Film Reviews

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Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: One day the withdrawn Noé finds a motionless android in the forest, takes it with her, and reactivates it.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 …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Lucas, an out-of-work nuclear scientist, struggles with tension in his marriage after his wife Violet mysteriously terminates her pregnancy without his consent. As Lucas’ physical health begins to inexplicably deteriorate, Violet’s behavior grows increasingly bizarre and he seeks clarity from his therapist Dr. Benedict. Exhausted by his job search, strange events begin to occur in the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A pair of buddies conspire to save their best friend from marrying the wrong woman.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Sandy and Lance are ghosts, trapped in purgatory for living mostly terrible lives on Earth. Plagued daily by Bartholomew, a third-rate demon sent to entice them into joining team Beelzebub, their current situation isn’t what you’d call “great.” That is, until Daphne, architect and running enthusiast, enters the picture. With her sister missing, Daphne becomes the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Her brother is murdered and left for her 3 nieces and nephew to take care of. Then, she is murdered too but still come back to look after her brother’s child, as a ghost. REVIEW: From the Thai director Theeratorn Siriphunvaraporn comes a very middle of the road ghost horror about motherly instincts from beyond the …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A womanizing alcoholic writer, whose life seems to be falling apart at the seams, repeatedly finds himself in trouble of one sort or another with the law, ex-girlfriends, and jealous boyfriends. REVIEW: Blake Edwards “Skin Deep” arrived on the tail end of the 80’s featuring everyone’s favorite sitcom actor John Ritter as character Zachary “Zach” Hutton. It …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of friends are stalked by a family of killers on a vintage cruise ship.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An injured forest ranger on a routine mission is saved by two off-the-grid survivalists. What is initially a welcome rescue grows more suspicious as the son and his renegade father reveal a cultish devotion to the forest. REVIEW: I cannot say that I have ever dosed on ‘shrooms for altering my mind, but I get the …

Rate This Movie REVIEW: Directed by Anna Chazelle (10 min) (Sci-Fi/Horror) (USA) In a post-apocalyptic world where survival means never stepping off a thin narrow path, a lone woman must evade a creature that stalks her every move.   Review: Narrow was written and directed by Anna Chazelle. Narrow opens with Sloane portrayed by Anna Chazelle walking through a desert, and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Directed by Aislinn Clarke (2:30 min) (Horror) (U.K.) A woman regrets attending a free eye exam when she begins to suspect that her optometrist has nefarious intentions.  REVIEW: Eye Exam was directed by Aislinn Clarke and written by Jack Tarling. There isn’t much that bothers me in horror movies. For two minutes and thirty seconds I …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When loneliness consumes your life, things may get weird for you, and dangerous for others. You’ll discover just what that means in Jill Gevargizian’s “The Stylist”. REVIEW: Claire (Najarra Townsend; 2013’s “Contracted”) is a very reserved hair stylist in a hip-looking salon. She doesn’t seem to have any friends, she doesn’t seem to socialize very much, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When a mysterious loner and Karate master Kenji’s little sister goes missing in Los Angeles, whoever stands in his way of finding her will face the wrath of a lethal KARATE KILL! REVIEW: Director/actor Kurando Mitsutake brings us an old-fashioned revenge exploitation with gory action and gratuitous nudity. Karate Kill might not win any awards for …