Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Real autopsy footage highlights this short film from Stan Brakhage. REVIEW: The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes is a literal Greek translation of the word autopsy. Stan Brakhage gives us a view inside a normally closed off room, where coroners dissect bodies to determine cause of death and various pathologists research disease and its possible …
Read More »Film Review: Secret Things (2002)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two women, after losing their jobs at a high-end strip club, are determined to climb the corporate ladder using their feminine wiles. The CEO, an unabashed womanizer who delights in the torment of women, is the only person standing in their way. REVIEW: It doesn’t take a whole lot to get me to enjoy a French …
Read More »Film Review: Sick (short film) (2008)
SYNOPSIS: A woman is deserted on a dirt road, finding her way into a shack with zombified men who want her for their own nefarious purposes. REVIEW: After an argument, a woman is dropped off on a country dirt road. She comes across a zombie man, who chases her through the countryside before knocking her out and taking her to …
Read More »Film Review: La Vie Nouvelle (A New Life) (2002)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A prostitute is bought and sold. What? That’s it, go read the review! REVIEW: Arthouse movies vary wildly, from interesting to mundane, from boring to thrilling, from meaningful to asinine. You never completely know whether you’re getting Picasso or that kid who was on the talk show circuit and could paint like the modern art folks. …
Read More »Film Review: Amicus Mortis (short film) (2007)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A twisted and bloody tale of revenge shown in reverse chronological order. REVIEW: Low budget horror shorts are hard to do well. It’s very difficult to get the necessary plot crammed into such a small time frame, and when you’re trying to make your film jam-packed with gore as well, it’s practically impossible. Amicus Mortis is definitely lacking …
Read More »Film Review: Deuteronomium (2004)
SYNOPSIS: A loser is visited by an angel who tells him to kill the wicked. He obeys, losing his humanity in the process. REVIEW: When I saw what this movie was about, I was intrigued: a movie wherein a man is commanded by an Angel to bring the punishment of God to the wicked? That sounds rad, to be quite …
Read More »Film Review: Sudden Slaughter – Knochenwald 3 (2008)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of occultists bring a vicious killer back from the dead. A copycat killer follows in his footsteps, so now they have two killers on the loose. REVIEW: Oh Germany, you and your silly, silly horror movies. The two previous films in the Knochenwald Trilogy were about a deranged, supernatural killer in a gas mask, who …
Read More »Film Review: Carnage For The Destroyer (2006)
SYNOPSIS: A group of high school students get together to work a seasonal job involving the redesign of a haunted house. There, one of them summons a demon who is hell-bent on murdering all of them. The group must find a way to defeat the evil in the dumbest way possible and save the world, or at least their haunted …
Read More »Film Review: Bukarest Fleisch (2007)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young woman discovers that her family may have been killed in Eastern Europe, so she sets out on a journey to find the truth. Along the way, she uncovers a terrible secret about a local food scam. REVIEW: First films are difficult. You can either hit it out of the park, becoming an instant celebrity …
Read More »Film Review: Belcebu: Tomame, soy tu Puta del Infierno (2005)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Belcebu, legendary rock star, builds up his drug empire until the Devil offers him eternal life. REVIEW: Made in Spain and distributed by Troma Team Video worldwide, Belcebu: Tomame, soy tu Puta del Infierno (translated to Belcebu: Take me, I’m Your Whore From Hell, which is certainly an interesting title) very much fits the mold for something …
Read More »Film Review: Glowing Eyes: La Chatte a Deux Tetes (2002)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The inner workings of a p*rn theater exposes a love triangle between a cashier, her interested boy toy, and an elderly gay gentleman. REVIEW: Glowing Eyes: La Chatte a Deux Tetes (The Pussy With Two Heads) is an interesting film. Directed by Jacques Nolot, who also cast himself as the elderly gay gentleman in the synopsis, Glowing Eyes …
Read More »Film Review: Anatomy Of Hell (2004)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A suicidal woman hires a gay man to watch her for the weekend to explore the differences between men and women. REVIEW: Director Catherine Breillat is no stranger to controversy: her films generally explore the darker side of sexuality. Anatomy of Hell is no different. It makes more of an attempt to gross us out, simply for the …
Read More »Film Review: Demonlover (2002)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A conglomerate is trying to buy a Japanese animation company responsible for a popular Hentai series that has developed cutting edge 3D imaging software they’re planning to use for future p*rnographic projects. However, a rival company has plans to sabotage the deal from within. REVIEW: This is a movie that wouldn’t fit in the extreme category …
Read More »Film Review: Candy House (Schlaraffenhaus) (2011)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A woman’s estranged sister travels to her family estate for the reading of a will, where she and her sister are set upon by two people looking to torture their way into a fortune. REVIEW: It’s been a while since I’ve seen honest to God torture p*rn. Most movies try to spread out their nastiness over the …
Read More »Film Review: Flanders (2006)
SYNOPSIS: A young farmhand goes to war, leaving behind a pregnant girlfriend in an existential crisis. REVIEW: A young farmhand named Andre Demester gets called to war. He tells his friend, who bids him goodbye. He tells his girlfriend, who takes him on a walk that culminates in the two having sex in a frozen field. This seems to be …
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