Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A nightmarish evening unfolds when neighbors David (Luke Kleintank) and Robert (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) hit a woman on her bike and flee. When her sister arrives searching for the truth, Robert does unspeakable things to protect their secret. The film is a remake of the German thriller Unter Nachbarnwhich marked Rick’s feature film debut. Coming full circle, Rick now revisits his Hitchcockian thriller ten years …
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Film Review: Monstrous (2022)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Story centers on a traumatized woman fleeing from her abusive ex-husband with her 7-year-old son. In their new, remote sanctuary they find they have a bigger, more terrifying monster to deal with.
Read More »Film Review: Hatching (2022)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young gymnast who tries desperately to please her demanding mother, discovers a strange egg. She hides it and keeps it warm, but when it hatches, what emerges shocks them all. REVIEW: Back in the late 60s and early 70s, the house my family lived in had a big picture window in the dining room that …
Read More »Film Review: Firestarter (2022)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young girl tries to understand how she mysteriously gained the power to set things on fire with her mind. REVIEW: Have you heard of “Firestarter”? The movies and/or the Stephen King novel, not the song from The Prodigy, though that is a killer track. If you answer, “No, and why are you in my house?”, …
Read More »Film Review: L.U.N.A. (short film) (2021)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Field technician, Lillian Romero, is sent out to diagnose an error from her company’s home assistant device L.U.N.A. When she arrives, she discovers this is no ordinary error… or home. REVIEW: Directed by Blake Vaz and written by Roman Arabia, and Mike Bane. L.U.N.A. opens with an awesome house. I do love a great location. No …
Read More »Film Review: Zorgon: The H-Bomb Beast From Hell (short film) (1972)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A reported monster is terrorizing a local community, but the police have no leads. A man who is fed up with the killings calls a handful of his friends and forms a posse to look for the creature. They head to Bronson Canyon to see if they can uncover who’s behind all of these deaths. REVIEW: …
Read More »Film Review: 2:13 (also Two: Thirteen) (2009)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A serial killer who likes to quote Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” is stalking the streets and claiming victim after victim. A troubled police profiler haunted by his past is on the killer’s trail, but catching him isn’t such an easy task. As the body count starts to rise will our hero be able to overcome …
Read More »Film Review: Return to Nuke ‘Em High Volume 1 (2013)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Return to the Class of Nuke ‘Em High follows a young couple that are up against the school glee club. Unfortunately, the glee club has mutated into a gang called The Cretins. When the other students begin to undergo mutations, our couple must solve the mystery and save Tromaville High School. REVIEW: By the time the 1980s …
Read More »Film Review: Mutation 2 – Generation Dead (2001)
SYNOPSIS: The toxic chemical rediscovered in the original film causes more death and destruction across Germany, leading to a new mutation unlike anything the world has ever seen… REVIEW:
Read More »Film Review: Mara (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Criminal psychologist Kate Fuller is assigned to the murder of a man who has seemingly been strangled in his sleep by his wife and the only witness is their eight-year-old daughter, Sophie. As Kate digs into the mystery of an ancient demon which kills people in their sleep, she experiences the same petrifying symptoms as all …
Read More »Film Review: Redemption (2013)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London’s criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man’s identity — transforming into an avenging angel in the process. REVIEW: Playing more on the dramatic angle, this unassuming Statham starred film still manages to give us the kind of …
Read More »Film Review: El Monstro del Mar (2010)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In a small Australian coastal town, a trio of female hired killers are hiding away in a seaside shack. Shortly after they arrive the they run afoul a cranky old neighbor after taking a dip in the ocean. Shaking his fist, he urges them to stay out of the water warning of the dangers that lie …
Read More »Film Review: Fragments (aka Winged Creatures) (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In the aftermath of a gruesome restaurant murder, the survivors of the attack are left to ponder their own mortality and how it relates to their connection to society. Forest Whitaker, Guy Pearce, Kate Beckinsale, and Dakota Fanning headline Little Fish director Rowan Woods’ adaptation of Roy Freirich’s debut novel. (Synopsis written by Jason Buchanon, All …
Read More »Film Review: The Tombs (2019)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A live streamed, publicity stunt, filmed inside London’s most famous scare attraction takes a terrifying turn as the event awakes an evil spirit. Something relentless and seemingly unstoppable starts stalking the celebrity guests through the claustrophobic halls of this maze of terror. REVIEW: Did you ever have a friend or an acquaintance who ALWAYS tries too …
Read More »Film Review: The Cellar (2022)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Unable to turn down a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to buy their dream house for nothing, Keira and Brian Woods move into a vast, lavish, fully-furnished Irish manor in the city’s suburbs. As their sulky teenage daughter Ellie and her younger brother Steven wander around the cold rooms of their eerily-vacant new home, an intriguing wind-up gramophone in …
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