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Film Review: Hex (2018)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A couple’s holiday romance is thrown into chaos as they are afflicted by a malicious force. REVIEW: Hex comes to us from South African director Rudolf Buitendach; set in the idyllic landscape of Cambodia, this 2018 movie opens with Western brothers Ben and Isaac Trepanier chatting on a gorgeous beach while dropping some exposition about how …

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Film Review: Altered Perception (2017)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A drug that alters perceptions during trauma and stress, is being advertised as a cure for socio-political tensions. Several couples volunteer for human trials but end up with more than they bargained for. REVIEW: As fans of horror, we’re all fully versed in the traditional tropes of the genre; your werewolves, vampires, zombies, hockey-masked undead loons …

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Film Review: Cry For The Bad Man (2019)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A small town widow (Camille Keaton) faces a grisly confrontation with her would-be extortionists. REVIEW: There’s often something about a good underdog movie that really speaks to its audience; seeing a charismatic protagonist overcoming the odds in a fight against nefarious villains can be a real fist-pumping moment, especially if they have the moral high ground. …

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Film Review: Bloodshot (2020)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Ray Garrison, a slain soldier, is re-animated with superpowers. REVIEW: Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years, there’s no way you can have missed the impact comic book adaptations have had across the entire movie industry. From Marvel’s all-conquering Avengers and their numerous spinoffs to DC’s Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman et …

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Film Review: The Dark Days of Demetrius (2019)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The Dark Days of Demetrius is the sixth full length feature from Denver auteur filmmaker Dakota Ray. The film is a disturbing, lo-fi horror film revolving around the exploits of Demetrius (Dakota Ray), an elusive, narcissistic, serial killer who has gained stardom from live streaming the murders of his victims online, with the press dubbing him …

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Film Review: The Hunt (2020)

SYNOPSIS: Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don’t know where they are, or how they got there. They don’t know they’ve been chosen – for a very specific purpose – The Hunt. REVIEW: Movies based on urban legends date back decades; from the existence of real-life “snuff” films, to unwanted pets being flushed down the toilet resulting in …

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Film Review: American Antichrist (2018)

SYNOPSIS: American Antichrist is an experimental Satanic/drug arthouse film by Denver auteur filmmaker Dakota Ray. American Antichrist takes the viewer on a bizarre, nihilistic, drug fueled trip through Hell. REVIEW: American Antichrist is one of the most recent offerings from auteur director Dakota Ray, a Native American film-maker from Denver. As with the majority of his experimental movies, Ray is …

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Film Review: Ghost Killers vs. Bloody Mary (2018)

SYNOPSIS: Four YouTubers with expertise in supernatural events are seeking recognition from the audience whilst solving the urban legend of the Bathroom Blonde Case. The spirit that haunts the schools’ bathroom in Brazil. REVIEW: The comedy horror movie is surely one of the most difficult sub-genres to do well. Many have tried, most have failed for one reason or another; …

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Film Review: There Are Monsters (2013)

SYNOPSIS: There Are Monsters is a feature length horror based upon the apocalyptic premise that the world is being taken over -slowly, quietly and efficiently- by creatures that look exactly like us. The story follows a graduate-student film crew who, on a work-related road trip, discover evidence of these doppelgangers. Soon the crew realizes something is very wrong as the …

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