Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Two crooks (Mario and Roberto) kidnap a girl and hide out in the house of a friend who lives by trading with the natives in a nearby jungle. The friend’s wife is raped by Mario; she exacts revenge by tying him to a tree and leaving him to the cannibals. She then informs the kidnapped girl’s parents …
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Film Review: Ritual of Death (1990)
SYNOPSIS: After seeing a presentation on ritualistic sacrifice, a group of thespians decide to put on a play about the topic, invoking an ancient curse. REVIEW: This film was made in 197… oh, excuse me, 1990. Wait, really? Wow. The only way you can tell this movie wasn’t made during the Free Love Era is because everybody looks like …
Read More »Film Review: Vamp (1986)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A couple of college students take a trip to a sleazy strip joint to acquire the services of one of the dancers. It doesn’t take long for a night of pleasure to turn into a night of vampire bloodlust. REVIEW: Death by Stiletto Heel… and that’s only the beginning of it. This wacky 80’s romp feels …
Read More »Film Review: Helga, She Wolf of Stilberg (1978)
SYNOPSIS: This notorious 1970s women in prison classic, finally available for the first time in North America. Taking a cue from Don Edmond’s classic Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS, Helga moves the action to South America, where she lords over a castle of female political prisoners, who are stripped and tortured at whim, until local rebels help them fight …
Read More »Film Review: Drillbit (short film) (1992)
SYNOPSIS: A scientist who discovered a problem with a new AIDS drug is killed, along with his wife. His son survives an attack with a power drill, and when the drill bit is found left in his eye socket, he is driven mad with his thirst for vengeance. REVIEW: Drillbit is about a futuristic “Anglo-America”, where AIDS has taken its …
Read More »Film Review: 8MM 2 (2005)
SYNOPSIS: An American diplomat and his fiancée venture into the sordid underworld of sex and p*rnography in Budapest, Hungary to find out who is blackmailing them with a p*rno video taken of them with a prostitute. REVIEW: Way back in 1999, a movie called 8mm came out – directed by Joel Schumacher (The Lost Boys), written by Andrew Kevin Walker …
Read More »Film Review: Angst (1983) – Review 2
Synopsis: A newly paroled murderer finds it impossible to resist the urges to kill that he has repressed for ten years and sets out to wreak as much havoc as possible before being recaptured and sentenced to life in prison. REVIEW:
Read More »Film Review: Philosophy of a Knife (2008)
SYNOPSIS: In World War II Japan, a covert division known as Unit 731 conducts gruesome experiments on humans in its research for biological and chemical warfare. REVIEW: Andrey Iskanov is a Russian filmmaker well known for the artfully disturbing images he puts on our screens – Ingression, Gvozdi (aka Nails), Visions of Suffering – but probably best known for what …
Read More »Film Review: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When filmy spores fall from space and take root in San Francisco, the city is beautifully transformed by spectacular and exotic flowers. But these lovely extraterrestrial blossoms have gruesome plans for their earthly admirers: to slowly clone their bodies and then dispose of the originals! “A first-rate suspense thriller” (Newsday), this sci-fi adventure is a “chilling” …
Read More »Film Review: La Isla (2010)
SYNOPSIS: A voodoo priestess sees creatures rising from the grave after performing a blood ritual. Two roommates, one of whom is pregnant, confront the evil and must escape with their lives. REVIEW: A German zombie movie that is in no way original, La Isla opens with a voodoo priestess who is performing a ritual that either summons the dead or allows her …
Read More »Film Review: Rossa Venezia (2003)
SYNOPSIS: A woman who was jailed for killing her husband after finding him cheating is released and becomes a serial killer, attempting to rid the world of women who bring pain on other women. REVIEW: This… this is just hardcore p**n. There’s literal hardcore p**nography in the first minute of the movie, and it goes on throughout. So that’s relatively …
Read More »Film Review: Wicked Little Things (2006)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In 1913, in Carlton Mine, Addytown, Pennsylvania, the cruel owner of a mine uses poor children in the exploration and after an explosion, a group of children is buried alive. On the present days, Karen Tunny has just lost her husband after a long period of terminal disease when the family savings have been spent in …
Read More »Film Review: The Last House on The Left (1972) – Review 2
SYNOPSIS: In this cult horror favorite from twisted writer-director Wes Craven, a pair of repulsive, sadistic escaped convicts kidnap, rape, torture and murder two teenage girls — but the criminals have picked the wrong teens to victimize. One of the girls’ parents, not content with turning to the law, set out to exact an equally brutal revenge on the vicious …
Read More »Film Review: Ultimo Mondo Cannibale (1977)
SYNOPSIS An oil prospector escapes from capture by a primitive cannibal tribe in the Philippine rain forest and heads out to locate his missing companion and their plane to return home. REVIEW: You already know Cannibal Holocaust, director Ruggero Deodato’s most (in)famous film to date, but did you know that he actually had a “cannibal trilogy,” Cannibal Holocaust (1980) being …
Read More »Film Review: The Iron Rose (1973)
SYNOPSIS: A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can’t find their way out, and soon their fears begin to overtake them. REVIEW: This was labeled and promoted as a horror movie but the director has said in interviews he meant for it to …
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