Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Convinced that her father’s death was not accidental, a beautiful girl decides to investigate to find out the truth, aided by her boyfriend. Her sleuthing draws her to a local mortuary, where many secrets will be revealed. REVIEW: Director – Howard Avedis Starring – Mary Beth McDonough, David Wallace, Bill Paxton, Lynda Day George From low-budget …
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Film Review: Stardust (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Stardust will chronicle the young David Bowie’s first visit to the US in 1971 – a trip that inspired the invention of his iconic alter ego Ziggy Stardust. REVIEW: I’ve always sad, you can’t go wrong with a David Bowie movie, but then of course I’m a bit bias as a longtime fan of his work, …
Read More »Film Review: The Key (2016)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A tale of ghosts, crime and horror. REVIEW: What happens when a crime sets off a curse that transforms a helpless family into demonic ghosts? A pretty pitiful movie; that’s what happens. “The Key”, directed by Markus F. Adrian and Gedeon Burkhard, demonstrates this sad attempt at a supernatural concept. A family is brutally butchered at …
Read More »Film Review: Eyes (Aizu) (2015)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A student is haunted by chilling visions surrounding her, leading to sinister acts that put her life and those around her in danger. REVIEW: The rather weirdly titled Eyes (weirdly as in, the story has nothing to do with eyes) is a 2015 horror offering from the director Yôhei Fukuda. It presents a thoroughly forgettable story …
Read More »Film Review: You’re Not Alone (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An evil entity begins to torment a mother and daughter, who are forced to face the inexplicable presence that inhabits the walls of their new home. REVIEW: “You’re Not Alone” begins with Emma, our focal character, reliving a suicide attempt she made years ago. That attempt led to her not being involved her daughter’s upbringing. That …
Read More »Film Review: Misfits (Short Film) (2021)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When they learn their friend has kidnapped a cop on the night of MLK Jr.’s assassination, two sisters and leaders of the Black Panther Party must set aside their differences to navigate one of the most turbulent nights in history. REVIEW: “Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau …
Read More »Film Review: The Fourth Wall (Le Quartrieme Mur) (Short Film)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Chloé fights for her moment in the spotlight. How far will she go to upstage the annoying actors with whom she is forced to perform Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’? REVIEW: The Etheria Film Festival 2021 features films all directed by women. The Fourth Wall was directed and written by Kelsey Bollig (Asking for a Friend), …
Read More »Film Review: We All Think We’re Special (2021)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In this haunting drama, a night of reckless drinking compels a car mechanic to forcibly detox his best friend – whatever the cost. REVIEW: Directed by Kirby Voss and written by Felicia Stallard and Kirby Voss. The film opens with Charlie (Jared Bankens) and Ed (William McGovern) … These two are intoxicated. They are also swimming …
Read More »Film Review: Stalker (2020)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In the wake of a messy break up, Andy Escobedo decides to start fresh, relocating from Austin to Los Angeles. Eager to make new connections, he befriends Roger, an unusual rideshare driver. But when Roger’s behavior gets too strange for comfort, Andy blows him off, choosing to focus on a budding relationship with Sam. This unhinges …
Read More »Film Review: Paranormal Prison (2021)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A paranormal investigation YouTube channel is getting ready to shut down if they don’t have a video that goes viral in time. In this last ditch attempt, a long-time mystery is solved. REVIEW: It’s probably fair to say at this point, that the ‘found footage’ genre has pretty much played itself out; franchises like the Paranormal …
Read More »Film Review: Dark Image (2017)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A girl is possessed and kills her own twin sister. REVIEW: As horror fans, we don’t see many movies these days in the tradition of the old ‘grand guignol’; a pretty much extinct style by now, notorious for over the top, graphic violence and macabre subject matter. Some incredible films have existed within the tradition over …
Read More »Film Review: Me and My Mates vs. The Zombie Apocalypse (2015)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Three Australian telecom tradesman find themselves trapped in a telephone exchange during the onset of a zombie apocalypse REVIEW: “Me and My Mates vs. The Zombie Apocalypse” is released as a horror/comedy about a group of friends and other survivors of a zombie outbreak in Australia. They take shelter in a telephone exchange, drink beers, insult …
Read More »Film Review: Haunted School: The Curse of the Word Spirit (Gakkou no kaidan: Noroi no kotodama) (2014)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Ayano, Yuri, Miyu and Mei are high school female students victims of paranormal incidents that may be linked to a gas accident occurred to first-year students in class number 4, years ago. REVIEW: From the director Masayuki Ochiai (Infection; 2004, Shutter; 2008) comes a somewhat unbalanced but not entirely uninteresting supernatural romp, set in a haunted …
Read More »Film Review: He’s Out There (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: On vacation at a remote lake house, a mother and her two young daughters must fight for survival after falling into a terrifying and bizarre nightmare conceived by a psychopath. REVIEW: Slasher films come and go as a sub-genre of the vast horror category. As a matter of fact, the slasher sub-genre is probably the sub-category …
Read More »Film Review: Alter Ego (Mô hitori iru) (2002)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Three aspiring young Japanese models are on their very first fashion shoot at an abandoned school one hot summer day. Without warning, strange events begin occurring around the set that causes the models and photo crew to question their sanity, as one by one they begin to die agonizing and painful deaths that are seemingly caused …
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