’s failing marriage. Without any context, we are first shown how happy they are supposed to be, but the first live scene with them together in the film devolves into a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Taiwan’s parliament turns deadly when a virus transforms politicians into ravenous zombie mutants. REVIEW: Taiwanese director Wang I-Fan’s long format debut Get the Hell Out offers intensely energetic zombie action, filled with blood, guts and a whole lot of action. Ying-Ying (Megan Lai) is a proud member of the Taiwanese parliament that takes her job very …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After the death of his father, a brilliant college student returns to his family home where he learns that the horrors from his childhood aren’t as dead and gone as he once thought. REVIEW: Directed by: BJ Verot (After the Rain) Written by: BJ Verot and Ken Kanssens The movie opens with a memory, a flashback, …

Rate This Movie REVIEW: Hey kids! More short films! Today we have ANADELLIA, based on a story by Dave Paul & Alec Palumbo, written by Alec Palumbo & Brian Andrews, and directed by Brian Andrews. The film opens with a newsprint montage of a mass murder in the suburbs of New Jersey in 1952.  Four people dead, a man convicted …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In 18th-century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent to the Gevaudan province at the king’s behest to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast. REVIEW: During the 1760’s, in the province of Gevaudan, France, a series of attacks and killings took place. Often the victims were people …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A director and actress pay a visit to an obsessed film editor whose hypnotic soundscapes shatter their perceptions of reality. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have ELECTROMAGNETIC, written and directed by Andrew Marks. Our story opens on Stanley (Bodhi Elfman) and his girlfriend,  Alexa (Kate Simmons) arriving after a film premiere to check in …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: For one female entity time stands still, while for another time travels back and forth between the plains of the supernatural and the earthly horrors of exploitation and murder. REVIEW: “The Demented” is a 2021 new release from New Blood Entertainment directed and written by Nigel Hartwell. The film features a great cast that includes iconic …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In The Boy Behind the Door, a night of unimaginable terror awaits twelve-year-old Bobby (Lonnie Chavis) and his best friend, Kevin (Ezra Dewey), when they are abducted on their way home from school. Managing to escape his confines, Bobby navigates the dark halls, praying his presence goes unnoticed as he avoids his captor at every turn. Even …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Famous Wrestlers are pitted against hordes of undead when they unknowingly walk into a death trap. REVIEW: Hey kids! I’ve got something special for you. Today we’re gonna talk about PRO WRESTLERS VS ZOMBIES, a 2014 film written and directed by Cody Knotts. I suppose the story will come as no surprise – its wrestlers versus …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: As the world faces a deadly plague, a front-lines parasitologist is imprisoned in a life-suspension chamber. To escape she must destroy the last of her kind. REVIEW: How would you react if you woke up inside a metallic pod, barely bigger than your body, tubes running in and out of your face, and at a loss …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: While on a weekend away in a guest house, a couple play a game that has supernatural consequences. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have GUEST HOUSE, written by Aiden Gibson and directed by Dave Thorpe. This little slice of life is brought to us by the demented minds of ALTER FILMS, a company that …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A single mother struggles to bond with her apathetic child, born with an insatiable and increasingly inhumane appetite. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have HUNGRY JOE, written and directed by Paul Holbrook & Sam Dawe. Laura and Craig (Laura Bayston, Joe Sims) are starting out on their life together. A new marriage, a new …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: One day the withdrawn Noé finds a motionless android in the forest, takes it with her, and reactivates it. It’s the beginning of a strange relationship. However, Noé realizes far too late that the android is about to copy her personality REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have I AM, a film project from the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The Richardson family celebrates their 28-year-old daughter’s pregnancy in Northern California. The celebration is interrupted when a Satanic cult member, Aksel Brandr, pays them an unexpected visit. Aksel, on behalf of the cult’s leader Henrik Brandr, offers to pay the family a large sum for ownership of their land. Jacob Richardson, the father, rejects the offer …