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Film Review: Mortuary (1983)

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: 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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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), …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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