Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Takakura is a former detective. He receives a request from his ex-colleague, Nogami, to examine a missing family case that occurred six years earlier. Takakura follows Saki’s memory. She is the only surviving family member from the case. Meanwhile, Takakura and his wife Yasuko recently moved into a new home. Their neighbor, Nishino, has a sick …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS; A girl leaves home in pursuit of revenge, only to find things are not what they seem. REVIEW: Warning: Spoilers Ahead After looking at the promo material and pictures of this film I have to admit I wasn’t thinking it would be a memorable watch. However, Girl really surprised me.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A social media personality travels with his friends to Moscow to capture new content for his successful VLOG. Always pushing the limits and catering to a growing audience, they enter a cold world of mystery, excess, and danger. REVIEW: A story needs to have characters that are relatable to the viewer. Likeable to them, so they …

Rate This Movie    REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have GHOST GIRL, a long form music video by District 97. This song is from their newest album, SCREENS, available now on Spotify. The video is animated, or more to the point its an animatic. Think about a motion comic. The artwork was created by Hoa Han and the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Suspecting his wife of infidelity, Jerry follows his friend down a dark rabbit hole into a horror landscape of addiction. REVIEW: Of all the sub-genres in horror, body horror is one that has provided very mixed results in movies over the years. A fairly hard genre to define, many people have differing opinions on what constitutes …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A woman leaves her holiday work party late to discover the security cameras are still broken. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have WHY HAVEN’T THEY FIXED THE CAMERAS YET?, written and directed by Travis White, based on the short story WHY IS IT ALWAYS SO DARK IN HERE by Miss Directed Souls. Our story …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A Priest and a Vatican investigator take a possessed housewife to a convent to perform an Exorcism REVIEW: (Author’s Note: I want to make it clear that any comments in the following movie review are aimed at the film itself. Anna Ecklund (more on her in the review) went through a miserable and horrifying experience in …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Four friends set out to a remote getaway in Texas, unaware that they are being trailed by a sinister cult. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have CAMPING FUN, written and directed by Thomas Burke and David Eimer. Ok so let’s get this out of the way right now…this is one of those “found footage” …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An elite black ops team battles for survival against an indestructible force of zombie ninjas. REVIEW: Out of all the movies in this latest batch I’ve had to review, this one I had the highest hopes for. With a name like Ninja Zombies vs. Black Ops, I was expecting something that’d be a fairly tongue in …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “Two sisters vie for the affections of a man who may or may not be a vampire.” REVIEW: Mickey Reece directed and wrote Climate of the Hunter with John Selvidge. There have been a few vampire-related films that came out in 2020. Alma (Ginger Gilmartin) and Elizabeth (Mary Buss) are sisters. Alma has some problems and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Alone and in his own home, a man awakes to a strange sound coming from the next room. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have THE NEXT ROOM, written and directed by (and starring) Kenneth Livitski. A man wakes up in the early hours to hear strange noises coming from the other room. Of course …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A reporter in a small town tries to figure out who is running around in an old lady mask slaughtering the townsfolk. Has his recently deceased grandmother found a way to return from the dead to go on a killing spree or is there something even more sinister at play? REVIEW: Whoo boy, is Satanic Meat …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Students encounter a haunted shark tooth. REVIEW: I’m surprised that it took this long before I ended up reviewing one of David DeCoteau’s films. The man has been pumping out B movies since 1984, and usually had more than one film release each year. Prolific may not be a strong enough word for him, since he’s …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “In THE CLEANSING HOUR, Max and Drew run a popular webcast that streams “live exorcisms” watched by millions across the globe. In reality, the exorcisms are just elaborately staged hoaxes performed by paid actors. But their fortunes take a turn when one of the actors becomes possessed by an actual demon and takes the crew hostage. In front …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A zombie love story created in quarantine with Unreal Engine 4. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have ETERNALLY, written, directed, animated, and scored by Tim Montijo. Some of you may recognize his name. He’s created FX and music scores for films for 30 years. This film is his second go at an animation program …