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Film Review: From a Whisper to A Scream (1987)

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: On the eve of his niece’s execution, historian Julian White (Vincent Price) recounts four terrifying tales in this gruesome horror anthology. It seems the town of Oldfield, Tenn., isn’t the sleepy hamlet it appears to be: White introduces four scary short stories involving necrophilia, ghosts, voodoo priests and demon children with uncontrollable appetites. Clu Gulager, Terry Kiser, …

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Film Review: The Suicide Manual (2003)

SYNOPSIS: After the group suicide of four people, journalists Yuu and Rie investigate the reasons behind an endless cycle of suicides, blamed on an infamous Suicide Manual, hidden in a tag-less DVD disk. Said manual is shot in an infomercial fashion, with examples of the best methods to kill yourself and demonstrations by real people. When investigating further, Yuu and …

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Film Review: Deadly Revisions (2013)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: International genre favorite Bill Oberst Jr. plays an amnesiac horror writer who becomes trapped in his own nightmare as terrifying images emerge that may or may not be memories, madness, or both! Remembering can be murder! (source: IMDB) REVIEW: Horror writer, Graf (Bill Oberst Jr.) awakens in hospital after having had seemingly fallen down some stairs. …

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Film Review: Her Name Was Torment (2014)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A lurid and exploitative adventure into erotica, violence, pain, and the unknown. Necrophilia, torture, gore, and psychological horror REVIEW: You can’t wave a limited collector’s edition VHS tape in the independent horror world and not hit what some folks would call a torture p**n movie. And it makes sense – if your film revolves primarily around …

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Film Review: Darkness Rising (2017)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Haunted by her mysterious past, the lone survivor of a family massacre revisits her childhood home on the eve of its destruction, awakening the evil that resides there. REVIEW: The biggest problem with “Darkness Rising” is nothing. Before you respond with the appropriate sound of one hand clapping, allow me to explain why “Nothing” by Edie …

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Film Review: Sister Smile (2001)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Back in late 1963, a Belgian nun known only as Soeur Sourire, or Sister Smile, topped America’s pop music charts with the relentlessly cheerful tune “Dominique,” from an album that sold 1.5 million copies. From the little that is known of the ill-fated nun’s life, Roger Deutsch has made the boldly speculative yet persuasive Italian-language film …

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Film Review: It Came From Another World! (2007)

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “It Came From Another World! chronicles the continuing adventures of everyone’s favorite a-rockin’ scientist Professor Jackson. First introduced in The Monster of Phantom Lake (2006), Professor Jackson (Josh Craig) finds himself tasked yet again with saving the planet from certain doom. When Professor Jackson’s colleague and best friend Doctor Frasier (Mike Mason) doesn’t return from a scientific …

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Film Review: The Nursery (2018)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “A babysitter is stalked by a frightening ominous presence in The Nursery, creaking its doors open this June from Uncork’d Entertainment.   From filmmakers Christopher A. Micklos and Jay Sapiro comes the story of a young woman whose run-of-the-mill Saturday night quickly turns into a confrontation with unspeakable horror!   When Ranae, a college student babysits for a family with …

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