Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Sometime in the distant future, a fledgling band gets an opportunity for a breakthrough, if they can make it in time to a faraway planet to perform in a very popular club. REVIEW: Director Albert Pyun has always been kind of an odd director to me. I’m not talking about his personality so much as the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After being bitten by a bat in a cave, a doctor undergoes an accelerating transformation into a man-bat, which ruins his vacation and causes considerable distress for his wife. REVIEW: I have a confession to make. When I sat down to watch this flick, I was not in the best frame of mind. I was in …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Uganda’s president gives Captain Alex the mission to defeat the Tiger Maffia, but Alex gets killed in the process. Upon hearing the tragic news, his brother investigates to avenge Alex, hence the title Who Killed Captain Alex. REVIEW: Who Killed Captain Alex? was a couple of firsts for me. I’d never seen a movie with a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A demonic nun unleashes holy hell when she summons the devil to possess a great white shark. REVIEW: Am I the only person at this point that groans whenever they see yet another killer shark movie? After Jaws, it’s not like there’s a whole lot that can be with this particular sub-genre, not that there haven’t …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: For Jess, life has never been better. A successful American sculptor, she has recently returned to the UK, where she spent much of her troubled youth. Now happily married, wealthy and settled, all that remains to make her life complete is to rebuild her relationship with Chloe, the daughter she was forced to give up nine years …

SYNOPSIS: A young woman who was missing reappears, but she claims to be someone else entirely. REVIEW: Well, folks, we got another doozy here in I Know Who Killed Me. I remember when this turkey came out in 2007 and taking a certain amount of schadenfreude at how far Lindsay Lohan had fallen. Now, I know it’s not right to …

SYNOPSIS: A young woman returns home to care for her gravely ill grandmother, only to begin sleepwalking, envisioning spirits and uncovering dark secrets in her family’s past. REVIEW: Not many movies center on the elderly, particularly horror movies. I think part of that has to do with the fact that we don’t always see these frail looking people as genuine …

SYNOPSIS: Matan, a soldier in the IDF, sets off for a week of patrolling in a remote base in the north of Israel with three soldiers whom he doesn’t know. As the week progresses, the soldiers begin to question whether they will come out of this experience alive. REVIEW: One thing that’s been fairly interesting about globalization is that it’s …

SYNOPSIS: Two siblings cursed in prehistoric times survive for millennia by feasting on the entrails of young people, prowling in what eventually becomes a park in contemporary Los Angeles.

SYNOPSIS: Runaway teen Bobby is given shelter by a cult of Satanists, but his presence and questionable sexuality leads to conflicts within Satan’s Children. REVIEW: My experience is when you think of Satanists, particularly in movies, you think of people out to do vile and evil things in service to the Devil himself. You expect movies about these kinds of …

SYNOPSIS: A mad scientist uses thunder and lightning to turn carnivorous plants into man-eating creatures. REVIEW: There are some films that manage to become so nonsensical enough that they manage to be strangely entertaining. I think we all have run across a movie like that at least once in our lives, where what we’re watching may not be good but …

SYNOPSIS: Based on the best-selling graphic novel series, a group of spoiled “bad kids” have been placed in Saturday detention at the prestigious Crestview Academy. After one of the kids locks away their teacher, they find themselves trapped in school with no way out, wondering who (or what) set them up. Their ranks quickly dwindle as each falls victim to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The renovation of an old house in a village somewhere in Eastern Europe will bring the crew of an American home improvement television show up against superstitions, misunderstandings, and bloody violence. REVIEW: When I was a kid, the slasher movie was a big thing. After the success of Halloween, it seemed like everyone was trying to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two goofy entertainers meet a mad scientist on a jungle island. REVIEW: It’s kind of sad how much Bela Lugosi’s star had fallen in Hollywood by the 1950s. He was pretty much living in poverty when Ed Wood started to cast him in his films. Lugosi was at a point where he was taking any role …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young martial artist seeks revenge on the Ninja who kills his martial arts brothers and teacher. He finds help in the form of a new teacher (who knows Ninjitsu) and new brothers. Together the four pupils face the Five Element Ninja challenge: Wood, Earth, Gold, Water, and Fire. REVIEW: After having suffered through Bela Lugosi …