Film Reviews

Rate This Movie Hi Jacob, I really liked this movie. You really put a twist on Dreamcatcher.  How did this idea manifest for you? J.J.- I have such a love for the genre. I think you can really explore so many different things. It’s a manifestation of saying, I want to tell a really interesting character story with the back …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young couple look to prevent an evil spirit from trapping their souls in the realm between sleep and reality. REVIEW: There’s something to be said for brevity in horror; many a potentially good movie has been weighed down by an excess of plot padding and obvious exposition, two things that can kill any building tension …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young psychologist heads to an infamous haunted place named ‘Howling Village’ in order to find out her family’s dark history. REVIEW: Takashi Shimizu’s Howling Village seemed to go largely under the Western horror radar last year. Of course, there was a global pandemic to worry about, but I was still very surprised that a new …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two years into the pandemic, a group of friends throw an online party with a night of games, drinking and drugs. After taking an ecstasy pill, things go terribly wrong and the safety of their home becomes more terrifying than the raging chaos outside. REVIEW: Directed by Will Wernick, Safer at Home was also written by …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In the fall of 1987, a group of small-town friends must survive the night in the home of a sinister couple after a tragic accident brings them to the couple’s door. REVIEW: It’s 1987. Chris is the potentially-cool/possibly-dweeb new kid in school, and he’s already being called to the principal’s office before he knows how to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The film follows Katie, a young woman who flees a backwoods cult and takes a job at a care center for special needs adults in her determination to do some good with her life. But despite her best intentions, Katie can’t escape the signs that “the devils” are coming for Stephanie, a woman with Down syndrome …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A woman is sent to a mental institution after stabbing her classmate in an attempt to conjure an evil spirit called, Mercy Black. Fifteen years later she’s released, and must save her nephew, who has become obsessed with the phenomenon. REVIEW: It seems hard to believe that the Blumhouse studio has been churning out horror movies …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “High school student Sarah (Stone) is at her lowest point yet when she runs away from home and finds herself with no one to rely on and struggling with recurring nightmares. She chances upon a university sleep study that offers the promise of safety and money and brings her an unexpected friend and confidant in the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of less than desirable people are sent to an abandoned school to retrieve and item for a crime lord. Once they get there, they discover it isn’t as abandoned as they thought as a deranged caretaker lives there with his hulking, homicidal “son,” and none of them may get out alive after everything is …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Dylan, known to his fans as DJ Dreamcatcher, is on the brink of global stardom. Everything changes the night of Cataclysm, an underground music festival, where two estranged sisters and their friends meet Dylan. After a drug fueled gruesome event, things begin to spiral into a 48-hour whirlwind of violence and mayhem. REVIEW: Directed and written …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Backwoods terror and never-jangling suspense meet when Jen (Charlotte Vega) and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course—and cross into land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain dwellers who use deadly means to protect their way of …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Terror strikes when a lonely driver picks up a hitchhiker on a dark road. REVIEW: I don’t mind the odd one-locale film every now and again. It’s a very difficult feat to pull off. Minimal locations, characters and cameras make it pivotal that the script, dialog and acting is absolutely perfect otherwise it’s a dull affair. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A 16 year-old girl returns home from camp and learns that her mother has a new boyfriend, one she intends to marry; a man whose charm, intelligence and beauty make him look like he’s not human at all. REVIEW: One of the oldest tropes in horror is that of the lone protagonist who discovers a secret …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After discovering a secret box in the wall of her house, a demonic presence begins terrorizing a YouTuber, at 8 after 1:00am every night REVIEW: CCTV/Found Footage horror was a novel idea once. For a brief moment in its life-span, this sub-genre was the golden child of Horror and breathed new life into it, even making …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: You better not click if you want to survive. REVIEW:           From the director Tae-kyeong Kim (Dead Friend, Muoi: Legend of the Portrait) comes an unbalanced and unimaginative techno horror. It tried to cash in on the Ringu inspired viral curse trend but fails to deliver on the scare and the story department. At the centre of …