Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two young couples wandering across the backwoods of Texas stumble across more urban legends than they hoped for. Their misguided tour takes them to the back roads of America searching for townships where legends of serial killers run wild. They end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic inbred family of serial killers. It is …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When tough-as-nails Sheriff Wydell and his awesome 1970s moustache find that the backwoods, psychedelic Firefly family gruesomely murdered his brother in cold blood he vows revenge at the cost of his sanity. After an attack on the house of corpses unleashes the family members onto the dusty highways of Ruggsville, Sheriff Wydell pursues in their horrific …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “Richard, a small-time gangster is retiring. Before he can, he must take one last job: to steal money from a rival gangster’s house. Miles apart, Melvin is a reluctant family man who has dreams of becoming a famous curator for his Museum of the Macabre. His newest acquisition? The remains of the notorious Masquerade, a vampire born from the embers of hell, slain centuries …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: With instructions from her genius son’s carefully crafted notebook, a single mother sets out to rescue a young girl from the hands of her abusive stepfather. REVIEW: It’s rare that I get to review a fairly recent film (in this case, made within the last 5 -10 years), and even rarer when it has a cast …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In 1994, a young couple enters the world of the music industry, and subsequently the world of drugs. REVIEW: I’m sure a lot of you remember Cannon Films, and for those of you who don’t, you missed out on quite a bit of fun. Until it finally closed down in ’94, Cannon pumped out a lot …

Rate This Movie   SYNOPSIS: The indigenous people in the isolated reserve of Red Crow are immune to the zombie plague that has taken over the nation, but that doesn’t mean their lives aren’t at risk. It’s up to Traylor (Michael Greyeyes, “Fear the Walking Dead”), the tribal sheriff, to protect the families residing on the reserve and a flood …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Busi, a young South African woman, tries to make ends meet in Johannesburg so she can rescue her younger sister from an abusive home. However, predatory people and predatory spirits conspire to shatter her world. REVIEW: Directors: Jerome Pikwane Writers: Richard Kunzmann & Jerome Pikwane Starring: Petronella Tshuma, Kwande Nkosi, Dawid Minnaar, Yule Masiteng, Lebohan Mthunzi …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Sensing evil, a haunted house tour guide seeks a medium’s help only to be warned that she is facing a vengeful power beyond her control. REVIEW: In the places it succeeds as a horror film, “Sisters of the Plague” effectively uses creepy music, cinematography, and forest settings to create a sense of foreboding. I’ve related to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After his colleague Schweitzer goes missing during a drug raid, undercover cop Till Hager is tasked with tracking down a mysterious new drug called “Abaddon” – a substance which supposedly drags its users down the deepest depths of hell. REVIEW: Psychedelic drugs have featured in many rock and roll films as well as some horror. Pink …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A single mother living in the Irish countryside with her son begins to suspect he may not be her son at all, and fears his increasingly disturbing behavior is linked to a mysterious sinkhole in the forest behind their house. REVIEW: Sarah O’Neill recently moved into a remote house with her young son, Chris. The dad …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Fifteen years ago, two teenage girls were murdered at Merrymaker Campgrounds. The case was filed an animal attack, the camp was condemned and the killer never found – but something horrific still waits in those woods. REVIEW: The majestic Big Foot has gone by many names: Sasquatch, Gigantopithecus, Harry. Whatever name you use, it all amounts …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After setting her serial killer boyfriend on fire, a paranoid delusional woman gets a job at an all-night gas station. REVIEW: A paranoid delusional woman, Mary White, has just been released from a mental hospital for setting her serial killer boyfriend on fire. Mary suffers from severe paranoia and hallucinations. Her boyfriend, James Lincoln Fields, is …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An idealistic cop joins an underground police unit and battles ghoulish forces threatening the balance between the human and the supernatural realms REVIEW: <SPOILER ALERT> Our hero is Chen (Roy Chiu). A police officer with the ability to see dead people. When he’s saved by a spirit and tells his chief about it, he is promptly …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “A down-on-her-luck woman tries to win back her ex-boyfriend at his engagement party without revealing that her recently strangled boss is in the trunk of her car.” REVIEW: Directed by Michael Kreuzriegler and written by Allison Marie Volk. Murder, mayhem, mystery, a dead person in the trunk of the car. This is a great movie. Deanna …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A man sees his life changed forever when his fiancee shoots herself. Baffled, he wants by all means to obtain such a weapon of destruction and he finds himself caught in the middle of a violent group of young vicious punks. They first beat him severely and then he seeks revenge with his fist, then with …