Film Reviews

SYNOPSIS: The friendship of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs, and work is jeopardized by a romantic interest which may turn pals into bitter rivals. REVIEW: Hey folks…another guilty pleasure review for me…not horror, but almost “culty” in its own respect. Arriving right at the start of the 1980’s rush of teen angst films arrived this …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Alex accompanies her boyfriend and a group of other people on a trip to the Slasher Sleepout even though she isn’t really into horror films and is just trying to be a good girlfriend. Unfortunately, once they get there they discover that the scares are for real and they may not make it out alive. REVIEW: …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A weekend getaway turns into a hellish encounter for three college buddies in this unnerving shocker based on a true story. Setting off to chase skirts and get soused, Phil (Rider Strong), Ed (Brian Presley) and Henry (Jake Muxworthy) head south of the border, where Phil soon finds himself held captive by Satanic drug smugglers looking …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Based on the real life story of Sagawa, a japanese student who killed, dismembered and ate a young dutch girl in Paris. REVIEW: Adoration is another of the short films that comes in the Cult Epics collection, “Cinema of Death” (also included in the set are films by Nico B. (Pig and Hollywood Babylon), Brian M. Viveros …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An Active Senior Tour group outing turns deadly when the crazed, bloodthirsty cowboys from a local rodeo attraction start abducting and killing people. REVIEW: Lasso hits it out of the park! Directed by Evan Cecil and coming to us from Epic Pictures, I have to start off the review with saying that I really loved this …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: During the annual event known as “The Purge” where all criminal acts become legal for 12 hours, including murder, five innocent citizens of Los Angeles struggle to survive the night. Led by Leo Barnes, a man set out to get revenge, the group includes a troubled couple who are fleeing a group of masked assailants and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Bullet Collector follows the traumas of a wide-eyed 14-year-old boy. Recalling the world of Antoine Doinel in François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows, this unsettling, visually brilliant drama updates that classic by giving it a nightmarishly Russian spin. REVIEW: The Russian film, Bullet Collector (aka Sobiratel Pul), is a dark and bleak tale, a kind of anti-coming …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After a prison bus is involved in an accident on a country road several dangerous inmates escape. Dr. Madsen, who was in the other vehicle that was in the crash, is taken hostage by the prisoners. As the group makes its way deep into the woods to avoid the police they stumble upon an old house …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Bizarre rituals, animals being killed, and people being killed and eaten by each other and animals REVIEW: Savage Man Savage Beast, aka Zumbalah, aka Ultime Grida Dalla Savana, aka Savage Temptation, aka The Great Hunting, aka (simply and appropriately) Deathshow, is one of the more influential early “shockumentary” films. Seen as a nature documentary in which …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A salt storehouse near the sea may be haunted. A penniless ex-con dies a gristly death in a house he can ill afford. The detectives assigned the case are Min, newly reinstated after a suspension, and Lee, a new transfer from forensics. Min has nightmares: a sexual assault that haunts her. She and Lee work well …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A maverick scientist discovers that the planet Mercury has been knocked off its normal orbit by a wave of magnetic energy and is now headed towards Earth. REVIEW: A TV movie made for the SyFY channel this provides ninety minutes’ hokey fun in an endearingly old-fashioned way. More than anything it reminded me of a Saturday …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Timon and James decide to visit their old catholic school before its demolished but when a familiar face shows up, it instantly brings back haunting memories. REVIEW: Welcome to Dreadville V: Souls of Mischief, which I believe has been shorted down to just “Souls of Mischief” is a 45 minute short film by Jason Patfield and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In the 16th Century, the lycanthrope Waldemar Daninsky travels from his native Europe to Japan, seeking a way to cure himself of being a werewolf. Only a Japanese sorcerer named Kian and a magic silver sword can save him. REVIEW: The actor/director/screenwriter Paul Naschy is a name undoubtedly familiar to any fans of Spanish horror cinema. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A heated game of poker causes three men incarcerated for nonviolent offenses to brutalize their cell mate before taking drastic measures in order to cover up their crime. REVIEW:  While the director name of Uwe Boll conjures up all sorts of ranging interests in the horror sector, it has long been a hit or miss relationship …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The sordid lives of an addict, an ex-con, and a luchador collide when an organ harvesting caper goes very, very wrong. REVIEW: If your movie fan like me, then in addition to finding cool horror films to talk about you are always on the look out for another abstract edgy kind of piece that encapsulates a …